Random effluvium, infinitum ad nauseum
typed for your pleasure on 7 June 2005, at 2.40 pmSdtrk: ‘Alsh’ by The focus group
Articles of negligible importance:
+ Take the ‘Mod or Fraud’ quiz! TAKE IT!!
I scored 12 right out of 17, which is actually a bit embarrassing
+ New Death in June rarities compilation due out this month, entitled ‘Abandon tracks!’ Funny, you’d think this sort of news would be announced on their website, but it’s not been updated since October of last year. :-\
+ My new favourite music label: Ghost box. They are virtually dripping with that esoteric audio-scientific Sixties British vibe that Broadcast so fervently cultivated in me. ‘Ghost Box is an independent music label for artists that find inspiration in library music albums, folklore, vintage electronics, and the school music room’, they say. O yeah
+ The Main Art Theatre in Royal oak is supposed to be premiering ‘Howl’s moving castle’ this Friday, I believe? Gotta round up the lads for that
+ In playing Otogi for the Xbollox, I noticed something very intriguing. It has what might well be called the best soundtrack for any videogame ever made. It’s like a Heian-era Cocteau twins headed by Brad Laner, if you can dig that shizzle. Lots of taiko drums, lots of shamisen, lots of loops, lots of creepy voices from out of nowhere. Unfortunately, it seems that a soundtrack Cd only exists in my fevered imagination, cos I can’t find one for the life of me. Grrr. And now I gotta buy the sequel??
+ new Japanese mook (one of those Engrish portmanteaus of Magazine + bOOK), called ‘My Doll Friend’, that deals with, well, Artificial companions. Obviously I have to procure a copy by hook or by crook, although fellow Japanese iDollator t-dash (of BACKxFORE fame) mentioned in a recent Email that ‘[On the Japanese Doll BBSes], they say that MOOK doesn’t have the contents which correspond with its price.‘ I remain undeterred!
+ No new Actroid news! Just give it a month or so
+ Finally, it’s supposed to be in the upper eighties outside all this week. Christ in shitty knickers. :-\ One of the things I neglected to mention in my 85 things list is that my ideal temperature is between 60 – 65° Fahrenheit. I can’t stand being out in anything above 75° or so for long periods of time. Sweating is really undignified, unless you’re having it off with someone, and even then I suggest air conditioning
‘Shouting to hear the echoes’. You can’t say you didn’t learn something
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June 7th, 2005 at 8.16 pm
I only scored a ten on the Mod or Fraud. But I did well on the furniture and bad on the clothes, which is because of my extra chromosome…yea, I blame the ‘Y’.
June 8th, 2005 at 8.17 am
Moooooooving castle.
June 9th, 2005 at 10.08 pm
8/16 “You just don’t care, do you?”
I thought they were all cool, but except for the car, I was just guessing.
June 9th, 2005 at 11.29 pm
Veach –
Actually, the clothes are where I failed the most, with the exception of No.7, cos that’s the delicious Peggy Moffitt. I mean, with those bangs of hers, you simply cannot mistake her for anyone else..
SafeT –
DO YOUR (SIXTIES) HOMEWORK!