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Why does David Sylvian have to rock my musical universe so hard, anyway? This is the second day I've felt like listening to Secrets of the Beehive, and now the Song of the Weekend is beckoning for me to double click on it and sit back and listen. I'll tell you what song's stuck in my head at the moment -- "Orpheus". "Standing firm on this stony ground/The wind blows hard, pulls these clothes around/I harbor all the same worries as most/The temptations to leave or to give up the ghost/I wrestle with an outlook on life/That shifts between darkness and shadowy light/I struggle with words for fear that they'll hear/But Orpheus sleeps on his back still dead to the world...."

In other thoughts... my eyes are so tired and irritated. I feel like I'm in some kind of dream world. My feet are tired. I don't know about this whole driving thing. But my bank account's where I want it to be, I've achieved happiness on the friendship front, I think I'm actually starting to become confident about my singing ability (it's not spectacular, but I'm satisfied), and I can hear well enough to listen to the music I love. Happiness. :)

― Just Deanna (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 28 August 2003 00:30 (twenty years ago) link

What thread was it that had that thing with moving your foot and drawing a six? Anyway, from Mark Evanier's blog, his neuroscience grad student friend hazards a guess as to the what-the-hell:

I think it is due to an area of the brain, close to the primary cortex (the pre-motor area, and the supplementary motor area), which works in part to excite the motor neurons responsible for moving both upper and lower extremities, at the same time. This area is usually responsible for designing and beginning to execute specific movements of different body parts. However, since it may act to design movements of both upper and lower extremities, it could be that it will be in conflict when you are trying to move your hand in one direction, and the foot in another. With long practice, and usually it works best earlier in life, these neurons in the primary cortex will eventually learn to divide the operation of the extremities into different parts such that it can be easier to move them completely separately.

I thought that was pretty keen.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 28 August 2003 03:07 (twenty years ago) link

With long practice, and usually it works best earlier in life,

This is why I curse the fucker who told 11 year-old me I shouldn't play the drums. I would've been playing for 14 years now!

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 28 August 2003 03:11 (twenty years ago) link

i wonder what jel did to provoke the upthread day making and ruining

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 28 August 2003 04:14 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.ocean-beach.com/images/fi_ligh22.JPG

― animal wrangler (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 28 August 2003 04:40 (twenty years ago) link

Why am I still arguing on the 10 Commandments thread?
-- Dan Perry (djperr...), August 27th, 2003.
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You're just a stubborn as me, and everyone else who posts in that thread...

― The Man they call Dan (The Man they call Dan), Thursday, 28 August 2003 05:07 (twenty years ago) link

I'm thinking of the vocals I added to an 8-track song this morning. They're inspiring.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Thursday, 28 August 2003 12:54 (twenty years ago) link

Are the yanks up yet? The boards are very quiet. Ooh, there's McLusty - hopefully things are going to pick up.

Maybe I should become an estate agent?

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 28 August 2003 12:58 (twenty years ago) link

I'm actually thinking, "Does pace mean something in Latin? I've often seen it written in italics as part of an English sentence, but I've no idea what it means. Maybe one of those clever ppl on ilx will be able to tell me."

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 28 August 2003 13:06 (twenty years ago) link

Are the yanks up yet?

I refer you to this thread....

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 28 August 2003 13:07 (twenty years ago) link

I'll bet a nickel pace means "peace" or something close to it, but don't take my word for it. I just sleep with a classicist, I haven't managed to actually absorb her brain.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 28 August 2003 13:16 (twenty years ago) link

(That sounded odd, can I change my disclaimer to "that's an educated guess"?)

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 28 August 2003 13:16 (twenty years ago) link

"pace" means peace in Italian, but that's pax in Latin, isn't it?

(x-post)

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 28 August 2003 13:16 (twenty years ago) link

Viz. the motto on the book held by the lion on the flag of Venice: Pax tibi Marce, evangelista meus ("peace be with you, Mark, my evangelist")

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 28 August 2003 13:18 (twenty years ago) link

That's why I'm not sure if it's actually peace or just something close -- but there's that whole declension thing, too. (Like, couldn't it be pax for the whoosamagollie and pace for the whatchamagumbie?)

