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| Thursday, April 30th, 2009 | |
| 2:39 pm | Okay So I've had a couple people email me wondering and I thought I'd just post the info here since I don't know how much I'll be around. I have a paypal account w/ the email address onesarcasticchick (at) gmail (dot) com . If you don't want to buy anything or can't swing the flute $ but instead want to throw a few bucks my way? At this point in time I am desperate enough not to argue. And if you let me know a preference, I will repay the $ in full plus include a short fic, because I don't own much but I own my words and would love to be able to repay your kindness the only way I know how. Info if you want. |
| 11:02 am | So, here's the 411 My ability to create revenge fantasies is still strong, my friends. Which, is only right since fate's frowning at me. See - goes like this. Jo: *gets laid off* Woe! Jo: *finds job* Yay! Jo: *finds out job doesn't start till May 4* Boo! Jo: *remembers she has flute to sell for money* Yay! Jo: *finds buyer for flute/piccolo* Double-yay! Jo: *asshat buyer backs out with 2 days left for rent payment* Boo! Jo: *finds irony of getting evicted 4 days before new job starts not amusing* Yeah. That's right. 2 fucking days before and the fucker bails (and what exactly is his daughter going to use now? Jackball better not have purchased a different flute), leaving me with zero time to find new buyer which means me being homeless in oh, just in time to start my job! Oh, I had some lovely, lovely fantasies last night involving creative use of the carrying case as a mechanism for hanging him by his balls from the staircase. So - amidst my fantasies of revenge last night and total major freak out/melt down - I also remembered the gigantic thing known as fandom. And maybe -maybe- someone out there in LJ land knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who is looking to buy a flute/piccolo *now* for $1k. So if you spread the word with a note in your journal - I would be incredibly totally happy. And if you want to buy? Even happier. The flute is a Yamaha 400 series with a gold lip plate (embouchre). Sterling silver head joint, body, open holed (with all the plugs in case the flutist is not to that level yet), and a B foot. The piccolo ... I'm not positive on the specifics. The flute case is a nylon carrying case with strap which opens to reveal the flute. There is also a pouch for the piccolo in the front. I originally purchased this flute and piccolo for a little over $2k. The flute might need to be repadded - but outside that? Both the flute and piccolo are in perfect condition. I primarily played the piccolo through college so the flute was almost wasted on me! And at this point in time - I'm willing if you're not happy with the flute, to buy it back in a couple months! How about that for a sweet deal? *nods* And in case you're feeling like not buying a flute, I do have a Cuisinart Toaster Oven that's never been used, a Swinger sewing machine, a Kodak Z740 camera w/ battery recharger and rechargable batteries, amp and 5-speaker home theater surround sound system, or my soul and/or first born I would be willing to sell. I'm not kidding about the soul/first born thing. Seriously. I don't want to be homeless, y0 and my soul is just an unnecessary filler. Transaction via PayPal or check if you're in LNK. Pics of flute and piccolo, in case anyone's still with me.    |
| 11:02 am | Catching Up - and VOTE! Catching Up - or How Jo Manages to Fit 100 Topics and a Bazillion Days into a Single LJ Post 1. Me! - Me update w/ thank you, crafting, book reviews 2. Writing - novels and fanfic and awards and art! Oh my! 3. Politics - Voting, Rant on racism, hate, fearmongering and religion 4. Anti-intellectualism - A rant with a guest spot by Richard Wolffe and Rachel Maddow I'm alive! No, seriously. I am. Really. So, went through period of teh suck, exasperated by parental suck, and topped off with some serious suck. Which of course made me do my expert hermit-impersonation in order to hide from teh suck which still existed despite my hiding, but my hermit'ing at least made teh suck less visible to all and reduced my need to pretend that teh suck didn't exist. And it finally culminated in "Teh Giant Suckage of Birthday Proportions". So, thank you to all you well-wishers who wished me a happy b-day and were relieved as to my un-dead status. Made me smile lots. And I swear I am almost very-nearly out of my hermit-stage of dealing with 'Teh Suck'. Look, I'm posting again! And rants at that! But in the meantime, I managed to get a lot of knitting done, got hooked on a new craft (damn you enablers!), got a lot of writing done, and still have not located a job. So if anyone knows of any job openings for an admin assistant or grant/proposal writers or any variation of the sort, let me know. :) Having a job would be like .. awesome. Picture of my new craft: toothbrush rug making.  