Weekend!

Letting One's Hair Down

Eeee! I'm actually getting stuff done! *Is euphoric* ^_^

Fun stuff to reflect this bouncy state I've found myself in:

The Foxtest!

Using only one band... (One artist: Michael Jackson, run run away NOW if you can't handle that, last warning ;^D )


Are you male or female?

Dangerous, the girl is just dangerous

--"Dangerous"

Describe Yourself

Born to amuse, to inspire, to delight
Here one day, gone one night,
Like a sunset
Dying with the rising of the moon,
Gone too soon

--"Gone Too Soon"

When someone in the dark reaches out to you
And touches off a spark that comes shining through
It tells you never be afraid
Then somewhere in your heart you can feel the glow
A light to keep you warm when the night winds blow

--"Someone In The Dark"

I never knew what's running through her mind
No telling what she's gonna do
Her every move is like a danger sign
And daring me to come on through

--"Trouble"

Some feelings about yourself?

Go with it, go with it
It ain't too much for me

--"Jam"

Lovely is the feelin' now,
Fever, temperature's risin' now
Power is the force, the vow

--"Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"

Stop pressurin' me,
You make me want to SCREAM

--"Scream"

If they ask,
Tell 'em that we're
Just good friends

--"Just Good Friends"

What would you rather be doing?

Gonna dance
We're gonna burn this disco out

--"Burn This Disco Out"

Describe how you love

Now she gets no second chance, she's ridiculed and harassed
Please tell me why
No there’s a lesson to learn, respect’s not given, it’s earned
Stop maliciously attacking my integrity
I need my privacy

--"Privacy"


Wisdom For Life?

If you smile
Through your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You'll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just smile...

That's the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what's the use of crying
You'll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just smile

(If there other questions, it's unbeknownst to me)

A Saturday Six (In place of the Friday Five ;^p)

The Last Six Movies I've Watched (Most Recently Viewed Last)

Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
Bad Boys
High Fidelity
The Cell
Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back
The Madness of King George

Am I weird or what? ^_^

See you on the flipside, peeps :^D

Obi-Wan Has Taught You Well

The Art of Misdirection

My blog about nothing may be about something, but I sure as heck dunno what it is. Me, partly. What I think about the stuff no one else cares about, some. And the rest of it aimless attempts to sound like I know what I'm talking about...

I'm ready to begin playing with my color-scheme again. Just feel bored of it, and it's not even finished the way it currently is. *Sigh*. Watching Empire Strikes Back---sort of skimming it, on mute, listening to Juno Reactor through my headphones while typing up electronic communication and bits of fiction.

Odd.Empire isn't my favorite, but it's the one I can't stop watching. Really. I used to go home after school and watch it over and over and over and--you get the idea. Turned up good and loud--we had a killer stereo system, back then, speakers about 4' 9" high, with subwoofer, on an independent amplifier system. You just sort of sat back and let John Williams' theme song nail you to your chair, and off you went to a galaxy far, far away...

*Sigh* Those were the days. (I eventually blew the cones out of both speakers, by the way. They made a cool crackling sound right before they died *grins*).

Ulp. Luke just lost his hand. *Wince*.

Uh yeah, where was I going with this? Umm, presumably to tell you that watching Star Wars is giving me aesthetic ideas. That (now-)retro, chunky, stop-motion and rice-lights kind of feel. Hmm, that would look good, in, say...uhh...blue and orange. Good, loud brickish orange to work with bright lightsaber-y blue ^_^ Yeah, that ought to look swell...

Don't get excited. That's just a thought, it won't go anywhere until, oh, say October at the soonest. And if anybody I know decides to switch to that sort of scheme, I'll still go through with it anyway and so there =^P

Yeah I know, I know I KNOW I haven't sent you e-mail. I haven't really sent anybody ANY e-mail; I can't get two seconds alone on this thing. So look at it this way: at least I'm spreading the mistreatment around evenly ;^p

Later, peeps--gonna take care of some of those outgoing drafts *sigh*.

