maggie touches grease with her hands

Am livid beyond belief, but in the final analysis the election results could have been worse. Therefore, I am trying to be zen.

I think you should all help me to be zen by doing this meme!

Leave a list of fictional characters in your journal that you would love to get a message from. Your f- and f-of-list's mission, should they choose to accept it, to write you an in-character "letter" from a character on that list. Then they post their own list in their journal and the process continues!

Bono / John Constantine / Zorak, Space Ghost / Dr. Jack, Locke, Sayid, Jin, Sun / Kirkpatrick, Timberlake, Chasez / Dale Cooper, Harry Truman, Laura Palmer / anybody on the Baltimore Homicide Unit / anybody from The Simpsons/Futurama / X-Verse / Batverse / anybody from Red Dwarf / a Winchester / an Everwoodie / whoever else you think I would find entertaining

ANONYMOUS COMMENTING ON. *g*

B-cuz marej told me to. Oddly, most of these are multipurpose. Huzzah!

Write 10 statements intended to different people. Never tell which one is to who.

1) We don't talk as much as we used to, which is mostly my fault because I am a shitty correspondant. But I still adore you (personally and talent-wise) as much as I always have and am glad beyond words that you're here and that we're friends, and also, I suck. *g*

2) If cheap melodramatics made people beautiful, you'd be America's Next Top Fucking Annoying Model. You're very nice when you're acting like a sane human being, but seriously -- quit throwing wobblies. You're not fifteen years old, for chrissake.

3) You kind of intimidate me, but you've been unfailingly genteel and wonderful to me in all our interactions and so I feel quite proud to be your friend because you seem to have such breeding, dah-ling, and you're not at all toffee-nosed about it.

4) Although I think you're crazy-smart and we've never had a fight, I also think we probably wouldn't get along in person because I hardly agree with anything you say and find you kind of abrasive.

5) You are frenetic and joyful and clever and wicked and I am thrilled that we are friends and confidantes and peers, because most of the people I like the best can all be described by those four words as well and cabals = KEWLNESS. Heh!

6) I appreciate that you love your fandoms. It's nice when people like stuff. But the multiple posts (each hot on the heels of the last) and perma-obsessiveness are REALLY ANNOYING. Sorry.

7) There's the marvelous witty, sharp ladies on my list, and then there's the sugar-sweet ones who never fail to make me feel lucky that they love me and to whom I am utterly devoted because they are not only kind and charming, but funny and warm. You are a permanent member of this group, if not its headliner. *g*

8) You used to be fun once, but now you're all emo and bleeding everywhere, all the time. I feel bad for you because you've been through rough times, but it's also kind of draining and tedious and I skim most of your entries and feel guilty about doing it.

9) Never stop, you sparkly insane delightful bitch. ♥!

10) Honestly, I think you try too hard. But that's okay because you seem to have a good heart and you're enthusiastic and I can just roll my eyes to myself in fond exasperation and enjoy you anyhow, you wonderful doink you. *g*

I saw this meme on audiography and thought, oooooh!

Movie Soundtrack: pick a song for each scene in a movie!

opening credits: frank sinatra & dean martin - marshmallow world
dreaming about someone: juice newton - angel of the morning
waking up: dr. dre & snoop dogg - still dre
happy/friends: cornershop - brimful of asha
driving: bono & jools holland orchestra - if you wear that velvet dress
fight/action: mitsou - bye bye mon cowboy
chase: kristine w - some lovin'
sweet/love: brenda fassie - vulundlela
mellow: mohammed rafi - suhani raat
sex: the beatles - helter skelter (anthology)
breakup: johnny cash - i hung my head
stalker: electric six - danger! high voltage
angry/bitter: nina simone - sinnerman
psychedelic/euphoric/drug: nick cave & lydia lunch - some velvet morning
contemplation : sigur ros - untitled
sad/breakdown: cyndi lauper - la vie en rose
climax : tool - aenima
death : soul coughing - super bon bon
funeral : cypress hill & the fugees - boom biddy bye bye
nostalgia : tom waits - anywhere i lay my head
closing credits: spirit of the west - home for a rest


I so want everybody to do this meme. It's like a snapshot of your personality, and I like imagining what *tone* of scene goes along with the songs. DO IT!!

Also, I now have so many Simpsons icons it's really quite alarming. If you're not me.

Casting Call

I think it's inevitable that as we read each other's journals we create mental pictures of each other. Post this on your own journal to find out who your friends see when they read about your life.

