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I normally don’t make fun of songs, either because they’re just funny and actually enjoyable, or I don’t bother listening a second time to ingrain them in my memory. These ones stand out though. For all the wrong reasons.
Continue reading “30 Day Song Challenge, Day 27: A Song You Make Fun Of”
I don’t have a single favorite band, so instead I’ll go with a favorite song from four of my favorite bands. There’s one song from another particular band that I’m omitting because it will apply to day 29, and I would have included La Villa Strangiato if it wasn’t included with day 17.
Continue reading “30 Day Song Challenge, Day 26: A Song By Your Favorite Band”
Acoustic music always acts as an interesting foil to typically “electric” music, stripping back instrumentation for a simple and focused approach to the music.
Continue reading “30 Day Song Challenge, Day 25: An Acoustic Song You Love”
Of all the emotions that music can incite, anger isn’t really one of them for me unless a song is really bad and I just want it to stop. But since I don’t want to post bad music, I’ll go with something different.
Continue reading “30 Day Song Challenge, Day 24: A Song That Makes You Angry”
Hearing a musician put a different spin on a song than the original performer can always be interesting – many times it’s just a matter of them playing the song, not including substantial changes, but other times they transform it into something different. In either case, it’s normally at least worth a listen to compare.
Continue reading “30 Day Song Challenge, Day 23: A Cover Song”
Most of the songs that would apply to this topic would also apply to an earlier one, day 14’s “A Song You Liked When You Were Younger.” However, there are definitely ones that slipped through the cracks over the years, so that’s what I’ll focus on here.
Continue reading “30 Day Song Challenge, Day 22: A Song That You Haven’t Listened To In a While”
Whenever I go to a wedding, I come out thinking “That’s exactly what I don’t want to do.” And that’s half in regards to the DJ with no sense of tonal balance, resulting in non-existing mids and aggravatingly overblown bass that just sounds like ass, and half in regards to the nearly universally crappy music.
And then there’s the fact that I don’t/can’t dance. So a more accurate title for this post would be “A Song of Your Choice To Be Played At Your Wedding.” I’ll be as realistic as possible.
I’ll also only hire someone with a sense of proper equalization/volume control.
Continue reading “30 Day Song Challenge, Day 21: A Song You Want To Dance To At Your Wedding”
I actually haven’t paid too much attention to what albums are coming out in the near future, or which artists are even putting stuff out soon-ish, so I only have two songs that apply at this time.
Continue reading “30 Day Song Challenge, Day 20: A Song From an Album You Are Looking Forward To”
Sometimes a song ends up stuck in your head because you hear it too much, and sometimes it’s just too catchy for its own good. Fortunately, each song today is mostly a self-inflicted ear worm.
Today’s original topic, “a song you’re currently obsessed with,” overlapped with day 28’s (which is what I’m sort of doing today), so I just decided to jam them together. Day 28’s post will be a completely different topic.
Continue reading “30 Day Song Challenge, Day 19: A Song Currently Stuck In Your Head”
I’ve had the same ringtone for two and a half years, on three different phones, so this is a simple one.
Continue reading “30 Day Song Challenge, Day 18: A Song You Have As Your Ringtone”
Seeing a band live is an experience that can’t quite be captured in words – instead of just hearing the music performed live in some venue, it’s an entirely different experience. So for this post, I’ll be including songs from three particular shows I’ve been to.
Continue reading “30 Day Song Challenge, Day 17: A Song You Like Hearing Live”
Short answer: none
Long answer: none. But read on for details. If you want.
Continue reading “30 Day Song Challenge, Day 16: A Song That is Your Guilty Pleasure”
In most cases, I think my taste in music is pretty straightforward. There are definitely the selections that are a bit… out there… but otherwise they’re somewhat consistent. These are some of the ones that don’t quite fit the mold, but to go along with tomorrow’s post, none of them are guilty pleasures.
Continue reading “30 Day Song Challenge, Day 15: A Song People Wouldn’t Expect You To Like”
This was probably the most fun thing to think about, reaching back into my childhood and basically what kind of music I listened to before I really got into music during middle/high school. So the quality varies, but it was a nice nostalgiac look back at my ignorant days.
Continue reading “30 Day Song Challenge, Day 14: A Song You Liked When You Were Younger”
Along with dancing, I don’t really sing. However, being in the shower sometimes changes that, especially since I normally have my phone playing music during the duration. Whether or not I actually hum or sing along depends mostly on my energy levels, but there are plenty of songs that provide the motivation to do so.
Continue reading “30 Day Song Challenge, Day 13: A Song You Sing In The Shower”
I don’t know any songs about cripples or drummers/trumpeters, but these other ones work for miscellaneous reasons.
Continue reading “30 Day Song Challenge, Day 12: A Song That Reminds You of Your Best Friend”
Since the summer is starting to wind down, this is a bit of an interesting question to think about. All three songs that came to mind were for the same general reason as well.
Continue reading “30 Day Song Challenge, Day 11: A Song That Reminds You of Summer”
There are many songs that annoy me. Every country song, songs you hear ad nauseum on the radio, TV jingles, and countless more. But instead of ranting on and on, I’m going to focus on just one.
Continue reading “30 Day Song Challenge, Day 10: A Song That Annoys You”
I am not into dancing. At all. So I’m going to spin this question into something more relevant to me (and for which I can provide a concrete answer) – songs that make me want to pick up my bass and play along.
Continue reading “30 Day Song Challenge, Day 9: A Song That Makes You Want To Dance”
For obvious reasons, this overlaps a bit with Day 4’s post. So to add on to that, I just have one additional song.
Continue reading “30 Day Song Challenge, Day 8: A Song That Makes You Cry”
Most songs that would fit into this category would also fit into Day 4’s or tomorrow’s, so I’ll be going with something a bit different. It makes sense though. Definitely.
