I guess the meme goes like this?

[petronia]

From everywhere: tell me five things you associate with me and I will write about them!

(I have a huge backlog of stuff to review but this makes it easier as I'm supposed to be working on a presentation. XD;)

cis's list:

superpitcher vs michael mayer: I missed them! They DJed here about this time last year and I didn't find out about it until months afterward. =_= The weird thing about listening to these guys now is that mainstream pop's caught up with them - there are tracks on the most recent Britney and Lily Allen albums, I swear... but then they'd probably always thought of themselves as quite pop (Mayer) or indie (Spitcher). Not addressing the versus as I'm not sure what it means. XD;

what to take pictures of: as in, the Right Way? I can only remember that I'd once said the road to Flickr popularity was pretty girls or food. In actuality I don't take half as many photos as I should, and when I do I never upload. Ironically one of my due papers is a brand exercise on Kodak. ^^;

extraordinary redheads: tbh I'm not as much into redheads as I used to be! I don't know if this is a Jung thing or a zeitgeist thing - red hair was much more in fashion a few years ago, wasn't it, there may actually be fewer characters with it now. The other day I was telling T and Lo in the car how market research ascribes meaning to every variety of blonde extant (icy, ash, dirty, platinum, strawberry...) but all shades of ginger are lumped together under a single semiotic banner. It doesn't seem fair. XD

anglophilia (my thoughts): should I stick to music? ^_^; There's something to be said for tradition, basically - UK pop is navel-gazing in the same sense that Chinese poetry is navel-gazing, you wouldn't want everything to work that way but sometimes it's fun to buckle down and acquire a complex system for the sake of it. Actually this past year marks the first time I've made a concerted effort to join all the dots into a single enriched context, it was always piecemeal before.

Right now I'm hanging out on a douban "event", the intended functionality of which has been diverted as a public archive for current and/or vintage images of British ojisan (the sole filtering criteria, though 90s Britpop dominates the discourse in practice). It's one of those fandom artefacts that begin desultory and end legendary. There's something like 3,500-4,000 individual pictures; some were uploaded twice because making fun of them once wasn't enough. The photostream has shown me more than I want to have seen and - with the aid of Wikipedia - taught me more than I need to know. Yet no one seems capable of addressing the hard context questions, such as: why does Liam Gallagher dress like a five year old? Is Justine Frischmann actually the uber-seme? What do you call the opposite of a weeaboo? How come there's all this Japanese fanart of the Ed Banger dudes but none of the Kompakt dudes? Okay, wrong header for that one, but still.

confidence: is a strange thing. I recommend faking it. XD

Comments

[dipping_sauce]

Eating.
Music.
Verbosity.
Asian-ness.
Utter lack of timesense.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Okay this is v. broad list whereas the ones below are specific, I'll start with the specifics. XD

[cis.livejournal.com]

superpitcher versus michael mayer
what to take pictures of
extraordinary redheads
anglophilia: your thoughts
confidence

[cis.livejournal.com]

the versus was supposed to mean whatever you wanted it to mean! e.g.
- which would win in a fight?
- which is best?
- which topsuh something about supermayer, i dunno

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Oh uh! You know, I don't think I've ever considered any of that. XD; Or considered fleetingly and couldn't establish a preference. Possibly one of the reasons I like them and/or link them in my mind is that they seem very evenly matched. If one wrote them in a story the characterization would be all watercolour nuances.

I listen to Spitcher more, but I think this is because he's more prolific. (Or is he?)

[cis.livejournal.com]

you know the new footage of graham and damon doing 'this is a low' at the brits? i totally teared up. ambushed by unexpected sentimentality or what.

i think the characterisation's a little more than nuance: mayer's so mae-muki and spitcher's so sulky (i guess this is the pop/indie divide huh). Fairly sure Mayer was releasing records before Spitcher, and he's done more mix cds etc, but i think of them as quite balanced in terms of releases?

