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Thank you.

Thank you Also, how ominous...

It’s so pretty! I’ll join as soon as I jump the last 500 hurdles between me and attending. Don’t want to clog up the PM group and then not show up.

What’s this about a tote? >_>

Seeing the schedule for 4CC with the gala being right after men’s FS, I wonder if he won’t choose whatever’s least taxing. Though I thought that for MOI and he went and did SEIMEI...

At least we’ll have fancams.

ETA

3Lz is back and it brought a friend

Several gala exhibitions on ISU’s official YouTube channel are already blocked because of copyright claims by Warner Music Group.

Yuzu asked for permission out of curtesy because he was cutting two different pieces of music together. He performed H&L as an EX already so I don’t see why there’d be a problem. I know Kevin Reynolds had a sad end to his career when he was denied use of the Ni no Kuni soundtrack but iirc that problem occurred at NHK Trophy only and as it’s music from a video game may have involved a complaint from the game publisher rather than Hisaishi as many skaters have used Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away with no issues. As for using LGC, he wouldn’t need to obtain rights for that, either. Here’s an explanation about the use of music and royalties from Steve Vai whose music Deniss is using for his free skate this season:

iirc his plan was to only do one semester then take a break until after Beijing Olympics.

Yup, that’s why I think so. I personally don’t think H&L works too well as a shortened EX. To me the ebb and flow of the music is so important to the overall impression of the program that cutting any of it makes it feel a bit too disjointed. I also feel like it’s the ultimate example of his philosophy of using jumps as choreography/transitions but it’s impossible to do such a demanding program for an EX. It’s possible he could work out a better cut than he did at Heroes & Future, though. I think he’ll do LGC and Chopin (though I so desperately wish he’d do SEIMEI once more at WC) for the last two competitions of the year so I wouldn’t be surprised to see either of them showing up at 4CC. LGC seems to be the one everyone is dying to see him bring back. We know he lurks on SNS so hopefully he’s heard our pleas.

I think Chopin.

I don’t think we’ll see it at WC, either. I think he’ll work on 4Lz in short and free with a 5 quad layout.

Fixed

The angle for the 3A was I owe On Ice Perspectives my life. This video adds an extra dimension that really makes you feel the power and strength of his skating.

They’re shiny little squishy faced fairies of capitalism... (*_*) Last day to sign up for the farce gogogo!

These are the least Yuzu-like things I’ve ever seen but I give a pass for “I porridge you”

“Glitz and glamour red carpet” was how they described it. I hope they at least make it a separate event in future but money is involved, so...

OT but somebody was wondering about the costume designer who designs for the Korean girls: https://instagram.com/edgeplus