burning at the centre of time

Is there anything you've always wanted to ask me? About my life, my views of the universe, my writing, anything?

Go ahead!

I often get disappointed with the Big Block Of Cheese Day meme with regards to no one asking, so leave me some good questions.

Because I am a shameless panderer and need some moral support so I can to get up to working on Festivids this evening:
holiday love meme at LJ

If you like. Will hit it up later meself.

With thanks to lesslikepie who posted it most recently, among others.

Unbelievably white! Also male! What else is new!

( Behind the cut, I have opinions. )

And I want to do this before I forget, so my apologies for spamming you all today with posts.

Via waywardragdoll, who gave me B.

1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List 5 10 songs you love that begin with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.
4. Ask if you want me to throw a letter at you. If not, no worries.

( I did ten to be a pain in the ass. )

Nicked from bzzinglikeneon: Music!

How many total songs?
2170 songs, 9.89 Gb in iTunes
plus 1687 songs, 6.66 Gb of stuff I have yet to organize from my old computer because of the OCD and no energy to fix all the file names (long story). We will just look at iTunes here.
( moar. )

Right, with the people who've posted overnight, I think I've found everyone on my flists in the Holiday Love Meme. I was going to say point me at yours if I haven't gotten to you but then I remembered that it's ANONYMOUS, duh. (If there is someone in yours who sounds like me--a weird combination of Wisconsin, Glasgow, Yorkshire, and Western Massachusetts, it likely is.) I feel like I should respond to each of you. If I do, I'll post about it here so you don't have to go find me again.

Forgive me, I was up for several hours in the night. This is why they tell you not to swallow big pills and then lie down, because you end up with essentially heartburn at 4 am: drug-induced esophagitis

It is not fun.

Also, I am sick and tired of perfume/cologne adverts. They are absolutely everywhere on UK telly right now and they're usually...well, you know, perfume commercials. They're incoherent soft-focus narratives in the vein of Chris Isaak's video for Wicked Game. I guess they're meant to convey 'the emotion' of a scent, but they just end up being fucking ridiculous as a whole. The only one I like is the Jeunet-directed Chanel No. 5 with Audrey Tautou.

Today, I think I shall do more vidding, and then possibly blog at my saniblog about mulled wine for fun and no particular profit. The next few days are going to be busy (GP tomorrow, shrink Tuesday, Asda delivery and gin tasting [?!] Wednesday), so might as well faff about today. And drakyndra has reminded me of the holiday market at St. Enoch, which I've been meaning to get to, one of these days.

And now I have Fleetwood Mac's 'Gypsy' in my head. Ah well.

Doing that movie quotes meme because I HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO DO AND MY BRANE IS STILL FRIED. Yes, the OAD has been submitted, and yours truly spent over eight hours on a train yesterday, and yeah.

ETA: Responses on LJ and DW will be separate, so play at one place or the other.

I did work on a 90s playlist for you all, though, inspired by bzzinglikeneon. And I started planning for Festivids. Go me.

And by the way, thank you to everyone for the congratulations. I'm much obliged, much obliged.

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This time, I'm putting a spin on the meme: 15 of my favourite English-language movies released in the last 10 years. Go ahead and guess.

The awesome azuire got 14/15 right! But I'll leave them open and take it out from under a cut so you can keep playing.

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1. They call this war a cloud over the land--but they made the weather! And then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining!'

2.
A: Wait a minute. Who elected you leader of this outfit?
B: Well, A, I figured it should be the one with the capacity for abstract thought.

3. I call it a gift...for them it was more like a big cosmic joke.

4.
A: This is either madness... or brilliance.
B: It's remarkable how often those two traits coincide.

5. It is a historical fact: sharing the world has never been humanity's defining attribute.

6. You know, there was a man that lived here once that had a prize-fighting kangaroo. Well, you just wouldn't believe what that kangaroo did to this courtyard.

7. It's just an anonymous room. There's nothing in the drawers. But you look anyway. Nothing except the Gideon bible, which I, of course, read religiously.

8. A: I don't get it. Are you saying things were better then, even though there was stuff like this?
B: I suppose things are better now, but...I don't know. People still hate each other, they just know how to hide it better.

9. As long as the press sees sex and drugs behind the left hand, you can park a battle carrier behind the right hand and no one's gonna fucking notice.

10. A sure and steady hand did this. This ain't no squirrelly amateur. This is the work of a salty dog. You can tell by the cleanliness of the carnage. Now a kill-crazy rampage though it may be, all the colors are kept within the lines. If you was a moron, you could almost admire it.

11.
A: So, are you ready?
B: Yeah, hold on. I forgot to put in the crystals.

12. You have no idea how fortunate that makes you, liking people. Being liked. Having that facility. That lightness, that charm. I don't have it, I never did.
Richard Nixon, Frost/Nixon (amadi)

13.
A: Mr. B, what's your wine selection?
B: Oh, we've got red...and, er...white?
A: I'll have a pint of lager, please.

14.
Jules Paxton: Anyway, being a lesbian's not that big of a deal.
Paula Paxton: Oh no, of course not sweetheart, no. I mean I've got nothing against it. I was cheering for Martina Navratilova as much as the next person.
Bend It Like Beckham (amadi)

15. You ever read the bible, Dan? I read it one time. I was eight years old. My daddy just got hisself killed over a shot of whiskey and my mama said, "We're going back East to start over." So she gave me a bible, sat me down in the train station, told me to read it. She was gonna get our tickets. Well, I did what she said. I read that bible from cover to cover. It took me three days. She never came back.

It's Saturday and I should really be doing an LJ-only RPG State of the Pups post, but I am Lazy. So here's a meme via the_10thdoctor.

( A, I adore...yeah, I don't know. )

I swear, the awesome post you're looking for is forthcoming. But it's hot today (though not as unnaturally hot as the US/Cdn East Coast or continental Europe), so you get a few points of stuff.

First, Moar LJ TPTB-Level Bias and Clusterfuck. Worth your time to read the comments too. (h/t mercredigirl)

Secondly, Festibility, an AWESOME fanworkathon featuring disabled characters (canonical or not), sponsored by access_fandom, is accepting prompts, and will start taking fanworks next week.

Thirdly, a meme from sasha_feather, who gave me the letter L: Post 5 songs (or more) that start with the letter you're given. Let me know if you'd like a letter.

Let's sway/Under the moonlight/This serious moonlight
David Bowie, "Let's Dance"
Does anyone not enjoy at least some part of this song? Seriously? It's Bowie, that's all there is to say about it.

The night you came into my life/Well, it took the bones of me, took the bones of me
Carbon Leaf, "Life Less Ordinary"
Between this and 'What About Everything?', Carbon Leaf is totally my new!Who band. This is also my RP!Doctor theme song...okay, one of them.

I can’t do what’s down my head/There’s no place to run
Santigold, "Lights Out"
bzzinglikeneon introduced me to Santigold a while back, and this is just an excellent song for dancing or walking or getting places...yeah.

I bring the water down to you/But you're too hot to touch
Buckingham/Nicks, "Long Distance Winner"
Frankly, as any Fleetwood Mac überfan knows, Buckingham/Nicks is one of the great lost albums of the 70s. If you like early 70s folk-rock or acoustic guitar, you owe it to yourself to track it down.

When it comes to luck you make your own/Tonight I got dirt on my hands but I'm building me a new home
Bruce Springsteen, "Lucky Town"
Fine, this is another Doctor Who/RP Doctor theme song, and probably my favourite Springsteen song...which is saying something, as he's got a lot of great work. I identify with it a lot.