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I LOVE Only Yesterday!

This song has that real intro vibe, like something exciting is about to happen...and it might involves cubes and buildings and Where In the World is Carmen Sandiego and an early 90s sitcom that unites these elements in a delightful melange

Flight from the lovesick city, parts of my identity are rooted in that one. More music from it to come later!

@deirdre - excellent! My teen daughter and I bonded over our love of that movie

@deirdre - I assuming, but the frog pile pictured above, that you caught The Boy and The Heron. What did you think of it?

Visually captivating and great. The storybuilding of classic Ghibli is so good that it's really hard to match that expectation in that respect. I thought it was little bit jumbled, but plenty to love

@ Deirdre: Howdy! Great start to the show..

definitely felt jumbled, but I did love it. I think it was his most cryptic, for sure!

I saw it in the County Theater in Doylestown, which was a fun spot for a viewing. Howdoo Alan!

Had all the classic Miyazaki elements - child leaves the city for the countryside, parents either unavailable, dead or indifferent. Older women inhabit this strange new place and provide commentary. child is spirited away into a spirit world, where most of the action of the film takes place, but ultimately learns he can't stay there forever and rejoins the "real world'...kind of abruptly in this case!

I wish my radio had a built in reverb dial so I could have slowly dialed it all the way up during that 3x California Dreaming

Is the bearded creator guy Miyazaki/godlike figure of the world of his creation? His world/life ending soon...don't wanna think about that! The rock thing that the tower is built around has a corrupting force on the budgies, much like the bath house was a corrupting force on Noh Face in Spirited Away, but he is harmless when he leaves it, just like the budgies, who go from oversized and militaristic, so regular parakeets on the outside... Tower of grief? I must stop free-associating about this!

Hi DSM!

greetings.

@DSM - Someone please produce such radios...or I guess we could do that with our computers somehow

Hi TAndy!

@ deirdre: Just received 2 CD's of Navajo flute player R Carlos Nakai, heard him on your T-Day show and i was hooked!

Gonna have to ponder these questions if and when we get to a long track Lizbot! Heady minds in the chat for now. Will say in recent years I really vibe with the ones that are rooted in the "real world"

@deirdre - Miyazaki came up in my chat tonight - specially the doc about him from a few years ago and how he reacted in hilarious horror at an AI animation program some students demonstrated for him. The grotesque humanoid figure in the AI program didn't know how to walk and dragged its top-heavy head along the ground

Yesss, that's awesome Alan

Hey Lizbot! Yes, anything that has a speaker should also come with a reverb and a delay to play with

@DSM - Agree! I want to be able to Alvin Lucier my life. I am sitting in a room right now.

@ Liz Bot: Did ya ever have one of those days when yer just draggin yer head on the ground? lol...

Lolz

@DSM - Also want everything to repeat at delayed intervals like Carl Stone

I was just recently watching that clip Liz, and the animation was indeed incredibly horrifying. Those documentary filmmakers knew exactly what they were doing

@deirdre - haha, for real. the look of shame and embarrassment on those computer students! haha

This song is for taking a smoooooth genetic stroll through the streets of Pittsburgh

spooky ascension

I saw Boy and Heron last weekend, it was amazing like Spirited Away!

Also Kiki Delivery Service for Xmas 2021

@Ossy - So. Many. Frogs. I like Miyazaki animal piles. Frogs. Budgies bursting outta doorways. Frog chefs in Spirited Away

Strange creepy and bizarre things Miyazaki does, and turns out uniquely intriguing, Space Bot!

I love in Spirited Away that Chihiro was forced to clean that one smelly spirit in that mean scary Baba lady's mansion restaurant LOL

The setbreak music = Super Mario Galaxy music with some Zelda

@Ossy - One smelly bicycle-spiked blob-turned shiny grateful skull! So good!

Poor girl going through all that in a strange spiritual monster world lol

There's the one girl that was like a sister figure to Chihiro, forgot her name. Plus like No Face and Haku

This song is awesome

<3 !

Really great show so far as always, feels like a harkening back to the old days of The Lights Are On.

