An epiphany, of sorts.

A long time ago, I picked up a CD of anime music that had been released by Rhino Records. It was called, "The Best of Anime," which in retrospect seems a kind of pretentious title. Anyway, most of the songs on that CD are in Japanese, and at the time I just listened to the pretty sounds while scouring internet 1.0 for translations. (The best resource at that time was a website run by a guy billing himself as "Sailor Bacon." I didn't get the joke either.)

Recently I listened to the CD again for the first time in a while...and found that I no longer need translations. Not that I understand them perfectly, but in my head the pretty sounds have suddenly morphed into actual language. This is at once amazing and bizarre...

(Sailor Bacon's website is still out there, too. It has morphed into "animelyrics.com", and if Sailor Bacon is still running it, he no longer calls himself that.)