WHAT I THINK DIR EN GREY DOES AT HOME

KAORU: Actually engages in activities of a productive nature, such as working on songs and perfecting riffs—but is totally smashed whilst doing so. He also enjoys arranging dried flowers, smoking crappy homemade joints made from potted ferns and cinnamon potpourri, and bleaching his arm hair with random chemicals lying about and shit he finds in the pipes under the sink. The latter seems to have been accounted for several recent near-fatal anaphylactic shocks Kaoru has suffered whilst grocery shopping at Wal-Mart with his mum.

DIE: Seems to always be sleeping off a hangover, although intermittently gets up to piss, vomit, and make phone calls to his drunk half-sister who has gotten laid by three out of five band members, not including engaging in a ménage en trios with Shinya and his dog Miyu, with the dog on the bottom. When sober, however, Die finds peace in cooking gourmet meals and listening to harpsichord music on his iPod.

TOSHIYA: Drinks and watches frickin' Teletubbies and cheap Pay Per View hentai movies on his plasma screen whilst using Crayola markers to color smiley faces, rainbows, and boobs on his basses and inhaling the random packages of brownies left on his doorstep by his boy-hungry sixty-two-year-old pedophile landlord. Shame that the man doesn't know that Toshiya is at least thirty years old. And that he has built up an immunity to seven kinds of special brownies.

SHINYA: Always the demure, well-mannered role model of the band, Shinya spends quiet evenings at home with his beloved dogs, drinking tea, reading fantasy novels, and knitting small animals out of yarn and rug hair. On Saturdays, he gets out his special PVC corset and hangs out of his bedroom window with a shitty hundred-year-old air-conditioner rattling LOUDLY in the background amidst Rammstein's "Mein Teil" for ambience. On Wednesdays he likes to lounge around the house in his Fat Bastard costume given to him as a Kwanzaa gift from Kaoru.

KYO: When not devouring acid-laced plums stolen from his downstairs neighbor to get inspiration for song lyrics, Kyo is usually found watching geeky sci-fi movies in his underwear with a gas mask over his head. The mask, of course, sporting some kind of homemade apparatus that gives his bong a direct en route to his respiratory system. He is also a chronic masturbator and will play with himself to the point of near fainting, whereas he then takes a break to go bathe himself in the kitchen sink. He has a tendency to talk to himself in a British accent—while still speaking Japanese. Kyo also enjoys prank-calling telemarketers and his deaf grandmother.