{ you're really an ugly girl, but I like the way you play. }

[delga]

so you can make me come
that doesn't make you jesus

Admittedly I've always prefered Scarlet's Walk over Tales of a Librarian as a composite, but taken as one-offs, the latter has some amazing pieces. Precious Things is brilliant as an open to the album, and has some killer couplets, including the above and:

yes, my loyalties turned
like my ankle

There's something entirely fantastic about that metaphor, not just that it's unexpected and unusual, but because it takes the entire idea and replaces with narrative. It's almost metonymy, but also more complex and engaging than that. GUH. I LOVE IT.

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I spent most of the day watching The Wire because I'm into it pretty hardcore now, although I did spend just over an hour this afternoon with xanitia. We're (hopefully) meeting up tomorrow and then, if I can get a lift sorted, I may be going line dancing with her. lolz. I don't even know. Sounds good, though.

Tonight is The Dad's Rotary Club meeting, so I think we're having take-out. Which, frankly, seems a little wrong to me, but it's a rhythm that The Mother and The Sister have taken up in my absence, so it's not like I can argue it. Unfortunately, there are no good films on so I don't really know what we're going to do.

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xanitia came with me to the post office and then the library where I decided to only hand back two of the three books that I took out a month ago. The third I renewed - Anita Desai's Fasting and Feasting. On first look I didn't much like it but I was reading it again whilst waiting for xanitia and decided I should give it another try. So far, so good. I read Desai when I was in year 11 - the tutor gave me her copy of Clear Light of Day. I liked it, but it took me a while; I think I'd have a better time with it now.

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UGH. Amazon for the FAIL. My stuff should have arrived by now and yet it hasn't. FAIL FAIL FAIL.

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I was thinking about my entry for numb3rswriteoff and I realised that I'd probably have a better time rewatching season 3 if I had someone to watch with. Sometimes I sort of resent the fact that a lot of my RL friends don't really connect to fandom AT ALL. I mean, The Flatmate is in love with David Tennant, and I convinced T to watch Weeds and Criminal Minds but that's about it. SIGH.

Oh, speaking of, I have picspam to post. Lots of picspam. Shiny, colourful picspam. &c. &c. You get the idea, I'm sure. (Shiny! Pretty!) Also, sometimes I feel like going friends only, just so that I can use a banner. Which is blatantly ridiculous, I know. AND YET.

Comments

[twincy.livejournal.com]

The Flatmate is in love with David Tennant
I don't blame her. CASANOVA IS BRILLIANT. As is basically everything else he's been in, but Casanova. !!!

(Hi. The roommate has a slew of people over. Am hiding in my room. Spam me?)

[twincy.livejournal.com]

Sentence structure for the FAIL: I did not mean to say everything but Casanova was brill, obv. I meant to say that it was a higher level of awesome.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Heh. That's actually exactly what you said.

Take out has arrived! Will spam in about half an hour? *pokes* Email me, lol. Give me something to work with. *G*

[twincy.livejournal.com]

Well, whatever. Yes. I guess the comma was my salvation.

Will do.

Also: have never heard Precious Things, but the lyrics quoted remind me of Not David Bowie a little, which goes I am not the reason / you are not David Bowie. Except that that's not similar at all. The sentiment is, a little. BABBLING.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

I am back! Mother&Sister are eating/watching Medium which I have already seen so I have whisked away so as to spam you. FABULOUS.

Casanova is brilliant . Between Tennant, and the chemsitry between Byrne and O'Toole, not to mention the wonderful sets, I just love the whole thing. Have you seen it through yet, or just an episode/two?

HAVE NOT HEARD IT, WHAT. And yet, I think the brilliance of that lyric what you quoted me is that it's so - it's two things at once, out of context. It's I am not AND you are not, and it's what it reads in one line. AND AND AND that one line says a hundred things about the relationship - part failure, part blame, part aspiration. oh. !

[twincy.livejournal.com]

FABULOUS INDEED.

Hee! shoebox_project already did that for me. Also: 'bother', but I'm not entirely sure on the usage of that, so. I've seen episodes one and two, and am downloading three.

Trade you David Bowie for Precious Things?

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

\o/

THREE!!! OK. So. Let me know? !!!

Yes. Yes-yes! Am box-ing. (I, um. I suspect that my love of this comes from how DRAMATIC elements of it are. ? )

[twincy.livejournal.com]

!!! I KNOW. Talk about an awesome opening scene, man. Re: bugger: guy at French court to C.: "Bugger me!" - C.: "Don't think I will." ♥! The preview suggests there is gayness in part three, huzzah! Predictably, I loved the genderfuckery with the castrate who was a boy, then a girl, then a boy, then a girl again. And the scene wherein Henriette asks "Do you love him? Her?" and Casanova replies without hesitation "Yes," even though He loves Henriette too. I mean. I love that they're not all OTPy.

