Coffee at Leblanc

I know there's a lot of anime out there, but I feel like Carole & Tuesday doesn't get enough love out there. Shinichiro Watanabe, the creator of Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo is at the helm of this one so it's no wonder that the show is so damn good. What makes Carole & Tuesday so good is the energy it exudes. It's hard to describe quite the feeling it gives me, but I think heartwarming is the most apt. Seeing these two girls struggle to become professional musicians gets you invested in these characters when they finally have a moment of success. This anime came out three years ago so I think it's safe to talk about spoilers so I'm warning those now who haven't seen it. *SPOILERS AHEAD!* The two titular characters are very different, but compliment one another. Carole is hardheaded, brash, and kind. Tuesday is reserved and quiet, but both girls show a lot of determination. The pair's styles are also different: Carole dresses casually whi...

So I'm sitting in a coffee shop drawing while listening to some music with my headphones. What am I listening to? Well, lately I've been on a binge of musical genres that were created by the nerd community or music genres that my fellow nerds seem to gravitate towards exclusively. There's future funk, chiptune, lo-fi, nerdcore, slowed & reverb, city pop, J-pop, and K-pop in my library. What makes these forms of music geek music? Well, it's just as I stated. Most of these music genres were either invented by geeks or music that tends to only be listened to by geeks. For some of these the origins are hard to trace, but in the case of chiptune it's quite obvious.  Chiptune derives its sounds from video games and dates back to the 80s when videos game really took off in the commercial space in the arcades and the home. Video games were limited in the sounds they could produce so musicians had to be more creative in their compositions. This lead to a unique sound and...