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cleolindaI can't stop listening to that song so depressed please send help stop.
Seriously, I think I may have to force myself to listen to something more cheerful, like that Pearl Jam song about the kid who kills his girlfriend in a car accident.
Meanwhile, downstairs, Sam has somehow scraped his foot coming home from the vet--probably walking through the parking lot to the car--and is bleeding all over the house. He seems impervious to this, actually, and we've been chasing him around with Neosporin and paper towels, trying to scrub out little red pawprints in the carpet that just got steam-cleaned last night (no kidding) and bind up his foot and hold him still. (Aww. Now he has a little Band-Aid around his foot. "That's going to be hell to get off," I say. "I don't care," my mother says in a tone of total exasperation.)
I've started trying to run my file-moving software, but it got hung up on the "gathering files" step. Which doesn't surprise me--I have only about 9 gigs' worth, but because they're all relatively small image files, there are tens of thousands. Fnarr. Am amusing myself making icons. (Since pictures were hard to find, I've included the source pictures and bases, if you feel like making your own. Hey, whatever keeps me from jumping out of a window from music-induced despair at this point, man.) Ah, well.
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Date: 2004-09-25 02:06 pm (UTC)I like to sing "Ode to Billie Joe" at sociology department karaoke nights, even though some people accuse me of being a downer.
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Date: 2004-09-25 02:32 pm (UTC)i like it better than the 50's version, though, the 50's version is all happy and peppy
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Date: 2004-09-25 02:33 pm (UTC)I have never commented before - but I do check in and read quite a bit :) Anyway - you have me totally addicted to that song. I downloaded it and can't stop listening to it. Thanks. And really thanks cause it is an awesome song!
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Date: 2004-09-25 02:46 pm (UTC)Spiderman will make you gay!!
Date: 2004-09-25 02:51 pm (UTC)Re: Wild Rose
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Date: 2004-09-25 03:09 pm (UTC)Go listen to some dance music or something...then you will feel better. :)
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Date: 2004-09-25 03:35 pm (UTC)Re: Wild Rose
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Date: 2004-09-25 04:33 pm (UTC)Re: Wild Rose
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Date: 2004-09-25 06:57 pm (UTC)Want me to send you some antidotes? I have two hilarious songs that always make me giggle helplessly :) Using YouSendIt (http://s3.yousendit.com/), it would be easy enought to email them to you.
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Date: 2004-09-25 09:29 pm (UTC)Gah, I just downloaded "Where the Wild Roses Grow" and listened to it, and that song is crazy intense.
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Date: 2004-09-25 10:11 pm (UTC)Depressing music? Naaah...
Date: 2004-09-25 11:32 pm (UTC)Eminem's Stan Fantastically morbid stuff.
Eminem's Kim Even more fantastically morbid stuff! I was emotionally traumatized the first time I heard it, AND I love Where The Wild Roses Grow more and more with each replay.
I would also recommend Weird Al Yankovich's You Don't Love Me Anymore because while it is wonderfully sadistic, it is also wonderfully funny. I brought a CD mix to lab one day and everybody fell madly in love with the song; they insisted I put it on infinite repeat so they could make out all the lyrics. The question should be, of course, why people working in a lab full of dangerous chemicals and equipment have such vested interest in Grevious Bodily Harm.
While we're on the topic of blood and gore, it also disturbs me that my dog can injure his paw and walk around leaving bloody prints all over the house and act like nothing's the matter. Animals are scary creatures.
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Date: 2004-09-25 11:50 pm (UTC)..what? Oh, right, SEND HELP, not MAKE IT WORSE! Right, my bad. *slapface* Loreena McKennitt's The Highwayman, which is her interpretation of the poem by the same name, is absolutely beautiful, and...mmmmrrrnn I'm not very much help, am I?
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Date: 2004-09-26 03:46 am (UTC)All I remember is that, at the time, none of the young 'uns here even knew who Kylie was - and I had my memory of songs like her cover of Locomotion as an asset. She was a starlet as a kid in the 80s and then didn't really hit the jackpot throughout the 90s, for the reasons you outline so well. (Although her slower, darker stuff was quite cool! Was!)
The woman has some mileage in her figure, fortunately. I can't tell you how gratifying it is to know that she's older than me and STILL looks this good ;)
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Date: 2004-09-26 04:29 am (UTC)"Henry Lee" is a fine PJ Harvey/Nick Cave duet that's sort of the inverse of "Rose." Followed with a chaser of "The Curse of Millhaven" (which is, musically, "Henry Lee" at double speed), you'll be humming along in no time.
Yes, it is I, Lottie. The Curse Of Millhaven
I've struck horror in the heart of this town
Like my eyes ain't green and my hair ain't yellow
It's more like the other way around
I gotta pretty little mouth underneath all the foaming
La la la la La la la lie
Sooner or later we all gotta die
Since I was no bigger than a weavil they've been saying I was evil
That if "bad" was a boot that I'd fit it
That I'm a wicked young lady, but I've been trying hard lately
O fuck it! I'm a monster! I admit it!
It makes me so mad my blood really starts a-going
La la la la La la la lie
Mama always told me that we all gotta die
It's jaunty!
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Date: 2004-09-27 07:41 am (UTC)In fact, I think I have to listen to that tonight now.
Thanks Cleo! :)