T'eyla Minh

Firstly, here's that same old meme-thing, taken from Eni and Eve respectively:

If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

Secondly, I owe a few hugs here and there, so: *HUG*

Thirdly, because I was re-reading old entries today in a fit of sheer boredom (there's been barely anything to do today; I also re-themed my journal to something more summer-y) and realised it's been a very long time, here's that guess-the-song-from-the-lyrics meme...

Rules: randomise your MP3-player of choice (I'm using Winamp), then post your favourite lyric from each song that comes up (trying not to include the title), then let your f-list guess the artist and song. There's normally a limit of 10-15 songs but I've been known to go as high as 30. ;)

Usually Eni and queenc2346 pwn this kind of thing between them, but anyway... here it goes:

( Lyrics... )

Off you go, then. :P

Edited on 09/07/09 with answers.

New(ish) layout.  It's one of the default 'Expressive' themes until I can muster the creativity to make a proper one.  I wish S2 were easier to modify in the same way as S1; I prefer the S1 style system, but I like the fact that you can view tags and your own user icons with S2.  Meh.

There is something of a theme here in that I was trying to use Alanis lyrics, as I had the idea to use "I'm wrong and I'm sorry, baby" as a header.  The rest of it is slightly unoriginal, but I've used three songs which kind of define me:  Hand in my Pocket (my life, except in parts), So Pure (reminds me of Paul) and Everything (which reminds me of both of us).

So, there we go.

I'm running out of momentum already, and it's already quarter-to-Wednesday.  Tomorrow I must actually be productive, including:  sandpaper bannister in preparation for repainting; take bathroom light fitting to Argos to get it replaced because there is a nut missing (or rather, it fell out of the box behind the washing machine and we can't find it; Argos don't have to know that), and try to get Paul's new MP3-player working...

I hold out no hope of getting any of it done.  I really need to head into Kings Heath at some point in order to find some summer shirts for work and some smart black sandals that aren't frumpy, clunky or tarty, which will be an impossible task.  Even more impossible due to not really having the money to do so.

We won a tenner on the Dream Number lottery thing on Saturday, and £2.00 on a Piratical scratchcard.  If this is a winning streak, can we get a couple of million next time?

Ah well.  At least my stomach ache's gone.

I like this one.  Similar to the other MP3 lyrics meme, but somewhat more tricky.

Randomise your MP3s, then post the first five lyrics of the first 20 songs.  Then let people guess them.

1. Hold on to me, love; you... - Evanescence, My Last Breath - thefleshfailure
2. You never needed them. You... - Juliana Hatfield, Somebody Is Waiting For Me - thefleshfailure
3. Okay, Ike, you're my little...
4. How can I think I'm...
5. Are you blind when you're... - Cats, Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats - thefleshfailure
6. Small wonder you've not heard...
7.  I wanted you to know... - Seether (feat. Amy Lee), Broken - thefleshfailure
8. From ze day he vas...  (phonetic, if it helps) - Rocky Horror Show, Eddie's Teddy - collie_wing/queenc2346
9. I gave you three years... - Pink, Walk Away - queenc2346
10. No more talk of darkness... - Phantom of the Opera, All I Ask Of You - thefleshfailure
11. Thought it was funny when... - Dido, Isobel - thefleshfailure
12. This is not a monument... - Juliana Hatfield, Fade Away - thefleshfailure
13. The first time that I saw...
14. At the end of the...
15. Come on, babe, why don't...
16. Only you, you're the only...
17. Asla Thea stole a stallion... - Judy Collins, Anathea - translucent
18. Close my eyes.  Stay down... (oo-er...)
19. "Say, Janet."  "Yes?"  "I've got..." - Rocky Horror Show, Dammit Janet - collie_wing/queenc2346
20.  There's a bunch of birds...

Mostly showtunes, it seems, plus the usual miscellany/crap.  G'wan.

(PS: I fixed my mood theme.  I hate the web interface, especially its tendency to refuse to load again once you've saved anything.  So I recreated it from scratch using the console, after I did a quick rename of the image files to get rid of the numbers.  I wouldn't have had to do this if LJ hadn't broken it in the first place...)

I'm still addicted to Katie Melua's new album, so much so I haven't had time to listen to the Green Day one yet.  I've been meaning to post the lyrics to the following song here for ages because the first time I heard it I cried.  Not openly, just a little.  Aside from the obvious (you'll see), there's just something about it.  And then I realised how much it reminded me of John and Aeryn from Farscape, circa season 3 in Infinite Possibilites: Icarus Abides (with TaylnJohn rather than MoyaJohn, or John Black if you prefer...) and also of the end of season 2, Die Me Dichotomy.