As am I, hee. (I had a really profound thought on why I like the things I like, but then it went away. Story of my life.)

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Yes, there's a fluidity there which is happiness, though not that I expected anything else from Russel T Davies - he's the guy responsible for the original (and AWESOME) Queer as Folk, as well as Doctor Who/Torchwood.

(The irony of that being that I was just about to comment to you again and then I forgot what I wanted to say, but I was so irked at myself that I was going to comment ANYWAY saying that I had something to say but forgot it. Then I decided it was useless and ended up telling you all the same, just in THIS comment. HUZZ? HUZZ.)

[twincy.livejournal.com]

I saw that, yes, and became even more excited. He did QaF, as well? Russel T Davies: bringing gayness to a television screen near you!

(Ahaha uli. UM. ILU, I mean. Although I'm sure the reverse is true. ♥)(But "You love I" sounds very Tarzanish.)

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

I think QaF UK was one of the best series of TV I'd seen in some time. I saw it last summer. ZOMG.

(ULI, lol, fun to say! I'm going to give you a fun ord now because I'm that wonderful, natch. Tarzan's way of speaking is known as using holophrastic phrasing, a term used to describe the speech of toddlers because they use very short phrases to convey a wealth of information. HOLOPHRASTIC. Isn't that fantastic?!) (lol, ILU2).

[twincy.livejournal.com]

(HOLOPHRASTIC. Isn't that fantastic?!
It even rhymes! Lolz. Fountain of wisdom, you are.)

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

(Sometimes my education is of shiny benefit. !!!)

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

OK. FUCK IT. I'm going to dig out that micand do the voice post already.

[twincy.livejournal.com]

I bet you're secretly hurt that I didn't volunteer any phrases, but, honestly, I couldn't. Too much pressure! *hand-to-forehead in dramatic fashion*

Be glad you escaped Dutch 'g's when you don't have N. to help you cheat, ha.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

TOTALLY HURT. lolz, actually, I have something 'from' you so it evens out.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

PSST. I took it. DRUMS DRUMS. !

[twincy.livejournal.com]

Have not listed to Precious Things yet (can't be fussed to wait for iTunes to load), but hee! Um. I don't remember the drums?

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

It's all that reverberating bass sound. !!! (And now I'm listening to God, which, if you haven't, you should grab from my last rec post because SERIOUSLY. Sometimes the music does... things! I can't even describe it.)

And...email!

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

lol, unfortunately not. Maybe some Thandie, I can't remember.

[the-muppet.livejournal.com]

I rewatched all of Numb3rs Season 3 straigh after the finale, the rewatched it all again with my friend Deb once I had her hooked onthe show. Definitley better rewatching it with someone. If I was there, I'd rewatch it with you :) x

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Hee, shows devotion! I've been watching select episodes for fic purposes but that's about it. Also, I was making icons for Take Out and realised I had no idea what actually happened in that episode. Now I do! Huzz.

[the-muppet.livejournal.com]

I didn't watch the finale first time round when I rewatched the whole series, (couldn't do it) but I did (obviously) see it again when me and Deb watched it.

I'm totally spoiler-free but still coming up with any ideas i can as to why Colby is not a bad guy. Because he's not.

:)

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

I'm spoiler-free, too and: the same! I keep thinking about it, and I have some theories but I'm keeping schtum until the end of Sept.!

[denorios.livejournal.com]

Oh, tell me about it. Not one of my RL friends gets fandom at all - so I'm left alone squeeing to myself.

Numb3rs, by the way? Oh my God, love it. Love it SO much. You were so right!

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

so I'm left alone squeeing to myself
Which is why we have LJ, huzz.

Hee! I love the whole thing, even elements of S3 which I felt were a little lacking (and which I complain of, often, heh). Have you managed to see S3 yet?

[denorios.livejournal.com]

I'm just reaching the end of S2 at the moment. I think S1 is still the best so far. It's felt like there's less of Don in S2, although I could be imagining that. But it feels with Megan, Larry, Colby, David and Alan in there now, there's less focus on Don. But I still love it to pieces.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

The end run of S2 is one of my favourite show runs. Well, leaving out certain elements. But the cases &c. are made of brilliance.

I guess so, because the focus spreads a little. S3 compensates in a fairly big way.

[denorios.livejournal.com]

S3 compensates in a fairly big way

Ooh, good! Something to look forward to! I should finish watching S2 tonight, I think, so I'll be cracking on with that.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Yes, and yes :)

LOL. Not up yet, yo.

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

Um, not to sound bitchy or anything, but you do realise that Tales of a Librarian is basically a Best Of album, don't you?

Great to hear that you're into The Wire. Am pleased.

