Imaginary Gardens

*waves* Look! Not dead! I am, however, as dispirited as a virgin drink, mainly because fuck you, job hunting, that's why.

In other news, I've read fanfic! It's been ages! Sherlock fic, at that! I even stayed up until the wee hours, flailing at seschat because of one. These are RemyDico5's Better Than None (♥) and MadLori's Alone on the Water.

And that's about it.

Oh, and my icon - by lienne - is a thing of adorableness ♥


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* Richard Siken

...yeah, so I haven't been posting regularly in a while, and that's one part work sucking all my time and energy, one part Tumblr, and one part of "not much going on". Most of my day consists of work, which is currently being mind-numbingly dull, and the rest of it is spent trying not to melt in the unbearable heat. I still post a bit of fanart over on Tumblr, and I've been watching Season 1 of White Collar, which is awesome. It just feels like most of the time I'm desperately trying to keep up with all the things I want to do and just barely keeping my head above water.

Hence the massive LotD below. And the lack of Original Fiction Meme.

Meme: National Book Week: via Newton_pulsifer, here

Grab the book closest to you. Go to page 56. Copy the 5th sentence. Don't mention the book.

He had a month.


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* Drugsandrainbows, here

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Quotes of the Day: Philip K. Dick, Valis

There exists, for everyone, a sentence--a series of words--that has the power to destroy you. another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. if you're lucky you will get the second, but you can be certain of getting the first.

Links of the Day:
Top 500 Country Songs
Scanwiches - Scanned Sandwiches
pegkerr shares Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters's booktrailer and cover (preceded by Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) ; Baby Sea Lion Swimming Lesson ; Meta on Palin's Resignation
Ace of Cakes Trailer - Serenity Ship-Cake!!!
qthewetsprocket shares Hitler's Frustrated With Lost - Downfall Spoof


* John Cage

First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.*

This afternoon my brother, Yasmina, her ex-roommate went to a delicious Chinese restaurant in Chinatown - mayonaise shrimp ftw!.

Later the three of us went to a modern dance show, HomeBody, presented by Chicago Dance and Music Alliance.

The first choreography was pretty neat - it was a two-person dance, with cool rolling-over-each-other's-back moves. The music accompanying it was pretty neat, with the second part being a voice mix of a distressing speech about "My life has worth! I am a human being!" and angsting about the melodrama of modern life. As part of the show, this guy in army clothes labeled as the "Mad Scientist" walked about with a microphone asking the audience to describe what they felt when watching the dance. The first victim was my brother, who could just shrug and point desperately at me beside him, saying "I don't know" and, in the face of the relentless microphone, finally panicked, saying "Jumping!". We teased him about this all the way home :D

(Myself, I managed to come up with "playfullness", which got the Mad Scientist's approval, but other folk went the same vein as my brother.)

Another memorable bit of choreography let us all giggling. It's one of those things about modern art, you never quite know if it's just utter crap to be laughed at or if it's supposed to be some deep commentary of modern society. The choreography starts off with three girls in cowboy boots (*covets boots*) bopping away. Then one drifts off, captivated by a McD's bag and burger, and proceeds to sit down and flirt and eye-fuck the burger before chomping down. This was followed by an ancient video commercial of the Big Mac and a rendition of "I Believe I Can Fly In the Fries".

There was also some pretty awesome meddley of 70s and 80s music and dancing - huge glasses included.

What my brother really liked was the djembe performances, and I think we all really enjoyed the Capoeira show. It was really nice to recognize one of the capoeria dancers from my brother's (totally, totally awesome) black and white capoeria photographs). Turns out he's my brother's friend 'cause, apart from the photography, they went to the same capoeria school. I think I saw him a few years ago in Millenium Park's Capoiera free show. Josh is freakishly good - must be, he's been doing it for 14 years.

* * *
Brother's watching In the Name of the Father and I've just squeed at recognizing Paterson Joseph as the Jamaican guy. Love Paterson.

...ye gods, I can't watch this film again, it's going to make me bawl.

( Haiku Generator )


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* Anon.

You're like one of those lab rats that pushes the pleasure button instead of the food button until it dies.*

One day I won't be utterly drained from doing Links of the Day and actually post about stuff, like what's been going on in my life and stuff like that. Instead all I can offer is, yes, Links, and YouTube Embeds and one massive Twitterpost about True Blood and similar. *sigh* Sorry, y'all.

Also, you may be glad to know I'm all caught up with SPN and that the current season's on hiatus until Jan. 15 (promo), so my squee will soon calm down. After which everything will continue nicely except for those of us who will be flying off to Kenya and will therefore miss out on SPN, Lost, Heroes, TSCC et al. and BObama's swearing in. That's just not fair. *pout*

One tiny word about SPN, though. ( Spoilers, rambles, brothers, bibles, epics and myths. )

And now, YouTube Embeds, because I can. The Are You Watching Supernatural? Campaign is for fan promotion only. ( These things are bloody amazing. )

( Which SPN Character Are You? Meme )


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* Sam Winchester, Supernatural

So after just over a month, I've now watched Supernatural Season 1 and 2. I'm not watching Season 3 right now because my grabby hands are still empty. But oh, my dears! when we gets our handses on the precious...

