Hyde and Gackt 
Music Station Interview June 2003 
Translated by: perdita (gomibako@yahoo.com)

T = Tamori
H = hyde
G = Gackt
J = josei-ana
T: Long time no see. What have you been up to?
H: Lately I've been going drinking. 
T: Do you drink a lot?
H: Well... I'm a very friendly guy! 
T: You don't really look it. (... -_-;;) Do you drink Shouchuu? (Japanese spirits. Personally I swear Tamori said "Shocchuu" which means "all the time" and hyde misheard him, but anyway...)
H: Yes, Shouchuu. I get terrible hangovers. I often heard that you don't get a hangover from Shouchuu, but I thought it was rubbish. But I tried it and it turned out to be surprisingly true.
T: Where do you go after you drink?
H: The pub I go to has Karaoke. There's a game that if you sing badly, the song will stop in the middle.
T: I've never heard of it.
H: You haven't?
T: Is it a machine?
H: Yes. So we have a competition to see who can get the furthest into the song. I generally don't get to the chorus.
T: Oh, really? You can't get through any of them?
H: I can't sing them.
T: So what's the worst one?
H: Well I sing things like "Taiyaki-kun" (Oyoge Taiyaki-kun... -_-;;) At the chorus... what is it again? ... Hajimete? "Ha~ji~me~te~~BANG!" 
(everyone laughs) 
T: Is it strict? 
H: It's strict!
T: It just beeps and finishes does it?
H: It goes "BANG".
T: That sounds funny! I bet there's a lot of people who can't wait for it to go "BANG".
J: Anyway, Laruku will have its first live in a long time soon, right?
T: Is it a long time since you met up with the other members?
H: It is. Well, we met once in a while, but lately we have meetings and so on.
[hyde goes on standby]
T: How did you come to co-star?
G: Well, I wrote a script, and for one of the characters that I wrote, only the image of hyde would come up. So I asked him if he would do it.
T: Even while you were still writing the script, you thought of hyde?
G: Right.
T: So when did you ask him?
G: When we were having dinner together.
T: Do you eat together often?
G: That was the first time. But since then, we have once in a while.
T: What did you think when you heard this offer, hyde?
H: I thought "Wouldn't that be risky?" (everyone laughs)
T: Risky?!
H: I thought it would be a risk for the movie. I've never acted before, I thought I might destroy the movie.
T: And you told him that?
H: I said they should think it over properly.
T: Even so, you wanted it to be hyde?
G: I said I thought he could definitely do it. And so it ended up that we did.
T: You didn't consider me for the movie at all?
G: Unfortunately not....
T: Oh, okay. So from then on, you started to meet up more often.
G: That's right.
T: What do you do together when you meet?
G: Snowboarding....
T: Hu~h? Hu~~h?!
H: "Hu~h" (mimicking Tamori)
T: Snowboarding?
H: We went together.
T: You didn't come out of your room, did you? (I love the slight pause here while everyone thinks of the more obvious meaning of the question...) You can't go out in the sun, can you?
G: Oh, no we covered up.
T: Snowboarding.... had you done it before?
G: No, I only did it from this year.
T: hyde?
H: Ah.... from last year.
T: And how did it go then, snowboarding together?
H: He's really good at it. 
T: Why is he so good?
H: He's got athletic ability. So even though he's never really been he would just board out in front of me.
T: Is it difficult?
G: It is. But he stands out when we snowboard together.
H: No no no, he's the one who stands out.
T: I would think you both stand out. What else do you do?
H/G: Drinking, billiards....
G: He's really good at it.
H: No no, he's better than me.
T: You're just praising each other.... Have you been playing long?
G: For quite a while. But the first time we played each other, I asked him if he knew how to play 8-ball, and he said he knew a little. But when he began to play it was like "POW!" I said "You said you only knew a little!"
(everyone laughs)
[Gackt goes to standby]
T: Are you good?
H: Well, I used to work at a billiard parlor. But I'm not that good, so I didn't really say anything. He made it sound like I lied, but that's not really true.