Read October

The Long of It

Musical interlude:

Lost in a riddle that Saturday night
Far away on the other side
He was caught in the middle of a desperate fight
And she couldn't find how to push through
--Mike Oldfield, "Moonlight Shadow" (Warp Brothers Remix)

O_o A friend of a friend and I are both listening to the same songs, albeit different mixes O_o (I don't really like DJ Mystik, he's too hyper; the Warp Brothers are king!) A Serious Twilight Zone moment, huh?

In other news:

I burnt my thumb. The left one. It has a cool blurry streak, diagonal right across the pad, where I seared it. Of course, it also hurts like hell. And me a lefty--it's really weird having to press the spacebar with my right hand.

"What have you been up to?"

Spent the weekend indoors with my lime seltzer and my downloads, my Emma Shaplin (technopera! Best of both worlds ^_^) and my Twain. Turned the Messenger off. Let the site and the blog go all to hell. Drew the curtains closed, literally, figuratively, and emotionally speaking. In short, I had a recharge.

And yes, this Hugo Weaving-crazed, Xander-worshipping Philistine with a mutant fixation DOES like opera >^D

Re-charge tends to bring out the writerbeast within--no, I'm not subjecting you to a preview, so you can stop glaring at me now ;^)

For all my friends, to some degree, since life is kicking everyone around at the moment:

"You can look at the glass as half full or half empty, or you can just drink what is in the glass and get on with things." --Anonymous

Meaning: I feel for you--I do. But I can't do anything about any of it. And sympathy without action ultimately isn't worth a damn. So, instead, I shall endeavor to put the happy face on when I see you, and leave it on, so that at least I'm not making anything worse. Ok? Ok. We'll leave it there, then :^)

Here's one I came up with, although I'm sure someone else has also "invented" this idea so I don't claim de facto credit for it.

A Peek at Me, By Letters of the Alphabet

autumn
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
cats
dancing
Elrond
Fathom by Michael Turner
good company
hugs
interesting bits of trivia
Japan
kinetic motion
laughter
making people happy
nostalgia (1980's anybody? To the max! :^D)
orange (it's the only color that is also a fruit! ^_^)
philosophy
questioning my own assumptions
roleplaying
Stabbing Westward
talking with friends
unicorns
vacations
winter
X-Men (yeah, another comic book ;^p)
yen (gotta love the exchange rate)
Zest (as in the soap ;^) )

Just a bit of egoism, that's all. :^)

For those of you scratching your heads in bemusement at my hatred of moronic Floridian motorists, a bit of data:

"Ocala, FL : Compared with the other places SELF looked at, Ocala has more than twice the number of vehicular deaths — with 25.7 killed per 100,000 residents."

(from a study featured on MSN last week). Not that I live near Ocala, but that ought to give you some idea of what it's like here. These people are dangerous. Seriously.

And it's mostly because they're eating lunch, or doing their nails or fighting with their whiny spouses on their stupid cell phones, when they should be paying attention to the road.

I have no pity for them. None. If you behave stupidly, you deserve the consquences of your stupidity. Period. Are those consequences (death, paralysis, etc.) dire ones, indeed?

ALL THE MORE REASON TO WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING YOU *EXPLETIVES*!!

It's not a rocket science, people. You obviously knew enough to obtain your license in the first place. Now please ACT on your knowledge. >_<

News: Mom and I are headed down I-4, calm as you please,as a battered truck signals and politely pulls ahead of us. No worries, sun shining, birds singing, and Disneyanna all 'round.

Then I notice his right rear tire's wiggling a bit. Mom notices at roughly the same time.

"Umm--" she says, worried, starting to pull left a bit to pass him.

And the tire explodes. It really EXPLODES, with an audible "BANG!", spumes of grey rubber shrapnel flying in all directions. The hubcap goes whizzing off and flies straight toward our windshield, Mission: Impossible-style. It just barely missed the passenger side. Me, killed by a spinning piece of metal going at 80-something MPH.

Maybe I should get a license, just so I don't end up dead, LoL :^P

Mom passed him and stayed in the same lane, clearing the way ahead of him so he could flag down help.

I felt bad for the poor guy--it was clearly no fault on his part--he was just driving along and the tire blew up.

But yeah, my point was originally how scary driving in Florida can really be. I guess the moral of the story is "sh*t happens".

What else is happening? Lemme think...

Tenchi takes the PSAT today. In fact he's taking it as I type this. He ought to be home around 1PM or so. I hope he does well *crosses fingers*. He got a perfect score--no lie!--a PERFECT SCORE on the Verbal section of the little practice-test that comes with the booklet, so that augurs well. *Is proud* ^_^

I did framecaps of one of my Legend of Zelda cartoons :^D They're so nice :^D Badly written, badly drawn, and badly animated, yet relentlessly compelling by sheer virtue of their nostalgic impact. :^D

Also watched a "Visions of Escaflowne`" sub or two. Those surprised me--Hitomi's Japanese voice-actress is even more shrill and annoying than her Western one, AAUGHH! Yet Japanese Merle has an interesting gritty, not to say feral, quality to her voice. Which is appropriate since she's the ubiquitous "cute cat girl". But I like it--it suggests a rougher edge to Merle that isn't present in the butchered, Westernized dubs.

