Ummmm yeah.



I got to see Huun-Huur-Tu in concert Wednesday night.

It was pretty mindblowing.



And why do they call them "suckers"? Wouldn't you the people who profit off the gullible people the suckers, since they like, suck the various profits away from them?


And ummmm. I kinda am getting into Japanese Street fashion, as my own wardrobe gets duller and duller, since I don't got much money for clothes. Pretty much all I wear these days is like, white blouses, black shirts and some kinda jacket. Usually my field school hoodie, which is, for the record, super sweet.


I joined my colleges' Quidditch Club. YEAH REALLY.


I kinda need a job.


HELLO TO ALL!

It's like, four in the morning.

And I have a sloth that needs a name.



Any ideas?

The other night I had a dream. I was in a science museum in Detroit, waiting with my brother and sister to meet up with the people who would take these rides on these carts that would go really fast, and also defy gravity. I wasn't exactly looking forward to it, since I am not a fan of heights, going really fast, and having to hang on to someone for dear life, since these things didn't have rails or seats or anything.
So after waiting, and after my brother and sister had already left, I am greeted by Stéphane Grappelli, who was assigned to take me on these rides. I'm excited, since it's Stéphane Grappelli, who is the most awesome jazz violinist who has ever lived, and he worked closely with Django Reinhardt, who is the most awesome guitarist period who has ever lived, and together they formed the Hot Club Quintet of Paris and made music that's basically what heaven sounds like. We chat, he's very friendly and an incredibly nice guy, we talk about dinosaurs and Detroit and Django for a bit before we head off. We go past the club in Detroit where I once saw Gogol Bordello (which I mention to him, since they got an awesome fiddler) and also where I once gave a buck to a homeless dude who recited poetry to me and hit the road.
We ran through this race track all over the place, at incredible speeds and even upside down, and I didn't even have anywhere to sit, I had to hold on to Stéphane. I knew that otherwise I would be terrified, but I trusted him, so it was okay. I had fun.
After we came back, I thanked him, and he said that it was a pleasure to meet me, and that I should keep practicing violin. Then I woke up.
 
I don't play violin. Never have. I want to someday, since most of my favorite music abuses that instrument. But now that I've got my subconscious and probably the spirit of one of my favorite dead violinists or something telling me to go for it, I might have to put that on a higher priority.

Things that need to exist:

1. STAR TREK LEGO. C'mon Lego. There's a big money making movie with lots of fun shiny ships and fun exciting sets that you needa cash in on here. You can't lose this license to Mega Bloks again people. THE PEOPLE DEMAND IT. (By which I mean me, but whatevah.) Oh, and a Lego: Star Trek game would be sweet too. Go through all the series? Hell yeah!

2. Really stereotypical and gawd awful Fallout 2 Male!Chosen One/Davin yaoi. Okay, so sure he's a hick guy that you're forced to marry at shotgun point because it's hilarious, and sure, he's entirely useless, and useless with a greater number of weapons than his sister (who you can also marry at gunpoint), but since when has a little thing like being OOC stopped fangirls from getting their boylove on?
Though really, what I'd like even more would be a Fallout fandom with a goddamn sense of humor. Gaaaaawwd, if you're going to declare a game company to be THE DEVIL, Bethesda ain't quite what you're looking for. Maybe EA? Or the douches responsible for Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel? (Which failed since, yeah, absolutely terrible games don't sell very well.) Or Interplay, honestly, for the whole dissolving Black Isle thing.

I'M SORRY, I COULDN'T HEAR WHAT YOU SAID OVER MY ROCKIN' AIR BANJO.

ALSO: STAR TREK WAS HELLA AWESOME AND I LOVE IT TO DEATH, DESPITE THE DISTINCT LACK OF BANJOS IT INVOLVED. BUT IT DID HAVE VULCAN GETTIN' FUNKY FOR ABOUT HALF A SECOND DURING A TRANSITION TO SOMEWHERE MORE FUNKY BUT LESS VULCAN, SO THAT'S ALL GOOD.
AT SOME POINT I MAY EXPRESS MY THOUGHTS ON IT IN REALLY CRUDE SKETCHES. MAYBE.
 

HERE IS THE PROOF

SHE IS SUPER PRETTY

YAAAY

In case you wanted to know what New Years was like for me. It was exactly like this song. EXACTLY.

