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petronia1) Came back to huge pile of mail. XD Thanks for the CD, Thien - I think it may have been stopped at the border, so glad it arrived in one piece. ^^;; Thanks for the cards, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mbp and quixotic_sense and tsutanai!
2) The major revelation of the weekend may prove to be that 90s teenpop is back - back like 80s pop came back. BACK LIKE BACKSTREET. My brain's a flexible object but the sight of a hundred or so MBA students in their late twenties breaking into the Boys' dance from the video spontaneously and in unison has done something irreparable to it. That was the third and unscripted dance-off of the weekend. Unfortunately I was still relatively sober at the time, but that soon changed.
3) I apologize for, um, accidentally doing that to Bing. WILL TRY HARDER NEXT TIME. My strategy is to blame the whole deal on my sister, who has an illustrious history of inflicting me with RPS fandoms (that I usually get away with not mentioning on LJ); the really annoying thing here being that The Libertines are, in a nutshell, the Mirage of Blaze of bandslash. One can only wish that actual Mirage of Blaze had as much fic as this thing turned out to have, but I know exactly how deep (shallow) that pond is. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: there are fewer more distressing sights than that of the NME getting its yenta on.
4) I played the stuffing out of Up The Bracket over the past week, which really only has peripherally to do with item 3 and more to do with being in the passenger seat of cars more than usual, including the 12-hour round trip with a driver who will only listen to rock. Also, having to wake up at 6 in the morning. This interspersed with The Pipettes, like lime after tequila. All of which got piled on top of the mental essay on Beirut, hauntology, etc. until the structure began to totter on the brink of tl;dr collapse. The sort of thing that would happen to Suze all the time, then she would post, like, a gnomic one-line conclusion followed by "DISCUSS". EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Tommy february6 still wins the Derrida sweepstakes. DISCUSS.
5) Since no one showed any signs of scanning it for my benefit, I went ahead and bought the January issue of Jump SQ so I could read the new Kishibe Rohan side story. The first ten pages are possibly the most godly ten pages of manga I've ever translated - that is, I haven't yet, but I will. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Rohan is an awesome rock star, but the worst real estate investor of all time.
mbp and quixotic_sense and tsutanai!2) The major revelation of the weekend may prove to be that 90s teenpop is back - back like 80s pop came back. BACK LIKE BACKSTREET. My brain's a flexible object but the sight of a hundred or so MBA students in their late twenties breaking into the Boys' dance from the video spontaneously and in unison has done something irreparable to it. That was the third and unscripted dance-off of the weekend. Unfortunately I was still relatively sober at the time, but that soon changed.
3) I apologize for, um, accidentally doing that to Bing. WILL TRY HARDER NEXT TIME. My strategy is to blame the whole deal on my sister, who has an illustrious history of inflicting me with RPS fandoms (that I usually get away with not mentioning on LJ); the really annoying thing here being that The Libertines are, in a nutshell, the Mirage of Blaze of bandslash. One can only wish that actual Mirage of Blaze had as much fic as this thing turned out to have, but I know exactly how deep (shallow) that pond is. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: there are fewer more distressing sights than that of the NME getting its yenta on.
4) I played the stuffing out of Up The Bracket over the past week, which really only has peripherally to do with item 3 and more to do with being in the passenger seat of cars more than usual, including the 12-hour round trip with a driver who will only listen to rock. Also, having to wake up at 6 in the morning. This interspersed with The Pipettes, like lime after tequila. All of which got piled on top of the mental essay on Beirut, hauntology, etc. until the structure began to totter on the brink of tl;dr collapse. The sort of thing that would happen to Suze all the time, then she would post, like, a gnomic one-line conclusion followed by "DISCUSS". EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Tommy february6 still wins the Derrida sweepstakes. DISCUSS.
5) Since no one showed any signs of scanning it for my benefit, I went ahead and bought the January issue of Jump SQ so I could read the new Kishibe Rohan side story. The first ten pages are possibly the most godly ten pages of manga I've ever translated - that is, I haven't yet, but I will. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Rohan is an awesome rock star, but the worst real estate investor of all time.
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Date: 2008-01-08 03:25 pm (UTC)Okay, just fell of the couch laughing XD
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Date: 2008-01-08 10:28 pm (UTC)Honestly I would've been less surprised had Cathy jumped into this one not you, but I don't think I'd've sold Cathy on vids - interviews or write-ups or fic or something. The appeal is totally the trainwreck drama and public pining/makeout cycle. Actually I probably wouldn't've sold Cathy on Pete (I mean, you're likely seeing the same thing I am here, but XD). Not that Cathy isn't reading this post. HI LUV.
I AM STARING AT YOUR ICON IN FASCINATION. DID YOU DRAW IT?
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Date: 2008-01-09 05:11 am (UTC)I'm reading the JoJo part 4 novel too. It's a proper mock-leather-bound hardcover, B5-size. I've never seen a Japanese book in this format. XD
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