The rug is much bigger now with its green border ... but this is definitely addictive and good for working on while I'm watching KO, RM, or TDS and TCR. I've also began reading books like they were nothing - honestly the volume of books/words I've read in the past month/month+ alarms me. And nothing of worthwhile consequence really, but entertaining reads for all the sometimes cheese. Mostly urban fantasy- I'm on some sort of mega-kick lately in that genre. Fun stuff. Southern Vampire Mystery Series by Charlaine Harris ie The book origins of "True Blood" - the new series on HBO. I read all 8 of these novels in about oh, 3 days' time. Good stuff - cheesy as hell sometimes, but hey - what do you expect from a gothic 'vampire' fantasy series set in Louisiana? Really fun reads - don't get me wrong - there's nothing educational about these, and they're written pretty simplistically, but they're entertaining brain candy. And for a lover of the supernatural like me, these were great. Highly recommend if you like the HBO show in any way, or if you like supernatural stories - especially the latter books which get more involved. Ophelia and Abby Mystery Series by Shirley Damsgaard I would compare these to the Southern Vampire Mystery series, only this series is about librarian witch and her grandma witch. Again, a fun, quick read (I read the 5 books in the series in a matter of days again) and it's set in small town Iowa - which I have to admit was a particular draw. They're quirky - less heavy on the romance than the Stackhouse books, and probably a bit less complex as far as the cast of characters go, but as far as the personalities, I really like Ophelia and Abby. There's a 6th book out - but I haven't gotten access to it yet. So can't say what the 6th book is like, but another good brain candy series. Books not to bother reading: Game Series by Christine Feehan Ashamed to admit that I read all 7 books in this series. Utterly absolutely horrible. Paranormal romance - that genre name alone should have told me to stay away and not waste my time. It was so bad on so many levels that I kept reading - damned me and my 'bad fic' habits. It's like crack. I couldn't stop despite the horrible plots, the horrible shallow characters, and the utterly horrible "romance" heaving breasts and burning in the loins passions that the characters just found themselves unable to resist and so threw off their clothes in the most unlikely of circumstances and made hot burning luuuuuurve under the cover of darkness. Psy-Changelings Series by Nalini Singh I am even more ashamed to admit that I read all 5 books in the series. Even worse than the Game Series, if that's possible. I should have been deterred once again by the half-naked, ripple-chested men on the front covers or the 'paranormal romance' genre - but it's a kick I'm on lately and well, I really need to get off it for my sanity. Bad bad bad - the plots have no redeemable quality about 'em, the heroines are your cliched Harlequin damsels in distress mashed with the worst Mary Sues the Harry Potter Fandom has to offer, and well, it's just trash. But I read them, all. I think my IQ dropped a good couple points following the consumption of those books. Sign of the Zodiac Series by Vicki Pettersson I was debating putting this in the "read" but wound up putting it in the 'don't bother' section. Urban fantasy, first book was actually quite entertaining ... but then the series has just fallen downhill after that. 3 books total so far - and while the first book is good (though has quite the Mary Sue lead), the rest are simply ... shit. Seriously. Quite disappointing despite the world Vicki created in the first one. Delta Force Series by Shannon Butcher Absolutely dreadful. Read 2 books in the series - and holy crap, the amount of BAD is indescribable. Just a dreadfully cliched horrible romance series that is supposed to be about these intelligent, strong women and it's just ... crap. There's no other way to put it. Wait - another way to put it would be "shit." That bad. And that's it! Well, I've started a few others, but don't have anything to say about 'em yet. Can I say, despite loving the feel of a book in my hands, I do love MicroSoft Reader? Wheeee speed reading at its finest. And I really hope I move out of the 'romance' novel phase that I seem to be in. Its really not good for my brain. Writing - novels and fanfic and awards and art! Oh my! So. Book first. Had a break-thru on the novel-front. Not that I didn't have a general plot idea for the trilogy, but it wasn't really solid. And then was talking with </a></b></a> ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} lilithilien and had one of those "OMG!!" break-thru moments in plotting where everything sorta comes together and clicks. And, oddly enough (well, not oddly) but it sort of ... mashes concepts and stories I've written and explored in fanfic because well, similar themes and all that jazz (mmmmmdragons). Whee! So, Burn is becoming more and more concrete. And I got some good books on publishing and good advice from a published writer and ... I think I'm getting closer and closer to actually submitting something. And it scares the piss outta me, quite honestly. I can handle rejection. I just don't know how well I'll handle *lots* of rejection. :) But I'm feeling far more confident about the story concept, plus I've been doing a lot of reading lately and I look at the quality of stuff that is being published and I think to myself "dude, I can so do that, and better." I just hope that egocentric, immodest attitude is accurate otherwise I will feel really, really silly. *g* On the fanfic front - well, for starters, how fun is it to be in a fandom in which the actors enjoy teasing the