Read on, and you shall see.

( Just Like Heaven )

The kind of lyrics that look wonderful on their own without the music as well.  The tune itself is quite bizarrely upbeat.

And then, there's this one, the track following, which I also liked before I realised that it inexplicably reminded me of Erik and Christine in Phantom of the Opera, more from Christine's individual perspective than both of them.  (Just Like Heaven can be read in both directions, John or Aeryn.)  Very definitely post-plot.  If I'd finished my other song fic I could so use this one as well...

( I Cried For You (Mary's Song) )

Katie's lyrics have come on in leaps and bounds since Belfast (Penguins and Cats), though that one was good in its own surreal, symbolic way.

I am very much loving this album.  *hugs it*

I keep going to look at terrifying pictures, but my brain can only handle about 5 in a row before it shuts down from the horror.  In particular, the latest one of a man shot in the head at close range, and a slightly older one of a deformed baby born of two drug abusers, were the worst.  Hence, don't click that link if you're of a sensitive nature...

Today was boring, really.  Had very little to do.  We called someone out to fix the printer after the man on the phone tried all possibilities, only to have the service bloke turn it off and on and have it work.  Which was embarrassing, and annoying, since I'd been doing that all morning to no avail.  Stupid machine.

Went to town to get a bus pass and got some chenile black-and-grey-stripey gloves for £2.00, which was nice.  I think I manged about 8 hours today.  8.15 to 5.20 or thereabouts, minus the 50 minutes I was out getting said bus pass and gloves.  I neeeeed to gain flex, dammit.

I'm really quite tired, so I'll play random online games for a bit and then probably slob in front of a DVD or something...

Oh, and this is what I was going to write about, as remembered on the bus: it's probably a bad thing that Catatonia's "Apathy Revolution" is my constant anthem...

( Lyrics )

Answers to lyrics meme from however many days ago it was:

1. Here I sit, much determined, ever ill-equipped. - Alanis Morissette - This Grudge
2. I never needed this.  I never needed anyone. - Juliana Hatfield - Somebody Is Waiting For Me
3. So go on and scream, scream at me. - Evanescence - Going Under
4. I saw your dreams and, infatuated with this freedom, you say the words and I could be them, and I'd be your angel. Catatonia - Part of the Furniture
5. When we're dead, they'll know just who we are. - Marylin Manson - The Nobodies
6. When you're alone and afraid, and you're completely amazed to find there's nothing anybody can do... - Meatloaf - Rolck & Roll Dreams Come Through
7. Are you sorry?  Are you kidding? - Chicago - We Both Reached For The Gun
8. Don't need your poison, me.  I'll dig the melancholy. - Catatonia - Is Everybody Here On Drugs?
9. If you were smart, you would keep on walking out of my life, as fast as you can. - Sunset Boulevard - Too Much In Love To Care
10. It's hard sometimes not to look away, and think, "What's the point?" Dido - Stoned

As usual, Eni won.

I finally got to watch Road To Perdition tonight, catching it randomly on Sky Movies 7 (formerly Sky Moviemax 2...)  I really wish I'd managed to see it at the cinema, because it's visually beautiful.  Tom Hanks is fantastic as usual, and the boy playing his son is also very very good.  Wonderful film.  Everyone needs to see it.

I suck at reviewing, sorry...

It's actually quite ironic (or something) that I've been listening to Seether's Disclaimer II for the entirety of my MH obsession and most of the writing of Come Forward (up to chapter 3, incidentally), yet the lyrics to this particular song struck me as being very apt for my Sunset Boulevard fic-timeline...

( Lyrics herewith. )

All right, all right.  Angsty and melodramatic.  The tune's pretty, okay?  It was the line about the photo, is all.  It's a key part of the entire fic, and once I'd got that mental image, the rest of the lyrics just seemed to fit.  Oddly, there aren't that many songs that DO fit Sunset, so I'm especially impressed that something by Seether, of all people, should be so apt.

I'll shut up.  I presume I'm going to my father's tomorrow; he hasn't texted to cancel (my father understands text messaging; I'm somewhat scared by this...) so that means I have to get up early.  Joy.  At least I can distract myself with EastEnders.  Failing that, the evil of I'm Famous and Frightened is apparently showing live at 2pm, so I'll watch that if I get absolutely desperate. I gave it a miss tonight as soon as I realised they'd decked the male celebrities in kilts.  Keith Chegwin in a kilt was disturbing enough; I didn't stick around to see Handy Andy Kane in one...

Edit: Oh, and collie_wing, I got your postcard this morning! :D

Listened to Whistle Down the Wind for no particular reason that I felt like listening to "Tyre Tracks", and felt the urge to post some lyrics...

