My VIPs and I are already nice and settled on my new blog, Plastic Candy!

I’m letting you know because I noticed that comments will keep on coming here on HEART STATION, and it’s unfair that they don’t get answered just because I moved on to a new blog, so please go by Plastic Candy and tell me what you think! I’ll love to hear from you!

And don’t forget to update the link on your blogroll!

A while back I put up some polls so you can vote on what you would like to see on my new blog (Which I’m working on!), and I really appreciate all the votes and some were very clarifying, while others made me torn (In a good way!). So here they are!

Should I Remain On WordPress?

Winner: Yes, please, we’d miss you here! [77% of votes]

I’m really considering staying here, but one of the people who voted added the option of using OnSugar, and it’s a very tempting website! (Also, a domain with OnSugar.com at the end would be so much cuter!) But I really like it here, so I’ll consider both options and put lots of thought into them!

What Should My First Post Be About?

Winner: A brand new review [SWEET BLACK] [50% of votes]

I’d be my pleasure to review SWEET BLACK as the first thing on my new blog! I love the album, and I loved it that so many of you want to read my opinion about it! It’ll be my pleasure to abide!

What Should I Write About The Most?

Winner: J-Pop, duh! [40% of votes]

Of course I’ll keep writing about J-Pop, and it makes me happy that it won the poll, especially because my life hasn’t been very interesting lately, except for the numerous mood swings and fights, but I wouldn’t want to pollute your eyes with that sort of stuff, so J-Pop it is!

Should I Keep Writing Translations To My Posts?

Tie:

• Yes, it makes it easier for foreigners to read it. [44% of votes]
• No, I feel exhausted just by seeing how much work you put into this. It’ll make you tired and you’ll lose interest in writing much. [44% of votes]

I think I’ll be writing only in English, like how I was doing here before ~12 weeks~, because I guess I made a better name for myself as Alvy from HEART STATION/A2F than Alvy of Utada Brasil or any other place I happened to publish in Portuguese. But for those who would like to read some more by me in Portuguese, I have some plans to introduce to my VIPs in the future (It’s never too late to become one, just leave me your e-mail address and I’ll tell you where I’ll be heading!), so not all is lost!

I think I already have a title for this new project and surely a date set for its birthday! It’ll be an adventure, and hopefully a successful one with a lot more happiness than the previous endeavors!

I’ll see you through my updates!

It was the biggest pleasure to be with you these 2 years. I loved everything about it, thank you so much for everything!

Goodbye, HEART STATION!

Lots of love and thanks,

Alvy.

Hello again!

Next Sunday, my best friend, @carytelio and I will be once again hosting a web-chat over at Stickam, her schedule is still a bit hectic because she’s starting to dance professionally so it complicates our lives a bit, but that’s the plan!

We’ll be on air at around 6 p.m. (UTC -3 time) this time, so I hope to see everyone there! There might be some scheduling conflicts, but I’ll be letting you know if something happens, but until then, that’s our schedule!

You can check the link of our web-chat right here because I’ll be publishing it as soon as I go online!

EDIT: I’m Live!

EDIT: Apparently, unregistered users can’t join the chat unless it’s through Twitter, and Cary is the one registered and I don’t want her to get messages from people she doesn’t know, so I decided to cancel it, even though it’s been 10 minutes since it began. I’ll announce the results of the polls with my opinions about them soon!

For the last week of the special I’ll be doing something different, and I want to put the people I want to thank first because the second half might be a bit distracting and I want the focus to be all about them! The last, beautiful, amazing people to be featured here are the following:

cucupan: cucupan is so awesome! He supports me with anything new I try out (Including A2F) and it really means a lot! I use his scans for my reviews (When they’re available) and I’m a huge fan of his! My iTunes library is full of his scans. Cucu is also full of personality and humor so it’s always fun to be reading from him on Twitter, his MySpace or through his website.

I asked for his help before I opened my review blog and asked him for some recommendations because I wasn’t very indulged in J-Pop before, and he suggested some really awesome singers that I featured and really enjoyed, so he helped me a lot, including over at Utada Brasil, where he scanned the Boku Wa Kuma booklet as a request from us, and we’re always really thankful for his positive attitude and disposition!

