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[May. 20th, 2009|01:14 pm]
[Current Music |"Syringe," Emilie Autumn]

So, everyone...

What's some lyrics that you just love, for whatever reason?

For me, most of Emilie Autumn's works from Enchant have lines in them that are just... perfect. They sum up how I feel or they're worded beautifully.

In a courtyard
Used to sing as loud as she could
Locked away here
She's been quiet, lovely and good
But no one listens now
She lost her voice
She had no choice

If you sing loud and clear
Someone passing by will surely hear you
No you can't be afraid
If you ever want somebody near you
If you sing loud and clear
Someone passing by will surely hear you
No you can't be afraid


"Rapunzel"

One of my favorites. Sums up the loneliness I can feel, but it outright says you can't be afraid to keep going, that someone will hear you.

You seem so devoted
Your love is unconditional
You were self-promoted
I never asked you
You were my everything
My apparitional faith
Where are you when I am screaming to my God
What am I coming to

[...]

If I had another place to go
Would you break me, is it that you know
I have no choice but to rebuild again
I'm tied so hard I can't remember when
I last walked free upon these feet of mine
But I'll draw the line
There will come a time
When I am stronger
Your words won't hurt any longer


"Castle Down"

The first quoted verse was just always a favorite, especially the last two lines. The way it's sung, it's almost done so "My God, what am I coming to" is what she's screaming and not that she's screaming TO her God. A subtle thing, but it's an interesting way to twist the words.

The second quoted verse is obvious. I spent most of my life being broken by my peers, and in many ways people are still going to town on it. I'm rebuilding. I'm learning to walk free. But there will come a time, just not now.

Most of "Rose Red"

I just like the imagery in "Rose Red." The twist of "She rose that fell a flower." And, of course, the repetition of "No one wants to hurt me/But everybody tries."

ALL of "What If (Epilogue)"

The contradictions ("snowstorm burning") and the overall fairy tale feel of the song is just... beautiful. I actually had a "music video" built in my head for this song, which starts with a prince and a ragged and dirt covered female servant and ends with a full audience and the prince entering dirty and ragged and the female servant sitting on the throne decked out in jewels, only to disappear into a rose when he approaches and the hall is empty.

Nobody's listening
When your laughter
Starts to fade away
Between these walls
And rooms
And shadows
Faces each day
You awake to see
Your dreams unfold
Like a waltz
Like a waltz
And you start to dance...
Like a waltz
Like a rose
Like a breath
Like a ghost...


"Waltz," Amanda Rogers

Yeah, not Emilie Autumn, but Amanda Rogers is definitely a poet as well. "Waltz" is just a song that is... it's sad, but the music fits the words perfectly. It's lonely and delicate. Like a rose...

Now that my music geekery is over, anything anyone else is thinking about? There's a lot more from me (Kerli, Nightwish, Within Temptation, Epica, Delerium, Nine Inch Nails, Poe), but this is enough for now.
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*insert OMG STAR TREK here* [May. 17th, 2009|02:26 pm]
[Current Mood | impressed]

I am not a Trekkie. I don't get the injokes or the little references. Most I got was the catchphrases. However.

... OMG STAR TREK.

Edit: You know who I liked a lot? Who surprised me with how much I liked him versus everyone else? Chekov. His whole "I CAN DO THAT" part cinched it.
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Reading Sookie Stackhouse [May. 14th, 2009|05:42 pm]
So I just read Dead Until Dark, the first Sookie Stackhouse book. You know, the series that the HBO series True Blood is based off of.

I was... underwhelmed. It's taken me over a year to read that book, and every time, I barely got past the first hundred pages. Honestly, after finally finishing it, I am not all that interested in reading the other books. It was very unfocused, Sookie was borderline unlikable, and it felt like Charlaine Harris was trying to put too much in one book.

