Great techno concept albums, part 1,493,907 in a series

[petronia]

Dahlbäck & Dahlbäck - Sweden 1 Canada 0

"Who knows, but just maybe, one day Richie Hawtin will respond with a record where Wayne Gretzky, Paul Coffee and Mark Messier bring acid starved clubbers to their knees in a 303 induced frenzy!"

(Webcomic treatment: Turbo Records world hockey championships email pool. Cross-Atlantic trash talking ensues.

I would mention the new Dominik Eulberg album but it basically is a webcomic treatment.)

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PSA so this post isn't totally useless: I don't suppose anyone's finished their May SSBB story already? XD If you're more or less sitting on it at this point, send it in while I still have time to look at it properly.

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Wednesday evening (blizzard night) smurfmatic and I went to the Walt Disney exhibit at the MMFA. The purpose of the exhibition was to present Disney's artistic sources and inspirations as well as modern art deconstructing Disney iconography (though this last part felt somewhat tacked-on). That first crop of Disney designers and key animators were brilliant artists; I forgot Kay Nielsen worked on Fantasia, insert keyboard mash. I'm fairly well up on European art history, the golden age of illustration, etc. so I think I've always drawn the connections subconsciously, but it was fun to see the side-by-side comparisons, the German Expressionist cinema particularly. XD Also, Snow White's wicked stepmother was based on Joan Crawford! Someone should do a survey like this for Sesame Street.

(True fact I should've remembered to include in that meme: I've been to Disneyland once and Disneyworld twice, the second time was on a free ride from Mickey Hisself as my dad was giving a seminar on portrait painting to the team then working on Mulan. At that time it wasn't even green-lit, but I remember seeing the height comparison character sheets they had tacked to the corkboard.)

After we got out of the museum we went for the 20$ all-you-can-eat sushi buffet at Kanda. XD I think I'll go back to the MMFA next week for the Maurice Denis retrospective. (To do: plan trip, write for la_foule, wrap Senza Fine VIII and start IX, FILE TAXES. Saturday night is Junior Boys if I can swing admission, Sunday afternoon is Greek Easter at G's, Monday I'm taking my sister to the Maple Delights bistro-café and then we'll, like, go see Blades of Glory or something. XD)

Comments

[galerian-ash.livejournal.com]

I've somehow ended up with three half-finished stories for the May issue >_< I'm thinking of scrapping them all and starting over with something fresh, but eh.

Sounds like you have a lot of stuff planned! Have fun :)

[dipping_sauce]

Heh. I think I went through that many false starts for the Dec. issue.

[saturnoolaa.livejournal.com]

As a matter of fact, I have! But I still want some time to edit it myself. I'll send it in soon-ish, though.

[smurfmatic.livejournal.com]

Woaw, where can you download that shit? Amazingly, the Habs don't have a single Swede on their lineup, despite having any of the other, like, Top 10 hockey countries represented, including France, Switzerland, Belarus and even Kazakhstan!

[tochira.livejournal.com]

I apologize for the drive-by random, but--

ICON LOVE.