Anyway, my weekend:
Friday:
Saturday: I was home all day working on stuff, mostly music. Mostly the version of Pictures at an Exhibition which I just finished, and which I'm still terribly, terribly happy with. In the evening I hung out with
Sunday was
We did some shopping, and I bought a few stocking-stuffer-type items for those on my Christmas list. We ran into
After Mitsuwa we went to J1Toy, which is a great place to go if you're interested in collecting anime and Ultraman memorabilia.
I'm not.
After wandering the store and watching Jim and Lindsay play DDR, the two groups parted ways. We headed home so Jon could get some rest before class this morning, and the other group went to Sean's apartment where (I gather) so much fun was had that it has to be hidden in a protected post. Anyway, it was really an enjoyable trip.
Here are a couple of memes:
I took the Which Musician Shares Your Taste in Music? quiz this morning, and it tells me that I share common ground with The Cure. It's not worth copying and posting the HTML because all it has is that sentence, a picture of Robert Smith, and a link to Smith's celebrity playlist on iTunes. I've posted the tracks and his comments below. It's interesting in that I only know about half of the songs on the list, and they're pretty well divided between songs I like and songs that would make me switch over to NPR if they ever appeared on the radio. Quizzes like this one are fun, but they're more indicative of their author's personal biases than anything else.
1. Jimi Hendrix -- Are You Experienced?
Music from another world - when I first heard this it made me want to play guitar and sing all night - it still does.
2. Nick Drake -- Time Has Told Me
The most heartbreaking sound - and maybe where we got the name from.
3. Tom Waits -- (Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night
Perfect melancholia - poignant, evocative, heartfelt.
4. Janis Ian -- Tea and Sympathy
Another one of the saddest songs I ever heard...
5. Thin Lizzy -- Don't Believe a Word
Melodic and powerful - the grooviest rock band I ever saw.
6. The Clash -- White Riot
And then this happened and everything changed - a riot of my own...
7. The Psychedelic Furs -- Into You Like a Train
The Furs were such a great mix of style and substance... of styles and substances.
8. Cocteau Twins – Lorelei
Breathtaking.
9. Pixies -- Monkey Gone to Heaven
Falling upwards...
10. My Bloody Valentine -- I Only Said
The music playing at the end of a world.
11. Nirvana -- Heart-Shaped Box
Raw, passionate, heartbreaking Kurt.
12. Supergrass -- Alright
So insanely happy it makes me cry.
13. Interpol -- NYC
Twilight memories...
14. A.F.I. -- Girl's Not Grey
Dark, seductive, romantic...
15. Scarling -- Crispin Glover
Beautiful shadows...
16. Blink 182 -- Down
Perfect now music for pop people?
17. Deftones – Minerva
Simply awesome.
18. Tricky -- Moody
Mesmerising, innovative, strange-as-angels Tricky.
19. The Cooper Temple Clause -- New Toys
The eye of the storm...
20. Mogwai -- Killing All the Flies
A piece of the loudest/quietest/heaviest/lightest band in the world.
21. Placebo -- The Bitter End
Hopefully won't be coming too soon.
Your Birthdate: June 11 |
Spiritual and thoughtful, you tend to take a step back from the world. You're very sensitive to what's going on around you, yet you remain calm. Although you are brilliant, it may take you a while to find your niche. Your creativity is supreme, but it sometimes makes it hard for you to get things done. Your strength: Your inner peace Your weakness: You get stuck in the clouds Your power color: Emerald Your power symbol: Leaf Your power month: November |
This is interesting because it describes me to a T (except for that inner peace nonsense), right down to green being my favorite color. Then again, I found this meme through
I have a lot of friends who believe in astrology, and conversations on the subject lead them inevitably to say either "I knew you were a Gemini!" or "Really? I would have pegged you as a ________." The split is about 50/50, and I'd bet anything that my personality matching that of a Gemini (or people born on June 11th, for that matter) is a result some partially subconscious rationalization -- the only reason it's true is that in the back of my mind, I want it to be. It's the same sort of thought process that makes me think I like the song Indian Ocean by They Might Be Giants, even though Indian Ocean is deliberately unlistenable:
I love the band They Might Be Giants.No I don't! The song is experimental noise! I can count the number of times I've listened to it all the way through on my fingers! Still, I can't bear to delete it from my MP3 player because it's They Might Be Giants, and (in case I've never mentioned it before) I love the band They Might Be Giants. In fact, this moment is the first time it's ever occurred to me that I might rather delete it than keep it there, but I'm not going to because I love the band They Might Be Giants (just FYI).
Indian Ocean is a song by They Might Be Giants.
Therefore, I like Indian Ocean.
Am I allowing myself to gloss over the (perceived) incorrect statement that my strength is my inner peace because I like to think that the rest of my quiz result is true?
I'd be interested to see how other people react to the results of this particular quiz. Go ahead and take it -- all you have to do is enter your birthdate.