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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
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12:03 am
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Soooooooooooo. Did livelongnmarry break LJ? Because I just went to leave my last minute snipe bids and we're down for emergency maintenance! I guess this is what I get for not bidding early. D:
On the other hand, yay for charity if we did break the servers...
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| Saturday, September 8th, 2007
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3:04 pm
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The thing is, I'm just not remembering to crosspost over here. So if you want to read my entries, LJ's the place to do it. I'll still be reading and commenting over here, but that's all. Kind of a pain, I know, but the crossposting is just more hassle than it's worth at the moment.
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| Monday, September 3rd, 2007
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10:04 pm
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One of those things I find myself thinking about at 3am and other random times: If you're dating/married to a rock star who goes by an unusual name, so much so that most people don't even know that person's real name, what do you call them in bed? I mean, okay, Prince's real name is Prince, but like... Bono? Sting? I can't imagine you'd want to call out "oh, Sting!" during sex, but I feel like unless you'd known him since before he was famous, it'd be weird to call him Gordon. What about rappers? What about rappers who change their name every year? Honestly, I'm curious.
current mood: curious
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1:51 pm
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The SciFi channel is having a Dead Like Me marathon, and we've seen a Halloween episode and now I think we're into the pilot. I'm not sure how I feel about this show. On the one hand, it's an intriguing premise. On the other hand, it's pretty damn morbid, and the actress they chose for the main character is kind of odd. I think that's partly the direction, too - they really make her character over the top, at least in the pilot. And I'm kind of confused as to what the actual plot is. It seems like there's not a lot of potential for overarching plot, but maybe I'll be proven wrong. Anyway, I think I'll give it a few more shows and see what I think.
Ahhhhh, holidays! God, I love having a day off!
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| Sunday, August 26th, 2007
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4:01 pm - rock and fucking roll
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Wow, so, the show yesterday was so amazing. In fact, I'm still recovering. *stretches legs*
A and I got there and pretty much skipped the Revolution stage because it was all outside in the sun and it was SO hot that we just couldn't stand it. So instead we went into the air conditioned pavilion and people watched for, like, five hours. :D
Bands we actually saw:
Placebo - I had never heard any of their songs, but I really enjoyed them! I need to go buy their stuff! Very dramatic and enjoyable.
HIM - musically they rocked (guitarist with gynormous dreds, awesome! Keyboardist, awesome!) but the lead singer sucked complete ass and I was pretty disappointed. Not only was he miked badly, but he chain smoked through the entire set and just looked really fucking bored. I think they're better on CD than they are live. Too bad. Although they covered Chris Isaak's Wicked Game which was weirdly interesting.
Taking Back Sunday - Surprisingly good! I really thought I could not sing you even one of their songs but it turns out I did actually know the chorus to what seems to be their biggest hit, so that was fun. And they have, notably, two extremely hot guitar players who worked the crowd and were generally sex-tastic and enjoyable. I could be tempted to listen to more of their stuff, too.
And they have this thing in the arena where you can text messages to them and they put some up on the screen, and ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) fayemeadows texted in "Frerard!!" and when I saw it I screamed so hard. Awesome. I texted in "Frank/Gerard OTP!" but they didn't use it. :(
( and fucking MCR! )
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| Friday, August 24th, 2007
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7:58 am
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So! Projekt Revolution Tour tomorrow, eeee! A question - any advice for a first time pit member? I'm already planning to get something to hold my glasses on, but should I wear anything specific? Look like it's going to be hot, so I was planning on shorts, but am I going to regret that? Also, I know, real shoes, not sandals. Also, I have earplugs, so that's good to go. People who've been to the previous PR shows, how violent is the pit? A lot of shows I've been to, it's looked pretty tame (ie, people are mostly not actually trying to throw each other around, they're more focused on the music and having a good time), but I don't know enough about the LP fans and the people who'll be at this specific tour. Thoughts?
A and I have been tentatively planning to stay mostly in the back of the pit, but I have to admit I kind of have the desire to get waaaaaay up close for MCR. Is it even doable to do both, ie, move forward for just one set? Will there be enough people leaving and moving around, or do most people just get in when the doors open and stay for the whole show? What's the etiquette for that?
Yr advice appreciated!
(Also, Clothes Off video again this morning, and can I just say, Brendon Urie, facial hair is not for you. Trust me.)
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| Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
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8:15 pm
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My mother cracks me up sometimes. She called me yesterday from the Metro on her way home from work.
Mom: By the way, when you come down next time I need you to show me how to turn off the settings on my camera phone, because I keep taking pictures accidentally while I'm trying to talk.
