I got my fist I got my plan I got SURVIVALISM.
It is so much easier for me to post in list format you would not believe.
1.) I just danced around my room for an entire hour and I recommend this to everyone, seriously. I mean, if it will not cause you bodily harm, then you should really go put on loud music and dance. Right now. YOU WILL BE WARMER. (I'm trying to take more advantage of those times when my body is not complaining about anything in particular to do things. My doctor will love me if those things are hour-long chunks of cardio.)
2.) Everyone should watch Merlin, because it is actually incredibly entertaining and enjoyable on its own merits. If anyone hasn't been thoroughly beaten over the head with the directive to go watch it, I would be happy throw screencaps and quotes and testimonials in your general direction. The characters actually aren't assholes, mostly! Wouldn't it be great to watch a show where that was true?
3.) I finished Pattern Recognition, by William Gibson, and while like all of his later books I'm very fond of the writing, it is kind of glaringly obvious how little he actually knows about what he's talking about. For most of the book everyone's falling all over themselves talking about mysterious bits of video footage floating around the web, and all I can think is - wow, that sounds like an ARG. That sounds like an ARG that I've played. Why does everyone in the book keeping saying that this is unprecedented and there's never been anything remotely like it? I was playing The Beast when I was 13.
4.) Speaking about ARGs, I keep listening to Year Zero recently, by Nine Inch Nails, and - honestly, at some point I'm just going to unload all these bits of unfinished vid I have floating around and then finally make the stupid sprawling Heroes timeline vid before I lose all interest in it, but I do have something like 15 seconds of a Jesus Christ Superstar 2k vid to Good Soldier, and - okay, as much as I love that concept and as much as I love that movie, it's really not something that needs to be made.
5.) I am trying to figure out if I should get another suitcase, or if I should just trust that Sar's place actually does, you know, have laundry machines, and therefore I don't actually need to bring every pair of jeans I own because I can wash them. I'm going from the 1st to the 5th, and - this many years of traveling and staying at hotels and flying and so forth and I still have no idea exactly how much clothing I need to pack for a 5 day stay. I have discovered that you can never bring too many socks, though. (Also psst Sar catch me on AIM if you can I wrote a thing.)
Oh! God, memes. I actually found a lyrics meme lying around from '07 that ended with the same song this one did. Usually I never post memes, but I honestly found the lyric-poetry meme really fun to read. If you feel like guessing the songs, that is entirely acceptable and I will be very impressed with you, especially because I didn't actually write down which lyric came from where.
I've lost the rules to this, but it was essentially - take the first line of 20 songs, and stick them in poem format. No fiddling about is allowed, because the fun is in our brains going into pattern recognition mode and trying to convince us it's actually a viable, coherent poem. The first line from the twenty-first song is the title.
And You're Like a 90's Jesus
I jumped in the river, and what did I see
That last kiss before the end
She's saving up her wishes for a thing she really wants
Sun invaded this morning
And I had a dream I stood beneath an orange sky
Will you be my favorite regret?
Where do we go from here?
Wanted to buy you shiny red things
Love is a dress that you made long to hide your knees
This is forgiven if the uniform fits
Oh, midnight singer outside my window
Change your heart, look around you
People get addicted
You're not ready for the world outside
I was born by a river
Perhaps I am a miscreation
I miss my head, I miss my heart
Help me sometimes, I need that much
I knew a girl with sad blue eyes
Divide your cultured pearls in haste
Also, I'm incapable of not playing with the LJ haiku maker whenever it makes its rounds, and so I leave you with this:
out of the jaws of
death relieved him with such
sanctity of love
Which is totally from Twelfth Night, of course, Antonio's monologue about his great and undying and entirely offscreen love for Sebastion, and while I was googling this to make sure it was a direct quote, I came across Bertie's Paraphrases of Famous Scenes from Shakespeare, which leaves Act 3 Scene 4 almost entirely the same except changing the relevant dialogue to:
from half into the
jaws of death, relieved him with
such sacred friendship
Which is actually a proper haiku, although seems to be overcompensating heterosexuality-wise.
