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| Thursday, November 26th, 2009 | ||||
|
snakeling |
10:57p | Aventures on rail So, since I've moved, I go to work by train, which is good as it gives me time for reading, etc. Except that tonight, I managed to get onto the wrong train, and arrived at the storage station. *facepalm* Thankfully, the train driver was very helpful, and managed to find a colleague that went back to Lyon and could leave me at the station before the last train. :D This entry was originally posted at http://snakeling.dreamwidth.org/157195.h Current Mood: stupid | ||
| Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 | ||||
|
odogoddess |
6:24p | gobble gobble The spouse and I are almost done getting ready (& packing all my extra meds) for the long drive North to our Thanksgiving gathering. Gluten-free noms here we come! ;) We'll only have intermittent net access for a week, so a Happy (early) Turkey day to all! *sends warm wishes and blessings to my flist* Current Mood:  busyCurrent Music: PoA on in the background | ||
| Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 | ||||
|
willidan |
6:33p | Weekly Update Another week gone by. November was dragging for the first few weeks, but seems to have picked up speed as we enter the final week. I don't know if I'm happy about that or not. Although, it does mean that there's only FOUR DAYS TILL THE DAY AFTER THANKSGIVING!!! And Kohl's and Penny's already have their adds online. It's all very exciting. ( Baking Photos! ) So that was my week. I'm ready to stay home and bake all day. Anyone want to go in for half a bakery? :) Current Mood:  cheerful | ||
|
leni_jess |
10:52p | Oy veh For the last 24 hours my nephew has been in Emergency with a serious flare-up of Chrohn's disease. He's managed to control this pretty well for years with diet, and now they're trying to decide whether there's a medical solution, or whether they're going for surgical (surgeon seeing him tomorrow). WTF went wrong? Until this happened he was in tip-top physical shape, despite occasional poor patches (martial arts instructor, and beautiful to look upon – and I'm his aunt). We have bush fires all over the shop – NSW, Vic, SA, Qld (but not here in the ACT). Specifically, there's a major fire just the other side of the road we take to Mudgee on Tuesday (to attend a concert series every year). Tonight they are expecting two changes of wind direction. I wonder what tomorrow will bring? When I think about that road running through deep isolated bush, I really don't want to meet fire. We're trying to keep on top of the fire incidents advisory. And it seems fair to say I'm in some kind of self-destructive mode, in that I'm still having terrible trouble writing the fest fics I committed to, this season. Current Mood: depressed, yay Current Music: assorted folk music from our collections | ||
|
odogoddess |
1:13a | *snicker* Love the new behind-the-scenes HBP pics! Naturally, ( it's caption time ) Current Mood:  amusedCurrent Music: Lovely Day by Bill Withers | ||
| Friday, November 20th, 2009 | ||||
|
odogoddess |
4:48p | LOL! Goodness. Only just wading through my overflowing friends page. So thank you's to: ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} iibnf, mabiana, ariadneelda, venturous, maddiec24, dacro, r_grayjoy, quiescentfor the well-wishes! If I missed you, I probably haven't seen your post yet. I might not until much later, either, as I must get ready for a very rare night out with my beautiful spouse, who is going to take me somewhere (I don't know where) for my birthday. :D *looking forward to it!* Current Mood:  cheerfulCurrent Music: Night & Day by Al B Sure | ||
|
willidan |
3:31p | Outcast Genius Your result for The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test... Outcast Genius74 % Nerd, 74% Geek, 57% Dork
