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Music Videos #29: In Which a Fight Breaks Out.
I wanted to wait until I found the name of a particular music video. I wasn't expecting it to take three weeks of frantic searching. I was watching New Zealand's music channel at 11 p.m., muted in the background while I took dictation for the speech my father's giving at my sister's wedding (which officially happens today), and I saw the familiar ( Read more... ) -
Music Videos #28: In Which I Dust Off the Memes for New Year.
1) Brandon Flowers, 'Crossfire'
Director: Nash Edgerton
From the 2010 album Flamingo
Watch at YouTube
In an unusual twist on the 'damsel in distress' routine, our lead singer from The Killers is here tied to a chair and strung upside-down in a straightjacket. What he's done wrong, we may never know, but it certainly seems to involve a lot of ninjas ( Read more... ) -
The Epic Haul!
Boy, I need a pick-me-up.
It doesn't help that my romantic life is a melting pot of recriminations and I-don't-know-what-I'm-meant-to-do-here. Right now, I really want to be hugged and told it's going to be alright, but that'll only make me feel more entitled. Speaking of entitled, it's probably bad form to make a post detailing what I got ( Read more... ) -
Massive Yuletide Recommendation Post!
I'm supposed to be researching for the Christmas fanfic gifts I'm sending out, but I was also told to write one of these, so I have spent the better part of three hours skimming the entire Yuletide 2010 archive to find twelve pieces that I can crow about:
On the twelfth day of Yuletide, some fanfic came to me:
12) Cryptic Cases: Encyclopedia ( Read more... ) -
Nurgh. -howls-
Okay, my head is splitting and it's only the bloody 22nd. It doesn't help that Christmas seems out to attack me this year: today I got four paper cuts wrapping presents for the entire family, have candle wax and pine sap in my eyes, rendering me bloodshot and looking like I haven't slept, and have my new Questionable Content shirt dusted with ( Read more... ) -
Save me, America!
So, I'm writing for Yuletide, and I don't want to do anything that'll send my reader to the thesaurus. So I'm brewing tea. Specifically, a character is brewing tea, and I'm trying to figure out what term to use.
I know from experience that tea in America, especially if you're doing it in an office, is likely to be in a teabag. That's not the problem ( Read more... ) -
Radiohead - An Ongoing Experiment - Part 2
An anagram of the words 'In Rainbows OK Computer' is 'Combination Super-work'.
Human beings have minds which are designed to interpret patterns. We can't help it: present anybody with two dots and a line in a particular pattern and we will perceive it as a face. It's why theories like a synchronicity between a film and an album, or a ( Read more... ) -
Radiohead - An Ongoing Experiment
I'm a big fan of musical conspiracy theories. I like listening to songs backward, sometimes just for the hell of it. I leaped at the 'Dark Side of the Rainbow' bandwagon like it was made of tiramisu (that bandwagon refers to the conspiracy theory that Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon makes an astounding soundtrack to The Wizard of ( Read more... ) -
Music Videos #27: In Which There Are Jellyfish.
1) Scissor Sisters, 'Comfortably Numb'
Director: unknown
From the 2004 album Scissor Sisters
www.youtube.com/watch
I've never been a particularly big fan of the Scissor Sisters, in the same way that I've never been a big fan of most music from the 1980s: I'll groove a bit if they come on, and will probably know most of the lyrics by osmosis, but I won' ( Read more... ) -
My vegetarian friends are probably right.
So, you know what sucks? ( Food poisoning. )