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once thought of a dance/theatre duo "work"/ a couple are never allowed to see the other, so actions are performed as tho together but in a dance-like manner always managing to avoid being seen. This marvelous odd marginal idol duo video almost approaches. They act as if not quite human or now&then, their humanity is occasional. Then they play!
ototoi Friday
= (?) (never be too sure) :
"the Friday two days ago" is duo name: song title: "perhaps I am actually a skyfish" . . .?!??
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think "skyfish" were things captured by random
video, & thought to be UFOs, but turned out
was just birds in distance or little insects flying very fast making a
blur? I think HD camera solved the puzzle of "skyfish"?
maybe? & no I don't know why there are occasional floating panties. Otherwise it is entirely SFW I would say. Tho that maybe depends on your workplace.
//
this is "is there a possibility of romance between these two" (?) (never be too sure)approximately.
Hence the "duality" theme.
They are mostly separate except when singing. Again, my old idea of the couple who deliberately keep each other out of sight yet co-habit.
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I had this suspicion all along, and confirmed it yesterday, duo is "おとといフライデー” "the friday 2 days ago" & indeed March 11th 2011 (earthquake/tsunami) was a (very memorable friday) (in fact I can't remember anything about years i.e. 2010, 2009. 2011 has cleaved through my memory) And that would therefore be (the band name) representative of 13th March 2011 which I may be wrong but I am sure that is when the explosions at the nuclear reactors occurred . . . I watched live on TV, some kind of metal plate went far far up in the air, and later in tokyo in a school round the corner plutonium was found on some sports equipment (or tarpaulin covering said sport equipment) that had been outside for the duration of this "event"
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if this is not a coincidence (what other memorable fridays are a 11th March?) then this is further proof (for my little theory) that marginal idol-units and the break down of barriers between the pre-2011 underground and idol subculture was due to this agglomeration of events.
As to why exactly, that is a little harder to consider, but think, two natural disasters accompanied by a human-made(or "readied") one. That is a true EVENT.
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"OTOTOI friday" j-PoPPal Authority rebuild 1 (because i ((didn't)lost(lose) count of previous) (reference to eva rebuild films)(which is(not quite) correct, I think)
concerning translation prelude the 2nd the 2nd strata
--------------------------------↓ further down the strata ↓---
will I just have prelude after prelude before prelude as I try to articulate something or other . . . ?
Though I feel am on verge of saying something of reasonable significance.
Yet it may simply be the allergy medicine I have taken, it has done something to my head (brain) . . . appearance-wise, my head is unchanged.
Well I hope so . . .
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Writing as death = writing oneself into a disappearance = writing is a vanishing act!
& translation is a doubling-down of all this . . . there is the virus-vector to consider also -- invader-translation: (enters syringe-like into "host" language.)
/ thoughts on the importance of marginal-idol units of Tokyo keep intervening, as though there is some connection to make before I can proceed /
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writing as disappearance: from Blanchot "The Work and Death's Space"
" . . . it is vain to want to remain oneself above and beyond one's disappearance . . . vain and, moreover, the opposite of what one wants, which is not to subsist in the leisurely eternity of idols, but to change, to disappear in order to cooperate in the universal transformation: to act anonymously and not to be a pure, idle name."
/ idols ! / idle / an idyll / and doll, a lifeless semblance-to-life /
(see yurumerumo: id idol /keywords: "identity / "suicide" very here
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If I could first answer the question: why are Oyasumi Hologram so good? I may get closer to managing to say what I have to say re: translation &c (and they are "so good" -- I will fight whoever disagrees.)
So, if for example, someone solves the riddle of the recent-ish song "MOTHER" -- why the Japanese lyrics are not the lyrics sung - the lyrics sung are in English and do not relate to the Japanese lyrics, though the Japanese lyrics do relate to the video itself . . ? (&,watching the video and listening the song and reading the lyrics almost become three separate things, or like a muttering "other" -- it is an odd sensation)
(it is uncanny)
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(another) end for now / /
un-ring bell colour / unconsidered preface to translation-thoughts to come (soon~ish)
／・ ・ ・ ・
Finnegans Wake pg 566
" . . . and for wouldbe joybells to ring sadly ringless hands." . . .
I think I wrote in 4th novella (as yet, highly unavailable!) something like "un-rung bell colour"
then this shows up in the above-mentioned //
& I have been making an "effort" to integrate hints of marginal-idol units into my novellas (as well as of late, or maybe since long ago, I can't remember: The Fall lyrics)
for example, novella number 5 has "perfect area all complete" which is halfly from a song by an actual idol,not a marginal idol unit. Do I contradict myself? Yes, &c //
was reminded of video games in the above near idol song quote/borrowing. "no-miss clear" / in my earlier years I used to think "no-miss" meant you did not miss killing enemy, but it means you avoided yourself being killed, by enemy . it is mostly impossible to kill all enemies.
Anyway, can someone with synethesia chime (!oops) in and say what an un-rung bell colour is/ I am thinking: blueish-grey/ similar to some bird's egg (heron?) though not speckled . . . is synestesia a universal thing, or on an per-individual thing. So is it not mere imagination at unconscious (before deciding to imagine) layer?
Anyway, this is 伝説ライブ (legendary live / legendary concert -- in order for it to be "legendary" I must not have been in attendance")
Early Bellring 少女 Hearts :
bellring now (once briefly renamed "HELLRING" why I don't know) now named There There There's / and currently back to mostly core members minus Tira-san, because she is from Taiwan, I think management didn't realise about visa issues /
They / TTT/BELLRING have many "end-songs"
In fact they could likely now perform a concert entirely comrpised of "end-songs"
I attempt a list: (there are too many options via youtube, simply search if you so wish, Bellring + name of song) (plus any high-quality vast entire live concerts, sometimes 3 hours long, we went to one such 3 hour, it seemed like a flash of nightward speed and happiness)
- Edge of GOODBYE (↑-end of above- ↑)
- Candy(?)
