My Reprimand, My Goad, My Song

Stargate Meme

2008-03-28T07:05:45Z

1. Who is your favourite SG-1 character?
Daniel Jackson

2. Who is your favourite Atlantis character?
John Sheppard

3. What is your favourite SG-1 episode?
Forever In a Day, followed closely by anything involving serious Daniel whumpage.

4. Who is your favourite SG-1 villain?
Apophis, I think.

5. Who is your favorite SGA villain?
Oh, Kolya, for sure.

6. P-90 or Zat?
Zat.

7. You'll be...Jaffa or Tok’ra?
Tok'ra. I'd rather carry around a symbiote than a parasite, thank you.

8. Goa’uld mother ship or X-303?
X-303. Good old Earth ship.

9. Ori or Ancient?
Ancient. The Priors remind me a bit too much of my Bible-thumping grandparents.

10. Who is the best O’Neill.. Kurt Russell or Richard Dean Anderson?
RDA, definitely.

11. The best Daniel Jackson...James Spader or Michael Shanks?
Michael Shanks. He was so much more expressive.

12. Asgard or Replicator?
Asgard. The replicators got annoying after a while.

13. Who is the best leader of Atlantis, Weir or Carter?
Too soon to tell.

14. Who is best leader of the SGC...Hammond, O’Neill, Weir or Landry?
Hammond!

15. Jonas Quinn or Vala Mal Doran?
Definitely Vala. Love her, hated Jonas.

16. Col. Mitchell or Dr. Fraiser?
Dr. Fraiser.

17. Who would you kill first...Apophis, Baal, Cronos, Hathor, Yu or Anubis?
Anubis.

18. Keller or Beckett?
Beckett.

19. In a 1 on 1 fight, who would win...Teal’c or Ronon?
Teal'c

20. What is your favourite Atlantis episode?
Common Ground

21. Carter or Mckay?
McKay

22. Dr. Bill Lee or Radek Zelenka?
Zelenka! Love him! :D

23. Stargate the movie (1994) or The Ark Of Truth?
I'll get back to you when I've seen Ark of Truth.

24. Major Lorne or Major Davis?
Lorne

25. and finally, SG-1 or Atlantis?
Atlantis.

There are NO WORDS for how thrilled I am--no words! :D

2008-02-25T12:15:44Z

So I'm taking a class called Myth and Popular Culture--very cool stuff. It's basically about comparative mythology and literature, which has been a fascination of mine since high school. Well, now I'm writing a paper on the archetypes and kinds of myth present in one of my favorite novels of all time: The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice. But that's not what has me bouncing off the walls for pure joy.

I emailed the professor with my finalized topic on Saturday, and he sent me an email back last night saying "You're good to go, and by the way have you seen this?"

Anne Rice is writing another Vampire Chronicles novel! About Lestat! SQUEEEE!

Meme

2007-12-07T16:29:55Z

Nicked from sonadorita:

10 Things currently on your desk

computer
printer
a teddy bear named Claudia Jeanette
a spindle of blank CDs
my keys
tickets to the thre concerts on campus this weekend
my iPod
several vampire novels
my cell phone
my Sigma Alpha Iota badge

9 Favorite ships

Lestat/Nicki (The Vampire Chronicles)
Mick/Beth (Moonlight)
John/Teyla (Stargate: Atlantis)
Daniel/Sha'uri (Stargate: SG-1)
Vicki/Henry (The Blood Books)
Jack/Maureen (The Vampire Files)
Daniel/Vala (SG-1)
Rodney/Katie (SGA) (They're just so cute together!)
Julian/Ezri (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)

8 Of your current favorite songs

Night Prowler--AC/DC
Shot Through the Heart--Bon Jovi
Hell's Bells--AC/DC
Back In Black--AC/DC
You Give Love a Bad Name--Bon Jovi
Livin' On a Prayer--Bon Jovi
45--Shinedown
Fly From the Inside--Shinedown

7 People you talk to most

My sister
My mom
My roommate
My friend Erika
My SAI Big Sister
My friend Alena
Claudia Jeanette :p

