Gratuitous Icon Post!
Nov. 9th, 2010 04:25 pmAs the subject line implies this is a post which is being posted mostly so I can use this icon. For values of 'mostly' which are 'entirely'.
Blast from the past
Nov. 6th, 2010 04:56 pmJust for the record, the weather today is partly suspicious with chances of betrayal.
So I finished reading Diary by Chuck Palahniuk, based on the recommendations of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cccccontroversy and ix_tab. And holy shit you guys, you were right, it is fucking great.
Basically it's like if The Wicker Man and House of Leaves had a baby and then gave it to Wide Sargasso Sea and The Prisoner to raise.
Diary is the closest thing to a modern fairy tale I've ever read. With all the ugly, frightening, mysterious, terrible, ruthless, looming, weaving, strangeness that fairy tales have.
I really loved it a lot. But mostly I'm posting about it because I know there has to be a Panic! story based on this book out there, and I wanna read it.
It's one thing to know intellectually that Fever is to Chuck Palahniuk as Pretty Odd is to the Beatles, it's another to actually read Palahniuk and realise that oh, Ryan Ross, no wonder you are out of your tiny ridiculous mind if this is the stuff you were reading at the age when I was harfing down Anne Rice and Poppy Z Brite.
Just for the record, the weather today is slightly sarcastic with a good chance of a) indifference or b) disinterest, in what the critics say.
So, no, really, I need someone to link me to the story which must exist in which Ryan is Misty and Pete is, uh, Peter? Or, um, something? Whatever! I just wanna read some vintage !-era Panic fanfiction about Ryan Ross as a Palahniuk character. My needs are simple yet specific.
So I finished reading Diary by Chuck Palahniuk, based on the recommendations of
cccccontroversy and ix_tab. And holy shit you guys, you were right, it is fucking great. Basically it's like if The Wicker Man and House of Leaves had a baby and then gave it to Wide Sargasso Sea and The Prisoner to raise.
Diary is the closest thing to a modern fairy tale I've ever read. With all the ugly, frightening, mysterious, terrible, ruthless, looming, weaving, strangeness that fairy tales have.
I really loved it a lot. But mostly I'm posting about it because I know there has to be a Panic! story based on this book out there, and I wanna read it.
It's one thing to know intellectually that Fever is to Chuck Palahniuk as Pretty Odd is to the Beatles, it's another to actually read Palahniuk and realise that oh, Ryan Ross, no wonder you are out of your tiny ridiculous mind if this is the stuff you were reading at the age when I was harfing down Anne Rice and Poppy Z Brite.
Just for the record, the weather today is slightly sarcastic with a good chance of a) indifference or b) disinterest, in what the critics say.
So, no, really, I need someone to link me to the story which must exist in which Ryan is Misty and Pete is, uh, Peter? Or, um, something? Whatever! I just wanna read some vintage !-era Panic fanfiction about Ryan Ross as a Palahniuk character. My needs are simple yet specific.
Colour is the new danger
Nov. 4th, 2010 10:36 amA lot of the time, I treat my Etsy store as a medium for fannish creation. I don't draw well enough to do fan art, I'm not pretty enough to get into cosplay in any significant way, and fanfiction and I have had a complicated relationship these past few years.
So instead I make stuff out of beads and charms and chains, and consider people buying it as equivalent to them getting a commission off an artist.
With that spirit and intention in mind, may I present:
The Danger Days Collection
I'll probably add more designs sometime next week, when this current cycle of assignments is all done.
I make my own fun.
So instead I make stuff out of beads and charms and chains, and consider people buying it as equivalent to them getting a commission off an artist.
With that spirit and intention in mind, may I present:
The Danger Days Collection
I'll probably add more designs sometime next week, when this current cycle of assignments is all done.
I make my own fun.
Thing the first: Red Hood scans. Oh Jason honey I love you and your amazingly amazing oedipal complex.
Way, waaaaaaaay too many sexual relationships in Gotham are initiated by the idea of "this is as close to sleeping with Batman as I can get right now". And when both partners are engaged in that same thought process, I'm pretty sure that's a bingo.
Also, hee! I love it when I get quoted as some kind of authority by posters. It's a small bright spark of momentary vindication in the endless litany of self-recrimination which is my wasted life.
Thing the second: Speaking of my wasted life. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah can we talk about how FUCKING AMAZING HOLY SHIT the Sing trailer is? SO AMAZING. I love this band and all the things they choose to be.
