MMMiii!

This is a response to Sarah’s Top Ten YouTube Finds. I don’t really have a lot of favorites on YouTube. In fact, about half of my favorite’d videos don’t exist anymore and about half of all of the favorites are just covers. I seldom go YouTube hunting and when I do, it’s usually for concerts, covers, or music videos.

But here are some that I liked enough to favorite, in no specific order.

THE ORIGINAL Scary ‘Mary Poppins’ Recut Trailer
This one is from… Mary Poppins. It’s funny. It uses clips from Mary Poppins and presents it in a scary manner. just watch it.

Less Than Three
Well… The Internet Is Serious Business. Some people even fall in Less Than Three.

Urban Ninja
This is just cool although it kind of looks fake. But it was really fun to watch.

Hilarious japanese library show
This is just … like the title–Hilarious. It’s in Japanese but you don’t really need to understand what they say. basically, 6 guys in a library making a fool of each other or torturing each other. And you know how it is in the library…

Caramell Dansen
This is from an anime that I don’t even know. But search for it on yt and you’ll find a lot of people dancing it. This video, however, is mesmerizing.

NOFX - The Idiots Are Taking Over
This is a conceptual typographic video. I’d say it’s a new form of art. It’s really nice and deep as well.

JerryC - Canon in D Rock
I ripped this into mp3 before. But my hard drive crashed before. So I don’t have the audio anymore. Thank God for yt.

Canon in D Violin Rock - Blow Your Mind version
This is a pretty original arrangement of Canon in D. It kind of reminds me of … barn dancing? Something like that. Sounds country-ish.

NANO + HIMEKA - (not sure of the title)
Himeka finally went to Japan to pursue her dreams of being a singer. NANO’s a wonderful singer as well and I’m sure they just need to get that opportunity to get somewhere. Himeka’s one of my online buddies… more like acquaintances. We have a lot of disagreements but I have always acknowledged her talent. I LOVE her voice. But anywayz, enjoy her performance with NANO. Have I mentioned that I like NANO’s voice too? I LOVE NANO’S voice too. Check out NANO’s YouTube page and LJ as well. She’s got pretty good originals as well. I’d link Himeka’s pages too but … -_-; I wish she’d stop deleting her yt videos and the songs on her wp site.

NANO - Before Your Dreams Fade Away
This will probably be my favorite song of NANO’s. Just listen to it. The video might not be much, but the music will blow you away.

Last but not the least, one of my most favoritest singers, Mimi.

Mis - Aitai yo
Mimi would probably be my bestest friend online. I love her. I love her voice. What else could I say? Oh, check out her Soundclick page as well.

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Well… that’s about it. >____>

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I just finished watching the video of hide Memorial Summit which I just downloaded this morning. It’s a commemoration concert for hide’s 10th year death anniversary. I can’t deny that there were some parts that got me teary-eyed. Especially when Toshi sang “Without You” which I heard for the first time (I haven’t been able to watch the X Japan “rebirth” concerts). I’ve been wanting to hear it sung ever since I heard the piece in Eternal Melody II which has the 17-minute track including the lyrics but no one singing it. I had imagined Yoshiki would hire a woman to sing it but after X Japan’s “rebirth” he had Toshi sing it.

I don’t really want to call it a reunion since hide will never be back (T__T) but rather a rebirth.

“Without You” is such a nice song, the piano version and the song version. It used to be my sleep song. It would be the last song I’d play before I head to sleep.

And I noticed that Toshi is really not in condition anymore. He’s old. Not that I don’t like his voice anymore. I love his voice. Except that there were many parts in the concert that his voice broke or he went out of tune, but I don’t know if it was the 2nd day of the concert or not. Since he’s Toshi, I forgive him.

This is a screenshot from The Last Live concert of X Japan.

I love hide as well. I wish they had an encore, probably they did, it just wasn’t shown on TV. I was half wishing they’d perform hide’s Goodbye.

The finale of the hide Memorial Summit was a ton of bands on the stage performing X Japan’s “X” (We Are!).

But since I badly wanted to hear Goodbye …

here are some videos.

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Lately, I’ve been hanging out in eBay. I’m getting frustrated not being able to get my money from PayPal because Xoom is being utterly stupid. Not that I’ve got a lot in my PayPal, but still… it would be nice to be actually touching them or seeing them take interest in my bank account, right?

So… I signed up for eBay! And I bought three things.

Silicone Skin Case for my Zen V Plus with lanyard and armband.

You’re probably thinking I’m crazy. The item is $1.00 but shipping is $9.49, a total of $10.49. If you convert that to peso, that’s still less than how much the silicone skin case will cost here. Including the arm band. So I’m still fine with that. It’ll just take about a month to get here plus red tape, so that’s two months… maybe.