So yeah, I like Supernatural, what of it? ( The whys and wherefores. )

As an aside, Amos Lee is a man?!? Gods, and here I was so thrilled that "Arms of a Woman" was sung by a woman. Argh, yo.

ETA: I meant to say, while I did watch a bit of an episode of SPN a couple years ago with roommate Kira (who asked me which of the Winchesters I found hotter, and my immediate reaction was to say Sam - 'cause he was lean and lanky, just how I like 'em - but them instantly said, "Omg, no, wait, Dean.") I didn't get hooked the first time.

I only finally caved and started watching SPN because I watched some fanvids (for the background music) and, once I started looking at what I was listening, I got curious.

ETA 2: Also, I'm loving how even in Season 1 I can point at details or turns of phrase or whatever and say, "Hey, they deal with that in Season 4! Foreshadow ftw!". Even if it isn't planned foreshadow, I love how internally consistent SPN is.


Links of the Day:
cuttoothorn's Supernatural 2x20 Fanvid
vaeltaa's The Sylar/Peter Files: Deleted Scene 001
Star Trek Trailer
piratehatter's Batman Comics
lyonser's T:SCC Fanvid: Breath (John/Cameron)
ana_jo's T:SCC Icons
Wiki: C.R.Kiernan's Alabaster
Wiki; Albinism in popular culture
Write or Die
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* Dean, Supernatural 2x20

This morning I woke up to what I thought was an unusually loud alarm clock and briefly considered some half-remembered quote stating that sensible hours the night you set the alarm appear insane the morning after. I could have, I thought, just rolled over and slept for another hour, having class at 10 am instead of the usual 9 am. But no, instead I rolled the other direction and out of bed, because I'd sworn I'd write my letter of motivation that morning. It went surprisingly well. (After I procrastinated with breakfast, the usual internet rounds and a quarter of Supernatural's 2x03 Bloodlust.

Then I peddled as fast as my permanently exhausted little legs could go and actually made it to class on time for the first time in over a month. ( Or did I? )

Dudes, rabies vaccines are awesome. ( Rabid pink! )

Following the last five minutes of the lecture I managed to catch - yes, I went back, because I is dumb - I had lunch, fixed up my letter of motivation, and scurried - I'm always scurrying, apparently - to my meeting with Gloria, of the university.

The meeting was a bit like watching a puppy die. ( Slowly. Horribly. )

For the record, I have now slashed the Supernatural Winchester brothers twice. It's not my fault! They slashed themselves! ( Subtext! )


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* Sam, Supernatural
** Where you've got dozens of things haning off you and can't move and panic because you're so utterly weighed and tied down by stuff. Bad times, yo.

Spent evening with Elisa, first chatting over coffee the watching series. Showed her Supernatural's 4x06 Yellow Fever, which she loved. We also discussed the aesthetics of Jensen Ackles and how, yes, he's quite a sight, but also a very all-American-jock sight, which sort of runs against every fiber of our being. It's like my liking Bones' Booth or Vin Diesel: I'll be sitting there, drooling, wondering what the hell is wrong with my hormones. Totally not my type, and yet...guh.

Then we watched True Blood 1x01-03, and she's hooked, after having laughed at the concept. Cliffhangers are made of evil, but make for addictive viewing, and yes, the opening titles are made of complete and utter rocking-out win. Tara scared her a bit at first, but after her Moment of Awesome, Elisa was won over. Rene got instant love thanks to his arm-twisting feats. Throughout the viewing we put on Generic Southern Accents. She thinks mine rules. \o/

And I'll have to get her to watch Reservoir Dogs, 'cause she didn't even know it existed. This must be rectified asap.

About the rest of my day, morning was spent on the internet and the afternoon was spent being hungry in a supermarket and not finding anything appetizing and thus not buying anything but a can of beans, cereal and broccoli.

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* Petrarch, Quotes about the South

Just watched True Blood 1x09 and can only echo cleolinda: *WERECOLLIE DANCE* And now, Supernatural!

\o/

For the rest of my day, see ye twitterdom. I'm too tired to even think about it.

And because it's today, yes we you can!


Links of the Day:
Neil Gaiman + Jonathan Coulton = Best thing ever. \o/
qthewetsprocket posts Philip Glenister and Richard Hammond Radiotimes: Children in Need Scans
active_apathy's Remember, remember, and ſo forth.
maddys_slash's For Every Fog In August, There Will Be A Snowfall In Winter (Jared/Jensen, RPF of R to NC-17)
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* cleolinda True Blood Recap

Just rewatched Reservoir Dogs. Man do I love that movie. Tim Roth gets me every time with his ( is it still a spoiler? ) Aaaand I now slash Mr Orange and Mr White. Oh dears. Before I saw it as mentor and student, or father-figure and son, that sort of deal. Now I might need to google for fic...

The rest of my day need not bear mentioning. (It sucked.)


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* Reservoir Dogs