I have Közi dvd =)

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o_o; it was only a joke, I don't see -why- I would want to be mean in the first place :|. Please don't blatantly tell me to shut up.
 

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Kamijo wrote:
o_o; it was only a joke, I don't see -why- I would want to be mean in the first place :|. Please don't blatantly tell me to shut up.

Not you, just everybody saying "shame on you Camuflagem"

Sorry I didn't mean to offend you.
 

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Kamijo wrote:
o_o; it was only a joke
thing is. Joking was about myself , really uncalled for, and with an ironic tone. I am not very pleased with jokes about myself, specially when it is done by someone i don't even know. If you think it is not enough that i came here to apologise about my mistake and is mad because you didn't order it, i can't do anything really.
 

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Camuflagem wrote:
we always knew it was:
LOKI N' ROLL
INCOHERENTS
HONEY VANITY~Retromantics Club Mix~
CRIMSON STAR
CRUEL ARCADIA

This was posted in the old thread.

I know, I just wanted to bitch about Honey Vanity. :-*
 

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Elec wrote:
Camuflagem wrote:
thank you, rizumu.


it is honey vanity ~retromantics club mix~, though. ( check the back cover photo again). The tracklist was posted in the older thread, it is not wrong, it was copied from the official site.

Jesus god it's like a roller coaster! >_<

Kozi DVD, yay

but pictures only, boo

oh turns out it's video, yay

and Honey Vanity, one of the best make-out songs ever and could possibly be used to help Elec score, is on it, yay

but it's the remix, which is the sonic equivalent of pushing grandma down the stairs, massive boos all around

Honey Vanity remix > Honey Vanity orig. when it comes to a live show, IMO.

Think about this: If Kozi was to do the original version, he would probably just sit on a stool w/ a grandpa guitar just playing and singing the song :| BUT the remix allows him to get up, dance, jive, and flirt with the crowd :roll: :grin:
 

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I think the original is infinitely more dance-able and 100% less embarrassing than the remix.

And by "grandpa guitar" I assume you mean a nylon-strung classical guitar?
 

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lamu wrote:
And...he danced all the concert! yes! DANCE! crazy dancessss =)


I don't know. I didn't see much dancing going on -- unless by dancing you mean standing in the same square foot and waving your arms up and down while jerking your head back and forth (as in the "Incoherents" performance). >_>

The titular word "Collage" is clearly an allusion to the heavily processed video, spot animations of hands, eyeballs, leaves, etc, and the splicing of multiple performances of the same song onto a the same video track. One wonders if the processing, which is often highly distorting (via high contrast, blurs, and monochromatic washes), was a way of disguising poor video sources. In any case, it seems competently done and is not too distracting. Personally, I found the DVD more interesting visually than the two MdM Live DVDs (but that's not saying much, because my reaction to the latter was one of exasperation and disgust).

Anyway, here's a rundown:

"Loki N' Roll" -- Perhaps my least favorite Közi song from his most recent album, I found little of interest here, both aurally and visually. The editing is, I suppose, serviceable, if a little random. Közi remains guitar-less throughout.

"Incoherents" -- This has some nice clean shots, more varied angles, abundant color, and probably a dozen different Közis performing the same song, which was somewhat distracting, because some of his cacophonous get-ups despair of good sense and sobriety.

"Honey Vanity ~Grandma Homicidal Version~" -- Okay, this is about as close to a Közi PV as one is likely to get, if the intro is to count for anything. Out of sheer caprice I'm going to select this track over the CD versions as my preferred one, if simply because the DVD version has a cool sequence beginning at the 00:26 mark, in which Közi, displayed entirely in black and white but for his guitar, the upper body of which is highlighted in rich, deep red, is made to advance from the lower left-hand corner of the screen to the center, where the prelude concludes and he commences singing. Oh, and the title "Honey Vanity" apparently refers to the blond(e) curls that he may be noticed unselfconsciously (!) sporting amid the conflated video threads. XD

"Crimson Star" -- Oddly, this is the first title that looks like a filmed live and has a real sense of presence. Part of the reason for this is the relatively thin amount of video processing, but the other reason surely is the astonishing revelation that Közi is performing before, yes, an audience, a fact that is mostly left to one's imagination on the other clips, alas. (It seems to me that where the aesthetics of filmed live performances are concerned, the audience is as essential as the performer, that their interaction must be palpably established, and that the viewer herself should be made to feel as though she were a part of that audience). Lots of nice shots in this too -- full-length shots, shots from the floor, varied mobile shots, shots of Közi touching the hands of the fangirls, etc. I like the song too (though I'd normally put it among his second-tier stuff), so I'm selecting this as the best clip of the disc.

"Cruel Arcadia" -- Here we are returned to aggressively processed video with the conceit that the performance has been preserved on a dust-flecked reel of black-and-white celluloid -- a conceit that would have worked well if the film wasn't misguidedly speeded up in spots (á la Murnau's Nosferatu). As for the song itself, it does not compare favorably to the same title on the First Live CD, an admitted favorite of mine, and I almost wish that the audio had been lifted from that CD instead, but for the redundancy.

Anyway, "Cruel Arcadia" makes for a flawed conclusion to a DVD that I -- if I'd been granted a free hand in it -- would have filled with such gems as "Promenade", "Curious Nuance", "Nocturne", "The Eyes", and above all "Innermost. . . .", Közi's imperishable masterpiece.

@chrysippo: There's no booklet and little to see beyond what lamu posted. The cover looks like a charcoal drawing but is probably a photo filtered through Photoshop. The inside of the case is monochromatic collage in pink of not particularly clear pictures of Közi. Generally it all looks professional though. If no one else posts, I'll dig up a camera and upload a few shots.
 

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I actually didn't know any Honey Vanity was on it. I went back and looked at the Kozi thread and realized I thought Miz's fake tracklist was the real one, so I thought we were going to get Bablyo, etc.

So I've been pretty thoroughly confused with this DVD. ::meev::
 

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j-aesthete's review of the DVD on the previous page is total critical gold. Everyone go read it now and then SMACK RIZ FOR LAST-PAGING IT D:

Riz: Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about that one too! Let's blame Miz too. :D
 

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I feel bad now because I didn't order it ;__; Well, my next purchase must be this DVD. I can't wait to see Közi in motion!
 

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"Honey Vanity ~Grandma Homicidal Version~"

What does that mean? x)

I didn't want to read the review because I want to watch it myself before I read what other people said, I just looked it through quickly and saw that...
 

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Miruku wrote:
"Honey Vanity ~Grandma Homicidal Version~"
What does that mean? x)

It's a reference to my comments on the previous page about how terrible I find the remix version of Honey Vanity.
 

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Elec wrote:
Miruku wrote:
"Honey Vanity ~Grandma Homicidal Version~"
What does that mean? x)

It's a reference to my comments on the previous page about how terrible I find the remix version of Honey Vanity.

..aha xD I didn't read through this thread so thorougly so I didn't get it xp
 

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thanks for the pics. It looks great, i thought it would be way simpler.
 

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Does anybody know what it says on the back about Malice Mizer?

I really like the inside case =D
 
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