31 Days: Be indomitable, o my heart

(As aforementioned, all these will be Mirage of Blaze, and accessible through this tag: http://www.livejournal.com/users/petronia/tag/31days)

I wrote this tonight, and somewhere along the line I had a fruity drink and four shots of iced Stoli. So, ah, it'll need fixing when I wake up.

( Four centuries ago it was easier. )

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Fic is being posted to 31_days in droves. Head over, folks! I'm glad I was able to make the first day at least. XD No, seriously, I want to write all the themes if possible but I've also got the SSBB story not to mention the magazine itself (Hwei sent a prelim cover which is lovely; I've been arranging text over the image, and I fear it shall not escape classiness. Oh well, we'll live). I think I'll have a decent run the first week, though.

Pizzicato Five - Twiggy vs James Bond: By request, since it's always good to catch references first and then discard them at leisure. XD A Shibuya-kei anthem.

Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence (Richard X Extended Mix): Because you can never have too many electrodance remixes of "Enjoy the Silence".

UNKLE - Lonely Soul: Now that I have 1GB to play with, I've been dumping music on my player that I wouldn't normally listen to outdoors otherwise - UNKLE, DJ Shadow, that sort of thing. This came on as I was plowing through one of Takaya's angst sessions + philosophical clashes with Reijirou in the metro this morning. It's sort of... gloomy orchestral soultronica?

P.S. I changed my lj layout because I realised it made fic a chore to read. ^^;

The week in review

Fannish Pt.1: Dear self, it's not kind to laugh at Naoe. He has enough problems as it is. Love, me - but seriously, I think I finally grok Darin Morgan's urge to ijime Mulder in his episodes by having drinks spill in his lap or whatever. I might heart Naoe in the same way I hearted Mulder. Not that I thought of it that way when I was in high school, but he's such a beautiful loser too.

Fannish Pt.2: You know what I would do if I had to make a theme list for a fic comm? Pet Shop Boys song titles. ( PopArt, for instance. )

Had fun last week. Wednesday I went to view the current exhibits at the Contemporary Art Museum - might go back this week, didn't have time to process everything I saw. There's this installation - Saint Sebastian - by an artist named Fiona Tan, which is videos of the archery competition ceremony at the Sanjusangen-do in Kyoto projected onto a double screen (one side shows the girls waiting in line, the other side shows them shooting). It doesn't sound like much but my heart was in my throat watching: the extreme closeups of the girls' faces as they draw and loose their bows convey an unbearable sense of tension. You never see the target, just the concentration of the archer.

Lots of other pieces. There's this huge rectangular wall hanging - I'm talking ten feet by twenty - that from afar looks like a painting of black-and-white television "snow". When you get close you realise it's made out of tiny folded strips of manga. :0 There's another one, three-dimensional diamond shapes entirely made out of (and it is sad that I can tell this at a glance) the glossy colour inserts in manga phonebooks folded into quarters. Not advertisement pages either. Ya fallu maganer toute une bibliothèque. I couldn't deal with it: I mean art is art is art but destroying colour inserts is where I draw the line. XD;

On Saturday Tania emailed at short notice to get me and Talal to go to this Quebec film, C.R.A.Z.Y., which turned out to be awesome. Basically it's bildungsroman of a boy (born in 1960 - about 50% of the film's budget must have been spent on getting the right musical referents, to the point where the second thing I did when I got home that night was drop Bowie's Changes One on the record player XD), his bond with his father and brothers (one of whom is a troubled addict), his struggle to come to terms with his sexuality, et cetera. What I liked about it was how nothing and no one was presented as black-and-white: the devoutly Catholic characters, for instance, were anything but unthinking and narrow-minded.

Dude, I have just realised there is a Milo Manara BD version of Pierre Louy's Aphrodite. THE PRON WILL BE MINE