1) So that was quite the snowstorm, even for Montreal! Thank goodness for telework. Let's all of us in affected areas take a moment to experience my favorite (no irony) thing about winter, namely the dazzling white ski-slope light that reflects off the city on a blue-skied day after a snowstorm. Pure brightness without heat. There's nothing ( Read more... )

* If you of the flist have a book in print and I haven't bought it... it's now because I forgot rather than because I'm broke. XD; Also, Jhegaala and Victory of Eagles. I'll get the Paarfi ones from the bookstore, they were there last I checked.

* The most recent volume of Steel Ball Run I own is #12 and #20 just came out. Also WTF is this and ( Read more... )

Due to one Renaud-Bray stocking the tankoubon I was missing (the French edition is up to vol.18). Actually, there's no gear shift in going from Libs fandom back to this: starts off as a story about sharing a flat with one's best friend, winds up in deepest frozen circle of Tabloid Hell. XD;; Whether that's an indictment of Yazawa Ai or reality ( Read more... )

A TRUE STORY: to make the mental jump from acoustic Pete Doherty bootlegs to Pretty.Odd.Punctuation.Strikes.Again. I had to go through Syd Barrett. In the process I discovered I find Ryan Ross's voice 1,000 times more tolerable than Brendon Urie's. What the hell, guys.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: so when are PATD going to cover "Waterloo Sunset"? Will ( Read more... )

sesame_seed's mix, because I ♥ her, although a) not what she expected to get, I don't think, and b) essentially strong-armed her into "betaing". XD;

NANA II: NOSTALGIA
volumes 9 to 15, including side stories - and at the rate Yazawa Ai's been going there'll be a part III =_=

01. Merril Bainbridge - Being Boring
02. Stars - Bitches In Tokyo
03. The Stills ( Read more... )

To distract me from the new chapters of Bleach and Viewfinder I just dled but can't read ( Read more... )

Text behind cuts contain various spoilers. XD

1) ( French manga griping: Nana 12 )

For wenlet, who asked for Nana fic. Thanks to my London hosts, apologies for appropriation of imagery. (There was also this Ciara video I caught at least five times on Belgian MTV during my holiday? And the Pet Shop Boys I keep threatening.

...I still need a decent rip of this song. ^^;)

( Honjou Ren in London, 469 words )

(Tagged by cis, whom I cannot believe I'm finally going to be meeting up with eeee)

Slowdive - Yesterday: fave band of the mome. From my usual ass-backwards perspective it's nice to be certain that there's more to the (langourous, fuzzy, hypnotic, you name it) sound Ulrich Schnauss was aiming for with that Rachel Goswell remix. This from an album ( Read more... )