Randomness, asst'd
So how am I ever going to go back to work? Really? How am I? I've been sitting around for the past few days, burning off some of the 140 hours worth of sick time I've accumulated and will loose if and when I get a new job and move on with my life.
Following is some catchall goodness.
From a review of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
"Puts Shakespeare’s greatest romance in a choke-hold and takes it slam-dancing."
-- Desson Thomson, WASHINGTON POST
(He says that like it's a bad thing. Silly man.)
From a Veer graphic design catalog
"If I don't find a prince, I'll just be famous."
(Superimposed over a picture of a little blonde girl in a tiara, this is the single most telling piece of social commentary I've seen in years.)
A Riddle
What's more boring than Rob Thomas with Matchbox 20?
A: Rob Thomas without Matchbox 20.
From my head, when listening to the new Hanson.net songs
A Strange Livejournal realization
I'd say that, at this point, the world is made up of approximately .000000000001 percent Hanson fans. This is fine, this is good. I never run into a person in real life who randomly says something along the lines of, "That Taylor Hanson. He is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy," even though I personally believe that to be true. But somehow, everywhere I go on Livejournal, there are Hanson fans. The folks over at the Remus/Sirius community approved casting Taylor as Hogwarts-era Remus, and Boring Ben Jelen as Hogwarts-era Sirius. There's this one person who comments on the ohnotheydidn't community using an icon that, for a brief second, flashes Ike's face. Every time I see it, I freeze up, thinking that I know that face; that it's weird someone else knows it, too. Some girl is making a list of naughty Remus/Sirius fics. I checked her website for it, and instead found links to hanson.net and hansonhotel.com.
How is it that the Hanson fan percentage on livejournal is so incredibly high? Or are we Hanson fans just the loud, pushy types that seek out and destroy, carrying our message of Hanson love wherever we go? Is that why I found a link to Aspen's Harry Potter fiction, the very same Aspen who wrote Devil Angel a hundred thousand years ago, and saw, right there on her new-school links page, our boys, Hanson. Weird, I say. Weird.
Following is some catchall goodness.
From a review of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
"Puts Shakespeare’s greatest romance in a choke-hold and takes it slam-dancing."
-- Desson Thomson, WASHINGTON POST
(He says that like it's a bad thing. Silly man.)
From a Veer graphic design catalog
"If I don't find a prince, I'll just be famous."
(Superimposed over a picture of a little blonde girl in a tiara, this is the single most telling piece of social commentary I've seen in years.)
A Riddle
What's more boring than Rob Thomas with Matchbox 20?
A: Rob Thomas without Matchbox 20.
From my head, when listening to the new Hanson.net songs
- So Lovely is the song Isaac Hanson was born to sing, a bar brawl set to music featuring a five pound chihuahua named El Salvador. It's a little Chuck Berry and a little Bon Jovi, and not at all B.I.C. (Or, to the uninitiated, Boring Ike Crap. See Hand in Hand, Deeper, etc.) Fun, fun goodness that hopefully reflects the direction in which Hanson are traveling.
- Never Let Go, however, is a different story. Yay! for taking it in the studio, but boo! for subtracting its homespun, natural charm. In the leaked version the fans have had for years and years, you can just hear Taylor ripping his heart out. The song wasn't fancy and didn't have polished sound effects, but it was visceral and real. A love letter, with a little music in the background. But as is so often the case with Hanson, the production gets in the way of the new version, There are echoes and a backing track and show--offy vocal acrobatics that don't show off much of anything worth hearing.
- Need You Now sounds like it should be on the Almost Famous soundtrack, but in the best way possible. Gotta love that Zac Hanson, boy of surprising depth and sweetness.
A Strange Livejournal realization
I'd say that, at this point, the world is made up of approximately .000000000001 percent Hanson fans. This is fine, this is good. I never run into a person in real life who randomly says something along the lines of, "That Taylor Hanson. He is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy," even though I personally believe that to be true. But somehow, everywhere I go on Livejournal, there are Hanson fans. The folks over at the Remus/Sirius community approved casting Taylor as Hogwarts-era Remus, and Boring Ben Jelen as Hogwarts-era Sirius. There's this one person who comments on the ohnotheydidn't community using an icon that, for a brief second, flashes Ike's face. Every time I see it, I freeze up, thinking that I know that face; that it's weird someone else knows it, too. Some girl is making a list of naughty Remus/Sirius fics. I checked her website for it, and instead found links to hanson.net and hansonhotel.com.
How is it that the Hanson fan percentage on livejournal is so incredibly high? Or are we Hanson fans just the loud, pushy types that seek out and destroy, carrying our message of Hanson love wherever we go? Is that why I found a link to Aspen's Harry Potter fiction, the very same Aspen who wrote Devil Angel a hundred thousand years ago, and saw, right there on her new-school links page, our boys, Hanson. Weird, I say. Weird.