They Called Me a Formalist, but Really I'm Just a Semi-Casualist.

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Consider my neologism patented! WOO! For those of you keeping score, that's number two after "Panopticlaus."

Sorry for the DRY SPELL 'round here -- I've been away and also thinking of how to reply to Ola Stockfelt's comment on a recent post, which I'll re-post when I get around to it. So stay tuned occasionally!

In the meantime, some updates in my musical listening habitz:

1. Two mixes finished, one a condensed remix of the ol' teenpop mixes (which I'm going to re-upload and do a post-script on at some point in time) and...

2. That "2007 in Confessional Dance" mix, now Down on the Dancefloor, that I threatened to do way back when. Well, it's finished, but I'd like to do a track-by-track over at Cave17 since I haven't posted there in 4ever. (Sorry!)

3. New Danity Kane album's a LIKE-LIKE candidate currently (on second listen) somewhere around #3 or 4 on my list (after Erykah, Dolly, and ummmmmm hell maybe the US-only compilation of recent tracks by SEPTEMBER!). It's this year's Rihanna album, I guess? I dunno...certainly has the 4/4 dance (h/t Rich Juzwiak) thing goin' on. (Damn that's a good mix...go get it!)

4. Apparently kids in Philly-area schools really really really really really really (etc.) like Chris Brown. He's pretty good!

5. I should be cleaning my room right now.

6. I kind of want to respond to Matthew Fluxblog and Mike Clap Clap's Be Your Own Pet praises (too lazy to find the links at the moment), but I'm still organizing my thoughts and would need to listen to the album a few more times. Basically I think they sound like they're "acting down," agewise, and I suspect it doesn't suit them as well as doing more age-appropriate bitch/snark stuff -- not that I'm opposed to acting down in principle, there's just something that rubs me the wrong way about how they do it (something about settling for something blunt -- like a baseball bat -- and funny instead of sharp and funny, but again I wouldn't be able to argue this without listening to it more).

7. I need to update my blogroll. It'll happen someday, I promise!

8. I told myself I wasn't going to address the slimy second half of the Pitchfork Hannah Montana thing. And now I'm telling you that, too! (Um...did he just tell me to go to a Fishbone concert?!)