'nother landslide election, oh, but you didn't vote...
Today, I had to choose between using my free $10 from Borders on an issue of Q with an article about Oasis and a free music quiz book containing 1750 awesome questions I can use on the Scones or an issue of Mojo sprinkled generously with Johnny Marr with a crappy free CD of covers of 'important songs.' I never like magazine CDs, and Smeg told me to just print out pictures of Johnny Marr if that's what I want, so I read the interview and bought the Q for the quiz booklet. It's still in its little Q bag. I hate to spoil the fun.
Mr. Marr, for those of you who listen to the Smiths (oh hell, that's pretty much everyone, isn't it?), said this interview was the last time he's talking about the Smiths, so if you want to know what he has to say, you should go read it. He said things like how he and Morrissey were "smitten" with each other at first and that he really loved it while it was kewl, but "if we'd had a holiday, and a manager, and weren't covering a Cilla Black song" then maybe the Smiths would have stayed together, but he seems pretty okay with the fact that they didn't, because he went to do other stuff, and anyway, he said Morrissey "slags me off" too much for him to be friends with him and reform the Smiths. So okay, I kind of told you what he csaid, but there was song-specific stuff in there too. ETA: You can also just check out Johnny Marr's official website, as he has it posted there in a PDF, which sadly breaks my browser. Anyone know why that is? I'd love to look at PDFs if they weren't a total PILE OF SHIT.
I like Johnny a lot. He said he wanted to do "six or seven" Healers albums after this Modest Mouse tour (and maybe another album with Modest Mouse) and that delighted me, because I really like the Healers! I decided Boomslang is my favorite driving album, hands-down. I keep taking it with me when I go to pick up Dessy since she lives 300 13 miles away. I'm obsessed with "You Are The Magic." It's 7 minutes, 10 seconds of pure sexy joy. Don't judge me.
Well, okay, wow, I totally meant to just do this stupid LJ survey, but first I had to talk a lot, apparently! I haven't done anything else cool, so here's the survey:
NAMES
Explain your username: lolz. My username came out of my attempt to find something no one else already had, and I got bored of trying to make it relate directly to a band, so I was doing things that sounded good, and I liked the assonance in "rock'n'roll psycho," and sort of felt myself to be one at the time. For a while, in my info, I said I was more of a "pop muffin," but I actually am a psycho for rock'n'roll. It's really dumb, but this is the only place I use that particular name and I don't feel like changing it. It would change my whole LJ outlook.
Explain your LJ "name": "dust and rain." It's my current favorite Brett Anderson song. I use a current favorite song every single time now - I used to do phrases I thought were funny. But now it's just a song title by an artist that I'm digging. And damn, that song ROCKS.
I also have a compulsion to put it in all-lowercase. I really like lowercase letters.
Explain your journal title:
"and your love's like an overdose...
with your hands wrapped around my throat."
Using sex like an antidote... to the pain! Lyrics from Brett's "Dust and Rain." I never said I was creative. Sometimes, the title in my name is ONE song, and the journal title is lyrics from A DIFFERENT SONG BY THE SAME ARTIST. God, I'm so clever.
INTERESTS
Pick five interests of your own which are not shared with anybody, and explain them. (If you have fewer than five, you can make up for it with any of your relatively uncommon interests.)
1. british grumpboxes: Back when Bernard Butler used to update his MySpace blog, he complained about something and then said something along the lines of, "I may be a grumpbox, but I'm a happy grumpbox." And it was just really funny. Also, he's British. Like you didn't know that. I like British grumpboxes.
2. jess and chesh's queers: Jess (me) and Chesh (cheshcan) are insane and we write the same gay romance novels over and over, set in different places with new boys (they're almost always boys) each time. We really like them. They are our very own queers. Don't judge.