Brand New Sennheiser CX300 Ear Canal Headphone Silver Black.

Actually, I wanted the black one, but stupid me didn’t notice that I bid on the Silver one. I emailed the person and asked him if he could send me the black one instead. I don’t know if it’s real or not, but it’s cheaper than the Phillips in-ear earphones that I’ve been eyeing for some time now. a LOT cheaper, and a LOT cheaper than it’s price in malls. I can’t spend my real money, so why not spend money that I can’t obtain? right?

And my last purchase…

Nodame Cantabile: Megumi’s Piano Pattern Tote Bag + Coin Purse

I don’t remember seeing Nodame with this coin purse, but what the heck. I’ve been wanting to buy a new bag and I don’t see anything that I like that is within my budget (my budget for a new bag is P150). Nothing I see, even in Ukay-Ukays, meet that budget and design that I want. So… I thought of getting the Nodame bag. And it’s … not very cheap, but good enough. It’s about 5 times my budget, but considering I didn’t really spend anything from my salary for these… s’all good.

Well… those are my first eBay purchases. I hope I don’t get addicted and spend too much. The things I usually see have to come from overseas, and knowing how this country’s postage system works, these things will probably arrive past my birthday. *crossing fingers*

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Ready for more crappy singing? Yes, right?
Well well. Here is my version of One More Time, One More Chance. I might re-sing it someday if I ever remember or feel like doing it. But this will be it for now. I might be going out later to buy a new cabinet for my noodles and maybe check on some treadmills because I’m so out of exercise now…

misan - One More Time, One More Chance

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There’s this song that I heard a couple of months back. It’s the anime movie Byousoku 5cm or 5cm per Second. Well, the song is old. I know I’ve heard it somewhere before when I heard it from the movie… I mean, when they used it for the anime, it was kind of like a revival, as what we would call it here. And the movie is actually a series of segments, or short films, basically about relationships and distance.

I liked the movie, although I can’t give a full review right now. I’ll have to watch it again. But I kind of was able to relate to this movie. It was a little slow all throughout the movie… as if it was moving 5cm per second, but it was at a pace wherein you wouldn’t want it to rush nor slow down.

For a person like me who’s got a lot of close friends online, who I might not ever meet, distance is such a big thing and a small thing at the same time. The distance doesn’t keep us apart from being friends, but there are times when you wish the distance wasn’t there at all.

The ending song for the movie was what made me think of a lot of things. It made me think of the past, the present, and the future. Even before I was able to find a translation, just the mood of the song and from what little I could understand from it made me think about the what if’s in my life… the what could’ve been’s… It made me think of the things I wanted when I was a child, and the things I wanted and never got, which is probably a lot. It made me think about the dolls I saw and wanted and never got. It made me think of the other toys I had wanted. It made me think of the playhouses and the swing sets I wanted to have.

For the present, it made me think of the things I have to go through now, the things I let go in the past and now living with regrets and what I’ve got left, the things that make me ask myself, “Am I Happy?”

For the future, it made me think, or wonder, if I’ll be in the same state or the same place where I am now. Will I be able to move on for good, and all that emo stuff.

Ah.. Well… Here is the song that I want to share today. The translation is from Hunting the Elusive and lyrics itself can also be found in one of the comments.

One More Time, One More Chance
Lyrics and Vocals: Masayoshi Yamazaki
Arrangement: Toshiyuki Mori

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Someone requested me to sing this song in English. I don’t watch the anime this song came from, but since I do the music releases (most of the time) for Baka-Wolf, I sometimes listen to music from anime that I don’t watch. And this is one of them. It was crazy, I couldn’t understand anything. Then I realized it was in English XD. So… xess asked me to sing the song in English, not in Engrish.

I actually like the song, after I heard the full version. It kind of reminds me of the Beatles and Tommy (Tommy heavenly6/february6/ of the brilliant green). If you read the lyrics below, they don’t really make sense. That and the Engrishness of the song, it’s almost like a totally different language.