fangirls/boys and enjoy snogging in public just for shits and giggles? I, for one, can appreciate it. :)  Damn you, John Barrowman and Gareth David-Lloyd. You're making me squeak like a boy going through puberty. I'm posting the next story in the "Windhovers" saga now. And I have to admit that I'm having a lot of fun in this 'verse. And ... the extremely cool part? I'm getting lots and lots of pretty pretty art to go along with it. And there's nothing more humbling nor quite the awesome feeling than getting people who like your fic enough to create art from it. Honestly! It's just...happy feel good stuff. For instance.... by </a></b></a> draw_yourworld: How pretty is that? Course, some ya'll prolly have no idea what that's about. But it doesn't matter. Cause it's just so freaking cool to see stuff that's in your head and written in text come alive in actaul picture form. I imagine this is the same kind of giddy that people who write novels/screenplays who then see it come alive on screen, but to a much smaller and less financially profitable kind of way. Hopefully Burn will some day get there too. *sighs happily and hopes* Another really cool thing on the fic front - my fic is winning awards! How freaking cool is that? So, now I'm going to indulge in some bragging, because well, that's really freaking awesome and there were some really good fics that were in competition and it's just ... so happy-fuzzy to win something. I never win stuff! Wheee! Doctor Who/Torchwood Slash Awards Won: Best Overall Fic (yeah, seriously, OVERALL! DW and TW 'verse!): Shades of Ianto Best Death Fic (hah! *giggles*): Shades of Ianto Best Ianto Characterization: Shades of Ianto Runner up: Best Epic: Shades of Ianto Skiffy Awards First Place: Best of Ianto: Hurt/Comfort - Proof of Your Existence Second Place: Best of Ianto: Action/Adventure - Proof of Your Existence Third Place: Best of Ianto: Drama - Gwen Discovers Flat Holm Best of Ianto: Action/Adventure - The Windhovers And now there's a new contest where I've gotten a few nominations for Proof and Windhovers at Children of Time Awards. I mean ... how freaking cool. Lotsa warm fuzzies cause well, cha. And it's so cool getting nom'd for stuff like character is so incredibly cool cause that's one of the most important things to me as a writer. Woot! For anyone who's interested and unaware of my fanfic journal, most of my stuff is listed at SarcasticBabble though it has not been updated yet with the new Windhover story or art. But, for anyone looking to kill a lot of time (like Shades is over 200k words ;) ), feel free to peruse! Just no mocking me for writing slash if/when you see me in person. Cause then I'll have to educate you on the values of a) erotica and b) how pretty Jack/Ianto are together and c) why yes, I write hot man loving and that could quite literally take hours. You know how I tend to babble. Politics First off - if you're not planning on voting, wtf? VOTE. If you think Obama's going to win by a landslide and don't need to vote, I am thwapping you upside the head right now and telling you to vote. If you think McCain is going to lose and so therefore your vote is unimportant, I am thwapping you upside the head right now and telling you to vote (and to reconsider voting for Barr or Paul). If you think Obama's going to win but you're in a "red" state so your vote won't matter, I am thwapping you upside the head right now and telling you to vote because red states are no longer red states (come on - North Carolina, Indiana, North Dakota and Montana could go blue), NE-01 and NE-02 have a possibility of going blue, and you want bragging rights for the next 4 years to say that yeah, I voted for this prez. And finally, even if you're in Nebraska and think that Obama doesn't stand a chance (which, you're wrong according to recent polling), I'm thwapping you upside the head right now and telling you to vote because there are important downticket matters like voting for Esch and Kleeb and keeping that corrupt, morally bankrupt asshole Johanns away from the Senate seat. I usually don't have that strong an opinion on state spots, but dammit, Johanns is vile. Not to mention, there are lots of council people, props, etc... so just vote, ya'll. Next, what is with this hate and fear in re: to race and religion? Seriously. We have "Obsession" being mailed out/put in newspapers en masse to swing state voters which is inspiring hate and fear against Islam (oh, but it starts out with an apologetic "this is about RADICAL Islam, not all Islam is bad" and then proceeds to cram over a decade of violent images, quotes, and stories into a 70 minute film of fear-mongering. Fear the scary brown people! They are going to kill everyone and take over the world!!!!). We have John McCain defending Barack Obama against being called an Arab ("No, he's not an Arab. He's a citizen ... a decent family man." WTF? So Arabs are not decent family men?) And what the hell is so wrong about being Muslim? Goddammit. For being such a 'melting pot' and a nation built on immigrants and other cultures, the US is turning into one back-asswards isolationist xenophobic nation who forgets that there's this thing called the "Constitution" that encourages scary notions like 'equality' and 'freedom of religion' and silly things like that. You know, I traveled onto some conservative forums