Thank you for everything! You rock, Cucu!

JunniorKopke: I’ve mentioned him several times here on HEART STATION, how I’ve known him from Twitter and how he began the Top 5 albums MeMe from a while back, but from that time on, we’ve gotten a lot closer and I’ve known him a lot better. He’s hilarious and his love for platypuses is the cutest thing ever! We have a good time talking to each other and it’s impressive how we don’t fight over anything, I think it’s a first for me and I love it.

He certainly changed my perception over people I meet over the internet. Before, I thought Raphael was the only one who cared for what I thought and felt even though we met over the internet, but now I see that there are more special people like him who can make me feel like I’m talking face-to-face with them, and one of these special people is Junnior! Our little divo (In training)!

@latinramen: Latinramen is a really cute Hawaiian I got to know from Twitter, and you can check out her website here. She’s learning how to speak Portuguese so every now and then we start tweeting each other in Portuguese and I’m so happy for her because she’s nearly perfect with her Portuguese! It’s always fun to tweet with her, she’s always really sweet.

I’d like to thank every one of you who have followed me through this special because I made it with lots of love, and even though I wasn’t able to follow with its initial plan, I hope you enjoyed getting to know me better and the dedications I made. Some people seemed to be very ungrateful and intolerant so that made me really upset, but overall it was a good project which a learned a lot from.

Now, to the distracting part! Drumroll, please!

Curtain Call

This will be one of the last posts to be published here on HEART STATION.

For these 2 years, I grew a lot, in many aspects, my writing, my interests, everything is renewed from when I started writing back in On Our Way, and lately, I’ve been engaged in some new ideas regarding this blog, like the STRIPPER COUNTDOWN with .nodame, the Albums MeMe, ~12 weeks~, and they’ve all been really fun experiences that I want to have more of, with a fresh new beginning, to start full throttle once again.

I want to kind of become ‘anonymous’ again. I’ll be changing all my usernames and probably restart with a brand new URL (If I do begin another blog). It’ll be a way to filter all the negativity I acquired through these 2 years and begin with everything fresh.

Now, what if you don’t want me to restart and still want to be with me? Well, lovers, you can comment on this post with your true e-mail (Even if it’s something really short) and I’ll send y’all e-mail updates with everything I’m working on and when everything is ready, I’ll send you the date where everything will go online! If you have twitter, you can also direct message me or @reply me: @alvycunha so I can send you messages from there too. I might still go after some of you who I really want to bring on to this new phase, but the people who message me are guaranteed! Like my little VIPs!

Like always, I’ll need your help, so I posted up some polls that I’d really like you to answer about my (Possible) future blog!

The results are in! Please make sure to check out the results! (Os resultados já estão contados! Por favor, dê uma olhada neles!)

At the same time that it’s a great thing that I’ll be planning everything out better this time, I’ll miss everything over here, I just hope I can make it longer than 2 years this time! My 50,000 views, HEART STATION’s 65th position on the Top Growing Blogs page for the 30th of March . . . I’ll miss all of this, I hope I’m able to start everything correctly so I won’t have to miss it all so much! So I hope you’re all patient with my restarting and help me out with anything you feel like doing!

I hope to be hearing from many of you because I’d love to update you through e-mail and bring as many of you as you’d like onto this new ‘era’! Remember, all you need to do is comment, @reply me or send me a direct message!

P.S. – Please don’t stalk me if you don’t have the courage to comment, or I’ll have to keep everything private.

Hope to hear from you! See you next week for the results! (And I’ll also let you know who the people I’m keeping contact with are)

Lots of love,

Alvy.

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I’m really excited for Maki Goto’s debut mini-album under the avex label, and I just read some more information about the SWEET BLACK project, and I was surprised to see it goes beyond Maki (She’s the artist responsible for the music of SWEET BLACK, though) and there’s a book and a graphic novel under the SWEET BLACK project, centered around women with who have a SWEET side (Positive hopes), and yet, a BLACK side (cynical mind). The motto is all about living by your favorite things, which I think is how everyone should live by. Even though it’s a project centered around women, I really liked the concept and the coverage of so many areas, so I’m mixing two weeks into one to let you know about my own SWEET BLACK side but still give it a HEART STATION twist.