I'm waiting on the movie--DOWNLOAD you stupid thing! >^F--which ought to kick major butt.

Say its detractors "*WHINE* It's not real Escaflowne`."

Say its supporters "It's not supposed to be! It's alternate-universe!"

Say I: "Folken with better hair! Allen with better hair! Princess Millerne as a red-headed warrior-babe! BRING IT ON! ^_^"

Back to my core fascination: Mortal Kombat.

I finally found a summary for Mileena's one and only MKC appearance, "Shadow of a Doubt".

Got a sound clip, too: "And YOU--I'll destroy YOUR face forever! *HISSSS*" THAT's the Mileena we all know and love *^_^*

I'm also digging up audio loops of the inimitable Jeff Meek as Shao Kahn. Sadly, the copy of his diatribe with 'Leena was a corrupted file =^(

Kitana? Threshold's "Kitana" bores me ^_~ Old skool, baby, old skool!

All of those are glacially slow going, btw, since nobody on all of Kazaa, out of like a jillion possible files, has anything MKC related except a clip from a Scorpion and Sub-Zero fight. Judging by the look of it, it's probably flashback-footage from "Thicker Than Blood". (The Siro/Scorpion episode; I liked it, so there :^P) Nice enough, I guess, but I don't want it.

You know, aside from Vorpax the Uberslut and Taja the Whinybint and Siro the Great Gay Warrior (he's obviously French, as well), this show doesn't look like it was half bad.

Of course, given that I just slammed a full third of the "regulars" cast ;^P

I sense a serious need for Alternate Universe writing. SOMEONE has to salvage that mess. It might as well be me.

'Scope:

Your choice of clothes could attract the wrong kind of attention. What seems ordinary to you might be considered scandalous to someone else -- and for completely ridiculous reasons. Will you make changes based on such opinions?

I don't think it applies in the strict literal sense--I could LIVE in my Xena T-Shirt (or BSB '98 Tour T-Shirt *^_^*) and jeans of some variety. Especially the maroon fake-courdory (sp?) shorts, those are my favorite and they're cute and easy to clean, too ^_^

Uh, anyway: been doing a number of things to sort of stir the pot in that respect, teasing a lot of people. I don't mean to do it, really I don't, not with any cruel intent. You just look so cute sitting there that I have to tweak your nose, figuratively speaking ;^)



Capricorn and Music: When it comes to music, Goat sticks to what they listened to while they were growing up. Who has time to follow the bands of today? Bing Crosby and the Beach Boys may top your list, or you could still be caught up in disco fever or some other bygone era. Just be sure to do the moonwalk in the privacy of your own home.

Thanx to my mother, though, that includes four important decades: 60's straight through to the late '90s.

A lyrical sampling of my music life:

60's

Come on people
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now

70's

Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away?
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Take me through the darkness to the break of the day

80's

And the whole world has to answer right now
Just to tell you once again
Who's BAD?

early 90's

People don't you know
Don't you know it's about time
Can you hear the jam is pumpin'
While ya taste a piece of mine

Whee! Ya Kid K is the one! *BOUNCE* ^_^

Umm.

And thank you very much I happen to LIKE Linkin Park! I don't CARE what that says about me =^P

In spite of the way you were mocking me
Acting like I was part of your property...

I tried so hard and got so far
And in the end it doesn't even matter
I had to fall, to lose it all
And in the end it doesn't even matter

And "Crawling", which I love to scream along to. I have my own delivery which is really soft and pretty, then gets to howling by the line "confusing what is REAL!"
I pull a descant on that last word, hit the highest note my range allows, and yank it all the way down to the bottom while the next repitition of the chorus is going on in the background. It actually sounds pretty good; creates an interesting sonic texture.

Says Tench: You love counterpoint, huh?

*Me nods vigorously*.

I think I was a backup singer in a former life, LoL. I tend to automatically harmonize, either with or against, whatever's on.

I do this thing with "Beautiful Stranger" that's actually a lot of fun. :^D

Musical taste in a nutshell: I like Kittie, Static X and Fear Factory. Side by side with Backstreet Boys and Michael Jackson. Holding hands with Cher, The Youngbloods, and Fleetwood Mac. Sprinkled with liberal doses of (*insert DJ here*).

Me and Marshall Mathers agree on only one thing: And Moby? You could get stomped by Opee!

And if that little bit of information doesn't scare you, my Emma Shaplin fixation should ;^D (Kathleen Battle also KICKS, operatic soprano ^_^)

Umm, done being egotistical and psuedo-musical. I only know enough to be dangerous, LoL.

In reading, just finished "The Prince and the Pauper". Next up is Ian MacDonald's "Evolution's Shore".

That's it, see you later ^_^ *And hugs bye!*