Collaborator still working on draft, I ran some experiments, the cold room is still leaking so I probably will need to wipe up the water come Monday. Also my cultures a redeveloping a fungal problem. No idea how much of that is an effect of the fact that our new eco-friendly building is both warmer and damper than our previous building. No idea if the fact that for the first time in ever our lab is doing some fungal work (yeast for Y2H assay) played a part. Either way it kind of sucks as I have to repeat a bunch of stuff again and also re-make a bunch of media.
In other news: I've installed android simulator on my laptop but haven't moved much further on that end. Levine's FAIREST is focused on the issue of body image & idealization of beauty, which made me extremely cautious when I started because it's such a difficult issue to address well and needs to be handled with sensitivity. I think on the whole she did pretty well. I still like ELLA ENCHANTED better and found the romance in FAIREST to be a bit...contrived. But FAIREST is decent. Also I get to find out the Ella's best friend went on to become a doctor, which charms me no end. Last week I watched THE HEAT, which is like HOT FUZZ with a taste of DUE SOUTH, circa the pilot episode, except both of the protagonists are female and are thus wonderful. Well they are wonderful for reasons beyond that as well but there was a general feeling of "FEMALE BUDDY COP DYNAMICS WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE".
Also have discovered Spice Girls and... the "tell me what you want you really really want" references suddenly make sense now. I listened to the entire first album and am not into it enough to listen to the entirety of the reminder discography. However I did google the group and found that pop used to be dominated by boy bands, prior to the Spice Girls. In fact given the history of pop it's really interesting to note that there are a lot of stylistic choices and sounds in their first album that sounded similar to things I heard in pop songs around the early 2000s. I wonder if it's because they are the people who invented it, or if those things are the style inventions of the late 90s. Have also discovered that I like gender-flipped covers of pop songs. Mostly boys cover girl songs because a lot of boy pop songs sound very possessive and stalkery, if they're not verging into dub-con territory, and having girls singing them is not sufficient to improve them in that aspect.
Haven't decided what's next yet: perhaps I will investigate what's happened in the music scene in mainland the last few years ( last time I checked there was a love song about how someone loved someone else the way mice love rice) (the Chinese don't really do cheese, so culturally speaking we are raised to associate mice with rice) (alas the words do not rhyme in Mandarin). Or maybe it's time to figure out what's the difference between Rumba and Salsa. Or perhaps I will finally google and figure out who The Smiths are. The possibilities are endless.
Last and totally unrelated note: I really, really want to do NaNoWriMo. Even though it's not wise and I'll basically have to halt every other thing I'm doing that month in order to write (meaning recipe trials, movies, music, android, comics -- though I think I have enough buffer for the comic still to keep posting though I will be cutting it very close). But- well- I really want to. And as a strong irrational poorly thought out impulse, the timing and aftermath of consequences are about as good odds as they've ever been for the past few years, so I think I'm gonna?
You're all allowed to point and laugh at me two weeks into November when I inevitably will make a post that includes something along the lines of "why do I do these things to myself."
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Hahaha somehow having the Spice Girls and the Smiths in the same post is hilarious to me. I guess you'll understand when you finally google them. Spoiler alert: they're the go-to band for emo indie needs. (actually there was a reference to the Smiths in (500) Days of Summer).
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