String of updates

[petronia]

I've finished and uploaded the Yukikaze FST, but the server is having a blip at the moment and files are inaccessible by web (is also why the SSBB covers have disappeared - FTP works fine). Will post when it's up again. Karakura mixtape is next in line; now that I've shoved a few deadlines off my plate I may even be able to post the string of Bleach drabbles I've been accumulating.

Tiga's set last night was ace, I wish I remember more of it. XD No, that's not true, I remember as much as I need to, i.e. the list of songs with which I sang along, including tracks like "Zdarlight" to which there are no lyrics, and tracks like "Dare" where I bawled out the whole thing word-for-word at the top of my lungs without figuring out the name of said song, and in fact did not dredge it up until... thirty seconds ago. It was sort of nerdy.

Presets - Girl And The Sea (Cut Copy Remix) //started playing as we walked in XD
Robyn - Crash And Burn Girl (Jesper Dahlback Remix) * //the other track I could identify from the first DJ's set, of which we missed half and which was not terribly interesting otherwise

Einzeller - Schwarzfahrer (Digitalism Remix) *
Royksopp - What Else Is There? //remix, but not the TWD one
Tiga - Far From Home *
Robyn - Crash and Burn Girl (Cat5 Remix) * //ya, I didn't think this song was popular off ILX
Digitalism - Zdarlight //mashed up with something else
The Knife - Silent Shout (Williams Acidic Circuits Remix) *
Tiga - Hot In Herre *
Lindsay Lohan - Rumors //vocoded and booted over something else
Soulwax - Another Excuse
Depeche Mode - Suffer Well (Tiga Remix)
Soulwax - E Talking (Tiga's Disco Drama Remix) *
Gorillaz - Dare (Soulwax Remix) *
LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations (Tiga Remix) *

* to upload

There were other Tiga album tracks, obviously, but I'm not sure which ones they were. The album does sound a lot better in a club setting, not least because the vocals are dropped in the mix and vocoded into "texture". :P

Today I am of course cocooning (ohshi how am I going to make it through MUTEK deaaaath) and playing through the smorgasbord of music I downloaded yesterday, including 300MB worth of JoJo prog rock from jokersama and angrybabble. XD Last Sunday I went out with Erin and Tania and the three of us hit up the Saint-Catherine Lush store.

• Sweetie Pie shower jelly
• Ultimate Shine shampoo bar
• Irresistable Bliss shampoo bar (haven't tested this yet - only bought it because they give you a shampoo tin if you buy two. However it's being discontinued, so if you want to try it or stock up now's the time.)

Sweetie Pie: I am becoming a fan of the shower jellies, if only because they're the only Lush shower products with amusement value comparable to that of the bath ballistics (which are not really a viable prospect in summertime). They're not really that hard to use, the trick is to buy in 7$CAN, 100g chunks that fit well in one's hand. Sweetie Pie is dark translucent purple with coloured confetti on top, and the first description of the scent I had from Lush was "the inside of a jelly donut". It's a creamy, fruity, artificially sweet scent, but the artificiality is what's attractive about it - a sort of 80s childhood nostalgia value, like 5-fruit Lifesavers, or the Quik powder flavour of strawberry Pocky. It doesn't taste anything like real strawberries, but that's not the point. XD The scent is nearly as strong as Champagne Snow Showers, i.e. if you leave the container open it will perfume the room, but it doesn't lather up as much.

Ultimate Shine: bar is a yellowish "French vanilla" white, sprinkled through with gold sparkles. Scent is pleasantly herbal floral. Foam is copious, fine and slippery. Is supposed to increase shine but produces no noticeable change in texture or appearance (maybe my hair is shiny enough as is). All in all not one of Lush's freakier products. XD While it certainly cleans well I find that my hair gets dirty again faster, which is usually a sign that the shampoo isn't designed for my hair type. I'd recommend it to people whose hair isn't as thick or greasy as mine.

Next up: more on JoJo part 5 I guess? Also summaries of Yukikaze book 2, and reviews of other novels I have read lately (I don't know if I'll make a book list for the challenge though, since I don't naturally conceptualise my reading material that way XD).