BWAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAA..... these are really GROWN MEN!?!???!?? 
And because Takki kept referring to themselves in their roles.... I can't help but to imagine this band of men in their Heian period costumes jumping into a CAR going crazy in the onsen and dancing & singing like mad at a karaoke........ THUD..... 
Takki, we wanna go on your little baka daytrip parties too!!!!
Take us with you.... we'll serve you oh divine Yoshitsune-sama... we'll even serve your followers!!!! 
OK.... ready? This is so blardi looooooooong and sooo blardi funnyyyyy I'm gonna have to pause to insert comments here and there!
Thank you to anego-san & also ray-san and her friends at Sentaki for the Takiren
Takizawa Rengou Vol. 146 - January 13, 2005POOR MANAGER-SAN!!!!
Otsukarechan
During last year's Yoshitsune's last filming time, I said Yoshitsune and his followers are going to do a new year partySo we went for a day trip yo
Mou~ it was so much fun yo
I call it "Lets go! Yoshitsune & his followers wants to go to onsenand takes Benkei along" desu
The members were, Benkei & Saburou & Tsugunobu & Kisanta & Yoshitsune.
Jirou & Tadanobu can't come because of schedule conditions
This time by Benkei's choice, we went to an rotenburo (open air bath) overlooking Mount Fuji, it feels so good
We got together in the morning, then everybody got on the BENKEI CAR and LET'S GOー
That day everyone was really happy, and the tension was high
It was still before noon but immediately we kanpai over BEERAfter that it was CHAMPAGNE
It took us a few minutes to open the bottle
"Anyway, because manager-san is driving, cannot drink yo."
And before arriving we already finished it
OMG..... can you imagine how ROWDY that BENKEI CAR is???
Oh btw how BIG is the Benkei car? LOL (I'm assuming this is Matsuken's car hahahah!!!!) And ALREADY DRINKING BEFORE NOON!!!!!! 
Is the Benkei car a MOBILE PUB???? There's like beer and CHAMPAGNE all ready to be served in the car? LOLLLLL My my Lord Yoshitsune..... you and your men.... tsk tsk tsk *shakes head*... no wonder you couldn't get that champagne bottle open HAHAHAH!!!!!
And then upon arriving we had the best lunch of soba and tempuraAnou.........
And that time the drinks that came out mochiron were beer
After that we went into the onsen and it's play time with everyone. Yoshitsune, Benkei VS Saburou, Kisanta had a table tennis matchWe were completely defeated
The second time too also lost.
After that we had a billiard showdown
How many times did the YOSHITSUNE x BENKEI team lost???? This is like, the complete OPPOSITE of what's supposed to happen!!! Wahahahahahh!!!! Yoshitsune and Benkei should be INVINCIBLE!!! 
Hahahahah when I hear the name "Yoshitsune & Benkei" they just sound like the parallel of a superhero dynamic duo to me! But oh my... so many straight losses... I guess Kisanta & Saburou are just really good!
And then we went back to the rooms to take a nap until dinnertime.WAS THIS REALLY A DAY TRIP????? And did anyone actually keep track of how many times Takki mentioned his DRINKS in this entire Takiren??????
At night we had the best top-grade sashimi, and sukiyaki with meat that melts in your mouth
It was VERY oishiiThat kind of meat I never had before yo
And then Benkei said:
Ben: Wanna play a JANKEN game that whoever loses can't eat the meat?
Everyone: Oo~~
Ki: Usually the person who brought this about will lose yo neー
Everyone: Sou desu yoー
But then it was a tie between Benkei and Kisanta
Afterwards we had a karaoke partyWe sang "Serenade" yo
Aside that we sang many many other songs and the last one that we closed with was of course "MATSUKEN SAMBA"Moreover, everyone danced
Aa anyway the drink was wine neIt was really a fun time
Broadcasting (of Yoshitsune) had begun, I will keep moving forward
MORNING: BEER & CHAMPAGNE
LUNCHTIME: MORE BEER
DINNERTIME: MORE BEER & WINE
KARAOKE: MORE WINE!!!!!
Dude... they were just drinking and drinking and drinking the whole day even from the moment thay jumped into that Benkei Car!!!!
I bet they even had drinks with them during their billiard game, and maybe they brought bottles into the hot tub as well!!!!! Beer beer beer beer beer beer beeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrr.........
TAKIZAWA, BEER BELLY DAME!
Dame dame dame dameeeeee!!!!!!
And thuddddd at "TACKEY & KISANTA"
This boy ah.... have so many affairs... first he went Tackey & Teppei, now he goes Tackey & Kisanta!!! Eh... shouldn't that be "YOSHITSUNE & KISANTA"????? Suddenly Yoshitsune morphs back into Takki!!! AND THE MATSUKEN SAMBA!!!!! BUHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHHHH..... UWAHAHAHAHHHHAHAHHAH... can you imagine a room full of grown men... doing the MATSUKEN SAMBA???? *rolls on the floor*
Now wondering...... which onsen they went to...............
the things you tell us Takkiiiii ohhh the things you tell us...... GOING TO ONSEN!!!!