after that whole "B" woman hoax. For starters - I pity the poor woman because she's clearly got some mental health issues. But the reactions of some conservatives immediately following the 32-point font on Drudge screaming "WHITE FEMALE McCAIN SUPPORTER MUTILATED BY SCARY BLACK MAN!!!!" were just ... horrifying ... and they have absolutely no mental health issues (well, obvious like the "B" woman) to defend their actions/words. I have never seen so much racial HATE being so publically admitted like this in this day and age. They honestly thought that this was what was to be expected should a black man become president. They honestly thought that Obama was going to get into the White House, enslave white people, take away their guns (omg the people railing about how they needed to go out and buy guns to defend themselves before an Obama presidency...), turn the nation into a Welfare state run by lazy black people, etc... I mean - don't get me wrong - I know that racism still exists. Duh. You'd have to be blind/deaf/dumb to miss the Obama effigies being hung, the racist signs against the 'half-breed', etc.. And we won't go into things that my own family has said or is in the family history. But we're talking pages upon pages of comments of blatant, disgusting, unadulterated racism being openly discussed in a public setting. It just blew my mind. And THEN when the story proved to be a hoax - rather than accepting that this woman is mentally disturbed - they instead threw out these crack-pot theories about how it was probably an Obama supporter who was pretending to be a McCain supporter who was trying to stir up trouble for the McCain campaign. Seriously?!? I have not seen such grand delusion or stupidity demonstrated by a self-destructing party as I have this election cycle (granted, I'm youngish and haven't seen many elections, much less paid attention to them as I am this time around). It's disgusting. It's divisive. Honestly - by the time the election is over - we're going to have half the country scared out of their minds because some scary black Muslim is in the White House and they need to do what they can to end that for the sake of their (white) nation. Pathetic. I think I have more to fear from scary white people. Anti-intellectualism Sarah Palin is one down-right scary, terror-inducing person. I say person because it wouldn't matter if she was male (though her name might be Mike Huckabee) or female - she is scary. I do not want scary in the White House. And she's not scary because I fear her "hotness" (which, I totally don't think she's hot, but whatever), but she's scary because she is making stone-dumb a desired quality for the US Presidency. The sheer number of people who support her "Joe Six-Pack" and "Hockey-mom" lines of bullshit ought to be banished to the furthest reaches of Alaska (you know, the parts that can see Russia) so that all that stupidity is confined to a single state for voting purposes. Honestly - I will be the first to admit that I am attracted to intelligence. Intelligence is sexy as hell and it doesn't matter the package it comes in. Maybe that's why I don't find Palin attractive at all. And I will be the first to admit that I am the worst example of the education system - it doesn't and never has worked for me. I was the geek who read out of encyclopedias as a kid, goofed off in classes in grade school (and would have gotten in so much trouble had I not been ace'ing the classes *g*), skipped classes all the time in college, etc.. Formal, structured school settings + me do not conform well with how I learn. Give me a book on the subject, let me read/work on and explore projects at my own pace and I have full confidence in my ability to learn anything. At any rate - I'm sorry - but a dumb person should not be president, nor close to the presidency, nor should low-education or low-intelligence or plain dumbness be celebrated as a fundamental quality of a president. We've dealt with one extremely stupid president for the past 8 years. Why the hell would we want another? Case in point - Palin pontificating about "Special Needs Children" (SNC) because doncha know, she has a SPC and the programs she'd start and how that'd be a focus of her role as VP (not to mention she still has no fucking clue what the job function of the VP is - "run the Senate"??? Seriously? Who the hell goes to a job interview not knowing what the job is they're applying for!?). And in this policy speech, she mocks earmark spending ... for fruit fly research. Oh, ha ha. Listen to all the people laugh. You fucking moron. And I don't use that term lightly. Fruit fly research. A core foundation in the study of human disease and treatments. A core foundation in ... guess what, Sarah Palin?! Autism. You know, those SNC that you want to devote your time in the White House too? You know, those children which are so dear and important to you? The ones that you're going to devote policy and gov spending for? Sort of like the ones you let your 7 year old daughter awkwardly carry around on stage to earn the sympathy vote? Jesus H Christ on a houseboat. This is some kind of stupid. Richard Wolffe said it best on Countdown last night - so I'll let him speak for me and everyone else ... (sorry, the link is for the full segment - but worth the watch because well, KO's lead in is good and Richard Wolffe is just. .. the sexiest awesome to ever awesome the awesome. Prize quote: KO: How could they let Gov. Palin go out and mock research that has identified a genetic indicator for autism? Who was stupid or insensitive enough to let that happen? And for a good read on the science part, Of Flies and Worms: Model Systems for Research. And finally, for a lovely spot of sense, Rachel Maddow's snark on fruit flies. Can I just say how much I love RM and am so glad I get to watch her every night now? And ... upon read through - my apologies for the overuse of the word "cool" and my apparent inability to express the feeling with any other word. ;) |