- Rainy Dance/ Starlight Sorrow (?)
- the legend-in-itself ASTHMA
- CHAPPY
- (nowish) PELICAN (my current favourite)
in fact they started a concert with what was at the time the current "end-song", ASTHMA. Shock!
- are they becoming a life-work? Also, what genre is the music, really? I say unique HEART of BELLRING / rung in the rain perhaps, or a crow alighting on it, or un-rung and that colour is the genre.
this as unconnected preface,impregnable pointless preface to what is to be/ is written, regarding translation / layer / viral translation layer / strata &c's
---- (this is strata-style, everything has taken on strata-style, I did not mean to...)
In the Sun-Dry zero exposition of null-form & subject
. . . because I am waiting for postman which makes me nervous, not as nervous as waiting for surgery I guess but still. And there are hours to go (a scheduled delivery) (of a wife-clothing)
. . . ((( AH! note, for every aggreived which is not a word apparently no matter how much I try(re-arranging letters, that's called spelling right? maybe "disheartened" will do as replacement. There was another word but it is gone from my head. Many things leave my head . . .) ))) . . .
wife-woman aggrieved recently by some things, examples:
1/ she noted "in the west" or its internet equivalent, the substitution of "holiday/ holiday-season" for "christmas" -- main reason for agrievment over this, its sort of pointlessness. It is hard to think of what the point is, 2000-plus years too late sort of, after the christian ravishing of pagan sacred sites and events &c . . . Jack Spicer "a substitute as christ was a substitute" or something, I can't remember, metaphor, passing a-"cross". Anyway . . .
2/She is learning french; when I mentioned something, now I can't remember, Algeria maybe, or you know, colonisation in general, she had a moment of aggrievement. or about decapitated Antoninette &c. I have not seen the film. For some reason I thought Scarlet-thingy was in it, but it is spider-man's girlfriend, and I saw a trailer, featuring spider-man's girlfriend, in blue tinged lace stockings, so there need be no more deliberation over seeing this film. The matter is settled and it will be seen. Simple, really. Let them eat cake. There was a J-poppal blog-post, kanpera no suiyobi, what is a kanpera, I always forget. suiyobi is wednesday, a well-balanced day of the week. Why is it specifically a wednesday, this kanpera thing. If I look it up, will I know. It is impossible to know prior to looking up the word "kanpera" -- to be honest, I don't imagine this matter will be easily settled.
Know I remember the other french thing, that caused aggrievement, I mentioned the little bird, the people put a cloth over their head and suck the cheeks from the little bird. That rattled her somewhat.
And then we are going to watch the Battle of Algiers film for further rattling.
. . .
earlier much earlier long long ago blog posts featuring the music I mentioned:
1/ later
2/ earlier
look, I said I prefer shibuya to shinjuku. that was before 3 police-people surrounded me in shibuya. I don't like either of those places now.
-- oh, it is is "wednesday" no kanpera.... I got the order wrong, this doesn't make the matter any clearer.
-- Oh, today is wednesday, also. Wow, as the anorexic blonde girl from english tv series "skins" would day.
---- end of pointless blogpost. now I wait at least 4 hours. I will drink. And squirm in fear.
------ I don't know how to spell "aggrievement" or if it is even a word or whatever. . .
Truffle-Geiger, further adventures of, + all else.
The "Truffle-Geiger" trooped around the place in search of something (lost time) or just excercising I don't know. It showed much interest in the bottle of whiskey (cheap stuff, mainly for hot toddy, this season full of sniffles) -- I upturned a medicine cap and put an antennae-sized drop. It trooped around the cap from all aides and probed with antennaes speculatively and then seemed whoozy and half on its side, antennae weaving as in a dream. Then a dice had inadvertently become immersed in some spilled stout; I placed this dice and it came of its sleepy dream and again speculated with antennae. Then began striding around atop a translation-in-progress print-out. I feel we shared a little moment, and if we never meet again, we will recall of each the other with good happy regard and tears will stream.
That was a bit of life then. . .
-- all else uneventful, all else uneventful,all else uneventful . . .
(saying things three time and them become a kind of spell) --
I have ceased striving, if I ever did (strove, I mean). I may have strided once or twice. I straddled a wall once or twice, to climb over it. Otherwise no. September 17 2016, it was written on a memo on the wall (not any wall I straddled, there is a ceiling &c) (a home all) "(my name) ceased to strive, sept 17, 2016 -- Consider it a gesture, political, against the tories, if you want. It seems to be working, they are crumbling apart. If I had said it three time (ceasing to strive x3) it may have had a quicker effect, but you must be careful with spells.
In times of this un-event let us wither in peace and quiet.
Whiskey means "water of life" in Irish. If the manga "the five star stories" was translated into Irish would the "water of life" related to the dragons be translated as "whiskey"? Or would that confuse things?
I found in my notebook something I had written, at myself, in red pen, a few pages, directives on translation. I don't remember writing this. probably translation shouldn't have too many directives. Do what works well. Whether it is complicated, or simple. Don't mind that things may seem impossible.
So there is a sort of striving going on.
But anti-government.
"Truffle-Geiger" is most probably not filled with resentment, xenophobia, idiotic rage, unthinking cynicism. (I am trying to finish this blog-post by referring to its beginning)
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I will "switch-a" like The Fall in for example (there are others) "the man whose head expanded"
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Currently this seems the peak of music. 3776.
It has the same power as fushitsusha investigating some minute aspect, a studying of possibilities, like something from the purple london live double cd, for example.
There is a peak carefully reached then a continuation that doesn't peak but reminds you of the origin. Alluvial.
I don't know why this is occurring at this time. I'll talk more about this in blog post studying "cuteness", part two, I will leave here a placeholder l__._|_.__]. Part one is here. Though I was mainly talking about the floor being slippy. There is a The Fall song about that. It must be there is a The Fall song about anything / everything . . .
may our blogs aspire to such.
