{AHHH I have a huge crush on Ke$ha! ♥ x10 And, me, too...}

Rosie laughed, laying down the bass line. "Sounds good, as long as Ina can cover the synths, and I get to sing backup." She winked at Aar conspiratorially.

"Sure, that's easy-peasy," Ina smiled, at the others. She went to the synthesizer in the back of the studio, used only from time to time, mostly by Ina. She covered most random instruments used in their songs. She didn't really care what she played as long as she got to play something.

((sorry, been gone a while, sucky night class followed by bowling, then bar and food))

Originally Posted by Rain:]

[[YES! Asia finally has our name! :boogie: And uh, Kasumi? "Good Morning" is "Ohayou Gozaimasu" >w<
The Asian will correct you. xP]]

(( Haha xD thanks, -makes sure to remember that- hmm xD I thought it was just Ohayou -- oh well xD thankies ♥ u n_n ))

Tony laughed at some o the things her band mates where saying, she staid more in the background for the time being until there was talk about the plane and what they will be doing. “It seems, Fitch, that bring your guitar will be alright, as long as you don’t play it on the plane..” sticking her tongue out she looked at the schedule, "It looks like half the stuff here is more or less dinners at night, some trips, one’s to LA, cool. Um and yeah.” Taking a sip from her lemonade, she smiled and then grinned. She laughed at the talk about romance. “Ah come on you silly boys, there will be time to flirt and there will be time to play.” Hearing Bella’s words she smiled, “Aww you gona do that to poor Bella here.” She played along with Bella, wrapping her arms around Bella’s shoulders, before the two of them started laughing. Straight faces.. very heard to keep around these guys.
Turning she watched Bella go to her bass guitar, smiling she shook her head and walked over, plopping down on the couch. “At least you can do that with yours, but mine.” She pointed behind her and smiled, “Mine’s a little too big to hug, and just being all lovie to drum sticks.. is kind of weird.” Tony smiled and then laughed before grabbing her drumsticks that she did leave on the table, lightly tapping them together at a beat, slow at the start, constant but cool.


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Linnea smiled and moved over to a corner space of the room that was her normal: “I’m gona stand her and dance until it’s time for me to sing” space. When Sticks spoke to them about not sleeping long, Linnea smiled and nodded. Pointing to herself, “Bad dream,” pointing to MJ, “Light sleeper.” Smiling she leaned against the wall, one foot also on the wall. She thought about needing to warm up.. blinking she just shook her head, indicating that she was okay. No sleep at night equals (for her) no need to warm up, and she did not understand why.



[Remembers people to please post more then just one line, we needs to be able to post lost and yeahs, just please no one liners, I know all you guys can do it. I you do do a one liner, just make sure you don’t do them often, writers block we do understand <3]

Jin paced around his room while reading a sheet of lyrics that he had scribbled up. He had been trying to come up with a love song as the band hadn't made one yet but everything he wrote seemed so superficial as he hadn't much experiance with it. American's loved rock songs about rebellion and hating authority too. Glancing down at the trashcan which had a discarded sheet of paper that was his pitiful attempt to compose a song about disliking school. Pulling out another sheet of notebook paper, Jin closed his eyes as he tried to recall the korean soap opera his grandma had admired. Coming up with something, he set back to work and began writing down some lyrics.


(soft singing)
One life to spend together.
One lie, to tear it apart.
I can't believe you'd gone with a stranger.
Went ahead, to break my heart.
You knew how I felt for you.
You said that this would be forever.
What a lie, what a fool I was.
To..believe in your simple words(have guitar end with a sharp note)
(bass guitar keep up a smaller melody and enlarge it with the drums)

(fast paced and yell like singing)
But no I'll forge ahead!
Pick the pieces of my heart back up!
Move on, with this short life!
Without you! And the dirty memories!
I don't have time to be sad over this!
I can live just fine without you!
Who am I kidding? Of course it hurts.

But it's your choice, your freedom--
I wont comdem you, in what you do.
There's plenty of fish in the sea
And I will find one, who will respect my feelings
one-who can love me better than you did

So good bye--this is farewell!(stretch the word in a yell?)