To be honest, I think it doesn’t really sound good in English. But since this is really just for fun anyway… I myself wondered as well how it would sound in English. Well… Here it is, the non-Engrish version of Ringo Biyori. By the way, I just kind of made up the background vocals because I couldn’t make out all of them and sound nice at the same time. x_x

Ringo Biyori ~The Wolf Whistling Song (English Version)
Original Artist: ROCKY CHACK
From the anime: Spice and Wolf
Karaoke: misan

O seven apples on a witch’s tree
With seven seeds to plant inside of me
In springtime I grew a magic song
Then skipping along, oh I sang the song to everyone

I looked at the world through apple eyes
And cut myself a slice of sunshine pie
I danced with the peanut butterflies
Till time went and told me to say hello but wave goodbye

A thousand sugar stars
Oh put them in a jar
And then whistle round the world
Oh whistle round the world
I’m a little wolf inside a girl, you say
And off I’ll go from June to May
Oh whistling round the world

I met a golden swan upon the road
~Who was a handsome prince, so I was told
I asked it the way to yesterday
Then I was a sailor, and through the day I sailed away

Bluebird seas I sailed
With mermaids riding whales
Oh whistle round the world
Oh whistle round the world
I’m a little wolf inside a girl, you say
And off I’ll go down Wonder Way
Oh whistling round the world

Through apple eyes
Oh there are rose-coloured skylines
Where flying silver spoons
Eat melting marmalade moons

Through apple eyes
I see for millions of miles
The sun’s a diamond shining
In the nighttime of a summer day

A thousand sugar stars
Oh put them in a jar
And then whistle round the world
Oh whistle round the world
I’m a little wolf inside a girl, you say
And off I’ll go (I can not stay)
Oh whistling round the world
Let’s whistle round the world
Whistle round the world

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For reference, here is the original version of the song. It might kind of give you a headache, but not to the point where you’ll need to whip out your health insurance card and avail of something like for medicare part d that is for prescription drugs I think. If you don’t get a headache, maybe a tummy ache from laughing.

You can download my version here: misan - Ringo Biyori ~The Wolf Whistling Song (English Version)

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Ever hear a song for the first time and you realize that it hits right on the spot? That you can totally relate to it and say, “This is how I’m feeling right now” or “This is my current theme song”?

I recently downloaded the last album by Barbarian on the Groove from the Dragon Valley series, Arco-Iris. I usually just keep my music on random because I have a lot of stuff that I haven’t listened to and putting everything on random lets me discover new music.

Now, I’ve always liked Barbarian on the Groove or BoG. BoG introduced to me one of the artists I really like who just recently got more famous for singing the Dango song (Dango Daikazoku) from the anime CLANNAD. Chata and BoG are Doujin artists or what you might know better as Indie artists. I’ve also posted some lyrics and music from BoG before.

But that’s not really what I want to talk about. I want to talk about this song that really struck me and made me think about a lot of things. And what made this song a little more special? It’s in English. Yep–You read it right. Not Engrish, but English.

Without further ado, here is the song and the lyrics for it.

Grey Heavens
Music: bassy
Lyrics: wight, NAKI
Vocals: NAKI

in every door, in every turn
is a path to follow
in every hope, in every fear
is a heart to fill

yet every time you reach the sky
only leaves a longing
no longer sure, no longer pure
and your faith begins to fall
through your fingers like a fleeting moment passing by

we’re living in a world of contradiction
even more than you know a long long way to go

is there a way to paint the heavens out of grey
only wishing to change things for the better
for so it should be
is there an answer in the light that lies ahead
then perhaps it’s what people would call destiny

not knowing where, not knowing how
but the choice is bitter
without a way, without a word
to let out a feeling

wanting a change, wanting a sign
leading on tomorrow
one falling star to take your sorrow
seeing all that’s left behind
is a tiny pain in the corner of your mind

reflections are no longer recollections
in the silence of right a dawn is breaking

too late to turn, too far to see where you belonged
find a different way, a meaning for existence
to carry on
if in believing there was so much more to lose
would have never let love become the truth

if there’s a way to paint the heavens out of grey
only wishing to change things for the better
then so it should be
if there’s an answer in the light that lies ahead
it was meant to be that this will be our destiny

I hope you enjoyed this song as much as I do. I stayed up to get this written and posted. I don’t think I need to explain this song. It’s in English. The poetry in it is amazing. Well… *shrugs*

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I won’t put it the song up for download on this page. If anyone wants it, please leave a comment here and I’ll send you an email. 

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This is the theme from one of the Japanese movies that I really really liked. Swallowtail / Yentown was directed by Shunji Iwai, a great director whose works are movies that I really liked as well.

Anyway, I’ve always liked to sing this song but I couldn’t find any karaoke for it. I heard it sung in an Idolm@ster Xenoglossia Character Single Kikuchi Makoto (Hirata Hiromi) and it made me want to sing it >_< even more. So … I found the chords here but it wasn’t that nice. I mean, it wasn’t that complete, no Intros or Extros or something. So I just added A - D - A - D for continuity.

