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[whynot]

* My post on personal stories got picked up for the 4th Asian Women Blog Carnival \o/, which I'm pretty excited about. It looks like there's some good stuff over there so def check it out. This year's theme is "storytelling, or reclaiming our selves through our words". Unsurprisingly the first thing I read is a poem about Manila and, speaking of land=body, zempasuchil, remember that Hetalia fic you never wrote that I gave you feedback for? 'When the Waters Rose'? This is kind of like that, but set in the Philippines. "our middle ground exists / where floodwaters rise / to meet sinking shores"

* I'm beginning to wonder if I forgot about something important that happened last season in Heroes, 'cos what the hell is going on. On top of dumb superpowers. Why haven't I dropped this show yet?

* I'm assuming that things like Queen Victoria, Demon Hunter are riding on the coattails of Pride & Prejudice & Zombies. I'm not a big Victorian lit fan nor am I a zombie nerd overmuch, but I do like the idea of the two of them fused together. So. Are these books any good?

* I'm not even in Trek fandom, but I just read and liked this fic by bravecows, which is set in a Starfleet Academy in Malaysia, featuring two female OCs who talk about why is it that only Westerners ever get assigned to certain missions and also why the Starfleet computer can't understand their accents. In other reccing ball news, I am also a fan of this Ty Lee/Azula fic and this Arthur/Gwen fic.

* The world needs more Ty Lee/Azula.

* I could make a legit Merlin reaction post but I'm kind of pooped, so have this two-word review instead: GAAAAIIIIUUUUUSSSSSSS! PENNNNNDRAGONNNNNSSSSS!

* fantasyecho embeds YouTube vids of Western pop songs being played on traditional Malay/Indonesian instruments. *_*

* And, for the hell of it:
- No Doubt's "Hella Good" vs. The Prodigy's "Girls (remix)"
- MIA's "Bucky Done Gone" vs. New Order's "Blue Monday"

And my favorites from DJ Earworm:
- 'No More Gas'. A dozen pop songs over Kanye West & Estelle's "American Boy".
- 'Together As One'. U2 (One), The Beatles (Come Together), Mariah Carey (We Belong Together), Diana Ross (Someday We'll Be Together).
- Top 25 pop songs from 2007, over Rihanna's "Umbrella".
- more for lulz: Kelly Clarkson's "My Life Would Suck Without You" vs. Coldplay's "In My Place"

You guys got mash-up recs to share?

* I'm gonna hunt for dinner and send at least one job application before bed. (man i was so productive last week)

Comments

[cupiscent.livejournal.com]

All my favourite mash-ups are ancient (as in, they've been on my high-rotation playlist for years now), but they are as follows:
- Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" vs Destiny's Child's "Bootylicious" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BW-VDZ_XpA)
- Enya's "Orinoco Flow" vs. Prodigy's "Smack my bitch up" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CTJqwX-AwM) (I have a different version of this in MP3, which perplexes me. I think it's maybe better.)
- Beastie Boys' "Intergalactic" vs Dandy Warhols' "We used to be friends" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L5k_SLtF7g)

Plus, not sure this technically counts as a mash-up, but it's a CLASSIC: NIN - Closer (the Super Mario mix) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys3oP7Ax6nM)

[westingturtle.livejournal.com]

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies has some funny bits, especially if you're really familiar with the novel, but for the rest it is mostly verbatim text from P&P, with random violent scenes that occasionally contradict each other on the new internal canon. But for any judgement I hold over this, I am still intrigued by Queen Victoria hunting things that go bump in the night. She is not AT ALL amused.

[zempasuchil.livejournal.com]

Oh that poem is beautiful. I kind of want to write that fic, I've been putting it off for winter break but it was the thing I was thinking of sending into the creative geography journal.

I found P&P&Z kind of boring. Entertaining for the illustrations, but otherwise I didn't bother reading past the first 40 pages or so, since it's essentially weird things about zombies spliced in briefly with most of Austen's text. This Queen Victoria thing sounds more creative, though, and I totally approve of that. Also there's something out there coming called Mr Darcy, Vampyre, I do believe.

mashups are my favorite. this one is pretty lulzy - Take Me Out (for a Milkshake) - Franz Ferdinand/Kelis mashup.

[lazaefair.livejournal.com]

General consensus on P&P&Z was that the concept was original and hilarious, but the execution was disappointingly pedestrian. It came as kind of a shock to me, as I'm used to reading amazing high-quality AUs in dozens of different fandoms, how could an AU this awesome possibly fail? I can already think of half-a-dozen fanficcers who would've kicked it out of the park in their sleep. Maybe the author should've spent some time in fandom. *grin*