magnetic and pantsless

for National Poetry Month: when you see a Shakespeare quote in your lj, post one in your own.

Then know, it is your fault that you resign
The supreme seat, the throne majestical,
The scepter'd office of your ancestors,
Your state of fortune and your due of birth,
The lineal glory of your royal house,
To the corruption of a blemished stock:
Whilst, in the mildness of your sleepy thoughts,
Which here we waken to our country's good,
This noble isle doth want her proper limbs;
Her face defaced with scars of infamy,
Her royal stock graft with ignoble plants,
And almost shoulder'd in the swallowing gulf
Of blind forgetfulness and dark oblivion.

funny how topical the Bard can be, isn't it?

1. Randomly pick a song from your music library.
2. Find the lyrics.
3. Go to Google translation and translate the lyrics from English into German.
4. Take the new German lyrics and translate them into French.
5. Take the new French lyrics and translate them into English.
6. Post the NEW English lyrics and have people guess the original song.

i didn't actually do this, because nobody knows most of the songs in my music library. instead, i used one of my own songs. guess which one.

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fizzbang tagged me. i fully expect ronebofh to mock me for not listing enough things he's heard of. if anyone really wants to hear something i didn't link to, shoot me an email.

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're any good (thank goodness they added this modifier), but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your seven songs.

1) (If i could) Walk away - slower -- Don Dixon
i first heard this song performed live by Marti Jones (Don's wife) probably 15 years ago, and i never have managed to shake it out of my head. i've also never managed to get a copy of her version (except an unsatisfying live track), but Don obligingly recorded two versions on his latest. this is the slower version; it drags a little, but i like it better than the other because it's got more of that classic Dixon sound i fell in love with the first time i heard "Praying Mantis."

2) My Funny Valentine -- The Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker
Chet Baker on trumpet and Gerry Mulligan on baritone sax turn a jazz classic i've never especially liked into something transcendent. nothing short of brilliant.

3) Here I Be - Five Fingers of Funk
tongodeon turned me on to Pete Miser, who did a trés cool CG video. Five Fingers is one of his old projects. i just really like this track. no good reason. his latest CD is really good. i listen to it a lot. and i'm not a rap person at all.

4) A Shot In The Dark - Henry Mancini
i would like this to be my personal theme music. that is all.

5) Cause We've Ended As Lovers -- Jeff Beck
melancholy and beautiful. perfect for cold, gray rainy days. i notice i seem to be listening to a lot of really downbeat stuff lately.

6) Sascha -- Jolie Holland
this is just plain the most bewitching, sensuous music i've heard in a long time. the whole CD makes me feel like Doc Holliday sitting in a morphine haze on the front porch of a sleazy roadhouse on a languid August afternoon, staring out into the desert and hallucinating dancing girls among the tumbleweeds. only better, because i'm not dying of tuberculosis.

7) Holding Back -- Scott Andrew
this song could have been written about me. it stabs me many times with a thousand tiny knives. i keep listening to it anyway. the salt in the wounds is that Scott is doing exactly what i stopped being brave enough to do ten years ago. ze irony! 'e is crushing!

i tag:

the_steelmare, rizbone, haineux, drieuxster, inkerx, auralchick, sambushell, and anyone else who wants to play.

My Serenity Crew by ellydragon
Username
Aboard the good ship
Sweet but Stuffy Medic	eejitalmuppet
First Mate & War Buddy	hwrnmnbsol
Wacky Pilot	spiritualmonkey
Mysterious Shepherd	tongodeon
"Public Relations"	crisper
Charming Companion	tritone
Whimsical in the Brainpan	drieuxster
Adorable Mechanic	palecur
Crimeboss Nemesis	sambushell
Insane Stowaway/Spouse	emmett_the_sane
Quiz created with MemeGen!

all boys! lucky me!

i'll note that having crisper in charge of PR could be a very good thing... or a very, very bad thing.

stolen from louiseroho, who got it from dianec42:

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, (even if we don't speak often) please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL memory of you and me. It can be anything you want - good or bad - BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE.

When you're finished, post this little paragraph on your blog and be surprised (or mortified) about what people DON'T ACTUALLY remember about you.

(i wrote this for louise.)

well, ok. i'm still not up to doing much of anything. but i'm getting a little better. today, two dosage increases, one in the cytomel and one in the propranolol to cut down on the tremors from the effexor. i really think i need to come down on that stuff, but i'm afraid if i do i'll feel worse. if we manage to kick me back into functional mode, i'm going to kiss my psychiatrist. and that's saying something, because he's kind of gross.

coincidentally, last night inkerx posted a new comic.

highly appropriate. it could only be better if it included snakes on a plane. (be sure to read the comments at the bottom. especially the one about Snakes on a Plane 2: Planes on a Snake.)

( someone needs to make one of those goofy memes like the pirate crew one for Snakes on a Plane. )

via idragosani:

List 10 things that make you happy, tag some people afterward.

1. cats
   
2. the ocean
   
3. books
   
4. bad movies
   
5. good friends
   
6. a perfect, crisp pinot grigio
   
7. a perfect, crisp McDonald's french fry
   
8. a perfect, crisp October day (alas, we don't have those here)
   
9. writing
   
10. Don Dixon

Tag, You're it!