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suddenly, "Truffle-Geiger" has re-appeared. I was expecting in the evening maybe, if lucky. So I am luckier than I would have been?
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bye bye 少女閣下のインターナショナル
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| -- collated material. the Go Seigen white and black fuseki books illustrate the black&white costume(with intermittent grey) of the group, their ending I here lament -- |
bye bye shoujyo international . . .
"beauty is so rare a thing . . . " Spicer paraphrases(?) Pound "So few drink at its fountain . . ."
In just two years or something the marginal-idol unit shoujyo kakka no international released a "one coin"(500en) single, a 4-track EP, a "first & last single" (so what was the previous one?) and a full 15-track (though tracks 1+15 are sort of short) album, then a last "one-man" live, (a friday ago) (one-man=no support act, I used to think meant just one person from a band would be appearing. . . and there is no "one-woman" . . . my advice, don't worry about these things, live & learn.
少女閣下のインターナショナル = well, the email of management said "his excellencies international young girls`&c" I think but I tend to prefer to think of "her majesties", and maybe I prefer to think of "setsuko hara" the reclusive once film star of Ozu films, and them being ghost emissaries of her spirit. This fits the filmic content/imagery of the music, that references Plan 9 from Outer Space/ Hitchcock / &, erm, Kevin Bacon (?), and kaiju films also.... essentially a chaotic paradigm, the music would involve maverick transitions, people talking over people singing, sudden outbursts, "that cover" (smell like teen . . . ) walking into walls repeatedly, maybe a reference to that old silent japanese film "pages of madness", asylum-like clothing co-ordination, all combined by some miraculous oversee-ing structure that parodied a shambles. To reference two other marginal-idol units, somewhere between BELLRING and escalator or elevator.
I don't want to see their like again, I want to see THEM again (another filmic reference, in fact) (film about giant ants)
少女閣下のインターナショナル was so rare a thing, approx 300 people drank at their fountain at their last live. (or drank cocktails named after songs, each drink accompanied by a poloroid (chaki)(what is origin of this word?)(it is name of the camera, a mini-dinky-little thing, the photo is taken with)
I am quite moved and don't know what to do with myself for a while now.
j-poppal authority 007(?)+1 first attempt to sum up a year part one
yurumerumo suicide EP
I shalln't name each song. Why not. I demand: Why?
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a prior statement/hypothesis, all idol-units, however marginal, come to cohere at stages in the song, usually the end, plus the chorus, but sometimes the chorence, I mean it comes and goes, a weaving is going on in each idol-unit song.
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1st song and it's video discussed was it here: http://malale.blogspot.jp/2015/04/hasten-jpopal-authority-001.html it has become familiar to me now. I miss the utter un-knowing that persisted for quite a while. I hope you enjoyed a similar feeling for a period, or was it just me?
2nd song , the most "idol" , with coherence to start with then some electronica subverts but subsequently itself subverts with most typical (on this EP) idol melody, for a while. Then also it sort of goes out of tune only to regain coherence picking up the dual-subversions in the meantime. and is now almost my favourite, its dislocations thus allowing it subsequently to do what the hell it wants.// drum&bass, school-bell (school opening melody)(or is it lesson change signifier), then the coherence which is at same time a de-coherence cohered as though E Pound's the Cantos where finished and cleared of fascist thought. Wow, that's a second song on a little EP of a marginal (at the time) idol unit!
3rd song . . . immediate electro melodic verse, then feel the chorus strenghtens only to drift off then srenghten again, until maybe the real chorus, like a statement (are all chroruses statements?) no sometimes just there for sake of having a chorus, in music etc, I like this disruptive, "chorus"-or-not, I like when there is no chorus, or it's only at the very end.
A call and response something transmute to an end with applause installed.
4th song . . . choral lines and harpischord somewhat then electric bass pulse ctaherdal-interior-somewhat,
more of a solo piece, for the beginning at least, then . . .
builds up with muted drum machine papapapapa// like a slight patter-glitch(it is slow like cathedral is slow to build) and the other members enter, ta ta ta and chordal slow melodies, naturally we expect a build up from beginning, that begins nice and late, and the variety of voice-tone is nicely collaged (like a stained glass window shimmering with fickle autumn light!) and it has a great finality to it. The cathedral is built. Attend it.
Escalator or Elevator - Entrance Ep
--(I don't either, know the difference)
this is a duo collobaration between a member of yurumerumo and bellring, both marginal for the moment idol units.
there is a (non-flinch-worthy) rap aspect to the beginning of the first song, then it coalesce to a reasonably normal chorus, though with a perfect sort of nonchalance only likes of "the fall" could pull off. Or a nirvana without heroin and they are girls around 20 and cuteness but also a sort of stubbornness are praiseworthy traits.
the other song (there are only two) has a wonderful broken off-tune vocal of one, then replaced by the other, until they form a chorus supplemented with electric synth, and "yabe~~", which has become a catchphrase in this household . . . this is like if you were 16 and had access to depas and some drink and the world looked like is about to blind you / a sort of Elaine Radigue piece compressed to 4 minutes of girls singing and strange sounds and they sing like they care then don't then do again. Like playground frolic during this anthropocene.
These are all treasures of the last year just passed, musically speaking.
(more to come, not all J-poppal)
j-poppal authority circa 006 recent ゆるめるモ
「id アイドル」
implications: to become an idol, is to take on an identity and suicide yourself (death by producer, the own clothes group-fun (shopping) mid-section, then the resurrection (in idol uniform(=uni-form, un-self i.d.) (then death again, it is implied) (what if there is nothing but bardo between bardo?) (and to become an idol one must be aware one day one shall not be an idol, a limited period identity only)
mirrors: marginal (地下） idol development over past few years (I want to argue 11th March 2011 as the trigger(this argument will be developed in a later post, I promise) BiS = idol is dead, now resurrected by yurumerumo (who are possibly soon to be not 地下, they are moving above ground (地上アイドル！）
what comes next, I don't know . . .