If you like the series, I would say the book is worth a check out from the library (if only for Bubba. I was so amused about who Bubba was), but I wouldn't spend any money on it until you're certain you want to read more.
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Reminding myself [May. 12th, 2009|12:12 pm]
If I was to hold one hand over my face now
Would you know me?
Or would you see the other side of me?
And if you were to notice
There is a plan I've been devising
To go, to go now, far away from here
And I gonna be so brave
And I gonna go so far away

Where are the wise men?
Where have they all gone to
Did they follow the spirit children
Down the road that only they know?
And you and I know that the answer lies
Somewhere deep in the city of skies
We're gonna go there
We're gonna go there
We're gonna see the daylight
And I, gonna fly away now
And I, gonna go where the path runs high


Elephant, boa )
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Busy [May. 11th, 2009|10:26 am]
Has interview tomorrow.

Has fiance birthday today.

Busy busy busy.
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Becky, Dresden Files question [May. 8th, 2009|05:07 pm]
Hey, Becky. I don't remember seeing this in any of the books, and I haven't read all that many of the short stories. You might know more about this.

Has Harry ever seen Michael with his Sight?
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[May. 7th, 2009|05:50 pm]
...

I have NOT taken this wank OFF my journal. Since about March, I have NOT brought it up on anyone else's IJ or LJ, nor have I IMed people about this. When talking to Sol on her journal, I stay clear of it. When talking to Sol through IM, I stay clear. Same with Pronnie. Same with Beth. SAME. WITH. EVERYONE. I leave it on my journal, only to bring it up if the OTHER person ASKS about it.

If it is SUCH a strain on friendship that you have to ASK about it to hear it off this journal, a journal that is not even on LJ and you have to know when it updates by either A) going to this almost dead site to stalk me personally since not even Beth updates here or B) subscribe to my feed that I am not FORCING you to click on the link to the journal and has only ONE LINE of text from the entry, then something is wrong.

And to attack me by venting here when you hold up that it's okay for Sol to do it and YOU FUCKING DO IT TOO ON YOUR LJ? I am not forcing you to come over to IJ and read this, nor am I forcing you to go whining to your own journal and do the exact same fucking thing I am.

So if you say it's such a strain when you have to go out of your way to seek out the wank, and that you don't want wank and you hate it and would rather avoid it, THEN MAYBE YOU SHOULD STOP SEEKING IT OUT. But given your hypocrisy about how it's A-OK to treat me like crap but if I reveal it I am suddenly such a bad person and deserved it and you can't give ANYONE examples as to why you say I'm twisting the truth (trying to out truth works so much better if you answer all questions right away instead of dancing around them and you have EVIDENCE to prove them wrong), I would say you're TRYING to keep this going so you can try to look even more like a douche. Why yes, it was okay to treat me like crap while I was trying to find a balance and not to be lonely in a town I have no friends in and wh...

...

Oh. Oh, oh, oh. Isolating the target, beating them down, making them do what you want...

Oh... and considering you were pushing so hard not to move to San Antonio where I had friends and family and you wanted me to go to Austin where YOU had Cakes and your sister...

You're rather inept at this. J was better at it, and even Zanne and Yuuo, the ones HE was trying to control and were too close to the problem, saw around it and broke it off with him. Oh, yeah, the two girls you were trying to wail at about how I'm a whore for being interested in someone else? They know Javier and I have an agreement that it's okay for him to sleep with hot girls with my permission and it's okay for me to sleep with hot girls with his permission. And they were in a threesome with J.

And here I adapt a quote for this purpose: Now who's the twat? Well, certainly not you, because you've been upgraded to dickhead. A presumptuous one at that. I don't remember saying anything about how I wasn't allowed to be with girls or how Javier never outright said he was okay with me sleeping with you, so either you have the wrong journal or you're projecting so hard you can be used to show off Powerpoint presentations.
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[May. 3rd, 2009|07:25 pm]
Also, do note I am NOT trying to do the type of "rescue" Anna does. I'm trying to encourage Sol to step up and do what's right. To do this herself. I COULD do the type of "rescue" Anna thinks she does. But I don't. I just want her to stand on her own power, to look at what Anna has done to Cakes, me, and herself, and say "fuck this shit. She has no obligations here and I have no obligations to her. My happiness comes first, not making sure this leech has a place to live."