Okay I have an article, an interview, an assignment, some Etsy photography, some Etsy postage, writing, and house cleaning to get done before class tonight, so off I go. If I owe you a comment or an email I will get to it this afternoon, sorry about the delay, I am rubbish.
Way, waaaaaaaay too many sexual relationships in Gotham are initiated by the idea of "this is as close to sleeping with Batman as I can get right now". And when both partners are engaged in that same thought process, I'm pretty sure that's a bingo.
Also, hee! I love it when I get quoted as some kind of authority by posters. It's a small bright spark of momentary vindication in the endless litany of self-recrimination which is my wasted life.
Thing the second: Speaking of my wasted life. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah can we talk about how FUCKING AMAZING HOLY SHIT the Sing trailer is? SO AMAZING. I love this band and all the things they choose to be.
Okay I have an article, an interview, an assignment, some Etsy photography, some Etsy postage, writing, and house cleaning to get done before class tonight, so off I go. If I owe you a comment or an email I will get to it this afternoon, sorry about the delay, I am rubbish.
Killjoys make some noise
Oct. 31st, 2010 03:42 pmSo now that the costume contest is over, we're all totally going to share our Killjoys costume entries, right? Right? I'll go first!
( WHEE LARP! )
I fully intend to do this larpy nonsense as well, both with Kati over the interwebs and with Audz and Erinna in person sometime in the next few weeks. Oh stupid band you make my life so silly and I adore you.
( WHEE LARP! )
I fully intend to do this larpy nonsense as well, both with Kati over the interwebs and with Audz and Erinna in person sometime in the next few weeks. Oh stupid band you make my life so silly and I adore you.
Tales from the Zone
Oct. 29th, 2010 09:25 amWhen the first MyChem trailer for the new album came out, Erinna was like "this is just Rant. I can't believe how much this is just Rant."
She was referring to the book Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk. To quote from Chuck Palahniuk's site:
I just finished reading another Palahniuk book, Lullaby (people say Palahniuk's a nihilist, but I think he's what happens when romantics work in hospitals and journalism for a while, which is the same thing only more poetic), and so I was looking the dude up, and I came across the fact he was a member of the Cacophony Society -- they inspired Fight Club's Project Mayhem (I've long had a lot of issues with Project Mayhem and the whole rah-rah-cavemen-rah nonsense which permeates Fight Club, but I think Lullaby demonstrates that Palahniuk's grown up quite a bit in his understandings of privilege).
Anyway, here's a little bit of what Wikipedia says about 'em:
Gerard, honey, you know I adore you and your crazy LARPing band of weirdos, but I think you'll find that bandom already got its Chuck Palahniuk fanfiction album about five years ago
She was referring to the book Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk. To quote from Chuck Palahniuk's site:
The only person not present is the subject: Rant Casey, an updated Huckleberry Finn in a messy, crowded near-future. Cars, traffic, and accidents all play parts, with chunks of the through-line action presented as radio traffic reports. Of course there's a romance. And of course it's confronting and occasionally violent. And sickening or sexy.
I just finished reading another Palahniuk book, Lullaby (people say Palahniuk's a nihilist, but I think he's what happens when romantics work in hospitals and journalism for a while, which is the same thing only more poetic), and so I was looking the dude up, and I came across the fact he was a member of the Cacophony Society -- they inspired Fight Club's Project Mayhem (I've long had a lot of issues with Project Mayhem and the whole rah-rah-cavemen-rah nonsense which permeates Fight Club, but I think Lullaby demonstrates that Palahniuk's grown up quite a bit in his understandings of privilege).
Anyway, here's a little bit of what Wikipedia says about 'em:
The Los Angeles branch of the society listed events in their monthly newsletter, "Tales from the Zone."
Gerard, honey, you know I adore you and your crazy LARPing band of weirdos, but I think you'll find that bandom already got its Chuck Palahniuk fanfiction album about five years ago
I was killing before killing was cool
Oct. 26th, 2010 09:02 pmI've seen a couple of people today saying that it's so neat that we have twitter now, as opposed to back in the day when MCR were last active. This entertains me greatly, 'cos when I wrote Sharpest I referred to 'messages sent to the internet from my phone' because I didn't expect that many people who'd read it in the future to have any idea what twitter was. Oh ho ho, hindsight is amusing and such and such.