Two Rules:
1. The person must be in movies/TV (but doesn't have to be an actor/actress). The person can be specific to a role (e.g. Shannen Doherty's 'Brenda Walsh') or just the person themself.
2. You have to post a link to a picture of said person in the comments. *doesn't have to SHOW...just the link if you have no other way*

These castings can be based on things in the person's personality or on physical traits you know they have.

I think EVERYBODY should do this meme. It's just way too much fun. Also, I changed the actor example, because EVERY PART of the original one was misspelled and I've never even heard of that woman anyhow.

Okay, there were more votes for the LJ Uno extravaganza, so let's go with that!

Here's how it should work:

1) I will post a ficlet.
2) if you feel like continuing it, post your continuation ficlet in your journal, headed with a link back to mine.
3) also, comment to my ficlet with a link to yours.
4) continue as such, with each successive person putting a link back to their origin-ficlet and commenting to the origin-ficlet with a link to their continuation.

This way, anybody who comes in half-way will be able to trace the story forward or back! Also, feel free to switch it up along the way, in different fandoms or genres or whatever. The aim is not so much a cohesive plot as it is a loosely related thread of fiction.

Basically, think of this as a word version of Uno. You can continue in the same fandom; you can ditch the fandom and keep a concept/phrase/character; you can go all meta; you can crossover. But there has to be *some* link between the two!

Now, here's my beginning:
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When Jack found Hurley and Charlie playing an island version of "Pin the Tail on the Donkey" involving some vicious-looking thorns, an foil package of airplane pretzels (empty, of course) and a tarp stretched taut between two breadfruit trees, he had the inkling that island fever was starting to set in. When Charlie excused himself to go genuflect in front of one of those cheap Virgin Mary statues he'd brought back from somewhere and Hurley peacefully entertained himself in the meantime by braiding his hair into tiny little braids, Jack was pretty sure.

The question was, who should he talk to about it? Jack squinted into the horizon and pondered. Kate popped up in front of him, obstructing his view, and chirped, "Heeeeeey, Jack! You look like something's bugging you!"

"mmmmm," Jack said, irritated. It seemed stupid for him to squint if Kate was standing here shading him from the sun, so he side-stepped her. But she moved again, and he was forced to turn and start walking along the beach. "Whatcha *doin*, Jack?" she whined. "Need some help?"

Sayid wandered across the beach in front of them, shaking his wet hair in the sun until droplets flew from his wild dark curls. Water ran in rivulets down the rich brown of his skin, slipping under the soaking-wet shirt that clung to his chest and the musculature of his back, and...um...Jack shook his head, hard. What was he thinking of again?

Oh, right! Island fever. He pressed his lips together in determination and plowed through the sand towards Sayid.

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leksa did it, and I felt like doing it too. Twenty songs that pop up in my playlist, without omitting the embarassing ones:

1. you say guns, i say pistolas / well if you got beef son callate la boca
2. don't treat me like i'm a trick, i won't treat you like you're a prick
3. honey i been waiting, waiting patiently / let me unlock your heart, boy--i think i got the key -- gettin' lucky, the chipettes (miss_saigon)
4. i clooo-osed mah EYYYYYES and i slipped awaaaayyyyyyyyy!-- more than a feeling, *nsync (leksa)
5. i wish i could have stood where you would've been proud / that won't happen now
6. boys come along a dime to the dozen / they ain't nothing but ten-cent lovin' - hard to handle, black crowes (nonchop)
7. i turned up your tv and stomped on the floor just for fun - the old apartment, bnl (indirajames)
8. you looked at me with that sweet smile and said / something they won't let me repeat
9. drove me to drink, but hey--that's not all bad - two shots of happy, one shot of sad, bono (escapist_xbq)
10. school's back in session GET READY FOR A LESSON!! - ADIDAS, jc chasez (trumpeterofdoom)
11. no stress, no seeds, no stems, no sticks / some'a that real sticky-icky-icky - still dre, dre & snoop (marej)
12. on the stereo listen as we go / nothin's gonna stop me now - california, phantom planet (imogennegomi)
13. and de way dey true nice it finga' lickin' - hey mama, black eyed peas (overloved)
14. goodbye--please don't cry / we both know i'm not what you need - i will always love you, dolly parton (indirajames)
15. now i don't mind chopping wood / and i don't care if the money's no good - the night they drove old dixie down, the band (indirajames)
16. now i gotta decide if i'm'a help raise your mind / seems like the ultimatums or me that's no fun - nothin' else, jt (escapist_xbq)
17. eeeeehn the lights are blinking i'm thinking / it's all over when i go out drinking - insane in the brain, cypress hill (grissecon)
18. this way is a waterslide away from me / that takes you further every day - say it ain't so, weezer (cathybites)
19. see the purple of her eyes / the scarlet of my lies - love rescue me, u2 (escapist_xbq)
20. your man talkin' bout hummers and little cars that only fit in his little house little garage - show me your soul, diddy & pharrell (flabbergast)


Whoo! Now I will go attend a talk about the US occupation of Iraq, and when I come back I expect answers, people!!