Continue reading “30 Day Song Challenge, Day 7: A Song That Holds a Lot of Meaning To You”
As with yesterday’s, this is a question I had to think on quite a bit. “Always” is a bit of a stretch, but otherwise these work.
Continue reading “30 Day Song Challenge, Day 6: A Song You Can Always Relate To”
Looking through the list, this is probably the most difficult question to approach. This is nothing I’ve thought about before, so I had to dig a bit to see if I even had a valid answer.
Continue reading “30 Day Song Challenge, Day 5: A Song That Has New Meaning Each Time You Hear It”
Honestly, the only songs that came to mind immediately are from soundtracks. But they’re still very appropriate.
Continue reading “30 Day Song Challenge, Day 4: A Song That Reminds You of Something Sad”
While humor in music has been around for ages, it’s never something I actively look for. So instead of songs that will leave you in stitches, these are more along the type that will make you smirk or let out a light chuckle. Or shake your head in disappointment and question my morality.
Continue reading “30 Day Song Challenge, Day 3: A Song That Makes You Laugh”
There are two types of situations where I would turn to music to help clear my head – in preparation for something, or to simply relax. And since different songs would work for each situation, I decided to approach both with this post.
Continue reading “30 Day Song Challenge, Day 2: A Song That Helps Clear Your Head”
Normally, I don’t listen to music in order to influence my mood. However, there are undoubtedly many songs out there that can easily brighten my day. Even if I do tend to prefer darker/atmospheric stuff.
Continue reading “30 Day Song Challenge, Day 1: A Song That Makes You Happy”
I’m actually really enjoying this season.
After seeing this challenge posted by both Arria Cross of fujinsei and lynlynsays of Just Something About LynLyn, it piqued my interest. So I think I’m going to give it a shot.
I’ve always been a bit critical of early access games. Why pay for something before it even has a release date? When you don’t even know if it will be properly released? When you have no indication of whether promises about the game’s content will be kept? Well, something has come around that finally motivated me to chip in – CrossCode.
As with my first post of this type, this will cover five somewhat recent things that I think are worth talking about to some extent. This time however, it’s all about games!
This kind of post is something I’ve considered doing for a while, and now that I’ve had the time to marathon some shows recently I decided to go through with it. Basically, what I’ll be doing is these occasional posts on a selection of anime, games, or albums*, alternating between them from one post to another (so the next one will be games, then albums, then back to anime). For this one, it will cover a few anime I’ve watched over the past month that I feel are worth talking about, but not particularly shows I want to write full reviews for.
I’m only picking up four five shows this season, so things will be pretty straightforward.
The spring season has come to a close, with a generally “okay” conclusion. At least there wasn’t anything abysmal that I dragged myself through.
So this post is basically a recap of what interested me from E3, along with random comments on upcoming stuff.
This series of posts, covering the Xenosaga trilogy for the PS2, will be slightly different than what I’ve done in the past. Right off the bat, I want to make something clear – I am playing the first two games for the sake of the third. I normally talk about how I like to avoid expectations when approaching something, going in blind and taking things as they come, but here very high expectations have been set for Xenosaga Episode III, while substantially lower expectations have been set for the first two. So basically, I’m very interested in playing these games and seeing how everything actually pans out.
Shirobako is more than an anime about the medium itself. It is a story about aspiration and apathy; success and failure; talent and ineptitude. But above all else, it is the best show I have ever seen.
Unlike last spring, I’ve actually kept up with airing shows this time around! There’s certainly an odd collection of shows to keep track of, for better or worse.
I don’t know where this entire trend originated, but it’s something that caught my interest pretty quickly. Reading this will just reinforce that I’m a pretty boring person.
This is the stuff of Lovecraft’s nightmares. And it’s beautiful.
Since this is something I’ve delved into a bit more recently, and it’s something that I keep getting questions about, I decided to type this up. Obviously, it’s a lot different than my normal material.
This past winter gave us a pretty good dose of anime without too many turds mixed in. Let’s hope this one is even better!
But let’s be honest, since Shirobako is over, it’s already objectively worse.
Here we are at the end of the winter season! As a whole, it’s been pretty good, and fortunately there’s one standout that is definitely taking a spot in my favorites.
Have you ever ever run into the existential question “Why isn’t there a game that makes me feel complete? That gives my life purpose? That lets me rek nups and pwn scrubs?”
That game is finally here.
Best girl has arrived.
Unlike my post on the first movie, there will be lots of big spoilers here. So play the game first.
Continue reading “Persona 3 The Movie #2 – Midsummer Knight’s Dream”
After enjoying Atelier Rorona Plus as much as I did (a lot), it was inevitable that I would follow it up with the sequels of the Arland trilogy – Atelier Totori and Atelier Meruru. While Totori feels like a very familiar experience as a whole, it’s held back by a few quirks that weren’t present in Rorona.
Continue reading “Atelier Totori Plus: The Adventurer of Arland”
To celebrate the best show of the season, Crunchyroll put on a contest focused on the five main characters of Shirobako – five girls working five different jobs within the anime industry. For each of these five positions, there is a specific contest.
So, for some reason, I’ve decided to try my hand at (almost) all of them. Results vary.
Continue reading “Crunchyroll’s Shirobako Contest (and my submissions)”
Welcome back to the monthly installment of “Why pretty young anime girls are the reason I watch anime,” starring pretty young anime girls, pretty young anime boys?, and potential double suicide!
When it comes to survival horror, two series come to mind as the ones that set the modern precedent – Silent Hill and Resident Evil. Whereas Silent Hill had more of an allegorical purpose, Resident Evil is very straightforward – zombies.
Rather than worrying about how this game will turn out, I’m back to being excited. Very excited.