In other news if you are reading this post on livejournal then you can see that I have a little Batman hat on my little icony thing, because Erinna is AWESOME. Look!sharpest_rose
I have two assignments due and an exam, all on Thursday night. Woo?
In other news if you are reading this post on livejournal then you can see that I have a little Batman hat on my little icony thing, because Erinna is AWESOME. Look!
sharpest_roseI have two assignments due and an exam, all on Thursday night. Woo?
The spiders are a metaphor
Oct. 20th, 2010 09:47 amThe financial sections of all the newspapers have started reporting that they expect rates to return to 'pre-crisis levels'. The comics nerd in me giggles at this, because the comics nerd in me is very easily amused.
Have seen the Smashing Pumpkins and Adam Lambert live in recent days, though not both at once. I think that's a team-up that everyone involved should look into, however. Billy can wear his prettiest Lord Xenu costume and Adam can just keep doing exactly what he's doing.
My Chemical Romance have asked fans to LARP in the desert and then send in videos. That band is a magical band. Also I totally want to do it. I'll offer a video review of Rant by Chuck Palahniuk. Yep yep.
Have seen the Smashing Pumpkins and Adam Lambert live in recent days, though not both at once. I think that's a team-up that everyone involved should look into, however. Billy can wear his prettiest Lord Xenu costume and Adam can just keep doing exactly what he's doing.
My Chemical Romance have asked fans to LARP in the desert and then send in videos. That band is a magical band. Also I totally want to do it. I'll offer a video review of Rant by Chuck Palahniuk. Yep yep.
Shiny toys
Oct. 14th, 2010 10:28 pmIf you're nominating your Yuletide choices for the year or whatever, there's one there on the list "Mary Borsellino - The Wolf House series". Pick that! I hear it's pretty okay.
Also My Chemical Romance are wonderful and stuff and made a new video and it was great.
I am very sick but I have a![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
girlneedsagun down for a visit and so I can deal with the sick. But seriously, I am so clogged up that I have gone completely deaf in my bad ear and mostly deaf in my good ear and I can hardly talk and bler bler bler. My brain, it is PORRIDGE.
Also My Chemical Romance are wonderful and stuff and made a new video and it was great.
I am very sick but I have a
girlneedsagun down for a visit and so I can deal with the sick. But seriously, I am so clogged up that I have gone completely deaf in my bad ear and mostly deaf in my good ear and I can hardly talk and bler bler bler. My brain, it is PORRIDGE.Hunting for shiny things
Oct. 11th, 2010 12:45 pmI have (or in the case of Florence, am intending to buy in the near future) all of these albums on disc or record already, but I'm trying to update my mp3 player to reflect upcoming writing projects. So if you have any of these in digital format, I would be huuuuuuugely grateful for an upload:
Clear Hearts Grey Flowers by Jack Off Jill
Haunted by Poe
Resolver by Veruca Salt
Lungs by Florence and the Machine
Strange Little Girls by Tori Amos
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie by Alanis Morissette
Bricks Are Heavy by L7
edit: I LOVE YOU GUYS. MUSIC FOR MEEEE.
I have a very sore throat and stuffy head today. It is most uncomfortable.
Haunted by Poe
Resolver by Veruca Salt
Lungs by Florence and the Machine
Strange Little Girls by Tori Amos
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie by Alanis Morissette
Bricks Are Heavy by L7
edit: I LOVE YOU GUYS. MUSIC FOR MEEEE.
I have a very sore throat and stuffy head today. It is most uncomfortable.
Killjoys fic snippet woooo
Oct. 9th, 2010 09:03 amOrigin stories
by Mary
Summary: That was the best end to any fucking fairytale Frankie had ever heard.
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by Mary
Summary: That was the best end to any fucking fairytale Frankie had ever heard.
( Read more... )
Stripes and stitches
Oct. 9th, 2010 07:59 amWent to see the Tim Burton exhibition last night, because I keep putting it off and putting it off and it closes this weekend.
It was magnificent -- Colleen Atwood's costumes are stunning to look at in-person, so much texture and interest in their make-up. All of the costumes on display were amazing, actually, I just single her stuff out for mention because I'm a big fan of her work generally (the Hannibal Lecter mask? Her design. The Black Parade uniforms? Her design. I could go on and on. If it's extremely pretty and a little bit creepy and made of cloth, it's likely Colleen Atwood had a hand in it).