For The Record: Take The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test at OkCupid A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia. A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one. A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions. You scored better than half in all three, earning you the title of: Outcast Genius. Outcast geniuses usually are bright enough to understand what society wants of them, and they just don't care! They are highly intelligent and passionate about the things they know are *truly* important in the world. Typically, this does not include sports, cars or make-up, but it can on occassion (and if it does then they know more than all of their friends combined in that subject). Outcast geniuses can be very lonely, due to their being outcast from most normal groups and too smart for the room among many other types of dorks and geeks, but they can also be the types to eventually rule the world, ala Bill Gates, the prototypical Outcast Genius. Congratulations! Also, you might want to check out some of my other tests if you're interested in any of the following: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Professional Wrestling Love & Sexuality America/Politics Thanks Again! -- THE NERD? GEEK? OR DORK? TEST Current Mood:  confused | ||
| Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 | ||||
|
meri_oddities |
4:29p | New Star Trek Story: For the Greater Good Written for the 2009 startrekbigbangTitle: For The Greater Good Author: Meri Artist: votakuFanmixer: votakuSeries: ST XI Characters/Pairings: Ultimately Kirk/McCoy but Kirk's got to get there first. Kirk/Uhura and Kirk/Spock happen along the way. Kind of. Spock/Uhura. Warnings: There are issues with consent. Rating: NC-17 Word Count: +/- 28,000 Beta(s): regan_v, bethbethbeth, and gnomadDisclaimer: I would not presume to suggest that I own anything connected to Star Trek. I'm using the characters without permission and I'm not making any money on them. Summary: Aliens make Kirk think he's had sex with three members of his crew. Much to his surprise, the person it meant the most with was not the person he would have guessed. Now all he has to do is convince that person he's serious, deal with the other two people with whom he shared this experience, and negotiate with the aliens who did this to him. No problem. Note 1: As you can probably tell, the scene in the bar in Iowa is a paraphrase from the novelization of the movie. I'm using it without permission. Note 2: Vokau is Vulcan for remember. Note 3: Special thanks to Neotoma for answering my questions on genetics. Current Mood:  accomplished | ||
|
painless_j |
10:08p | Anime rec: Piano no Mori
My notes: I must say it at the very beginning that contrary to my usual way of getting familiar with a new animanga, I haven't read the manga this time. I only watched the anime, so please take into account that everything I'll be saying is only about the anime. This is a pleasant story: while not action/adventure, it has enough plot to keep your attention, especially around the climax. The boys are likeable. Kai's pretty wild and brash but also kind and has this inner purity and honesty that sometimes accompany raw talent and that influence people around him. I liked his practical reasons for learning things. He can't read score; he plays what he has heard. Once he found that he couldn't reproduce a particular piece of Chopin's, he plays scales to learn to play this particular piece, not because one must learn scales first, nor to become a good pianist in general. And so on. I absolutely adored his literal-mindedness about Mozart. The crowd of Mozarts made me laugh every time they appeared. In other words, Kai is lovely and very refreshing. Shuuhei is a bit more boring because he's very straight-laced for a boy his age and he plays the piano for all the wrong reasons, but doesn't it often happen this way? The two boys meet and gradually change each other. The best about their relationship, as for me, was the ways it didn't go. I can't say much more here but I liked how the dramatic side of it was downplayed rather than milked for all it's worth. It makes Piano no Mori a soothing story. I think animation and drawing are good. I hear that the main problem people have with the manga is the drawing style. Am not able to say anything about that yet but I can't see what's not to like in the anime, if to speak of the visual side. It's neither cheap nor banal, and it's the only anime so far where a character playing the piano didn't make me cringe. This leads me to why I give