Thanks to y'all for the advice/suggestions regarding my summer classes; I have resolved to take Biology, because I'm still pretty energetic about school so I might as well use that optimism before I get tired and jaded. Also, I hate summer and will enjoy being indoors, plus there are less first-years taking summer courses, so yes. I appreciate all the input!

Now, meming--I took the marej wording for this one: Comment with any ship (oh hey, you can ask for a character instead of a pairing too, I suppose) from a fandom that you know I like, or at least have some knowledge about. And I will subject you to my opinion of (appx.) 100 words about the aforementioned ship/character.

I'd also like to throw in fic recs/pictures/song lyrics/whatever to back up my opinions, if I can. So go ahead and ask! In case you'd like a list, here are the fandom options: popslash, Homicide: Life on the Street, comics (X-Verse, Batverse, Hellblazer), Gosford Park, Red Dwarf, QaF UK, Veronica Mars, The OC, Twin Peaks, Gilmore Girls, Lost, Harry Potter, Prince of Tennis, Buffy, Angel, The Simpsons, Futurama, Tour of Duty, and anything else I've ever expressed an interest in. Heh!

In other news, am I the only one who *likes* the dress/skirt-over-pants look? If I could wear skirts over my jeans all the time, I seriously would. It keeps my knees warm.

And a fic rec: Five Things That Never Happened to Ryan Atwood (and Seth Cohen), by callmesandy. She makes me like Seth again! Yaaaaay!! Relatedly, Kelly Rowan was on The View this morning, and I think she mentioned being on some diet where she eats raw meat. Is this like Julie Cooper's all-chicken diet in Everwood? Also--RAW MEAT?!?!?

Have recieved Valentines from robanybody (inside an even prettier card! You doll you), smartlikejustin (omg, it's like a little tryptich of mass production! Hee!), and a Lunar New Year's card from trumpeterofdoom (I enjoyed the story completely!) -- mucho thanks to all of you! I adore getting random mail. Thanks also to karabou, who sent the Summers brothers. So, so pretty! eeeee!

Now, jchalo kindly shipped me the bpal scent "De Sade", which is described as "the essence of pleasure heightened by pain: the raw scent of leather", along with strict instructions to post my feelings about it. Well, I don't know about the pleasure-pain principle, but I do know that I put some of it on the insides of my wrists and then spent the REST OF THE DAY trying to devise non-obtrusive ways to sniff at it. It has a clean, slightly bookish smell; goes on sharp, but mutes down into a delicious sort of smooth whiskey-and-wood that I adore, vaguely sweet under a smokier topnote. If you like the smell of pipe tobacco and leather-bound books, you'd probably like it. Thank you, sweetie!

And now, ( ten things I've done that you might not have! )

There was no reason for me to make this poll, I just felt like doing it. I don't even have anything important to say, except that I was at the mall today and there were these four girls hanging out there and I swear to god they were all wearing the EXACT SAME basic outfit, only with slight mixes and variations. They all had basically the same handbags, too. What the HELL. Everybody I know used to hate showing up to school in the same clothes as somebody else! I am getting so old.

( While I get out my cane and start whapping people, take my poll!! )

callmesandy did one, and I thought it would be a nice way to waste some time while I wait for my 12:30 class. So here, y'all--do my multifandom quiz! And then make quizzes of your own!! Don't worry, I won't harangue you if you get a low score. I usually do atrociously on my friends' quizzes. *g*

Politically, British Columbia is considering instating a proportional electoral system for our next provincial election. I'm not even that big into Canadian politics and I'm insanely excited by this referendum; now instead of the "vote-by-foodstuffs" thing we resorted to last year, I can rate candidates by order of preference! According to the piechart in the pamphlet, if BC-STV had been used for the last election, the Green Party (in third place) would've had 12% of the seats in the legislature instead of just the overwhelming Liberal majority and token NDPs. Even the Marijuana Party would've had legislative representation. I am all over that.

Non-politically, I am very much enjoying the multifandom pictures that glockgal's been posting; I've seen them all at various stages, but it's nice seeing them on the computer, too. Today's picture of Jean, Ororo and Rogue is particularly pretty!