Me: Oh?
Mom: Yeah, actually I think I just took one of the guy who was sitting across from me. I took one of my toes yesterday. Maybe I'll start a collection, and then I'll do a book of them. Don't you think that would be popular?
Me: Accidental Camera Phone Pictures: A Work in Progress?
Mom: Yeah!
Me: Sounds like a bestseller to me.
Mom: Excellent. Hey, is that a tunnel coming up?
Me: ...
Mom: No, I guess it wasn't a tunnel.
Also, apparently my subconscious goes through phases. Because last week I had a surprisingly straightforward dream (work anxiety, body anxiety, social anxiety, need to pee), but then last night I was back to my usual cryptic stuff. The most interesting of which was a) a dream where I was on a quest with these giant bear/lion things and before we left I tried to sneak more clean underwear into my bag, and b) a dream in which I was hanging out with mnemosyne_1 who was being chased by bounty hunters. Finally they caught up with us and arrested her and it turned out it was because her husband was in the military and had gone overseas and she'd forged his signature on a check to pay a bill. And when the bounty hunters came she was like "but I had his power of attorney! He's my husband!" and the bounty hunter was like "then why'd you forge his name??" and she said "I was in a hurry." :D I don't know what that's about, really.
And I signed up for Snupin Santa which I guess is now my official holiday exchange of the year (plus Yuletide, but I'm trying to limit myself to two this year). I guess I figure that since I've got so many issues with the Snupin pairing and the way writers seem to be working with it, I'd better actually contribute and specifically request what I want to read instead of merely whining about it (I don't even really do that, either, because I'd surely offend someone on my friends list. But let this be my statement of generalized whining about how I don't like most Snupin these days.). So, yeah, Snupin! Last year I got a REALLY amazing piece that I loved and adored, so I have hope. I wish I could make time for all the different exciting exchanges, especially the bandslash exchange, but I'm not a superfast writer, alas.
Hi, world!
current mood:  pleased
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| Sunday, August 19th, 2007
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2:36 pm
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This is definitely a cooking weekend. I hit the store this morning for baked potato supplies for tonight, and then came home and made frittata with my shish kabob leftovers (mmmmmmm!), and I'm half-considering some peach tarts or something since the peaches are slightly on the far side of ripe. An amusing note - my local supermarket's brand of kitchen stuff (ie trash bags, aluminum foil, etc) is "Awesome!" So I now own some Awesome! brand plastic wrap. :D
I finished reading The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and The Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers, which was interesting but not quite as in-depth as I wanted it to be. Did you know that telegraph operators often formed romances over the wires and some couples were even married remotely? Very intriguing stuff, and the author makes a very intelligent case for the way the telegraph pretty much was the internet before we had the internet, you know? Still, I wish he'd gone into more detail. It's very much an introductory book.
Next up on my reading list - a biography of Borges that I snagged from the library yesterday. And the third volume of the Baroque Trilogy. :D
Actually, I walked all the way into town to hit the library yesterday and I am ridiculously sore. One way is a manageable walk, but both ways is a bit long, I think. Urgh.
Today, I think I want to write some bandslash.
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| Saturday, August 18th, 2007
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6:19 pm
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Okay, world. I am going to go make pyramid-shaped piles of charcoal and try to grill these things without catching myself on fire. Wish me luck! :D
Edit: Oh, I forgot somehow that there is actual ash and charcoal involved in this process! *gets black smears everywhere*
Edit: You may feel free to refer to me as "Grillmaster Jessie" if you like - it was delicious. Perhaps a little overcooked because of paranoia, but really good nonetheless. And I didn't even burn my house down!
current mood:  optimistic
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| Friday, August 17th, 2007
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7:35 pm
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Haircut! Delight! I can see again! Although, seriously, whoever decided it was a good idea to put baby powder on that little thing they use to clean your neck off was an idiot. I fucking reek of baby powder now. Makes eating dinner kind of weird.
Speaking of, I hit the grocery store (in the same complex as the hair place) and I was, I think, overcome by some sort of michevious spirit that was convinced I know how to work a grill. I went in going "dental floss, eggs, cereal" and came out again with floss, eggs, yellow squash, onion, and shish kabob meat (and no cereal, whoops). I blame the fact that you go in the door to the produce section. It seduced me.
Sooooooo. Um. *googles grill instructions* That's tomorrow's project, I guess. And then Sunday I'll make frittata with the leftovers?
Things have been negative around here recently so I thought I ought to mention some good stuff.
