Anybody know if there are size issues on AO3 icons? File size, I mean. I created a pseud specifically for in-character Yuletide replies, but the icon refuses to display despite multiple upload attempts and I have no idea what the problem is ( Read more... )

It's a cute little gimmick, embedded below the cut. Very simple, but quite fun to play around with. Trying to figure out what its note scheme is, but I have a singular lack of perfect pitch...

( Cut ahoy! )

My first time ever seeing two stops on the same tour! Comments are screened; leave your number if you'd like a concert call.

In "A Poem Every Day" news, I recently got one of the nicest surprises I've had in ages. Acclaimed filksinger Clif Flynt was sufficiently amused by one of my poems that he decided to set it to music! As it happens, it's one that I'd thought of as a song, and as you'd expect Clif went in a *completely different direction* with it. And it's great ( Read more... )

I have spent most of the weekend on the road, because I've made my way up to my mother's house to help her out with a wide variety of projects. Amongst the shed-building and other renovation, I took the opportunity to fulfill a long-held ambition: LEONARD COHEN IN CONCERT. Fuck yeah ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about Leonard Cohen today. Yesterday's post on "Hallelujah" did it (here's a great examination of "Hallelujah" being more and more covered of late -- oh, and I was wrong; that Nick Cave cover of "Tower of Song" was on the other Cohen tribute album, I'M YOUR FAN). So, two Leonard Cohen stories ( Read more... )

I realized today that someone should really make a hentai vid to the Beatles' "Octopus's Garden."

It is entirely possible that I am going to hell.

To redeem myself, I point you to this: a ton of covers of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah". I don't know that I've ever mentioned this, but "Hallelujah" is probably my favorite song, and it has been ( Read more... )

In honor of the first day of spring, here's Steve Goodman performing "When the Red, Red, Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along."

( LJ-cut for video. )

THE WIRE has a soundtrack out, with soundbites, numerous songs from the show, and a whole bunch of Baltimore music, as well as every single version of the opening credits' tune, "Way Down in the Hole." You can also get it as an MP3 download.

His birthday is tomorrow.

Of course it is.

Given that he has the sort of thirst that keeps the average off-licence in business, along with well-documented drug problems, did he ever expect to reach 50? "To be honest, I never thought too much about getting to 50," says Shane. "But if everybody is making bets that you are going to die at 4.30 ( Read more... )