it only one star if I like everything. Not quite everything, as it turns out. You see, it's piano this and piano that, piano this and piano that. In more coherent speak, the story is fine and lovely but, I don't know, very narrow. Not unlike Hikaru no Go. But HnG was much more emotionally affecting and the story was much bigger than just about Go in the end. It sort of turned me inside out, made me live it for months. Here somehow I didn't have the impression that the story is bigger than the main theme. Pleasant? Yes. Interesting? Yes, enough. Can I relate? Nope. Apart from that, I repeat, it's a lovely story. I doubt you'd regret spending 1.5 hours on it, so give it a try! *Sorry if you have seen some (a lot) of this post before. I accidentally posted the draft :/ | ||
| Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 | ||||
|
odogoddess |
4:47p | update + happy early birthday to me Still hanging in there. I appreciate all the well-wishes you've sent, {{{flist}}}. My cough has improved a great deal and I've been sleeping better. Now it's a matter of regaining strength. I had a slight setback dealing with strep, but that seems to be on it's way out now. I'm very tired much of the time, even when I sleep eight or more hours (typical for CFS), and am reliably informed that basically I used up all my reserves fighting this stupid bug and need to recoup. In other words, it'll just take time and lots of rest and eating right and the usual things they tell one to do to gain optimum health. ( more boring tmi health details ) I'm way behind on reading my friends page. I might have caught up a bit sooner, but once I was able to sit up for longer than a few minutes at a time, I had to focus on finishing my writing for the holiday exchanges I'm doing. I still have two more to complete before I can indulge in more than an occasional tweet, much less journaling. Plus there is ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} snapelyholidays, of which I can say I am more than delighted with the entries so far. :) I hope the readers will be, too. There was one rather stressful-but-in-that-good-way thing I had to do whilst I was recouping ( aka- my exciting news ) The other thing I have been able to do whilst resting is reading some of the fics I had stored on my Palm for just such instances as this. (I have a habit of taking long &/or highly-rec'd fics and saving them for reading at times when I'm ill, like recently. Fanfic is a great distraction, believe me.) So a few recs and then it's back to the writing grind. gen: Crucio by ObsidianEmbrace Fascinating and well-done AU tale highlighting the relationship between Harry, Sirius and Snape. Mind the warnings. sshp: Sunrises by Julia the Younger This one holds up very well, despite a few variations from canon that make it AU, but parts are very spot on, and I could see this Harry and Snape. sshp: The Bondage Of The Mind by hobbitdragon Holy smoking batsex, Robin! This fic blew my mind. It's post-DH w/a Harry suffering post-traumatic stress and a Snape we never discovered, but some might have guessed at... I'll say no more. But even if serious bdsm is not your thing, give it a try. If you like reading different permutations of our beloved characters, this fic might just blow your mind, too. ssmm: Learned Too Well by Oh-Johanna Ignore the SP&G if you can -- the story itself is gripping and ripping and... you may need some hankies. Oh, but the angst is superb. ssmm: Levels of Comfort by Spyke Raven Whew! I like good Snagonagall and this is excellent, packing a punch in not many words. I'm keeping an eye on this writer to see if there is more HP from zir. sspw: The Librarian Of Strahov by sarkaYummy. Read. Current Mood: busyCurrent Music: Start Me Up by The Rolling Stones | ||
| Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 | ||||
|
painless_j |
