An abbreviated setlist of sorts

For smurfmatic, but come one come all:

Soulwax - Another Excuse
Freeform Five - No More Conversations (Mylo Remix)
Soulwax - Miserable Girl
Vitalic - La Rock 01
Julien Delfaud, Alex Gopher & Etienne De Crécy - Fast Track
Digitalism - Zdarlight
Daft Punk - Technologic (Digitalism Voyage Remix)

I've begun to apprehend that Digitalism tracks don't really build because they think that's the DJ's job, or something, i.e. the first several minutes of "Zdarlight" aren't actually wasted. It's all about context. I never really got the Daft Punk track before (I think Ced always liked it) but "Tech-no-lo-gic, tech-no-lo-gic" at 4AM on the dancefloor becomes this transcendent thing as is accompanied by the first sustained synth sound one hears in fifteen minutes of bzzzt-squelch and cowbells. And then the guitar comes in and up up up until the bassline falls back down on one's head like a sandbag.

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1) Read TRC up to chapter 88, found raws for the rest. Started watching the Outo Arc in the anime and found it sort of boringly paced, as well as even more strikingly reminiscent of Kingdom Hearts. XD Has anyone else noticed how much the characters drink in TRC/'Holic? They're constantly getting trashed, it's amazing. Isn't this supposed to be a kids' series? XD Sometimes I've felt that North American censors would get a bit twitchy at scenes of sexuality or violence in the anime or manga I follow, but this is the first time I'm thinking it about (often underage) alcohol abuse. Sakura is so the party animal.

Of course, if I were constantly travelling between worlds I'd be sure to sample the local booze everywhere I go, but this isn't about Ford Prefect me.

2) Three Invitations to a Far Reading, by Joan Houlihan
via supacat. Reviewer blasts several post-structuralist poets, essentially for being hypertext magnet poetry. What's refreshing is that she's discussing rules of composition (i.e. why is hypertext magnet poetry hypertext magnet poetry?), not blanket-attacking currents of lit theory. In fact she seems to accept that this type of writing calls for an alternate cognitive/reading strategy (and provides the most concise breakdown I've yet encountered of what life text looks like on consciously-induced adult-ADHD internets!skim mode), she just doesn't think it's better. More precisely, she thinks it's crap. XD

3) Caught up to Bleach anime. The bright colours they picked for the various bankai make everything look vaguely dorky - and Byakuya's Senbonzakura is pink, which completely lays waste to my ability to ( cut the rest for ep. 60ish spoilers. )

4) Also, worldserpent posts her views on Bleach pairings. It's a synthesis of what we both think, really, was up til 4AM talking about it. XD ( Cut, again, because it got long. This part is RenRuki. )

( This part is IchiRuki. There iz CHARTS. )

Eh, I should just give up and write Byakuya/Renji and... and Aizen/Ulquiorra or something. :D;; Except that would hardly reduce the effort of analysis. (The only thing that would cut down on said effort is Ikkaku/Yumichika, because I reckon the 11th Division can't even spell analysis with the right number of y's.)

P.S. In 200 years Yachiru will be grown up and then she and Kenpachi would have to get married, like.