Image thanks to Beat Trend.

This morning when I reached the gym, the first thing I saw on the news was the demise of Michael Jackson. To most of the younger generation nowadays, all they probably remember of him are the court battles he faced as well as the charges brought against him. But to those of us who remember what it was like during his era, to that era and to him and his music, I dedicate this short post.

We all have bad days, and I am sure more than a few of us use music as a way to try and turn it around or to lighten up the day, soften up the mood, and generally remove ourselves if only for a little bit from the bad day. But a song about a bad day indeed, now that was interesting when Daniel Powter first came up with it (if there was an older version of this song I apologize, but I doubt it). So, here is a song for your bad days, like we will all have once in a while, aptly titled “Bad Day” by Daniel Powter.

For me to post another Song of the Week so soon after the last is perhaps rather unprecedented, considering this category hardly even gets touched anymore. But since today is Valentine’s Day, I figured it would be a good time to finally get around to the translation of this song, which I have asked for since October last year I believe.

It has been a very long time since I last did a Song of the Week, and this one was because I found it an appropriate song for the recent passing of my friend Ziyu. Kokoro (which means “heart” in Japanese) was sung by Joanne Hogg and was the ending theme song for the game Xenosaga Episode I. I completed it a few months back, and this song has stuck ever since as a very sorrowful piece.

November. The month of the constellation Scorpio in the zodiac. Not a month that I particularly like indeed, for many reasons. The blog theme for the month is Negate November, which I know many of you will find strange, for how can November be negated? Indeed I had the hardest time looking for something that meant “dark” or “subdued” starting with the letter “n”, so this is the worst I could come up with. I do believe there is a “negate” (where the “e” is read the same as the “e” in “end”, so “ne-gah-tae” is the pronunciation, I was too lazy to look for the symbol), but since I am not too sure on that, I just went with what I knew. And now, we move on to some important topics.

Just as a brief overall look, I will talk about the blog theme first, before moving onto my request for writers, and then my request for song translators and the songs that I wanted to get done translating through others’ help. I will also touch on Team Blue in the last part, as a minor topic. The above image is the blue witch, I have no idea of her name, from the eroge Majodo.