This would've made for a great morning show, but we

we'll work with what we got

Fits also for a relaxing cozy peaceful night

It's morning Somewhere...

i'm suck a sucker for jazz fusion like this. weather channel type music <3

Agreed, this show absolutely also would fit for a peaceful evening drive, or a bike ride.

Not only is this such a morning show/jazz fusion/shameless chimes/gated reverb vibe, but my kid LOVED My Neighbors The Yamadas when she was around 10. We watched this so many times! I like that the mom looks like what Lucy from Peanuts would look like as an adult

@ Lizbot: Look! People with no necks lol

@Alan Pasnyk - Their heads could just roll right off at any point, like the daruma heads in Yubaba's house in Spirited Away

@ Liz Bot: Just goes to show, "It's Always Something"...

Liz - And that huge baby, Yubaba's son

Sorry, trying to be listenable here but this wouldn't be complete without the Ponyo song. May as well get it out the way

I tried searching for the chalk colored people OVA and found very little information with no way to view it

@Ossy - Love that the baby just wants to remain a gerbil in the end!

Cute cute, just like that fire girl, Mahito's mother in Boy and Heron

@deirdre - Ponyo came out the year my daughter was born. We watched that one, Kiki’s and Totoro a lot when she was little and frequently referenced Ponyo’s bedraggled aging Bishonen dad, dripping all over the place. Ultimate weird dad.

Dope chunes!!

That's gonna be me as a dad one day, just less powerful and hopefully less wet

I would submit for consideration that the least-liked Ghibli movie might be Goro Miyazaki’s adaptation of LeGuin’s Tales from Earthsea

Also, did many people see Pom Poko?

@deirdre - ha! I like that the mom is this all-assuming expansive seawoman, and the dad just has a sad watering can

I meant all-consuming, but assuming too, sure, why not

Master Pai Mei in da house

Rurouni Kenshin like music

Up on Poppy Hill is another one my daughter and I like a lot, but as far as non-Miyazaki Ghibli, I think nothing beats Whisper of the Heart for me, (I mean Miyazaki wrote the screenplay, but Kondō directed that one.) That movie and Only Yesterday. I also really love Princess Kaguya. Little Bamboo!

Only Yesterday, Whisper of the Heart, and Up on Poppy Hill are inner circle favs for me. And I love Pom Poko. I think I kinda like Isao Takahata's contributions the most over Miyazaki? Maybe just being a contrarian but his are definitely funnier, and sadder

This song is dope!

Love this part right here

Yeah this song is awesome!

:)

Feels like Zora Fountain music

BOTW version likely

The warawara are adorable little soul-marshmallows.

Hey Christine

lol, probably should've went with soul marshmallows over the airwaves

Sounding good, deirdre!

Christine, yeah they were whip cream Baymax cute

I did actually laugh when I heard your comparison, @deirdre. You're not wrong!

Hi TAndy, Ossy, Liz Bot 🤖, Alan, Matt & all!

he had already given us the soul particulates of degeneration (dust bunnies) and plant regeneration (the mononoke forest spirits), so there was nowhere else to turn!

Indeed.

Hi Christine! It was a good year for the Perseids, Geminids, Jupiter and Saturn, hope you enjoyed...

I see the water tribe Avatar, Korra and her polar bear dog hybrid are based on Princess Mononoke and her giant wolf! Creators of Avatar are huge fans of Hayao Miyazaki movies btw

@Alan, I hope all have good star-, planet- and satellite-watching in the new year. 🌠

@Christine: Solar eclipse, April 8, Monday, a partial from Princeton though...

can definitely see that, ossy

Sounds like hide and seek, good for old family film sound dub in..

Looks like atoms exchanging photons..

Dei - Interestingly enough, Korra is a princess and Aang's senior granddaughter, Jinora, kinda gives me a Chihiro vibe

I was thinking of those cute little dots in Eggman Spiders lair in Spirited Away

BOUND!

This song is also awesome. Ack!

I cut it short 😰 just realized that I have a whole set too many and planned for 3 1/2 hours in stead of 3. Ack!

Oh no!

I overplan all the time! It’s all leftover fragments for some future show!

I like the cat in The Secret Life of Arriety. It is a high quality Miyazaki cat. Very large and grumpy.

