nextian: Kirk with the text: "No military functions are to be performed 'skyclad.'" (things kirk can't do)
Here are the answers to all your questions. First, the list:

1. Kanaya Maryam
2. Laurent
3. Jim Kirk
4. Toph
5. Karkat Vantas
6. Greedling. ... What??
7. Rose Lalonde
8. Sokka
9. Fitzwilliam Darcy
10. Elizabeth Bennet
11. Roy Mustang
12. Riza Hawkeye
13. Terezi Pyrope
14. Damen
15. Olivier Armstrong

to the inquiries! )
nextian: Karkat from Homestuck makes the face he always makes, i.e. curdled frustration (karkat >:[)
I'm in the mood for a pointless meme. Give me a fandom and I'll tell you my trollships for it: who's my OTP (matesprits/♥), who's my favorite hatemance (kismeses/♠), who's my favorite BFF pair (moirails/♦), and who's my favorite threesome (auspicti...something/♣).

... Further explanation if comments if required.
nextian: A woman in a sari with her arms outstretched, plus a floating text heart. (hearts and bones)
Yay, there's an anonymous love meme over at [personal profile] meloukhia's! Anything to keep me from actually doing 24 Hour Comics Day. Guys, in case you were wondering: Drawing is hard.
nextian: Eva Green with light behind her. (ghost light)
Some of us don't do Remix because they don't have the time or attention. Others of us ... don't do Remix because they've never qualified and will probably never qualify. What's the word I'm looking for, orz orz orz? Is it orz? I think it's orz.

Anyway, that meme where you tell me what you'd remix, I am curious!

Some brief reviews:
* Despicable Me: skip it.
* Toy Story 3: CRIED, CRIED FOREVER. Also, the short at the beginning in the 3D-version was this incredible proof of concept for 3D; I don't know it if aired with a 2D-version as well, but this is what I've been hoping people would be able to do with 3D-animation, things you genuinely can't do with 2D at all and not just gimmicky scares. Guys. It's so good. (eta: [personal profile] allchildren points out that there is a 2D version, it still looks awesome, and it's still beautiful! So maybe "can't do with 2D at all" is a bit of a stretch.)
* Newton and the Counterfeiter, by Thomas Levenson: EXPECT LONG HISTORICAL GEEK POSTS IN THE NEAR FUTURE, ABOUT THE FEASIBILITY OF MAKING DILDOS OUT OF TIN WATCHES. THIS IS A THING THAT REALLY HAPPENED IN THE PAST.
nextian: Catinca Untaru from the Fall sticking her tongue out. (:P)
Okay I'm extremely hyper due to a combination of a grande mocha and a lot of
new music (71 NEW SONGS ON THE NEW HOMESTUCK ALBUM, YOU GUYS. I DON'T EVEN.
WHAT THE FUCK. 71 NEW SONGS.) So! A meme that I just made up.

Ask me any question and I will answer with a song from my music
collection!


(Songs to be uploaded when I get home from work. Questions to be answered
now with my best memory of what shit is called!)
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Hey, you guys? If you go to the Shutter Island wikipedia page, and -- delighted that there aren't any spoilers up yet -- start reading downwards for interesting trivia, you will be massively spoilered for the movie. And, like, okay. I am sure it won't be that good. But if it is good, I have just totally blown my own enjoyment of it. Spoiler tags are your friend, people on the internet!

N. K. Jemisin's the Effluent Engine is fantastic -- it was solicited for an anthology of lesbian steampunk tales, is what I am saying here -- and is a fundraiser for Haiti. So ... that's pretty effing awesome.

[personal profile] bossymarmalade and [livejournal.com profile] glockgal's run for yer lives is not a fundraiser for Haiti, presumably because somehow it seems weird to fundraise for Haiti with a THE BEATLES ARE SERIAL KILLERS AU, but it is a THE BEATLES ARE SERIAL KILLERS AU, and it is wonderful and awful. Beatlemania not necessary for entry. It reads like the Heavy's Sixteen tastes. Or I Want You (She's So Heavy), actually.

Okay, [livejournal.com profile] sotto_voice gave me another show prompt. Shenanigans in a world where the treetops and the air are the only safe place to be -- except someone has to go to the surface. Steampunk optional!



DELTA. Coming never to the Syfy Channel. )
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Today started off terribly, when at first I couldn't get myself out of bed and shaven and clean for my grandmother's headstone placement, and then I got to the airport and drove around for half an hour, increasingly worried about my mother who wasn't picking up, and then ... I called home and heard her voice. Turns out the placement is tomorrow, and I continue to be perhaps not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

But then I drove home and ate my homemade ice cream, and spent hours on this blog Letters of Note. It's what it says on the tin; guy compiles letters that are notable because interesting, or sad, or funny, or famous, or scary. It made me want to start leaving documentary evidence again. I'd only read, I think, three before -- the Jack the Ripper letter, the Disney-to-women-illustrators letter, and this letter from Groucho Marx to T. S. Eliot. The rest of the correspondence is similarly charming, trust me, and you can find it in The Essential Groucho. "So, when I call you Tom, this means you are a mixture of a heavyweight prizefighter, a male alley cat and the third President of the United States."

Then there are letters like the one where a kid sends some helpful advice to the Woomera Rocket Range, or the several in which young women complain about how the government is keeping Elvis and the Beatles down (they all end with "if you don't do [x] I will just die." A lot of people write back. Kennedy is apparently hilarious. Stephen Fry is shockingly wonderful even for Stephen Fry. Dr. Seuss encourages a kid to keep drawing ... and the kid becomes a comics artist. Isaac Asimov is a gentleman. Mark Twain rips a patent medicine peddler a new one; Mark Twain disses the telephone.