Pretty much consisted of me avoiding going to some church party because I wasn't in the mood to be asked a ton of questions about college and I wanted to avoid an evening of pre-packaged answers to satiate the curiosity of people I don't care about, and people who don't care about my answer.

Then we couldn't get anyone over except my sister's boyfriend, but it was arright. We watched that crazy Dick Clark thing for about five minutes and felt once again, disappointed, since the ball dropping didn't, erm, happen. At exactly midnight, they showed the ball, and then the Jonas Brothers hugging or something. I dunno. Then my sister's boyfriend decided to play Auld Lane Syne on the guitar, and we all sang along in extremely silly Scottish accents. Then we attempted to find other New Years songs that we could play, but none of them worked quite as well.
Mostly because the only one we could think of was by Death Cab For Cutie, which none of us liked. Also because it wasn't as easy to play on guitar, and not as easy to sing in outrageous Scottish accents.

So all in all, it was pretty good.


As for the year itself? I had a fine time. Went to college an' all. Made lots of new friends. Learned how to play Mafia. Did lots of stuff. Lost NaNoWriMo. Got really sick of the election very quickly. Didn't watch the Olympics as much as I was paying attention to the craziness in China that resulted from it. Directed A.C.T.O.R.S, kinda sorta and also wrote a bunch of scripts for it. Assistant directed the single worst improv troupe in the Lansing area that has ever existed. Got into Avatar: the Last Airbender. Facepalmed about a million times every time I thought about how the government's basically not even trying not to look like a scam anymore. Voted for some proposals that all won but didn't vote for President because I didn't want anything to do with that nonsense. Determined how Canadian people in Stratford were going to vote based on their yards. This was a fairly good year for Bionicle, but not for me being able to finacially support my plastic addiction. Had two movies based on comic books in one year that didn't fill me with mass amounts of NERD RAGE. Some other stuff I can't remember.

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Grab the nearest book.
Open the book to page 56.
Go to the third paragraph.
Find the fifth sentence.

Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

The closest book to me is More Information Than You Require, by John Hodgman.

It does not have a page 56. It begins at page 234. Exactly where the last book left off. EXACTLY.

Um, the 56th page from the beginning of the volume is page 290. Which reads as follows.



Then the president threw open the window and screamed at a passing child, ordering him to buy a goose.
 

farfallakiyah originally posted this charming meme that I elected to take. I'm always up for letters and things that I like. 



Comment and I'll give you a letter.
Then you have to list ten things you LOVE that begin with that letter.
Afterward, post this in your journal and give out some letters of your own.

Guess which one I had!

1. Morrowind. When it all comes down to it, this is pretty much my favorite game of all time. I love it to death, mostly for the reason listed below. But also because it's got an amazing setting and because I like games where I can just screw around, do my own thing and make up three-quarters of the story for myself.

2. Mods. I love games that can be modded, and I love finding awesome new user-created content for the games I like, but have played the ever-lovin' crap out of.

3. Mystery Science Theater 3000. It's pretty much one of my favorite television shows ever. It makes me laugh on a consistent basis. That's really all I need from my television AND NOTHING ELSE. It's absurd how many comedy shows I like and how few non-comedic shows I like. Ah well. I suppose that's life for ya'.

4. Monty Python's Flying Circus. This is one of the things I was raised off of. While other children were off whatever it was that they were watching, I was watching PBS and Monty Python. So much Monty Python.

5. Mulan. Another thing that I was raised on. I seriously watched this about fifty times when it first came out when I was a kid. It's basically responsible for my raging addiction to Chinese history, probably my tendency towards wearing classy masculine clothes and the fact that, the instant I learned about Confucianism, it all seemed eeriely familiar. Then recently I watched Mulan again for the first time in a while and I was like "Whoaaaaaah. There is a reason that I thought that Confucianism was waaaay familiar."

6. Music. I don't think there are all that many people in the world who honestly don't like any music. It's as fine an artform as they come. So um, what else do I have to explain about this?

7. Mars. If there is a mission to Mars, even if it's gotdamn boring (which they usually are, since they always end with the mission failing in a very dull way except when they don't), then I am probably following it. If anyone at all gets their act together within my lifetime and actually gets a colonization effort that has a chance of working, then I intend to sign up. Like, fo' real. Mars isn't my favorite planet, however. (Though I love it as I love all planets everywhere, which is to say, quite a bit.) My favorite planets are Jupiter and Eris.

