Over at Cat Valente’s Discord, someone posted this image:
Almost everything about this amuses me on some level or another.
And yes, at first glance it’s kind of ridiculous and definitely hilarious on at least one level. Then I got to thinking.
Dejah Thoris is the titular (ahem) Princess of Mars. (She’s Princess of Helium, which makes one wonder if she talks with a weird squeaky voice, but that’s beside the point.) The Disney corporation released a movie, John Carter, based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs Martian novels, and Dejah is in that movie.
Therefore, Dejah Thoris is officially a Disney Princess.
And that cover you see above tracks better than it really ought to.
I know I’m a needy, greedy bastard, it’s true, but here’s what I want: A home large enough for the bookshelves we need, with a space for my computer desk that isn’t in my bedroom, where we don’t share a horizontal border surface with strangers (floor or ceiling), close enough to good grocery shopping (or at least simple public transit thereto), at a price I/we can afford, that we can happily live & stay in for the next, I dunno, decade or so.
I was trying to keep to a couple-times-per-week-ish posting cadence, but last week just completely ran away from me. Brain weasels, noisy neighbors, work frustrations, all the fun stuff.
I mean, I don’t really have anything to say today either, other than “Whoops, sorry about that.”
I’ve done little mixes before, some of which may even still be playable in the old blog archives. (I resist calling this thing a “blog” but let’s be honest here for a moment.) My music tastes are well known if you know me at all: Old pop, older prog rock, random J-pop, some heavy metal and EDM and so on.
My library grows nonetheless, and in some odd directions on occasion. I’m glad that even at the half-century mark I’m still getting into new stuff. To give you a clearer picture, perhaps, here’s a brief sampling of what I’m listening to nowadays:
I should run these down so you can explore further if you’re so inclined…
Public Service Broadcasting, “People, Come Dance” (from Bright Magic, 2021)
Battle Tapes, “Valkyrie” (from Polygon, 2015)
toconoma, “N°9” (from Newtown, 2017)
Midnight Oil, “Gadigal Land” (from The Makarrata Project, 2020)
The HU, “Sugaan Essena” (from the soundtrack to the video game Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, 2020)
Sparks, “Music That You Can Dance To” (title track of album, 1986)
Pet Shop Boys, “What are we gonna do about the rich?” (from Agenda EP, 2019)
Garbage, “No Horses” (bonus track from No Gods No Masters special edition, 2021)
KONGOS, “Keep Your Head” (from 1929, Pt. 1, 2019)
Of course, here I am the morning after assembling this mix and realizing I didn’t get any of the Sawano Hiroyuki “[nZk]” stuff in here, and that’s a grave oversight. There’s a stunning lack of Mono Inc and VNV Nation as well.
Decisions had to be made, couldn’t fit in everything, etc. Maybe next time.
