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Even though there are so many things I should be doing right now (To that person I owe fic to: I'm sorry! I'm almost done, I swear!), I'm going to steal a meme from [info]warriorpoet because I have no self control.

A line from 25 random songs. Guess the title and artist. Comments are screened for now so everyone can have a shot at everything. I'm putting your username next to the ones you get right in the meantime :D Googling makes Baby Jesus cry.

I'm taking 'random' to mean put my itunes on shuffle. This may be embarrassing. Don't judge me.


1. Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste. ([livejournal.com profile] warriorpoet )

2. I've been down across a road or two, but now I've found the velvet sun that shines on me and you.

3. Fill the cavity and you're a God-shaped hole tonight, for what it's worth.

4. And I recall in spring the perfume that the air would bring to the indolent town.

5. There's only room for one and here she comes, here she comes.

6. We will wait for you and lead you through dance floor, up to the DJ booth you know what to ask for.

7. You're just alone when you begin to sing a song that doesn't sing, it grows, you know.

8. When I got to the bedroom there was somebody waiting and it isn't my fault that the barbarian raped me.

9. He started crying, it sounded like an earthquake. ([livejournal.com profile] warriorpoet)

10. You'll lose everything before the end, still my broken limbs you find time to mend.

11. You can't start a fire, you can't start a fire without a spark. ([livejournal.com profile] warriorpoet , [livejournal.com profile] starshine24mc )

12. Whisper words of wisdom. ([livejournal.com profile] kitsunesan, [livejournal.com profile] warriorpoet )

13. That could have been the beginning of the end, if I wasn't already in the middle.

14. They say you die faster than without water, but we know it's just a lie to scare your son to scare your daughter. ([livejournal.com profile] _lady_vanilla_ )

15. Lately you've been tanned, suspicious for the winter.

16. When you're on the street, depending on the street, I bet you're definitely in the top three. ([livejournal.com profile] warriorpoet)

17. You caught me under false pretenses, how long before you let me go?([livejournal.com profile] kitsunesan)

18. We rejoice because the hurting is so painless from the distance of passing cars.

19. We should have each other for tea, we should have each other with cream.

20. There's always something happening and it's usually quite loud.([livejournal.com profile] starshine24mc )

21. But I thought this wouldn't hurt a lot, I guess not.

22. Your feet are going to be on the ground, your head is there to move you around. ([livejournal.com profile] kitsunesan, [livejournal.com profile] warriorpoet )

23. I'm taking back the number of the beast because six is not a pretty number, eight or three are definitely better.

24. Relax? Yes, I'm trying, but fear's got a hold on me.

25. Ok, you're kinda sexy, but you're not really special.
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Ten Top Trivia Tips about John Oliver!

  1. Some people in Malaysia bathe their babies in beer to protect them from John Oliver!
  2. John Oliver can only be destroyed by intense heat, and is impermeable even to acid!
  3. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are John Oliver.
  4. John Oliver is the only king without a moustache on the standard pack of cards.
  5. In 1982 Time Magazine named John Oliver its 'Man of the Year'.
  6. Koalas sleep for 22 hours a day, two hours more than John Oliver!
  7. Baskin Robbins once made John Oliver flavoured ice cream!
  8. While sleeping, fifteen percent of men snore, and ten percent grind their John Oliver!
  9. It's bad luck to whistle near John Oliver.
  10. If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt they would fill John Oliver.
I am interested in - do tell me about
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I am dying. Possibly dead. I'll get back to you on that one. On the other hand, I'm also wearing very little. Lucky you, eh?

Seriously, it's 43 degrees here. (110 Farenheit, for you strange people who measure temperature in your strange units)

DYING.

/moan


Also, tagged by [livejournal.com profile] angelascats for
this )
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Meme answers!

This took way longer than it should have, because it appears my brain has taken several months sick leave. I couldn't finish everyone I got given, but I'll post Vince and Howard soon. The TDS peeps are a strange blend of real and character... I didn't realise my mind-canon was such a contradictory mess of ideas :D

(Aaaand...I am so exhausted now, I'm just going to collapse into sleep.)

Jon & Stephen )


Jason & John )


Pavel & Hikaru )
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It's meme time!

Because let's be honest, when you owe lots of amazing people fic and are swamped with uni assignments, there's is only one way to spend your time. Procrastinating.

First, from the delightful [livejournal.com profile] trustingno1 :


Name a character from one of my fandoms and I'll give you:


(a) three facts about them from my personal canon/fanon
(b) a reason he/she sucks
(c) a reason he/she is awesomecakes
(d) five things that never happened to that character and/or
(e) five people that character never fell in love with and why



And courtesy of the gorgeous [livejournal.com profile] huntingsnarks :

Spin the bottle, pick a victim )


 
And some Bowie, just because I can.



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First: If you've been tagged, you must write your answers in your own LJ and replace any question that you dislike with a new, original question.

+ Second: Tag eight people. Don't refuse to do that. Don't tag whoever tagged you.


