Randomosity

[petronia]

I did end up making a special trip to the Turbo Records stall on Sunday afternoon, 30-something degree weather and all. Life was saved by a cold cup of cinnamon rice milk from a Mexican eatery soda fountain. Seriously, that's like the best hot-weather drink ever, I have to figure out how to get hold of the stuff... The football fans were out in force, though, and there are no colours more beautiful under a dazzling overhead sun than those of Brazil. Kudos to the design sense of whoever came up with that flag. XD

Every year I go to the street fair on the Main with the idea that I'm going to get tops, and every year I buy sundresses and CDs instead. This time was no different.

10 full-length albums for 30$, no for reals:

* Turbo Studio Sessions vol.1
* Turbo Studio Sessions vol.2
* Turbo Studio Sessions vol.3 (2 x CD)
* Jori Hulkkonen - Helsinki Mix Sessions
* Jesper Dahlback - Stockholm Mix Sessions vol.2
* Kenny Glasgow - Toronto Mix Sessions
* Märtini Brös. - Pläy
* Fred Everything - Under The Sun
* Tiga & Zyntherius - Sunglasses At Night

With the result that I now have more electro than I know what to do with. The reason this stuff was getting cleared out, of course, is that it's all pretty old - most of the above is from '99-'00 - and the later sessions comprise a certain amount of Electroclash Shame. XD Doesn't mean it's not good though! Old Isolée mixes and Black Strobe and pre-pop-fame Scissor Sisters and JORI HULKKONEN. And, yanno, ethics dictate I really should own legal copies of "Needy Girl" and "Sunglasses At Night", even at 3$ a CD.

5$ sundress haul not as successful as last time around - bought a dark blue flowers on white background strappy number a size too small (so gave it to sororial unit), and a beige Suzy Shier button-up half a size too big. ^^; Rather, it fits well across the shoulders but seems to be designed for someone more pear-shaped than me. (Or maybe is supposed to go over pants; despite the conservative silhouette it's more revealing than the other one, since the buttons extend neither all the way up nor all the way down. XD;)

Also, I bought a pineapple, because it matched the Brazilian football fans they'd been baking in the sun and were perfectly ripe and delicious. Other things I ate at the street fair: grilled-chicken sandwich with piri-piri sauce and one of those pork-stuffed flour tortilla things I always forget the name of. And took family out to Korea House for Father's Day (they wanted Korean due to historical drama food pr0n), so basically it's been spicy food all week.

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EDIT - Brittle Lemon's essay on Fundamental: part 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | bonus commentary on "The Resurrectionist"

Linked so I don't have to write the essay I'm incubating (the album's a grower, actually - there's an immediate pop sheen that wears off fast, and then one has to rediscover the songs underneath), particularly w/r/t the discussion of sonics, "Fugitive" and "The Resurrectionist". I'd add that "The Sodom and Gomorrah Show" is a wholesale co-opt of enemy rhetoric, and thus Hi-NRG - you can't argue the PSB's reframing of the debate, by the time you bat off the disco sparklies the song is over. XD;

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Oh, and: http://www.petronia.net/fb.html

Requires latest version of Macromedia Flash Player. Seriously, I nearly had a heart attack because it wouldn't work in Firefox. ^^;

(Lacked inspiration so... ended up animating a household object. orz This is acceptable for handing in but I'm a day early, so I'll tweak it a bit more tonight, I think - widen the window, add some sound, make colours and fonts consistent - I'm addicted to the bubble font from SSBB #4 - put in a link to index.html. Should redo the fish movieclips so that the text doesn't flip but it would take approximately a bazillion years. Maybe I'll figure out how to make a scrollbar before the trial version runs out.

I have to say, don't try to learn this program without being adept at Photoshop, and optimally Illustrator and Dreamweaver as well. It will cause you pain. Or maybe I'm unusual in that the idea of using vector drawing to create things like masks inspires me with horror? Why is my design sense so vector-based when I hate vector drawing? ^^;)

Comments

[jantalaimon.livejournal.com]

ah, you mean horchata? yeah, it's brilliant in hot weather. :D if you go looking, don't try powdered mixes---they're usually grainy and awful. i haven't found a single one i like. there's a concentrated syrup you can buy in a jug that kind of looks like a less-sticky condensed milk in terms of texture. you mix it with water and chill and it's good, although it will need to be stirred or otherwise agitated before drinking if you let it sit in a pitcher in your fridge. i think that's why most restaurants have it in one of those constantly-mixing fountain beverage dispensers. XD

i dunno if there'd be a problem shipping you a jug of the syrup, but if there wouldn't be, it's plentiful here. i'd be happy to pick you up some; i actually need to get a new jug myself as mine's almost empty. XD

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's it! (I can never remember Mexican or South American foods for some reason. ^^;;)

I normally don't ask people to send me foodstuffs, because I have no idea what is allowed through customs and what isn't (well, I know meat and dairy products are verboten). But I'll look for the syrup for sure; thanks for telling me what it looks like on-the-shelf as it were. XD I've only ever seen the stuff in pitchers at restaurants.

[one-if-by-land.livejournal.com]

the fishbowl is so mesmorizing. XD

[subaru-san.livejournal.com]

Nice website. I love the fishbowl. ^_^

Btw, in terms of refreshing drinks in summer, the two drinks well-known to best quench thirst are lemonade and tomato (and maybe also vegetable) juice. Just a bit of advice if you like either or both drinks. ^_^

Cynthia

[pere-chan.livejournal.com]

Waaah, Flash fishbowl. Excellent :D