| 11:02 am | I really need a crack!icon.... So, there's this meme going around. Or I just spotted it today cause I'm slow like that. Anywho, I decided to actually do a meme. Meme: Get out your iPod, mp3 player, whatever, hit shuffle, list the first 25 songs and tell what each song reminds you of. So, I went a little overboard, I think, on the whole "remind you of" bit. And ... there is no rhyme or reason to the music I have on my PC. What can I say, I like all things music. The List: 1. Tool - Reflection 2. Howard Shore - Allegiance to Denethor (RotK full massively huge mega-extended OST) 3. Radiohead - Talk Show Host 4. Harry Gregson-Williams - Father Christmas (Chronicles of Narnia OST) 5. The String Quartet Tribute - By Myself (Linkin Park covers ala String Quartets) 6. The Doors - Love Me Two Times 7. Takeharu Ishimoto - Last Order (Crisis Mix) - FFVII OST 8. Mike Oldfield - Empyrean 9. Story of the Year - Angel in the Swamp 10. Javier Navarrete - Not Human (El que no es humano) - Pan's Labyrinth OST 11. Rasputina - 1816, The Year Without a Summer 12. She and Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here? 13. Plain White T's - Revenge 14. Neverending White Lights - Last of the Great Lovers 15. Vanessa Paradis w/ Johnny Depp - One (U2 cover) 16. Eileen Ivers - Mundo Pequeño/Small World 17. Regina Spektor - Apres Moi 18. Sonata Arctica - Tallulah 19. Antony and the Johnsons - Hope There's Someone 20. Russian Circles - Station 21. Murray Gold - The Runaway Bride (DW OST) 22. Hans Zimmer - One Day (PotC III OST) 23. Ursula 1000 - Kaboom! 24. Midnattsol - Enlightenment 25. Bon Jovi - Summertime 1. Tool - Reflection For some reason when I hear the intro of this song, I think Godsmack meets Loreena McKinnett. Seriously. There's no rhyme or reason to it, nor are the artists comparable to Tool or to themselves on any level. Now, Lateralus was an album I listened to repeatedly when I was writing the dragon attack chapters of SoI. Which is so contrary to how I typically write - I can't write to music with lyrics. Hence it's usually (high drama) OSTs. But ... those chapters needed something more. And I can so clearly remember writing dragon battles w/ this music in the background. Such the perfect backdrop for the tension/action/drama in those chapters. 2. Howard Shore - Allegiance to Denethor (RotK full massively huge mega-extended OST) How can you listen to this and not picture Pippin kneeling before Denethor? Or the tomatos popping in Denethor's mouth? I know it's not the song - but anything Denethor-related just makes me instantly think of him chowing down on food while Faramir rode into a losing battle and Pippin sang. *sniffs* 3. Radiohead - Talk Show Host I was addicted to the Romeo & Juliet OST for the longest time - and I have to admit - I hadn't even seen the movie before I bought the CD - it wasn't till I was in college that I actually saw the movie. Takes me back to highschool days, hiding away from the family in the computer room working on a report for school or playing solitaire. Between that album and Madonna's Ray of Light... they were my music of choice and will always make me think of that computer room and our wonderful old-school Mac. 4. Harry Gregson-Williams - Father Christmas (Chronicles of Narnia OST) So many OSTs are tied to SoI now ;) I listened to CoN OST repeatedly while writing SoI, can't even state the specific chapters because I listened to it throughout. The music itself, though, never reminds me of Christmas. ;) 5. The String Quartet Tribute - By Myself (Linkin Park covers ala String Quartets) Okay - I have to admit - I adore Linkin Park. For all their emo angst pop-metal-rock, their music speaks to me - not for the lyrics really, but I'm such a whore for genre smashing that you combine metalrock and rap and well, count me in. And I loathe rap music. But I like their faux-rap. I bought Hybrid Theory the day it came out back in 2000, after hearing "One-Step Closer" on some listen-to-it-before-it-comes-out! radio program. I listened to it non-stop for a while, and will always remember the album as the one I listened to when I came back to work at Godfather's over the holidays. Nothing beats closing time than rocking out to LP w/ the rest of the crew. *g* 6. The Doors - Love Me Two Times While we never played the song, the Doors is so linked in my head with the marching band show we did of the Doors' music. I loved marching band in HS, really wasn't a fan of it in college. (God, how much of a geek am I making myself out to be?). They just managed to strip the fun of marching band (and what I loved, the music) when it became all serious and perfection and all that. That and the bastards were -brutal- when