Maaya news

Unfortunately, it looks like the second Macross Frontier OST came out without a Maaya version of Aimo. But the fans still have hope that an OST 3 will be released with said track. *fingers crossed* (I'm not sure if these are Macross fans or YK fans or Maaya fans, but the more the merrier.)

On the flip side, it looks like there IS a new Maaya album in the works. Unfortunately, it is without an album cover, title, or track listing so far. (But it does look like Yoko Kanno is at least partially involved this time. I know some other fans were not happy when Maaya's last album was done without YK's involvement, but I liked it fine, and got some stamps I will never use out of it.

Kazeyomi [w/ DVD, Limited Edition]

Maaya Sakamoto

Of course, there's the requisite affiliate link for me to get a cut back from my own purchases. Not surprisingly, no one has purchased anything from CDjapan using my affiliate links. What is surprising though, is the number of clicks:

2008-10 16 0 0 yen 0 yen
2008-09 9 0 0 yen 0 yen
2008-08 16 0 0 yen 0 yen
2008-07 14 0 0 yen 0 yen
2008-06 24 0 0 yen 0 yen
2008-05 34 0 0 yen 0 yen
2008-04 9 1 12480 yen 624 yen <== that's me!

I wonder if it's just random bots or people who came via google somehow clicking through. Don't worry folks, cdjapan doesn't show me what you bought: I can only speculate what you spent that x amount of yen on.

Oh, you silly Republicans

I see what you are trying to do, Sacramento Republicans. When McCain asks "Who is the real Barack Obama?", lesser people might use wikipedia. But no, Sacramento Republicans, you and I are too nerdy to do that. As TRUE Firefly fans, we turn to the works of Xiang Yu. My only regret is that active volcanoes are hard to come by in California. I guess waterboarding is the next best thing...

What a week.

Does it make me a bad person that I am more upset that Sammy is leaving than about the $700 billion bailout?

It was not a happy experience to read about that in my RSS feeds this morning... *sigh*

I have some stuff in the works to talk about some other sushi places I went to recently as well as the season openers of both the SD Symphony (Lang Lang played Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto #2) and the SD Chamber Orchestra (mmm, Mozart), but I'm not in the mood anymore.