I am rediscovering my goth side in honor of Halloween and am currently basking in The March Violets, who I really should have been up on YEARS ago:
http://open.spotify.com/album/5ZgrlWIPhODOEV0kTpiuYh
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Monday, 31 October 2011 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
I have never heard of The March Violets, so I'm still further behind than you, deX.
Not that there is anything surprising in that revelation.
― Sara R-C, Monday, 31 October 2011 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
still not current with this 'spotify' the kids are talking about. mmm. i'm spending halloween in bed. figuring out the hell kinda guitars i want to make. got my halloween fix at the zombie pub crawl, i was a bumblebee (zombie)!
fretwork class is almost done and then imma have fridays off, so awesome. what else. nada. my life is school/bore/school/sleep/work/school.
UMMMMM ANYWAY WISHING U ALL HELL ON EARTH etc
― arby's, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:19 (twelve years ago) link
oh lol i did have my first experience bar hopping in HSTNGS. oh man.
― arby's, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:21 (twelve years ago) link
go on...
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 01:10 (twelve years ago) link
oh nothing much tbh, mostly a lot of feeling like we were in that scene in a bad movie where the out of towners step into the local joint and all the patrons eye them with mild suspicion. the b3irstub3 was 100% empty except for the bartender and my friend bought him shots. the night began with "wahoo we're drunk let's hit the town" and then very quickly settled into mild disappointment.
― arby's, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 01:21 (twelve years ago) link
we just watched "The Mist"
wau
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 03:37 (twelve years ago) link
bumblebee zombie = kind of brilliant sounding; bierstube = oh my, so HSTNGS (although not always in a bad way!)
deX- I am terrified to see that movie. How scary is it? Every time I re-read that story my hands sweat. And I know exactly what is going to happen.
― Sara R-C, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
We decided to watch the original 1958 version of _The Blob_, which terrified me as a child (and which I was still having nightmares about when I was in 11th grade... no joke). Guess what? It's about the least scary movie ever.
Well except the fact that Steve McQueen was supposed to be a teenage heartthrob despite the fact that he looks about 45 years old in the film.
― Sara R-C, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
There are some strong squirm moments in the middle but it's surprisingly not as gory as I expected it to be (tho there is still gore, don't get me wrong).
The ending is brutal tho
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
That story hits my fear buttons so damn hard - giant bugs/dinosaurs/spiders, things eating people alive, and a child in danger. It's scientifically designed to freak me the hell out.
― Sara R-C, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
Not sure I'm ever going to be able to watch it. Which is sort of sad, because it's one of my favorite SK stories!
ok am i now bummed that le blob is not on instant. tbh empty b3irstub3 was probably the best bar of the night bcz 1)drunkest, and 2)we talked to the bartender abt m4nk4to for a time. actually the best part was 3) KG checking her phone to see nine missed calls from her sister who had just rolled into town from chicago. she felt pretty bad, i lolled.
― arby's, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
If you have Amazon Prime you can watch _The Blob_ on instant there for free. It's not good, but it is a classic in its way... and it offers a lot of unintended lolz. (There's a line about wasting "my 80 cents" to see a movie, for instance...).
Sounds like you had fun of a sort in HSTNGS anyway...???
― Sara R-C, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
oh, yeah. we were pretty happy just to have ppl visiting, really. we downed a few bottles of wine before heading out so some uncomfortable stares from ppl who appeared to be having zero fun didn't impact our momentum too badly. just an oddly listless friday night crowd.
― arby's, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
Ah, HSTNGS... zero fun for all! Okay, for many. Glad you had some yourselves anyway. :)
― Sara R-C, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
We put our new land line phone on speaker so we could sing happy birthday to J's grandmother. We then couldn't figure out how to take it off of speaker, which led me to overhear a mammogram conversation where J's g complained about how much she hates them because of her dense tit flesh.
Ah, technology.
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Thursday, 3 November 2011 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
A+++++!
― ride the dronosaur (jjjusten), Thursday, 3 November 2011 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
i mean because it happened to you and not me
Well, that is... entertaining.
Now *really* looking forward to being 40 next year. I'm sure I will go to my first mammogram with the phrase "dense tit flesh" circling in my mind. Thank you!
― Sara R-C, Thursday, 3 November 2011 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
I came this close to changing my display name to "Grandmother! What dense tit flesh you have!"
