Dressed Embarrassment

"I dig music"

2008-07-09T03:07:43Z

Step 1: Arrange your library by Artist.
Step 2: Starting at the top of your library, hit each letter of the alphabet and write down the first song by the first artist whose name starts with that letter.
Step 3: Post all 26 songs to your LJ - no matter how embarrassing or revealing!

(stolen from eclectictastes; you always have good boredom-killing things :)

A: A-ha "Take on Me" (lol, great minds think alike)
B: The Bangles "Walk Like an Egyptian"
C: Camera Obscura "Lloyd, I'm Ready to be Heartbroken"
D: Damien Rice "Delicate"
E: Echo & the Bunnymen "Rescue"
F: Francois Couperin "Les Barricades Mysterious"
G: Gang of Four "Natural's Not in It"
H: Hem "Half Acre"
I: Imogen Heap "Headlock"
J: Jaime Wyatt "Light Switch"
K: Keane "Somewhere Only We Know"
L: The Last Shadow Puppets "Age of the Understatement"
M: Mando Diao "God Knows"
N: New Order "Ceremony"
O: Oasis "Married With Children"
P: Peter Bjorn & John "Amsterdam"
Q: No Q bands!
R: The Radio Dept. "Pulling Our Weight"
S: Sarah McLachlan "Fallen" (hm..that one's a bit embarrassing)
T: Talkdemonic "Mountaintops in Caves"
U: U2 "Beautiful Day"
V: Vampire Weekend "Mansard Roof"
W: Walking Concert "Audrey"
X: No X bands either! I need to go out and find some.
Y: Yael Naim "New Soul"
Z: No Z bands. Wow I suck.

I feel...I feel woozy..

2008-06-27T05:23:25Z

This just makes me laugh...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln_ZQxZ4YLM&NR=1

hmmmm...

2008-06-23T08:05:34Z

There is a new trailer for The Disappeared... It is better than the last one I suppose. They still need to like...not give away the entire film in a three-minute period. hm.

http://www.losttribeproductions.co.uk/index.php/eng/Completed-Films/Feature-Films/Teaser-trailer

that's hot.

2008-06-17T04:06:30Z

(thoughts)

2008-06-11T02:53:04Z

I am not a poet, a writer, an artist.
Maybe a dreamer.

I trust confusion. Indecisiveness. The want to believe, but the overwhelming need
for a belief to be proven. The thirst for knowledge.

How can some people be so content? Never asking questions.
Never wanting for anything other than what they are given.

Maybe these are the souls I should admire.
Who am I to label them? To feel superior?

I want to be challenged.
I want to be stimulated.

I feel I will forever be searching.

Oh, stuart...how strangely attractive you are.

2008-06-08T19:44:39Z

This video makes me giggle.

Belle & Sebastian need to come out with a new album like...yesterday.

Oh why must stupid things be so funny.

2008-06-03T01:44:45Z

I can't help but laugh at this. For five minutes straight. Every time I see it.

Sweep the ashes, let the silence find us.

2008-06-01T06:13:05Z

I want to go running through a field with no shoes, and read poems by candlelight.

Genius.

2008-05-27T04:34:56Z

Wonderful. And I don't even know why.

camera <3

2008-05-24T03:43:38Z

my new love.

it deserves a name.

Glósóli

2008-05-21T04:43:47Z

This makes me happy.

By midnight, we'd forgotten one another.

2008-05-20T05:09:36Z

Iron & Wine is amazing.

That is all.

Um...yes please.

2008-05-17T04:14:49Z

Meme. (what does that word mean exactly...it sounds like a noise a cat would make.)

2008-05-13T05:58:24Z

Taken from thisroyalcity who took it from eclectictastes

1) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
A. Nope.

2) What was your dream growing up?
A. I wanted to be a poet. A musician. And I wanted to live in a fairy tale written by the brothers Grimm.

3) What talent do you wish you had?
A. I've always wanted to be able to play the piano.

4) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
A. Probably a cream soda.

5) Favorite vegetable?
A. Hm. I would say tomato, but that's a fruit. Oh well, I'm gonna say it anyway.

6) What was the last book you read?
A. I re-read the Scarlet Letter

7) What zodiac sign are you?
A. Libra. Not to be confused with Zebra. Two completely different things.

8) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
A. I have my ears pierced the traditional way but I never wear earrings.

9) Worst Habit?
A. Waiting until the last minute to do EVERYTHING.

10) If you saw me walking down the street, would you offer me a ride?
A. Of course! And I would be like "WTF are you doing not in Canada?!"

11) What is your favorite sport?
A. Soccer.