And then there's this one.

that photomosaic meme under the cut )
nextian: Quote from Kiss Kiss Bang Bang; "I don't see another goddamn narrator." (another goddamn narrator?)
Lyric of the month:

oh i don't want to die, however dark tomorrow may be
hold me a perfect square of sky
you are worth your weight in gold, you are worth your weight in sorrow, baby
though you'll never know why


Relatedly, several years later, just the mention of "black is the color of my true love's hair" in a excellent song (Shampoo, Elvis Perkins in Dearland) is all it takes to send me into a multiday reading fest of [livejournal.com profile] bellatrys' magnum opus. Now all I can think of is Finrod and Edrahil. It's either write about a billion words on why "The Script" is so appealing to me (which -- are any of you just dying to know about the slow tooly death of my religious mysticism? yeah, I didn't think so), or do a meme to try to pry it out of my head. Ask me for a DVD commentary, anyone? Anything's fair game.
nextian: Two lovers, drowning. (not feel the drowning)
Yeah, sure, why not, I'm supposed to be doing homework, after all: 100x100 )

Also, [livejournal.com profile] con_or_bust is open for auctions! I offered a beta for anyone who donates $10 or more, which is ludicrously overpriced but I really did not feel comfortable offering five dollar increments, which will not even, put together, pay for a tank of gas.

Okay, the As You Like It musical is going to have to go in a different post.
nextian: From below, a woman and a flock of birds. (Default)
Play status: On the one hand, the crazy Greek chicks go from prologue to epilogue, and there are even in between bits.

On the other hand, there's something appealing in the idea of a "Rossetionary," carbon paper that translates any phrase into any language. The main character writes, "Have you seen my dodo?" on the first day. That's what I can't do with my instrument. And maybe I'll never be able to.

God, that's depressing.
nextian: From below, a woman and a flock of birds. (Default)
That Même: lyrics from the first twenty songs in English to come up on shuffle, no artist repeats. I have over 3000 songs so, seriously, at least three of these I have never heard before. Which is hilarious. There are two comedy spoken tracks in here. Guess the songs & artists!

jesus, I don't know half of these songs )
nextian: From below, a woman and a flock of birds. (Default)
ITEM THE FIRST.
Reply to this and I will...
1)Tell you why I friended you.
2)Associate you with a song/movie.
3)Tell a random fact about you.
4)Tell my first memory of you.
5)Associate you with an animal/fruit.
6)Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
7)In return, you can, if you like, spread this disease in your LJ.

ITEM THE SECOND. King Henry II: So what in most people is morality, in you it's just an exercise in... what's the word?

Thomas a Becket: Aesthetics.

King Henry II: Yes, that's the word. Always "aesthetics."
from "Becket"

ETA: Oh my god oh my god, this tagline. The screen explodes with rage and passion and greatness! That's hot, poster-writers. Thank you for being mature about it. No wonder this movie never sold.

ITEM THE THIRD. Has anyone on the flist ever written a villanelle? I have this vague memory that [livejournal.com profile] fahye did, once upon a time.
nextian: From below, a woman and a flock of birds. (Default)
I took that Seduction Styles test and got The Libertine first time around, and then The Philosopher. I guess this means I'm the Marquis de Sade? (Somewhere, Caitlin is now crying.)

For the past few days, I've been signing online and then being kicked off for reasons usually unrelated to each other, like my parents or connection or a phone call, but the net effect is that it looks like I will sign on and then go silent like a tomb. I am okay and not ignoring you, youse guys. I am just also struck by the horrible mighty hammer of fate, which happens, every so often.

On that note (not really):

That Unnecessary Holiday Post

A lot of you gave me amazing things for my birthday. This is not the point, although it is tangentially related. The point is: request an icon set (up to five or ten), a banner, a fic (short), a sketch (horribly bad), and I will do it for your holiday gift, because the only thing I have right now in terms of money is "Amoeba Music Credit," which means I can only buy, say, Anna and Zoe music, which they will then point and laugh at me at because it is all in French.

:D?
nextian: From below, a woman and a flock of birds. (Default)
*grins* Though there really aren't that many visible or around anymore, why the hell not?

Ask my characters anything/tell me something about my characters I don't know. Juilliard, Josh, Ada, Sophia; Myrissin, Radmyr, Lady Consort, Nashal. Am I forgetting anyone?
nextian: From below, a woman and a flock of birds. (Default)
So I'm seeing a trend here, in that we're all freaks who name things compulsively.

[Poll #824627]

Leave other interestingly named objects in the comments.

(Thomas & Manifold, by the way.)

sundries

Jun. 21st, 2006 02:04 pm
nextian: From below, a woman and a flock of birds. (Default)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY [livejournal.com profile] demonic9yearold, [livejournal.com profile] winterwolfsong! Happy birthday [livejournal.com profile] agentalbie!

A very merry INCREDIBLY BELATED, this is her fault, unbirthday to [livejournal.com profile] evil_overlords!

God I'm looking forward to tomorrow. SO. MUCH. *waits impatiently for 114 pages of Storycircle to print out*

that thurr interest même )
nextian: From below, a woman and a flock of birds. (Default)
Ridiculously high-brow, these. Gacked from everyone: guess the movie from whence these came. I think I managed to make all the movies ones close and dear to my heart, but there might be some quotable flukes. *g*

my favorite movie will always be bambi, i think, but no quotable lines from that )
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Don't you think Bush looks tired?

(If you get this, pass it on.)

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