6 Favorite kinds of candy/chocolate

York Peppermint Patties
Lindt Extra Dark Chocolate Truffles
Lindt Dark Chocolate Truffles
Hershy's Special Dark
Hershey's Kisses--candy cane
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups

5 Favorite bands/artists

AC/DC
Bon Jovi
The Who
Shinedown
Mannheim Steamroller

4 Websites you visit daily

Facebook
LiveJournal
indexed.blogspot.com (check it out--great stuff)
GateWorld (haven't had time to hang out on the forum, but I'm keeping up with the news)

3 Items on your wall

various posters I made of inspirational quotes
various posters I made of the covers of the first six Vampire Chronicles
A picture of Dorian Gray

2 Favorite sayings

"Do as ye will, an it harm none." --Wiccan Law
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream by night." --Edgar Allen Poe

1 Favorite movie

Interview with the Vampire

Halloween Meme

2007-11-02T00:27:48Z

Yes, I really did go as Lestat. Iwas prince for a day . . . the Brat Prince! :D

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
ceekaysheppard goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Lestat.
4prettierships gives you 16 light orange coffee-flavoured nuggets.
a_pilgrim_soul tricks you! You lose 15 pieces of candy!
cblade_007 tricks you! You get a dead frog.
doxymom gives you 15 tan vanilla-flavoured gummy bats.
gate_geek tricks you! You lose 1 pieces of candy!
hypercaz tricks you! You lose 13 pieces of candy!
lauriel01 gives you 8 tan lemon-flavoured pieces of chewing gum.
majortrip tricks you! You lose 5 pieces of candy!
silverspec gives you 9 brown peach-flavoured pieces of taffy.
x_erikah_x gives you 5 teal raspberry-flavoured pieces of taffy.
ceekaysheppard ends up with 19 pieces of candy, and a dead frog.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

Another Meme

2007-09-21T00:33:18Z

Nicked from x_erikah_x:

My pirate name is:

Black Mary Cash

Like anyone confronted with the harshness of robbery on the high seas, you can be pessimistic at times. You're musical, and you've got a certain style if not flair. You'll do just fine. Arr!

Get your own pirate name from piratequiz.com.
part of the fidius.org network

Ship Meme

2007-09-08T13:12:07Z

Pick five OTPs, preferably from different fandoms, and answer the following questions.

1. Lestat/Nicki (The Vampire Chronicles)
2. John/Teyla (Atlantis)
3. Daniel/Vala (SG-1)
4. Luke/Mara (Star Wars)
5. Vicki/Henry (The Blood Books)

When did you first fall in love with ship number 1?
Early on in The Vampire Lestat, before either of them was a vampire.

2. When did you fall in love with ship number 5?
Before I even started reading--I saw the first episode of the TV show that was made from them, Blood Ties, before I read the first one.

3.What is your favorite moment of ship number 3?
Probably the hug at the end of "Memento Mori." But I'd have to watch Season 10 again to be sure.

4. What will the ship be if you take the boy from ship 2 and the girl from ship 1 and mesh them?
This is what I get for picking the ships before reading the questions--there is no girl in ship 1. So... John/Nicki? If that were even in character for John, he'd completely overwhelm Nicki. Unstable as Nicki was, he'd probably end up committing suicide, just like he did in the book.

5. Vise versa.
Lestat/Teyla... now that would be an interesting match!

6. What's your favorite moment for ship 4?
This is going to sound a little weird, but probably when Mara dies. I cried. I like it when stories make me cry.

7. How long was there between the time you got into the fandom and the time you started shipping ship number 3?
About nine years. I was a diehard Daniel/Sha'uri shipper until about halfway through S10.

8. When did you start shipping ship number 4?
A little ways into the New Jedi Order series. I wanted to see Luke get back together with Callista until then--I was kind of in denial when he proposed to Mara in Vision of the Future.

9. Take three people from three of the ships and create an OT3.
Hmm... How about Lestat/Teyla/Luke. Luke and Teyla have a lot in common, and as for Lestat, well, opposites attract? IDK--OT3s are most decidedly not my thing.

