Anime Again

In 2008 I realized that I'd lost contact with the anime world in the time between graduating high school and entering university. I attended Otakon that year and as I looked around I noticed large posters (and plenty of cosplay) for a show called Code Geass I'd never heard of. I had totally missed out on it.

2015 now, I am currently sorting my music collection, cleaning up ID3 tags and such and I started watching some YouTube videos of Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky. I ended up on this video here:


It's from a show currently airing called "Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso". Once again, in a single moment of clarity, I am rocked with the sensation that I've let anime drift away from me. Maybe this doesn't seem like a big deal to you but anime is one of my favorite mediums of entertainment. What I'm feeling right now is akin to a guy (or girl, maybe) who considered him/herself to be an avid football fan who has woken up one day and discovered that all the players s/he used to know have retired and all the current players and up-and-coming stars are people s/he doesn't recognize.

Great Success

Before I started writing this post I went looking through my own blog for a previous piece (I thought) I'd published about how knowledge of another language conveyed Bonus Points to your Google-fu when looking for stuff on the internet. Then I realized I haven't made any such post here, it was an answer I'd submitted on Quora.

A decade ago I watched a trailer for an anime called "Dai-guard: Terrestrial Defense Corp.". I never got around to watching the anime itself, still haven't, but I instantly loved the music in the trailer. Turns out they just used the opening sequence for the trailer, so this song is actually the opening theme song as well.



Well, I'd never been able to find a high quality version of the full song. I could only find either good TV sized ones or crappy quality full length ones. Until now. With my post-uni Japanese experience I tried again today and found it forthwith. And my Japanese is admittedly rudimentary, too.

I'll upload it to YouTube eventually, but for now here's a high quality full length mp3 file of the song I'll share with you. Enjoy the fruits of my labour.

Our prayers have been answered!

April 15 release date for the Let It Go collection on Amazon MP3.

Sure I've already downloaded most of the versions but I am more than willing to pay for quality goods. I may be a pirate but I'm no thief.

Speaking of choosing to pay for digital goods, these guys also deserve your money.

Here and here.

This Is What I've Been Waiting For. Finally!

Well, it's the end of March and therefore all versions of Frozen [2013] will have been released in all their respective countries. More importantly they'll have been released in all 43 languages, which, in turn, means I should finally be able to find high quality versions of "Let It Go" in 42 languages. If you'll recall, the French Canadian release reused the mainland French-sung songs.

These Guys. These... PianoGuys

Today I had the urge to listen to some classic music. Not classical music, per se, just classic music, music I'll never forget.

Goddammit! (。><)9"

Shit, there was an AMA thread on Reddit yesterday and I missed it!!!!! Fucking hell, it would have been the perfect opportunity to spread the idea that they should release an international album for "Let It Go". And I wasn't there. \(T.T)/ 为什么!!

Coca-Cola Super Bowl 2014 Commercial

Disney Movies - Fantasia [1940]

Not really one of the well-known Disney classics. Even if you were to mention "Fantasia" to someone they'd probably think of Fantasia 2000 [1999] instead.

Still Listening to That Song

So that list from yesterday's post only included songs I could find in good quality. Here's a list I created of languages I did not acquire the song in. Usually, it's because the video under scrutiny was of poor quality because the movie hasn't come out on DVD in that particular language's country.

Current Favorite Song(s) - 'Let It Go' from Frozen [2013]

I can't believe the last post I made was all the way back in May of last year. Good lawdy! All the same, let's not waste time with the 好久不见's and such. (^_^;;;)7

デタラメ・マザコン・チェリーボーイ 〜for the movie〜

OH SNAP GUYS

So there's this fictional band called the 金玉ガールズ (Kintama Girls), right? They exist in the world of Detroit Metal City. It's a cool series I highly recommend checking out if you have a sense of humour.

Anyway, the (fictional) band released a single cd and I managed to pick it up a few months ago. But, a terrible, terrible twist of fate befell me. The track titles on the files had become corrupted.

Three tracks. I already knew the name of the first track (title of this post) so that wasn't a problem. The third track was an instrumental version of the first, again no problem. But Track 2. The file name was just a jumble of nonsensical wingding symbols. How the hell do I find its name? This is pretty obscure material to begin with. "Hey internet, what's the name of the second track on a hard-to-find single from this fictional band?"