The Music

Like I’ve mentioned before, it’s really hard for me to characterize something through music because each piece of music is special on its own, and if not for the labels that genres create, there would be no other way to classify music, let alone an artist, but here are 3 songs that represent the past and present of HEART STATION and that I think symbolize the different faces of HEART STATION very well.

Ayumi Hamasaki – HONEY

I think this song characterizes HEART STATION really well because it’s such a bright song, but after you listen to it for a while, you sense a very subtle melancholy in Ayumi’s voice. Then it becomes very clear, that it’s a sad song, even though it’s very upbeat, it’s very bittersweet and I love it because of that. I don’t write too many sad posts, but sometimes I write with a saddened state of mind and it doesn’t show through my writing, but every now and then, you can sense it. Maybe that’s how I can relate to this song.

Koda Kumi – feel

feel is one of my favorite ~12 weeks~ singles by Koda Kumi. There’s so much feeling put into the song, the beautiful R&B instrumentals are just the kind I like in an R&B ballad, and the title says it all, it’s a song to feel for, not in a sad nor in a happy way, just in its own special way. I remember I started to listen to this song a lot some months before the 1st anniversary and I love it since then, it’s been the faithful soundtrack to many of my posts.

Maki Goto – Fly away

HEART STATION just feels like Fly away, I think. It’s a dark song, but something you feel good listening to. Sometimes I feel like there’s a similar bipolar effect here, and I think it comes from the help I get from so many of you. Even though I go through hardships, I still have people to watch out for me.

The Books

To completely give in to the ero-kawaii label, the books that represent HEART STATION are the following:

CLAMP – Cardcaptor Sakura [Any volume]

I’ve published my interest in Cardcaptor Sakura several times here and it’s a great graphic novel. My Sakura posts are able to get quite popular, so this manga collection couldn’t miss out.

Tila Tequila – Hooking Up With Tila Tequila

There’s no way this book would miss out! I was very excited for its release and it was certainly a very interesting read. I was writing a lot about Tila for some time and I was eagerly waiting for her book and her debut album to come out, but the book was first (and so far, the only one to be released), so I quenched my curiosity for Tila with it. I don’t recommend it unless you don’t take this reading seriously and read it more for your enjoyment. It’s certainly a fun read.

Mineko Iwasaki – Geisha, A Life

The one and only book review on HEART STATION! (Which .nodame and I highly recommend!) The author wrote it because Arthur Golden lied to her (He promised he wouldn’t publish her identity in his fictitious book about geishas), and she wanted to clear up the image of geishas and her own as well. I think this book is far better than Memoirs of a Geisha and I highly recommend it!

What about your perspective of HEART STATION? I’d like to know other favorite things of yours that you think characterize HEART STATION! Be creative, and I’ll write a new post with your points of view! Anything counts, foods, books, music, music videos!

Now, lets leave the SWEET BLACK life style behind and appreciate the hottest people around, the boys and girls of HEART STATION!

Tuned To The Frequency

The Boys

Nippon444: I first had contact with Julian after I uploaded all the Utada @ Sephora videos I had and he told me he really liked them and sent me a direct message asking me for my MSN e-mail address. I was hesitant at first because I never met anyone through YouTube before, but I gave it to him anyway and we struck a friendship!

He’s a bit crazy, but I take crazy over submissive anytime. This makes for very funny conversations and a good time. He’s been by my side for many of the things I try out here on HEART STATION and his enthusiasm always kept me excited about my own blog, which makes everything a lot more enjoyable! He’s currently fighting against a J-Pop consumption addiction . . . No, not really, he’s fine! I’m glad I trusted him with my e-mail, he’s very entertaining. (HEART STATION is on his favorites list! That’s the best!)