Mr Beckett first(?) mentions white, and, "schimmel"
I found in Beckett's "from an abandonded work"(1956) what may be his first declaration re: his propensity for white, which we shall see later in works like ping, lessness etc
plus, I received confirmation of meaning of schimmel from an actual german person. Interestingly, the origin derives from the word for "mould" as in the whiteish stuff grows on decaying things,
and I was reminded at the same time halllejuhah of a j-pop video that seemed to express the same thing - she paints the world white. It is not the full video, in case you don't like it. It is the voice actress of Madoka from you know . . . .
so first the quote]
next the video:
j-poppal authority 005 -- nightnight hologram! "tab song"
beautifully filmed in black and white, here is oyasumi hologram, they are becoming famous soon I think, the fans have started saying oyahora / / I want them to become famous but at the same time that means they won't be in this atmospheric crowd-proximity with the attitude, look at the middle finger the long haired girl gives to the audience near the start! and the audience-fan rhythmic yelling nr the end after that merzbow-like accumulation and it is like everyone is reaching for a ceiling higher than any actual ceiling
/ plus then the sudden break into laughter and light-heartedness of it all &c
I better go to a performance before it's too late . . . (previous discussion(?) I self-discussed I suppose -- here j-poppal-authority-003
j-poppal authority extra edition attendant to edition #004
if you liked this, http://malale.blogspot.jp/2015/06/j-popal-authority-004.html you may like this, the first song is good, the 2nd marie antoniette, then she speaks maybe too much. it is no-one's birthday that day of the live, but was someone's two days before, and two days from that date (of the live), so the live occurs in between directly two people's birthdays like a vortex monolith of sorts, strange attractor ... I thought .. talk till 15 minute point, the further musics I know the names not of です・
Also me like general enthusiasm plus the writing of the marie antoniette thing and the mis-timing of audience fan enthusisasm etc. I am enthusasistic re; the fan spiit &c..
self-debate as to worth of new yurumerumo song, j-poppal authority # x
i am "warming" to the new ゆるめるモ song, after worrying a bit about their chosen trajectory. or is it just because they are in school uniforms?
or that "my favourite one" (the leader I assume) had dyed her hair somewhat reddish? no brownish only, and it suits. (the one in the red skirt, maybe to signal her seniority)
and that in the end they enter a rocket and appear to be escaping a meteor shower that is to end the world?
perhaps a combination of all/// oh! and they enter a shop with no lights on and stock up, for end of the world, that is a reason to like it . . . also, their building a rocket, is a bit like at the end of film "melancholia", but with a happier result (a marginal idol unit is now in space, the survival of humanity is guaranteed at least for a little while) (anyway, note continuation of the "journeying to space" imagery/concept) (this -- continuity -- must be worth something)
it sounds better loud actually. and the one w. blonde hair has dyed her end bits pink, and has white hair ribbons. Where can you buy hair ribbons, by the way, I have always wanted to know . . . ?
and we are reminded of "setsuden", when after the nuclear meltdowns, the convenience stores lowered their lighting. It was nice.
(an edit from future september: I have decided I can't not like this song/video, it is too lovely, I am sure yurumerumo are relieved by this decision)
oh, and somehow me of reminded (their being in abandoned shop perhaps) this magnificent double-spread scene from manga "I am a Hero" where the "hero" main character enters a convenience store post-panic and muses he must be the last manga author alive (spoiler: turns out he isn't!)
from "I am a Hero" vol. 6 // (excuse my ((dirty)) thumb)
final decision: I like it as video as it is sort of all beautiful in a cute-girlz way, but if on cd I would likely skip this song. Lacks the "ga--" drive of previous stuff for example: http://malale.blogspot.jp/2015/04/hasten-jpopal-authority-001.html
I got a good review I got a good review, oh no, (variant on half man half biscuit)
beautifullviewreview of new genre #7 at here http://suptales.blogspot.jp/2015/08/new-genre-issue-seven.html
I don't think anyone had actually read my little works properly until now, maybe. (tho I had inkling, with WPWS, this is the one that would reach across the divide, and find the people, I think I thought that -- my idea of "pure" "sf" for our current era)
I remember waking up one day, thinking I'm gonna do something nasty-appalling, and the Rotund Chums were instigated, in notes at least.
the poor bastards. "trying to get to hell in a hurry" = JS
anyway, for those innarested(troubled people you must be), there is horrid horrid surgical "proceduce", the details as wikipedia has them: ・・/ in the actual fact, I can no longer locate the link, I think you are all better off for that. // UPDATE; i found the link, note, it is not happy reading, maybe do not undertake this surgical procedure but anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemicorporectomy
but be careful out there . . .
I tried to purchase "supernatural tales" utilising my mother, some yrs back, could she send a cheque etc, but it didn't work, because I have to ask my mother at least twice to do anything, and even then . . . it is not that she is in dotage or otherwise incompetent, mentally, medically, you know, just I suppose she is my mother. She means well. There is no mother in WPWS far as I can remember
"supernatural tales" seems like worth purchasing if you can manage it, anyhow.
now here must be a jpop in celebration of this review. Or have we had too much recently. Most any event has seemed to provoke a j-pop. Why not a "the fall"instead? Hard decision to make(actually is, a hard decision)(I am trying to make it now)
Hold on: does it have to be or the fucking other? One of each?! Think carefully, Pendleton, on what you mean to do. A comment on each is required at least. The implications . . . ! either way, I think this is called a "plus point"
ok: video #1 = the fall "bill is dead" atypical in many ways, though listen its mdma-drenched luvved-up that's what they called it then: noteable lyrics: "your legs/ are so cool" and "came twice, you thrice" -- well these are acquired tastes -- also, plus-point, my wife, who I sent this video to as a link, can't view by her iphone, but if I embed, maybe she can! Let us hope so.
embed video:
and next it must be j-pop. as cute but still good as possible, I am demanding. Difficult yet . . .
hold on: for example, if I was to pick "BiS", they no longer exist, but it stood for "Brand-New idol Society", I think. there are two options, both seem like guerilla performances for select group of fans. One is in a train. I am going to save the one on the train for later, because I will sooner or later finish a novella involving trains and it will then be appropriate.