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Thursday, 3 November 2011 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
A++++++
― Sara R-C, Thursday, 3 November 2011 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
lol my folks have decided to drive to Chicago to catch this concert
― dense macabre (DJP), Friday, 4 November 2011 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
I read that at first as "my folks have decided to move to Chicago to catch this concert" and I was VERY confused, lol
― Sara R-C, Friday, 4 November 2011 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
If they weren't I. The throes of making wine I wouldn't put it past them
― dense macabre (DJP), Friday, 4 November 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
Also I hate my phone
I love your iPhone. It brings poetry.
― Sara R-C, Friday, 4 November 2011 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
We were the BOMB tonight in Chicago (if I do say so myself)
― dense macabre (DJP), Sunday, 6 November 2011 07:32 (twelve years ago) link
So close... and yet so far. :(
― Sara R-C, Sunday, 6 November 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
Anybody alive out there?
Me: giving flu shots 24-7 it seems like... still fun! Saturday clinic (all vaccinations in the clinic, all day) is great. Except that it sounds like the Child Torture Chamber sometimes in the hallways.
― Sara R-C, Monday, 14 November 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
A group of folks went out to western MA yesterday for a really odd, poignant event; the father of a friend of ours from college has terminal cancer and has requested a bunch of music be sung at his impending memorial, so we went out to his house to rehearse it while he and his family watched. It was really touching and kind of a "makes you think" moment; here is a guy staring at the end of his life and he's decided to go out in a certain way, and we got to perform the music he wants sung at his service for him before he actually died. I'm still kind of emotional about it.
― sex-poodle Al Gore (DJP), Monday, 14 November 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
That's lovely, actually. I'm glad you got to be part of that... as tough as it sounds in some ways.
― Sara R-C, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 02:48 (twelve years ago) link
oh fyi, here's what we sang
Barber - "Agnus Dei" (choral setting of "Adagio for Strings")https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFJ4hN7vxWo&feature=related
Faure - "Cantique de Jean Racine"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twi73k_9E00&feature=related
Lauridsen - "O magnum mysterium"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xlUkpqvHWw
Brueckner - "Locus iste"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7fT9V8jEas
Bruckener - "Os justi meditabitur"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPDztmWamA0
Trad - "Deep River" (can't find our arrangement so here's the Hogan)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8p-WYUpUJ8
Bach - "Komm, Suesser Tod" (only we're doing it in German)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyZu-bkdrBY
― sex-poodle Al Gore (DJP), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
Looking forward to listening to those and also feeling like, jeez, if I were dying would I have any notion of what funeral music to even think about...!?
― Sara R-C, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
I decided years ago that I wanted the Martin Mass for Double Choir performed at my wake/funeral
first 5 tracks here:
http://open.spotify.com/album/3TAzIeZbQhi1vtNo4fCm4b
If I have to pick only one, it's the Agnus Dei:
http://open.spotify.com/track/7h0xs9OY1XQt59gKWFxToe
― sex-poodle Al Gore (DJP), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
fyi, the most beautiful moment in the piece may be the part of the "Gloria" starting around 2:58
― sex-poodle Al Gore (DJP), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
i would like the soundtrack to my funeral to be the screams of my enemies as they are pushed into the gaping maw of my open grave
― Princess Nancy (jjjusten), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
barring that "Independent Women" by Destinys child i guess
― Princess Nancy (jjjusten), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
it's always Ligeti with you
― sex-poodle Al Gore (DJP), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
I love you guys <3 <3 <3
― Sara R-C, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
Going to the dentist, so my funeral may be sooner than we think. (god I freaking hate dentists)
― Sara R-C, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
well then the dentists funeral may be sooner than we think is what you mean
― Princess Nancy (jjjusten), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
misread that as "god I hate freaking dentists" and was about to be all "well I'm sure if you stopped freak-dancing with them they would be more professional" ;_;
― sex-poodle Al Gore (DJP), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know what that even is, but I'm sure it would be more enjoyable than having my teeth scraped at for decades or however long I sat there...
― Sara R-C, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
http://mybuddhanature.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/freakdancing1.jpg
― sex-poodle Al Gore (DJP), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ ha ha that would never happen with a DENTIST. They are the antisexy.
― Sara R-C, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
man, hanging out with TOMBOT until 2 AM is exhausting
― Much Ado About Nuttin (DJP), Thursday, 17 November 2011 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
i wanna do that
― janskin graft (jjjusten), Thursday, 17 November 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
by the time I met up with him (~11:00 PM) he had a 5 beer head start on me
― Much Ado About Nuttin (DJP), Thursday, 17 November 2011 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
and I couldn't catch up because I eventually had to drive