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 28 August 2003 13:18 (twenty years ago) link

With the permission of; with deference to. Used to express polite or ironically polite disagreement: I have not, pace my detractors, entered into any secret negotiations.

Latin pace, ablative of pax, peace.

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 28 August 2003 13:21 (twenty years ago) link

..cheers Mark C.

and *that* thought was inspired by the fact we have a journal which we call PACE for short - it's really called Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 28 August 2003 13:25 (twenty years ago) link

The subway she is a porno.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 28 August 2003 13:31 (twenty years ago) link

this sigur ros song sounds like pink floyd.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 28 August 2003 13:45 (twenty years ago) link

How many days to September 10th? ...Oh, thirteen.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 28 August 2003 14:22 (twenty years ago) link

hmmmmmmmm.
urmmmmm.
gurgle

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 28 August 2003 16:33 (twenty years ago) link

One fine day
You'll look at me
And you will know our love was
Meant to be
One fine day
You're gonna want me for your girl
The arms I long for
Will open wide
And you'll be proud to have me
By your side
One fine day
You're gonna want me for your girl
Though I know you're the
Kind of boy
Who only wants to run around
I'll keep waiting and
Someday darling
You'll come to me when you want to settle down oh
One fine day
We'll meet once more
And then you'll want the love you
Threw away before
One fine day
You're gonna want me for your girl
One fine day
We'll meet once more
And then you'll want the love you
Threw away before
One fine day
You're gonna want me
One fine day
You're gonna want me

One fine day
You're gonna want me for your girl

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 28 August 2003 16:39 (twenty years ago) link

How much can I get a cheap laptop for?
Does anyone have a crush on me?
Can I finish this last mouthfull of cheesecake?
Who do I want to fuck?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 28 August 2003 16:40 (twenty years ago) link

How much can I get a cheap crush to fuck this last mouthful of cheesecake for?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 28 August 2003 17:17 (twenty years ago) link

I'm thinking thank goodness for coffee and Talking Heads otherwise I'd (still) be asleep at my desk.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 28 August 2003 17:19 (twenty years ago) link

How much can I get a cheap crush to fuck this last mouthful of cheesecake for?

Less than you'd think.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 28 August 2003 17:24 (twenty years ago) link

Fucking a mouthful of cheesecake sounds like a recipe for involuntary manslaughter to me.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 28 August 2003 17:27 (twenty years ago) link

Does the mouthful have to be in the mouth to be a mouthful? < /philsophizer dude>

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 28 August 2003 17:31 (twenty years ago) link

i am leaving
i am leaving
but the fighter still remains.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 28 August 2003 17:32 (twenty years ago) link

I'm wondering if my friends consider me as close a friend as I consider them and it's making me down.

― Sarah MCLUsky (coco), Thursday, 28 August 2003 17:36 (twenty years ago) link

cheesecake blowjobs sound like an interesting way to go about snowballing.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 28 August 2003 17:42 (twenty years ago) link

i fucking hate writing deeds!!!!!!!! begin at an iron pin, blah, blah, oak tree, blah, blah, ARRRRRRRRGGHHHHH!!!!!!northline of buck creek towards godby property, blah blah. i am going to puke!

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Thursday, 28 August 2003 17:48 (twenty years ago) link

You should move somewhere with lots of subdivisions, so all your legal descriptions can be simply like so:
Section 2, Block F, Lot 12 of Meadowlake

We have a farm listed now and they decided to make the legal desc. the tax map # which is very nice considering the meets & bounds (is that what they're called?) would have to describe 144 acres!

But, what I was thinking before I read that was:

1 hour 59 minutes. Not so much. Less than 2 hours, right?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 28 August 2003 18:01 (twenty years ago) link

I'd try to develop a crush on you, Nick, but you are following Luna quoting the lyrics of a song I really adore, so my attention is too distracted.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 28 August 2003 19:10 (twenty years ago) link

"The Boxer" is in my head now. I love that line Chris V posted.

lai la lai, lai la la-la lai la lai, lai la lai...how would you spell that? Maybe "lye" would be better.