It doesn’t have the power to ride trains like the cat in Whisper of the Heart, but it’s still a pretty good cat.

most pettable cat for sure

This song reminds me of When Marnie Was There, which is also so good. My teen just emerged from her lair to discuss the Boy and The Heron

You're making me sad that it's not summer right now LOL

野田ユカ [YUKA NODA] Summer Breeze felt like beach racing Mario Kart racetracks

So true

Aaaaaand that just reminded me I needed to ask a friend if a mod patch he installed for MK7 is any good

Wow and heard Pauline is a playable mod in MK8

Well she's an official character now so no need to mod if you wanna play as her. But of course it still is possible to just inject a custom model in the game, much easier if you're running it on the emulator

Meanwhile there's a fan mod of Mario Party 64, but its in an adventure setting like SM64

Please do not play Nintendo online games that you have modded on your official Switch or regular account or you will risk being banned. Just make a second account and run on emulator if your PC can handle it, which most mid-range ones can by now.

Before that however, Pauline was in Mario Kart Tour and nice that she's official for MK8. No worries, that Mario Party 64 fan mod is playable straight from the internet, not on a switch, but thanks for the info

Ah yeah anything Mario 64 related is pretty much fair game since the game has been decompiled to run on pretty much anything.

I've heard that Minish Cap is going to have a fan-made decomp/port very soon as well

https://www.reddit.com/r/Roms/comments/18om414/zelda_minish_cap_has_officially_been_decompiled/

Haunting this Marta, love it..

this cover is pretty much the essence of what we're trying to accomplish tonight

Interesting and never played Mimish Cap, speaking of hear there's a Zelda movie in the making

I've been getting more and more tempted to try out the LttP randomizer, but I don't think I've played that game enough to know where every item drop is 🥹

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AdIAJLE73ss

Classical, Reminds me of Marvin Rosen's 24 hr. on Sat...

It's a comin!

...But this show is a winner for sure!

Never seen Howls Moving Castle, but hear its great

manic pixie dream boy film

the fire is a great character

this piece is intended to mimic a lifespan from birth to death, section by section

Like Mahito's mother, in terms of fire

yeah, might be a callback

Oh wow this is beautiful

That falling rock scene in Boy and Heron, and I recall that sunshine day music

Howl is absolutely a manic pixie dream boy! Best: When he has that huge tantrum and turns himself to slime because his hair turned black after Sophie washed his magic tub!

what did lair daughter have to say about boy and the heron?

All this anime talk and music distracted me from watching the season finale for Jujutsu Kaisen! I'll be getting on that soon ;)

The Sixth Station is what I call a beautiful and haunting theme. Such good selections tonight, deirdre!

Love these last three Joe Hisaishi pieces

Was psyched to hear Yuji Nomi’s cover of Country Roads from Whisper of the Heart earlier. Couldn’t hop in the chat then as I was chopping onions and cucumbers for my dinner

Did you don the proper PPE such as ventilated googles, Lizbot?

I was cutting some purple onions to sautee last night and I forgot about the chemical they release. Thank goodness I wasn't wearing my contacts!

@TAndy - Naw. I’m impervious to red onion. But also, I’m wearing my glasses

Deirdre: Absolutely Great show! Thank you, and now you've got me hooked on the artist Marta Sebestyen..Have a Nice nite & bcnu!

Country toads, take me home 🐸

I forgot, robots don't have organic eyes to be irritated lol

But yes, thank you very much for the show Deirdre! Much love and appreciation as always :)

@TAndy - True. I am chopping a mountain of red onions as I type this. My mom says one day she was just not able to eat raw onions anymore. That had better not happen to me.

Thanks, deirdre! Tonight's theme was fantastic. Take care, everybody. 🪷

Thanks, Deirdre, for this Ghibletous adventure

Beauty spectacular ambience for the night, Dei!