I am keeping things in reserve, you understand.
So now, you, get, "nerve" it is actually very famous, in marginal-idol circles, the dance for example. I like that the little boy sort of attacks the women, and also, he is momentarily placed under one's dress, and the girl with hair tied-up is v.cute, though I also like the almost-down-syndrome-of-appearance, maybe in fact the best tho that's not exactly the point. and sort of an other-antoganism with the little boy seems to develop, in snippets we are partly witness to, like maybe everything that has currently happened in true detctive season 2 (I'm a fan) (I declare)
video, go to bed!
and, don't worry, I like all sorts of other musics too!
and I write SFnal novellas and shall continue to do so until I die.
conversation post # ]:}{`P*+?_>+~|^/ w. mention of New Genre#7 + possible &c, accompaniments
I have been granted permission to post another image was intended to promote the readercon event etc, so I shall. And then what. There is a recording of the you tube of a "panel" (concerning shld you answer reviews &c -- my opinion, sometimes why not, but maybe without fury &c -- I would like the opportunity, I have scant reviews) I felt it was an interesting panel. One day I want be on a panel but I think I'm in the wrong country and not esteemed enough. Also I lack self-esteem, as in zero/null. Though with some pernod, who knows. and benzodiazapnes (one day, learn to spell this word)
first, post the image (also, write shorter sentences, people lack inclination for you know ... reading altogether, almost)(!)
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nice blue usage / I heard recently "depression" affects colour perception? I don't suffer from "depression" however, just maybe generalised melancholia, worry, financial un-ness &c / yet anyways, allow it to become a laughing matter.
I like to see a good use of colour but a colour-lack is always finely acceptable.
See i.e., Jay DeFeo, Matsutani, to speak of one dead, and one live, still I hope, artist. One's of whose work only, I have seen in the real life where colours propogate to the fullest extent of the laws of physics, &c.
I made a shopping list:
1/ charcoal
2/ granite
3/ stone ? (question mark as on list)
4/ ink - - (dashes as on list)
5/ sticks (probably doesn't require actual shopping)
-- ah, now I recall, after this tangent, something more to the point.
I enjoyed watching the panel about responding to reviews, while slowly
cooking some tomatoes.
One thing to note: (this is all related to some discussion on the actual panel) tangent online
changed it's policy of what to review (no semi-pro no more) around "racefail"
end-point, so it seems they locked themselves into a right-wing
attitude. I would have mentioned that, on the panel. It is my dream
among many other dreams, to be one day on a panel at readercon.
Though I can imagine myself getting very abrasive about some point or
other. And the pernod. I am repeating from the very top. It happens here, get used to it. (saying the same thing twice)
But, so, prior to then, I found, they had reviewed some of the earlier New Genre volumes. One, particularly poignant. I make a list if all reviews of previous New Genres with occasionally a comment:
1/
tangent review of N.G.#1, 2000(!), by the late Jay Lake. A sympathetic review. Moving for reasons too of course.
2/ another tangent review (before their turning, I suppose) of N.G.#4 (2006)
3/ you must scroll a little down -- review of N.G#4 again
4/ the SF encylopedia online entry that needs to be updated I guess
5/ "Whispers of Wickedness" reviews again N.G#4 -- oh that site is now known as "future fire" I think -- it seems the 4th volume got the most reviews -- I suggest, it was when the online thing was starting with some enthusiasm, and is now in despondency
6/ review on/in "new pages" of volume 6, I'm in there O-o . . .
7/ probably the best review, in that it seemed properly engaged, in its, er, reviewing, Charles Tan, from now defunct(?) blog (it's a shame) "bibliophile stalker" ^^ I think "gamergate" is distracting him from his reviewing, yet we need reviewers like him . . .
8/ bonus interview same site as above with new genre editor man
likely there will be less and less reviews of this sort of thing, like the heat death of the universe.
Bonus copious tears chance: the leader of the panel mentioned all way above, someone I suspect is "third culture" in some manner, as I am, I shan't go into it not yet anyway, her cat of long life and companionship died and I was moved and still am and you may be too if you follow this link __ to Amal El-Mohtar's online zone __
I shall alternate between outright weeping and sniffles for a while now . . .
bonus J-pop by "the Skanty" headed by "yoppy", I don't know what happened to her, but she's, and they, the band, are cool. Consolation offered hereby:
Work Planet Welt Space :: I gave you everything and now I'm nothing
I say I shouldn't do the following, reveal a little about the text in the new genre #7, but I went ahead and did, why, I don't want to be misunderstood, may be the main reason. It's not so bad. I merely reference and link previous mentions from old times of the text as it was perhaps being formed, then a little something, about class confidence, that was important, and then a j-pop to lessen the trouble. I'm so sorry, either way. Yet here it is. I've done it. The blog post.
one old post: http://malale.blogspot.jp/2008/09/little-book-3.html
two old post utterly unrelated to be frank: http://malale.blogspot.jp/2008/12/outer-first-cartilage.html
three old post more utter annihliation(unrelation): http://malale.blogspot.jp/2010/01/outer-second-cartilage.html
four old post, where in fact is related, i drew pigeons, while writing Kasparr's or someone's last transmission: http://malale.blogspot.jp/2008/09/anecdote-2-or-experience-or-pigeons.html
it is a little boy book. For the interests of gender parity, previous text in previous new genre i.e., #6, was a little girl book. There's balance there. In any case, in the world of SJW, I fat-shame Oprah Whinfrey most of my life.
spindles are probably the result of plant-based computing. (but see google book search, i.e., girls of the spindle, it is mancunian early industry stuff, also, mitotic spindle, that's in yr brain, also psychoanalysis, kernel and spindle -- this will all be come in handy later, (( as all such SFnal purely works will be based in this same world though in differing eras etc)) I'm telling it all like a tittle-tattle. I'm telling on myself. The future depicted is likely ultra-fascist like a mean english old school. I was once a duty boy at a mean english old school, though not a posh fee-paying one. it had aspirations. Pathetic when I look back now. I would like to spit all over it. Luckily, once, while still young, after a night-out "w'the lads", we had the taxi drop us off by the school, and climbed the gates, and urinated proudly across the main entrance (which was not accessible to the "pupils").
