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I'm pretty sure my entire flist has done this by now and I am nothing if not a sheep.

1. Anyone who looks at this entry please post this meme and their current wallpaper at their LiveJournal.
2. Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper.
3. Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on.

Comments

[goavsgo]

I like how your icons are perfectly arranged along the curve. :D

Also,

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Heh, my room may be a disaster zone but by GOD I need a well-arranged computer desktop!

Both of those icons are SO PERFECT, zomg.

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Aww, thanks :D

[janos_papagia]

Ahhh I love it :D My background was Star Trek-related too, but I changed it. Now I want to change it back... in fact, I think I will :)

P.S. I'm reading Trainspotting. I'm pretty sure we had a conversation about it before? The movie is the one with Ewan McGregor, right? Or was that a different junkie movie?

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Almost everyone on my friends list who's done this meme has a Star Trek wallpaper too, it's kind of hilarious.

Yup, that's it! Did you have much trouble reading the accents?

It's a great movie btw, you really need to see it. As I recall (I only read the book once and that was AGES ago) it does depart from the book a fair bit, as it focuses on Renton instead of jumping around as much as the book does. And I found the book a lot more disturbing - not to say that the movie isn't, but I think books can get away with more. Anyway, the film manages to be both bleak and depressing and really funny, which I always love, and the soundtrack is AMAZING. Just... don't watch it for the first time at two a.m. in the basement like I did.

(Google Chrome doesn't think that "movie" is a word, what the hell?)

[janos_papagia]

I figured that the movie would focus on Renton, since if there had to be a main character in this book, I would say it's him. At first I had trouble getting into the style of writing, the accents, but now I read it just fine :) All you have to do is picture a scottish accent in your mind as you're reading and then it all makes sense...

Yeah, I was planning on watching the movie too, and I'm glad you say it's not as disturbing because I was afraid it might be even more so! And yeah... definitely will be watching it with a friend and definitely not at 2am ;)

You were in my dream last night! We ate cake together and you were dressed in a really sweet yellow dress. Random enough for you?

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Trainspotting is the only book I've ever read that left me thinking in a different accent. (Movies and TV does that all the time to me, though. I once watched a Scottish film whilst doing homework and spent all night thinking in Scottish-accented French, it was pretty bizarre.)