A rare weekend music update

Actually I uploaded it all yesterday, I was just too tuckered out to write the entry. *g*

I was supposed to upload Ran Mix v2 for pere_chan (I hope you're feeling better?) but didn't get around to it for the longest time. ^^; Here it is: [download folder removed]

It'll be up for a week. Next week I'll be upping the Good Omens FST as someone asked for that. XD

Also, now that I'm no longer too embarrassed to explain properly: this is a mix for Alec out of Swordspoint. XD; It's actually more straightforward a character mix than the usual abstractions I call my "DJ mixes". Of course there is an element of transposition/translation so to speak - I thought, if I were really going to make a Swordspoint FST it certainly wouldn't be full of Vitalic and Goldfrapp and the Faint - but then again why not? As fabulous_papaya pointed out you could pretty much libretto Swordspoint entirely with the Faint, so there.

The Faint - Agenda Suicide
The Faint - Glass Danse
The Faint - Let The Poison Spill From Your Throat

Randomly selected from the Danse Macabre album. The music walks a knife's edge between new-new wave and electro; it's filter-y, claustrophobic, extremely danceable. The lyrics elevate the social anxiety of hedonism to high drama. One feels like one of those goth club girls or boys who judge everyone they see by how pretty they are compared to their own pretty self, you see it in their eyes.

The Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels): yesterday morning it snowed like Montreal was a glass globe someone had turned over and shaken during the night. I stepped outside and immediately felt like hearing this song, but it wasn't on my mp3 player... The Arcade Fire sound like Montreal the way BPAL sometimes makes perfumes that smell like paintings, or places in books - "How the heck do they do that?" You certainly don't have to be from Montreal to be affected, but it's a little like saying you don't have to have read Rg Veda or X to appreciate TRC: sure you feel it but not like I do.

Ulrich Schnauss - Suddenly The Trees Are Giving Way: this is almost too pretty (in concert he's way loud and sounds like the harmony of the celestial spheres). You have to be careful how you use it. Kanno Yoko's trick with the GitS soundtracks perhaps, imbuing a sterile and technofetishist world with emotion like rosy dawn washing over a concrete city.

Christmas mail

fantabulous, your card arrived. ^_^ ametatsu, your card and package idem - I am indeed having fun correlating the sketches with the characters. XD (Sometimes I feel visual artists always have one up on writers: words are just words but pictures are real.) Also, BPAL ♥!

Last night I opened all the imps in my room and sniffed each one, then picked the one I liked best to try. XD

( Venice. The review is long and gushing. )

While I'm here I'm going to make another pitch for Lush's Godiva shampoo bar, which is my new Favorite Thing Ever. It cleans just like Hybrid (the black licorice one), but according to the Lush cleric it has three conditioning ingredients to Hybrid's one, and it smells like JASMINE not licorice. Note that I capitalize. The website also lists ingredients like ylang ylang, cypress and gardenia, but essentially you have to be a jasmine fan. Leave it on a soap dish and you're hit in the face with WHOA JASMINE every time you open the bathroom door. If you have one of those little sieve things for catching hair before it falls down the drain, you find little white jasmine flowers in it after you shower. But it's not the in-your-face scent of the bar itself that's the thing of beauty, it's the scent it leaves in your hair afterward: light and maddening and as close as you can come in a Montreal winter to buying a jasmine flower bracelet from a street vendor.

...As beeblebabe said the Lush clerics seem insane but there's seriously something in the product that makes you want to sl0re. XD I've literally been fantasizing about pushing this stuff onto other people. Maybe I'll go on the Yamane Ayano comm and claim this is what Feilong uses on his hair. I'd believe it, I still laugh at Takaba's-friend-Kou's logic in that one - not "He's so pretty, is he a model?", but "He smells really nice, is he a model?"