Sorry to lower the tone, thought I don't think I ever raised it.
this was all long agos, there's no parity to timing
the class-system, americans, is different, in the england. there were some "k-punk" posts long long ago now about class confidence (specific to the england) i link to some of these posts with a quote or two from various of thos old posts with no comment wherein the link is contained, and no further comment, from this point. and thatshalll be the end of the matter, but the j-pop selection to end the blog-post, which is a snippet of overly pretty hanae-san (her "bob" is pretty) song called "girls&boys" to put an end to the trouble of gender disaprity concerning litttle books "little girl boook " I am antenna/antennae" and "little boy book" work planet welt space all for good at once, enough
"k-punk" pulled quotes with attendant links and as promised no comment:
_/1/_ Public schools instil social confidence; the Winchester and Eton boys I encountered at Oxford seemed - to me, at least - astonishingly socially assured ・・・class power maims at precisely the same moment that it confers its privileges ・・・ Social confidence is not based on achievements but on intrinsic ontological status: the ruling class are taught to see themselves as essentially talented and intelligent, irrespective of either achievements or failures ・・・ The opposite of social confidence and its attendant sense of entitlement, its urbane at- homeness-in-the-world, is a sense of inferiority, a constant worry about whether one should occupy certain spaces, the quietly panicky conviction that 'surely they can see that I don't belong here'・・・ Mark E Smith was surely at his most sage when he said that going to Public School was 'punishment enough'
_/2/_ But the working class never experience their own lives and behaviours as natural or normal in the way the dominant class does. The encounter with the education system immediately makes working class people aware that their use of language differs from - i.e. is inferior to - the 'standard' ・・・ What needs to be accounted for is why certain groups have the 'fantasy' of being inferior (and why certain groups have the 'fantasy' of being superior). I place the word 'fantasy' in inverted commas here because, surprise surprise, in the case of the working and ruling classes, the 'fantasies' of their social status correspond with their actual position in the social hierarchy. But we must go round the whole loop here: there is no neutral social reality beyond fantasy, and the class structure can only persist so long as people act in accordance with their class fantasies.
_/3/_ Choose yer weapons (my embolded emboldened alteration emphasis) ・・・ The implicit opposition is between Media (as transparent window-on-the-world transmitter of good, solid commonsense) and Education (as out-of-touch disseminator of useless, elitist arcanery). Once, Media was a contested ground, in which the impulse to educate was in tension with the injunction to entertain. Now – and the indispensable Lawrence Miles is incisive on this, as on so many other things, in his latest compendium of insights – Old Media is almost totally given over to a vapid notion of Entertainment – and so, increasingly, is education ・・・ Put it this way: a situation in which Lawrence Miles languishes, at the limits of mental health, barely able to leave his house, while the likes of Rod Liddle swagger around the mediascape is not only aesthetically abhorrent, it is fundamentally unjust . . .
shall have to do for now. Dear americans, don't consider this an affront. The class systems are wierdly different. This is just (the above) a snippet showcase of examples you may need to configure together as coherent yourself. Forgive me, though you really needn't . . . アラ・・・
promised j-poppal:
J-popal authority 004
サッ！ today's j-pop may differ from previous as that was mainly idol things wasn't it, marginal idol, yes, mainly the point is they are units of some size, from I think 6 members, to 2 members. Now we have an all by herself musician (I am having a feeling it may once have been a duo) but these are by herself, and the live footage I have seen on the youtube is herself, with laptop she operates herself, like merzbow nowadays or last time I saw him anyway, which was not nowadays, it was many moons ago, in fact.
The other difference is maybe this jpop I have selected is not necessarily "marginal", she may have acquired some success already.
水曜日のカンパネラ『マリー・アントワネット』
this song is a history lesson of sorts. About Marie Antoniette. I didn't watch the recent film that was maybe popular here. I didn't realise it had spiderman's girlfriend in it. I sort of like her so maybe would have watched it? anyway, also popular here, with girls of a certain generation, or maybe multiple generations, because it keeps getting repeated, like "dragonball" which has been on tv every tuesday evening since I arrived here some 7(?)yrs ago, is "rose of versaille", which is about, yes you know already, it is more historically accurate than "dragonball" I suppose. . .
the main point is the "let them eat cake", in french " Qu'ils mangent de la brioche " and in the japanese here in this song as at 2:39 the kind of twist to the song "お菓子を食べればいいじゃない" which has now become a catchphrase of sorts in this little household . . .
also the feeling that marie antoniette may have been genuinely well-meaning in her statement, not of course knowing much about the world of poverty, she didn't I think reach the age of the buddha for example to start questioning things enough, or did she, they don't teach her in english schools, and I haven't seen the film, and the anime series was shown only in every other european country excepting england, because england wants to be america, and america didn't show all the series that europe showed, though they did something strange with a triad of series to make something called "robotech", but even that wasn't shown in england. I only watched "kimba the white lion" in arabic, just before call-to-prayer interval. Afterwards, the cosby show? different strokes?
