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[adevyish]

Stole this questionnaire off chagrined.

1. How did you choose your DW username?
It’s the same as my now deleted LJ’s username. That username I came up with randomly as a bunch of sounds I liked at that point and it’s aged fairly well.

2. What has been your favourite day this year and why?
Eh. What’s a favourite day.

3. What is your favourite film you’ve seen in the past year and why?
I don’t really watch movies. In terms of anime, I’ve started and finished one this year, 91 Days, and it was very good.

4. What is your favourite book you’ve read in the past year and why?
I haven’t read any books this year! So as usual, I will cheat by naming a fanfic :p It’s not finished yet, but glimmering goddesses in the night absolutely has to be my favourite fic I’ve read this year. The tensions of being a child to East Asian parents, being a girl who likes the music scene and is a child to East Asian parents, and being a girl in a male-dominated space is conveyed so deeply it’s almost cathartic reading it.

5. You get to program a half-hour of music videos on MTV. What videos to you pick?
The question is, what timeslot on MTV! I do love a good music video, so here’s two half-hours of some of my favourites:

Serious I Would Nominate These For Awards version:

• Sakanaction / Sayonara wa Emotion 4:22
• Aimyong / **chan 4:39
• Hot Chip / Need You Now 4:53
• Faky / Afterglow 3:14
• Utada Hikaru / Nijikan Dake no Vacance f. Shiina Ringo 4:47
• OK Go / This Too Shall Pass (Rube Goldberg Machine) 3:53
• Perfume / One Room Disco 5:03

Please Stop Watching Weird Music Videos version:

• Suiyoubi no Campanella / Diablo 4:42
• Will Young / I Just Want a Lover 3:35
• Zombie-Chang / I Can’t Get To Sleep 3:02
• Kero Kero Bonito / Forever Summer Holiday 3:58
• Neko ne, Koneko ne. / Neko wa Nandemo Shitteiru 3:00
• Keytalk / Summer Venus 4:26
• One Direction / Kiss You 3:10
• Shiggy Jr / Koishitara Baby 3:44

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Recently I was listening to Stars’ album Set Yourself On Fire and I remembered: oh, this is why I fell in love with music, listening to the strings and brass of “Your Ex-Lover Is Dead” resonate sadness and jubilance. It’s not about living it up at shows, it’s not about finding new bands; it’s about how one song can make you feel like you’re dying and reborn again.

Comments

[veriest]

>glimmering goddesses in the night

Not as cathartic for me to read it, but it was deeply satisfying to read. A+, would stay up till 4am reading it again.

And yes, Set Yourself On Fire was so, so good.

[adevyish]

sorry for ruining your sleep schedule, not sorry for reccing a fic you enjoyed! (my niche is apparently genderswap boyband fics now? idk.)

i haven't listened to stars' newly released album in its entirety yet but it's definitely one of their stronger recent albums.

[veriest]

haha, no problem! I'm a student now...what is a sleep cycle even? Genderswap boyband fics sounds awesome. please send along more recs if you can.

There is No Love is definitely one of their stronger albums in recent years. It seems they found their sense of urgency/desperation/passion again.

[adevyish]

i have a dedicated recs tag for genderswap but it is v small.

kevin drew of bss said bss restarted b/c of the state of the world (in 2015), and it certainly feels like the bss album and the stars album have some of the same starting points.