Weekend observations

[antennapedia]

• Have been jangly, grumpy, and procrastinatory all weekend.
• Despite this, had a great time looking at expensive kitchen appliances with nemaihne, then acting as designated driver for an evening at Trader Vic's for the four of us.
• Galaxy Quest stays funny.
• Made some solid progress on the web app for the fic archive generator, despite the extreme perversity of

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[nutterbudgie]

Artic Monkeys remind me of the early 80's. I am much less
jangly now & can enjoy the anti-social fun. I think Giles listens when he's jangly. Am I correct? (He lives in the corner of your writing room, so you oughta know.)

[antennapedia]

Giles, when jangly, listens to Music for Airports. I know this, because he put it on for Xander when he was in a bad spot.

[seldomifever]

Unhappy since Friday still? What's the story, morning glory?

Dirty talk is difficult to write, but well, well worth the effort. Gotta be my favorite kink by far. And Galaxy Quest is always funny. "Did you guys ever watch the show?" makes me laugh every time I see it. But simple things make me happy. At least when I let them. I've spent the day fairly miserable myself, so I've got nothing peppy and pithy to offer.

[antennapedia]

My favorite line is Sigourney Weaver's: "I've got one job on this ship. It's a stupid job, but I'm going to do it." Kills me. As does Rickman's delivery of, "By Grabthar's Hammer, what a savings."

Will continue to struggle with the dirty talk tomorrow. Or not. I might forcibly take all my other projects away from myself until I get at least a few hundred words of this remix cooking. I need to find some music to help the mood. I've been listening to a lot of abstract electronic stuff recently, which is all head-space-y and not body-space-y.

[missparker]

OH MY GOD I HAVEN'T STARTED MY REMIX EITHER.

shitcrapshit.

[antennapedia]

Get crackin', kiddo! *Says same thing to self moments later...*

[ljs]

Hope the jangliness eases soon! [sends tea]

[antennapedia]

Only one cure, and it is not more cowbell.

[kivrin]

Another of my favorite lines from Galaxy Quest is Sigourney Weaver's "I remember that sound! That's a bad sound!" In tight spots I am sometimes tempted to yell "Digitize me, Fred!"

I hear you on the jangly. To quote another unfailingly amusing movie, I'm hoping for a late surge.

[antennapedia]

There was a piece of classic Trek fanfic, actually a pair of pieces: "Visit to a Strange Planet", and "Visit to a Strange Planet Revisited", published in The New Voyages back when fanfic was briefly respectable. A transporter accident swaps the actors and the real Kirk, Spock, and McCoy. Both sets of people have to deal.

"I can see where the ears went on," says the real Scotty, holding a real phaser on Nimoy, who doesn't entirely take it seriously.

Huh, an early example of RPF, I guess!

ETA: I was going to say something to tie this all in with your comment, but now I've forgotten what I was thinking when I started typing. Doh.

[kivrin]

That reminds me to try to get my hands on a copy of The New Voyages, which I could never find when I first heard about it in high school. :)

[antennapedia]

Amazon has lots of used copies! I think the real-people-on-the-fake-set story was in the second anthology. Also an example of people writing fic of the fic, if I recall all this correctly, because the actor-fic was a response to the Kirk-on-set fic.

Hmm. I have all this stuff in a box somewhere. (Mr P thinks tie-in novels are even more shameful than fanfiction.)