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Yeah yeah! I like the arrangement - that was a harmonium wasn't it? Sounds like a foghorn, which I guess suits the song. ♥

acchikochi and I were actually talking about the Maximum Emotional Effectiveness of the Blur reunion. XD; It's not calculated, I think, so much as partaking of a characteristic blitzkrieg flavour of technical excellence (rubs off on the fans (http://www.blurcast.tv/home), too)... I find I'm glad these guys ended up hippie pacifist indie musos, instead of something potentially more damaging to the general populace. XD;;

Mayer's had a longer career, but I think since I started paying attention to them Spitcher's released more individual tracks/remixes, or done so on a more regular basis? It's just the way these things cross my desk as it were. At a certain point it mostly became Supermayer anyway. XD;

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

1) Insane skills at pretty much everything ever

2) electronica (and also indie/fringe/hip music in general)

3) organization

4) Thoughts On [insert -ism here]

and last but not least...

5) GAY PORN

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

montreal
fashion
social networking
libertines
how's that music biz class going?

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

1. delicious musics
2. Montreal
3. bizness skool
4. that Larsa icon
5. Doctor Who (I, uh, do not actually associate this with you, but I want an update on your progress XD;)

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

Simultaneous comment FAIL. ^^; Think we should combine our lists into one list? There's 3/5 overlap!

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

I almost said "fashion" too! Okay, since we're so redundant I'm adding one:

XD

Because in my head Sabina actually owns this emoticon.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

5. The short version: 2005 season, episode 10. XD; (The hangup is more sororial unit's schedule than mine, but she's the only comrade in TV anglophilia I've got.) I'll blog about it with the rest of the media reviews, unless of course I skip straight to the FST.

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

Oh, so you're close to the finale. Eheh.

The FST...!

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Well, see, the music I'm listening to now is like LondonEnglandLondonLondonLondonEnglandhistoricalLondon. London. So. XD;;;

[corneredangel.livejournal.com]

1. FSS

2. "[in hentai], you're supposed to be looking at the girl."

3. B-school case studies turned on their heads.

4. This is only in my mind, but, actual mainland Chinese cinema

5. Montreal in winter.

[bladderwrack.livejournal.com]

1) ellipsis in communication
2) large amounts of arcane knowledge
3) ability to namecheck
4) precocious (sexually and otherwise) boys, appr. 11-13, poss 15
5) homoerotic mafia/triad/uhh-psychic-eurotrash-spy stories

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

yumiko & yuuta
fan(dom) mixes
cheese
meta analysis
japan

[uminohikari.livejournal.com]

I think it goes the other way...? Like, you're supposed to comment to other people to get the lists? IDK, I never do these

But you can arbitrarily add adjectives to redheads!

[cis.livejournal.com]

okay i just found myself on some of those j-fanart sites and-- seriously! why all swedish and british guitar plus maybe a synth kids, and no love for german techno dudes, japan fangirls? you are missing out. p.s., seriously, the horrors? (actually, having been to britpop clubs in tokyo-- okay, yeah, the horrors.)

also WOW i had totally forgotten the 'this site contains yaoi now jump through some hoops' school of web design, it's been so long.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

But the Horrors are easy to draw. XD (I'm seeing them in May I think... don't ask... don't know any of their songs...)

The problem w/ that is that the clue usually involves some incredibly nerdy fan idiom and/or stalker minutiae re the band in question, i.e. one feels even more full of FAIL for getting it right than not.

[cis.livejournal.com]

I am enjoying the received-logic-of-who-to-draw part. I was thinking "...but why the singer from feeder?" for quite a while before i remember that the bassist (not pictured) is Japanese; and after that it was all "oh of course patrick stump rather than pete wentz", "of course damon albarn is him out of getbackers and graham coxon inui", etc etc.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Well, Damon and Graham are sort of like the tsundere/yandere divide, but I dunno FOB well enough to know what the logic is behind teh Stump. XD Although if I investigated the art itself long enough I'd probably be able to guess.

[cis.livejournal.com]

the logic, i guess, involves making him blonder and more babyfaced, so that he becomes... Shuichi Shindou?

graham's yandere now?

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Ha! XD

Was... maybe? idk my top word association with G. Coxon is now "micro-outfitblogger"...

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

How come there's all this Japanese fanart of the Ed Banger dudes but none of the Kompakt dudes

Okay, I know I saw this somewhere. I distinctly remember the "o_o Kompakt!" reaction... *searches*

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha ok I await. XDD