SNSD - All I Want For Christmas Is You, 올 아이 원트 포 크리스마스 이즈 유 @ SNSD's Christmas Fairy Tale

[yuiyoshida]

[JuJuYoshida]

1. Loved them! thank you! ;)

[DFW]

2. Just when I was starting to work on my Kanji

As well as my spoken 日本語, you have to start in with Korean?

No fair!

[yuiyoshida]

3. My first love is Asian Music...

You don't have to speak Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, or Vietnamese to appreciate Asian Music... I should actually, say that My first love is Visuel Kei and Jrock, with all Asian music being second, but again, just listen to it, do you like it? Does it move you? Than you are on your way!!

[DFW]

4. Oops, I fear I won't be on my way any time soon

Too much of an old world Gaijin, I'm afraid. This is more my speed:

or REALLY old world:

[yuiyoshida]

5. Hey, its okay to get out of your comfort zone

That's how you discover stuffs!! I recently discovered "D'espairsRay" and they are my new band. I was a huge fan of The Gazette, and Love "An CAFE", but the "RAYS" just push buttons in me, that haven't worked in years!

Omg..this song especially!

[DFW]

6. Oh, my teenage daughters and I took each other out of our respective comfort zones for years

They turned me on to boy bands, some of which were actually good, and I turned them on to Shawn Colvin, Balkan music and Irish reels. My sister-in-law might relate more to the Asian rock, as she is a Tōkyo native.

[yuiyoshida]

7. See, thats it though...

I am not from Tokyo...yet I love Jrock and Visuel Kei.. I grew up on American Rock and Roll and I don't know where American music has gone...When I first heard my first Japanese Rock music, was though watching Anime..I was like..OMG! HOW DID I miss this stuff??

[DFW]

8. Probably the same kind of revelation I got when my brother turned me on to Leo Kottke

I listened to my first Kottke record when I was nineteen, and I felt as if someone had introduced me to God on a blind date.

[yuiyoshida]

9. Anime and Music...was so perfect together