I really need to get back into the habit of, you know, not playing video games all day checking my LJ more than once a month :|

Saw Cheap Trick, Poison and Def Leppard in concert with some B&N pals. Lawn seats, baby~ Was fun, got tipsy on ridiculously overpriced drinks, made fun of the frat kids next to us and surprised myself by knowing more Poison songs than I originally thought I did. Still am not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. Also, successfully back-seat drove navigated ourselves through DC because of all the times my mom and I did the same run to get my brother from college. Oi.

Otakon! Otakon was fun, ( although not as super much fun as last year (buuuuut I suspect that's because there wasn't an Kappei Yamaguchi to look forward to) )

( Finished Ergo Proxy! Only took me...how long? )

Also am not sure how I feel about the Percy Jackson movie. On one hand, the trailer looks cool. On the other hand, it's already feeling like everyone's going to go "HP 2.0!!!" and it's really...not. I don't know. I don't like what JKR did with the notion of the Hero's Quest in the HP books, but I do like Riordan's take on that mythology and on the Greek gods themselves. Hopefully it won't be butchered? Who am I kidding, it's Hollywood. ._.

I am going to catch up on all the latest manga chapters (OP I'm looking at you) but the thing is, I'm actually cruising. In Alaska at the end of this week. Flying into Seattle and not coming back until August 10 or so! So, um. Yeah, still won't be around D: Unless there's internet on the ship? And even then it'll probably be boring day-to-day "hai self this is what you did" travel logs, like usual. But I'll have lots of lovely pictures when I come back? And I'll probably be posting on old entries a lot, too. My apologies ahead of time.

Is it weird that I'm mostly excited about flying again than actually going to the West Coast/Alaska for the first time in my life? I mean, travel all around is good to me, but flying *____*

It's weird, isn't it.

Tags: alaska boat tour 2009, can't stay in one place, life, music, otakon 2009, randomness of a random mind

01 Wow, it's been...almost two months since I posted last. Um, hi?

02 Two months of no internet means I read a bit more. Still plugging away at Proust and the Squid. The Smith College Used Book Sale came and went, and while I didn't get as many books as I did last year, I still got plenty. Picked up a couple more Iris Murdoch books, a few Japanese books, a bunch more history books, and a few odds and ends, including a book on all the words that have fallen out of use in the English language (I should start posting definitions) and a reprint of a bestiary from...the 1600s, I think? Filled with lions and dragons and such. The best books had to have been the ones with newspaper clippings and such in them; it seemed like every other book I picked up had something tucked away in it. My favorite was the copy of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with a playbill from a production in the '60s and the newspaper write-up for that show. My favorite book so far that I've read from this year's haul, and highly recommend, if you can find it, is I See By My Outfit by Peter S. Beagle. Cross-country on a scooter, and not necessarily for the usual beatnik reasons. Makes me want to drive cross-country, actually.

Finally got Nation and bought the last Percy Jackson novel when the lovely Rae stopped by. Overall I liked both books a lot.

( Spoilers for both )

03 Saw Up. I think I just need to accept that Pixar movies will always, inevitably, make me cry at one point or another during the course of the film. Good movie, but what the hell were the badges at the end. My brother and I sat through the entire credits (we always do, he's a former film major, comes with the territory) and there was definitely an Atomic Bomb patch. What in the world do you do to get that one.

Also saw Frost/Nixon, Kung Fu Panda, Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day and Definitely, Maybe. Loved all three. I was really surprised how much I enjoyed the first one - documentaries are not my thing - and also how sympathetic I felt towards Nixon at the end of the film. Kung Fu Panda, omg, I have such a weakness for animated movies and pfffft the one-liners had me lollin' so hard. I know I am so late to that party - it's been out for how long now? - but gaaaaaaaah so fun. Miss Pettigrew, oh my god, even if you don't really like romantic films this one is just. So awesome. Got my dad to watch the ending with me, it was hilarious. Definitely, Maybe is just. So droll. And. Hits all the buttons I don't like to acknowledge I have for romantic films.

