This LJ is effectively defunct, but I am floating happily on a sea of dreams.
If I start another, I will link it in a friend-locked post.

Happy Holidays, all. :)

*THE* best news I've heard yet this year.

http://www.zeit.de/online/2008/27/metropolis-vorab-englisch

They found a complete, uncut, version of Fritz Lang's Metropolis.

After 80 years.

Load up all of your music into WinAmp or iTunes. Set it to random and list the first 25 songs it plays, no matter how embarrassing.Previously played this game here : http://chronovox.livejournal.com/22519.htmlRead more... )

We wish so hard to be seen ( Read more... )

"For he who passes the gateways always wins a shadow, and never again can he be alone." - The Book

"Whilst the greater number of our nocturnal visions are perhaps no more than faint and fantastic reflections of our waking experiences. . . There are still a certain remainder whose immundane and ethereal character permit of no ordinary interpretation, and whose vaguely exciting and disquieting effect suggests possible minute glimpses into a sphere ( Read more... )

Heard the Mission UK's "Severina" for the first time tonight, or maybe it was the first time I actually listened to it. . .

She's got her head in the clouds ( Read more... )

( To Wish Impossible Things )

A quote :

"He can't see your high IQ, sparkling wit, and warmth from across the room." - Dianne Brill

And an associated thought, once read on a pin :

"I'd respect your mind more if it bounced gently when you walked."

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And the root of it all?

"Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of ( Read more... )

From an online horoscope :

"In relationships, even more than in anything else, being 'righteous' is four letters and worlds away from being 'right.' Actually, in a relationship, 'listening' is actually much better than any of the alternatives.