Also, hello! *waves* I downloaded your crazy voicepost and will listen in a bit, mwahahaa.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Lol, not bitchy; no, I did not know that. Although, thinking about it, that makes a lot of sense. Hmm. *headdesk*

It's just so--- all encompassing! And sort of hilarious, too. I'm well into the second half now, but there's scenes like when McNulty and Bunk just swear through and through, or McNulty sending his kids to tail Avon (?!) I really love the bust scenes, too, because Kima is hardcore and I love her. /rambling

OHNOES. lol. I'm a headcase, just to remind you :)

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

Heh. I figured. Something about the way you were talking about it. Actually, I prefer the original versions because I feel that Tori didn't actually do enough to the songs to warrant new versions, but I could be wrong because I've only listened to Tales once after I bought it years ago, so? Um? I don't know. But yeah, as an album, it's not very composed because the songs aren't composed for that album.

It is! I love how... all things sort of come together, and how you really have to pay attention to seemingly random details because they might prove to be important later on, and then you (well, at least I) get random geek moments when you manage to make a connection. And yes, funny too. Yay! You watched that swearing scene! I loved it. That scene has become sort of an inside joke for me and The Bro-in-Law. Kima is hardcore. Also? Bunk is love. I've always loved that actor even though I don't know his name. And I kind of really love Stringer being all business man and... Um, I don't know if I'm going to spoil you or not, so I'll say no more. Also, I so need to re-watch from the beginning.

I think I'm going to have to learn how to pronounce your name properly, because um, I think I don't do so already?

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

I'm just going to have to check out the originals, now, heh. American Doll Posse is growing on me, but I have to take my time with Tori because I never like her on the first try.

Hee! I also love how characters who at first seemed like a pain in the behind turned out to be made of awesome. Like Lester and his mini-furniture! And Prez who decided to shoot the wall *headdesk* I just enjoy the ensemble, and I love that it's set in Baltimore. (Also: love the theme tune.)

Aie, that's what I was worried about, except with your name! Which is why I spent a lot of that voice post feeling really stupid. Was fun though. Mostly. :)

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

I found the middle of AMD quite... irrelevant? Perhaps that's the right word. I ended up not really paying attention to it. I liked the beginning and the ending (apart from Posse Bonus which irritates me). Smokey Joe is probably my favourite off the album, simply because I like the way the vocals are arranged in the chorus. And yeah, I have the same thing with Tori.

I know! Exactly! I mean, Prez, for example, seemed like a real tit at the beginning, but he grows on you when he starts finding purpose for himself. I find most of the characters like that, and that's what I love about the show: how the characters have flaws and aren't perfect and occasionally annoy you and occasionally make you love them, and how I get the feeling that the writers are doing it deliberately. (I love it too. I have the full version in Turku. I'll send it to you when I get back, if you'd like. I even might have the original Tom Waits version, but I'm not sure.)

:) Well, you did pronounce it slightly wrong. I mean, the vowels were pronounced correctly, but there was a bit of trouble with the emphasis. What you said was Eliina, with the emphasis on the second syllable, whereas the 'i' should be as short as 'e' and 'a' and the emphasis should be more on the first syllable. Anyway. *G* It was funny! Most of the words didn't make any sense to me, but it was fun listening to it. And you have such a lovely voice anyway. Also, I loved your random geek moments! And you did pronounce 'saatana' and 'perkele' correctly, though yeah, 'helevetti' was a bit off. Never mind though. :) (Oh, if I was feeling mean, I'd make you pronounce "Ookko nää Oulusta? Pelekääkkö nää polliisia?" which is a clichéd example phrase of the Oulu dialect. ...But I'm not that mean. ...Really.) And by the way, I myself always pronounce my username as V Liberation, which is odd since it doesn't read that! But yeah, Double-U Liberation is good, but Wilberation is NOT ON.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Chatty = win. !

I often wonder if her albums get like that because she just wants to put everything on them at once. I was trying to decide if I'd like ADP better if it was shorter and much more selective.

The writers are sharp, yo. They really know what they're doing, which is what I like about the pacing. It's very tight, if you understand my meaning. I'm anticipating that the second season won't be as connected but I'm getting ahead of myself. (I'm up to the episode with the basketball game.)

Ah, yeah. In Britain, pronunciation falls on the second syllable, which is why I was worried, because I know emphasis is different in other countries. (My American housemate drives me batty because, for example, she'll say RO-bin Hood and I say Ro-Bin Hood.) Hee. Your language is so pretty on paper. You have to try and teach me that phrase now *g*

Hee, from now on I will think of you as V Liberation (also: is easier to say!) My sister just doesn't read - she looks at things and approximates the order of the letters. Like, tja_rama, she'll say that 'T-J-rama'.

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

God, I'm chatty today. Sorry about that.

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

Also? Thank you for the song! I think I had this but for some reason don't anymore? Anyway, makes me want to swing a little more... :)

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

Heh. No worries. I so couldn't remember the names even half way through season one. Too! Many! Characters!