04 Am addicted to Rachel Yamagata's Elephants and Vienna Teng's Stray Italian Greyhound. Why can't I pick one musical depiction of love and stick with it? Oh and, Stray Italian Greyhound? Totes an Edgeworth or Franziska song.

05 Dreamwidth - worth it? Yay? Nay? Ehhhh...? Not that I have a code or anything but I'm curious

06 Played Where In The World is Carmen Sandiego? and Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego? for the first time in years. 8Dbb Am now plagued by cross-over bunnies. Halp. AND OMFG I WANT IT TO BE WINTER. I WANT GYAKUTEN KENJI WHATEVER THE FUCK THEY WANT TO CALL IT. JUST. GIMME. AND LAYTON TOO.

07 I am so behind on every manga title. Upside though, I am now marathoning Ergo Proxy. Woot!

08 Self, finish those damn Night Watch icons. Do it.

09 How is everyone else doing?

Tags: brief book babblings, i am a dork, i am not a gamer, i has an addiction to the printed word, i want more people to like discworld, lawl, music, randomness of a random mind, spoiled you
Current Mood: awake

Dorkily excited about the bicentennial of Edgar Allen Poe's birth. I was obsessed with him back in middle and high school (my mystery genre faze, when virtually the only thing I read was vintage detective novels and current suspense books), can still recite "El Dorado" and bits of other poems by heart, but I liked his mysteries more than the horror. So finding this article on Dupin is just plain awesome. Although Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone deserves a lot of credit in shaping in the mystery genre as well.

Got to see Rae and Bear this weekend ♥♥♥♥ That was fantastic fun, even though Rae got sick (feel better, wench ♥). And went to see one of the former theatre kids, Will, and his band Cleanfall perform at the Chameleon Club in Lancaster. Will's a real sweetheart - one of the real "nice guys" (on their myspace he's the one with the super curly hair, glasses and scruff XD). He was blown away by how many people showed up (got to see a couple college kids there too), we got to eat some really good burritos with the band before the show, and the boys performed amazingly. They have such a goofy sense of humor that comes out as they perform to the point that they're willing to dork around on stage, but it's fun to see them having so much fun that you get sucked into the ridiculous. Also, did not know Will played the mandolin, so that was a fun surprise. I don't know how many of my flist is in PA, but if you're around, check them out.

Funny story though. Cleanfall's an alternative/indie band, but the club had two stages - one in a small lounge type setting only with no chairs and the second upstairs. The upstairs band that night was some death metal band, and you could feel the vibrations through the ceilings. Good times, made me chuckle. Bear declared, "Death metal, it sneaks up on you when you least expect it."

From their CD "Idle Talk", these are some of my favorites, although I want to say their Myspace has got all of the CD on it. On box.net, let me know if you want a different server.

Cleanfall - Four Years From Now love this one
Cleanfall - Walk Slowly which is an instrumental that leads directly into Timequake, but I like this track a lot.
Cleanfall - Ogg Vorbis
Cleanfall - Untitled
Cleanfall - A Country Faire
Cleanfall - Timequake
Cleanfall - The End

Also, there is snow on the ground. Which may or may not freeze tonight, but still. Snow! Also huzzah for new Coraline videos!

Tags: biggest smallest movie ever made, flist, i am a dork, i has an addiction to the printed word, life, music, slummin' alumna
Current Mood: cold

♣ Happy St Patrick's Day ♣

I always get kind of morose on this day, so apologies. The downside of having spent St Patty's Day in Ireland is the following years when you're not there :( But don't mind me, tonight is for singing badly and loudly, and spending time with our favorite friends and our favorite men: Guinness, Jameson, Baileys, Beamish and Harp :D

( All I remember from my Irish lessons is the numbers 1 through 20 ;_; )

Went back through my old old posts (Memory Laaaaane) and remembered the sugar packets with Irish sayings on them. ( Here's a few of them for you )

ALSO totally random request, but if anyone has any sean nós songs, I would be forever grateful. I doubt anyone does, though, given it's an oral tradition but damn I wish there was a way to make CDs of it :( That music is so pretty.

