Collection of unrelated points

1) ARGH RIAA I'LL JUST GO BACK TO POSTING LOTS AND LOTS OF MP3S FOR DOWNLOAD NOW HUH

2) 100fandomhell: out of curiosity I tried counting the number of fandoms I've written in since April 2005, according to the stated rules (i.e. JoJo and SBR count as two, so do FFVII and FFVII:AC). It came up to 27, matching sub_divided's total. That's with the RPF, too... Academically, how would one count RPF anyway? Does all of bandom count as one?

3) Skimming through the discussion around Sherbourne's "minimal malaise" article in teh 'Fork, which I missed by about a month. Think I saw someone on ILM write "[...] the dance music equivalent of internet fan fiction". O RLY. XD Guess I'll just fire up Soundforge then... Seriously speaking, I don't have any conclusions - the world described here (and at Blissblog) is clearly the one I inhabit insofar as it pertains to dance music and coffee bars but I don't know how I feel about that. Obviously there is a level of discomfort or I wouldn't even be thinking about it, and I have been - thinking about it - for a long while, before it got summed up with useful k-punk neologisms. Like, I saw a review of Kompakt Total 9 the other day that described a sort of fourth-dimensional "nomadalgia", i.e. if this were 2020 and you were listening to Kompakt Total 21 it would still sound pretty much the same. But what if you like how it sounds? People don't complain about rock that sounds like it did twenty - oh wait, they do. Actually, a lot of the time I think people who angst about the lack of evolution in rock should chill out as no one complains if a new track is made to sound like Detroit techno or acid house. Except they do, apparently. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: PEOPLE JUST LOVE TO BITCH

Might try to address the world-is-flat global creative hegemony aspect in-fic, had the thing not grown to encompass about fifteen disparate points already, as usual. ^^; (Then again, maybe this is the point of the fic in the first place?? Id est, WTF ACTUALLY IS ARCADIA WHAT DOES IT TASTE LIKE. It wasn't supposed to be a dialectical process, but. This should have gone in carnet as is talking to self and I know very well it's incomprehensible. XD;)

4) I've been watching a lot of Olympics coverage, though I haven't posted about it. The fact that the opening ceremonies were on 08/08/08 meant that all over the world, millions of Chinese watched bits and bobs of it during downtimes while participating in a wedding party, just like I did. In the very reception hall there were two Chinese weddings taking place on three floors, and the groom of the other party was a guy who'd gone to CEGEP with us, so some of the people who had previous commitments turned out to be previously committed upstairs. They came down to say hi, rumour had it however that the upstairs wedding had no open bar. XD