The Edward Scissorhands costume was so utterly beautiful that I spent a long time in front of it. There's a throwaway line in book four of the Wolf House where Blake mentions that Rose used to write Edward Scissorhands fanfiction -- on one level, that line functions as an obscure in-joke to myself, because some of Rose's interests are modeled on Gerard Way's, and Gerard has been known to write Planet of the Apes fanfiction (there were costumes from that movie in the exhibition, too. Colleen Atwood you do such pretty, pretty, creepy work, I love yooou).
But on another level the Edward Scissorhands fanfiction line is about the Wolf House's constant riffs on the Frankenstein story -- by that point in the series, Bette and Rose essentially are the gothic monster and the ordinary girl with the star-crossed love, and so every attempt Rose makes to avoid a doomed fate for the pair of them is, in a sense, an Edward Scissorhands fanfiction.
That was really brought home to me when I was looking at the costume. I've always been conscious of some of Burton's visual tropes -- the stripes and curlicues being the obvious ones -- but the clear Frankenstein influences in even the tinest details of the Edward costume really brought that particular one to the fore for me.
And after I'd started noticing it, I saw just how prevalent it is. Catwoman and Sally the Ragdoll, their stitches clear where they've been pieced together. The child Willy Wonka's terrifying metal headpiece, like an inorganic part of his body. It's all beautiful and weird and brilliant.
Plus, the exhibition has the angora sweater from Ed Wood. Love love love.
It was magnificent -- Colleen Atwood's costumes are stunning to look at in-person, so much texture and interest in their make-up. All of the costumes on display were amazing, actually, I just single her stuff out for mention because I'm a big fan of her work generally (the Hannibal Lecter mask? Her design. The Black Parade uniforms? Her design. I could go on and on. If it's extremely pretty and a little bit creepy and made of cloth, it's likely Colleen Atwood had a hand in it).
The Edward Scissorhands costume was so utterly beautiful that I spent a long time in front of it. There's a throwaway line in book four of the Wolf House where Blake mentions that Rose used to write Edward Scissorhands fanfiction -- on one level, that line functions as an obscure in-joke to myself, because some of Rose's interests are modeled on Gerard Way's, and Gerard has been known to write Planet of the Apes fanfiction (there were costumes from that movie in the exhibition, too. Colleen Atwood you do such pretty, pretty, creepy work, I love yooou).
But on another level the Edward Scissorhands fanfiction line is about the Wolf House's constant riffs on the Frankenstein story -- by that point in the series, Bette and Rose essentially are the gothic monster and the ordinary girl with the star-crossed love, and so every attempt Rose makes to avoid a doomed fate for the pair of them is, in a sense, an Edward Scissorhands fanfiction.
That was really brought home to me when I was looking at the costume. I've always been conscious of some of Burton's visual tropes -- the stripes and curlicues being the obvious ones -- but the clear Frankenstein influences in even the tinest details of the Edward costume really brought that particular one to the fore for me.
And after I'd started noticing it, I saw just how prevalent it is. Catwoman and Sally the Ragdoll, their stitches clear where they've been pieced together. The child Willy Wonka's terrifying metal headpiece, like an inorganic part of his body. It's all beautiful and weird and brilliant.
Plus, the exhibition has the angora sweater from Ed Wood. Love love love.
I got nothin
Oct. 4th, 2010 01:31 pmSo hey internet let's all talk about Gerard Way's new concept album about narcoleptic gay hookers in the desert. COLOR IS THE NEW DANGER.
Got an email out of the blue last night, from a guy I speak to every once in a while but rarely have contact from without me initiating the conversation.
This new, unexpected message read, in part: congrats on your vamp series.
It's moments like this when I remember that Gabe Saporta got his start whilst hanging out with Thursday. It's only a very specific little cache of musicians who can make my heart sparkle like that.
New CEO starts at work today and then I have my first night back at school tonight and I guess I should probably get out of bed at some point.
Thanks muchly to those who came to the Fan Tales Fringe Festival event at Hares and Hyenas yesterday -- sorry if my reading was completely awkward and horrible, which I highly suspect it was. But at least the bookstore owner approached me later and asked if I'd picked a venue for the Wolf House launch yet and would I like to have it there. So not a total loss!
Okay, off to make myself presentable.
This new, unexpected message read, in part: congrats on your vamp series.
