One aspect I skipped on the burrito adventure was

I listen to the Jpop station all the time.  Sundays are where they play the anime mix, with Dude A and Dude B.  When I turned it on as I was heading to Kailua, I heard this:

"Wait, I know that song," I told myself.

"Wait, why do I know this?" I asked.

Because I made a mix-cd fifteen+ years ago that had that as track number 9.  ls -alrt * says:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 999 mythtv 3887984 Aug 23  2001 ../../../anime/dragonball/Dragonball-Z---Ginga-Koete-Rising-High.mp3

Don't be confused, that's a dummy date from when I transferred a bunch of stuff over.  I had this as my DBZ mix earlier than that:

52.oshawott:/net/navi/media/music/raw_rip/DBZ/DBZ> ls -alrt                              <2:47m p="">total 88760
-rw-rw-r-- 1 999 mythtv 4284185 Aug 20  2002 01-Cha-La_Head_Cha-La.mp3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 999 mythtv 4492605 Aug 20  2002 02-Aoi_Kaze_no_HOPE.mp3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 999 mythtv 4976883 Aug 20  2002 03-We_Gotta_Power.mp3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 999 mythtv 5987554 Aug 20  2002 04-Hikari_no_Will_Power.mp3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 999 mythtv 6106269 Aug 20  2002 05-Unmei_no_Hi_Tamashii_Tai_Tamashii.mp3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 999 mythtv 6493968 Aug 20  2002 06-Dawn_of_the_Children.mp3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 999 mythtv 4128987 Aug 20  2002 07-Piccolos_Theme.mp3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 999 mythtv 5834364 Aug 20  2002 08-Son_Goku.mp3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 999 mythtv 5408205 Aug 20  2002 09-Rising_High.mp3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 999 mythtv 4648377 Aug 20  2002 10-Tobikiri_Saikyou_Tai_Saikyou.mp3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 999 mythtv 4914183 Aug 20  2002 11-Maragoto.mp3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 999 mythtv 4041474 Aug 20  2002 12-Burn_Dragon_Soldiers.mp3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 999 mythtv 5262191 Aug 20  2002 13-Hero.mp3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 999 mythtv 5006779 Aug 20  2002 14-Forever.mp3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 999 mythtv 4431878 Aug 20  2002 15-Piccolo_Dai_Suki.mp3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 999 mythtv 5387566 Aug 20  2002 16-Jinzou_Ningen_Machie.mp3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 999 mythtv 4787148 Aug 20  2002 17-We_Were_Angels.mp3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 999 mythtv 4654078 Aug 20  2002 18-Zenkai_Power.mp3

Earlier than that.  That's the rip of the mix-cd.  To be honest, a lot of those aren't terrible songs.  They have a good beat, and when you're making a mix for your diskman so you can get to class on time, that's really the best trait to have.

Basically, when you haven't heard a song for more than a decade, hearing it out of the blue is a weird feeling.  I suspect this isn't usually a case, as most people don't listen to niche music from a foreign country.  

But then, you hear it fresh, and in a much higher resolution than you heard it on that diskman in early 2000, as you were walking to the bus to take you to your classes for your junior year of college.