Experimenting with mp3s

[taotrooper]

Ah, I just got a software that can convert regular music tracks to digital files, so you know what it means. Yeah. Sharing music!

Maybe I'll make a tradition and share two to four songs a month. We'll see. I don't have a lot of music now.

I'll bring you today my first (and successful) sample:

Artist: Incubus
Song: Aqueous transmission
Genre: uh, in this case I'd say experimental
Notes: This is the song that named my journal ^_^ I love this song. It's so weird I don't know how to describe it. Even if Incubus is a rock band, this song lacks any rock instrument (we do hear DJ sounds and slight percussion, though). The melody is strongly Asian-influenced, so you'll find shamisen, flutes and orchestra string instruments performing it. But the weirdest sounds are birds chirping on the background and croaking frogs in the end of the song. The lyrics are pretty and interesting, probably about a river-water sailor who reflects about his feelings of loneliness while he sails, unless it's all a metaphor. Either way, it works for me.

Sorry about the size. The song is rather long (almost 8 minutes) so it turned out heavy. Maybe after hearing it, you'll see why I'm so satisfied with my LJ's newest layout.

Comments

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :D For sharing, and also for explaining all that, because if you hadn't mentioned all the new-agey stuff I'd probably have let it pass. Lovely song.

[goodchristina.livejournal.com]

Thank you! ^^ I like Incubus, but i've never listened to a lot of their stuff, so it's nice to hear something I hadn't heard of their's before. It fits with your layout nicely.

[sui.livejournal.com]

Ooh, thanks for the song. It sounds very interesting and different; and your layout is pretty, too.

[the-great-elk.livejournal.com]

Wheee~ I stole, thanks! Oh, and also, because I feel like I should offer something in return, I'm uploading episodes of CCS on my private journal.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the offer, but I already have all the ones I need ^^

[the-great-elk.livejournal.com]

Awww okay. Well at least I tried. Is there anything you wanted?

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

*shakes head* I'm not uploading mp3s in order to get things.

[the-great-elk.livejournal.com]

But but but! I want to share! =(

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Oh fine. I could use some season 1-2 Touya/Yuki moments ^^

I just figured out you were fairymage *is slow and bad at remembering mun names*

[the-great-elk.livejournal.com]

Yay! I will look! Have no fear! XD

Oh. lol yeah... I usually forget things like that too. And I don't know if I really want people connecting the two.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Because this one is more personal, and you don't want RL people to see your fandom activities? I can see that. This is why a few people know my full name, and I prefer to be called by my alias anyway.

The only journal I don't want people to link me is my journalfen account (for fandom wank and assorted mocking comms reading *cough* I don't check it often, really!) Only Vicki-mun knows. In LJ I have... let's see... this one, a webmistress journal, an icon journal, a Spanish journal, a fic comm/journal. Whoa. I guess it's more for organization purposes. I don't like filtering or people filtering me a lot. I seriously doubt all my flist would read my fanfics or my personal Spanish posts, for instance.

Okay, let me know ^_^

[the-great-elk.livejournal.com]

Maybe. I'm not sure. I think I just like having a separate place to rant about life, so that my friends don't have to read my writing and my readers don't have to read about... me.

Yeah, like you said, it is mainly for organization in the end.

I'll let you know when I up episode 14. That one made me HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY.

[the-great-elk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't know what's up with that. It worked fine for me until last week.

Yay! -grins stupidly in anticipation- I remember your Tsubasa one where Touya says, "I want to get laid" and Yukito says, "Me too." I didn't take it, but I <3 it.

I think that'd pairing would be really interesting... A very interesting dynamic between the characters, at the very least. I should really try a pairing like that someday, just to see what it's like to try to write.

I like pairings like that. I think that's why I like Hughes/Gracia so much. I don't read the manga, so I'm not sure which characters you write but I've heard of a few manga-only ones.

WHEEEEE~ Thanks! ^_^ I love you. Really.

And I hope that doesn't mean you'll stop talking to me... =(

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Let's see if I get inspiration for icons :D Even if it's just to vent over cal_reflector's stupidity.

Well, there IS Clow/Yuuko canon. Just not in the mangas, but in a storybook about Mokona Modoki that can be bought only in Japanese. Translations on those stories are slow. But I digress.

Maes/Gracia is awesome <3 I wrote a fic in Spanish about them once for a friend who's in love with Hughes. You really should read the manga, even if it's in scanlations. It's so much better than the anime, although it has less yaoi subtext, I'm glad afraid. There's less Hughes, though, but Gracia actually has a personality.

Why would I? o_o Unless you're already bored or something. I'd tell you about friending, but I'm too shy for asking that.

[the-great-elk.livejournal.com]

Tee hee... Snarky snarky TY! I can't wait.

Yes, I know, but there's still a really unique dynamic between them, one that I don't think I could duplicate very well in fanfiction.

^_^ I think I will, eventually, when I get the time. I didn't quite get the yaoi subtext in the anime (even though I'm a Roy/Ed shipper. T____T) Oh, and did you mean "I'm afraid" when you said "I'm glad afraid"? Awww... but I love Hughes! -huggles-

Okay. Good. Then I can still have a constant running conversation. It's okay; did you want to "tell" me about friending you (like are there special rules or something o_O?) or "ask"? Because you're welcome to friend me, if you so desire.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Crap, it was supposed to be striked-through. I'm glad afraid there's no subtext in manga. I don't like yaoi in FMA very much; I just don't see it. And the fandom scares me as much as the Harry Potter fandom. But that's a different story.

Um. I. Um. Well. I'm really shy asking for people to add me/let me add them. I don't know, I figured, since we're enjoying our conversation, why not friending each other. But that's okay if you don't want to, as my journal is rather strange to read. I'm not someone to add a journal without being mutual, unless it's a multimedia/news/webcomics provider.

Besides, I wouldn't even know what journal of yours should I add.

[the-great-elk.livejournal.com]

lol That's okay, I understood it anyway. It's not supposed to be there, really, I don't think, but some of us just like to see it anyway because we can't stand to see Roy sleeping with Riza.

Go ahead and add me; I don't care if you add my writing or personal journal, it's up to you. The writing journal only gets updated when I write something, and I write for 4 different fandoms. I'll friend you on my personal journal, if you don't mind.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Ah, don't friend me for obligation! That kind of stuff always ends in drama. If you friend me, do it because you like me even though I truly believe Roy is Rizasexual, but then again the manga is pointing that way and I don't recognize anime as canon anymore, so that makes me teh evol hor and talking with me, and not because I've been thinking of friending you.

[the-great-elk.livejournal.com]

No no no! That's not what I'm doing! I just wanted to make sure it was okay with you. -wibbles- Argh, I don't know what it is, but I REALLY don't like Riza... I love you! XD

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

I think I'm lost now. o_oU

[the-great-elk.livejournal.com]

Me too. =(

But that's okay!