Not noted in post body: also I cleaned a lot! Go me, for real!

[shihadchick]

From the sample set of {sometimes my brain is not my friend}, "hey, if you wanted to make a horrible1 portmanteau pairing name for Brendon/Shane would it be "Brane"? AHAHAHAAAOH GOD." *facepalm*

In other news, Team LotsaMud (hopefully) now consists of an extra person2, which makes my life much more awesome, although I still feel very bad about

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[nova33]

The only time I played Guitar Hero was sort of pathetic, but I think that probably I'd just keep trying and trying. I'm such a perfectionist.

Also, stop being so busy and social. You're setting the bar too high!

There was one other thing...oh yeah! \o/ for sesame bars!

[shihadchick]

I was SO bad the first, like, twenty times I tried it, and I am still rather faily a lot of the time, but I hit a zen moment when I was playing with jezzabe the other week and I can almost-sort-of-mostly play at "medium" level now (instead of just "easy") and it's getting a lot better. It is just so much fuuuuuuuuun. ("Dead!" is still the only thing I have 100%-ed on (on easy!), though.)

I am not nearly this social normally, it's very strange!

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS.

[nova33]

It just feels really off to me! I mean, the bass is sort of massive and then suddenly there are these dinky little buttons...I don't even know. We don't really have much oppurtunity to play video games in my family anyway.

Today I went out and saw a movie. It was a big moment for me.

You know those little sesame seed crackers? Or biscuits, or whatever you want to call them? They come in packs of four, and they're sort of delicious. Anyway, my parents have never let me have them because they were deemed too sugary, and they are my guilty pleasure every time I have the oppurtunity to buy them. (Yeah, that's right. Other kids are partying and getting drunk, and I am reading a book with my secret sesame seed crackers.)

[shihadchick]

Oh, I bet it does if you're used to proper instruments, yeah. I only ever played flute (...pause for the peanut gallery) and I am terrible at anything guitar-related so I didn't have much cognitive dissonance in that respect. It's helped a LOT somehow in being able to (sometimes) identify time signatures, though, which I could NEVER do before. But fair, yo.

Which movie?

I think I know the ones you mean! And, aw, but hey, simple pleasures, right? (And given I am curled up with sesame bars and a bookfic, I think I see where you're coming from on that.)

[mrsquizzical]

mmmmmm seseme bars mmmmmm...

i tried playing guitar hero once in a shop and was so appalled at how badly i did (which actually should NOT have come as a surprise, because my history with any sort of game -irl or virtual- is pretty much pathetic. but i'm a muso, dammit. i should be able to do THIS ONE! :~P) that i've not touched it again. i'll sit out with jon. or ryan. or whichever one it is who doesn't like it.

[shihadchick]

soooooooooo good. i am so addicted.

see, i found - when i was first playing it at tshirtgirl's place - that it took me AGES to get the hang of the timing (admittedly, still not perfect, but way better than I was) and that made it a lot harder at first, but once that clicked it got a lot better, and it is SO much fun with other people around, it really is the best way to play it, I swear. and it's Jon and Ryan who sit out on it, so I'm sure they'd be happy to entertain you while ou do so. ;)

[jocondite]

I don't know, I think I might be Team Shendon. *strokes chin meditatively*

[shihadchick]

...all I see when I look at that is a portmanteau version of Bendon and Shanton, and omg can't you just imagine? HEEEEEEEEEEEEE. Aaaaaaaand now I am back to imagining Brendon in really good drag. Om nom nom. Dear reality, srsly, this is bandom, HOW HAS THAT NOT HAPPENED YET/MORE? love, me.

ps I miss your faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace.

pps Still giggling hysterically every time I hear ads for Walker & Hall. there is an au in my head and on my phone with Kat. Zack is maybe going to wind up designing Jon and Spencer's wedding rings. WHY is my brain fixated on schmoop this evening? Morning. Whatever.

[jocondite]

It will! That is the joy of bandom. You wish on a star and say 'hey, you know what would be kind of neat...?' and then it becomes canon. (That, or reality takes a crazywonderful twist even you could not have imagined.)

PS: I MISS YOURS ALSO. As soon as I get past my most immediate deadlines, I am kidnapping you and making you hang out with me. (Also I can't stop laughing because I just realised that my feet are on your journal frontpage. CRAZINESS. Is that from Auckland? I haven't got the M&G photo from that yet. *big tragic eyes*).

PPS: THAT SOUNDS GREAT TO ME. Viva schmoop! Now I have their tv jingle in my head, damn you. (You should write it in, if you write this! Walker and Hall, where the diamonds shine, where gold and silver stand the test of time, etc. You can't *make up* that sort of cheesy terribleness. That was them, right?)

[shihadchick]

It really really iiiiiiiiis. I mean, shit, I thought we had it good back in U2. (Though, really, if people can get Larry Mullen Jr into a dress and boa in 1990, SOMEONE can damn well do the same to Spencer Smith. I am just saying. Make it happen, Zack? Please?) (And yessssssssss. *thinks back to that swimming togs photo dear jebus h*)

*cliiiiiiiiiiiiiings* I support this plan REALLY A LOT. YES. Kidnapping etc is ready a-go-go. (They are! *grins* ANd it is, and dude, you don't? Eek. I will take care of that RIGHT NOW. (Everyone in it except me looks very attractive; apparently explaining magnetism to Jon Walker makes me slouch in a very unfortunate fashion, siiiiiiiiigh. But the rest of you guys look great!))

SO ADORABLE. And heeeeeeeeeeeeeee and oh my god I forgot about that part, I so so SO do, you're dead right. <3

[stickmarionette]

Go Team LotsaMud! :D

Also, when I finally get out of academia hell, we should play Guitar Hero. :D

[shihadchick]

Indeed! :D

And yes, we should indeed, this is a most excellent notion! *wishes you luck and more spare time and sanity and caffeine*

[stickmarionette]

Thanks! :D I miss having time to play games.

[fairestcat]

Oh god, don't joke about portmanteau names in this fandom, chances are remarkably good that they already exist.

Case in point: Gikey

Also: Brete

[shihadchick]

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WHY.

Do people even stop to think about these things? I mean, Frerard is bad enough, jeeeeeeeeeeeeeez.

(Brete sounds like a clothing-optional Mediterranean island!)

[fairestcat]

Some of the things I run across while compiling for dotcoms_refresh are truly terrifying.

Brete would be much more interesting as a Mediterranean island actually. In reality it turned out not to be Brendon/Pete as I first assumed but, in fact, Brent/Pete. Since I've only ever seen ONE Brent/Pete story, I'm not sure what it did to deserve it's own portmanteau anyway.

[shihadchick]

Dear jebus, I would imagine so. You are a far braver woman than I.

Wouldn't it just? *is imagining this quite happily* And, dude, what?! I was also imagining it as Brendon/Pete, and now my world is all askew! Huh.