it came to arrangements for the picca-hoes (piccolo players, for those uninformed). This show, if I remember right, was one of those 'short weeks' - the rest of the band could use their music - but the picca-hoes had to memorize their music every single time because there's no easy way to tote along music while playing a piccolo. And the arrangements (for People are Strange, I remember in particular) were just bruuuuuuutal for the picca-hoes, second only to having to memorize fucking "Stars and Stripes Forever" - yet another short-week program where the rest of the band could use their music and you have INSANITY for the piccahoes, being a major focus for 50% of the song. But, I lucked out with that song having played it in HS cause my band director was on crack and thought me and the other gal who owned a piccolo could pull it off. 7. Takeharu Ishimoto - Last Order (Crisis Mix) - FFVII OST It's probably the fact that this belongs to a game OST, but this song reminds me of the days when I'd button-mash like the most fiendish button-masher to ever mash buttons. Oh, every now and then I had some skill thrown in, remembering vicious combos that only sometimes worked and never when I wanted them to when I was up against someone who kept repeating the same damned move over and over and over again until they defeated me while playing SoulCalibur (my favorite game -ever-. Shup - I own a DreamCast for that game and that game only). Would also play DOA2 or variations of Tekken like a button-mashing fiend. 8. Mike Oldfield - Empyrean Hm....what does this remind me of? It's not tied to a great deal memory-wise since it's a relatively new album. However, I adore Mike Oldfield in general - musical geeeenius. Oh come on, ya'll know Tubular Bells!?!! Think - The Exorcist. Yes, -that- Tubular Bells. Now you remember, yeah? Speaking of The Exorcist and the pea-soup scene that I shall never, ever, ever in my little ol' life forget - I absolutely hate pea soup. Because of that movie. Seriously. And I had a roomie at one point who decided to make this MASSIVE pot of pea soup. From scratch. And it stunk to high heaven. Ugh. It was the most disgusting thing ever. But she seemed to enjoy it. (Same roomie who would crack eggs and put the nasty gross shells back in the egg carton and put the carton back in the fridge, downed half a bottle of Tylenol PM one night in an attempt to kill herself - which I remember so distinctly cause that night we had celebrated the birthdays of the other roomie and some a friend of ours and his twin bro's 21st b-day. Two, count them two pukey roomies! Had an odd conversation about bookbags w/ the Tylenol roomie. Ugh.) 9. Story of the Year - Angel in the Swamp Again, nothing connected to this particular song since it's a new (not yet released) album. However, SotY will always remind me of my more emo-punk-rock/alt rock days (hey, I had MTV2 at that time). Their album Page Avenue came out in 2003? And I think I listened to it pretty much non-stop cause I'm a sucker for that general sound of voice and the screamer alt rock - no matter how tweenie it makes me to admit it *g*. It's not like the lyrics are just ... brilliant. Cause they're not. But put on "In the Shadows" and I'm bobbing my head in time with a perfect headspace for writing. Can't write to the music, but it puts me in the mood to write. And I wrote a shit-ton of RPG stuff with this music. 10. Javier Navarrete - Not Human (El que no es humano) - Pan's Labyrinth OST Yes, another OST. And another one I used frequently while writing SoI. This song tho? Seriously sounds like it could be on the LotR: TT OST for part of the song. Pan's Labyrinth got me through Avalon's destruction. 11. Rasputina - 1816, The Year Without a Summer Guh. I love symphonic metal - especially chicks on cellos symphonic metal. *g* Again with the clashing genres. The gal who started this band played the cello for/toured with Nirvana back in the day. Which reminds me - Nirvana. I've mentioned missing out on the grunge era of music. I found Nirvana almost a decade later. *headdesks* So cheated. Anywho - Rasputina. Rasputina is one of those artists I love taking with me on long car trips, plugging it into the cd player and cranking it loud. It's one of those strangely up-tempo sounds - not that the music isn't dark and really, really hard to classify - but it's got such a good beat that it's hard not to get lost within the music. 12. She and Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here? So much love for Zoey Deschanel. She will always be forever engrained in my head as DG. Listening to this song, my brain wants to break. It wants to label it as 60s girl groups and 70s hippie, but at the same time, there's guitar solos in there that just don't fit with period but you can't ditch the flower child image that Zoey encourages a bit. This song makes me smile - so flirty - and for whatever reason takes me back to my old neighborhood in my hometown, playing in the yard w/ all the neighbor kids. You know - in those years when you chased boys even tho they had cooties. 13. Plain White T's - Revenge *g* I have such a secret soft spot for the PWTs. There's nothing spectacular or special about the group - they have really basic boring standard rock rhythms, but they're just one of those happy rock groups perfect for The OC or something. However, they make me bounce. Which, is never a bad thing. And 'Hey There Delilah' is such a cheesy-assed commercial song but I adore it all the same because there's just something sexy about a boy and a guitar. 