Tags: everyone should speak more than one lang, i miss ireland, music
Current Mood: found a clover

Happy Singles' Awareness Day! ♥
Treat your single-minded friends to a drink hug. Or some fondue, because fondue is amazing
No bundt cake, though D:

And because it's what I do with every over-commercialized holiday, have some music!

( The Anti-Valentine in 16 tracks or less, with one bonus for the hearts team, because we play fair, unlike that chubby brat with the bow and arrow )

Tags: music, shoot cupid down
Current Mood: chipper

MOIST ILU ♥♥♥♥

VETINARI, ILU LOTS TOO ♥ OMGGGGGG

Daaaammit now I have to give my borrowed copy back to work want my copy to come so I can reread it and get quotes for icons because I'm totally working on a set for Going Postal. Even if they are rather basic >.>

And I want to ask Pterry about the question posted in discworld a few days back, about the footnote, but I'm afraid he either won't remember the quote, won't have time to answer a question or will think me incredibly dense for not getting it. :| Even though no one on the comm seems to get it either >.>

Here, have a song in honor of currency! And it's from Monty Python too! Bonus!

And damn you, USA Discworld com. Why Arizona? I liked you better when you were coming to DC and I could have feasibly gone! *shakes fist*

And A:TLA season three opener was amazing. Even though there was no Iroh. I live in hope for Iroh this week :D

Tags: fangirling, i want more people to like discworld, music
Current Mood: OMG NEW PTERRY

riyuji tagged me with H, so here we go!

Comment and I'll give you a letter. In your journal, list 10 of your favorite songs that begin with that letter. All songs will be available for download. It's kind of a mixtape thing.

Odds are I've probably posted a few of these before, or people already have them. But whatever! These are the ones I like :D

( hay, here, high, hot, hun and hypothetically hip )

And god knows I can't do things the simple way (or I just like sharing music. Either or)

( the instrumental aitch, with a silent hush )

Want a different server, just let me know. Want a letter, leave "COMMENT" XD

And something completely different, that people have probably already seen but whatev. Even though I've never played the Phoenix Wright games, I just might have to, all thanks to youtube and boot to the head.

Need to put more energy into other journals.

Tags: meme, music
Current Mood: apathetic
Current Music: green day - longview

And because everyone knows this is really the best holiday ever. Even if they have to work serving coffee to the drunken masses on it.

I'm even baking soda bread right now (because my mom found some mix...somewhere...randomly...XD). It's not brown bread, that's my favorite, but since I can't teleport back to Galway, it'll have to do. And heh, the weather's all crazy here, just like over there. Although I don't remember it sleeting on St. Patrick's Day, just rain in the morning, before the parade.

Scartaglen - Chuaigh Me 'Na Rosann

Keltic Cowboys - Kiss My Irish Ass

Tommy Makem - The Moonshiner

Dropkick Murphys - Finnegan's Wake

Flogging Molly - To Youth (My Sweet Roisin Dubh)

Enter the Haggis - Three Little Jigs

Dropkick Murphys - The Dirty Glass

Wylde Nept - Hills of Connemara">

Dropkick Murphys - The Wild Rover

Using sendspace. Want a different server? Let me know. Sorry about the lack of Clancy Brothers, I need to find that CD. I want the Parting Glass back :(

And because this is pretty much what you have for breakfast on St. Patrick's Day:

The Get Up Kids - Beer for Breakfast

Early early note - everyone be safe and remember: wear green, don't end up looking green. XD

Will update about Spamalot. Later. This is special :D

Tags: i miss ireland, music, st patrick's day
Current Location: not Galway. woe
Current Mood: jealous