Now to step back and allow the toads to envelop us

8:01 PM		KATSU HOSHI メイン・テーマ ~ Main Theme Only Yesterday OST Studio Ghibli 1991
8:03 PM		TADASHI NAMBA ft. RIE MIYAZAWA • TAKESHI ITOH Lovesick City Tokyo Elevator Pacini Sound Factory 1992
8:07 PM		SHIGEO SUZUKI Night Dews Long Distance ICR 1985
8:08 PM		? Transmutation Archaic Inventions Meets Oscar's X-mas Carols 2018 blogspot 2018
8:10 PM		THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS & THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS & THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS California Dreamin' (x3) California Dreamin' Dunhill 1965 Show me your original face before your mamas and your papas were born.
8:12 PM		CHIEKO BEAUTY Perfume Dub Dub in Jpn Victor 2004
8:17 PM		SAINT PEPSI Pineapple Juniors (Zai Kowen remix) Pineapple Juniors soundcloud 2022
8:21 PM		AHMAD JAMAL Genetic Walk Genetic Walk 20th Century Fox Records 1980
8:27 PM		梨木良成 [YOSHINARI NASHIKI] 夕なぎ ~ Sunset 夕ぐれを聴く ~ Listen to the Sunset Nash Studio 1992 ( ( ( under mic ) ) )
8:35 PM		永田茂 ~ SHIGERU NAGATA ファーストインプレッション ~ First Impression 海がきこえる ~ Ocean Waves (OST) Studio Ghibli Records 1993
8:37 PM		板倉文 [BUN ITAKURA] Z [Accepter] Roujin-Z Soundtrack Epic 1991
8:39 PM		AKIKO YANO Theme I: And So It Begins ホーホケキョとなりの山田くん (オリジナル・フル・サウンドトラック) 家内安全は、世界の願い。~ My Neighbors the Yamadas (OST) - The World Wishes for Family Stability Studio Ghibli Records 1999
8:41 PM		KAN OGASAWARE, KEN SHIMA, ASTRUD GILBERTO, VINCENT YOUMANS Sentimental Breeze Chalk-Colored People OVA ? 1988
8:44 PM		JOE HISAISHI 風の谷 ~ The Valley of the Wind はるかな地へ… 風の谷のナウシカ・サウンドトラック盤 ~ To a Far Away Land... Nausicäa of the Valley of the Wind Soundtrack Studio Ghibli Records 1984
8:48 PM		SATOSHI TAKEBE Little Owl's Favorite Song - Escape From Up on Poppy Hill OST Studio Ghibli Records 2011
8:51 PM		EJE THELIN GROUP Curved Space Seabeds C60 Dream Weapons 2022
8:55 PM		JOE HISAISHI Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea Pony on the Cliff by the Sea OST Studio Ghibli Records 2008
8:57 PM		ORIGINAL LOVE You Make Me Feel Brand New アンファン ~ Les enfants Polydor 1989 ( ( ( under mic ) ) )
9:05 PM		JOE HISAISHI 生きる喜び ~ Happiness of Living かぐや姫の物語サウンドトラック ~ The Tale of the Princess Kaguya Studio Ghibli 2013
9:06 PM		AUN-J CLASSIC ORCHESTRA いつでも誰かが（平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ）/ Always Someone is... (Pom Poko) Studio Ghibli Songs with Japanese Instruments Heart-Tree 2016
9:11 PM		FUMIO MIYASHITA 神酒 ~ Miki 神秘 / 神酒 ~ Shinpi / Miki BIWA Records 1986
9:15 PM		KOH-TAO Bhang Bhang たゆたゆ ~ Tayu Tayu God's Pop Records 1997
9:19 PM		JOE HISAISHI Warawara's Theme N The Boy and the Heron (OST) Studio Ghibli 2023
9:21 PM		JOHN CHEN 源意 ~ Essence 陳國平 ~ Songs From Within Kiigo 1999
9:26 PM		JOE HISAISHI Totoro となりのトトロ (サウンドトラック集) ~ My Neighbor Totoro (Soundtrack Collection) Studio Ghibli 1988 ( ( ( under mic ) ) )
9:29 PM		MIDORI TAKADA When I Was a Child Untitled Bottega Veneta 2021