I hope it sounds nice to other people’s ears. It sounds nice to me >___> (except when the strings make this weird sound). There’s also this part at the end where I should’ve filled it with something like “heeyyy yeaaaahhh” but bleh… I felt like my fingertips are about to split from playing the guitar too much. So… after like ten times of restarting from the start every time I make a mistake, I just did cut and move. =_= So you might hear weird changes in sound.

I got the link for the romanized lyrics with translation from wiki.theppn.org.

Swallowtail Butterfly ~Ai no Uta~ (Acoustic)

Lyrics: Chara, Iwai Shunji, Kobayashi Takeshi
Music: Kobayashi Takeshi
Romanization & Translation: Kristin Olson

Cover: misan

Tomatta te no hira furueteru chuucho shite
Kono sora no ao no aosa ni kokorobosoku naru

Shinjiru mono subete poketto ni tsumekonde kara
Natsukusa yureru senro wo tooku made aruita

Kokoro ni kokoro ni itami ga aru no
Tooku de shinkirou yurete

Anata wa kumo no kage ni ashita no yume wo oikaketeta
Watashi wa uwa no sora de wakare wo omotta

Yogoreta sekai ni kanashisa wa hibiitenai
Dokoka ni toorisugiteku tada sore wo motsu dake

Karada wa karada de sunao ni naru
Namida ga tomaranai dakedo

Koko kara doko e ittemo
Sekai wa yoru wo norikoete iku
Soshite ai no uta ga kokoro ni hibikihajimeru

Mama no kutsu de hayaku hashirenakatta
Nakanai hadashi ni natta hi mo

Sakasa ni miteta chizu sae mou sutete shimatta

Kokoro ni kokoro ni mahou ga aru no
Arashi ni hane hiroge tobu yo

Watashi wa uwa no sora de anata no koto wo omoidashita no
Soshite ai no uta ga hibikidashite…
Watashi wa ai no uta de anata wo sagashihajimeru

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Swallowtail Butterfly ~A Song of Love~

On my still palm it trembles and hesitates
In the blue of this blue sky, my heart grows lonely

After I stuffed into my pocket all the things I believe in
I walked a long way along the railroad tracks swaying with summer grass

In my heart, in my heart there is hurt
Far away, a mirage is wavering

In the shadows of the clouds you were chasing a dream of tomorrow
Distantly I thought of parting

In this soiled world there’s no echo of sadness
Somewhere you pass by, carrying only that

My body becomes honest in itself
And I can’t stop my tears, but

No matter where I go from here
The world will continue to overcome the night
And a song of love begins to echo in my heart

I couldn’t run freely in my mother’s shoes
I didn’t cry, even on the day I first went barefoot

Even the map I was looking at upside-down–I threw it away already

In my heart, in my heart there is magic
Wings, open in the storm–you’ll fly

Distantly I remembered you
And a song of love began to echo in my heart
By this song of love, I begin to search for you

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Romaji and English translation: Kristin Olson
kolson00@yahoo.com

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fragile
by: Every Little Thing

Itsumo sou  tanjun de  kudaranai koto ga kikkake de
Kidzutsukete shimau yo ne  togireteku aiwa  munashii yo

Kotoba ga bukiyou sugite  jama  bakari suru
Suki na no ni tsutawaranai  konna omoi  setsunakute

“Itoshii” de nante  iinaretenai kedo
Ima nara ieru yo  kimi no tame ni
Tonari de waratte ite kureru no naraba
Koreijou  hoka ni nani mo iranai yo
Deaeta koto kara  subete wa hajimatta
Kidzutsukeau hi mo aru keredo mo
“Isshoni itai” to  sou omoeru koto ga
Mada shiranai ashita he to  tsunagatte yuku yo

Sei ippai  senobashite  heizen wo yosou tte ita kedo
Yoyuu nado nai kuse ni  mata egao tsukutte shimatta

Aenai yoru wa kimatte  sabishisa  osou
Suki dakara fuan ni naru  konna omoi  kanashikute

“Mamotte ageru” to  ano toki itta koto
Tamerau kimochi mo  uso janai yo
Soredemo  shinjite yukou to suru omoi
kowarete shimawanu you ni  dakishimete itai

Konna ni konna ni  kimi wo suki ni natte
Honto ni honto ni  ureshii kara
Tatoeba  kono saki kujikete shimatte mo
Nigirishimeta sono te wo  mou hanasanai
Deaeta koto kara  subete wa hajimatta
Kidzutsukeau hi mo aru keredo mo
“Isshoni itai” to  sou omoeru koto ga
Mada shiranai ashita he to  tsunagatte yuku yo

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Been wanting to sing this for ages.

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