Dessert and song
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petroniaEditorials warning against the noxious effects of heat and smog appear in newspapers just as the storm breaks overnight, and the temperature dips to a rainy 17C by morning, like a miniature of autumn following summer. The rain lasts all day, skirt-soaking gusts in the morning and prickling mist in the evening. It's cruelly pleasant - for some extraordinary reason my mother didn't rush to turn on the air conditioning as soon as room temperature broke 25C the way she usually does, and after four straight days of 30-plus weather even I was beginning to wilt a little. Yesterday was so humid I sweated my way into dehydration just walking around in the Old Port, and the idea of hot street food was intolerable. Today however I got a banana-custard-chocolate crepe at Ichipan. Ichipan is fabulous, especially the fake plastic crepes lining its display window in the manner of fake plastic sushi platters. Funny how Montreal is such a crepe-oriented city but it takes a Japanese chain to perfect the take-out option. Even beaver tails they just dump on a napkin for you and hope for the best, icing sugar and all... In a disheartening move, my beloved Maple Delights sandwich-cafe-and-gelateria reopened on Saint Paul just across the street from Ichipan, so now I'll be forced to choose every time where I want to spend my summer afternoon tea money. Either that or I'll be getting chicken curry crepe and crossing the street for a gelato cone, or something.
Other news: clearly I should not be allowed into Archambault with actual money in my pocket, as managed to drop 75$ on that Stereolab boxset and the Pet Shop Boys Back to Mine. (Granted, that comes out to a respectable 15$ per CD.) Now I have four whole Stereolab albums, which should be enough for anyone given that it's pleasantly summery mood music to be kept on loop in the background. As for the Back to Mine - dammit, I'd stuck so well to not buying these things too. If I'm not a fan of the artist I don't care, and if I am I tend to have half the tracks already, which if you think about it is not all that surprising. I didn't even get the New Order one, though arguably I should for the other 50% of the tracks I'm unlikely to come across anywhere else. XD;; However Neil Tennant broke me with his Scary Taste Nazi Chillout Mix. Forget already having tracks, the only names I recognized were Edvard Grieg, Dusty Springfield and Closer Musik. I had to buy it just to see what it was about. Though while eyeballing it in the cash register line I decided that it was mostly contemporary classical and minimal techno, and was actually right - apparently Neil Tennant also hearts the Kompakt Kittens.
Meanwhile Chris Lowe's mix is like LOL LOL ITALO DISCO GOSPEL QUEEN.
In short, this compilation is totally worth it. For me. It's so tailored to my taste I can't shake the creepy impression that I would've made these mix CDs eventually, given unlimited time and resources. Like, if you told me these were mixes I made in 2006 with songs I hadn't heard yet by mid-2005 (other than the three songs on LChris's I do have), I would totally believe it. ...Except I probably wouldn't, because when I pick music to post I tend to bypass genres like minimal techno and Italo disco under the assumption that few people would be interested. I mean, sure if I had the Pet Shop Boys on my flist, aha. _o_
(To be specific, in fact... I'm pretty sure I've talked about that ficverse in which Oshitari Yuushi and Takahashi Ryousuke intern at the Tokyo teaching hospital, right. LChris's mix is very much akin to my unfinished Oshitari DJ mix that I never got around to posting, and that is decidedly a "futureficpod" - the sort of stuff Oshitari plays in his car while cruising around town, incidentally setting Ryousuke's teeth subliminally on edge because it is exactly Keisuke's music slowed down by half HAR HAR HAR. Meanwhile Ryousuke would be comforted by TNeil's mix. I'm not sure what it all means, other than that the lights in my mental skyscraper are idiosyncratically wired.)
