karaoke sat

All right finals week is hectic...minasan ganbarou ne >.< This sat we're going to have late lunch + karaoke @ Downtown LA Max Karaoke Studio Meet @ 3pm on 2nd floor near the arcade and we'll go sing probably from 6-8pm...warm up your vocals minna and practice some Japanese and English songs. Christmas song mo iidesu(it's good too) here's some sample of what we do in karaoke:




Here's a little something about Japanese music.
PV = promotional videos aka music videos

Rigth about december time a ton of j-artists will come w/ their christmas singles.
Japanese music sales is a little different from English music. They tend to sell their songs by singles(individual songs plus insert songs) rather than the entire album. Japanese music chart(similar to the Billboard chart) is called Oricon Chart.Oricon also have movie, books, anime, and other media rankings too. Different type of music genres would make the chart. However, since there are so many artists with new single out each week, it's very hard to stay on the Oricon Chart for long(unless the fans are very addicted to the group). Japanese called their music videos PV (promotional video). You can find tons of PV on-line. You can find some good PV sample @ JpopAsia. Theme song from popular anime, drama, video games, and movie tend to make it to Oricon too. Here's a sample of Japanese PV

Artist name -song title

Ikimonogakari-Kimagure Romantic
theme song for the j-drama-Celeb to Binbo Taro



Arashi-Beautiful Days
theme song for the drama-Ryuusei no Kizuna

Japan Club ni Youkoso (Welcome to Japan Club)

>.<>.<> Welcome to Cal State LA Japan Club. This blog will be dedicated to the latest events and activities going on in Japan Club. This also includes info on club meetings, showings, outside activities, and many more stuff. We had a website before but it was very antique(around 2002). Our tech officer has come up w/ a new site for us. I will post the link for the site soon.

Date: Mondays
Time: 3-5 pm Where: 3rd floorPasadena Room 307
Location: This fall meeting is in the New Student Union building ^O^
* Special -for only 11/17-meeting will be in Montebello Room 309 (we won't be in 307)

current showing: Toradora/ Chaos Head/ Michi/ Taiko Drumaster OVA/ Moyashimon/ Kurenai and many more

News:
1. Secret Santa - 11/17/08 we'll do the drawings to find your secret santa (range $5-$20 )
2. Karaoke outing -12/6/08 (lunch @ the little Tokyo mall + karaoke @ Max Karaoke- we'll talk about time to meet during club)
3. Drama showings/ PV -TBD

pics and video from little tokyo trip 11/11/08 will be up soon

below: pics is some of us @ little tokyo w/ intro of some of our members (it was 11/11/08..the camera just add the 20 out of nowhere...)