12:44a | Music: Japanese: J-Rock Part 3 of my Japanese music favourites. Today's topic is J-Rock. As usual, some songs are more rocky than others and the range is from Speed Metal to Pop-rock to anything I've found similar enough or fitting, with a generous dash of anime music and some hip-hop. It just means that on the whole, today's selection is gloomier and heavier than the two before it. I've shared three of these songs with you already but not the rest of them. Files are uploaded to Box.net, which means that you can listen to them before/as well as download(ing). Box.net tends to mess up the sequence of the uploaded files, so I've added links to each song as well as to the folder. I did make it with the proper sequence in mind, so that one song flows into the other smoothly. But in any case, hope you like a few of them! So, with thanks to lyssaphra and kyuuketsukirui for sharing music with me, on to the music!*Nitemare and Nightmare is the same band. I just kept the song tags as they were :) Song title Length Singer/Band Album (where it was already in the tags) Crucify My Love 4:36 X Japan Curtain Call 5:34 GLAY Beloved Wind 3:40 Akeboshi STONED TOWN Kenji 3:51 Fort Minor The Rising Tied I.V. 4:55 X Japan Saw IV OST Moshimo Piano ga Hiketa Nara 3:53 Plastic Tree Baka ni Nattanoni Jisatsu Ganbou 4:39 Due le quartz Best of Due le Quartz Eternally Beyond 4:25 Moi dix Mois Beyond the Gate Brave Love: Galaxy Express 999 5:16 The Alfee Dancing Yooderu Night (Leorio) 3:36 Gouda Hozumi Hunter X Hunter Singles Collection The World 3:47 Nightmare Death note anime soundtrack Haiiro no Hitomi 4:24 Shiina Ringo & Kusano Masamune Utahite myouri [disc 1] Shangri-La 4:37 Angela Soukyuu no Fafner OP/ED Single Again 4:15 YUI FMA:B 1st OP D-tecnoLife 3:53 UVERworld D-tecnoLife Monochrome no Kiss 4:00 SID Monochrome no Kiss (Kuroshitsuji OP) Coming Closer 5:14 L'Arc~en~Ciel Smile Kaze no Uta 3:40 Motoda Minako Hunter X Hunter Singles Collection Kasou 5:09 L'Arc~en~Ciel Bokutachi no Yukue 4:33 Takahashi Hitomi Bokutachi no Yukue Alumina (Tv size) 1:13 Nitemare Death note anime Soundtrack Desire 4:24 Luna Sea Style Hologram ANIME Ver. 1:41 NICO Touches the Walls Hologram (FMA:B OP) Talkin' 2 myself 4:53 Hamasaki Ayumi Talkin' 2 myself MY LONELY TOWN 3:38 B'z Drink It Down 2:51 L'Arc~en~Ciel Trailer Rip Blessing 4:34 FictionJunction YUUKA Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto Intro Theme - Koya Ruten OP/ED Still Doll 3:20 Kanon Wakeshima Vampire Knight Shinkai no Kodoku 3:58 Kuwashima Houko Kidou Senshi Gundam SEED DESTINY ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK II God Knows... 4:38 Hirano Aya, Goto Yuhiko Oricon 2006-07-03 Single Weekly Best 30 Rolling star 3:09 YUI Rolling star Kimi Dake wo 5:26 Spitz Crispy Ain't Afraid to Die 7:15 Dir en Grey Ain't Afraid to Die Kaze ni Fukarete 4:16 Elephant Kashimashi Ashita ni Mukatte Hashire -Tsukiyo no Uta- Separation 4:49 Angela Soukyuu no Fafner OP/ED Memorial Address 3:56 Hamasaki Ayumi Memorial Address Forever Love (Acoustic Version) 7:54 X Japan X       =======     | ||
| Monday, November 16th, 2009 | ||||
|
dementordelta |
9:17p | Clank Vs Chains Sorry for the dearth of updates. See previous posts about the state of ass-kicking my job has given me lately. Luckily for me, the lovely cruisedirector doesn't mind sharing moose pops and Paul Gross with me when I get a day off!Theater:I'm heading north this weekend for a flying visit to a friend in Chicago, and have three shows lined up! \o/ I'll be seeing Beethoven As I Knew Him, Don't Give Up On Me with Peter Gallagher and The Addams Family! which I've been dying to see but didn't think I'd have time for since I'll only be in town two days! Birthdays: Happy Birthday ariadneelda! Holiday Cards! Don't forget if you want a holiday card, go here if you'd like a bit of Snape and Harry in the mail! | ||
|
painless_j |
7:01p | Happy birthday to my BFF: music: Japanese: J-Pop On the occasion of my best friend wieder's birthday, here's part 2 of my Japanese music favourites. Today's topic is J-Pop. Of course the selection can be called J-Pop only very approximately. It wouldn't be me if I didn't include some rock into a pop selection and some Chinese and Taiwanese music into a Japanese one. Consistency is overrated :) There are two songs that aren't Japanese, quite a few that has lots of English lyrics, and as for genres, well, genres are fluid things. It just means that on the whole, today's selection is more bouncy than the one that is to be posted tomorrow or the one from yesterday's. There's also a lot of fantabulous