Other news: clearly I should not be allowed into Archambault with actual money in my pocket, as managed to drop 75$ on that Stereolab boxset and the Pet Shop Boys Back to Mine. (Granted, that comes out to a respectable 15$ per CD.) Now I have four whole Stereolab albums, which should be enough for anyone given that it's pleasantly summery mood music to be kept on loop in the background. As for the Back to Mine - dammit, I'd stuck so well to not buying these things too. If I'm not a fan of the artist I don't care, and if I am I tend to have half the tracks already, which if you think about it is not all that surprising. I didn't even get the New Order one, though arguably I should for the other 50% of the tracks I'm unlikely to come across anywhere else. XD;; However Neil Tennant broke me with his Scary Taste Nazi Chillout Mix. Forget already having tracks, the only names I recognized were Edvard Grieg, Dusty Springfield and Closer Musik. I had to buy it just to see what it was about. Though while eyeballing it in the cash register line I decided that it was mostly contemporary classical and minimal techno, and was actually right - apparently Neil Tennant also hearts the Kompakt Kittens.
Meanwhile Chris Lowe's mix is like LOL LOL ITALO DISCO GOSPEL QUEEN.
In short, this compilation is totally worth it. For me. It's so tailored to my taste I can't shake the creepy impression that I would've made these mix CDs eventually, given unlimited time and resources. Like, if you told me these were mixes I made in 2006 with songs I hadn't heard yet by mid-2005 (other than the three songs on LChris's I do have), I would totally believe it. ...Except I probably wouldn't, because when I pick music to post I tend to bypass genres like minimal techno and Italo disco under the assumption that few people would be interested. I mean, sure if I had the Pet Shop Boys on my flist, aha. _o_
(To be specific, in fact... I'm pretty sure I've talked about that ficverse in which Oshitari Yuushi and Takahashi Ryousuke intern at the Tokyo teaching hospital, right. LChris's mix is very much akin to my unfinished Oshitari DJ mix that I never got around to posting, and that is decidedly a "futureficpod" - the sort of stuff Oshitari plays in his car while cruising around town, incidentally setting Ryousuke's teeth subliminally on edge because it is exactly Keisuke's music slowed down by half HAR HAR HAR. Meanwhile Ryousuke would be comforted by TNeil's mix. I'm not sure what it all means, other than that the lights in my mental skyscraper are idiosyncratically wired.)
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Date: 2005-06-15 06:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-15 07:07 am (UTC)*snort* XD
Also, I'm going to be a n00b here but what on earth are crepes? Isn't it something like ice-cream..? Then why does it come in curry flavour? *confused* Not really sure I've ever seen them around in Europe. ^^;;
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Date: 2005-06-15 10:41 am (UTC)That said, Hong Kong has been wet since the weekend ended. It poured water from the skies, and actually is still pouring water from the skies, with temperatures still in the upper twenties (http://www.hko.gov.hk/contente.htm). Not unpleaseant at all, it's actually the first time this year that I experience so much rain in so little time. I thought that as Montreal built tunnels to evade the cold, HK's built covered pedestrian overpasses to perform the same role against the rain. I've yet to experience a typhoon, but I'm working on it (seriously - I just went to JAL's office, and I might be stuck here for longer than I thought).
I took the Star ferry in the middle of the storm, roundtrip, but unfortunately left my camera at home. It was nice, with reduced visibility and the boat gently rocking.
-C
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Date: 2005-06-15 12:03 pm (UTC)...So what car would Oshitari drive?
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Date: 2005-06-15 01:12 pm (UTC)Man, now I really miss the crepe place I used to go to in SF. So good. I could make a meal of their rosemary potatoes (which were a free side with everything that wasn't dessert) alone.
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Date: 2005-06-19 02:09 am (UTC)A little red CorvetteI don't really know, actually. Whatever it is, I'm not sure you could convince Ryousuke to ride in it. XDno subject
Date: 2005-06-19 02:10 am (UTC)Mastah of late comments~!
Date: 2005-06-19 02:14 am (UTC)*♥ at niche*
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Date: 2005-06-19 02:02 pm (UTC)As long as it's not what Ogata drives.That is one crossover I'd actually read. XDno subject
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