HeyCameron: HeyCameron has always been so friendly! Ever since he started to follow me on Twitter, he’s been of a lot of help for me. We have really fun times (Like you might’ve read in my ‘best of twitter’ post), and he’s also shown a lot of support, and of course, been very patient. Nothing of this goes for granted to me, and I’m so thankful he didn’t lose his patience with me! Thank you, I know it’s not easy dealing with me!

Josh: Shuffle And Repeat is like a celebrity J-Pop review blog, so I was very flattered when Josh wanted to exchange links with me because he liked HEART STATION. And even more that he was a year younger than me and yet wrote so well and had such a popular blog. This boy’s got talent, y’all! He even featured my (neglected) review blog on Shuffle And Repeat because our common interest on Shiina Ringo.

He couldn’t be left out because he’s very friendly and I really like his comments!

Crispy: Crispy is good friends with Carole, Lorraine and Bhavya and was always very friendly when he started to read my blogs. I appreciate his support a lot whenever I write poetry or try something different, he always comments supporting me, so I’m really thankful for that! It means so much when people have my back, and Crispy always lifts up my spirits when I’m down. Thank you so much!

The Girls

EmpressOfDrac: Empress was the first blog-writer I had contact with, through a poem she had posted up on her blog and I thought it was really good, and we exchanged links and it started from there. She’s a really fun gothic enthusiast and we happen to share the same birthdate! She’s always really sweet and has quite uncommon tastes, making her blog really interesting to check out.

.nodame: .nodame is my lover girl. We had such a great time putting together our STRIPPER COUNTDOWN, and she’s always been so sweet and friendly, through her posts and her comments! (Her blog is amazing, by the way) She’s really intelligent, but is still hella fun and knows how to put a stripper songs countdown together! It’s always a joy when she stops by and comments, and she couldn’t miss out on ~12 weeks~ because her spirit is too contagious!

Hyperballad: Hyperballad (also known as Hypy) is the sweetest little reader ever. She’s always there when I write a review on my (neglected) review blog and everything that she writes brings a smile to my face, be it as a comment or a post, it’s always a pleasure to read from her. Her personality and her humor are something really special and her wonderful musical taste too! She’s also really humble and that’s so endearing! You rock, Hypy! Keep up with your positivity and your awesome reviews!

aikorin: Also a super sweet reader! Her comments bring a smile to my face, and she always keeps her blog fresh and the way she writes is so cute and amusing, I love it! Just the title of her blog is awesome on its own! (Disco-munication: fangirl meets blog), and I’m glad she stops by every once in a while! And I also thank her so much for all the support! Rock on, lover girl! ♥

Renaye: Renaye is really cute. She’s really intelligent too, and I also really appreciate her comments! I love them! Her blog is filled with insight and I’m happy that I can make an interesting read for her because it seems like her standards are set high. Thank you for stopping by, I love your writing!

It means so much I have all these wonderful readers with me! Because I’m in the SWEET BLACK state of mind, here is QUEEN BEE, the fiercest music video for the fiercest readers on the face of the Earth!

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I’ve been writing a lot about some of the history of HEART STATION and some of the times I spend with my friends, but at least when it comes to other people, I love to know about the tiny little random things that make them who they are, not only what they like to do.

I think I’m one of the people with the most pet peeves and habits. People think they know me so well in such a short time because they know what drives me crazy (In good and bad ways), but I can still be very unpredictable sometimes. Randomness is in my O-type blood, it’s unavoidable to me.

Even my blog is proof of that. I have nearly everything I like here, and there could be more, but I do like to write longer posts, so some details are better left unwritten, so my blog doesn’t turn into Twitter.

Here are some random facts about me so you get to know the Alvy behind the blog better:

Top Pet Peeves

• When people answer page-long conversations with a single word.
• When people tell me to calm down, label me or think I’m part of some stereotype.
• When people stutter while they’re talking to me or don’t look me in the eye.
• When people go after people on my friends list or my blogroll so they can have the same friends as me.
• When people go around copying what I do and don’t put enough effort into originality to turn it into their own.
• When someone tries to censor me in some way or another and act hypocritical.
• People who think they don’t make a difference in my life and ignore their importance to me, putting me down as much as themselves and hide what they feel towards me.
• When people don’t want to talk problems through with me and change the subject into something that won’t spawn arguments.

