We are perfect lovers / besides the fact / that we're not there
(Is it just me or are bits of this track in the Kompakt Kittens? ^^;;;)
I feel tremenjusly out of it. Staggered home (and I do mean literally staggered, with intervals of vomiting into subway trashcans) and slept brokenly from 8PM to 9AM. Now I'm bodily all right - I think - but everything seems a bit unreal, and I'm not sure if it's the lack of caffeine or the lack of food or the too much sleep or what. Like that spacey feeling one gets when feverish, only I'm not. Joints are itchy with lack of exercise, but muscles are sore from the spasmodic shivering last night (it was a loooong subway ride, and the saddest thing about it is the last time something analogous occurred is not even out of recent memory. But no substances of dubious legality involved this time i.e. step up, perhaps).
...fable and I have an on-off discussion re the recording of one's passage through space-time versus not doing so - linear past-present-future paradigm of existence versus pointillist in-the-moment paradigm of existence so to speak - ex. people who feel the urge to blog and/or photograph everything they do/see versus people who don't, and in fact may feel an aversion toward doing so. I said that if I could I'd record every moment of my existence, but this isn't true: I only want to record the fun and/or interesting bits, all the rest cannot slide into unmemoried obscurity fast enough for me. XD So fandom talk is fun, and horrible gastros are not fun but at least non-boring. For me the sufferer thereof anyway.
I said I'd make an entry about Nobunaga being a rock star in Mirage-verse. It's just... hard to start with the exposition after the punchline, though if you misspent some portion of your teenagerdom on Anne Rice novels you should really see it coming the moment Chiaki hears that SEEVA song come on Yuzuru's radio. XD I mean, since when does anyone hear anything on the radio in Mirage? It's not Murakami Haruki exactly.
Umm okay. Book 13 chapter 1. Yuzuru is now a university student living in a 1LDK in Tokyo, thanks to which he gets to see Takaya a few times every month, as Takaya basically lives a vagrant exorcist fallen through the gaps of society existence and never goes back to Matsumoto anymore (though Yuzuru's smart enough to suspect that Takaya only comes to see him because of the whole evil-seed-destroyer-of-universe thing - half-true I think - and is pained by it). The book begins with Takaya getting injured in a relatively minor scuffle, and Chiaki dragging him to Yuzuru's apartment in the middle of the night because they can't go back to the hotel with Takaya looking like he'd been run over by a Mack truck. So Takaya bleeds on Yuzuru's sheets, Chiaki bandages him up and carps at him like an old woman, Yuzuru makes coffee and carps at Chiaki like an old woman... I was inexplicably fond of this scene. I think it's because Yuzuru's more of a grown-up in it, insofar as college students are grown-ups. The series is past that high school occult adventure thing it had going at the beginning; all the other major characters are adults already.
Anyway, this song comes on the radio, Chiaki and Takaya decide it's kind of catchy, and Yuzuru takes the opening to invite Takaya to the concert at Yokohama Arena later that week, as he erm just happened to have a pair of tickets lying around. You don't get to hear about it again until Yuzuru actually attends the concert in the epilogue to book 14, upon which Mori Ranmaru scampers backstage giggling and is like "Dono, you would never believe who's a fan."
And then Nobunaga had this soliloquy about the primal energy of rock 'n' roll or some such but I'm on the floor in hysterics and not really paying attention. Oh, and he's a redhead. 'Cos, yanno, somebody hates me.
Takaya inevitably skips out on said concert due to exorcising Satomi clan blah de blah. Probably this is a good thing. I mean, I'm not sure what would've happened if he'd gone: how close do you have to be to pick up on a kanshousha spiritual signature, anyway? Yokohama's an effing big venue. XD;; In any case Nobunaga would never have let him live it down. There's nothing quite like being raped in your musical taste, like enjoying this indie rock track you downloaded only to find that it's a lost Nickelback demo. Only much worse than that.
Kuwabara-sensei apologized in the afterword in fact, that's how over the top it is. But ayatsujik and I discussed it and were like, why pretend to have shame when it's textually obvious that you have none? Why not just follow the idea to its natural conclusion and have, like, all the Oda generals moonlight as the backup band (Ranmaru on synths obv.)? ...Actually, the natural conclusion is that the Uesugi side should also pick up guitars and Yami Sengoku can be settled by a battle of the bands, placing us squarely back in Gravitation crossover and/or inappropriate hijacking of Gwen Stefani tunes territory. Not that some Japanese fan hasn't written this, I'm sure.
(I think I worry too much about what the music is supposed to sound like in these cases, when it's obvious it's just a signifier. The author is smart enough to let you connect the dots however it makes sense to you, but still one falls prey to the intentional fallacy. With Lestat I sort of assumed it would be this sort of heavy, gothy, industrial rock, like... I dunno, NIN or Tool. Or the Tea Party. Not that I would even have been able to name those bands in 1997. Much much much later I was like, "Wait, 1984? Industrial didn't exist in 1984! ......New wave?" Which, seriously, entailed a whole mental revision in how I read the books. Now I cannot figure out what was generally going on in j-rock in '94, apart from X-Japan. I mean my instinct is to say "visual-kei omg!" but all the properly visual-kei bands I can think of took off in '97 or so. Okay, I am lame, I admit it and move on. XD)
I feel tremenjusly out of it. Staggered home (and I do mean literally staggered, with intervals of vomiting into subway trashcans) and slept brokenly from 8PM to 9AM. Now I'm bodily all right - I think - but everything seems a bit unreal, and I'm not sure if it's the lack of caffeine or the lack of food or the too much sleep or what. Like that spacey feeling one gets when feverish, only I'm not. Joints are itchy with lack of exercise, but muscles are sore from the spasmodic shivering last night (it was a loooong subway ride, and the saddest thing about it is the last time something analogous occurred is not even out of recent memory. But no substances of dubious legality involved this time i.e. step up, perhaps).