9:37 PM		HAJIME MIZOGUCHI Lapped Rabbit A Pretty Dance CBS/Sony 1987
9:39 PM		林知行＆フォレスト皿 [TOMOYUKI HAYASHI & FORESTIII] Hide & Seek The Forest EFFLUX 1991
9:42 PM		JOE HISAISHI Mei and the Dust Bunnies となりのトトロ (サウンドトラック集) ~ My Neighbor Totoro (Soundtrack Collection) Studio Ghibli 1988
9:43 PM		大貫妙子 [TAEKO OHNUKI] 動物パズル / 午睡 ~ Animal Puzzle / Nap アフリカ動物パズル ~ African Animal Puzzle Dear Heart 1985
9:49 PM		CÉCILE CORBEL The Neglected Garden Arrietty (OST by Cécile Corbel) Studio Ghibli 2010
9:53 PM		JOE HISAISHI Home Sweet Home Grave of the Fireflies Studio Ghibli 1988
9:56 PM		JOE HISAISHI The Latin Quarter Porco Rosso Studio Ghibli 1992 ( ( ( under mic ) ) )
9:59 PM		野田ユカ [YUKA NODA] Summer Breeze Ka Ri Bu No Yu Me: Light Fusion Fantasy Columbia, Japan 1989
10:03 PM		松任谷由実 [YUMI MATSUTOYA] Rouge no Dengon コバルト・アワー ~ Cobalt Hour Express 1975 The song playing from Kiki's boombox in the sky.
10:06 PM		KENNY BALL AND HIS JAZZMEN Sukiyaki Sukiyaki Pye Jazz 1961 well-known American cover of the famous Kyu Sakamoto song, featured in "From Up on Poppy Hill."
10:09 PM		JOE HISAISHI Pazu's Fanfare Castle in the Sky Studio Ghibli 1986
10:10 PM		ARIHIRO FUJIMURA コキコッコのうた ~ Kokekokko no Uta Only Yesterday (OST) Studio Ghibli 1991
10:12 PM		まだ / KOICHIRO WATANABE ミス・ニッポン ~ Miss Japan まとめてアバヨを云わせてもらうぜ ~ Let Me Say Abayo All Together Super Fuji Discs 1991
10:14 PM		MÁRTA SEBESTYÉN, MUZSIKÁS Teremtés ["Creation"] Dúdoltam Én: Sebestyén Márta / Márta Sebestyén Sings Hungaroton 1987 featured in "Only Yesterday" via car radio.
10:18 PM		YUJI NOMI Take Me Home, Country Roads (Theme Song) Whisper of the Heart Soundtrack Studio Ghibli 1995
10:23 PM		LARRY CHERNICOFF Western Gallery of Air Muse/Art Records 1983 ( ( ( under mic ) ) )
10:28 PM		JOE HISAISHI, ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA The Legend of Ashitaka / The Demon God / Princess Mononoke N A Symphonic Celebration (Music From the Studio Ghibli Films of Hayao Miyazaki) Deutsche Grammophon 2023
10:34 PM		JOE HISAISHI Merry-Go-Round of Life ハウルの動く城サウンドトラック ~ Howl's Moving Castle (OST) Studio Ghibli 2004
10:39 PM		JOE HISAISHI The Great Collapse N The Boy and the Heron (OST) Studio Ghibli 2023
10:41 PM		JOE HISAISHI The Sixth Station Miyazaki's Spirited Away Studio Ghibli 2001
10:45 PM		TAKATSUGU MURAMATSU The Oiwa Home 思い出のマーニーサントラ音楽集 ~ When Marnie Was There (OST) Studio Ghibli 2014
10:46 PM		JOE HISAISHI Bygone Days Porco Rosso Studio Ghibli 1992
10:48 PM		SATOSHI TAKEBE Reminiscence From Up on Poppy Hill (OST) Studio Ghibli 2011
10:52 PM		TOYO B.G.M. CORP. 時は流れて ~ Time Passes Concentration: 作品 Vol.1 - 集中力がつく音楽 Toyo B.G.M. Corp. 1992
10:56 PM		KIKUCHI MOMOKO I Will (excerpt) Ocean Side Vap 1984
10:58 PM		JOE HISAISHI A Huge Tree in the Tsukamori Forest となりのトトロ (サウンドトラック集) ~ My Neighbor Totoro (Soundtrack Collection) Studio Ghibli 1988

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