14. Neverending White Lights - Last of the Great Lovers *purrs* Piano. Like a boy and a guitar, I go weak in the knees for simple piano, strings, accoustic guitar, etc... And this is just simply soft, pure wallowing music. What's it remind me of? Janto. Through and through. Or possibly Tosh-related. But mostly Janto - Jack losing Ianto, watching him die while Jack remains. I know - total sappy schmoop. But I don't care. It's a Janto love song. 15. Vanessa Paradis w/ Johnny Depp - One (U2 cover) Oh god, you know that whole thing w/ a boy and a guitar? A boy and a piano. Beats all. *whibbles* At first listen, I hated this song because Vanessa sings with such an ... almost childish voice. But then I remember that Johnny is playing the piano. And singing harmony. And then Vanessa giggles and I was lost. Listened to this on repeat for a crazy-long time, because actors/actresses who also sing or are musically inclined are so incredibly hot. 16. Eileen Ivers - Mundo Pequeño/Small World Okay - talk about your warped genre smashing. Spanish meets Irish? Heavy on the violin solo, which makes me totally think of my first love, Vanessa Mae. I heard her play Toccata and Fugue in D Minor for the first time on Good Morning America when I was on vacation in Colorado - when her album was first released. I snatched that album up so fast. One of the first CDs I ever owned. Her music is really eclectic (not unlike this song or my play list in general), from Classical Gas to classic Bach to Irish themes. All with her just -killing- on the violin. Guh. If you haven't noticed - I have a serious lust for musical instruments in general ;) 17. Regina Spektor - Apres Moi I don't know what the hell she's singing half the time. And you know what? Don't care. She's a hot chick playing the piano. *mmmmusician fetish* Regina has become synonymous for Toshiko Sato in my head. Every song Regina sings just seems to -fit- the Tosh character. At some point when I get skilled enough, I'm making a fanvid for Tosh set to a Regina song. And I don't know if it's the hair or the hot chick playing the piano, but Regina -always- makes me think of Tori Amos. Tori Amos in her early years - pre-adult contemporary stuff she's got going on that I just ... don't like at all. But Regina's style is fairly similar to Tori, who I've seen a couple times in concert and own every album up to To Venus and Back. And, Tori Amos will -always- remind me of the roomie/friend </a></b></a> molynn who got me hooked on both DMB and Tori. 18. Sonata Arctica - Tallulah MmmmScandanavian pop-metal. With piano solos. The song itself makes me think of the power ballads of the 80s - oh yes - I am a total power ballad loving freak. Cinderella? Poison? GnR? Boston? Oh yes. GIVE THEM TO ME. This song has the same wailing electric guitar and same straight forward 4/4 beat of your typical power ballad. It's the accents that get me in Sonata Arctica though. They're Finnish, but I spent part of my childhood living in Norway and the accents reminds me so much of speaking w/ my old friends from there it brings back memories of reading Mother Goose late at night cause there were periods the sun didn't set so of course it wasn't bed time and running down the street buck naked cause me and my friends had gotten our clothes wet and wet clothes are nasty so nekkid! (Dude, I was 4. Cut me some slack.) The complex my family and I lived in was set right near the woods too - and I remember sneaking off into the forests with the neihgbor kids and finding weird mushrooms and making up stories about faeries and trolls. 19. Antony and the Johnsons - Hope There's Someone I have absolutely no clue where I got this song. Even tho the song is so pretty, the lead singer's voice reminds me of the crazy "Chocolate Rain" song (search for it, Tay Zonday and youtube and you'll know what the hell I'm talking about) and it makes me twitch. Violently. Probably why I haven't listened to this song a great deal, despite the wonderful piano in it. :) Chocolate rain....some stay dry and others feel the pain ...chocolate rain... 20. Russian Circles - Station Despite the name, these guys are from Chi-town, USA. Mmmmmetal. I'm such a sucker for instrumental rock (can you notice a theme going here?) And I have to admit - whenever I listen to metal, I'm instantly flung back to my college days when some of my friends were crazy metal-heads. Talented, too, taking breaks in the day to have jam sessions in the dorm's greatrooms/halls. One of 'em - looked seriously like the lead singer of Saliva - was an incredible guitarist. Got me hooked on Dream Theater. His roomie played as well. Another friend was a talented keyboardist/piano player and would bring his electric keyboard. Another played accoustic guitar ala Dave Matthews. Did I mention the lot of 'em were brilliant? I loved having geek super-intelligent friends. Even if I wasn't, it made you feel smarter hanging around 'em. ;) Of course, Mr. Saliva look-alike also introduced naive lil me to pr0n or your generally warped sex-related pics. Not kidding you. We'd all be lounging in his dorm room, and he'd call out your name in conversational tones and