Evening's "work"

[petronia]

Installed Painter 7 and played around a bit, which only served to remind me how awful I am at CG colouring. There's no cure for certain types of deficiencies but practice, and... well. >_> I was a fan artist before I was a fan writer, or indeed a writer period, or indeed in fandom - but only in pencil. And even a few years ago I had more patience for such things.

Also finally sat down and read the second half of PMK #3, in a spate of "oh hells the fan soundtrack is due". Not that it hasn't been done for a while, but I'm nigglingly dissatisfied with it. It's... a bit too short, for one (I'm one of those people who believe mixes should run to at least 78 minutes ^^;), and really mopey for two. The manga is truly funny, a lot of the time, but it's not so easy to switch musical ideas on a dime without jarring.

For three, it runs in large part off manga-only continuity. For four, when it's not riffing off the manga it's riffing off the unwritten fic of me and mine. For five, it's not pop enough. (The indie hipsters of my acquaintance will laugh at this affirmation when they see the tracklisting. But it's true. I can picture Random J. Fangirl not grokking the tracks because she's not "into that kind of music", which makes me meh.) For six - for a mix that's not pop enough, it sure has got lots of cheesy 80s soft-rock guitars. And so forth... Basically it's kicking my ass. Something like the PoT one - OOC character songcalls for shit and giggles - would be a lot more immediate, but I don't quite see my way to, what? Picking a song for each Shinsengumi Taichou? ^^;

The conclusion is that some series just take in different ways. I have abiding love for Hikaru no Go but if you asked me to come up with a FST for it I'd be stumped: it has no musical associations whatsoever. Whereas I've read seven tankoubon of Tenjou Tenge and could build you a tracklisting for it two CDs long. (Granted a lot of it is "RUN DMC AND PEACHES FOR FIGHT SCENE M00ZIK BOOYAKA", but that's really the point.)

P.S. If I go another day without posting something regarding these Hojo Akira dj of starlighter's, kick me kthx. x_x

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[canis-m.livejournal.com]

If it's any consolation, if I were to produce a Souji minimix at the moment, it would contain exactly two, no, three Chara tracks (one being a live version of one of the others), one L'arc~en~Ciel song (which is totally a big fat cheat as it's already been an ED theme for Kenshin), one Culture Club, and one Cheap Trick. With possible addition of Cyndi Lauper. So I'm quite sure yours cannot be as t00bish as this.

Is ungrokkage on the part of R.J. Fangirl such a concern? (Is there even such a person?) Er, I figger lots of the ponderous water imagery in my HakuSen mix will splosh on deaf ears--if indeed anybody downloads it, period--but eh, what can y'do?

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, Random J. Fangirl - you know, the one who only listens to anime theme songs, visual-kei and Hamasaki Ayumi? >_> Not that I'd rather make a mix out of those ingredients precisely, but I'm a come-one, come-all house party DJ at heart, and there's a way to pick pop tunes that brings everyone under the dorky-dance tent. For that matter Cyndi Lauper and Laruku will do it. The sort of thing I've got on this FST may not. It's not so much t00bish as Death By Wussy Indiemope. ^^;

FWIW, now when they sing about rivers in Jpop I always spare you a thought. XD

[serendip.livejournal.com]

There is nothing wrong with the wussy indie hipster. Just ask Priya. ^___^

Anyways, I am never going to volunteer to soundtrack a series ever again. I can't do it. If the series is longer than 5-8 tanks or whatever equivalent schtuff in tv series/anime/etc, I FREAK the fuck out. It's too long!!! Or rather, it's too long to shove onto a 78 minute soundtrack. I do 'ships really well, for some reason. I know you asked before, but I would say that soundtracks are like quasi-fic, or the aural equivalent of fic, so that may explain why soundtracking a series is a little beyond me.

That and I can't really do fluffy mahou-shoujo. It comes out sounding angsty. How much ANGST can I inject into CCS? XDXDXDXD Thus my parakiss ST is much better, but I shan't be posting that, cos someone else offered to ST it. XDXDXD

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Oh, there's nothing wrong with it per se. But instinct says there's something iffy about turning Peace Maker Kurogane into a platform for expounding upon wussy indie; it's pretty dark, but pretty wacky and fangirlish at times too.

No fluffy sparkly jpop? XD Well, I'd like to know what you'd put on the ParaKiss ST anyhow, sometime for comparison's sake. (I should've done one for Nana - why didn't this occur to me? - except I have pretty unjustifiable ideas re what the bands sound like in that series. XD;;)

[serendip.livejournal.com]

There is fluffy sparkly pop, but to have just a ST of fluffy sparkly pop isn't my style. I'm too obsessed with my irony and my "sly wit". So I sit here coming up with page long rationalisations of my song choice.

Me: tATu's cover of How Soon Is Now HAS to work for someone in CCS. Who? *rifles through memory of characters* There we go ^_^
Brain:..........*dribbles out of ears*

The Parakiss ST I came up with is fun <33333 I may post the track listing up on my lj locked and share the CD accordingly. It's a bit unfinished. 85%, need to shuffle tracks around. I'm not good with publishing my soundtracks, partially cos I don't want to share them with people who I think won't like them/appreciate my twisted 'tracking skills, or I want to revise them, as I always do. XDXD