anime music here. One song title looks beyond weird but this is what was in the tags when I got it. Files are uploaded to Box.net, which means that you can listen to them before/as well as download(ing). Box.net tends to mess up the sequence of the uploaded files, so I've added links to each song as well as to the folder. I did make it with the proper sequence in mind, so that one song flows into the other smoothly. But in any case, hope you like some of them! So, with thanks to lyssaphra and kyuuketsukirui for sharing music with me, and with best wishes to wieder, on to the music!Song title Length Singer Album (where it was already in the tags) Get Over 5:16 dream BEST OF HIKARU NO GO Bokura no Bouken 3:55 Kids Alive BEST OF HIKARU NO GO Byakuya ~True Light~ (Full Version) 4:16 Miyamoto Shunichi D.N. ANGEL Vocal Collection Duty 5:15 Ayumi Hamasaki Ayumi Hamasaki Can You Keep a Secret? 5:08 Utada Hikaru Distance Navy Blue 4:20 Aiuchi Rina Power of Words Sincerely 5:09 dream BEST OF HIKARU NO GO Emotionally 4:53 Makoto Suehiro, Isao Kasai, Saori Yamada Fullmetal Alchemist ~Wingless Angel~ Game Original Soundtrack Futatsu no kodou to akai tsumi 4:36 OnOff Kuon no kawa 4:34 alan Chesspiece 4:35 Faye Wong Koi no uta 4:38 Tomatsu Haruka Koi no uta Daia no Hana 3:37 Yoriko HIKARI / Daia no Hana Cherry Girl 3:59 Koda Kumi ~Asterisk~ (OST Ver.) 2:02 ORANGE RANGE BLEACH Original Soundtrack I Hateshinaku Tooi Sora Ni 3:35 THE STAND UP Kyou Kara Maou! Original Soundtrack Uso 3:28 SID FMA Brotherhood D-tecnoLife 3:53 UVERworld D-tecnoLife Koya Ruten 4:54 FictionJunction YUUKA Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto Intro Theme - Koya Ruten Intro 4:13 Yonekura Chihiro Mononoke Hime OST EXEC_HYMME_LUMINOUS_DEF 3:38 Ishibashi Yuko Ar Tonelico OST The End of the World 4:50 Angela Hitomi no Chikara 4:31 Mizuki Arisa BEST OF HIKARU NO GO Days 4:27 shela BEST OF HIKARU NO GO Desert Rose 5:25 Sakaki Tarou Shousha no Theory Genki de show 4:41 Hiroshi Hashimoto Yakusoku 4:17 KinKi Kids I believe 4:55 Ayaka Spiral 4:38 Angela Spiral MagicRoom 3:17 183 club Saga ~ This is my road 4:40 Kanon My Road ~ Songs from Guin Saga Akatsuki no Kuruma 5:04 FictionJunction YUUKA Shiki no uta 5:00 Minmi Samurai Champloo OST Rays of hope 4:36 Hitomi Last Exile OST 2 ======= | ||
| Sunday, November 15th, 2009 | ||||
|
bethbethbeth |
11:40p | DW: The Waters of Mars Assume spoilers for anything below the cut...including spoilers for the Xmas special trailer. ( That was... ) | ||
|
willidan |
1:43p | Weekly Update Once again, another boring update. Although I had a lot of fun baking for National Bundt Cake day, which is Nov. 15 (today, in my part of the world). ( Click for bad pictures of yummy cake. ) And that was my week. How was yours? Current Mood: happy | ||
| Monday, November 16th, 2009 | ||||
|
painless_j |
1:23a | Music: Enka On the occasion of my best friend wieder's upcoming birthday, here's some music. Today's topic is Enka. I love Enka. Well, not all of it. Not even most of it, but what I love, I love to bits and pieces. Box.net tends to mess up the sequence of the uploaded files, so I've added links to each song as well as to the folder. I did make it with the proper sequence in mind, so that one song flows into the other smoothly. But in any case, hope you like a few of them! It wouldn't be me if I didn't include something non-Enka in the Enka selection. There are Files are uploaded to Box.net, which means that you can listen to them before/as well as download(ing). So, with thanks to lyssaphra for giving me music and with best wishes to wieder, on to the music!Song title Length Singer Hakkun no shiro 6:17 Hikawa Kiyoshi Tsugaru No Furusato 3:18 Misora Hibari Finale- Desire 6:39 Various Artists Sailor Moon - Complete Vocal Collection Vol. 1 Sen no Kaze ni Natte 4:33 Akikawa Masafumi Northern Lights ~Aurora~ 3:48 Hikawa Kiyoshi Omatsuri Mambo 3:22 Misora Hibari Kiyoshi no Zundoko Bushi 3:40 Hikawa Kiyoshi Kage wo Shitaite 4:35 Shimazu Aya Ano Oka Koete 3:18 Misora Hibari Tassha de Na 3:37 Hikawa Kiyoshi Yukisudare 4:39 Shinno Mika Desert Rose 5:25 Sakaki Tarou Echigo Shishi No Uta 3:27 Misora Hibari Ano ko wa Icchatta 4:41 Hikawa Kiyoshi Jousento-San 3:24 Misora Hibari Kojyou 2:37 Hikawa Kiyoshi Otokomichi 4:39 Kitajima Saburo Koori No Emperor ~ Keigo Solo Edition 2:48 Katoh Kazuki ======= | ||
