Mood:  bright

Every morning I turn on the TV while I'm getting ready.  First for the Weather channel (which is really unneccissary in Summer as every day is exaclty the same!) and then to a music video channel.  I can't say why I started TV-ing my mornings, I'm not all that addicted to the box; and I remember, long ago, I used to wake up with a stereo and music.  Anyway, the music video channels have become my only link to popular music in my radio-less existence.  I am far too used to finding stuff online now and have developed a strange and exclusionary music persona.  While I like discovering the random Ting Tings' "That's Not My Name" and Honey Honey's "Little Toy Gun,"  there is only so much Theory of a Dead Man, and 'lil Wayne I can take (no offense--just personal taste).  Well, wouldn't you know it, my incomplete salvation was at hand!  Hiding in a free-on-demand channel in my digital cable was Bento Beat Box on Anime Network.  This half hour show is like a mini music video channel for Japanese Rock brought to you by JRock Revolution. 

So, ah, I'm not going to say that Rock in Japan isn't just more of the same done different--music 's like that all over the globe, but the fact that it is done different is refreshing in its own right.  I'm also not going to say that it's not necissary at all to understand the lyrics in order to get all you can out of a song 'cause there is a lot of beautiful poetry in music, but really there are several popular songs supposedly in English that no one understands.  I am going to say that even people without my strange and exclusionary musical persona could really enjoy the show.  And now that I said all that I'm gonna whine, because I don't actually get the Anime Network as a channel and I really want to, and my free-on-demand doesn't update but once a month so I only have access to one measly episode.  For those of you without my particular obstacles--go and discover some music, boost its ratings and all!