I usually take a bit of a look at the last twelve months on this blog from its inconception in 2006 looking at the things that came up, and sometimes the things that came down.
I continued to explore things around being an adult little boy, looked back at aspects of my feminine schoolboy past and how that ties to other interests such as music, reading and the arts.
For instance music lovers have been treated to some great limited edition re-issues from MoFi and Audio Fidelity taking in artists such as The Cars, The Band, Rod Stewart and Joe Walsh etc.
On the other hand the AF issue of the Pretenders first album was a mess and that was even admitted by the Mastering Engineer responsible!!!
Apple/Capitol-EMI came up trumps in September with their stereo AND mono re-mastered Beatles albums exceeding all expectations for sound quality and packaging. Full review in September's 2009 entries here.
Also EMI made a great start on the Duran Duran deluxe re-masters starting with Rio and are scheduled to issue S/T and Seven and the Ragged Tiger on March 15 restoring never before available on cd material to the catalogue even adding valuable DVD's too.
Some great anime sets were issued last year such as Moon Phase.
We were cordially invited to indulge at the Ouran High School Host Club where all 26 episodes were issued in two sets at a discounted price in a move that helped to keep piracy under control.
Crunchyroll having gotten legit on the internet streaming side got better with exciting titles like K-On! and Skip Beat and expanded the Asian Drama collection. They even made a start on J-Rock! Princess Nisa kept us entertained at the 'Weird Person" CR group too.
Amazon helped too with getting a DVD player that could be made to play 'all regions' and it was easy to order stuff from the States where the local distributor here hadn't a license plus NEO never had a less than essential issue with loads of well written features on anime/manga and J Life.
UK television became multichannel as default as more areas include mine went digital only but the amount of anime shown dropped . We even lost the Anime Network on satellite so we are dependent on online streaming that brings issues of regional licensing/lock outs very much to the fore.
I found a lot of real friends who were around where a group of people tried to shut me down earlier in the year.
I explored more around more feminine presentation to make up for the time lost during childhood when that wasn't so possible given conventions and attitudes then, finding what worked and what did not.
They didn't count on my strength with YOUR support to come back stronger than ever with this blog radically improved or stop me posting on site either!
And finally we've made a new decade, the 2010's so enjoy.
Regards, Tammy.
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