Self-Absorbtion

Soundtrack of My Life

I got the idea from thraxsbaby. To shorten the list, I sorted them by the year they represent, with a maximum of three songs per year. Here we go, then:

1983: "Breathe", by the Prodigy, "Death Is The Only Way Out" by (??), and "Stop and Panic" by Cirrus.
1984: "I'm Alive (Theme From The Last Unicorn)" by America
1985: "You're So Vain" by Carly Simon
1986: "How Can I Keep From Singing" by Enya, "Kokomo" by (??)
1987: "Turning Japanese" by (??)
1988: "Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves
1989: "When I Grow Up" by Garbage
1990: "The Power of Goodbye" by Madonna, "She's Gone" by Darryl Hall & John Oates, and "Aida" by Sarah McLachlan
1991: "Lies" by Stabbing Westward
1992: "Spit" by Kittie, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana
1993: "Break Me" by Savage Garden, "Body Hammer" by Fear Factory
1994: "Perfect" by Alanis Morrisette, "Alright Now" by Lucy Nation, and "I Know" by Jude
1995: "Juke-Joint Jezebel" by KMFDM, "Techno Syndrome (The Theme From Mortal Kombat)" by the Immortals
1996: "Why Can't It Stop?" by Moby
1997: "Almost Honest" by Megadeth, "I Dissapear" by Metallica, and "Hey You" by No Doubt
1998: "Beautiful Day" by Hypertrophy, "Dreaming" by BT
1999: "Blowin' Up The Speakers" by the Moon, "It's a Beautiful Life" by Ace of Base
2000: "Let The River Run" by Carly Simon
2001: "Over My Head" by Lit, "Atom Bomb" by (?? I think it was Powerman 5000), and "Theme From The Last of The Mohicans" by Clannad
PRESENT DAY: "Stomp to My Beat" by JS 16, "The Way You Make Me Feel" by Michael Jackson, and "Unspeakable Joy" by Kim English

You shall be entertained ;^)

Sweetness and Sunshine

Well, OK, Maybe Not Sunshine

...Seeing as I'm sitting here with the curtains closed and all ;^)

I'm tame.

No, it's true, I am. I'm too nice, damn it! *Huff huff huff*

Strangely enough, everybody else seems to like me this way. It's like I'm the only one who notices how sickening being good all the time is. I wonder if princess Kitana ever felt like this. Maybe that's why she was dumb enough to get involved with Liu, who knows?

I don't need to go chasing trousers though, thanks much. I'll sit here with my hair dye and my '80s arena-rock and pretend that makes me a rebel. It would have, back when. *SIGH*

Ah well. At least this way I won't be pregnant/dead before I reach a thirtieth birthday ^_^

I have a headache. Yet again. Seriously. I think it's this computer--I'm sitting over on the slow, crappy one our uncle gave us. That, or it's the 800 x 600 resolution. Speaking of which, how can you people stand it? Everything's so--so HUGE in 800 x 600. Gah =^P

Heh. Ran out of steam. Bye then :^)

I'm On The Threshold

I'd Rather Die Than Be Held Down

Don't mind me, just venting some surface-tension ;^) I do that a lot, actually. Really. People have told me "you're too trusting, you're too nice". What they don't understand is that I'm also a passive-agressive little sh*t when I want to be *trying to look big and tough and scary*.

Ah heck :^P *Sits and looks cute and innocent*.

I want to dance. Just so you know. *Tapping feet halfheartedly*.

Volunteering tonight. That means getting out of the house, maybe getting to see Martha, also getting to see Lydia (yeay! She's spiffy ^_^) and Richard (nice enough guy, if bizarre) and Tyler (grrr *crush kill destroy*). They're so much fun, really, as a unit. I have so so so much fun doing this, whee! *Psyched*

If you're wondering, and even if you're not I'll tell you anyway, there was a two-week hiatus in there. That's what's responsible for the slightly rancorous mutterings that were circulating in my camp. I'm one of those people who reflects what's in their environment, because their environment is an expression of who they are.

