I'm taking a bit of a break from livejournal. I hardly update here anymore and the only real reason I have for using LJ at all is to read my friendslist. I'll still be reading it, but I did a cut of everyone I haven't spoken to in a long time or who doesn't update, and anyone I couldn't remember why we were friends in the first place, so it's scaled down. Everyone that's still here, I read your journals with interest. If however you want to defriend me because I won't be posting regularly anymore, I quite understand. (I'm not really bothered about friending one way or another...)

So, sorry. I might come back after a while. Hey, I'm still on facebook.

Current Location: my room
Current Mood: bored
Current Music: Massive Attack - Exchange

I am home. I feel like I should blog more. Maybe I will write a more serious post later but for now it is all about the stupid memes.

( These things are so laaaaaaaame )

Home must really be boring if I just did 100 stupid meme questions just to amuse myself.

Tags: memes
Current Mood: complacent
Current Music: Sebastien Tellier - La Ritournelle

I have just achieved the greatest accomplishment of my life: every single one of my 3,850 songs in iTunes has an album name. I have spent days filling them all in using track listings from Wikipedia and Amazon, and it is done. I am the winner. To celebrate, here is an iTunes meme about shuffle telling me things (with all of the album names just in case you care):

1. What is my mood right now? Neutral Milk Hotel, "Holland, 1945" (from In the Aeroplane Over the Sea).
2. What is tomorrow going to be like? Cake, "Short Skirt, Long Jacket" (from Comfort Eagle). I do actually need to go to the bank so obviously I will borrow a pen from someone there and then fall in love with them.
3. Am I loved right now? New Order, "Vicious Streak" (from Get Ready).
4. What do people think of me today? Elvis Costello, "(What's so Funny About) Peace, Love and Understanding?" (from The Very Best of Elvis Costello).
5. What will my week be like? Nickel Creek, "When in Rome" (from Why Should the Fire Die). This is appropriate as I am going to America on Saturday and will be expected to act like other Americans I suppose.
6. Love horoscope of the week? Barenaked Ladies, "Alcohol" (from Stunt). I'm not too unhappy with that.
7. Where will I be a year from today? Pixies, "Dead" (from Doolittle) WHAT
8. What is the love of my life doing right now? Ben Folds Five, "The Battle of Who Could Care Less" (from Whatever and Ever Amen). If the as-of-yet unseen love of my life is a wry indictment of hipster culture I guess that's okay.
9. What will be the best part of this week? Andrew Bird, "The Naming of Things" (from The Mysterious Production of Eggs). Good, I enjoy naming things. I wonder what I will name.
10. Bonus Question: Dinner - thoughts? Justin Timberlake, "SexyBack" (from Future Sex/Love Sounds). Maybe me and Tom Paul will have dinner together!

Tags: memes, music
Current Mood: happy
Current Music: Justin Timberlake - SexyBack

I'm in the library twenty minutes before it closes which is to be honest one of my favourite places/times to be. Ideally I'd be writing my 2000-word classical art essay that's due for Monday but I can't seem to get into it; I'll have to do it tomorrow. If only any of the books were available...annoying. I like the third floor next to the computer lab best. I should just move in. Would anyone notice? It's dark outside which is also nice...if these windows could open, I'd have to say I was in utopia.

I've gotten to the point where I could call the time when I was going home "soon," 24 March to be precise. I was thinking about America today, mostly in relation to the weather but also in relation to the idea of cars and outdoor barbeques and "big" houses that aren't attached to their neighbours. And lakes with boats on them, as if I lived near any lakes at all.

Current Location: 3rd floor
Current Music: Ben Folds Five - Brick (live)

In honour of yesterday (one of my favourite holidays in fact) here is a song for you.

Scissor Sisters - Might Tell You Tonight

I've been waiting for the day
Where I can throw away these numbers
That line my dresser drawers and cupboards
Start me over; life seems so much slower
With your toothbrush by the mirror
Can I make it any clearer?

Current Mood: calm

1. What's the first book you remember reading that didn't have pictures? How did you discover it?: I'm pretty sure it was Emily Post's Etiquette (the Elizabeth Post revised edition from the 1960s) which I'm sure I picked up because I liked the way it looked (i.e. old, with nice-smelling pages and embossed titles).

2. What's the last book you re-read?: The Alchemist because I hadn't read it in a long time and got given it for Christmas. It was a lot more interesting than I remembered.

3. Name a book in your Amazon cart or wishlist (or the equivalent) and tell us why you want it.: Umm I don't think I have an amazon wishlist, but I'd quite like to get another copy of the Qu'ran because I lost mine in Bedlam...I also need to find a good book about pattern drafting so I can make my Bedlam Ball dress next month.

4. Do you choose books by author or by subject/topic?: Both...but it would probably be better to say I generally choose books based on reputation and recommendation.

5. List three classics you read in school and whether you liked them at the time and what you think about the experience in retrospect: The issue here is that by the time we started reading "classics" in school I was only a few years younger than I am now, so my experience hasn't changed much in retrospect. However, three classics that we read that I liked and continue to like are Hamlet, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead although I suppose in retrospect I like that even more now that I have seen it on stage directed by mattwieteska. I realise two of those are plays and not books, what can I say, AP English Lit was just set out that way.

