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Where is everyone? It's 3 o'clock in the morning, you silly wizards. Do you plan on sleeping the whole freakin' day away???
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18 July 2009 @ 03:06 am
17 July 2009 @ 09:38 pm
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ME: I think I'm going to have to wait to live my dream of working a dig in Kenya in my next life.
HE: Why? You can still do it.
ME: No, I can't. I don't like bugs or too much heat.
HE: That does limit your options. The Yucatan is out, too.
ME: It sounded so good when I was in the 5th grade.
HE: You'll have to work an archaeology dig in Seattle.
ME: I've already done it here. Near Mt. Rainier.
HE: True.
ME: And I had to put up with cows and rain and mud.
HE: There you go, you lived the hardship.
ME: My favorite part was cataloging the artifacts. I had to draw them, measure them, record the shape, size, color and material, like saying it was granite--
HE: It could have been another type of rock and you took it for granite.
ME: Don't make me stab you.
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17 July 2009 @ 10:19 pm
17 July 2009 @ 07:49 pm
I'm going to be posting this a few places, but:
Is anyone here going to Comic-Con, and if so, would they have any space in their room for Annie? She's looking to go, but doesn't have lodging. I won't be attending unfortunately, but she does take up very little space and splendidly tidy. In fact I could probably fit her in a backpack.
Is anyone here going to Comic-Con, and if so, would they have any space in their room for Annie? She's looking to go, but doesn't have lodging. I won't be attending unfortunately, but she does take up very little space and splendidly tidy. In fact I could probably fit her in a backpack.
17 July 2009 @ 06:39 pm
17 July 2009 @ 05:48 pm
BPAL is going to make a line of Amanda Palmer oils?!?
Must. Have. Some!
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bpal_excathedra's latest post)17 July 2009 @ 06:24 pm
"and here the mixed breed, part man, part beast, the Minotaur--
a warning against such monstrous passion."
a warning against such monstrous passion."
17 July 2009 @ 06:07 pm
"Down at his feet
he flung his useless helmet, the one he donned
when he played at war, acting out mock battles."
he flung his useless helmet, the one he donned
when he played at war, acting out mock battles."
18 July 2009 @ 07:37 am
a night of waking to my own wordless voice. a nightmare just before 3 a.m. - thinking i am awake, a bright flash of light, paralysis, someone in the room. i wake for good and lie frozen, thinking of my uncle, whose only sign of stroke was a bright flash of light causing him to drive his car off the road.
*
our flesh
Surrounds us with its own decisions.
philip larkin
*
our flesh
Surrounds us with its own decisions.
philip larkin
mood: your blood, your bones
music: your voice, and your ghost
17 July 2009 @ 04:54 pm
You know how generally some shows aspire to greatness or at least very goodness, and other shows are kind of bad and have trouble pulling it together, and some shows are in the middle -- as good as they need to be for casual entertainment?
I keep thinking that Leverage should sit squarely in the middle, and from the episodes that I've seen, sometimes it does. But much too often, it slips into bad -- or falls distractingly short of good enough -- where it really doesn't need to. It's frustrating, because it feels so close to "as good as it needs to be" but can't quite consistently get there.
I might have mentioned this before, but while I'm at it -- I love Aldis Hodge's Hardison, but I vaguely wish he were on one of those first category shows that have higher aspirations. Because as long as he's on Leverage, he can pretty much coast on his charm and charisma in the role. And Gina Bellman, who was so great in Jekyll, really needs better material than she's been getting here as Sophie.
I keep thinking that Leverage should sit squarely in the middle, and from the episodes that I've seen, sometimes it does. But much too often, it slips into bad -- or falls distractingly short of good enough -- where it really doesn't need to. It's frustrating, because it feels so close to "as good as it needs to be" but can't quite consistently get there.
I might have mentioned this before, but while I'm at it -- I love Aldis Hodge's Hardison, but I vaguely wish he were on one of those first category shows that have higher aspirations. Because as long as he's on Leverage, he can pretty much coast on his charm and charisma in the role. And Gina Bellman, who was so great in Jekyll, really needs better material than she's been getting here as Sophie.
17 July 2009 @ 04:11 pm
Creating a trip hop soundtrack to the flick, turning the screen red when the Klan shows up and superimposing thin white animated lines to highlight and isolate certain images onscreen like the stitching on a hipster T-shirt do not a remix make.
The kid gloves that critics seem to wear when dealing with this project says much more interesting and troubling things about where the intellectual/arty class is with Art and Race in this country than That Subliminal Kid’s freshman undergraduate treatment of the material.
The kid gloves that critics seem to wear when dealing with this project says much more interesting and troubling things about where the intellectual/arty class is with Art and Race in this country than That Subliminal Kid’s freshman undergraduate treatment of the material.
From a Racialicious post on a recent MoMA screening of DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation, billed as a remix of DW Griffith's 1915 Birth of a Nation. One main theme in the critique is that the original source was insufficiently remixed; the result was, in effect, more a re-presenting of the film that reproduced its racism.
The whole post, and further discussion in comments, is worth reading.
17 July 2009 @ 02:40 pm
17 July 2009 @ 07:24 am
17 July 2009 @ 07:18 am
ME: You're my caveman.
HE: *growl*
ME: So pull my hair. Now.
HE: *laughs* I'll hit you in the head with my club--
ME: And drag me to your cave?
HE: Actually I don't think that really happened.
ME: How come?
HE: It wouldn't be very beneficial--
ME: To their propagation?
HE: Right.
ME: But I bet that's where the saying, "Not tonight, I have a headache" came from.
HE: *laughs* Not tonight, I have a fractured skull.
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17 July 2009 @ 09:13 am
17 July 2009 @ 08:20 am
Fuck my butt. Sean had to work, so was napping. Decided to wait to drop my car off with my mom. Horrid idea. One minute too late, standby flight was full, luggage may already be in Atlanta. My flight doesn't leave til 10. Been waiting for hours. have more hours to wait til I depart there. Arrive in Kansas at 5pm.
Isn't this my life? I am taking a nap. Fuuuuuuck.
Isn't this my life? I am taking a nap. Fuuuuuuck.
17 July 2009 @ 02:16 am
when i was young
i very much enjoyed
taking my head
on top of my neck
throwing it backward
and slamming the rear
of my skull into
the nearest available wall
and now i am accused of age
am meant to divulge
my appetite for shiny vehicles
and the shapes of passing women
who apparently wish to be teased
onto the imaginary
cocks of my eager equals
but i'm neither amused
nor entertained
nor interested?
as i respect their hunger
for other flesh and to fit in
but can't invoke
the words to count the madness
the music for the sin
the dispositioned urge
borne of youth enmazed
can i help it?
knowing wrong,
tired, potent, disbelieving
and charming all desire anyway?
i very much enjoyed
taking my head
on top of my neck
throwing it backward
and slamming the rear
of my skull into
the nearest available wall
and now i am accused of age
am meant to divulge
my appetite for shiny vehicles
and the shapes of passing women
who apparently wish to be teased
onto the imaginary
cocks of my eager equals
but i'm neither amused
nor entertained
nor interested?
as i respect their hunger
for other flesh and to fit in
but can't invoke
the words to count the madness
the music for the sin
the dispositioned urge
borne of youth enmazed
can i help it?
knowing wrong,
tired, potent, disbelieving
and charming all desire anyway?