Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it

T's housewarming party was attended. Family dinner of turkey, pork roast, potatoes, ice cream log etc. was consumed. Cranberry sauce was a success. Shousetsu Bang*Bang issue 13 is up, in case you haven't noticed, and now the coding mistakes are hopefully all fixed. ^^; That marks my last deadline for, uh, about a week? There's stuff to do but I can procrastinate if I like. I feel... unsettled. XD;;

For once I don't even want to go out; I feel like holing up for a bit and reading manga or something. Still got a Vlad Taltos omnibus somewhere I haven't started on... I badly need to make another Amazon order but Wasim promised me a volume of Hagaren and now I have to wait for him to fly over to see which one he got. XD; Of course there's always SBR but I missed the download of chapter 32, kurses.

...What the heck, here're some random videos I saved on YTube

Since I don't really have any unfinished fic snippets to clear out this year or anything. XD; I think I'll continue doing this, though? And actually answer some comments.

( Patrick Wolf singing Tristan while dressed pretty much normally, for a Yuki Kaori manga (unlike the recent fin-de-tour concert which was the combined sartorial highlights of Bjork and Morrissey, and which apparently ended with him ritually faking his own death onstage. With blood). This is probably the best performance capture of this particular song extant, because it's hard to take decent video when there's like a thousand teenaged fangirls screaming and indiscriminately elbowing. )

( Final Fantasy covering Joanna Newsom's Peach Plum Pear. I may have learnt to rip audio from Youtube in order to rip this, don't judge ok. It is the sparkliest thing ever. In fact FF covers remind me of nothing so much as Tsuji Ayano's covers of Spitz and the like - and they're playable back to back. Cherry, peach, plum, ahahaha. Yeah, I'll stop. I just found out there's a properly released version of this that's out of print, which annoys me more than if there never were a properly released version in the first place. )

( While I'm at it, here's Final Fantasy covering the first four tracks of Orchestral Maneuvres in the Dark's Dazzle Ships. This is basically of no interest if you're not conversant with OMD, heathens - in fact the audience seemed to have no idea what was going on - but geebus, 'Telegraph' arranged for violins. Kill me now. )

( Debussy's Clair De Lune, visual sequencer version. Remember I keep talking about seeing techno as coloured bars? It 's pretty much like this. )

( Pete Doherty, as always looking like death warmed over, gives a stunningly lovely take of a stunningly lovely song (called Darksome Sea, for the record, and is essentially unavailable). This is apparently a clip from some documentary and does that thing the prevalent strain of RPS prose is designed to do and 35mm invariably does without trying. My basic tenet of music appreciation is that there's no such thing as a guilty pleasure, but I'm embarrassed to admit that I really love Pete Doherty's voice. XD; )

( A 50-minute documentary on Kanno Yoko, circa Turn A Gundam. Cutest genius composer ever, or cutest genius composer ever? You be the judge! )