1.) I just danced around my room for an entire hour and I recommend this to everyone, seriously. I mean, if it will not cause you bodily harm, then you should really go put on loud music and dance. Right now. YOU WILL BE WARMER. (I'm trying to take more advantage of those times when my body is not complaining about anything in particular to do things. My doctor will love me if those things are hour-long chunks of cardio.)
2.) Everyone should watch Merlin, because it is actually incredibly entertaining and enjoyable on its own merits. If anyone hasn't been thoroughly beaten over the head with the directive to go watch it, I would be happy throw screencaps and quotes and testimonials in your general direction. The characters actually aren't assholes, mostly! Wouldn't it be great to watch a show where that was true?
3.) I finished Pattern Recognition, by William Gibson, and while like all of his later books I'm very fond of the writing, it is kind of glaringly obvious how little he actually knows about what he's talking about. For most of the book everyone's falling all over themselves talking about mysterious bits of video footage floating around the web, and all I can think is - wow, that sounds like an ARG. That sounds like an ARG that I've played. Why does everyone in the book keeping saying that this is unprecedented and there's never been anything remotely like it? I was playing The Beast when I was 13.
4.) Speaking about ARGs, I keep listening to Year Zero recently, by Nine Inch Nails, and - honestly, at some point I'm just going to unload all these bits of unfinished vid I have floating around and then finally make the stupid sprawling Heroes timeline vid before I lose all interest in it, but I do have something like 15 seconds of a Jesus Christ Superstar 2k vid to Good Soldier, and - okay, as much as I love that concept and as much as I love that movie, it's really not something that needs to be made.
5.) I am trying to figure out if I should get another suitcase, or if I should just trust that Sar's place actually does, you know, have laundry machines, and therefore I don't actually need to bring every pair of jeans I own because I can wash them. I'm going from the 1st to the 5th, and - this many years of traveling and staying at hotels and flying and so forth and I still have no idea exactly how much clothing I need to pack for a 5 day stay. I have discovered that you can never bring too many socks, though. (Also psst Sar catch me on AIM if you can I wrote a thing.)
Oh! God, memes. I actually found a lyrics meme lying around from '07 that ended with the same song this one did. Usually I never post memes, but I honestly found the lyric-poetry meme really fun to read. If you feel like guessing the songs, that is entirely acceptable and I will be very impressed with you, especially because I didn't actually write down which lyric came from where.
I've lost the rules to this, but it was essentially - take the first line of 20 songs, and stick them in poem format. No fiddling about is allowed, because the fun is in our brains going into pattern recognition mode and trying to convince us it's actually a viable, coherent poem. The first line from the twenty-first song is the title.
And You're Like a 90's Jesus
I jumped in the river, and what did I see
That last kiss before the end
She's saving up her wishes for a thing she really wants
Sun invaded this morning
And I had a dream I stood beneath an orange sky
Will you be my favorite regret?
Where do we go from here?
Wanted to buy you shiny red things
Love is a dress that you made long to hide your knees
This is forgiven if the uniform fits
Oh, midnight singer outside my window
Change your heart, look around you
People get addicted
You're not ready for the world outside
I was born by a river
Perhaps I am a miscreation
I miss my head, I miss my heart
Help me sometimes, I need that much
I knew a girl with sad blue eyes
Divide your cultured pearls in haste
Also, I'm incapable of not playing with the LJ haiku maker whenever it makes its rounds, and so I leave you with this:
out of the jaws of
death relieved him with such
sanctity of love
Which is totally from Twelfth Night, of course, Antonio's monologue about his great and undying and entirely offscreen love for Sebastion, and while I was googling this to make sure it was a direct quote, I came across Bertie's Paraphrases of Famous Scenes from Shakespeare, which leaves Act 3 Scene 4 almost entirely the same except changing the relevant dialogue to:
from half into the
jaws of death, relieved him with
such sacred friendship
Which is actually a proper haiku, although seems to be overcompensating heterosexuality-wise.