The Baffled King

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:01:47 GMT

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, becky_h and kittens and sunshine and. Love.

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:10:24 GMT

Hi. We had a party. I am drunk, full, and we had the cops called on us which whoa.

It was sorta awesome.

ETA: oh dude. I was wondering. Why I couldn't find Doctor Who tonight and where all the reviews were.

I just realized it's Friday, not Saturday.

Books

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:36:27 GMT

The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed below.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:03:58 GMT

I have the plague. Kill me before it spreads.

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:50:07 GMT

Silly

Wisdome of babes

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:10:57 GMT

Me: Chloe, please go away.
Chloe: ...What?
Me: I don't know what's going on, but the sight of you or Lucas is making me homocidal and hateful and I don't know what's going on.
Chloe: ...do you have PMS?
Me: *counts days. ...Yes.
Chloe: Love you, bye!

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:51:29 GMT

Meme gacked from smithy161

01. The first character I fell in love with.
02. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now.
03. The character everyone else loves that I don't.
04. The character I love that everyone else hates.
05. The character I used to love but don't any longer.
06. The character I would shag anytime.
07. The character I'd want to be like.
08. The character I'd slap.
09. A pairing that I love.
10. A pairing that I hate.

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:30:38 GMT

1) Sunburn
2) Bought first Amber book and a Castle Perilous book.
3) STING RAY JUMPED OUT OF THE WATER 10 FT FROM ME. TOWARDS ME. I screamed like a little girl.
4)
Chloe: Luke, grab that.
Luke: I'm not your bitch.
Me: That's right, you're mine. Get it.
Luke: I'm her bitch. Now spank me and tell me I'm pretty.

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:38:08 GMT

I. I.

Okay so. We got tee shirts printed for Pride. They did not sell. Mom says "Write them off as advertising and give them away." I say "Ebay".

Opinions?

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:50:52 GMT

Hokay. People who have seen yesterday's DW episode: Should I watch it or wait until next week and watch them together?

Pride

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:50:58 GMT

I was going to do this as a bullet point list, but. Just not going to work without a lot of digression so I'm just going to make this a long post and write between rp reps.

So. We got up at 6 am and got to the store at 7 am. We'd made tee shirts the day before that said Pandora's Box Staff. It was kind of cool. I'm going to wear it often. Kent, Nikki, and David were meant to be there at 8. Kent called and said they'd be there between 8:15 and 8:30. They arrived at 9:11. Emily got there a little later, Jimmy...oh god, I have no idea when Jimmy got there. He's unobtrusive, yet awesome. So anyway. We had some people in all morning, we sold boas and pride stuff mostly, then came the parade. The parade rocked. I only saw parts of it though. I got some pictures, then I had to go inside because it got busy. It was so hot.

Kent wasn't. Listening to me or mom, he let a piece of art get damaged, and he wouldn't stay in his assigned room. And he was slurring, and touching the customers and just. His medicine made him look like he was strung out and made him act like it. Like. Getting in customer's faces and talking about what they were getting. With the toys. Yeah. Not cool. And he started telling the customers he has a brain tumor (he doesn't). We kept asking if he wanted to go home, if he'd go home, and finally, mom just told him to go. Because we had to assign him a minder, his minder wasn't. Minding very well, and I had to keep going back and keeping Kent from telling totally wrong things and scaring the customers. And we had him back there in the first place so he could sit where it was cool; he couldn't sit in the front because he can't run the register.

Anyway. That sucked. Mom made him go home.

He brought his two friends with him.

Leaving us with 6 people, including two minors. For three rooms and an outside booth. And roughly 10 people at a time in the store at the slowest, and 70 at the fastest. We do not have ROOM for that many people, seriously.

Fortunately, two guys that we knew vaguely stayed and just. Stepped up to the plate in major, major ways. They were amazing and saved our asses. Because we were PACKED until 4 pm when they packed up the street festival. It was just. Exhausting in major ways.

We came home at 10pm and I fell asleep in my CHAIR.

Then we went back to work this morning at 12. Sold some more stuff. And now I am not moving for the next two days except to go to the bank to deposit money tomorrow morning.

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:12:14 GMT

I wake up sometimes with a fragment of a dream still in my head. A word, a phrase, a song. I woke up today with "Life lasts longer than love." I don't remember the first part, it was something about being alone but shit, that's depressing.

Rec

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:15:36 GMT

This is a really good fic and has great things about biology and the alieness of the Doctor.