3. lyrical trainspotting: There's a Mansun song called "Open Letter to the Lyrical Trainspotter," in which Paul Draper tells you that "the lyrics aren't supposed to mean that much, they're just a vehicle for a lovely voice." I don't believe that at all, and I am a fucking trainspotter. If there is some key to the writer's personality to be found in song lyrics, I will find it. I can pore over them for days in my head. I write lyrics, man. I know that shit is personal. Thus, I enjoy lyrical trainspotting.
4. martin gore's bondage fetish: So the lead songwriter/sometimes vocalist for Depeche Mode is a little weird. He used to dress in bondage gear in the '80s. You think I'm shitting you?
Exhibit A.
Exhibit B.
I don't know how Alan, Dave and Fletch put up with him. He's fucking bats. But I love Martin Gore, and I love his secret bondage fetish.
5. sconeborough: Oh, lord, how to explain briefly? I am a member of an elite social club irritating bunch of wankers who like to argue at length about music and food awesome little group of friends that I have met largely over the internet, and we are all tight. We call ourselves the Scones because most of us either like England or live there, and we like pastries as well. We are stupid. Anyway, the appellation became a webcomic and now it's the title given to our yearly meetings at my house (chosen because it's big, in the middle of the country, and headed by two people who apparently don't give a shit about feeding a bunch of late-teenage girls for two weeks while they watch gay movies and sing to Placebo in the car). I know you're jealous.
F-LIST
Your first f-lister: eggnogstick, since she gave me The Code. Oh, yes, I'm from the era when you had to have a CODE to get into LiveJournal. *shakes cane*
Your most recent f-lister: suedebrett or tea_and_vinyl. It all happened so fast!
The f-listers you knew in real life first: lolz. This is the part where I tell you I used to be hideously antisocial and ONLY knew my friends online for a long time. But everyone I met through fridge_buzz_now I met in person first and added their journals, if they had them, later. That includes stealyourself, fannypackstar, incredibledreem, tiredmommy75 and lost_nomad.
I met gripbomb in middle school and again in college, and I met les_savy_danse in college as well.
OH YEAH. And I have known my sister, waves_of_pants (formerly theapostleinme), since December 2, 1987, which long predates LJ. And I think I helped her acquire one against her will.
The f-listers you know through LJ and have met: fridge_buzz_now I met on LJ and then went to meet in person at UNO 2 days later. That's how I roll. Everyone else I either didn't meet ON LJ specifically (generally through instant messengers/forums/chatrooms/fanfiction.net DON'T JUDGE ME) or I haven't met in person yet!
The f-listers you would most like to meet: thisvandalism! I am so gonna come up to Canada and meet you sometime, girl. joiless is going to be ambushed in Columbus by the Sconeborough Road Trip 2008, as will jennipurr since she's in the same city! I will have to like, walk down to Texas to find ruggafluff, because it's lame we are in the same timezone and haven't met. And newgeneration is going to find me on her Iowa doorstep someday because she lives like TWO HOURS from me, and I am going to bring all the Manics and Suede albums I have, and we will FANGIRL HARDCORE.
The f-lister you fangirl/boy: HAHAHAHA. Chesh and I were totally joiless's fangirls for like a year before we timidly asked to be his friends. He turned out to be a total sweetheart and one of my bestest friendz ever. I still think he is completely awesome and he'll thank me in his first novel someday for being a lousy irritant who always talks about the UK great source of inspiration.
I am also always a fan of cheshcan becuz she rites gud. And I luvs her.
I also fangirl silvertiger's AMAZING ARTSES and her WEBCOMIC OF JOY! I've got her artses on my wall! And my fridge! And our towel closet door! My dad thinks she's the best artist since sliced Picasso. MY DAD IS UR #1 FANBOI, SILVER.
And then there's kanzakura/culturedgoat who I totally fangirl because he has great hair and is in a band that has songs which are good. He also writes hilarious entries WHEN HE WRITES THEM but I think he's too busy having a life. :(
Of course I love the rest of you. Quitcho whinin.
