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lainy122, this is the version of I Loves You Porgy, by Nina Simone, that I am familiar with. Tis awesomeness and y'all--yes, you, I'm looking right atcha!--should download it!

I WOULD be going to see the Yeah Yeah Yeahs today but tickets were all sold out. So instead I updated their bit on my music pimping post. There's some Nina Simone there too.

Tagged by lydia_petze*

Seven songs you can't get enough of right now:
1. Great Waves - Dirty Three feat Cat Power
2. What Katie Did - The Libertines
3. Run - Air
4. Nude as the News - Cat Power
5. Nature Boy - Angela McClusky and Triptych
6. Ballad of a Thin Man - Bob Dylan
7. Jolene - White Stripes

Aaaaahhhh so much greatness. I have been playing 1 over and over and over the last few days.

Anyway in our continuing quest to perve on attractive people lainy and I had a bit of a Jared fest. Her reaction pretty much sums up mine (except I didn't like FotP much at all). So I am going to express my emotions in poetry. I wrote it all by myself with no help from anyone.

( Completely and 100% original. )
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*Anyone else find it amusing that the code for lj hyperlinks makes us all lj junkies?

Yay I am back! In one piece, too. So much has been going on but if it's report-worthy I can't really remember it right now.

Hugh Laurie got a Golden Globe! Yay for him. Mary-Louise Parker beat the Housewives! Yay for her, and yay for her being so aborable, and yay for her John Spencer tribute (*sniff*). Yay for Felicity Huffman, it's about fucking time, YOU ARE TOO CUTE WOMAN! Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje aws there! It's about fucking time for him, too, he blew me away every time he was on the screen on Oz. He and Chris Meloni must have been constantly trying to outdo each other in the sheer animal magnetism stakes.

Lauren came round and we played a Golden Globes drinking game with cowboy cocksuckers (SO! APPROPRIATE! It only just hit me):

( when to drink )

Good times.

frostmourne wrote this and it rawks my sawks. Guess which tv show:

Well theres this big ringy thing and it go flush sorta like a toilet and everyone goes whoa.
Then they step through it and go whoa.
Then they meet some aliens and go whoa.
Daniel bitches about some morality issue, other people dont go whoa.

Then they all go home and slap Keanu Reeves.

I think it's the Keanu Reeves that tips me over the edge. WTF? Heeeeeeee!

veronamay tagged me for a couple of memes like ten million years ago and I've just been sitting on them.

( guilty pleasures meme )

And vague memories of another:

( I think it was five songs you're into atm meme. )

I think it was angstslashhope who mentioned that she used imdb to keep track of all the movies she'd seen for the first time in the past year using the "my movies" page. Great idea.

( To the best of my atrocious, atrocious memory, here's 2006 so far: )

Obviously I need to get in some precious OLD SKOOL (WORD!) time. I am desperate to see Marathon Man and the original Producers atm and lydia_petze has just given Victim a glowing review so hopefully I can add them soon.

And........I'm spent.

So, the Mars Volta, the White Stripes, and Iggy Pop will be at the Big Day Out next year; guess I better fucking go then. Oh, if only 'tweren't so expensive!

In the spirit of good music, here's a couple of songs I've been playing, well, repetitively is a nice way of putting it, recently.

Billy Bragg - The Marching Song of the Covert Battalions
The lyrics and the way they're set to the music cracks my shit up, but I think what I love most is the way it quotes from When Johnny Comes Marching Home, which I know from singing "The ants go marching one by one" in school assemblies. Ah, primary school, how I miss thee.

Kanye West - Jesus Walks
So that Jarhead trailer I was nattering about? I tracked down the music from it--ok, so apparently this is was a big hit, but I don't listen to the rap music usually, so I was proud of myself. Anyway, this song is fucking awesome. I keep trying to call him Kyan, though. He'd probably put one of those caps in my ass for that.

White Stripes - There's No Home For You Here
I have been listening to Elephant like a LOT recently. There are a ton of great tracks on that album. Seven Nation Army and The Hardest Button to Button can be heard in the video section of their website (and they're both AWESOME videos too); here's another of my favourites.