you'd look up and see an image of a penis with a bright blue toothbrush stuck in it, handle-first. Or another time and there'd be a woman sucking off a horse. Or we'd be bored and think of the most warped 7-letter phrase or word and dial up the 800-number version of it, just to see what we'd get on the other line. He also introduced me to someone who wanked pigs for their internship, I think it was? Or summer job . Either way, I never knew that was a career opportunity. Oh, the things I learned from that group of friends. Great fun :) 21. Murray Gold - The Runaway Bride (DW OST) Yes, another OST! What, they're what I listen to while writing! Makes sense there'd be a ton in my playlist. ;) Okay, anything DW OST-related is instantly attached, and forever will be, to SoI. I listened to the two OSTs on repeat the entire way through the writing of SoI. Over and over and over. Obsessively so. But for some reason, the music just spoke to me as far as writing goes and other instrumentals worked, but nothing did as well as the DW OSTs. To the point where I no longer see the epis the songs belong to, but I see SoI in my head. Without the DW OSTs, I don't know how I would have made it through SoI! 22. Hans Zimmer - One Day (PotC III OST) Guh. I absolutely adore all three PotC OSTs. The themes are amazing and really, the music can exist without the movies. Don't get me wrong - Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightly et al, well, that cast was fabulously beautiful ;) But the music ... dramatic and intense and melodies that are echoed all the way through the three OSTs. And, of course, as are all these OSTs, forever linked to SoI. One Day, in particular, clings to the ... yearning ... I guess you could call it ... of Ianto to be the leader he saw in others but failed to see in himself, of his doubts but also his strengths while fighting for life, basically. 23. Ursula 1000 - Kaboom! Again, I have no idea where I got this song or anything about Ursula 1000. Probably got it from </a></b></a> lilithilien. It is a seriously bouncy song. Don't know what the hell they're saying half the time, but doesn't mattter! To me, it feels like something that could have been on the Kill Bill OSTs and was created after watching old Batman. And I mean Adam West Batman. 24. Midnattsol - Enlightenment More Scandanavian symphonic metal! Whee! Yes. A chick-lead Scandanavian symphonic metal band, at that. I love them. Lots. See #s 18 and 20 for what they remind me of because this is getting freakin long already and I'm getting lazy. :) 25. Bon Jovi - Summertime Hahahaha...god, my playlist is seizure-inducing, isn't it? It's on shuffle! I blame WinAmp. And say what you want about Bon Jovi - I will always love them. Always. No matter how old they get and how ill-fitting their leather pants grow, they will always be Slippery When Wet. While not their first album, their bestest best best album. Ever. I saw 'em live in Omaha with </a></b></a> molynn and </a></b></a>veggiecik and there's a review of that show somewhere in my lj, and they sang remixes of some of the songs off that album. It was...different. But ... still Bon Jovi. I don't think there's a decade of my life when I haven't avidly listened to Bon Jovi (and how appropriate they come up #25). Richie, you will always have my heart for your mechanical 'wha-whas'.And as a bonus track, just because it made me laugh my ass off when it advanced, talk about your genre dancing.... 26. Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata I played this for a recital and a contest. Oh, the good ol days of playing the piano on end for hours. Relaxing. I miss playing :( And just because this is making me laugh - the next four tracks to round out 30. 27. Dead Can Dance - Rakim 28. Malcolm Middleton - Fuck it, I Love You 29. Shounin To Ookami To, Tabi No Nibasha 30. The Doors - Roadhouse Blues |
| 11:02 am | So much awesome. Yours truly...in an interview! the lovely </a></b></a> hellenebright emailed me a while back, asking me if i'd do an interview for </a></b></a>torchwood_meta re: my writing, and primarily, Shades of Ianto.after i finished squeeing myself stupid (i mean, seriously. how cool is that? it gave me warm fuzzies for a good week *g*), i responded back with an 'omigod are you serious hell yeah!! i feel so warm and fuzzy now!' (okay, it was a bit more moderate in response. a serene thank you and a 'yes' might have been the actual words, even tho i was grinning like a baffoon behind the keyboard - seriously, i am pathetically easily excited. if i actually got a book deal? shit, you'd hear me squeeing from miles away). some emails back and forth, some really fabulous questions that made me stop and think of how i actually write later, and the interview's done! and posted! Author Interview: sarcasticchick so, ever have a question you were just dying to ask me? okay, no. i won't answer that question. but any other questions about writing, SoI, me and my general TW fangirliness, etc... feel free to go over yonder and ask away! cause seriously. the request flattered me so much that the posting of the actual interview has made me blush and babble like an idiot again. lil ol me, and someone wanted to do an interview! heeee. i'll just be over there, clutching my ianto!muse and feeding him chocolate and wine in thanks. Author Interview: sarcasticchick |