It occurs to me that Mondays are a terrible way to spend one-seventh of our lives. )



Because I'm a maverick, and chronically indecisive, I don't want to pick eight people... instead, I tag everyone who reads this! You've been warned! If you read, you're tagged!
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Behold... My Future
  I will marry Dylan Moran.  
  After a wild honeymoon, We will settle down in Paris in our fabulous Mansion.  
  We will have 9 kid(s) together.  
  Our family will zoom around in a Blue Porsche 911.
  I will spend my days as a Journalist, and live happily ever after.  
 
whats your future
 
 
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Under the cut are a series of categories. I give you a person I know you love and you give me a photo of that person that applies to each thing.

Ok, so both [livejournal.com profile] iamashamed and [livejournal.com profile] kitsunesan gave me Ollie, which I took as a clear sign to get two pics for each category and DRENCH YOU WITH THE ADORKABLE BRITISH LOVE.


John )
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Being on trial at a new job is terrible. It sucks the joy out of everything, cos you're always worrying. I'm not a worrying type person. What I do is I procrastinate and then I panic. That's an entirely different way of doing things. And then at least you have the post-terror adrenalin rush.

Enough complaining.

Anyway, if anyone needed proof that fandom has invaded my life and taken root in my brain in cruel and unusual ways, I was watching an adaptation of Sense and Sensibility on TV and found myself mentally casting it with fakenews people, and then got irrationally frustrated when I couldn't make up my mind. And then got calmed down again by David Morrisey's patented Best Small Sad/Resigned Smile In the World.

I considered Jon and Stephen as the two sisters, because the dynamic works, but then I couldn't find someone to be Stephen's Colonel Brandon. Hmmm. Who is Brandon-ish? Besides, I don't like splitting up Stephen/Jon. CONUNDRUM.

So yeah, that's what goes on in my head. o.O


In other news...
I finally finished some of the Top Fives requested of me, which I present as secondary proof of my complete surrender and submission to fandom. [personal profile] oni_butterfly jumped on it with requests about favourite Bugles, drinks and animal pics, and then my fave OTP's, which almost blew my tiny mind and I had to split into two parts. Then [livejournal.com profile] iamashamed asked for my top five Jon/Stephen moments, and finally my dear [livejournal.com profile] emiime wanted to know why chekov/Sulu is so totally canon.


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Ask me my top five anything, and I'll reply in comments. Hopefully with pictures. Or music. Or both. Or if there isn't any, we can just pretend there is, and no one but us will ever know...

Or I might just put this in:


Because Amanda Fucking Palmer is always relevant.
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Book meme! Stolen from [livejournal.com profile] alivemagdolene 

Where do you fall in the list? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here.

Look at the list and put an X before those you have read.


[x] 1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
[x] 2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
[x] 3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
[x] 4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
[x] 5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
[ ] 6. The Bible
[x] 7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
[ ] 8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
[x] 9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
[ ] 10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Total: 7

[x] 11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
[x] 12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
[ ] 13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
[ ] 14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
[ ] 15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
[x] 16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
[ ] 17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
[x] 18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
[ ] 19. The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
[ ] 20. Middlemarch - George Eliot

Total so far: 11

[ ] 21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
[ ] 22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
[ ] 23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
[ ] 24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
[x] 25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
[x] 27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
[ ] 28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
[x] 29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
[x] 30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

Total so far: 15

[x] 31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
[ ] 32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
[x] 33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
[x] 34. Emma - Jane Austen
[x] 35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
[x] 36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
[ ] 37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
[ ] 38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
[ ] 39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
[x] 40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

Total so far: 21

[x] 41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
[x] 42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
[ ] 43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
[ ] 44. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
[x] 45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
[ ] 46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
[x] 47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
[ ] 48. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
[x] 49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
[x] 50. Atonement - Ian McEwan

Total so far: 27

[ ] 51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
[ ] 52. Dune - Frank Herbert
[ ] 53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
[x] 54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
[ ] 55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
[ ] 56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
[x] 57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
[ ] 58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
[ ] 59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
[ ] 60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Total so far: 29

[x] 61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
[ ] 62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
[ ] 63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
[ ] 64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
[x] 65. Count of Monte Cristo - AleXandre Dumas
[ ] 66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
[ ] 67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
[ ] 68. Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
[ ] 69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
[ ] 70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville

Total so far: 31

[ ] 71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
[x] 72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
[x] 73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
[ ] 74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
[ ] 75. Ulysses - James Joyce
[ ] 76. The Inferno – Dante
[x] 77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
[ ] 78. Germinal - Emile Zola
[ ] 79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
[ ] 80. Possession - AS Byatt

Total so far: 34

[x] 81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
[ ] 82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
[ ] 83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
[x] 84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
[ ] 85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
[ ] 86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
[ ] 87. Charlotte’s Web - EB White
[ ] 88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
[x] 89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
[ ] 90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

Total so far: 37

[ ] 91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
[x] 92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Eupery
[ ] 93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
[ ] 94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
[ ] 95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
[x] 96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
[x] 97. The Three Musketeers - Aleandre Dumas
[x] 98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
[x] 99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
[ ] 100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo


Complete Total: 42

Seriously, BBC? Six? Um. Well, it would depend what country... there's a strong British bias in this list, let me just say... but six out of these 100? That's not really very good... o_o


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The "You Should Write..." Meme!
my thread here



(Why am I doing this? I don't know. o.O I have no writing talent.