For record purposes: I was a very happy child, a very violent preeteen, and a miniature adult throuought highschool. I am now the Laughing Fool, the wiseman who's an idiot--which is, after all, the secret of his power. ;^D Cynicism and rainbow sprinkles ^_^

But enough about me, how about you? Enough about you, let's talk about life for awhile. (Yes, I'm aware that the remark is a paraphrasing ;^P)

Enough about life, let's obsess over Elrond. *Obsess OBSESSSSSS* ^_^ Isn't he the swellest? Aren't you tired of me saying that? ;^)

Good luck, Alita. Kudos, Dawn. :^)

Gonna go see if I can get ahold of Jaz thru e-mail :^) Bye then :^)

Oh, oh wait, I got thebutton of doom to show up on my own server. Finally. I'm serious this time ;^P

Does It Hurt, Baby?

OH The Pain ;^}

Relax, relax, it's a clean post :^P Except for some asterisked language ;^)

Yes it's true. I have a bottle of blue hair dye. I'm not sure when I'll finally get to use it, but there it sits, perched on the shelf, taunting me with possibilities.
Possibilities? Who am I kidding? It is just hair dye.

Catlady is on the rampage. Again. Am I going to sit here and whine? You betcha.

This morning: I am sitting downstairs perusing the Net for Elrond sites (YEAY Hugo Weaving as Elrond! He's spiffy ^_^ ) when in walks the Catlady. She proceeds to stumble over to the sink, toward the turkey she left thawing, hissing and huffing the whole way. She grabs the offending bird, and loudly as humanly possible proceeds to slam it into, around and upon every metal object in the kitchen. *CLANG CRASH SMASH etc.* "God bless it all!" she hisses. "Are you going to help me with this damn thing before I drop it, or just sit there?" So I get up and come over to help.

"F*ck it all!" she howls, wrestling with the oven-rack (do we think it might work better if we lifted the rack before trying to yank it out of the oven?) "I'm not cooking this d*mn thing and I can't be f*cked to do this! It's too much d*mn work in the morning! F*CK!" She then launches into a tirade about coffee, Sunday morning newspapers, Martin Sheen, the evils of fossil-fuel, and Janet Reno's bellybutton.

Now what is wrong with this picture? Did I want her opinion on anything? Did I mess with her in any way, shape or form? Didn't I offer help when it was demanded? Did I insult Janet Reno's bellybutton? Did I? Did I?

Hell, no! So what exactly is her problem? *Sigh*

Okay, rant over, you can stop skimming now.

So um, yeah. I have blue hair dye. I also came up with a swell new method of wearing my purple Mardi Gras beads which has gotten me my fair share of astonished looks from passerby ^_^

It's very simple: braid your hair. pull the back of the necklace tight against the back of your head, and hang the sides over the tops of your ears. Adjust at your leisure. NOTE: this is not painful, but it does take some getting used to, and after wearing it for about six hours, your ears may get a bit sore. But it looks so great that it's worth it ^_^

Spent the day just generally wasting my time and my talents and studying Elrond. (Read: no fic today. With "Shadows" I have to rewrite the end of the first part for the opening of the second and I am SO not looking forward to all that legwork. >_< And with "Mirrorworld", I don't know quite how to begin their descent into that Realm. I know what happens, pretty much, but not how to start. Say it with me now: *SIGH*.)

So uh, in other news: Alita seems to be neck-deep in some sort of conflict, although since I know nothing about it I am keeping my mouth shut and myself out of it. On the plus side, a friend of hers may be able to restore some of the things that were taken from her, thanks to that wonderous legal gray-area called the "single, archival copy for backup purposes only".

Dawn got seriously burnt by a friend's guardians/supporters. Owtch >_<

Things are rough all over, yeah? Oh well. Rest assured, tommorow is a brighter day, and all that ;^)

Meaning: something might happen to you tommorow that will make the sh*t that happened to you today look like a picnic in the park. Seriously.