10. Rank your OTPs in order.
John/Teyla
Vicki/Henry
Luke/Mara
Daniel/Vala
Lestat/Nicki

MAD SKILLZ

2007-09-02T04:35:41Z

...may be an overstatement, but I am pretty proud of this. :p

I was working on my novel one day, and I got a little stuck. Then I got a little bored... so I started messing around. I dug up a picture of a recent total lunar eclipse over Westminster Abbey, and it looked suitably spooky, so I made a cover using only Microsoft Word:

I don't know why it's so damned fuzzy... I'm not good at manipulating images. All I did before I added text was resize and darken the original picture. But I like how it turned out--the original is a lot clearer (as in, actually legible).

Friends? What friends?

2007-08-07T23:41:37Z

To all of my real-life friends:

I know none of you will probably see this, seeing as even those of you who have LJs almost never use them, but I have to say this.

When I say, "We should get together and do something," when I say, "Call me when you have a free day," when I say, "Let's go to a movie, how's Monday for you?," when I say, "Drop me an email and we'll chat," I am not making small talk. I really do want to talk to you. I want to spend time with you. I know you're busy––I'm not, and that's why I'm leaving the time frame up to you. But please, for the love of all that's holy, CALL ME THE HELL BACK! Have you all just dropped off the face of the earth? I've called you, IMed you, sent you emails, and gotten NOTHING back. I have heard from NOBODY. ALL BLOODY SUMMER!!! Hello??? I'm starting to develop a complex here, people! Where are you?

Sigh.

Story of my life. The instant I try to get myself an actual social life is the instant all my friends suddenly become too busy to remember I fucking exist. Kinda makes one wonder, doesn't it? Brings me right back to eighth grade graduation––same thing happened. And I discovered that about 15 people I thought were my friends had just spent the past nine years humoring me.

I guess some things never change.

1408

2007-07-24T04:04:23Z

I went with my sister to go see 1408 tonight. That is, in the words of Tony Shaloub's character, some spooky shit. Seriously, it's the single scariest movie I've ever seen.

Of course, the story is by Stephen King––what did I expect?

Well, I'll never be able to sleep in a hotel room again, that's for sure. And mirrors? Forget it––I've been terrified of darkened mirrors for almost two years now, having done it to myself with my short story "The Robinson Age." I'm going to develop full-blown catoptrophobia (mirrors) before long. *shudder*

LibraryThing.com

2007-07-20T03:10:03Z

I found an interesting Web site last night: LibraryThing.com. It allows you to list the books you own/have read, and then discuss them with other people who have read them. A free membership gives you room to catalogue 200 books. My profile is here:

But beware. I joined 24 hours ago, and I'm already hopelessly addicted.

Quoth the Raven

2007-07-07T05:07:04Z

So my novel now has a (hopefully) interesting subplot. It started out as a short story featuring my main antagonist--essentially, how she became a vampire--but eventually just merged with QtR, adding another dimension to the story. I finally feel like it's more than a glorified high school melodrama.

And I just finished rewriting the outline from scratch. :D Thirty-five pages total--there's a lot of detail in it, even snippets of dialogue. I FINALLY have what I desperately hope is the final version of Quoth the Raven laid out completely. :D

All that's left to see, now, is how much I can finish by the end of the summer--if I think I'm going to get much done during the school year, I'm even more foolishly optimistic than I thought. My goal is to complete four to six chapters by September.

ceekaysheppard @ 2007-07-02T16:00:00

2007-07-02T19:58:38Z

Heehee... I swear, I didn't cheat on this.

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Queen of the Damned––Movie

2007-07-01T21:17:22Z

I've heard from some that the movie version of Queen of the Damned was pretty good, and from others that it was absolutely awful. Now, I absolutely adored the novel (right up there, in my opinion, with Blood Canticle and Memnoch the Devil), so I've been dying to see the movie for myself for quite some time.

