shut up and let me see your jazz hands

Only three more letters left of this! I think it's been like two years since I started this meme, guys! (Haha, omg, it really has. I did the first letter in August of 2007. D:) I'm ready for it to be over!

Except I'm tempted to redo it with songs I've discovered in the meantime... XD


( 55 songs starting with I )

Oh man, how long has it been since I did one of these alphabet posts? Wow, it looks like the last one was R in September. O_o

Since there are probably a lot of people who didn't even have me friended back then, much less when I started this, I'll give a little explanation. Back in August of 2007 (damn, has it been that long?) there was one of those memes where you get a letter and you pick your favorite five songs or whatever. Well, there was no way I could limit it to just five, so I chose like 30 or 40 for the letters I was given. And I liked it so much I decided to do the whole alphabet.

So the lists were actually all created back then (and thus don't reflect any new favorites I've discovered since then!), but because I write a little blurb about each one, it's ended up taking me nearly two years to finish the whole alphabet. In fact, I still have I, K, L, P, and T to go after this.

I've deleted all the old stuff, but if you're curious about the songs, they can all be found in the "alphabetical favorites" tag and I'm happy to reup anything you want.

( 60 songs! )

I also have an album post coming up sometime in the near future. I already uploaded the albums, just need to write about them...

I think I had requests for R and T next, and since R was shorter...

( 45 songs starting with R )

Okay, you guys. I don't normally ask for comments when I post stuff, but I just wrote commentary on a HUNDRED SONGS, so if you download something, let me know? And I would especially like to know what you thought of the stuff you downloaded.

( 100 songs beginning with S )

Hey, it's music time! I know I talked about maybe a best of Utada Hikaru post, but I think that will be later this week. After the stupidity with iTunes earlier I don't feel like doing more than this today. :p

( 40 songs beginning with G )

Hey, hey, it's that time again. Have some music.

( 30 songs beginning with J )

In addition to those, I also want to pimp a band I just discovered the other day called ONE OK ROCK. The song I fell in love with is Keep It Real, but I also really like And I Know.

I also have some random stuff I've uploaded:

Rihanna - A Million Miles Away
Cake vs Fergie - Short Skirt, London Bridge
Charcoal Filter - C Best~Flying Hi-High~

In other news, yesterday marked ten years since Bruce moved out here. O_o Hard to believe it's been that long. To celebrate, we went out to lunch at a little restaurant in Little Tokyo called Issen Joki, which is the first place we ate at when he moved out here. February '98 was really, really rainy and we took the fucking bus down there in the pouring rain, but now we have a car, yay, and also it was not raining (though today it looks like it might).

I had katsu curry and gyoza. I had never had katsu curry before, but OMG SO GOOD. Definitely a case of two great tastes that taste fucking awesome together. Mmm... And of course gyoza are always awesome. I'm pretty sure there's a picture of gyoza in the dictionary next to the word awesome, in fact.

Afterwards we walked around the mall a bit. It's so sad down there now, lots of closed up shops. The Mitsuwa building is several blocks away from the rest of the main Little Tokyo area, so that's part of it, but also I think the whole area is not doing too well. But despite so many shops being out of business, the restaurants in there all seem to be doing great. Everywhere was packed, and this was a week day (actually they may do better on weekdays, with traffic from people who work in the area). There were also a lot of college-age kids around, which surprised me. Could they have been from USC? That's the only thing I can think of that's even close. Although I think maybe Cal State LA is down there somewhere, too, come to think of it. Anyway, there's an arcade on the second floor (used to be on the third, but moved down for some reason) and that was booming. It was good to see the place wasn't totally dead the way it was when we were there a few months ago. That was in the morning, though, and this was early afternoon, so I'm guessing they get a big lunch rush.

We debated going over to Kinokuniya, but the thing is, it would only be a temptation to spend money, which we really shouldn't do, especially since the only way to get validated is to buy something, so you're like, well, I could pay however much for parking, or I could buy a manga and actually get something for my money, and once you have one in your hand, it's so hard to stop! Better to just not go at all, so we didn't. Besides, I was stuffed after lunch and really felt like just going home.

Haven't had a music post in a while, so I figured I'd try to get at least one more of these up before Christmas. As usual, previous letters can be found in the tag. Feel free to request a letter for what to do next, otherwise I'll probably just do F.

( 35 songs )

Well, someone requested N as the next letter, so here it is. Feel free to suggest the next letter. :) Previous letters can be found in the tag. I've actually decided to make a separate tag for these as I think I might end up leaving them up permanently, or at least for quite some time, and that way they'll be easier to find than just sorting through the main music tag.

( 35 songs )

Now that I don't have the deadline of doom hanging over my head, I've finally had a chance to write up another of these posts. Previous letters can be found in the music tag.

( 40 songs beginning with C )

Okay, I've got the first of these sets written up. There weren't a whole lot of songs starting with numbers, so I managed to get it down to only twenty songs this time. :D

( 20 songs )