12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
A. Depends on my mood. Usually I'm pretty optimistic. Except when the human race as a whole is pissing me off.

13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
A. I'd probably be freaking out if the elevator was actually *stuck*, because I don't like small confined spaces. But if I was just *in* the elevator with you and NOT stuck, I guess we'd probably just continue whatever conversation we were having before we walked into the elevator.

14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
A. Hm, I don't know...spending my first year of college in West Virginia. That sucked a good bit.

15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
A. I like it when cute straight boys kiss each other. (But you know this. lol)

16) Do you have any pets?
A. Yes. One really stupid dog named Duke (not my choice)

17) What if i showed up at your house unexpectedly?
A. That would be pretty awesome.

18) What was your first impression of me?
A. *trying to remember* Oh yeah! I immediately liked you because you were talking about Nick Stahl.

19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
A. Scary. All clowns. All the time.

20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
A. I want smaller boobs.

21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
A. Definitely crime partner.

22) What color eyes do you have?
A. Brown.

23) Ever been arrested?
A. Not if you don't count that time with the drugs and the sex party. (kidding...)

24) Bottle or can soda?
A. Glass bottle.

25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
A. Travel. Europe.

27) What's your favorite place to hang at?
A. The Bean Hollow.

28) Do you believe in ghosts?
A. Hm. Well...I guess so. But I've never had something scary happen to me.

29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
A. Read. Watch movies. Spost.

30) Do you swear a lot?
A. Not at all. (well, not in person)

31) Biggest pet peeve?
A. People who are idiots.

32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
A. Dreamer.

33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
A. Absolutely.

35) Do you believe in God?
A. Same answer.

36) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?
A. What am I doing right now?

...Boredom?

2008-05-02T05:07:54Z

Things that Tom could become addicted to later:

-Knitting
-Basket weaving
-Gardening
-Deep sea diving
-Horseback riding
-Sheep shearing
-Hair dressing
-Homemade bombs
-Welding
-Performance art
-Cooking
-Yoga
What else, what else...

thisroyalcity "The Clap Off! ...But imagine being about to have sex, and you have to clap your fucking lamp off."

Want to see...For only one reason.

Wrapped up in books..

2008-05-02T03:22:16Z

Sooo... This is something thisroyalcity told me I must do, and so I'm going to, obviously, because I love books, talking about books, anything regarding books really. Oh, and it was apparently stolen from eclectictastes. So...just giving her credit=)

What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded.

Bold the ones you've read for pleasure,
Underline the ones you read for school,
Italicize the ones you started but didn't finish (even if you intend to finish them).
~~Strikethrough~~ the ones you hated.
Add (*) beside the ones you liked and would (or did) read again or recommend.

With (!!!) means I want to read them.
and (?) maybe... because I like the title... which is pretty much all of them. :s

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell(!!!)
Anna Karenina(!!!) Own it, haven't gotten around to reading it yet. Right now it's just sitting on my bookshelf...making me look smart and well-rounded.

Crime and Punishment(!!!)
Catch-22 (!!!)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (!) Haven't jumped on the whole Gabriel Garcia Marquez bandwagon yet.

Wuthering Heights *
The Silmarillion (?) Eh, not a big Tolkien fan.
Life of Pi (!!!) I always want to buy this, but...(and this is going to sound stupid) but I can't get past the bright blue cover with the tiger in the boat. It's just...not aesthetically pleasing at ALL. Haha.

The Name of the Rose (?)
Don Quixote (Never had the desire really)
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary (!!!) Same story as Anna Karenina. Own it, haven't read it yet. lol
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice * One of my favorites.
Jane Eyre * Another one of my faves. Just bought an illustrated copy and it is SO cool.
The Tale of Two Cities * I <3 Dickens. Even though, this was extremely difficult to get through. Especially at 14. haha

The Brothers Karamazov (!!!) It's on my list. (which grows exponentially everday)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies (?)
War and Peace
Vanity Fair (?) Eh, I could take it or leave it.
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma (!!!) I still have not read this book...which is horrible of me.
The Blind Assassin (?)
The Kite Runner (Don't really have the desire)
Mrs. Dalloway (!!!)
Great Expectations * I love this book.
American Gods (?)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius LOL, this book is great.
Atlas Shrugged (!!!) Haha, please. I'm still working my way through the Fountainhead.
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books (!!!) It's on my list.
Memoirs of a Geisha (?) Eh.
Middlesex (no desire. Although, I did read the Virgin Suicides, and that was good.)
Quicksilver (?)
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West (Absolutely no desire)
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : a novel(!!!)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (!!!)
Love in the Time of Cholera (!!!) Still not on that bandwagon...Getting there...
Brave New World (!!!)
The Fountainhead (haha..yep)
Foucault’s Pendulum (?)
Middlemarch (?)
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo (!!!)
Dracula I wouldn't recommend reading this book at 10 years old. SO many things just go right over your head...lol