I finally got my hands on a copy last night, and I'm still trying to decide whether or not I like it. It encompasses much of The Vampire Lestat as well as Queen of the Damned, and lot of things were changed from the novels. For example, in the novels, Lestat was made a vampire by one named Magnus, who promptly immolated himself without teaching Lestat much of anything about being a vampire. The beginning of the movie, on the other hand, smacks more of The Vampire Armand: Lestat was made by Marius, who spent (if I recall correctly) two full months teaching him how to be a vampire. I can understand why this was done; namely, time constraints. You just can't cram two Anne Rice novels into 100 minutes of film. So the two characters of Magnus and Marius were combined to simplify the story a bit (unfortunately, this cut out a lot of backstory that's really necessary to understand the characters of Lestat and Akasha––especially Akasha). Nothing is said in the movie about how Akasha became a vampire (thus how vampires came to be). Maharet's sister Mekare is missing entirely. Akasha's plan for world domination is extremely vague in the movie––her grand explanatio n to Lestat and his subsequent torment (torn between love of/loyalty to/fear of Akasha and horror and revulsion at her intentions) are missing. With Mekare absent, it was Maharet who finally killed Akasha––with no danger at all to the other vampires (in the novels, the lives of all vampires are entirely dependent on Akasha: she dies, they all die). Finally, no one becomes the vampire queen in Akasha's place. I find myself forced to compare it to 2001: A Space Odyssey: it doesn't make much sense if you haven't read the book. Unlike the Space Oddity, though, having read the book somewhat ruins the movie, precisely because of all the inconsistencies.

However, If you ignore said inconsistencies and draw on the novels only for the necessary background (and remain mentally flexible in doing so), the movie is pretty good on its own. Stuart Townshend certainly looked the part of Lestat more than Tom Cruise (except that Townshend has dark hair), but I liked Cruise's interpretation of the character better. I'm not arguing that Lestat isn't dark, moody, edgy, and utterly seductive––all of which Townshend pulled off quite well––but I never got as... gloomy an impression of him from the novels as I did from this movie. However, that's entirely a matter of artistic interpretation, and in the context of the film, it worked quite well. And the music of Lestat's band was very interesting––definitely not my usual style (I've never been much for Gothic rock), but I'm kind of hooked on the QotD soundtrack at the moment. :P And most importantly, the story worked. A touch forced in one or two places, perhaps, but most movie plots are. The general plot made sense, it was really just the specifics that threw me a bit.

Let me go back to Lestat for a moment. In Interview with the Vampire, both the movie and the novel, Lestat is clearly portrayed as a villain, pure evil––because that's how Louis sees him. In the four novels that follow (The Vampire Lestat, Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, and Memnoch the Devil) plus the very last one, Blood Canticle––in other words, all the ones written from Lestat's point of view––something interesting is revealed. Lestat thinks he's evil. He thinks he wants to be evil (until Memnoch, anyway). He tries to be evil. But despite all this, he is not evil. That, I think, is what's so irresistably tragic about the character: he's so desperate to understand the world and his fate, and especially to be understood, when he has absolutely no understanding of himself.

I think that also may be what bothers me most about the movie version of Queen of the Damned. With the exception of a scene toward the very end when he makes Jesse a vampire to save her life (after obeying Akasha's order to kill her!), the Lestat of the film is undeniably evil. And that takes a lot away from the character.

So, my first impression of the movie is a little hazy. I suppose I'll have to watch it a few more times before I make up my mind.

Book meme and POTC3

2007-06-30T16:09:36Z

Heehee, I love these. Swiped from Mer:

Directions:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest (unless it's too troublesome to reach and is really heavy. Then go back to step 1). (or unless it doesn't have 123 pages)

From Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Betrayal

R2-D2 howled but immediately began putting diagnostics up on Luke's data screen.

Luke ended his roll a quick kilometer lower than his original position. Explosions continued to batter at his eardrums, but nothing as close as the first one. He glanced between his sensor board and he skies above.

The skies were filled with puffy gray clouds. They looked benign, but each was the lingering evidence of an explosion––results of a ground-based antispacecraft barrage.

