Another day, another mashup. Actually, I have about 70 billion mashups started, gathering dust on my computer, waiting to be finished. But I have a problem with endings. I start really strong and then, about halfway through, I lose interest. Or I get so excited about sharing my creation with the world that I rush to finish it. Even in my best projects, I can tell it gets a little sloppier toward the end. I can hear it in my “Test Rider” mashup and it bothers me every time I listen to it.
This mashup is no exception, but this time, it’s not entirely my fault.
I started this a few weeks ago and I was really excited about. There’s a huge fandom for these two guys and I knew that doing this mashup right could make a lot of people flail. I aim to please afterall. 
The song combines Kamenashi Kazuya’s “Kizuna” with “Akanishi Jin’s “The Fifth Season.”
I did a rough edit of the first verse and it seemed like it would work. Well, yeah, the first verse worked fantastically! Unfortunately, the vocal rip of Akanishi’s song really degrades in quality after that and with my current skills, there’s nothing I can do about it (even after spending, like, two hours last night trying to improve it). The rip of Akanishi’s vocals is tin-y and warble-y and parts of it were completely unusable. 
But. I went ahead anyway and finished the mashup. I’m kinda reluctant to share it with the world because the last one I shared was awesome. This one? Not so much.
Meh.
Kamenashi & Akanishi – Overflowing Kizuna
Aside from having to chop a little off at the end, my original recording fit perfectly! So perfectly, in fact, that it’s not that far off from the original song. 
He needed to Rex-proof his new van, which required all sorts of hard work for me. Oh well. I got a free dinner out of it. As well as the free round trip to Pennsylvania. We left around 9:30 Thursday morning, stopping halfway for coffee and cookies. I worked on some craft projects during the ride, not really accomplishing anything important, but it was something I wanted to do anyway.
The rest of my night was spent doing online things, but nothing that required too much complex thought. I slept on and off a bit before morning, but was up relatively early.
Around 2pm EST, a 5.8 magnitude quake hit western Virginia, about 80 miles south of D.C. I felt the shaking all the way up here in Albany, which is a bit surprising to me. I mean, that’s pretty far away. But the earth rumbled and my apartment shook for probably about 20 seconds. It was my very first earthquake and, honestly, I spent half of it wondering what it was and the other half panicking because I didn’t know what I’m supposed to do in an earthquake.
