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The 30 Days of Music Challenge is over. Here is a summary of the songs I picked.

Day 01 – My Favorite Song: Bad Romance by Lady Gaga
Day 02 – My Least Favorite Song: Humpback by T.J. Renolds
Day 03 – A Song That Makes Me Happy: Doki Doki Love Mail by Aya Matsuura
Day 04 – A Song That Makes Me Sad: Drive by The Cars
Day 05 – A Song That Reminds Me of Someone: Magic by Pilot
Day 06 – A Song That Meminds Me of Some Place: I Have Dreamed by Rogers and Hammerstein
Day 07 – A Song That Reminds Me of a Certain Event: Hands Across America by Marc Blatte and John Carney
Day 08 – A Song That I Know All the Words To: I Have a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts by Fred Heatherton
Day 09 – A Song That I Can Dance To: Love Machine by Morning Musume
Day 10 – A Song That Makes Me Fall Asleep: Brahms’ Lullaby
Day 11 – A Song From My Favorite Band: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by The Beatles
Day 12 – A Song From a Band I Hate: A Touch of Evil by Judas Priest
Day 13 – A Song That is a Guilty Pleasure: School Days by Guardians 4
Day 14 – Beautiful Girls by Shawn Kingston
Day 15 – A Song That Describes Me: Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood by Santa Esmeralda
Day 16 – A Song That I Used to Love But Now Hate: God Bless America by Kate Smith
Day 17 – A Song That I Often Hear on the Radio: How Can I Be Sure by The Rascals
Day 18 – A Song that I Wish I Heard on the Radio: Driving My Life Away by Eddie Rabbit
Day 19 – A Song From My Favorite Album: Puff, the Magic Dragon by Peter, Paul, and Mary
Day 20 – A Song That I Listen to Shen I’m Angry: War by Edwin Starr
Day 21 – A Song That I Listen to When I’m Happy: Walking on Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves
Day 22 – A Song That I Listen to When I’m Sad: Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles
Day 23 – A Song That I Want to Play at My Wedding: Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now – Starship
Day 24 – A Song That I Want Played at My Funeral: I Did It My Way by Frank Sinatra
Day 25 – A Song That Makes Me Laugh: Otto Titsling – Bette Midler
Day 26 – A Song That I Can Play on an Instrument: Heart and Soul
Day 27 – A Song That I Wish I Could Play: Bandstand Boogie
Day 28 – A Song That Makes Me Feel Guilty: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Day 29 – A Song From My Childhood: I Points to Myself
Day 30 – My Favorite Song at This Time Last Year: 3-2-1 Breakin’ Out!

I hope you enjoyed reading about the music in my life.

Can you believe it?! It’s the last day of the 30 Days of Music Challenge. I was able to keep up with it and posted something everyday. I’ve posted almost as many blog entries in the last month as I have in the entire six years I’ve had this website.

In trying to select a song for today, I had to go back and think about what was happening this time last year. As you know, if you know me or have read this blog, I’ve been into JPop the past couple of years. So, it’s a JPop song from my favorite Japanese Idol group, everyone… Morning Musume!

During the July 4th weekend of last year, Morning Musume made their first trip to the continental United States. They were featured guests at the Anime Expo in Los Angeles. Their new song, “3, 2, 1, Breakin’ Out” was the theme song for the convention. They even held a contest on MySpace inviting people to create their own music video for the song.

Therefore, I’m choosing “3, 2, 1, Breakin’ Out” for today’s song.

I am going to try from now on to explore more music genres. I should eally not be so obsessed with the Hello! Project and Morning Musume, but I can’t help it. And I don’t really seem to get into any other groups as much, so there must be something about them.

Tomorrow, I’ll post a summary of the songs I’ve chosen in the last 30 day.

Now that the challenge has ended, I’ve decided to try to keep this momentum going and will be posting more frequently on my blog. As a matter of fact, starting in mid August, I’ll begin a countdown to my 50th birthday with a blog for each year I’ve been alive. I hope you will look forward to them.

Please leave comments. I have no idea what you think about my writing unless you comment. Should I be writing less about myself and more about a specific topic? Let me know.

A quick post just to continue the challenge, which officially ends tomorrow. I’ve kept up with it, and posted every day!

Today’s song is “I Points to Myself,” which my mother taught me and my brother and sister when we were little kids. My mom learned it in the Girl Scouts. It was sung with a German accent, which today would probably be considered not very politically correct. I couldn’t find a good version of it on the Internet, but I’ll keep looking.

Honorable mention goes to “Strangers in the Night” as sung by Frank Sinatra. This is the first song I remember hearing on the radio, and I know that it was a favorite of my father.

I didn’t know what song I was going to choose today, but as I write this, I remember something I did years ago and I do feel guilty about it. Coincidentally, it does involves music. It isn’t about one particular song, but it has to do with a Christmas performance.

I am not going into detail about the incident. I hurt someone’s feelings because I was being selfish, when I should have been praising the person for a job well done.

Since this was a religious event (this has nothing to do with me being an atheist), I’ll choose a Christmas carol.

Today’s song is “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.” Again, it isn’t really the song that makes me feel guilty. It was the thing I did at an event in the past which involved Christmas music. I don’t think about it every time I hear this song. And it’s a good thing, since I’m currently writing a Christmas play based on the song.

Today’s challenge is to name a song that I wish I could play (on an instrument). For me, there is an easy answer, but it really doesn’t satisfy the requirement of the challenge. The answer is “All of them!”

I always wanted to be a musician. But there seems to be something inside of me that just can’t get beyond the basics. This is a problem for me in everything. I seem to get so far then can’t go further.

I understand that this is in some ways a learned habit, but there are physical and mental issues at work here also. I believe that the same things that cause me to misunderstand speech and limit my ability to hear individual sounds in loud areas play a part.

However, I do take responsibility for my lack of persistence in learning to play an instrument. I hope that once I do begin making money, I can devote the time it would take to really learn music.

To fulfill today’s challenge, though, I do have to name a song, so I’ll go with something fun. “Bandstand Boogie” is an interesting song and I believe would be a challenge for me on the piano.