Sol, the power to end this bullshit is with you. You have all the power in the world to make you life better. If you must rest, I and others will shelter you. If you must bitch, I and others will listen and try to help. But I cannot make you take that power and move forward. Stand tall. It will hurt, but if you want to see what can happen, look at me and what happened to me. Look at the depressed wreck I ended up fretting myself into because of money issues and trying to pay bills and being reimbursed by someone who should have paid half of it. Look at the person I became, the little huddling mess that scared her cat by crying hard in the bathroom when she felt like she was out of options financially because Anna suddenly told her over the phone she wasn't coming back. Don't become that. Don't let her push you into that corner like she pushed me there. I'm encouraging you to be more than I could.

Please, Sol.
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Something I noticed [May. 3rd, 2009|06:33 pm]
Sol had always had emotional problems. She had always been prone to depression and outbursts.

She's become more depressed since Anna moved in.

She's always had problems with the people she's lived with.

They've become worse since Anna moved in.

I just want to know, Sol. Tell me, does Anna actually clean the cat box(es)? Is she keeping her room clean? Does she feed her cat? Does she do her dishes? This isn't an opportunity for you to sit here and rail on me, just answer the questions. Also, does she still have the same phone? Is she able to make payments on whatever she needs to make payments on? Does she still have insurance?

Don't sit there and dance around the questions. Answer them. Tell me if she's cleaned the cat box(es). Tell me if she's kept her room clean. She didn't when she lived in Austin. Note I didn't say when she lived with me. I saw that room when she lived with Cakes. And I saw it after she moved out. Sure, still dirty, but it wasn't that utter and complete critter loving FILTH I saw when moving her out. And by the way, my mom worked for a company that made chemicals for various lawn and garden uses. Some of the uses were critter related. What Anna said was bullshit. Critters will come in because the temperature in here is more to their liking, but they will STAY because of the food we give them. We used to have ants in this house. Guess how we got rid of them before Mom worked for Green Light. I'll give you a hint - it wasn't chemically related. Oh, and yeah, when she first moved her laptop upstairs and I used the desk for a while, there were ants all over it. Guess how they stopped showing up. Yep, no more half used Coke cans laying there for the ants to crawl into. I would drink all of mine and throw them away.

Has she actually paid her $1000+ tickets? Or is she still whining that they never got a hold of her so she doesn't have to pay? Every else, stop laughing. Oh, and did Marble Falls ever call her out on the fact she gave an expired insurance to them to bring her ticket down?

But, you know what really gets me? She claims she wants to "rescue" people and then puts them through more hell than if they had stayed where they were. She wanted to "rescue" Cakes and it seemed to me Cakes actually did better once she wasn't living with Anna. She moved in with me because she wanted to "rescue" me (oh, and because Cakes was really annoying her and she didn't want to live there and she couldn't WAIT to move out and can't it be now?) and then ended up putting me through so much hell that I was a sobbing wreck at the end. She wanted to "rescue" Sol and Sol has gotten so bad that it's frightening. I had never seen Sol so depressed to the point it reminded me of when I was considering killing myself.

By the way, if someone says that you didn't seem approachable, and works herself into a mess because she feels like she's being taken advantage of but she can't tell you, YOU MIGHT WANT TO PAY ATTENTION TO THAT. It's a little more than neurosis, because usually that kind of thing is rooted in personal experience with the person. Considering though that you were exhibiting more passive-aggressive behavior than I could ever even hope to see again (leaving me notes instead of talking when we were in the same house, telling me that if I wanted to talk to you WHILE WE WERE IN THE SAME APARTMENT that I should IM you instead of talking face to face, "forgetting" and "losing" stuff, fear of dependancy and intimacy, making chaotic situations, making excuses, acting like the victim when all this came down, always being FUCKING LATE), I find it funny that you called my fear and shyness passive-aggression. Anyone else here ever realize that the more you talk, the more they take your words and twist them to look like the bad guy, so you stop talking and start feeling awful the more and more stuff happens that you can't talk about because of past experience with twisted words? That was me living with Anna.

