Can I ask someone a favor and get him a message via YouTube comment or https://www.thedragonstreasure.com/pages/about-us or X, whatever, I don't care how, just literally every attempt I've made to contact him is somehow unavailable or broken.

So intro this guy: He's a semi-disabled art fan with a lisp and I really get the impression that he'd rather be an artist than a tea salesman, but his body gets in the way (that's probably way more frustrating than my inability to send him a comment, email, tweet, chat, whatever.)

Now for the video that hit me. It was a really slow wind-up. For a couple reasons (including YouTube not working all that well these days), I tend to use Y2mate, and this thing's download date is May 28, 44 days ago. It's The DEFINITIVE Guide To Media Literacy What it is and WHO Truly Lacks It. The "chapters" (er, it probably has officially delineated chapters on its player page, but usually ignore those even when YouTube isn't cranky.) Aside from a 31s introductory rant, it starts with a comparison to learning English phonetically; I wish it was Japanese, and I'll get back to that, lol! 5m45s goes on for a couple minutes about "The curtains were blue." 7m37s: Back to the question "What is media literacy" the first, and then several examples of how he interprets media to demonstrate media literacy (both what it is and that he has it.)

14m46s is the part that's personal to me, and I just realized it's probably a waste of time to go through the rest of the video for the purposes of this Reddit post - no, a little more. It shows this purple dunno, coin monster? One-toothed gear? LIGAF, he's ballooned "Gahhh... I DON'T GET IT. Is it political?? What's the message in this????"

What he's watching is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieQ1rAIjzXc Motteke Sera Fuku (in romaji), the opening theme song to Lucky Star, quite probably one of the most inane and playful anime series (aside from the producer's self-insert tearing up the Lucky Channel set in a fit of rage near the end, not much happens plot-wise.)

What that song means to me is kinda interesting though... many years ago (2009 early, can't narrow it down further than January-March), this was the first song I listened to for the first time without studying a translation where I made out any of the original Japanese on my own. Not much, and maybe I should learn more- maybe I should get a better hiragana chart, lol.

15m17s, as though on cue for how this video just hit me, even though it took six weeks, he starts talking about music...

On a side note, I've recently taken to listening to music without doing anything else. I'll have a cup of tea, with no phone, no Twitter, just nothing but the sounds of the music itself. It is a tremendously different experience. Entire songs change in my mind. Some become that much more beautiful, while others turn out to be a bit... lacking.

"Sera Fuku" is the sort of song you'd think would be more of the latter, but not for me. It's been stuck in my head for several days now, and I think it's because the subconscious threads in my head connected things that much sooner than the conscious side. The two most obvious themes of the song, and exactly those first couple Japanese words I ever made out on my own in music, are "sera fuku" - Sailor uniform (I've been reading Time-Life Books The Seafarers - that's a series of books, I'm in The Pacific Navigators by Oliver E. Allen, pp. 142, and watching probably way too much Drachinifel ...and "natsu fuku" - summer uniform (it just hit 30C for the first time two days ago.) So, I'm not even wearing headphones, just walking along with this thing stuck in my head, and I can't change it; not a big deal because only about 5% of me wants to change it.

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