Someone has put up bits of Kev & The Authority at scans_daily! I don't care if you don't like comics, you must check this out. This is in the running to be my favourite single issue of a comic, ever. *points to icon* Extremely funny and, just, genius work from Ennis and Fabry, here. I'll make the entire thing available to anyone who wants any more.

Stolen from vensre: European Geography quiz (I got 71% even though I was REALLY close on most of them. Well, a couple. Ok, one or two. Geography's not my strong point, ok?) and US Sate quiz (74%). Despite the fact that I got a higher score for the US one I have real trouble with US States. When I read about them I tend to divide them into east and west according to their assumed hillbilliness quotient (yeah, that's a technical term). What? Indiana and Tenessee are in the east and Washington's on the west coast? Since when is Montana on the Canadian border? Yes, I sudied the Pesidential election maps; yes, I got out the atlas to read that excellent O11/O12 roadtrip fic; yes, I even studied the War of Independence (for that reason I got most of the east coast right). For some reason (namely, I am stupid) it just doesn't stick. I mean, I owe the fact that I know where Florida is purely to Piers Anthony.

Anyway. Found via boing_boing: the website for Matthew Herbert's Plat du Jour. Herbert and his mates have created an album made entirely of found/food instuments. Check out the images and making of sections! One of my favourites:
we recreated the meal that nigella lawson cooked for george bush when he came to britain to thank tony blair for his support during the iraq during the meal... then we drove over the meal with a chieftan mk 10 battle tank from the mid-late sixties.
....an advisor to the foreign office baked the apple pie with his fiancee using one of nigella's recipes. it was then taken to manassas, the site of one of the opening battles of the american civil war, where it was shot by an us ex-military intelligence officer using a 9mm luger (1937approx) as used by a nazi sd officer, colt 45 (model 1911) high standard .22...
There is, as you can see, a definite political/philosophical idea behind it. Lord knows if it will sound any good but I am interested in hearing it.

For theantimodel: John Zorn's Batman theme. Also the James Bond theme is cool too.

Had a Beauty lecture yesterday and my lecturer played a clip from The Barchester Chronicles to demonstate something. Alan Rickman about twenty years ago! So amusing.

Right! Back off to watch Ocean's 11. So much fun.

Last night I finished Vikram Seth's An Equal Music. I'd previously read The Golden Gate (a novel composed entirely of sonnets, even the contents and acknowledgements) by him, and while there were elements of it that I was dissatisfied with, I thought it was brilliant. But An Equal Music is even better; I was just blown away by the beauty of the prose. It wasn't consciously beautiful in that purpley-but-not way, but just this quiet, gentle, poignant, questioning lyricism and it was the main reason why the main character didn't come off as a self-centered jerk, which he really could have. His name is Michael and he's a violinist, which is the other reason I adore this book. I know much, much less about classical music than I would like to and this book was absolutely fascinating in that it gives you an idea about what it's like to be a clasical musician. Anyone who loves music passionately, even, I reckon, if they're not fond of classical music, would love this book. It's about what music does to us, does for us, about why it's so important. And the woman Michael loves has a certain medical condition which I won't spoil because I can't be fucked to use the cut tags but Michael's musings on it are absolutely heartbreaking. Plus, it's also set in Vienna and Venice and the descriptions of the cities are wonderful. Just, a fantastic book; if you get the chance, check it out.


And now for something completely different:

For 5 of your fandoms, name:

1. The first character you first fell in love with:
2. The character you never expected to love as much as you do now:
3. The character everyone else loves that you don't:
4. The character you love that everyone else hates:
5. The character you used to love but don't any longer:
6. The character 'ship everyone else loves that you don't:
7. The character 'ship you love that everyone else hates:

( SV, DS, BtVS/Angel, LotR, SN. Bearing in mind that I'm rather conventional and OTPish and have no real idea who fandom at large does and doesn't hate )