I really do think the best thing Sol can do is to grab Anna, shove her outside, and tell her never to come back. She'll feel better, the house will be MUCH cleaner (a self proclaimed OCD cleaner, and she leaves half full Coke cans littered everywhere, she puts food-caked plates into the dishwasher, her room is a mess where she leaves cat shit, she doesn't clean out cat boxes at all...), and they won't have to spend money on her when she mysteriously doesn't have money for X when two days later, before she gets paid, she has more than enough for Y.

(By the way, Sol? If you want to really help with the bugs, keep everything really clean. The cleaner I kept things in my Aunt's house and in the apartment, the less I saw critters. When I finally took complete control of the litter boxes in the apartment, the flies and bugs stopped coming. When Anna moved out and stopped leaving crap everywhere, I didn't see ants. And I wasn't spraying any chemicals, nor did I go to the leasing office to get someone in. You will get some bugs out of curiosity, but if you don't leave anything for them to eat, you won't see many of them. I speak as someone whose mother worked for a chemical company and brought these tips home from the scientists and factory workers. And the whole "she's lying and hiding something" is from someone whose father worked in loss prevention and realized that when I finally confronted her about possibly stealing from me, she never answered my questions.)
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10 Years, Beautiful [May. 3rd, 2009|12:20 pm]
For some reason, I love this song. It reminds me of old fairy tales and sweeping gowns, a period of time out of place in current day, unsure of who she is or why she's here.

Beauty over wisdom to fit in with their styles
Your Cinderella story's for a price
Vanity's a business built to please the unique
Silicone and stars collide, the rest will fall in line

Just as beautiful as you are
It's so pitiful what you are
You should have seen this coming all along


10 Years, Beautiful )
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... sums it up. [May. 3rd, 2009|11:07 am]
"I think one of the biggest problems I have is that Anna took my attempts to make things work and shit on them. I KNOW I screwed up. I know I did a lot of shit I shouldn't have. I knew that then, too, and tried to make up for it. But instead of meeting me halfway, she acted like a bitch (and possibly stole from me, but damned if I can PROVE that she took my DS and my Zen Mosaic [ black, http://www.creative.com/products/mp3/zenmozaic/ ] as well as about $130) and left me with the bills to pay rent, electricity, and water when she was living there, and the reletting fee when she knew I couldn't stay there when she left. And now she feels she has the right to act like she's the good guy in this situation and that she had the right to act like that to me. What good guy? We failed mutually but fuck if I didn't try at first to make up for it. Not to mention her attitude about being the best Luke ever despite the fucking OOCness of say... him sleeping with Sol's fononfailure after he and bloodymelodic have been together for a while and were getting closer. I don't care how much UST there was, Luke is fucking loyal. That's what got him in trouble in the first place in canon! And the whole "No, really, I was looking for you!" when it was never shown IN GAME and IN A PREVIOUS POST no one came to Ana and said "Hey, Luke's looking for you." And while the mechanic is fun, that is not a Luke. He can wibble all he wants, but he's still not a Luke. The core sweetness and loyalty is missing."
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[Apr. 30th, 2009|10:38 pm]
[Current Mood | impressed]

Someone please tell me how this got a T rating.

Especially with the Demon path. Someone. Please. (Needless to say, damn it Nippon Ichi, why do you have to make your games so scarce?)
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Thinking [Apr. 30th, 2009|03:45 pm]
"I was so tired of doing things for people, so I'm just going to stop caring and do this for myself!"

Okay, I get that. Giving and not getting in return eventually becomes a soul sucking drain. It's hard when you feel like you're being taken advantage of and the other person can't even get off their ass to feed the cat. I get it. And after calling in to a job you hate so you can help your roommate figure out the bus system and...

...

...

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Uh...

...

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Well, you...

...

Hm.

I'll get back to you on that.

Oh! You went out after your roommate said you didn't need to because your car was acting up to pick her up because the bus schedule was being funky then.

...

Yeah, other than that, I got nothin'. But at least your roommate never covered rent several months in a row, drove you to start payments on tickets, shuffled around her schedule to help get you to said tickets and a job interview, drove you to and from work when your car was acting up, paid to get your car fixed, never alerted the police to the highly illegal activities of going to construction zones and condemned buildings when no one was there and you weren't wearing a hard hat...