Luke counted ten X-wings still flying.

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I am no longer the only person in the world who hasn't seen Pirates 3!

I went with my sister last night, and I have to say, I think it's the best one yet. Sparrow's hallucinations of himself were hilarious––the line "Nobody move! ...I've dropped me brain" is probably one of the funniest I've heard in a long time. :) Now I have something witty to fall back on when my mouth gets ahead of said wrinkly gray organ.

...Or when I say things like that, which sound much funnier in my head. :p

I loved the spyglass contest, too. Just because it was so totally obvious that Sparrow and Barbosa weren't really competing over whose spyglass was bigger. Heehee. :D

Oh, and that scar on Orlando Bloom at the end? *fans self* *faints dead away*

Ahem. On to more serious things.

Have I babbled on about the hero story in here yet? I don't think so... I know I talked about it on GW a while back, so here's the thread with the concise version: Star Wars and Ancient Myth. I was talking about Anakin Skywalker here, but (and I'd have to watch all three Pirates films pretty much back-to-back-to-back to be sure) I'm fairly certain it can be applied to Will Turner as well. I'll do a more detailed analysis when I can get my hands on all three movies––I don't remember the first two terribly well. However, some of the end parts of the story are clearly present. We have his "sacred marriage" with the feminine principle (Elizabeth), and atonement with his father. We see "elixir theft" when he stabs the heart of Davey Jones, and apotheosis when he becomes captain of the Flying Dutchman.

The Goddess stuff was interesting, too, especially if you look at both Calypso and Elizabeth Swann in light of the hero story, as the archetypal feminine principle. Did anybody else notice that it was only after the Goddess Calypso was freed that Elizabeth really stepped into her role as Pirate "King"? And it was Elizabeth and Calypso, more than anyone else, who led the pirates to victory over Beckett and the EITC, who did not have this feminine power on their side––in other words, they rejected rather than embracing their feminine (i.e. nurturing, loving, caring, protecting, creative) attributes, and thus were not spiritually whole. Again, I'll be able to do a more detailed analysis when I can watch it more than once.

I also find it interesting that Turner was killed by a sword––a clearly phallic weapon, a symbol of masculinity and thus aggression––and revived when his heart was placed in a closed box: any closed container can be seen as a symbol of the womb of the Goddess, in this case in Her Preserver aspect.

Okay, now that I've bored you all to death with a partial mythological and psychological analysis of a Disney movie, I'll go away.

Interview with the Vampire––Movie

2007-06-26T16:18:43Z

I realize the movie version of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire is thirteen years old, but I just saw it for the first time last night.

A-MAZING. The movie was actually scarier than the novel, thanks mostly to the score (which was not John Williams, but quite good nonetheless. :p Yes, I'm biased). Anne Rice wrote the screenplay herself, so it was much more faithful to the original than most movies.

It has quite the star-studded cast, too: Brad Pitt as Louis, Tom Cruise as Lestat, Kirsten Dunst as Claudia, and Antonio Banderas as Armand, to name a few.

I have only one complaint about it, and it's a silly, shallow thing: two characters just did not look right at all. According to the novels, Armand was sixteen when he was made, and Antonio Banderas was definitely older than that. And Tom Cruise is not gorgeous enough by half to play Lestat––long blond hair just doesn't do it for him. Lestat is supposed to be a knockout, not "could've-been-sexy-if-only...". You know what I mean?

Oh, well. it was fairly easy to look past––the acting was very good all around.

On the other hand, I have evidently always pictured Louis and Claudia as looking like Brad Pitt and Kirsten Dunst, because they looked exactly as I've always imagined them. And Armand was just unbelievably creepy! Between him and Santiago, the whole Théâtre des Vampires bit gave me chills. (Perhaps a little too much gratuitous gore, though.) Louis made me want to cry, which surprised me: after reading the rest of the Vampire Chronicles, I was beginning to agree with Lestat––"Still whining, Louis?" He was seriously starting to get annoying. But in Interview, both the novel and the movie, you can understand him somewhat, and feel his pain.

