Ok, I should really update all of the pages of my site, but baby steps right?
My tastes really haven't changed I guess, but they have shifted...to a whole other country. See, I haven't bought much but J-Pop (Japanese Pop) for about a year now. I finished two years of Japanese the spring of 2001 and didn't have anybody to speak Japanese to all of a sudden. Since I could only watch my Japanese DVDs at home that was too limiting to even hear it on a regular basis. So, after finding J-Pop I figured that it was a good way of a least being able to hear the language and not lose all I had learned. It actually is working in some ways. I have even attempted to translate some of my favorite songs/artists with mixed success so far. So now I drive around town listening to BoA, Aikawa Nanase, or Onitsuka Chihiro rather than the stuff pumping out of everyone else's car.
The other day I pulled into a Chinese restaurant parking lot blasting J-Pop sung by a Korean singer. Now that was weird!
Anyway, I have started adding my favorite J-Pop artists here. I still like the other artists listed here but most new artists I add will be of the J-Pop variety.