NEVERMIND. Pimp this thing cos it's awesome.)
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I got a job this week (cue insane celebrating! yee hah!) which means I'll be able to buy all those lovely, lovely things that I definitely don't need and even more definitely WANT LIKE BURNING. I may single handedly save the little record store in town... I'm going to buy so much vinyl they'll feel the aftershocks in Canada. And don't ask me how that works, it's a perfectly gorgeous, expressive, and utterly useless nonsensical metaphor that doesn't really serve its purpose but I won't hear a word against it.

Apart from that, not a lot else happening, and that's the way I like it. I saw The Hangover for a second time because I'm a doormat and my friends hadn't seen it, and walked out incredibly relieved that it was still funny enough to be enjoyable the second time. I  just have such a love for Ed Helms in that, and it's not even because of the TDS connection, since he was on way before my time. I just think he's adorable. And I have such a kink for funny, nervous, mistreated characters. "She beats you!" "That was only twice, and I was out of line..." I have not yet seen HP or Bruno, and don't really mind if it stays that way. The trailers have made me book Public Enemies, Inglorious Basterds and that new Sherlock Holmes one into my near future. Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr bickering like and old married couple is love.

Some family friends are in England at the moment. The youngest is seven and emailed me to say they're in Camden and she's looking out for Noel Fielding for me, and if she sees him she'll give him my phone number. That's why I love kids :D

I find it disproportionately hilarious that the show "Supernatural" starts  with a warning containing the words 'this show may contain supernatural themes...' MAY? May contain supernatural themes? Oh, ok then, if there's only a chance I might risk it...

Oh, and it's meme time again:

Comment and I'll give you five words that remind me of you. Then, you post these five words on your journal and explain them.

From [livejournal.com profile] iamashamed:John Oliver, TDS, Australia, Fandoms, Uni )
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More questions! I feel loved and confused and violated all at once. So, clearly, you're all doing an excellent job. COMMENCE THE INTERROGATION!

Actually, scratch that. After all, I have it from a reliable source that if you ever find yourself in the power of someone who uses the word 'commence' in cold blood, go somewhere else very  quickly. If they say 'enter', don't stop to pack. Genre savvy, I believe they call it.

Aw, hell. Commence away. And enter, too.


From [livejournal.com profile] alivemagdolene 

This girl is evil, and I respect that. And no, I'm not crying, it's just raining on my face. )






From [livejournal.com profile] warriorpoet:

The directionless, the fear, the ordinary, the revelatory and the place I call home. )




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INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Leave me a comment telling me you want QUESTIONS.
2. I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better.
3. Update your journal with the answers to the questions. Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.


From [livejournal.com profile] sarcasticsra :

my name is a lie, woodstock and a wham bam thankyou ma'am )




From [livejournal.com profile] sirdrakesheir:
Gary Jules and skinny ties at the end of the world )




From [livejournal.com profile] duckgirlie :

Pancakes, beards and Rocky Horror )
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THE DEDICATE A SONG MEME!
1) Name 25 of your LJ Friends.
2) Then put your music playlist on shuffle.
3) Each random song is dedicated to one of your Friends. (Ex;First song for first friend on list)
4) Ready? GO!


_lady_vanilla_ Novocaine for the Soul - Eels
aeon_entwined Western Eyes - Portishead
alivemagdolene The Man Who Sold The World - Nirvana
anais_rhys The Leggionaire's Lament - The Decemberists
avidlydelicious (Antichrist Television Blues) - Arcade Fire
butchiemcgee Help, I'm Alive - Metric
darkecology There's No One - The Whitlams
duckgirlie  Read My Mind - The Killers
fourleftxaviers  NYC - Interpol
huntingsnarks  Beautiful Child - Rufus Wainwright
insomniacures  I Will Possess Your Heart - Death Cab For Cutie
klaatu_09  Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
klaudyna  Farewell to the Fairground - White Lies
nova_mist  Black Math - The White Stripes
oni_butterfly  My Delirium - Ladyhawke
paperdays  Dawn of the Dead - Does It Offend You, Yeah?
sailorptah  Heart It Races -  Architecture in Helsinki
sarcasticsra  Guitar Hero - Amanda Palmer
sirdrakesheir  Orange Crush - REM
taurenova  Teenage Angst - Placebo
theblackmeat  Karma Police - Radiohead (missed out on Molko by one song...godammit!)
tigris18   Knights of Cydonia - Muse
trustingno1  Vid Spilum Endalaust - Sigur Ros
truthiness_aura  Friday I'm In Love - The Cure
warriorpoet  Don't Fight It - The Panics


Also, it seems to be Pride time in the states, and everyone is going OMG PART-AY! I'm rather jealous. Anyway, to get into the spirit of things I sulkily fucked around on photoshop made some really gay fakenews pics and icons )


NOW WITH 200% MORE JOHN OLIVER
as requested by[info]tigris18





 

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