perevision

Reading William Gibson's Distrust That Particular Flavor at the moment. He mentions reading reviews of albums in Melody Maker as if they were SF novels, and it clicked in my mind.

I like a huge variation of different recording artists over different styles and genres. What is the thing that they all have in common? Narrative, of course...so many musicians and composers are storytellers, but what kind of story attracted me more strongly than anything else? My favourite artists tell stories with strong images, that bring out colours and pictures in the mind, even when I don't understand the words. So I thought it would be a fun exercise to match up some of my most-listened albums with some very distinctive comic book artists.

( warning: image-heavy! )
Okay, your turn! What are your favourite albums and who would you want to draw them?

(Note: where sources are not indicated, pics scanned from copies I own)

Oh, Iceland. Why is your music so lovely?

It's not like I didn't love Björk already, even in her more experimental modes, but when my friend introduced me to Sigur Rós it was like a completely different world.

Then my illustration teacher got me into múm. While Sigur Rós is operatic and emotionally devastating in its delivery, listening to múm feels more like spending a drizzly winter morning snuggled under your duvet with someone you like very much, who's humming nonsense love songs into your hair. Comforting doesn't begin to describe it.

And now Jónsi's got his solo album, and it's so gorgeous I have to do a painting for each one of his songs. Here's one I did a few months back. I've been working on the third one for ages; I keep screwing it up.

Now that I'm in a position to notice, the Ouran version of the Mozart sonata really is rather refreshing. The Nodame & Chiaki version seems more dramatic and emotional.

Moving on to other things I'm not very good at, am going back to my RK fanfic (the het one; the yaoi version set in the same 'verse seems to have stalled, on account of my complete failure to write a convincing escape scenario). Also, recent Tsubasa chapters seem to have kick-started me into writing another Eagle fanfic, a much longer one structurally based on my Ficpod for him. We'll see how that works out.

To dear, dear people still expecting cards: I'm so, so sorry. I'm working on them--I have drawn them and am working on two of them as I speak. I've just run into so many random things this year that I'm worried they will now be Easter cards. =_=

"We are those you do not know and those you save." Jorge Luis Borges, to James Joyce

Should it worry me that I have more FSTs on my computer than actual albums?

"Iraq, incredible weapons. How do you know that? Well, we looked at the receipt..." Bill Hicks

Invited my mum to Livejournal. XD Not to fear; five minutes into the process of customising she got sick of it and left. XDDD

Got tagged by petronia! ♥

( 7 songs meme )

Melt Wizard - Weis & Hickman
Caramon, Raistlinn--check out the spells he's castin'/Tanis, Laurana--she just wants to jump right on him/Goldmoon, Riverwind--they brought the true gods back to Krynn/Weis and Hickman, yeah/I wonder how you never knew/You're the Margaret Weis to my Tracy Hickman...

No, seriously. Not to mention their songs about Quidditch, RPGs, Legend, Magic: The Gathering, fantasy cosplay and Kingdom Hearts. And I LOVE them. Check out Melt Wizard. You may regret it. XD

omg back to work.