8. Michigan. Let's be honest. It's a pretty shitty state. However, it's actually got fairly decent weather, when you think about it. I mean, it's actually got real seasons. Falls here are the best thing evarrrr. And most importantly, it's got the largest congregation of my friends in the world. I know that I'd be able to find new friends anywhere, yeah, but I still love the folks I know here to death.

9. Museums. They're a fun way to spend a bunch of time hanging out and larnin' thangz about how to appreciate the world around you, whether it's an art, history, science or WTF museum.

10. Marvel Comics. Marvel > DC. I'm sorry. Take a moment to think about what both of them were doing during the Silver Age. Yeah. If you can answer this question, then you will understand why. (Namely, during the Silver Age we had Stan Lee and Jack Kirby at Marvel. During the Silver Age, we had Lois Lane comics and Superman at the height of his dickery at DC.)
However, independent comics beat both of them. And current Marvel comics kinda suck. Yeaaaaahhhhh. But modern DC comics suck for similar reasons.

Popular music continues to be a blatant parody of itself. And of everything else, ever. Most likely without most of the people involved in its creation, distribution and likely popularity realizing it. It's a bit sad that they haven't caught on, considering that it's been this way for quite a while now. But we get evidence anew!
What evidence, you may ask? This is the number one hit right now, according to Billboard. See if you recognize what song is being sampled from within like, the first second and is used as a rather ineffectual hook thereafter.


Also, he rhymes "away" with "away", like, ten times, seriously. T.I. is tha flowmastah. His rhymes be tight.

I am slightly disappointed that that fat kid was not called in to dance in this video. Apparently people would rather see Rhianna. Apparently never meeting T.I. I suspect that they recorded in entirely different rooms. I also suspect that the producers are just screwing around with us.

First. If I have even the vaguest relationship with you, please, I implore you, do not run for president. I do not want to be related to you, I do not want to be friends with you, I do not want to have anything to say about you, I do not want to be dating your sons, I do not want to be your long-lost sister. I don't even want to have the same hobbies as you, or have a last name that is vaguely similar to yours or to your favorite buzzwords. So please, if you love me at all, do not even THINK about running for President. It's not worth it. NOT AT ALL.
OH MY GOD. I DON'T EVEN WANT TO BE A STRANGER WHO TALKS TO YOU. I MIGHT GET CALLOUSLY BROUGHT UP IN A SHITTY DEBATE. I don't want to be known as Deanna the Student, or whatever I happen to be involved in doing most of the time when I decide to be a moron and ask a Presidental candidate "Hey man, what are your policies fo' real?"


Also, if we want a single man to be the one true dictator of our country's future like apparently both candidates are absolutely thrilled to do, we should just get honest with ourselves and institute a goddamn monarchy. Seriously. Oh. My. God. We're already halfway there.
Even in monarchies, if they're likely to sustain themselves after the founder dies and there inevitably are completely worthless heirs, there will be court officials and regents and such who actually do their jobs and actually know what they're doing.

1. OH MAN MY CHANCE FOR A PRODUCTIVE LIFE SPENT AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER IS OVER. I should just turn in my Not Pathetic endorsement upon my Geek Credit right now before I go down a terrible path that is MMO addiction.
Yeah, you see, I have vowed long ago that, no matter what I did, I would never get addicted to an MMO. I tend to get addicted to video games (particularly RPGs), and I tend to get addicted to the internet, so if one were to combine the two, like, A LOT, I would probably never leave the house.

AND NOW THAT KOTOR MMO THAT THERE WERE RUMORS ABOUT?

IT'S REALITY.
AUUGHHREUHIABJKAFHIOSKBJB HBBHUBVHUVJ. WHY DID YOU BETRAY ME BIOWARE?

Double points for the fact that I'll even have a prepared group of people that I already do crazy KotOR Star Wars RPing with who'll end up there, eliminating the whole "But there are obnoxious people there and I don't want to be around any of them" excuse.

2. It's criminally pretty these days. The trees are turning color like WHOA. It's awesome. Never gets old after every year. If it were a bit warmer, I'd be down with it being Autumn all the time.

That is all.