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Kazuto x Narue

BUTTON PUSH YOU!

No matter how much you try, the Wii ain't gonna recognize your weird thingamabobber that you're oh, so vigorously pointing at the screen.

[LA LA LA LA LALA LALA! LA LA LA LA LALA LALA!]

Happy Thoughts Museum by Jim Welc--LA LA LA LA LALA LALA! LA LA LA LA LALA LALA!

[WHO ARE YOU CALLING A CRAZY PEANUT THINGY !! O_O]

WHO ARE YOU CALLING A CRAZY PEANUT THINGY !! O_O

It's hard to make me cry on sad parts of movies and anime (as proven by Toy Story 3 and Air).

Stand back, Pete! I got these weird rod thingies and I ain't afraid to use them!

"My lord, what is this place?"

Because you're mind's telling you "I want this type" while your body's telling you "I want this other type". Then your mind and body fight with each other.

HOW DOES I FIRIN' MAH PEWPEW LAZORS?

I am what I am because of everyone. [So, in other words, EVERYONE'S responsible for this <expletive>. -_-]

Sin & Punishment: Star Successor has some plot to it and will probably last you about 3 hours total if plot's all you're focusing on. It's a game tailored towards score, so...yeah.

A pumpin' remix of Air's Farewell Song from the same guy that brought you The Clear Blue Sky, In My Heart, and Colours of Sorrow for DJ MAX Technika.

[totally]

Fuyuki Hinata would totally have a field day on this.  :D

People that feel the need to blog EVERY. SINGLE. EPISODE. of EVERY. SINGLE. ANIME. they get their hands on.

[in before mauling]

"...I don't think those were Lincoln logs."
- Hamm, Toy Story 3

Try watching anime subtitled (see how much you can pick up on just by doing that)

Once you get proficient enough, you can take it up a notch and just get rid of the subtitles to see how much you can understand without a translation. I think at about 3 years of college classes (according to an internet guy by the name of GaijinPunch, at least) and about a thousand of vocab words would be a good point to be searching for anime without subs. Oh, and don't forget to use a dictionary for words you don't know while watching. I'd rather you enjoy the show, then note down the words you don't know if you still remember them and study off those for a while. It works for me, at least.

I hate reading subtitle while listening to anything japanese because it confuse me so much. The structure of the japanese language seem to be really different from the English language.

It all depends on preference. Personally, I agree with you on this notion because it seems really difficult for me to technically multi-task between hearing Japanese audio and reading English text, all at fast speeds and rapid succession, too. Some people can pull it off, but IMHO, it more often than not hinders my enjoyment of the content I'm trying to watch.

Also, yes, the Japanese sentence structure takes some getting used to, but the key thing, according to Tae Kim, is that you can have a functioning sentence with just a single verb. The verb is usually the crux of the Japanese sentence structure, considering that almost every Japanese sentence usually ends with one. It shouldn't really take too long to get used to it, but I can't really speak for everyone when it comes to how fast certain people learn things.

Surfing TV Tropes, reading about someone contemplating on the current state of the anime fandom, making music, doing stuff on Facebook (excluding any -ville games lol), and studying Japanese.

Can someone tell me how to say:
"how do you do this"
how do you say "..."
how do you get there?

it's been bugging me for a while now.

This assumes you know your hiragana and your basic kanji, but I'll give romaji at the bottom just in case.

これをどうやるの？（or これをどうやりますか。）
kore o dou yaru no? (or kore o dou yarimasu ka?)

「．．．」は何と言うの？（or 「．．．」は何と言いますか。）
"..." wa nan to iu no? (or "..." wa nan to iimasu ka?)

どうやって行くの？（or どうやって行きますか。）
dou yatte iku no? (or dou yatte ikimasu ka?)

The first sentences of each set are casual and mostly used for people you know really well. The alternative sentence is a bit formal and can be used if you don't know the person you're talking to yet.

I tried doing AJATT a couple of years back in my early junior year in high school, and after exploring the method for about a few months, I just ended up giving up on it in the end.

Of course, some things about AJATT, I still do (like listening to, playing, and watching Japanese content), but not at the levels AJATT expects you to do. The amount of time this method has you investing in Japanese immersion is, IMO, a bit unrealistic, but if it works for certain people, it works. It sure worked for Khatzumoto, but I'm just keeping in mind that everyone may be different and might find this approach rather demanding, if not a bit uncomfortable.