Hump day mixtape

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Top-down gauzy reverb sunburst eternal present... a couple of q. blurry guiding ideas behind this one: 1) Considering the speed and durability of eg. the International Shoegaze revival, it's weird that it took nearly another decade before people started making Paisley Underground records again; and 2) Why is it always California or Scotland? That does not compute, except it clearly is. I could probably have stuck a Glasvegas track in there in lieu of "Just Like Honey" - or removed that bit altogether, seeing as how Dum Dum Girls make pretty good Mazzy Star albums these days - but it is nice to hear something familiar come up in the rotation. By which I mean every Pains of Being Pure at Heart song ever. Girls is officially no longer chillwave, thank goodness. Honestly pleasantly surprised that the dude did not disappear down a drug-fuelled rabbit hole. On some subconscious level I expect ridic high Pitchfork scores for first albums to be cursed - but they're not.

Have I really posted a mixtape a month for three months? Madness.

Movie reviews link list + anime/manga/other stuff

Endhiran: contains dancing and robots.

Gantz: contains manga adaptation.

Blackthorn: contains Butch Cassidy.

Redline: contains Initial D + Five Star Stories mashup.

13 Assassins: contains samurai.

Vampire: contains a shitload of triggery content.

The Phantom of the Opera (1925): contains silent film acting.

What I've managed not to do thus far is review the actual horror films (not that they were all that horrifying XD;).

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Mawaru Penguindrum: I'm... halfway through episode 4? Certainly it looks gorgeous - the music is great, even. My mind isn't blown yet, but I can admit to having absolutely ZERO idea where the setup is headed. These days, that in itself is worth something.

xxxHolic 17-18: if CLAMP ended it right after this it must've been pretty abrupt. o_O Anyway I'd stopped reading just before the Important Shiz went down and only heard about the consequences, so I was unprepared for Watanuki swanning around in his gilded prison occasionally giving a heavy-lidded mysterious look over his kimono-clad shoulder. Like, seriously? The original settei wasn't moé enough, is that it?

Confused arousal aside, the resource shuffle came across as promising - for one, I like Kohane better than Himawari ahaha. It's cute how Doumeki and Watanuki subscribe to this thin fiction that they are not gay married.