ICONS
Explain your default icon:
Brett Anderson live in concert somewhere across the Atlantic Ocean, 2007. I jacked the image from his website. He is hot. I nearly always have a Brett icon because I'm a total loser fangirl for him and if you didn't know that, well, I'm sorry. I tried to make it as clear as I could.
Explain your oldest icon (excluding default): I nearly always change my 6 icons as a set, so none of them is OLDER, really, but I did upload them in an order, and the next one is...
Bernard Butler, 1995. This is jacked from his site, I think - it's from the "Yes" video clip. He's so adorable I want to marry him. I am a total loser fangirl for Bernard, too, and if you didn't know that, you must have been reading someone else's LiveJournal.
Explain your newest icon (excluding default):
Ana Matronic, live somewhere after 2003 because that's when they hit it big, right? She is totally awesome and is one of my idols and I met her in March and it was amazing, sparks flew, I said I loved her, and she took it in stride. Ana just rocks all kinds of socks. I adore her so much. I want to be more like her. KISS YOU OFF MY LIPS I DON'T NEED ANOTHER TUBE OF THAT DIMESTORE LIPSTICK!!!
Ohmygod thattooksolong. I hope you enjoyed this foray into my inner psyche.
The other day, I woke up early (!) and after I dyed my hair red again:
mraaaaaah.
I decided to sit on my arse and watch music videos for 2 hours, going between Fuse and Vh1 Classic. I got to see the original "Space Oddity" video and the original "20th Century Boy" video (Marc Bolan was such a cute little fucker - 40 on the ground, mannn) and some modern ones I like and then I saw this song by the Pretenders called "Never Do That" and I'm totally obsessed with it and have been playing it over and over since I pirated it. It's good in a really simple way. I never bothered to listen to them before, but they're not bad, although Chrissie Hynde is a little bit weird, because she screams at people for eating hamburgers and stuff. Dunno what that's about. I mean, she's the same age as my mom (both born in 1951) but she's all alt-rocker and angry-vegetarian and my mom is so low-key and registered-nurse. Smeg said it's weird when people Mom's age act more immature than her, but it just shows how much more awesome Mom is. I also discovered that she (Chrissie, not my mom, although that'd be special) did a song with Johnny Marr just after he left the Smiths and it's called "When Will I See You?" and I like it, too. And mentioning Johnny Marr brings this entry full-circle and I think I can end it now.
J.
Mr. Marr, for those of you who listen to the Smiths (oh hell, that's pretty much everyone, isn't it?), said this interview was the last time he's talking about the Smiths, so if you want to know what he has to say, you should go read it. He said things like how he and Morrissey were "smitten" with each other at first and that he really loved it while it was kewl, but "if we'd had a holiday, and a manager, and weren't covering a Cilla Black song" then maybe the Smiths would have stayed together, but he seems pretty okay with the fact that they didn't, because he went to do other stuff, and anyway, he said Morrissey "slags me off" too much for him to be friends with him and reform the Smiths. So okay, I kind of told you what he csaid, but there was song-specific stuff in there too. ETA: You can also just check out Johnny Marr's official website, as he has it posted there in a PDF, which sadly breaks my browser. Anyone know why that is? I'd love to look at PDFs if they weren't a total PILE OF SHIT.
I like Johnny a lot. He said he wanted to do "six or seven" Healers albums after this Modest Mouse tour (and maybe another album with Modest Mouse) and that delighted me, because I really like the Healers! I decided Boomslang is my favorite driving album, hands-down. I keep taking it with me when I go to pick up Dessy since she lives 300 13 miles away. I'm obsessed with "You Are The Magic." It's 7 minutes, 10 seconds of pure sexy joy. Don't judge me.
Well, okay, wow, I totally meant to just do this stupid LJ survey, but first I had to talk a lot, apparently! I haven't done anything else cool, so here's the survey:
NAMES
Explain your username: lolz. My username came out of my attempt to find something no one else already had, and I got bored of trying to make it relate directly to a band, so I was doing things that sounded good, and I liked the assonance in "rock'n'roll psycho," and sort of felt myself to be one at the time. For a while, in my info, I said I was more of a "pop muffin," but I actually am a psycho for rock'n'roll. It's really dumb, but this is the only place I use that particular name and I don't feel like changing it. It would change my whole LJ outlook.