Oh wait.
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Who needs context? [Apr. 24th, 2009|12:48 am]
[Current Mood | silly]

Me: Seriously, though, who needs kids? All you need is a cat and a gay guy and you're set!




(Though, if you're absolutely sure you need context, this was said after Patrick kept asking me if he could go into several stores in a mall and he noted it was like a kid asking his mom if he could go in here please please PLEASE?)
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"Persona, Persona!" Call out your Persona! [Apr. 18th, 2009|08:33 pm]
I'm playing Persona 4, and while it's a definite time sink... I dunno, so far, I'm not feeling the immersion. And that's something I'm a little meh about the two recent ones. I find all the hand-holding and then questions a little immersion breaking. The whole high school experience thing also throws me off. I couldn't wait to get out of high school.

But it's rekindled the interest in the earlier Persona games. More specifically, the Persona 2 games. Now, the contract grinding seems boring to me (a lot like how the Social Link grinding just doesn't catch my fancy), but the way it's set up seems like it also has the potential to be interesting, and I REALLY REALLY want to know more about P2: Innocent Sin. Eternal Punishment does pretty much explain what happened and why EP happened, but that doesn't change the fact that IS was its own game. And the whole rumor thing is just fascinating. Want weapons? Spread a rumor that a place sells them. After you spread the rumor, the shop will now sell weapons like they've always done so!

... and yeah, okay, I want to see how you can get the main character into a homosexual relationship with another character, because it can be done shut up.
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Sol, Pron, FINALLY [Apr. 15th, 2009|07:22 pm]
I've had this on my laptop forever. So here it is, the half-finished AtB/fononfailure fic from the kinkmeme. And it still pushes me too far, so unfortunately half-finished is all can do right now. But hey. It's twisted.

DR related fic )
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I will be singing this forever now [Apr. 15th, 2009|06:26 pm]
[Current Mood | impressed]
[Current Music |I Dreamed a Dream-Les Miserables]

My mother came home, rounded up her daughters, and had me go on Youtube and look up Susan Boyle.

I hereby demand EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU TO DO THE SAME.
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[Apr. 15th, 2009|01:29 pm]
Yesterday, my parents took the family out to BJ's. Now, the food was good and nicely filling. The room itself was nice in the fact that the noise of talking didn't overwhelm me. But the thing that impressed me?

The beer.

Oh mother of fuck the beer.

It's homebrewed and it's very. VERY. Good. I found two brews I liked right away (A blonde and a dark, nutty beer), and two I want to try (a berry cider and a porter). But unless you've been there, you have no idea how smooth and rich and tasty this beer is. This is the stuff that was made from decades of experience. It's very pricey, but amazing. Nutty Brewnette is good if you like dark, nutty beers. And guys, if the porter's in stock, try it. My mom says it's the best, and it was out of stock this time. And that says enough right there.
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I love a good Google Bomb [Apr. 12th, 2009|03:12 pm]
Amazon Rank

From the link:

Etymology: from 12 April 2009 removal of sales rank figures from books on Amazon.com containing sexual, erotic, romantic, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered or queer content, rendering them impossible to find through basic search functions at the top of Amazon.com’s website. Titles stripped of their sales rankings include “Bastard Out of Carolina,” “Lady Chatterly’s Lover,” several romance novels, GLBTQ fiction novels, YA books, and narratives about gay people.

Smart Bitches, Trashy Books did this with Bill Napoli as well, it's very... effective.
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[Apr. 12th, 2009|01:36 pm]
Oh, and also, don't forget my dad was in loss prevention for most of my life, and he taught me a few tricks about telling how someone is lying, telling the truth and just covering something up by not mentioning it, or actually telling the truth and is innocent. The semester in Intro to Criminal Justice helped as well. You're not hitting the innocent lines, you dumbshit. Every single thing you say hits lying. But you can go a round with my dad if you want. He was the best that Best Products, Weiners, and Spencer's ever had, finding people that were lying about illegal activity that slipped through the fingers of everyone else.
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