Comments on: Links: manga, music, and nostalgia

By: Melinda Beasi

Melinda Beasi — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:46:19 +0000

Aw, now I really wish I had a photo!

I think I have friends who read mystery mangas, so I’ll see if I can get some good recommendations!

Look for an e-mail!

By: Ed Sizemore

Ed Sizemore — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:35:16 +0000

Actually, I probably would find the dog’s resemblance funny too.

I’m not familiar with the mystery mangas so I haven’t suggested any.

I definitely would like to hear the rest of your album. You have a wonderful singing voice. There’s another singer your voice reminds of, I think she is also a singer/songwriter, but I can’t pinpoint it. Aaargh.

By: Melinda Beasi

Melinda Beasi — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:23:24 +0000

HAHAHAHAHA I kind of love that you had Kiss mania. Helps me feel less self-conscious about some of my youthful obsessions. Like, The Outsiders (first the S.E. Hinton novel & later, its film adaptation). You know, because I was a girl. I read the book hundreds of times, and had posters of all the actors in the movie all over my walls. My grandfather, lovely man that he was, actually took me to see the movie when we were visiting them in Ohio. He even pretended to like it.

Bit of trivia: our dog, when she is in dire need of a haircut, resembles Gene Simmons in full makeup. I wish I had a photo so you could see. Though perhaps it would not be as funny to you. :D

Would your mom read mystery manga? Or have you tried that?

Thanks for the link to Jan Krist! I look forward to checking her out! And thanks for your kind words as well! I was never a great songwriter, and some of the lyrics particularly embarrass me now, but I did make my living singing for a very long time. I will upload the CD for you for free, though, if you want it.

By: Melinda Beasi

Melinda Beasi — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:07:54 +0000

Kino is more photogenic than we are, anyway! :D

I do wish we saw you more often. Especially now with Heather, by the time we see you again, she’ll be a completely different girl!

By: Ed Sizemore

Ed Sizemore — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:43:54 +0000

My Mom likes romances and mysteries. Mostly, it’s mysteries these days.

I’m listening to your songs and they’re great! Your voice sounds familiar to singer/songwriter Jan Krist (jankrist.net) especially her See Stone EP. Man, that is so cool. In fact, you made me dig out her CDs, so I could listen to them again. Looking at her website reminds me I need to pick up her last couple of albums. I definitely need to download your CD.

I can’t complain about my parents, they put with me during my Kiss mania days. At one point every square inch of my bedroom walls was covered in Kiss pictures. That’s true love to see a son through that phase of life.

By: Rudy

Rudy — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:40:30 +0000

It was great having you be a part of that.

Too bad we only see you… rarely.

And we didn’t take any pictures when we were there in November! Except of Kino of course, who clearly was the most important being we visited :)

But I digress!

By: Melinda Beasi

Melinda Beasi — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:27:01 +0000

I love looking back at stuff I did years ago, even if it was silly (like, say, Dan, Dan the Eyeball Man), or melodramatic like the rest of this album. :) Heee, I enjoy your old albums and cable videos too! :D

It really meant a lot to me that you wanted one of my songs at your wedding!

By: Melinda Beasi

Melinda Beasi — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:24:59 +0000

I am very lucky with my mom! She’s read all the available English volumes of xxxHolic and Hikaru no Go, and has expressed interest in a volume of manhwa I reviewed for Manga Recon, 11th Cat Special. It was hard for her to learn to read right-to-left, but she kept at it! Both my parents are awesome in terms of a willingness to try out whatever new things I’m passionate about. I’m very, very lucky.

Oh, and I’m sure she’s fine with “Melinda’s Mom” though she would not think it was impolite if you called her “Jan.” :)

What are your mom’s tastes in fiction?

By: Ed Sizemore

Ed Sizemore — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:53:12 +0000

I did and I’m jealous that your Mom reads manga. I hope your Mom doesn’t mind being called Melinda’s Mom. I’m old fashioned and can’t call my friends parents by their first name. It just sounds rude.

I wish I could get either of my parents to try manga. My Father is very regimented in his entertainment; books shouldn’t have pictures and movies shouldn’t have subtitles. His favorite line is, “I don’t want to read a movie or watch a book.” My Mom and I have very different taste in fiction, so I don’t know what to recommend.

By: Rudy

Rudy — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:50:44 +0000

I like this kind of music and nostalgia!

I have friends who have done things like make movies in college, only to go on later in life and dismiss them as something not good enough to give further thought. I think that’s sad–we had fun making those; they’re not really good enough for world-wide release, but they’re good enough to play occasionally and remember.

Your music isn’t exactly right up *my* alley but I like it just the same. Of course we liked it enough to ask you to sing some of it at our wedding–so that ought to mean something! :)