6. What book do you have in your bag or on your bedside table now?: Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and Jane Martin's Collected Plays 1980-1995.

7. A) If you mostly read for pleasure, name a non-fiction book you think everyone would appreciate.- or -
B) If you mostly read for academic/intellectual reasons, name a pure-entertainment book you think everyone would appreciate: I mostly read for pleasure I would say. If there were one non-fiction book that I reckon everyone would appreciate it is probably Ways of Seeing by John Berger...although it's not the most useful art theory book out there it is the most accessible and interesting to the layman.

Now I must write an "internet discussion forum" post about the Kinsey Report...should be fun!

Tags: books, memes
Current Mood: content
Current Music: Sufjan Stevens - Vito's Ordination

Oh my goddddd why do I feel like I am going to die right now...this is ridiculous. I barely drank anything last night...well that's not true but it was NOT enough to give me a headache of this magnitude. Here is a beakdown so you can see for yourself:

8pm: One beer with dinner.
10:30pm: One gin and cranberry whilst at Alexander's.
11:30pm-1am: Two beers (Stella)
1:30am onwards: Half of a fairly weak gin and tonic which I ended up diluting with water because I don't like gin and tonic.

Over a period of like five hours, that's NOTHING. And yet it feels like someone has taken a jackhammer to my forehead. All I can do now is go outside and pray for no sudden noises or flashes of light.

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Catatonia - Mulder And Scully

THINGS I LOVE RIGHT NOW:

1. My job: getting paid for long shifts where I do a few hours of actual work and six or seven hours of sitting around, free taxis home, a much-needed influx of testosterone to counteract all of the feminine in my life right now, getting to run around "behind the scenes" and pretend I'm important because I have an ID badge which says DJ on it.

2. My university schedule: solid, busy days on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday, a three day weekend, and a Monday that allows me to ease back into the week as classes don't start until 2.

3. My play: nine amazing actresses who show up to rehearsals, learn their lines without me asking, give amazing performances and insights into their character, and constantly astonish me with their enthusiasm.

4. My lecturers: Jill Burke just finished a lecture series that made me ACTUALLY excited about the Renaissance which I have never been before, Peter Rimmer leads one of the most fun and talkative tutorials I've ever been in, I have gone to every single American History lecture so far.

THINGS I HATE RIGHT NOW:

1. 99% of my classmates: The vast majority of history of art students are too loud, rude about the course, unintelligent, uninteresting, and basically silly little rich girls who would rather strangle themselves with their pashminas than do any actual work or have any insight into their course. There are a few exceptions.

2. My love life: Nonexistant and likely to stay that way.

3. The Flat Company: annoying and they CAN'T FUCKING SPELL in their letters to us. Making us consider moving even though we'd agreed we'd all like to stay in this flat.

I'm doing Big Cheese tonight...will have to do some actual work rather than easy society discos. Hooray, sort of.

Tags: lists
Current Mood: refreshed
Current Music: Hot Hot Heat - Bandages

I had a dream last night that one of my teeth (the front right one) fell out while I was walking around Edinburgh. I put it into a napkin and tried to get back to Bedlam so I could look up a dentist who could maybe fix it but I never got there for some reason- ended up in Tollcross instead, trying not to open my mouth so that no one could see.

Which is interesting because I used to have body-coming-apart dreams constantly, things like my fingernails just coming loose and melting away, my hair falling out, my eyes disintegrating, or (most vividly) someone pushing the wrong way on my joints so that they just snapped off, like hinges. But I hadn't had any since coming to university which I assume says something about my body confidence etc. This one was different than the old dreams, though, because of the sense of shame throughout, the sense that I absolutely could not let anyone see I didn't have one of my two front teeth, as then they wouldn't respect me.

Current Mood: confused
Current Music: John Prine - Saddle In The Rain

The older I get the more I realise how amazing the Rolling Stones are.

Tags: music
Current Mood: weird
Current Music: You Can't Always Get What You Want

I feel the need to write SOMETHING. So.

( 2006, I don't really expect you to read this )

Tags: memes
Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Radiohead - How To Disappear Completely

It's like for the first time I might potentially have to think about being, in some vague way, amongst some extremely small section of the overall population, for a completely unfathomable reason...popular. It's a far cry from school, I think, but there you go.

Current Mood: happy

( thing that Claire, Evil, Ruth and Alex did )

I am toying with the idea of buying a PS2 for the flat. I am going to go read Common Sense now.

Tags: memes
Current Mood: crazy
Current Music: Frou Frou - Hear Me Out

( hey look music soundtrack meme thingy under here )

It would be interesting to do that again, but entirely with songs I think would be appropriate for each category. I like to take fate into my own hands after all.

FACT: All I think about right now are kitchens. This is true. Yesterday I gathered a washing machine, dining room table, cooker, and various other kitchen accoutrements. That completes my units search (I think) but that is not enough. Still need more kitchen stuff. Here is a poem I composed about kitchens.

O Kitchens
I adore you
It is a love/hate relationship

Oven

Kitchens

Tags: memes, music, theatre
Current Mood: contemplative