Good things:
--fayemeadows is buying my Projekt Revolution tickets after all, hooray! I am happy both for myself in the recouping of costs and delighted that I can make her happy by providing closer access to the gayest boys ever Frank and Gerard (and those other guys, isn't one of them called Roy? Just kidding, claireweasley, please don't hurt me!).
--and to follow up on that, Projekt Revolution tour! Next Saturday! I will be in the pitomfg and I am SO excited. Gerard Way, frothing and writhing and being groped by Frank, up close! Also, webchicky made me some preparation music for some of the other bands and I'm pretty excited to see HIM also because I really enjoy their stuff (it's got the same sort of combination ofover-the-top goth-ness that I like about MCR and also really pretty music). As for the others - Linkin Park I like okay, Saosin I like okay, The Bled I really don't like at all. That's all the ones I know. So, it'll be an adventure! A musical adventure!
--Alyson really is the sweetest girlfriend ever. She called me this morning (from her out of town vacation) at work just to say hello and good morning. ♥!
--mad_maudlin is leaving for her Peace Corps sojourn this weekend and while I will miss her terribly, I am also really in awe and proud of her for doing it. I have been a Peace Corps fan for a long time - I think I heard of it when I was in high school and I thought it was an amazing enterprise. It was something that I thought I might do for a long time before I concluded that it wasn't right for me, but I really, really admire Maud for going and I know she will make a big difference to a lot of people.
--I'm continuing my morning MTV watching habit and I really do enjoy it. It's about 1/3 good stuff (Clothes Off!, which I actually do like despite some of the points people have made about how it falls into the typical rapper talking about how awesome he is and naked women genre. I dunno. I think it's a) that it's really a fun beat and melody, and b) everyone in the video looks like they're actually having fun instead of posing as having fun, like most of the videos of that genre I see), 1/3 total crap (Plain White Ts and your lame ass Delilah song, I'm looking at YOU. Also, Fergie, WTF, Glamorous was actually a good song, but "Big Girls Don't Cry" really sucks intense ass), and 1/3 stuff that I find myself totally baffled by but not so bad I'm jumping for the remote (Rihanna??? Umbrellas as a sexual metaphor, okay...). Although I have to say - worst rapper name ever? Plies. Not only because it has no actual association with bad-assness, but because I keep seeing it as PILES, which is, um, another name for hemorrhoids. I'm just sayin'. Also, what's up with ever rap song ever now having "shawty" in it somewhere? Is that a thing?
--There are fic exchanges starting up again in lots of different fandoms, and I am eagerly awaiting all the great stuff that is going to result. I am seriously tempted to sign up for the wl_fanfiction exchange, but I promised myself I'd go awhile without doing any more exchanges because I kind of burnt myself out on the Snupin Fantasy Fest fic. So I kind of want to just write the things I want to write for a while. Probably by the time Yuletide comes along I'll be ready to work to a deadline/prompt again. I need to limit myself to TWO holiday exchanges, though - probably Yuletide and hp_holidaygen, I'm thinking, although I could be persuaded if something really amazing comes along. ANYWAY. I ramble.
--I don't have to travel again for a loooooong time. When Alyson gets back on Sunday we will have many uninterrupted weeks together! ♥!
--I have been rereading Neal Stephenson's Baroque Trilogy and enjoying it rather a lot. I really like his stuff (I bought this trilogy in hardback as they came out, kind of like a pre-Harry Potter-esque series-following experience, actually). This series is really fascinating but the first time I read it I didn't understand half of it. So the second time around I'm... still not keeping track of where all these things are happening and who all the crazy kings and princes and dukes are. But I'm enjoying it anyway! :D
--I've got a list of other books I want to get from the library, which always makes me happy. Even if they turn out to be crap, I don't know that yet - it's all potential! I mean, even aside from the ones I've specifically got notes on, there's a whole biography section and I haven't even finished the As! I really love biographies and non-fiction written for a general audience kind of thing. I don't retain any of the facts I learn from them, but hey, whatever. :D God, libraries are fucking awesome!
So, yeah. Life's not so bad, actually. How're you?
current mood: optimistic
current music: HGTV - House Hunters
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9:11 am
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Whoops, forgot to crosspost this. If any of you guys are posting exclusive stuff over here (ie, that's not mirrored at LJ), drop me a comment? I'm setting up my reading filters so I don't have to double up on people. If you already commented over at the LJ post you don't need to comment here also. Thanks!
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| Thursday, August 16th, 2007
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2:21 pm
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God, I am SO exhausted.