( If Only )

Which then leads into:

( Tire Tracks and Broken Hearts )

I love that song...  Here's some random dialogue that I'd never noticed before: ( Amos/Swallow bits )

All right, all right, sappy.  I'm not entirely sure who I really 'ship for in this, probably Swallow/The Man rather than Swallow/Amos, but that's quite sweet, really...  Anyway, that all leads right into ( A Kiss Is A Terrible Thing To Waste )

Then it's sort of the same thing, with this as one of the other verses from the Man: "If you listen in the night/You can hear your plans fall through/One more fight you'll never win/One more dream that won't come true."  And then there's this short bit from Candy, ( Off-Ramp Exit to Paradise )

I love re-discovering lyrics. :)

This was pointless.  Sorry.  I promise to start making more constructive entries, if the heat dies down enough for my brain to function beyond "ooo, pretty"...

Yes, indeed.  And you can also blame queenc2346 for doing another one in her state of boredom.  A nice round hundred under the cut because the playlist is enormous (like, 477 songs, minus random repeats and reprises) now I've added things, and there are bound to be some repeats from last time...  More musicals now, more of everything else, and some completely random.  I put this here for those bored, procrastinating, or both.  Good luck, my pretties.

( Go, go, go! )

That's the first half done. May do more at about midnight since I'll probably still be up.  Off you go, then... :)

On your current playlist, hit shuffle and pick the first twenty songs on the list (no matter how cheesy or embarrassing), and write down your favourite line of the song. Try to avoid putting the song title in the line. Then have your friends comment and see if they know the songs.

(Though I warn you, there isn't much variety since I've only got stuff I've been copying/listening to addictively, and Winamp sucks at randomising... and my favourite lines tend to be entire verses, so... yeah.  Also? There's more than 20. I like this meme and hereby decree it a random quiz open to all. :D)

1. My black cab rolls through the neon disease.
2. You know I'm hung up on you; easy to give in.  (One for Eni, there...)
3. How 'bout unabashedly bawling your eyes out?  How 'bout not equating death with stopping?
4. I thought make-believe was truer than life, but now it's all confusion.
5. Love come quickly, because I don't think I can keep this monster in.
6. Wearing smells from laboratories, facing a dying nation. (Another one for Eni...)
7. Look, here she comes, now.  Bow down and stare in wonder.
8. Acting like a mover shaker dancing to Madonna, then you kissed me.
9. We had nothing, nothing to lose, but the best days of our lives are gone so soon. (I don't expect anyone to get this... And no, it's not Summer of '69.)
10. Feeling like I'm outside in the rain. (If nobody gets this, I shall be ashamed of you. :P)
11. Oh, I'm soft in the middle, still hurtin' a little.
12. It's just that everywhere I go, all the buildings know your name, like photographs and memories of love.
13. That I would be loved, even when I numb myself.
14. Your voice, it chased away all the sanity in me.
15. But I think more than I ought to think, I do things I never should do.
16. I know I can stop the pain if I will it all away.
17. Forgive me if I seem to be impatient and obscene.
18. Aim for the burning sun you're trapped inside.
19. I love you when you dance.
20. I miss the mess he made of my head when we fought.
21. It's said that you're the kind to run and hide, yeah.
22. I lived like a wild and lonely soul, lost in a dream beyond control
23. I've done a lot.  God knows, I've tried to find the truth - I've even lied.  (And if nobody gets that, again, I'll be ashamed of you.)
24. I dream one day I'll find the one who lives inside my mind, and they'll feel the same way, too - we've all been used.
25. We stole the songs from birds in trees
26. And Flash Gordon was there in silver underwear (Don't disappoint me, people.)
27. By the light of the night, it'll all seem all right - I'll get you a Satanic mechanic (So. Not. Random...)
28. They recommended counselling, but I don't need to talk.
29. Another bruise to try and hide, another alibi to write.
30. I believe in you.  I'll give up everything just to find you.
31. I wonder is it wrong to feel so right?
32. Subway makes me nervous, people pushing me too far.
33. I'm the lie living for you so you can hide.
34. A saxophone was blowing on a rock and roll show.
35. Watching me, wanting me, I can feel you pull me down.
36. It's about being able to fly. It's about dying nine times.
37. Sometimes sanity takes vacation time on me.
38. Not tormented daily, defeated by you.
39. Are you still mad I had an emotional affair?
40. And if I say how I feel again, is it wise to do it?

Okay, okay, I'm done.

Let the guesses commence!  Go on, you know you want to!

Answer provided in a few days when I get bored...