A Clockwork Orange (!!!)
Anansi Boys (Eh...It' not on my list)
The Once and Future King (?)
The Grapes of Wrath (!!!)
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel (?)
1984 (!!!) Yes, I've never read 1984, which is craziness.
Angels & Demons (!!!)
The Inferno and Purgatory and Paradise
The Satanic Verses (?)
Sense and Sensibility *
The Picture of Dorian Gray *** This book rocks my socks.
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (!!!) The movie was fantastic.
To the Lighthouse (!!!)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (!!!) I can't believe I never had to read this for school..
Oliver Twist * Haha I love this book.
Gulliver’s Travels (Never had any desire)
Les Misérables (!!!) I really should get around to this one someday.
The Corrections (?)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (!!!) This one's on my list.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (!!!) Also on my list since it's been recommended to me by EVERYONE.

Dune (NO desire whatsoever)
The Prince Gotta love Machiavelli...
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir (!!!)
The God of Small Things (On my list)
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present (Bleh)
Cryptonomicon (!!!)
Neverwhere (?)
A Confederacy of Dunces (!!!) List, again.
A Short History of Nearly Everything (?)
Dubliners (Not a big James Joyce fan)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (?)
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter * His writing is so...gothic.
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel (!!!)
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion (?)
Lolita (!!!)
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye (!!!)
On the Road (!!!) Yeah, yeah. I know.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid (!!!)
Watership Down (!!!)
Gravity’s Rainbow (!!!)
The Hobbit (Noooo)
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

Wow, I feel...extremely un-well-read now. *Goes to sit in a corner and read until she catches up*

I have a very long list. I MUST get them all done before I'm 30. Or else...I fail at life.

Currently I am reading:
Kafka: The Complete Stories
House of Seven Gables

Life Soundtrack

2008-01-09T05:04:21Z

So, here's how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool...
7. Put this in your journal!

Opening: "I Don't Wanna Wait" Paula Cole

Waking Up: "Roy Walker" Belle and Sebastian

First Day of School: "I'll Be Your Mirror" The Velvet Underground

Falling in Love: "Song for Sunshine" more Belle and Sebastian, go figure

Fight Song: "I'm Not From Here" Sondre Lerche. So NOT a fight song. I must be a wuss.

Breaking Up: "Your Kisses are Wasted on Me" The Pipettes. YAY! One that's actually pretty perfect.

Prom: "Take it From Me" The Weepies. Aw...romantic. What can I compare you to? My favorite pair of shoes...

Life: "Prarie Fire that Wanders About" Sufjan Stevens. Hm. Interesting.

Mental Breakdown: "Perfect Girl" Sarah McLachlan. Yes, a good breakdown song. Anything by her really, would be a good breakdown song.

Driving: "Songbird" Oasis. A great band to drive to.

Flashback: "Coffee and Cigarettes" Augustana.

Getting Back Together: "All Cats Are Grey" The Cure. Very interesting. Not really what I would choose as my "getting back together" song, but it's cool, it's cool.

Wedding: "Still Can't" The Cranberries. WOW, what a depressing wedding song!

Birth of Child: "Entering White Cecilia" The New Pornographers. HAHA. Not really what I would want playing at the birth of my child.

Final Battle: "Wayfaring Stranger" Jamie Woon. Whooaaaa. Haunting.

Death Scene: "Seed of Wonder" Jesca Hoop. Weird death scene song. But that's okay. I'll just come back to life belly dancing.

Funeral Song: "Tomorrow on the Runway" The Innocence Mission.

End Credits: "Asleep on a Sunbeam" Belle and Sebastian yet again.

Wow, that was fun. Now what?

Yay for good music

2007-09-08T18:36:55Z

I was watching In Good Company today and...while the movie itself wasn't exactly spectacular, the soundtrack is SO so good. The Shins, Iron and Wine, Damien Rice. Lots of my favorites =) And of course, Topher Grace can be slightly adorable.

Ahhhh lovely red

2007-09-07T23:12:20Z

Red makes me think of autumn, my favorite season. Alot of the really pretty layouts are only for paid accounts, but this will do for now =)

"All of this--the river and flowers, running, which was something she rarely did these days, the fine ribbing of the oak trunks, the high-ceilinged room, the geometry of light, the pulse in her ears subsiding in the stillness--all this pleased her as the familiar was transformed into a delicious strangeness."