All in all, it was an excellent movie. Even my sister, who rolls her eyes and just drips boredom the instant the words "Anne Rice," "Lestat," or "vampire" come out of my mouth, wants to see it. :)

ceekaysheppard @ 2007-06-19T13:46:00

2007-06-19T17:52:42Z

Nicked from gwenhwyfar1984:

1. My username is _____ because ____.

CeeKay Sheppard because "CeeKay" is short for "Celtic Knot"––I'm Irish and that's my pen name on FanFiction.net––and Sheppard is the name of one of my all-time favorite TV characters.

2. My journal is titled ____ because ____.

"My Reprimand, My Goad, My Song" because that's the last line from Blood Canticle by Anne Rice, and it really made an impression on me. Full quote behind the cut:

"And then my heart cries out, my heart will not give up, my heart will not give in––
––the blood that teaches life will not teach lies, and love becomes again my reprimand, my goad, my song."

3. My subtitle is ____ because ____.

"Musings on Life, the Universe, and Everything" because anything's fair game for me to write about.

4. My friends page is called ____ because ____.

"Them That Tolerate My Ramblings" because I tend to babble on about stuff nobody else seems to care about anyway.

5. My default userpic is ____ because ____.

Lestat and Akasha from Queen of the Damned (also by Anne Rice) because I adore the Vampire Chronicles.

I've got wheels!

2007-05-30T02:55:54Z

...almost. :p I put down a deposit on my first car today, so I'm kind of excited. :D It's a 2005 Ford Taurus sedan with less than 30,000 miles on it, and it just had a tune-up, so it runs like a dream. It's kind of cute, too: it's a light tan sort of color (which the dealership calls "Dark Shadow Gray"), has a spoiler on the back, and has room for five passengers. It has a CD player, cruise control, power windows, tilt steering wheel... I can't wait to get in home! :D

Here's a picture:

Quiz Thing

2007-05-25T14:57:11Z

Snurched from x_erikah_x:

Which Stargate Atlantis character are you most like? Your Result: Dr. Carson Beckett Kind-hearted, sincere, loveable, and a good person. Dr. Beckett is a medical doctor, and he cares for everyone around him. By being simmilar in personality to him, it means that you are noble and genuine, and really, really nice. This is living proof that you don't need to be exceptionally strong to be a strong person. Plus, you're smart, too! ^^
Dr. Radek Zelenka
Dr. Elizabeth Weir
Teyla Emmagen
Col. John Sheppard
Dr. Rodney McKay
Ronan Dex
Which Stargate Atlantis character are you most like? Take More Quizzes

facepalm I really am hopeless...

2007-05-22T03:22:07Z

I finally saw a dermatologist about my acne problem. He took one look at me and put me on three different powerful medications: an oral antibiotic, a medicated wash, and a topical gel. The gel is called tretinoin.

Okay, fellow Stargate geeks, be honest. By show of comments ('cuz I can't see your hands :p) how many of you did a double take because you thought the stuff was called "tretonin"? I certainly did.

I love being a big sister...

2007-05-14T00:07:31Z

I am on Cloud 9, and I ain't comin' down any time soon.

It's really a simple thing. This morning, I knelt down to give my three-and-a-half-year-old baby brother a hug, and he flung himself into my arms and said, totally out of the blue, "You're my best friend." How utterly adorable is that? I just melted. I was so happy, I wanted to cry. Nobody's ever said that to me before, and to hear it from my baby brother was just the sweetest thing ever. I still turn into a puddle of goo just thinking about it. Forget making my day, he just made my life.

Where did the last two decades GO?

2007-05-09T15:41:26Z

Since when am I twenty years old?! I have clear memories of turning six. High school feels like just yesterday. But now I'm home for the summer, having finished my sophomore year of college, and today is my twentieth birthday. Which way to Neverland? I'm not old enough to be this old!

headdesk

2007-04-18T22:40:56Z

Driving has always made me nervous. When I took Driver Ed in my sophomore year of high school, the teacher's favorite line was "The car is a weapon of mass destruction!" Gee, thanks, Miss H––When I finally got my permit, I was bloody terrified to get behind the wheel. My six hours of instruction were among the most nerve-wracking of my life, and even now that I'm much more comfortable driving, an hour's drive leaves me shaking.