It's moments like this when I remember that Gabe Saporta got his start whilst hanging out with Thursday. It's only a very specific little cache of musicians who can make my heart sparkle like that.
New CEO starts at work today and then I have my first night back at school tonight and I guess I should probably get out of bed at some point.
Thanks muchly to those who came to the Fan Tales Fringe Festival event at Hares and Hyenas yesterday -- sorry if my reading was completely awkward and horrible, which I highly suspect it was. But at least the bookstore owner approached me later and asked if I'd picked a venue for the Wolf House launch yet and would I like to have it there. So not a total loss!
Okay, off to make myself presentable.
Shades of white
Sep. 13th, 2010 10:15 amHey, Australians, are any of you able to grab me a ticket to The Smashing Pumpkins concert? Tickets go onsale Thursday morning, and I'll be on a plane somewhere over the ocean then, and not able to purchase said ticket. The concert is the 15th of October and I absolutely have to go, because I have never ever seen them live, and the last time they were here I had to give up my ticket on account of my last minute plan to chase My Chemical Romance across the USA. America, quit cockblocking my attempts to see Billy Corgan, darn it!
Speaking of America, Gerard Way needs to quit LARPing in the desert and talking about dressing up like the Crow, so that his wife can use the computer. Plans need to be planned, Gerard! You and your friends can play your make-believe robot anarchy apocalypse after the grow-ups are finished.
And speaking of Australians, I am taking part in this super-excellent-glorious fanfiction reading at the Fringe Festival shortly after I get back from the states. It will be most awesome times! Everyone should come along! Audz and Erinna both nominated Salvage as the story they would like to hear me read, so that's probably going to be my contribution to the evening.
I'm... not the best I've ever been, brain-wise. But I'm surviving.
Speaking of America, Gerard Way needs to quit LARPing in the desert and talking about dressing up like the Crow, so that his wife can use the computer. Plans need to be planned, Gerard! You and your friends can play your make-believe robot anarchy apocalypse after the grow-ups are finished.
And speaking of Australians, I am taking part in this super-excellent-glorious fanfiction reading at the Fringe Festival shortly after I get back from the states. It will be most awesome times! Everyone should come along! Audz and Erinna both nominated Salvage as the story they would like to hear me read, so that's probably going to be my contribution to the evening.
I'm... not the best I've ever been, brain-wise. But I'm surviving.
Little deaths in musical beds
Sep. 6th, 2010 04:01 pmHave I completely made this up in my brain, or was there once an interview with Ryan Ross where he complimented MCR on going a direction nobody expected with The Black Parade? I could've sworn I read something like that.
Finding nonsense to include at http://fuckyeahblackparade.tumblr.com/ is cheering me up a little from my self-indulgent misery, hence my asking.
Finding nonsense to include at http://fuckyeahblackparade.tumblr.com/ is cheering me up a little from my self-indulgent misery, hence my asking.
Monday morning
Sep. 6th, 2010 08:56 amDear Inception Fandom, please please tell me that somebody has written the story in which the superteam end up in Nash's dream for some handwavey plot reason, and Nash's dream is some weirdass parade shit and some dude giving him a medal.
Speaking of My Chemical Romance and Inception, yesterday I was like "almost everyone says 500 Days of Summer is total crapsticks, and so I have not seen it. But Marc Webb directed it! I am confused and conflicted!". And then Audrey pointed out that though he has directed many excellent things, Marc Webb was also responsible for the 'I Don't Love You' video. So I am not confused anymore at the idea that his movie might not be good. But on the other hand, it has Chloe Moretz and Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Tracy Phillips in it! I remain conflicted about whether to see it or not.
On Friday Audz and Erinna gave me a copy of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories as a present because I finished writing the Wolf House series. On Sunday I was talking to my mother on the phone and I ended up sobbing uncontrollably because I don't know how to cope with people giving me presents, because I am a hideous fraud who has somehow tricked people into liking me and it makes me upset when these people demonstrate a baseless fondness for me.
I mean, I got a royalty statement on the weekend, and this year so far I have sold 23 copies of book 1, and 29 copies each of books 2 and 3. That is an abject fucking failure by every standard ever devised. That doesn't deserve video games, that deserves cigarettes being put out in my eyes and kicks in the ribs with steel-toed boots. And what makes it even worse is when people say 'the print version will be easier to sell', because that just proves that they just. don't. see that I'm a failure and a fraud. Their idea of me is based on a lie and they give the lie video games and it is VERY UPSETTING.