Jin stopped writing. The lyrics just sounded wrong and short. Maybe Reiko has some more experiance in relationships and could improve this. The begining felt a bit fine but it went darker in the end and it made it sound like the singer was a loser who was left behind by his partner. Of course, this was not something the band should play for this competition. They needed something to rile the crowd up and make them scream or whatever they were being judged on. American's measured a band's success by the number of screams right? A energetic song with more feeling perhaps. Musing over his closest relationships, Jin realized he should have got out more as it would've given him more inspiration and experiance. Well, he wasn't the writer for the band anyways. The other's might have come up with better lyrics and songs than him. Pulling out some blank song sheets, Jin put it on the coffeetable to prepare himself for writing down any tunes that they might come up with. Leaning back, Jin's eyes went back to the clock. Two more minutes for them to arrive. Against his will, Jin's eyelids began to feel like lead and he closed his eyes for some rest again. Soon enough, his head rolled back and Jin fell asleep.

(( O_o already in austin, huh.. thought we were suspose to meet up or something then ride the plane guess not O_o I'll edit my post later and post another... unless rain is still over here so we can ride the plane together -waits for lady chello- ))

Originally Posted by Racoon_Chronus

The RP will start with the bands getting the ticks to fly into Austin, this will be about 2 days before the 28th, just so we can get most of the band spots filled up.

((Sorry I haven't got much sleep the past few days thanks to college and my sick dog. Where are we starting at? I thought we where still at our homes going over? Kasumi I am going to fit my post so we can get on a plane over with Rain if that is ok with the two of you if not I will edit it when I get time tonight.))

Reiko looked about the apartment making sure everything was as it needed to be for her brother when he got home. She checked to make sure she left her cell number for him and all the other numbers he could need while she was gone. This was going to be one of the first times her brother couldn’t go with her. She was excited about going to anther country and sing with the band. Though leaving her brother here with no one to cook for him was the down side. She smiled as she saw the note one of the family friends had left. It made her feel better to know that the family friend had promised to take care of her brother while she was away. Though she would worry about him she knew. Her eyes shifted to the clock as she stud there. Her eyes widen as she dashed to her room grabbing her luggage, as she made one last check to make sure she had every thing she would need. She had to hurry or she was going to be late meeting the other half of the band. Reiko locked the door behind her as she left the apartment; she turned and made sure it was lock before leaving. Reiko made her way to their meeting place and took a seat as she waited for the others. She hoped that none of them would be late this was their first chance to be seen by another country. She closed her eyes as she sat there and ran the different songs they had composed through her head. She wanted to make sure that she knew the words and wasn’t going to forget them under the pressure. It was one thing for one of the others to forget their parts but it was another for the singer not to remember the words. Reiko owed it to each band member to do her best performance and to know her part. It would be bad either way even if one of the others forgot their parts but they would be excused. Reiko didn’t of play an instrument except to flute,and cello and she rarely got to play in the band. If she sung out of key or hit the wrong note it could ruin the whole performance.

{It's fine, Eiiri. :heart: The bowling + bar + food part sounds fun! Gonna wait for Rainy before I post, I don't wanna go every other post.}

((It was, I was expecting it to be, but it turned out to be a lot of fun!))

{That's great!}

[[Oops. XDD Sorry. Being sick makes everything 10x harder.]]

Aarani grinned. "As long as I get to yell 'Blah blah blah' every five seconds I'm good." He said with a smile. "Hey. Brainstorming for America.. Which songs of ours should we play?" He said thinking. "I was thinking we could start out by playing something like 'Barbie Girl' by Aqua." He joked, thinking of himself in a wig and a dress. "And I'd run around in a wig and dress." He chuckled. "I know, I know.. Anything to wear a dress, right? Kidding," he said softly, hitting the hi-hat. "We should just make totally new songs for America. You know.." He said, "Because they've heard about us, and they're probably putting the other songs on their iPods and iListens or whatever the hell they are. If we bring something new instead of like their bands that play the same songs," he said, thinking, "It'll give us an advantage."

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Akemi smiled and picked up Hana, kissing her cheek. "I'll be back, I promise." She put Hana down. Hana smiled at her and rolled her ankle around cutsie-like, batting her eyelashes. "Yeah, you're cute. Whatever. Anyways," Hana pouted. "Ishi. You're not nice," she wailed. Akemi chuckled and hugged Ishiin, kissing his cheek. "I'm going to be gone for a while, Ishiin.. Hopefully you can deal with them without me." She meant their parents. "I'll kinda have to." They were at the band's meeting spot, saying good-bye to Akemi. Their parents had sat in the car, waiting for Ishiin and Hana. "Alright, let's go, let's go." Their mother reached over and honked the horn from her place in the passenger's seat. Ishiin chuckled. "See ya." Akemi waved to them, watching them get in the car. "Akemi. Remember, use your Korean!" That was all before they sped off. She sighed and went to grab her luggage, spotting Reiko. "Rei! You're kinda early." She said, checking her watch. "Where are the other two knuckleheads?" She said, giving Reiko a brief hug.