Nevertheless, I do need my own car––I'm a music education major, and I'll be student teaching pretty soon. So I'm buying a car next month.

And what book am I reading at the moment? Why, Stephen King's Christine. You know, the one about the red-and-white '58 Plymouth Fury that kills people and swallows up the life of a young man who is just a little too much like me for my comfort. Brilliant, eh?

Not that I'll ever get my hands on a '58 Fury––I don't even want one (especially now...)––but the last thing I needed was a horror story about a car. :p

Of course, I'm half kidding. But only half.

90s Kid Meme

2007-04-16T20:47:26Z

You can sing the rap to "The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air".
You've worn leggings and felt stylish.
You yearned to be part of the Baby-Sitters club.
You use to love playing with your My Little Pet Shop.
You remember when it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
You wore a ponytail on the side of your head and had scrunchies.
You remember reading "Goosebumps".
You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, wax off".
You have pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.
You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.
You remember the craze then the banning of yo-yo's.
You still get the urge to say "NOT" after (almost) every sentence...Not...
You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green Ranger were meant to be together.
You collected pokemon cards.
You wore socks over leggings scrunched down.
You knew what it meant to say "Care Bear Stare".
You knew all the characters names and their life stories on "Saved By The Bell".
You played and or collected "Pogs".
You used to pretend to be a MIGHTY MORPHIN Power Ranger.
You watched the ORIGINAL Care Bears and Ninja Turtles
Yikes pencils and rubbers were the shit.
You remember when the new Beanie Babies were always sold out.
You used to wear those stick on earings, not only on your ears, but at the corners of your eyes.
You've gotten creeped out by "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" (I loved that show...)
You thought it would be so cool to be Alex Mack.
You know the Macarena by heart.
"Talk to the hand" ... enough said.
You thought Brain from 'Pinkey and the Brain' would finally take over the world.
You were made to wear a pair of leggings with the straps on the bottom.
You owned Bum Bags, or Fanny Pax whatever you called them.
2 WORDS ... SPICE GIRLS...

Re-post this if you were a 90's kid and can relate to any of these.
Peace out.

Memes

2007-04-13T18:15:31Z

Nicked from majortrip:

When you see this, quote Shakespeare in your journal.

But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue. (Hamlet)

And I got this one from nightfreyja:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next three sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
6. Tag five other people to do the same.

OK, this one was honestly the closest: Structure and Style: The Study and Analysis of Musical Forms, Expanded Edition by Leon Stein. Perhaps I should add this to my previous post... :p

"Most hymns and folk songs will provide examples of four-measure phrases. That the four-measure phrase is actually a norm in Western music is indicated by the presence of this structural unit in early Ambrosian hymns, troubadour and minnesinger songs, various types of European dances, and the greater portion of European music composed since 1600. Two-, three-, five-, six-, seven-, and eight-measure phrases may be found in the music of all periods, but these are far less frequent than are four-measure units."

I love the sunglasses on the smiley, given that a short version of the song I'm listening to is the theme to CSI: Miami. LOL––I may have start referring to said smiley as Horatio. :p

You know you're a music geek when...

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1. People routinely ask you, "You play the what?"
2. You come home from your music classes on spring break––and compose.
3. More than half of the music on your iPod was composed before 1850.
4. You use words like "tessitura" and "minor dominant" in everyday conversation––
5. ––and most of your friends know exactly what you're talking about.
6. You have ever spent more than six hours playing your instrument in a single day.
7. You're not halfway through college yet and you already have way more ensemble credits than you need to graduate.
8. You read music theory textbooks for fun.
9. Breakfast table conversation concerns the playability of specific multiple stops (i.e., chords) on the violin.
10. You don't realize this is weird until after lunch.

*sigh*