Speaking of My Chemical Romance and Inception, yesterday I was like "almost everyone says 500 Days of Summer is total crapsticks, and so I have not seen it. But Marc Webb directed it! I am confused and conflicted!". And then Audrey pointed out that though he has directed many excellent things, Marc Webb was also responsible for the 'I Don't Love You' video. So I am not confused anymore at the idea that his movie might not be good. But on the other hand, it has Chloe Moretz and Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Tracy Phillips in it! I remain conflicted about whether to see it or not.
On Friday Audz and Erinna gave me a copy of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories as a present because I finished writing the Wolf House series. On Sunday I was talking to my mother on the phone and I ended up sobbing uncontrollably because I don't know how to cope with people giving me presents, because I am a hideous fraud who has somehow tricked people into liking me and it makes me upset when these people demonstrate a baseless fondness for me.
I mean, I got a royalty statement on the weekend, and this year so far I have sold 23 copies of book 1, and 29 copies each of books 2 and 3. That is an abject fucking failure by every standard ever devised. That doesn't deserve video games, that deserves cigarettes being put out in my eyes and kicks in the ribs with steel-toed boots. And what makes it even worse is when people say 'the print version will be easier to sell', because that just proves that they just. don't. see that I'm a failure and a fraud. Their idea of me is based on a lie and they give the lie video games and it is VERY UPSETTING.
Because the games store didn't have Silent Hill: Shattered Memories for PS2 yesterday, my no-longer-occupied-by-billions-of-words brain decided to make another tumblr instead of doing anything useful. So now there is a http://fuckyeahblackparade.tumblr.com/
You can submit things to it! You should do that! Because otherwise it's likely it will end up full of quotes about Weimar culture from Hey, Nietzsche! and stupid things Gerard has said about the album in the last year, and nothing that anybody actually wants. Go forth and find pictures of Lukas Haas winning a medal in the goth swimming carnival to post instead!
You can submit things to it! You should do that! Because otherwise it's likely it will end up full of quotes about Weimar culture from Hey, Nietzsche! and stupid things Gerard has said about the album in the last year, and nothing that anybody actually wants. Go forth and find pictures of Lukas Haas winning a medal in the goth swimming carnival to post instead!
Word count for the Wolf House series: 280,000
This makes me feel less guilty for the fact that I started book 1 in October 2008 and have only just finished book 5.
Currently putting the file together to send book 5 out to the usual bunch -- email me if you think that's supposed to include you (hint: if you've read book 4, it's you. If you haven't read book 4 and want to, email me and check! I pretty much throw these things at anyone who stands still long enough to get hit.)
Currently in the office, under the delusion that this will make me more likely to do assignments than if I were at home, and also so I'll have less of a ridiculously stressed day tomorrow when everyone's rushing around to get ready for our big conference thingy this week. Ugh when did I get so many grown-up responsibilities this is rubbish.
Thank you to those who said congrats about finishing the series. It doesn't feel really real that I have -- I'm currently certain that the ending is complete shit and Tara and Audrey aren't telling me because they're too nice. Also I am a little rusty on the comment-replying thing. But thank you! And thank you for not defriending me for posting about the books.
So I have actual content here, a video! Here is Courtney Love covering Jeremy by Pearl Jam earlier this week. It reminded me why I love her so much.
This makes me feel less guilty for the fact that I started book 1 in October 2008 and have only just finished book 5.
Currently putting the file together to send book 5 out to the usual bunch -- email me if you think that's supposed to include you (hint: if you've read book 4, it's you. If you haven't read book 4 and want to, email me and check! I pretty much throw these things at anyone who stands still long enough to get hit.)
Currently in the office, under the delusion that this will make me more likely to do assignments than if I were at home, and also so I'll have less of a ridiculously stressed day tomorrow when everyone's rushing around to get ready for our big conference thingy this week. Ugh when did I get so many grown-up responsibilities this is rubbish.
Thank you to those who said congrats about finishing the series. It doesn't feel really real that I have -- I'm currently certain that the ending is complete shit and Tara and Audrey aren't telling me because they're too nice. Also I am a little rusty on the comment-replying thing. But thank you! And thank you for not defriending me for posting about the books.
So I have actual content here, a video! Here is Courtney Love covering Jeremy by Pearl Jam earlier this week. It reminded me why I love her so much.