(( Aww lady and rain =[ ))

Kouta got up from the couch and walked behind his brother. He watched him a moment before snatching a stick away from him and hitting a cymbol before running around the room. "Hey!" Akira got up and chases his little brother around the room. "You can't catch me hehe" Kouta ran all througout the recording studio before running back into the room. Once he had Kouta corner, he grinned and started to walk over slowly with his hand held out. "Come on, hand it over." Kouta looked around for an escape but didn't find any, lowering his head in defeat he raised the stick towards his brother. And just when Akira thought he had it, Kouta slipped under him and ran around the couch. "I know your not sticking your tongue at me, you better keep it in your mouth less you want me to grab it." Akira ran to one side, while Kouta ran to the other. This kept on for a moment until Akira just jumped over the couch pouncing on his little brother. "Got ya!" He smiled deviously and began to tickle Kouta.

He pretended to pout right back at Bella when she called them 'girls'. Crossing his arms over his chest he shook his head defiantly.
"No no no! That's mean Bella, I already get bullied by my sisters!" He whined before laughing softly. Raising an eyebrow he shook his head slightly. Well, he was pretty used to his band mates saying strange stuff, hell, he said similar stuff. "I guess it's a good thing my instrument's part of me, I think I'd rather be in love with another human, though the mike's looking pretty nice." He suggested with a low chuckle.

Glancing to Fitch he smiled brightly, at once interested at the idea of new songs and new ideas.
"Really? Fitch that sounds amazing! Fantástico, which songs have you tried?" He asked, moving to push himself up so he was sitting perched on the counter now.

Fitch pouted at Tony slightly. "But that's why I would bring her on the plane." He groaned softly as he stuck his tongue back out at her. Of course he would put them in overhead storage. No baby of his was going to be put in the cargo. The blonde heard the girls referring to their instruments as love and he couldn't help but chuckle. "See, my guitars are my children... not my lovers. That spot is for people, just my children are more important than romance at the moment." He laughed softly agreeing with Sanders and rubbing his head. Atticus watched as Tony started beating her drumsticks together and couldn't help, but smile.

The blonde looked to Sanders and ran a hand threw his hair. "Well, you're gonna laugh at me... but a fan told me to try this guy Adam Lambert... I don't know, some of his songs are pretty weird, but I like other stuff... uhm there's The Scene Aesthetic, All Time Low, 3Oh!3... this band called Goodbye Soundscape... let's seee...Anthony Green Of course. I've been a busy boy." He laughed softly with a blush on his cheeks.

Rosie laughed at the "Barbie Girl" idea. "Yeah," she said. "I think that unveiling new material for the competition is a great idea... The whole point of going to America isn't necessarily about winning the competition - We've already got a record deal. This is about winning fans." She smiled. "And, if we win the fans..." she paused to exchange a glance with Ina.

"We make lots of money."

{Aww Rainy, you still have the flu? That sucks!}

Turning her head, she merely stuck her tongue out at both boys before she cuddled her bass. "Daijoubu desu yo Tony-nii~" Bella smiled reassuringly, "Your drum set isn't really 'portable', as long as you have a piece of it, you're good." Sighing slightly, she picked up bass and strummed it gently, "My child, my lover~ Whichever one prefers; regardless though, I care for my baby too deeply!"

Blinking, she then turned to Fitch who was talking about having to try out some stuff a few fans had suggested, "Hmmm... Not a bad idea, I'm a 3Oh!3 fan myself~" She giggled as she began to lip out 'Don't Trust Me' and pretended like she was playing the actual notes and her lip singing began to transform into a quiet hum and before she knew it, she began singing. "Ne ne ne! So, when shall we start practicing?"

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"What she said," was all MJ could say as he picked up his electric blue guitar and plugged it to one of the amps. Strumming it gently, he then began to tune it. It had been a small while since he last played it and he didn't really feel like taking it home lately since his mother had started babysitting their neighbors kids. After taking a few minutes to tune his guitar he then looked up at his friends, "Well, whatever you wanna do bro... I think I'm fine, eh, maybe I should warm up."