I filed the quest away for a while but today, I found it. At long last. A website that sells imported cds decided to post the tracklist.

2. クダらねぇ社会

What Did They Just Say?

Pop songs generally don't make a lot of sense in the first place but two lines in particular make me think, "They didn't really think that through." every time I hear them.

#1: Teenage Dream - Katy Perry
"You think I'm pretty without any makeup on."
Your sig.o BETTER think you're pretty without any makeup on, you low self-esteem idiot. That really shouldn't be something that makes you feel special. Oh my, this guy thinks my actual face is pretty! (- -)
On that note, I dislike makeup in general. I think it looks... weird. Fake. That just isn't how they really look, you know?

Spent All My Time Playing Mass Effect 3, So Here You Go

I'm going to elaborate on this later, but I know something has quality when it can make me feel.

 No spoilers, just check out this opening for the game.

More Nice Music From A Mediocre Gundam Series

In the typical way of the world, Gundam Wing is one of the more mediocre series in the franchise and yet it is probably the most commonly watched Gundam series among newbies in the U.S. because it aired on mainstream TV. (= =____)

Nevertheless, it, too, had a great score and the story was no where near as shitty as Destiny's, so we have something, don't we?



The first top YouTube comment is true. The second is false.

More Dreams and More Destiny Music

So last night I dreamed I was in my van trying to take a shower. (%__)7
But this girl kept interrupting me while trying to setup the equipment and asking for my recommendations on what suitcase to buy from the nearby mall outlet. I never got to take that shower. (;_;)

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This song is from a short spin-off series for SEED Destiny, "Gundam SEED C.E. 73: Stargazer".

Say What You Want About SEED Destiny, It Had Good Music

As the title says, Gundam SEED Destiny was shitty and most Gundam fans, including myself, prefer to ignore its existence, BUT let's not blame the music makers for crappy story.

I've been going through my music collection (it's massive) and fixing up all the ID3 tags and such so they reflect Album, Artist and such properly.

Haven't listened to some of this stuff in a long time. Shame.

Rap Music

When I was a kid I thought Eminem's music was just filthy trash, full of hate and anger and profanity. And the homophobia and misogyny, of course.

But now, with another decade of life behind me I can see the reality: Eminem's music is just not for kids.

How Great is the Internet? \(⊙ ワ ⊙)/

Here's an example of how amazing the internet can be. So a group of us Sasuke fans started to notice that a lot of the music used on the program sounded familiar. Most obviously to me was the ending credits song: "Victory" from the Naruto soundtrack. Not too hard for most to identify since Naruto is one of those mainstream anime series. But then things got harder.
"This song sounds so familiar, but what is it?! WHAT IS IT?!?!" 
"Oh, I knew I heard it from somewhere. It's from Chicken Run [2000]."
Then the pool of knowledge dries up to puddle size: "What is that music that plays when the camera pans over Stage 2's obstacles during Sasuke 22?"



What the fuck, right? That's almost an impossible task. How the hell am I supposed to find that straw of knowledge in the haystack of all the music ever created? Well, damn, Internet to the rescue! Lookie here, someone comes in and tells us that the song is called "Operation Room" and it comes from a PS3 game called Mobile Suit Gundam: Target in Sight, a.k.a. Crossfire in the U.S.
Without this "internet" thing, how would i have found that? Asking my family members? Neighbors? How far can I reach from my chair? Across the world, apparently. (^___^)

Old Music

On the topic of older tunes, I once found a nice /co/ thread on 4chan in which someone shared the list of licensed songs from Bioshock. Throughout the game you encounter phonographs playing music from the 30s, 40s, and 50s. Man, that was some good music.

♫Don't Know Where, Don't Know When~♫

Hot damn, guys (yeah I missed a day but that's beside the point)!!!

As you may well know, I love Salad Fingers. It's one of my favorite things in existence but only just today did I find out where that song lyric came from.

Yeah, ok, I had thought it was just a random crooning from mister Salad Fingers' fractured mind so it never occurred to me to Google it.



And I've seen Dr. Strangelove. (%__)