Time to lay off the ghei indie and spin some Spitz instead... wait

[petronia]

On a scale from 1 to 10, how much do I want to crawl out of bed at 6AM tomorrow morning to go see Darren Entwistle give a talk? ...Aki says I should blog more about what I'm doing at school but it's all stuff like this. XD; Today's speaker turned out to be sororial unit's former chamber music professor at the Conservatoire - he organizes the Montreal Chamber Music Festival that takes place in May.

Economics: 97
Statistics: 84.5
Accounting: 68 (this is exactly the class average btw - below 65 is a fail)

Anyhow when I was at school the first time I never blogged about it, I blogged about fandom. XD These days I write essays about music videos and compose perilously oeuvreblog-styled analyses of individual tracks in my head as I'm walking to the bus stop. Or I read interviews with bands, like normal people. XD

Interview #1: this *doesn't* sum up my issue with Final Fantasy-the-band, but it comes close (from here):

Patrick Wolf: I get to ask you a stupid question now. How would you describe your music?

Owen Pallett: Oh God. The easiest description would be that I'm taking everything I've liked about all the bands I've been in and doing that. I'm also taking everything I've hated about all the bands I've been in and doing the opposite.

Patrick Wolf: That's not really a description.

Owen Pallett: Well... I'd describe my music as being like the feeling you get when you meet your boyfriend's parents for the first time. And you're white and they're Asian. So you're really happy to be meeting the parents of the boy you love. But you're also on your best behaviour, you don't want to seem like a racist "white devil" or anything. So you're doing your best to not say anything insensitive or presumptuous. Then you realize that your caution is itself pretty presumptuous, and you're probably looking really distant and disinterested. So you're super happy, but also delicately trying to walk that line between being too comfortable and being too detached. That's how I'd best describe what I do.

Patrick Wolf: That's a good answer.

I looked up the (wanky, entertaining) ILM thread and assumed dude was a sock for the first 3-4 exchanges, because the winner of last year's effing Polaris wouldn't actually post on ILM in order to expound at length re how Cloud is gay for Sephiroth, right? RIGHT. ...Thing is, ever since I first heard Juno Reactor I've always sort of wanted there to be a band named Final Fantasy. This is totally not what I imagined, though it's probably no more than I deserve.

Interview #2: from the dep't of SUDDENLY IT ALL MAKES SENSE (from here):

NME: So the two of you first met at Bethnal Green tube in London's 'trendy' East End?

Kele Okereke: Actually, Patrick told me one night that we'd met when we were 12 or 13, at a Kenickie concert.

Patrick Wolf: We did, it was Kenickie at the LA2. I was still the same height that I am now. I was doing a fanzine at the time and I was their band mascot when I was 12. I was in two of their videos.

(Articles continues with NME asking hard-hitting questions re: Morrissey, emo boys, Lily Allen on the Hogwarts Express, etc.)

KENICKIE, rolling. Serendipitously a thread was bumped up ILM recently lamenting how Kenickie were being written out of British pop history but no, they have HIDDEN INFLUENCE. I guess I'm kind of charmed at this idea of recreating for Teh Kids what you yourself thought was awesomesauce when you were 12? XD I wasn't into music at that age but it's how I feel about certain books. Probably in a few years one of the severely underage fangirls on the PWolf LJ comm will start a band with her mates, and the cycle (of glitter) will begin anew.

Though the funniest bit is how Kele out of Bloc Party apparently had a glitter shota period too.

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While writing this I listened through Sazanami once! Will have to play it a few more times but sounds like it deserves that Oricon #1.

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[arboretum]

the winner of last year's effing Polaris wouldn't actually post on ILM in order to expound at length re how Cloud is gay for Sephiroth, right?

....... y-you're not kidding. *dead.*

[kuroraka.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of the time way, WAY back i was reading NME and Melody Maker (yes, they actaully were two seperate rival mags once, kids!:P) almost religiously. There was only one store that sold British music mags and they were obscenely expensive for poor student!me. Damn, i feel old now...

Anyhow, nice to see they are still doing those totally hip person A meets totally hip person B and they talk about totally hip stuff style articles.XD

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I think I've only read the NME through twice - by the time I was getting into music people were complaining it was going downhill. ^^; I must sadly admit I love hip person A + hip person B type interviews though. XDD They have the same appeal as... crossovers, I guess? Whether it be of the fanfic kind or the comic book superhero universe kind.

[kuroraka.livejournal.com]

I must sadly admit I love hip person A + hip person B type interviews though.

Oh, don't get me wrong, they are definitely more interesting than those boring 'what were you thinking when you wrote that song?' standard interviews...90% of the times at least!XD

They should do Patrick Wolf meeting Morrissey next, i'd be willing to pay for that!:P

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

bawling at owen pallett's answer. XD

[petronia.livejournal.com]

It is a pretty precise description of the music's affect. >_>

The second half of the ILM Final Fantasy thread is one long wank on the topic of Does Anybody Other Than Whiteboi Indieists Listen To This Stuff. Then Owen Pallett comes back and is like, "Yes, Asian nerds do - thanks for asking!" If he and Patrick Wolf played a double bill the resulting audience would have the exact same demographic spread as Livejournal, discounting perhaps the Russians. (And I'm not so sure the average Russian LJer isn't into Patrick Wolf.)

[marej.livejournal.com]

Accounting: 68 (this is exactly the class average btw - below 65 is a fail)

*weepz* SABINA! you're hurting meeeee, you doooo. ;)

my picture-disc 7" of punka is still a v v treasured possession

[cis.livejournal.com]

haha just last week i sat down a friend of mine and made her listen to all of kenickie's singles because she didn't know that lauren laverne (who now is a tv/radio presenter) had been in a band. "she wasn't just in a band," i said, "she was in kenickie!"

I am ridiculously jealous of patrick wolf and kele okereke for being able to go to their gigs when they were 12, my mum would never let me. Although I kind of loved urusei yatsura* more. FANZINES and PINK GLITTER and SONG ABOUT ELVES oh yeah.

(you ever hear of the one-hit wonder 'shampoo', big in the uk and japan in 1994/5? writers of the first manics fanzine ever!)


* urusei yatsura, who claimed to the nme that the reason they had to release their records in the us and japan under the name 'urusei' was that otherwise the yakuza would be after them. ps the nme totally swallowed it.

Re: my picture-disc 7" of punka is still a v v treasured possession

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I've heard of them (Shampoo)! I think I've even heard them, proper. XD I'm sure half of it off that Ginny mix you sent me.