Poll and Miscellany

[thefourthvine]

Three things, almost entirely content free. (But one of them is a poll! There will be clicking, and that's always fun, right?)

I swear I will have actual content in this LJ again. Eventually. In the meantime -

1. Remember the poll? Um, this one? Thanks to everyone who took it, by the way, and I am slowly working my way through the comments, because

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[minotaurs]

I've heard the rest of Cam's album, and it's nowhere near as good as Son of a Preacher Man - much mellower. Much, much, MUCH mellower. Like, 'SOAPM came off an entirely different album' mellower.

[thefourthvine]

Well, since collectors cannot be swayed by rhyme, reason, or taste (seriously; I lived with a chronic collector once, so I know whereof I speak), I still totally want the CD - and I have it now, because malnpudl is wonderful - but thank you for warning me. Because SoaPM blew me away, and I was sort of hoping for more stuff like that, but now I will not be disappointed when I listen to it.

[macadamanaity]

I, sadly, don't have that CD but I just wanted comment and say that I have an obsession with 'genderswap' songs as well. They make me strangely happy. Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies has quite a few (seeing as how they only do covers), if you didn't already know that. Two of my favourites from them are 'Don't Cry For Me Argentina' and 'My Boyfriend's Back.'

[thefourthvine]

Oooo. I do have some Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies, but not either of those, oddly enough.

*adds to mental wishlist*

[macadamanaity]

Don't Cry For Me... http://download.yousendit.com/E4A899F026BC35B3

Can't find the other one, for some reason.

[darthfox]

What if a Canada goose and a hummingbird had a baby, which was then raised in a turtle village by a family of gorillas?

This may be the sort of fan I am as well, now that I think about it.

Also: omfg a recording of a boy singing "Son of a Preacher Man". [downloads liek whoa]

[thefourthvine]

What if a Canada goose and a hummingbird had a baby, which was then raised in a turtle village by a family of gorillas?1. Biologists everywhere weep, develop nervous tics, and take up careers in accounting or religion

[elementalv]

malnpudl speaks, and I obey:

http://elementalv.livejournal.com/368673.html

[thefourthvine]

Yay! Thank you!

*adds to del.icio.us*

[katie_m]

One thing I found interesting, reading the comments to your previous post, was the extent to which other people defined "fannish" very differently than I would. I mean, I'm still very fond of, say, Buffy. I have some people I interact with basically because we were once Buffy fans, and I'll watch Buffy vids, and maybe even read a Buffy story or two, but I wouldn't say I was in Buffy fandom anymore. I got the impression a lot of the people responding to that poll would say I was, though.

[thefourthvine]

Oh, Katie, that is next week's meta. Do you always have to be ahead of the class?

But, yeah, one of the interesting things - well, I was trying to explain this to someone, and I got all metaphorical and started talking about how there are boundaries between being fannish and merely liking something, and being fannish and being our kind of fannish, but it's a blurry boundary, and there are no maps except one made by a blind geometrist, and basically it's just living proof the geopolitical applicability of Heisenberg.

Plus, I get the sense that some people don't want to admit they aren't in fandoms any more. Which I can understand - it's tough - but it adds another layer of uncertainty to the whole topic.

[katie_m]

I personally have one set of extra processes that get devoted to fannish pursuits, and they are not necessarily devoted to that--they can, for instance, be devoted to a new relationship, or a real-life issue, or whatever. (I suspect the latter is why I haven't been feeling very media-fannish recently, actually.) So I don't do multi-fannish, really.