Let's go on a Livejournal vacation The kind of vacation that ain't no fun at all Let's go on a Livejournal vacation, honey And write your fingers to the bone One entry for the money, two for the show Three to get ready, four, oh no Better write five, no make that six Write so much that no one ever reads this shit Let's go for a Livejournal vacation, sweetie Cause Gary says it's so.
In early June, we were assigned to the tune of five entries; there was much consternation. I wouldn't describe my own reaction as exactly like elation, but I didn't get the panic of the LJI nation. Cause it wasn't no thang... Just fired up the text editor, bang bang bang bang bang-- I got my five on. Now I'm just waitin' ten days for the vote suckas survive on. Nine hours 'fore it all comes due, I thought I'd been done for a week, nearly two. But theafayebusts in an' like, "Not so fast! Gary posted topic #6 for your ass!" Shiiii, I only got thirty minutes!Better lay it down quick if I'm gonna stay in it
( ... )
God, you were worse off than me-- I got a lead time of about 70 minutes to deadline. Gah!
Write so much that no one ever reads this shit That's the other thing. I was too busy writing to read ahead of time, and now, almost 180-6 entries to read? FML. :(
Love the tin-pan alley sound to this. Matches the picture perfectly (and the disgruntled gentleman next to the phonograph matches how I feel about the surprise of unexpected Prompt #6).
I actually had a whopping nine hours of notice, but I *really* had planned to end this batch of entries with a song (which I already submitted), and I only had 30 spare recording-viable minutes in the day-- that, and no instruments / tools aside from the ones already in my school office to use during those 30 minutes. It all worked out. That was a most dastardly trick.
I'm in the same boat with reading all this stuff. I'm basically screwed.
I figure the pic represents both our mutual reaction to the news *and* the reaction of a guy hearing some dude go on about LJ on his gramophone. I had much more obscene designs in mind for that gramophone, but time *was* of the essence.
An original song composed and recorded in Idol's (dis)honor? This has GOT to be a first. Either way, it's effing hilarious. Well played...in every sense of the word.
Thanks, yo. I truly wish it *was* well played, but given the time limitations / the need to pull it all straight out of my arse, I've made peace with myself.
(I've actually done something similar long ago in an LJI season far, far away-- but it was directed at one particular contestant who is long forgotten, so it makes zero sense now. I've also made peace with our disposable culture.)
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Let's go on a Livejournal vacation
The kind of vacation that ain't no fun at all
Let's go on a Livejournal vacation, honey
And write your fingers to the bone
One entry for the money, two for the show
Three to get ready, four, oh no
Better write five, no make that six
Write so much that no one ever reads this shit
Let's go for a Livejournal vacation, sweetie
Cause Gary says it's so.
In early June, we were assigned to the tune of five entries; there was much consternation.
I wouldn't describe my own reaction as exactly like elation, but I didn't get the panic of the LJI nation.
Cause it wasn't no thang...
Just fired up the text editor, bang bang bang bang bang--
I got my five on.
Now I'm just waitin' ten days for the vote suckas survive on.
Nine hours 'fore it all comes due,
I thought I'd been done for a week, nearly two.
But theafaye busts in an' like, "Not so fast!
Gary posted topic #6 for your ass!"
Shiiii, I only got thirty minutes!Better lay it down quick if I'm gonna stay in it ( ... )
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Write so much that no one ever reads this shit
That's the other thing. I was too busy writing to read ahead of time, and now, almost 180-6 entries to read? FML. :(
Love the tin-pan alley sound to this. Matches the picture perfectly (and the disgruntled gentleman next to the phonograph matches how I feel about the surprise of unexpected Prompt #6).
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I'm in the same boat with reading all this stuff. I'm basically screwed.
I figure the pic represents both our mutual reaction to the news *and* the reaction of a guy hearing some dude go on about LJ on his gramophone. I had much more obscene designs in mind for that gramophone, but time *was* of the essence.
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(I've actually done something similar long ago in an LJI season far, far away-- but it was directed at one particular contestant who is long forgotten, so it makes zero sense now. I've also made peace with our disposable culture.)
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