Explain your LJ "name": "dust and rain." It's my current favorite Brett Anderson song. I use a current favorite song every single time now - I used to do phrases I thought were funny. But now it's just a song title by an artist that I'm digging. And damn, that song ROCKS.
I also have a compulsion to put it in all-lowercase. I really like lowercase letters.
Explain your journal title:
"and your love's like an overdose...
with your hands wrapped around my throat."
Using sex like an antidote... to the pain! Lyrics from Brett's "Dust and Rain." I never said I was creative. Sometimes, the title in my name is ONE song, and the journal title is lyrics from A DIFFERENT SONG BY THE SAME ARTIST. God, I'm so clever.
INTERESTS
Pick five interests of your own which are not shared with anybody, and explain them. (If you have fewer than five, you can make up for it with any of your relatively uncommon interests.)
1. british grumpboxes: Back when Bernard Butler used to update his MySpace blog, he complained about something and then said something along the lines of, "I may be a grumpbox, but I'm a happy grumpbox." And it was just really funny. Also, he's British. Like you didn't know that. I like British grumpboxes.
2. jess and chesh's queers: Jess (me) and Chesh (cheshcan) are insane and we write the same gay romance novels over and over, set in different places with new boys (they're almost always boys) each time. We really like them. They are our very own queers. Don't judge.
3. lyrical trainspotting: There's a Mansun song called "Open Letter to the Lyrical Trainspotter," in which Paul Draper tells you that "the lyrics aren't supposed to mean that much, they're just a vehicle for a lovely voice." I don't believe that at all, and I am a fucking trainspotter. If there is some key to the writer's personality to be found in song lyrics, I will find it. I can pore over them for days in my head. I write lyrics, man. I know that shit is personal. Thus, I enjoy lyrical trainspotting.
4. martin gore's bondage fetish: So the lead songwriter/sometimes vocalist for Depeche Mode is a little weird. He used to dress in bondage gear in the '80s. You think I'm shitting you?
Exhibit A.
Exhibit B.
I don't know how Alan, Dave and Fletch put up with him. He's fucking bats. But I love Martin Gore, and I love his secret bondage fetish.
5. sconeborough: Oh, lord, how to explain briefly? I am a member of an elite social club irritating bunch of wankers who like to argue at length about music and food awesome little group of friends that I have met largely over the internet, and we are all tight. We call ourselves the Scones because most of us either like England or live there, and we like pastries as well. We are stupid. Anyway, the appellation became a webcomic and now it's the title given to our yearly meetings at my house (chosen because it's big, in the middle of the country, and headed by two people who apparently don't give a shit about feeding a bunch of late-teenage girls for two weeks while they watch gay movies and sing to Placebo in the car). I know you're jealous.
F-LIST
Your first f-lister: eggnogstick, since she gave me The Code. Oh, yes, I'm from the era when you had to have a CODE to get into LiveJournal. *shakes cane*
Your most recent f-lister: suedebrett or tea_and_vinyl. It all happened so fast!
The f-listers you knew in real life first: lolz. This is the part where I tell you I used to be hideously antisocial and ONLY knew my friends online for a long time. But everyone I met through fridge_buzz_now I met in person first and added their journals, if they had them, later. That includes stealyourself, fannypackstar, incredibledreem, tiredmommy75 and lost_nomad.
I met gripbomb in middle school and again in college, and I met les_savy_danse in college as well.
OH YEAH. And I have known my sister, waves_of_pants (formerly theapostleinme), since December 2, 1987, which long predates LJ. And I think I helped her acquire one against her will.
The f-listers you know through LJ and have met: fridge_buzz_now I met on LJ and then went to meet in person at UNO 2 days later. That's how I roll. Everyone else I either didn't meet ON LJ specifically (generally through instant messengers/forums/chatrooms/fanfiction.net DON'T JUDGE ME) or I haven't met in person yet!
