Yet more music dumping

[petronia]

mitethe kindly found me the Isolée and Superpitcher tracks I was asking for in the last entry. I have them now, so feel free to kill off the YSI links. :D

Isolée - My Hi-Matic
Superpitcher - Baby's on Fire
Superpitcher - Baby's on Fire (Westbam Remix)
Superpitcher - Baby's on Fire (Club Mix)

Is "Baby's on Fire" the most annoyingly earwormy thing Brian Eno's ever written? Feels like it to me. As soon as I hear "baby's on fye-ah, better throw her in the wal-tuh" it gets stuck in my head and refuses to leave for hours.

Last evening I found where Archambault hides its singles section. ("Hide" is the only way to describe it. Also - and I'm not usually one to complain about stuff like this but - it's 2005, you can stop calling that section "Acid Jazz/Trip Hop" any time now. Or at least not use it as a catch-all bin for everything that has synth noises but isn't fast enough to be in "Techno", from Amp Fiddler to Ladytron. Ah well I bet it hurts the clerks working there more than it hurts me.) So if anyone's curious, here's one of the Mayer mixes of Depeche Mode.

Depeche Mode - Precious (Michael Mayer Balearic Mix)

I'm sort of meh about it. ^^; Like it better than when I listened to it last night but it never seems to come together completely. Lukewarm on the Sasha remixes as well. Actually the one I like best by far is this:

Depeche Mode - Precious (Misc. Crunch Mix)

At first I said "What's a miscellaneous remix?" but then I realised Misc. is the name of the remixers. ^^; Discogs page, label profile. Of course this may just be because I'm into Cologne tech house at the moment, and they are guess what.

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Yesterday I indulged my inner ten-year-old and went to see the Chinese dinosaur fossil exhibit in the Old Port. It's only a five-minute walk from the office and I wish I'd gone during the summer, because the tent was unheated and yesterday was miserably cold, windy and wet. (The exhibition closes on October 31.) They had some lovely fossils, though, including a Crichtonsaurus and a flock of psittacosaurus, dinosaur egg shells and some beautifully preserved primitive birds. My favorite was the Confuciusornis sanctus (holy Confucius bird haha), the first known beaked bird. You can see the feather imprints on the stone quite clearly, and it's obvious their plumage was attached in the same way as modern birds. They don't have hollow bones, though, and they have claws on their wings. They're about the size of a small parrot. I want one~ T_T

Some of the panels were amusing, what with the dated art (1980s National Geographic meets Chinese textbooks) and the somewhat translation-garbled text. I wouldn't have wanted to be one of the high schoolers doing their Ecology class outing project. ^^; They had a TV showing that computer-generated dinosaur "nature programme," though. Always loved that. XD

Comments

[z107m.livejournal.com]

Chinese dinosaur fossil exhibit

That's pretty cool! It's a shame that Chinese dino excavation sites tend to get overlooked in general scholarship (for political reasons, no less), but they've got some really impressive stuff. (Older sis studied paleontology for a while.) I don't suppose they let you take pictures?

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I took pictures, actually, I'll post'em later if they come out all right (haven't had a chance to look). :)

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

Do you mean Dinosaur (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0080629/combined)? Or somethign more recent? I really like that one too.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

No it's... really a nature program, with the voiceover and everything. "A herd of bumblesaurus females approaches the riverbank, startling the dibblesaur from its prey." XD