Top Turn-ons

• Cute people who know how to have fun.
• When people appreciate me for who I am and I appreciate them for who they are.
• Respect for difference and genuineness.
• Sense of humor.
• When people put my needs above their own and don’t want me to know.
• When people make me something special just for the sake of making something for me and see me happy.
• When people put on a fresh attitude when I need them to and respect my dramatic outbursts.
• When people care for me and keep asking me if I’m alright even though I tell them I am.

Top Adjectives To Describe Me

• Passionate.
• Perfectionist.
• Observant.
• Sensitive.
• Bitchy.
• Picky.
• True.

Top Habits

• I can speak very quickly without stuttering.
• Start singing when there’s no music playing around me.
• Start shaking my right leg when I don’t move for too long.
• Not putting the pieces together until it’s right on my face.
• Creating a bunch of nicknames for a single person.
• Using either ‘cute’ or ’sexy’ as adjectives for everything.
• Being inconvenient at the worst times.

Hidden Talents

• I’m able to find music on the internet really easily.
• I can lift my left eyebrow.
• I speak in Korean with a Japanese accent (Go figure).
• Tripping on flat surfaces.

I think that the people who know me the most are my friends. I think it’s funny that each of my friends knows things that the others don’t. That’s why the quiz I made about me was so hard. Some are more aware of my habits, others are more aware of my interests, and others are able to absorb everything I tell them, interesting or not. I don’t judge anyone for what kind of information they’d like to absorb about me or not because I understand that I can be a bit in-your-face 24/7, so I completely understand. That’s why I value my friendships so much, and ~12 weeks~ wouldn’t be complete without Laura, Pam and Alice!

Full Circle

I’ve certainly mentioned Pam, Laura and Alice before on HEART STATION, Alice for her vivid, fun personality, Pam for her humor and her writing and Laura for being the romantic little dreamer that she is.

Alice: Alice has been my friend since 5th grade and I love the kind of relationship that we share until today. We don’t have contact daily, and we can still keep a fresh, sweet friendship. I think we have the exact same concept for what friendship is, and that’s why we can nourish it still being far from each other. Every second spent with her is pure fun. It’s incredible. From her witty, humorous remarks, to her sweetness, everything is awesome and I love to got with her to parties and have a good time. Because she’s certainly the one to do so!

We have a series of inside jokes and stories we could share forever and they’re the warmest proof of friends that are too close for distance to take its toll. Of course, we don’t see each other as frequently as before, but when we do, it makes up for everything. Alice is my little sweetheart with a bitch’s heart, and I love it!

Pam: Pam is that friend you can always run to because she’s always there for you, with patience and full of suggestions to make everything better. She has sense of humor, sympathy and maturity enough to keep me in line whenever I go too far, and always eases the process. She’s amazing.

She’s like the ideal human, actually. She’s social, respecting others and always making an effort to include everyone in any sort of place. She’s a vegetarian, lover of all cultures and who’s always trying to be as fair to others as possible. Even though she has all these uncommon, strong opinions and qualities, she can still be the best friend ever. That’s the best about her.

She always gives everything a chance and never judges something without being completely sure of what she feels. Pam is so independent that even we get a bit scared with her. But that’s part of her awesomeness.

Laura: We haven’t been friends as long as I’ve been friends with Pam and Alice, but we have so many inside jokes and stories that time doesn’t really matter when it comes to her.

Laura is that cute little ballerina dreamer with an edge that catches you by surprise. She can be a little autistic sometimes with her little habits, but these moments are so much fun. We have good times, certainly.

Laura is so intelligent. That’s why she’s so witty and that’s where her edge comes from. She’s not afraid to speak her mind because she’s got everything else to support her ideas. She’s a feisty one when she’s after something, she’s also very passionate, and that’s a quality that makes a great friend!

They’re a very eclectic group of friends, but I get along with all of them so well! Maybe it’s because I’m an eclectic group of human being? I love it, though.

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