But enough of the doomsayings, go gaze upon my beautiful Elrond button from that quiz.

Isn't he the BEST? ^_^

Elrond was always my favorite character (Gandalf being my second-favorite), and Mr. Weaving was THE perfect choice to portray him. Heaps and heaps and heaps of swellness ^_^

Although, for the record, I would not at all kick him out of my bed for snoring >;^D

Elijah Wood is the swellest for that factor tho', hrrrrrrrrrrr >=^) I've had an on-off crush with him since Tom and Huck. (I was in, what, sixth grade? God, I feel old. ;^P)

Uh yeah, I'll stop scaring you now ;^)

Chronal Compression

The Weekend in Summary

Okay, here we go:

Spent all of Thursday: rejoicing over recieving a surprise in realtime. ^_^

Spent all of Friday: wishing in vain for the computer. (Grrr catlady :^P)

(Here's where the summary picks up a little steam, it's less of a summary than an incoherent muddle of run-on sentences ;^) )

Spent all of Saturday: putting off commitments, coding pages, and royally screwing up several of said pages, answering email, and avoiding life by retreating to Border's.

I love books--or rather, such books as I love, I love dearly. Did that make any sense? ;^) What I meant was, I do not venture outside of my chosen stuffs (fantasy, RP materials, and graphic-novels, with a small sprinkling of magazines). If that makes me immature or escapist or *shudder* narrow-minded, oh well. (Do not get me started, I will defend my chosen addictions unto the death. ^_~`)

No, that's not accurate; I do stretch my neck out now and then and read non-fiction, and I'm the one in my family with the strongest leaning towards actual classic literature. It's just that I'd rather pick up something I know I'll enjoy, rather than pick up something I've never heard of and be disappointed, and end up crawling back to my fantasy-novels anyway.

Uhh, what was the point of that? Dunno, but I had fun rambling about it :^)

I also got an interesting surprise--I was at a listening booth with my notebook out, jotting stuff down like I always do--when suddenly there was this apparition behind me, a salsegirl who looked like Janeanne Garofalo (sp? no disrespect meant ^^;) with Preppy Disease, looking over my shoulder. I first saw her reflected in the shiny plastic wrappers they use on CDs. It took me a minute, standing there writing stuffs about "my" Elrond, to figure out that she was reading over my shoulder!

Here's a bit of what she saw: I can see that--him and a very young Arwen, out under the stars in a field. "See," he says, pointing. "There is Iseldre, Watcher. And Lyriidae, Thresher, Starfisher." He is all brown and silver--a great silver hill spider, wise as Ages, clever as death.

We've got to go home soon *double sigh*....
(a little margin-squiggle) "Timo Maas: Loud"
House [music gets me] in the body-bones, right in the guts. Dancey-pop makes my feet happy ^_^

Stuff like that. She probably thought I was completely psycho or something *grins*. My notebooks make no sense to the average rational human being :^D

Took another LotR personality test, and got this of all people: Galadriel.

Ickkk. >=^P She's the one everybody wants to be. What, may I ask, is so all-fired special about Galadriel? Other than that she's pretty and lives amongst golden trees? She doesn't really do much of anything, just gives the adventurers visions and gifts and sends them on their way. *Shakes head*.

I cheated the source code and got my proper result: Elrond.

I was considerably miffed by this, until I took a good look at the script. "Aragorn" was the "odd" result, with "Galadriel" set up to be the "average", it's the value that the results lean to with greatest leeway. In short, that's the one everybody gets because it's the value that crops up most often. So of course I got Galadriel. There's really no way I couldn't have...except by cheating. Which I did *Grinning devilishly*. There's a reason "my" Elrond is a bit on the wicked side ;^)

So who says the race of Men is the only one that can be corrupted? Women can be, too ;^D

Oh, and if you're wondering where the pictures went, it's because they're some of those "save on your own server" ones. Hel-lo? If I had my own server, I would. I don't. That's why I'm relying on you. :^P

I'll be back with more interesting chatter when I can think of some. Bye then :^)