...fable and I have an on-off discussion re the recording of one's passage through space-time versus not doing so - linear past-present-future paradigm of existence versus pointillist in-the-moment paradigm of existence so to speak - ex. people who feel the urge to blog and/or photograph everything they do/see versus people who don't, and in fact may feel an aversion toward doing so. I said that if I could I'd record every moment of my existence, but this isn't true: I only want to record the fun and/or interesting bits, all the rest cannot slide into unmemoried obscurity fast enough for me. XD So fandom talk is fun, and horrible gastros are not fun but at least non-boring. For me the sufferer thereof anyway.
I said I'd make an entry about Nobunaga being a rock star in Mirage-verse. It's just... hard to start with the exposition after the punchline, though if you misspent some portion of your teenagerdom on Anne Rice novels you should really see it coming the moment Chiaki hears that SEEVA song come on Yuzuru's radio. XD I mean, since when does anyone hear anything on the radio in Mirage? It's not Murakami Haruki exactly.
Umm okay. Book 13 chapter 1. Yuzuru is now a university student living in a 1LDK in Tokyo, thanks to which he gets to see Takaya a few times every month, as Takaya basically lives a vagrant exorcist fallen through the gaps of society existence and never goes back to Matsumoto anymore (though Yuzuru's smart enough to suspect that Takaya only comes to see him because of the whole evil-seed-destroyer-of-universe thing - half-true I think - and is pained by it). The book begins with Takaya getting injured in a relatively minor scuffle, and Chiaki dragging him to Yuzuru's apartment in the middle of the night because they can't go back to the hotel with Takaya looking like he'd been run over by a Mack truck. So Takaya bleeds on Yuzuru's sheets, Chiaki bandages him up and carps at him like an old woman, Yuzuru makes coffee and carps at Chiaki like an old woman... I was inexplicably fond of this scene. I think it's because Yuzuru's more of a grown-up in it, insofar as college students are grown-ups. The series is past that high school occult adventure thing it had going at the beginning; all the other major characters are adults already.
Anyway, this song comes on the radio, Chiaki and Takaya decide it's kind of catchy, and Yuzuru takes the opening to invite Takaya to the concert at Yokohama Arena later that week, as he erm just happened to have a pair of tickets lying around. You don't get to hear about it again until Yuzuru actually attends the concert in the epilogue to book 14, upon which Mori Ranmaru scampers backstage giggling and is like "Dono, you would never believe who's a fan."
And then Nobunaga had this soliloquy about the primal energy of rock 'n' roll or some such but I'm on the floor in hysterics and not really paying attention. Oh, and he's a redhead. 'Cos, yanno, somebody hates me.
Takaya inevitably skips out on said concert due to exorcising Satomi clan blah de blah. Probably this is a good thing. I mean, I'm not sure what would've happened if he'd gone: how close do you have to be to pick up on a kanshousha spiritual signature, anyway? Yokohama's an effing big venue. XD;; In any case Nobunaga would never have let him live it down. There's nothing quite like being raped in your musical taste, like enjoying this indie rock track you downloaded only to find that it's a lost Nickelback demo. Only much worse than that.
Kuwabara-sensei apologized in the afterword in fact, that's how over the top it is. But ayatsujik and I discussed it and were like, why pretend to have shame when it's textually obvious that you have none? Why not just follow the idea to its natural conclusion and have, like, all the Oda generals moonlight as the backup band (Ranmaru on synths obv.)? ...Actually, the natural conclusion is that the Uesugi side should also pick up guitars and Yami Sengoku can be settled by a battle of the bands, placing us squarely back in Gravitation crossover and/or inappropriate hijacking of Gwen Stefani tunes territory. Not that some Japanese fan hasn't written this, I'm sure.
(I think I worry too much about what the music is supposed to sound like in these cases, when it's obvious it's just a signifier. The author is smart enough to let you connect the dots however it makes sense to you, but still one falls prey to the intentional fallacy. With Lestat I sort of assumed it would be this sort of heavy, gothy, industrial rock, like... I dunno, NIN or Tool. Or the Tea Party. Not that I would even have been able to name those bands in 1997. Much much much later I was like, "Wait, 1984? Industrial didn't exist in 1984! ......New wave?" Which, seriously, entailed a whole mental revision in how I read the books. Now I cannot figure out what was generally going on in j-rock in '94, apart from X-Japan. I mean my instinct is to say "visual-kei omg!" but all the properly visual-kei bands I can think of took off in '97 or so. Okay, I am lame, I admit it and move on. XD)