Saw Arlo Guthrie and Ritchie Havens with my mother on Sunday night. It was enjoyable but as always I end up getting distracted by how I fall into the political and philosophical spectrum of the folk tradition when really I'd like to turn that part of my brain off and just think "ooh, cool music!"
Ritchie Havens is a serious old hippie and said some stuff about the space program which I think wasn't meant to be a real critique of it, just a lead in to some hippie talk about how interesting we all are as people, cool, man, but instead it just came across, to me, as a half-assed attack, and attack so lame I couldn't even think where I would begin if I were to argue with it. So that made me irritated. And then he talked about how children say these really important things with a smile on their face and we really should listen, and his example was "Daddy, you'd better stop smoking or you're going to die! [exaggerated smiley face]" Of course, there was a small child sitting behind me and talking through the songs up to about that point (when the mother came to her senses and took the kid outside), so I was not charitably inclined. After all, kids also say things like "if you don't buy me a pony it means you don't love me enough [exaggerated smiley face]." So, I think, not really a good argument.
Also, I think I'm just tired of hearing that same old moronic bullshit about how we're not inheriting the earth from our parents, we're borrowing it from our children. Because a) gag me. And b) I have serious issues with the idea that I'm responsible to future generations which I won't go into here because it's serious tl;dr.
Then Arlo did his usual stuff, which I love, including the full Alice's Restaurant shpiel, and the Motorcycle Song (not with complete schpiel, but with some other fun intro stuff). And he did a long anecdote about how one person can make a difference in the world which was tied to the story of Joseph in the bible, which I won't write out here - suffice it to say it actually made some sense, but not really in the way I think he was trying to convey. I don't know. I think maybe I'm too critical to really appreciate agenda-music.
The thing being that some of his stuff is really powerful, like When a Solider Makes It Home which always makes me cry, and some of his stuff is really funny, and then some of it just sounds like the same old trite rhetoric to me. Which, I suppose, is fair enough - you can't write nothing but winners anyway. And I still consider myself a fan. I just find myself hard put to ignore the flaws, especially in something that I do think has a lot of positive aspects.
ANYWAY. Did Mom's medical thing (everything's fine) and drove back on Tuesday. Came in to work yesterday and was COMPLETELEY slammed with projects. I mean, it's good to know people missed me (one of my favorite attorneys came by and said "can we clone you?" right before he handed me a project), but damn, people, I need to breathe!
And Alyson has gone off with a friend until Sunday, so I am all by my lonesome until then, which makes me sad. I have been doing so much traveling (seriously - Toronto, Pittsburgh, and DC in the space of two weeks, agh) and now that I'm back, she's gone. I mean, I knew this trip was coming up and she'll have a great time, but I'm still sad. Anyway, this means you should all poke me to get writing done this weekend, okay?
So. What's going on with you? What've I missed? I think I am mostly up to date on the LJ stuff, but what about the good things that have happened?
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| Sunday, August 12th, 2007
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11:05 am
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So last night I had a dream that I was matchmaking for Joe Flanigan and David Hewlett. There was eyeliner involved. Actually, it was like the most cliched thing ever because we were making them sleep in the same bed for some reason, and there was also a "comedy of errors" element because I kept having conversations with Joe that I thought were about him wanting to get into David's pants but which were actually about some sort of literacy campaign for charity that David was running (how you could mistake those two, I don't know - wtf ever, it was a dream!). And, yes, eyeliner. :D
Obviously my brain is trying to tell me that I have not been reading enough SGA fic recently. I have lots of them bookmarked, subconscious, honest!!
Anyway, I'm going out of pocket for the next couple of days so if the universe/LJ explodes, text me. :D
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| Saturday, August 11th, 2007
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5:29 pm
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Testing Semagic's multiple journal post tool - wha hey! I am the same user name at LJ, GJ, and IJ, and though I won't be archiving my LJ posts on the mirror journals I'll be triple-updating from home and possibly triple updating from work when I remember to do it manually. For now, though, I'm sticking with LJ - too many of my other friends remain here and I maintain hope that eventually some sensible guidelines will get worked out.
I am so very behind on all the great fic that's been posted in the last week. I have been catching up on my flist in terms of news posts and what people have to say, but I have been marking fic as "follow up" in my memories so I can go back to it and I probably have something like 60 pieces to read. And I'm going away from the internet for another few days tomorrow, so I think I'll be catching up well into next week.
And I have so many things I've been wanting to work on the deadlines of which are coming up, and I've just been too exhausted to even touch them. Blah.
Anyway, I have not forgotten about you, internet! I am merely swept up in the ravages of, you know, real life. *waves*
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