...and that skimpy skimpy towel....
Takizawa Hideaki, consider yourself a very lucky lucky lucky guy that I don't live in Japan!!!
Because if I do... you know where I'd be...
UP IN SOME TREE DRESSED AS A BIRD WITH A SUPER 1000x OPTICAL ZOOM LENS DIRECTED TOWARDS THE...
*cough cough*
OPEN AIR BATH!!!
Oops.... did I say that out loud?
Oh anyway... I made an unscheduled trip to Kinokuniya today (my last chance to go coz I'm going home tomorrow)... and what a very nice surprise I found today!!!!!
DANG IT I HAVE NO MORE SPACE IN MY SUITCASE!!!!! 
Do you know I've spent TWO NIGHTS arranging and rearranging and squeezing and resqueezing and sitting on my suitcase trying to fit my mountain of magazines, my mooks, my clothes, my auction stuff from aki 
, my kendama, my Taiyou no Kisetsu DVD boxset from Vikki , the VHS tapes from aki & leelin , shoes, bags, the suits I bought for work...... I'm amazed at the amount of things I accumulated in just one month in Singapore...!!! And to tell you the truth, if I took all the magazines out, I wouldn't need to sit on my suitcase in order to close it down!!!! I even cut out so many magazines already I called march from Kino today to ask her if she wants the magazine reserved from her in which she gleefully said yes all giggling and then we're talking about the amount of magazines we accumulated in a month and it's DAMN CRAZY.... *both sweatdropping*.... *but both GRINNING*
Anyway FINEBOYS was oishiiiiii oishiiiii oishiiiiiiiii~~~~~~
(in a strictly NON-HADAKA way, mind you! *WHACK!*) The good news is I'll be home tomorrow so just hang in there you'll be able to see them all sooooooon (if you haven't already!) I waited for my mom (who's doing the PET scan) at the hospital and skimmed through the interview... and it was something I read in the Yoshitsune essay on TV NAVI... about how Takki found out that he was going to act in Yoshitsune...! The first time I read it on TV NAVI, the first thing that came into my mind was exactly what came into my mind during that one Utadaijiten clip when Tsubasa said the cover for Serenade was shot even before the song was decided! Yeah... it was....
HOW COULD ALL THESE PEOPLE WORK LIKE THIS???
Roughly, this is what Takki said in TV NAVI about how he found out:
My manager called me and said, "Tomorrow there will be an announcement in the newspaper ne." Eeh??? And I asked, about what? Manager-san said about the decision that I will be in the taiga dorama.THUD!
Takki: What is the taiga dorama about this time?
Manager: Yoshitsune.
Takki: Who will I play?
Manager: Yoshitsune.
Takki: EEEEEEEEEEEEEH?
And so it was like that, I found out just about probably the same time as all of you (the fans) did ne.
+essay excerpt from Yoshitsune Tamashii Vol 1 / TV NAVI - January 2005
Which makes me wonder... does he have a say in what he should act in or doesn't? Not that I'm complaining that Yoshitsune was decided for him but you know, doesn't Hollywood actors and actresses get to actually see the script first before they just get thrown into the set?
And he repeats exactly the same thing in Fineboys too, about the fact that his manager only told him that he's gonna be in Yoshitsune JUST ONE DAY BEFORE THE PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT WAS MADE.
*shrugs*
The way he tells it in TV Navi is sooooo funny I was laughing about it until like days later it hit me...... doesn't that sorta made him sound like he's just a puppet who has no say in what he does want or does not want to do? Oh hey, I'm just a baka fan who probably has no idea how the Japanese entertainment world system works (nor am I knowledgable at all in the Japanese entertainment world--hell, I know nothing outside the world of Takizawa Hideaki & Imai Tsubasa!) But it doesn't take a rocket scientist to kinda go hmmmmm
BUT ANYWAY, THEN SOMETHING ELSE I READ IN FINEBOYS TOTALLY JUST KNOCKED ME OFF MY CHAIR.........
Fineboys asked him, what does he do with the clothes that pile up (he doesn't wear anymore)?
Usually not much though but when I do have some, I give away to my kouhais.
AKANISHI JIN takes a lot of 'em.
+interview excerpt from FINEBOYS - February 2005
I just *HAD* to sms bakako when I read that BUHAHAHAHAHAHHAH
SO IT'S TRUE!
HAND-ME-DOWNS IN JOHNNY'S BOYS!!!!!!
Remember tako you displayed a pic once of Takki and Jin wearing something ODDLY ALIKE???? And a lot of the times we were like giggling over MSN while watching certain clips when you say, "You know... that pants Jin is wearing look a lot like Takki's!" Sister, NOW WE KNOW!!! NOW WE TRULY KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT THE HAND-ME-DOWNS!!!!!!!
OK, let me go back to packing and get back to the articles all tomorrow!!!