Finishing her song MariKat realized that Jeremy and Lizzie had come so she just set her guitar down and smiled. She didn't say anything about the song hoping they wouldn't say anything and just said, "Hey" With another smile she listened to Jeremy as he practiced again unhappy that Lexi still wasn't here.

"If you need to, then hell...I'll give you a rhythm and you warm up as necessary. I need to warm up as well, so...let's do it." Sticks said quietly, giving a long slow breath before snapping the hi-hat six times; "One! Two! A-one, two, three, four!" He chanted before crashing on the cymbals and starting a beat reminiscent of the olden-day black metal bands; rapid, off-beat kicks of the bass drum intercut with open-hi-hat hits and snare flams. 'BUM, BUM, BAT-BUM, BUM-BUM, BUM BAT-BUM, BUM-BUM, BUM, BAT-BUM' went the drums as Sticks made them speak with the drumsticks pounding out an adrenalin-pumping rhythm; if one was very attentive, they would inference that it was the same beat used in the beginning of Sticks' solo band's hit instrumental, "Marshall Noise".

[ LELIE! I LOVE ADAM LAMBERT'S SONG! Whatayawantfrommeh?<3 ]

Ina giggled at the thought of Aarani in a dress and wig on stage. "You want to be Barbie?" she asked. "Huh, here I thought you'd want to be Ken." She stretched out her arms and hands. She pulled out a binder with their song lists from a shelf in the studio, it held music and some unfinished song ideas they had. They switched around songs so much they would from time to time forget what they could play, thus they made this list. It seemed to be formal from the outside, but was really just a mess of scrap paper made from what ever paper they had around.

"That is very true," Ina agreed with Rosie. "Getting fans is important, as well as having some extra cash is never bad. Maybe Aarani can use some of his share to pay me rent." She was just teasing him, she didn't care if he would pay rent, they earned enough from their gigs for her to live the way she wanted to.

Rosie felt like she'd been punched in the gut. "Oh," she said softly, trying to recover. She smiled weakly. "You and Aar are living together?"

So it had happened, then... Her days of carefree flirting were over. She inched her chair away from Aar. Good thing they were going to America - That would make the healing easier. She sighed, staring off into space. She could have acted when she had the chance... But that would probably just have resulted in rejection, she thought; and awkwardness.

No - This way was better. This way, she could see him with someone who was worth him - Maybe even worth three or four of him. She felt happy for Ina, in a bittersweet way. She knew she could never have either of them, so picturing them together was good for her.

((Airport, got it. I edited my last post))

Jin had finally arrive at the airport after his brief nap. His sister waved him a fond good-bye and Jin did likewise. He was going to miss his family. The only carry-on item he brought was his guitar and his two suitcases were given to the airport staff to be placed in the airplane's storage. Since they were going to fly first class, there would probably be enough room for it. Wandering through the airport and looking through the waiting areas, Jin finally found Reiko-chan and Akemi-chan. Jin smiled at the two girls when he reached them ",konnichiwa girls, where's Akira-kun?"

Jeremy let out a deep breath of air, standing up from his drumset. He pushed Lizzy over on the couch and sat down himself. "Soo, what to do until Lexi gets here?" he questioned the girls. He was wondering why she was so late, but there wasn't anything he could do about it. He drummed his fingers on the side of the couch, unsure of what to do with himself. He began to whistle a soft tune that he made up off the top of his head.

Lizzy let out an "eep" noise followed by some giggles as she was pushed out of the way. Deciding to rest her head on the other armrest and lay with her legs across his she smiled at him win a "i win" look on her face. "Im not sure, but we very well cant practice without her, you know? It seems...awkward." She couldnt think of a better word until she said awkward. Incomplete would have been more correct. To have a band you needed a guitarist. Sure you could live without a bassists and she even see bands with out drummers! (They used some annoying drum backbeat which angered her instead.) But never without a guitar player. "I guess we just wait."

Tanya nodded at Sticks about the lyrics. "Hey, now it's a real party!" She said, pulling away slightly as Sticks started up a rythm for MJ. It took her a moment to realize what it was, and she laughed. "Ah, Sticks! Stop playing that! You know the rules, none of your solo stuff in group sessions!" She loved to tease Sticks about his solo album, if for no other reason than to get a rise out of him. "Hey, what time's the plane again? I wanna get out of here a few hours early and beat the camera leeches and the traffic."