Why did they never show "the tripods" anywhere, man, fuckyou.
About the guillotine, it is a bit monsterous, and if I am against killing it is mainly against the killing of girls. But at least in any case don't automate the process. I think from long-ago "research" the first guillotine was and is still, as relic, in england?
the 2nd personage of this musician-singer in this video wears a nice skirt rose-many hued that appears in another video also so it doesn't go to waste, don't let a good skirt goes to waste, but this is not the next video:
水曜日のカンパネラ『ミツコ』
she is singing about shibuya at the beginning, but where it's filmed is in kichijouji?? You see when she is in a red dress then spinning then the dress only on a coat hanger? I like that. Do you? Her lyrics are marvellously sort of pop-culture in excess with some sort of, I don't know, recognition of how everything is fucked up? Like right at the start she stands in street looking half-or-just-a-third wasted somewhat? No? With a merriment in any case? I guess that's a good way to go about things? from 2:26 is when the pressure-joy sets in, and it seems a celebration of shibuya, in one sense, and restauraunt discount coupons, in another sense?
This song is less historically-resonant as far as I can tell. It may be a celebration of shibuya? it is a better place than shinjuku, by all means, let it be known.
Who knows. Lots of this fun with the "J-popal authority" is overthinking things and also celebrating cuteness and &c. Do you notice the reference to "Popal authority" by the way? try to keep up.
I, being on blog, saw blogs
I being on blog decide to show my agglomerate of other blogs, they who are still on blog, and I put them here, a link, plus a little note each, be aware I'm very shy so have not contacted any of the blog-people and if they want me to pretend I don't enjoy their blog by representing them in the following, do let me know, if you are not too shy also, and if I am not to shy in response, I may manage to disengage you from this just about to be a ghostly community, and if I am too shy to do that (disengage you from the glory that is to come), well I must apologise right now , and shall be under a blanket most of my life remaining . . .
favour blogs// they now follow:
http://callingdrbombay.blogspot.jp/ An expert of Henry Darger, who writes often wonderful poems about Henry Darger, and other things I suppose too, and writes too with great heart about mento troubles (that's a code, see some early post here-in)(I mean on my blog here)(not over there), recently her cat died, I grieved for it, my dead-cat (see below) "came to me in the dark", but recently a five year old girl with cancer all over her body has visited as a replacement, she demands(the five year old girl who does not exist I am talking about a dream or half-dream sleep paralysis moment) lots of tea, and I realised, upon waking, we only had one floor cushion (we have no chairs) and although it had been on my mind, and on my shopping list, to find some floor cushions, I hadn't, until just after the dream, wherein, whereby, whence, whatever's the word, came across two at a very reasonable price, in just the best reasonable I think colours, so now, there are floor cushions, but as for the tea, if it is english tea the guest wants, we have only one reasonable cup, and one too-small I think tea-pot, and if it is japanese tea, we have the equipment, but my wife better be present, because she has had the necessary training, and the training, reader, is necesssary, otherwise you just make a mess.
So now we have three floor cushions (zabuton) (座布団） (...again with the floor cushions, we once had two, but my wife-woman's little bother burnt his appartment down, and came to stay here, and reader, we lacked extra pillows, so one floor cushion became customaryily used night after night for his pillow, and then when he got a new appartment, the sleeping futon, and the floor cushion (i.e. za-futon, fu become bu, just because) za, as in "zazen" dear zennist-readers) (the "za" from "suwaru" 座る verb: to sit -- try not to confuse with "sawaru" "触る" verb: to touch, can lead to awkward moments -- this has been a japanese lesson, for free, and I have managed to confuse myself) -- so he got a futon and a zabuton --
http://this-space.blogspot.jp/2015/02/a-blog-comes-to-one-in-dark_21.html -- this is when I felt the "blogging" is okay to be doing, and the space of the "blogging" is now become that of an "untroubled failure" and is benevolent in all its aspects, like humus, for example, I don't think anyone has been harmed by humus, have they? I don't know how to spell humus, most likely.
http://fortlaufen.blogspot.co.uk/ here, also called "flowerville" -- was mentioned in the "a blog comes to one in the dark" // I was talking the other month about (not talking directly, to you, or here, I was thinking about) "I have given you a cat in the dark" from R.D's last poem. All seems to fit. There is talk about trauma on this blog. Trauma is a strange thing. It likes a delay, catches up, and you are in sudden jaws, though never quite eaten. (no, in fact, you can be eaten -- the one time only perhaps)
http://ifyouknowwhatimsaying.blogspot.jp/ all about anthony braxton. A valiant act of impossiblities. It may be currently resting, but deserves to. Rest up till the work to be done seems again do-able. Bit by bit.
http://www.pseudopodium.org/ a webzone wherein all elements of things I happen to be interested in (SFnal fictions, Zukofsky, Spicer) plus much else I don't have a clue coalesce in an intelligence vortex . . .
I now emplant a j-poppal by Oomori Seiko called "over the party" as in celebration (and do you know by the way mystery in the japanese underground scene of the term: "overhang party"?)
j-popal authority 003
nightnight, hologram!
nightnight, HOLOGRAM! (is how I would translate おやすみホログラム ・・・
is a good name for a band and many other things ・・・
I like this jpop colloabaration tune// there is interest to be noted, let us do so, / previously they were a four "members" I think in this "unit" and they did something like the video below, it is called "drifter". isn't the difference remarkable? try identify who the current two members are. I couldn't. It is reasonable odds and yet/ the world is going on on , I shan't care to keep up, like in the manner of old "the smiths" songs/
but I like this over-exert^excite energy of the new (above)video, essentially just jump up and down and yell and spit/spray waters/
it doesn't seem a wrong thing to me. (I need to note the green and yellow sort of "livery" I think we call it, and pink tinge -- petticoat with white socks/tights/unknown leg attired juxtapose = good)
music, play on !!
jPopal authority 002
yurumerumo album end trilogy cap\ trilogy as I declare it, with no supporting etc/s / time notations xx:xx\ with no need for order as in what is noted now, may be preceded later by earlier note/ use your head, can't you, your on earth/
ゆめるモ -- derived (?) from "you'll melt more!" / ゆる・/ you'll) melt = メルト・becomes just める・and the "more!", it's sufficient simply モ・
"you'll melt more!"
yuru meru (the "t" not approached) モア＝モ /・ in any case, when things melt, this happens.