The f-listers you would most like to meet: thisvandalism! I am so gonna come up to Canada and meet you sometime, girl. joiless is going to be ambushed in Columbus by the Sconeborough Road Trip 2008, as will jennipurr since she's in the same city! I will have to like, walk down to Texas to find ruggafluff, because it's lame we are in the same timezone and haven't met. And newgeneration is going to find me on her Iowa doorstep someday because she lives like TWO HOURS from me, and I am going to bring all the Manics and Suede albums I have, and we will FANGIRL HARDCORE.
The f-lister you fangirl/boy: HAHAHAHA. Chesh and I were totally joiless's fangirls for like a year before we timidly asked to be his friends. He turned out to be a total sweetheart and one of my bestest friendz ever. I still think he is completely awesome and he'll thank me in his first novel someday for being a lousy irritant who always talks about the UK great source of inspiration.
I am also always a fan of cheshcan becuz she rites gud. And I luvs her.
I also fangirl silvertiger's AMAZING ARTSES and her WEBCOMIC OF JOY! I've got her artses on my wall! And my fridge! And our towel closet door! My dad thinks she's the best artist since sliced Picasso. MY DAD IS UR #1 FANBOI, SILVER.
And then there's kanzakura/culturedgoat who I totally fangirl because he has great hair and is in a band that has songs which are good. He also writes hilarious entries WHEN HE WRITES THEM but I think he's too busy having a life. :(
Of course I love the rest of you. Quitcho whinin.
ICONS
Explain your default icon:
Brett Anderson live in concert somewhere across the Atlantic Ocean, 2007. I jacked the image from his website. He is hot. I nearly always have a Brett icon because I'm a total loser fangirl for him and if you didn't know that, well, I'm sorry. I tried to make it as clear as I could.
Explain your oldest icon (excluding default): I nearly always change my 6 icons as a set, so none of them is OLDER, really, but I did upload them in an order, and the next one is...
Bernard Butler, 1995. This is jacked from his site, I think - it's from the "Yes" video clip. He's so adorable I want to marry him. I am a total loser fangirl for Bernard, too, and if you didn't know that, you must have been reading someone else's LiveJournal.
Explain your newest icon (excluding default):
Ana Matronic, live somewhere after 2003 because that's when they hit it big, right? She is totally awesome and is one of my idols and I met her in March and it was amazing, sparks flew, I said I loved her, and she took it in stride. Ana just rocks all kinds of socks. I adore her so much. I want to be more like her. KISS YOU OFF MY LIPS I DON'T NEED ANOTHER TUBE OF THAT DIMESTORE LIPSTICK!!!
Ohmygod thattooksolong. I hope you enjoyed this foray into my inner psyche.
The other day, I woke up early (!) and after I dyed my hair red again:
mraaaaaah.
I decided to sit on my arse and watch music videos for 2 hours, going between Fuse and Vh1 Classic. I got to see the original "Space Oddity" video and the original "20th Century Boy" video (Marc Bolan was such a cute little fucker - 40 on the ground, mannn) and some modern ones I like and then I saw this song by the Pretenders called "Never Do That" and I'm totally obsessed with it and have been playing it over and over since I pirated it. It's good in a really simple way. I never bothered to listen to them before, but they're not bad, although Chrissie Hynde is a little bit weird, because she screams at people for eating hamburgers and stuff. Dunno what that's about. I mean, she's the same age as my mom (both born in 1951) but she's all alt-rocker and angry-vegetarian and my mom is so low-key and registered-nurse. Smeg said it's weird when people Mom's age act more immature than her, but it just shows how much more awesome Mom is. I also discovered that she (Chrissie, not my mom, although that'd be special) did a song with Johnny Marr just after he left the Smiths and it's called "When Will I See You?" and I like it, too. And mentioning Johnny Marr brings this entry full-circle and I think I can end it now.
J.