Sometimes I feel like my life is going at a completely different speed than everyone else's. Well, most of the time.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 28 August 2003 19:12 (twenty years ago) link

Fucking a mouthful of cheesecake sounds like a recipe for involuntary manslaughter to me.

Surely it depends on the level of mastication?

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 29 August 2003 09:43 (twenty years ago) link

"I couldn't help it, officer, s/he choked!"

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 29 August 2003 22:17 (twenty years ago) link

sure, sure.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 29 August 2003 22:33 (twenty years ago) link

Suddenly I feel like listening to U2 now. One of their 1987 singles, in fact. Hmmm. I have the 1980-1990 best-of. I wonder if it'd be possible for me to get away with playing it at a very high volume. Probably not. Hmmm. I wonder how much Vicodin I can scrounge up. Ick, no, bad idea, bad idea. I can see now the benefits of getting drunk. I wish I could just go downstairs, raid the liquor cabinet, and get unbelievably drunk. *sighs* But then again, there's always tomorrow, and what happens then? Oh God no, bad cheese rock on VH1 Classic. "Hair metal" -- please, spare me. When is life going to start getting easier? Or does it? Does it just get more and more difficult with each passing year? Because if it does, I want to know, so I can try to become stony and rough on the inside. *pauses for a long time to mull over various things* I need someone to talk to.

― Just Deanna (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 30 August 2003 00:39 (twenty years ago) link

Welcome to my shit list.

[what i am actually thinking right now. this is not a response to any post here and has nothing to do with ILE]

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 30 August 2003 00:42 (twenty years ago) link

Isn't Nina Simone great?

― Matt (Matt), Saturday, 30 August 2003 00:47 (twenty years ago) link

I'm thinkiing you're all a bunch of gay fags. That would make you straight. And cool. Double negatives (not that "gay" is "negative" or anything, but it's a usage term for reference sake.) I'm a straight straight-o (that makes me a gay loser-- see how it works?)

― Scaredy Cat, Saturday, 30 August 2003 00:47 (twenty years ago) link

I want to say something but I can't. I desperately want to say something but I can't. Or I won't. Whichever. I wish I could cheer someone up like I normally can but I'm just not feeling it inside. I just don't feel up to it. I NEED MY OWN PERSONAL ROCK OF GIBRALTAR NOW, DAMN IT. PLEASE recognize this. I am hungry for support. I am hungry for inner food. I need like I've never needed before.

― Just Deanna (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 30 August 2003 04:02 (twenty years ago) link

I need a bath

― rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 30 August 2003 04:12 (twenty years ago) link

(a ups outfit???? swoon)

― rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 30 August 2003 04:14 (twenty years ago) link

I need to set the VCR

― rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 30 August 2003 04:15 (twenty years ago) link

I'm thinking "How come I'm not more camp?"

And now I'm thinking Rosemary and I have the same taste in sexy outfits.

― Ding Dongs in Motion (Arthur), Saturday, 30 August 2003 04:15 (twenty years ago) link

Hurrah for finding that Rock of Gibraltar in the middle of the vast desert-like wasteland that humanity can sometimes be. Hurrah for friends who will talk through stuff with you, who know things that you will find helpful, who know things about Life in General. I can breathe normally again. And I know it's going to take awhile, but I will make it through this or at least make a dedicated effort to. *slightly relieved sighs* I need to pray now, though. Pray and then go to bed. Should I bother with away messages? I don't know. Hm.

― Just Deanna (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 30 August 2003 06:01 (twenty years ago) link

I am thinking: ILE is only for people who think exactly like its most vocal posters. If you disagree, or have a different style, then you are attacked. Why even have threads if no one is supposed to answer them? Why not just make ILX a private club that screens new members, and doesn't welcome lurkers who post (oh we don't mind that you've been here but don't *say* anything). Why not just take it private since it seems to have a problem with anyone who has a different opinion?
Why even be a public forum?

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 30 August 2003 17:53 (twenty years ago) link

i want to eat more of my housemate's quiche. her quichey goodness is so tastey.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 30 August 2003 19:00 (twenty years ago) link

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