ゆる （you will) める モ （the possiblity you may melt more, that may mean fit in better, is a better than usual corpse in a camp) - also seems an approach at the "moe" phneonmennae? but probably no-one really cared about that .. . .
ゆるめるモ
1/ なつ おん ぶろ
filmed at a summer festival(?), eventually nears that doors concert as depicted in that doors movie where native american ghosts manifest and fires are built and all dance strange with know-how of other worlds / a playmobil version, the colours vibrant and it is a good day's daytime and there are girls merry and some colour-coded fan groupings in the "in-audience" 4:37~ revalry -- there is even a small horn section
-and 3:13 some punck-cracked enthused vocal bind the group and audience in unreastrained happinesses
it is appropriate they are wearing work overalls//
4:23 // reconfirm bond apex// declared group name: yurumerumo/
2/ oo(ラブ）
as usual with yurumerumo, this starts one fairly balanced unsurprising way only to progress subtle until circa 2:13 a switch and new things are now being considered//(not necessarily a chorus, more a continuation?) this will occur in the next tune also// there will be a resettling to the new order, /3:20/engine of introduction audience configured to support with the particular salutations of idol culture(?)?/then an extra disruption /no, acknowledgment of little pocket of above said/(follows idol chant audience participation culture) /4:18~?/ prelude to 5:18 a slight one more time settlement, then overcome, until the final direction is fixed (seems to ascend as a logic netherpath there had been followed as correct route out from start) -- the idea is space travel cannot be indecisive
3/ たびのしたく
all the highpace urgent initialisation of this song is a kind of ruse. You could also be thinking of it as a laying of the ground/forming the atmosphere -- it will be like some cosmic body is in a fury ejecting elements of itself only to later relent (1:40) and find a configuration (2:29) to absolve back in grace return with the eddy of its just-gone (mild)fury (3:49) some harmonic in-and-out weave-wave work/// you'll see/ know yourself / 4:24/
spaceship crews/ necessary simultaneous movements, (5:17) in order to leave orbit// and the subsequent space voyaging, in synch weave harmonies -- there's propulsion plausible
hasten jPopal authority 001
ゆるめるモ！『眠たいCITY vs 読書日記』
Ideal ideal song, after listening, unhummable, during listening, same, need another go. Seems to evade. No immediate "ear worm". One more go, can't quite see the structure. Can't interioally reconstruct song in isolated head/disposability of pop // coalesce at the moment of play only / otherwise unhummable in memory / uncatchable perfect pop" I always like the songs you can't quickly hum in your head, in fact, the songs a little bit of which seems to snag in your musical memory yet how it came to be (the little song snag) or how it continues, eludes you/me. Rare to find a song like that, but that's where good to wallow, figure the song (it's parts, and flow, how it works) // may end disapointed with how it all went down// I took too long with this so now what I noted isn't (but in any case I have come to the conclusion: "yurumerumo" ゆるめるモ are quietly wonder-ful) initial thoughts were: (with just-now "are" impositions)
yurumero supposed to make ep as tribute or homage to suicide the somewhat-what no-wave or prior to that unnamed era? so I listened in attitude of search to the suicide (happily available here)(no legal complications my friend, I merely lent you my copy, we sprawled on some sort of converted tressle contraption accommodating our tired bits and plush cushions supported our alert listening factors -- just to figure this all out while it seemed important). Some initial atmospheric tone is evident but more like a glancing touch in saying "inspiration" -- and that's far well and OK.
the best cover is a defamiliarisation. I'm sure we are all agreed. one reason "aihiyou" was a supreme unit, there was faith shown to the original in the willingness to go far and unidentifiably out distant unabashed re-configuration to the nth . . .
upon listening with overlay of my such listenings so's now I am talking with a basis-ish of knowledge: second suicide song definite is a thing appear! its mulch synth swell! a glance at least -- it's nice to get some connections going/
first drummachinetight attended vocal declaraion of the perhaps theme/ it is an opening statement / then it settles to the song itself/ which i was at first thrilled by its purposeful awryness, oh or so I thought -- there is declaration (opening statement), and conclusion in same tone/ and between, otherways, the song, it feels freely free to fragment in, having comfort in, (without of the song) a benevolance that's for sure abouts, spectrally, maintaining the distributed product (partly exchanging vocal parts to the disparate 6 members)
while listening early on I did wonder how it could be done live/
most frission is when isolated parts become reinforced but-by-bit then there is a step back to rehearse the reinforcement, and the result is warm all participants together, after the anxious unsure strifes
/ only that making a video about making a video seems quickly a worst option, but at least the space-suit costume scenes are good. -- but not watching the video helps the music, so avert your eyes, look shyly somewhere none-monitor surface transmitting clean clear on all accounts as of such/
yurumerumo currently has strong core seems to if not resist managerial directions, absorbs and alters then in perfect receptive active period -- may not last long -- catch quick/ now there's a new song, I feel it isn't good. Already the thing I say is good, because it can't be hummed, and then, over the time I took, became hummable, is superseded by new more prim package
Which is pop in any case, it moves on. Don't get too involved!
note: with this entry plus this one ending with fall-song comment the duty I imposed on myself --here-- has been partly met in some initial overlate stage so there should be a grin affixed to most humanity from now on until 7 minutes later and I shall apologise, I am un-dutiful to self-concocted duty, but attempt a reversal of this, now and then, here is one such, occasion.
