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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2015-02-19 09:43 pm

Now get thee to the drowning

1. My poem "Antique Water Magic" has been accepted by inkscrawl. It's named after [livejournal.com profile] elisem's earrings and partly influenced by Denis Forkas' "The Triton's Mirror." Some of it is an insomnia poem.

2. So there is the thing where I know almost nothing about J-pop, so I have no idea if Kyary Pamyu Pamyu is representative of the genre or any particular style thereof. I picked up "Invader Invader" in 2013 as the closing track on a Pacific Rim fanmix that made good writing music; I didn't dislike it, but it didn't get any more play than the rest of the mix (Excision's "X Rated," Chicane's "Saltwater," the Genitorturers covering "I Touch Myself," and Combichrist's "This Shit Will Fuck You Up" being previous favorites, as a matter of fact) until the last twenty-four hours when all of a sudden it wouldn't get out of my head. I don't know if it would help if I understood Japanese or not. The melody is a bouncy chiptune earworm that effervesces along like Tigger, matched by an equally springy accompaniment of dissonant synth, hopscotching drum machine, and out-of-tune music box, at least until the dubstep breakdown. I haven't yet watched the video, but it is apparently something. Having listened to Nanda Collection (なんだこれくしょん, 2013) and Pikapika Fantajin (ピカピカふぁんたじん, 2014) on and off all day, about half her music sounds relentlessly upbeat to me and the other half sounds like it's pushing the concept of relentlessly upbeat until it breaks. (The cover of Nanda Collection shows the singer wide-eyed, blond-haired, buried in fuchsia and pink marabou with an enormous, toothy mouth painted across the entire lower half of her face; she is holding hands with a fluffy pink muppet whose face is nothing but mouth. It's pretty effectively augh.) I have no idea if I'm even approaching the art form correctly. It's catchy, though.

3. Courtesy of [livejournal.com profile] awhyzip: there's an Enigma machine in Natick. Road trip?

Query: What happens when your cornbread recipe calls for a cup of vegetable oil and all you have in the house is Greek olive oil? Answer: DELICIOUSNESS.
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[personal profile] yhlee 2015-02-21 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
I may try this if I can resupply for it (we're near out of milk, which we don't buy in quantity because I can't have much of it at a time--mild lactose intolerance--and Joe doesn't drink it for mysterious Joe reasons, which means that if I buy more than a little at a time it always goes bad before we're done with it). Thanks for the recipe link!