| Saturday, November 14th, 2009 | ||||
|
dementordelta |
9:46p | |||
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bethbethbeth |
8:07p | I LOVE MY YULETIDE ASSIGNMENT (...AND I TOTALLY KNEW I'D GET THAT REQUEST BECAUSE I AM PSYCHIC!!!) This entry was originally posted at http://bethbethbeth.dreamwidth.org/51872 | ||
| Sunday, November 15th, 2009 | ||||
|
painless_j |
12:19a | Anime/manga rec: Loveless
My notes: now this is some seriously weird stuff! I mean seriously weird. Weird main characters, not to say fucked-up, very strange relationships between them, things being turned upside down again and again as the story goes on, elements of various genres used, - this all creates a very strange whole. I fell into a complex love/hate with this universe from the very first look. You see, kids have cat's ears and tails there. On the one hand, the worst kind of Yaoi I ever read was one with cat's ears in it: pointless, cliched, drawn so-so, and catering to readers' kinks at the expense of everything else. On the other, if I ever see it done well, I'll fall in love with it because I love cats and their ears, when they ever allow you to pet them, are awesome. I don't mind Furries. So I was prepared to hate it but hoping to love it, but in the end, it turned out to be neither. Because cat's ears in this universe ( Read more... ) I think I will continue following this manga when more chapters get published and scanlated. Hope it doesn't disappoint. I don't have any advise on what to begin with if you want to try it, anime or manga. I started with the anime, following on to the manga in hope that it would clear some confusion. It did but confused me in other things all the more :) I don't really think the order of getting acquainted with the two media matters. Pick the one you like better and give it a try. At the very least it will entertain you. And a request, for the ending: most amazing, fantastic, wonderful, really well-written Ritsuka/Soubi fics. Those that don't reproduce yaoi cliches. Know them? Bring them on! PS: While I tried to avoid big spoilers, I can't guarantee that there will be no spoilers in comments. Tread with caution :)     ===== | ||
| Friday, November 13th, 2009 | ||||
|
karasu_hime |
9:15a | Holiday Cards from me? Anyone interested in recieving a holiday card from me? Just let me know if you want Gen, Slash, Femme-slash or Non fandom card. Comments are screened and point me to your holdiay card thing, if you are doing one. | ||
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bethbethbeth |
10:44a | Archive of Our Own: Open Beta... Unnecessary full disclosure: I worked for the OTW for 16 months in its start up year...er...sixteen months. Now...with that out of the way... Hi all! Just a quick note to let you know that the OTW's archive project, i.e., an Archive of Our Own, is going into open beta this Saturday! As the blog entry tells you, there are going to be two ways to get an account: (1) get an invite from an existing account holder (2) put your name on the account queue (an exact link for this queue will be announced by the OTW tomorrow...for now, what they have are multiple links in the "heads up" post I linked to above for a fixed world clock, showing you what time the queue will start "moving" in your time zone. ETA: The link to the Account Creation Invite Page has appeared here. Remember this is still in beta...eventually I believe anybody will be able to open an account with no hoops to jump through. But it can be fun to get involved with projects when they're still at an early enough stagea to help shape the way they're eventually going to work. (eta...if you don't need a cool new archive to house your fanworks right now, or if you're too tired to learn a new upload system until work eases up or the semester ends, or if you have philosophical objections to this or any other archive, for whatever reason, I'd suggest that instead of starting a debate in the comments, you just don't open up an account. Easy-peasy.) This entry was originally posted at http://bethbethbeth.dreamwidth.org/51854 | ||
