I'll start off with the bad news first since it makes the good news sound so much better. My sister-in-law lost her grandmother Tuesday night. I know none of my family, or hers, reads this page, but my heart goes out to her and her family. It's hard enough to lose a loved one, but so close to a family oriented holiday only makes it harder.
Now that's said, on to brighter things.
I managed to piece together a few things for my sister the other day. Last night we listend to it in the car on the way home from doing a little shopping, and she and my Mom both liked it. It's amazing we all can't really stand the overindulgent use of Christmas music on the radio this time of year, but to stop and listen to some of the same songs in another language sort of lifts the spirit a little bit.
Another bit of good news for the folks across the big pond, Spirited Away will be showing on BBC Two, December 30, 5:15 PM (I assume that's local time - Check your listings to be sure). If you haven't seen it yet, that would be a great opportunity, it's a wonderful film.
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Kiki-tink
Hi!
Yensid:
Instead of posting the cards themselves, I'm working on a special "thank you" for the people who either sent me, or posted their own outgoing cards on their sites, that'll be up sometime soon, but I won't say when ~_^
Most of my research is coming to the conclusion that the Christmas songs are on separate albums than the regular soundtrack stuff. I did find a few bits of info, and some songs, and my sister seemed to like what I found. I'm not exactly sure why she wanted them in the first place, so even I don't really know what I'm looking for entirely.
scorchbird12:
Really? If you wouldn't mind sending me some links in a PM(Very important to do it that way) I would really appreciate it. As long as they're not P2P I shouldn't have a problem with them. Right now, I just use what I know from past expereience, so adding resources I'm not currently familiar with would be a benefit to my search efforts I think.
Yeah, I'm not a people person so I go to the store when few others are there, maybe I'm anti-social, maybe I'm Agoraphobic, I don't really know, I just can't stand to be around too many people at once. Shounen Jump is new to my area, Hillbilly Hell (I mean West Virginia) isn't exactly the first place people think of when considering animé fans. It's a step in the right direction though, but still, not all stores carry it.
Can't win them all. And Regal's really testing my mettle by having that stupid football movie listed on their marquee already with "Coming Friday" tacked to it. They've NEVER done that with a film before. I think they're doing it just because it's about Marshal U down in Huntington. Just goes to show what they really think of their customers. I've sent them a comment on it, but the odds of getting an answer are slim to none, and slim just left town on the Express Train.
I get bogged down with other things when I'm working a project, worrying about the ones left unfinished comes when I'm doing nothing. I get to thinking "I could be working on this" type of thoughts, while watching TV, or reading, or just trying to unwind.
It's something I'll keep in the back of my mind for when I do stumble across the ingredients. Cooking and food styling(making it look good for display or photography) is a hobby of mine, so it'll be fun to try it just once.
alphonse13:
Yep, that's where he'll be for a while.
That's all right, I found enough to work with I hope. My sister and Mom both liked it in the car, so I must have done it right.
Magnus Lensherr
When it was the media search built into Windows Media Player, I'd find a lot of Japanese artists' stuff using it. Working it from the web is a little more difficult (it doesn't want to give you all the pages of your searches, it likes to stop at 50 - even when it tells you there are 400+ pages), but it's still a pretty good search engine for media content. I once saw trailers for the Cowboy Bebop movie after finding them with Singingfish.
Are you putting into account the months it was down? Given that it's very basic right now, I would hope that something more for it is planned to make it easier to use and give it more functionality. I hear you on that though, the satisfaction and relief that completing a project yields is one of the best feelings in the world.