Cookie Man

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:17:07 GMT

I was telling Liz that today is cookie day and I realized that I have not talked about the cookie man. The cookie man? The cookie man.

The cookie man is a small, thin boned man in his late 40s with a huge smile and shoulder length silver hair. He comes to my work every Wednesday, in the late afternoon, with a basket over his forearm.

Filled with cookies. Little brown paper packets with five huge cookies inside, moist and delicious and a red plate with samples; so you know which cookies are best for you that day.

There are old standbys: chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin. Then there are the creative ones; peanutbutter cookies with a jam center, heath bar cookies.

He sells us his cookies with a smile and sometimes, a little song, then goes on his way while the storm rolls in behind him, lightening flashing across the gray sky.

Though, I'll be fair, it storms every afternoon here: that's how we know it's summer. He comes from Katie's Bakery, in Clearwater, and makes deliveries up and down the Gulf coast in Pinellas. It's kind of awesome.

I'm going to call these 3/4 drabbles since they're each exactly 75 words.

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:24:31 GMT

150 words of disconnected, not fluffy Jack/Ianto.

IE: My brain was floating at work.

Jack sleeps, belly down on the bed, face pressed into his crossed arms. Totally exposed. It’s not the defensive position Jack slept in the first few times Ianto shared his bed, coiled and ready to spring into motion at the least provocation. It wasn’t until he stopped doing it that Ianto recognized it for what it was, feeling oddly, obliquely flattered. He hadn’t felt like a threat the first few times he shared Jack’s bed.

Ianto writes on Jack’s skin when Jack sleeps, scrawling figures, times, dates, fragments of events- keywords to memory. Paper burns, tears, decays. Computer files melt, fry, disappear, break. Jack’s skin though, that’s permanent, eternal and unchanging. Even when the shower floor is stained black with Ianto’s ink each morning, Ianto knows his words are etched somewhere in Jack, scrawled in tiny, pink lines into Jack’s muscle like a memory and so they’re never ever lost.

My siblings, ladies and gentlemen.

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:16:24 GMT

Luke: Chloe, if you had a chance to be a boy, would you?
Chloe: Just for like. A day. So I could pee easier.

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:19:36 GMT

I would like to start having a normal relationship with food.

I would like to keep it down.
I would like not to have a shakey sugar crash.
I would like to not immediately fall asleep after eating.

One or the other seems to keep happening and it's pissing me OFF.

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:20:49 GMT

I think I just nailed my personality.

Also so hi, my name is Mecca, think of me as a cocker spaniel. Shy, neurotic and I pee on the floor until I'm comfortable and then I jump all over you. Minus the peeing on the floor bit. I go with inappropriate public declarations instead.

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:10:43 GMT

Hokay so.

I expect to be gone/dead/absent forever. Well. Not forever. For a while. Chloe and Luke arrive tonight around 10 pm. Tomorrow I work from 12-4. Monday I have off, but I expect family time. Tuesday I work 12-10. Wednesday 12-10. Thursday 12-10, plus a party so. 1ish will be home. Friday 12-10. Saturday 7am-11pm (Pride), Sunday 12-4. Rinse, repeat, save Saturday. Chloe and Luke are here until July 13.

I have 2 fanvids I'm working on at the store because. No internets. I'm working on the other three fanmixes and. I expect I'm going to be showing Chloe and Luke all of Torchwood and probably some new who.

Arthur/Gwen fanmix

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:46:06 GMT

Album

Storybook Love
Mark Knopfler
Come my love Ill tell you a tale
Of a boy and girl and their love story
And how he loved her oh so much
And all the charms she did possess
Now this did happen once upon a time
When things were not so complex
How he worshipped the ground she walked
And when he looked in her eyes he became obsessed
My love is like a storybook story
But its as real as the feelings I feel

If something should happen
Darryl Worley
I hope I live until I'm 80
And I get to see my son get married
And have babies
And make a million more memories with my wife.
Yeah buddy I pray alright
But if it's my time to leave
Could you watch over them for me?
If something should happen

Precious Illusions
Alanis Morissette
you'll rescue me right? in the exact same way they never did..
I'll be happy right? when your healing powers kick in

you'll complete me right? then my life can finally begin
I'll be worthy right? only when you realize the gem I am?

Sometimes Love Ain't Enough
Patti Smith
And there's a danger in loving somebody too much,
and it's sad when you know it's your heart they can't touch.
There's a reason why people don't stay who they are.
Baby, sometimes, love just ain't enough.

Baby
Dave Matthews Band
Some might tell you there's no hope in hand
Just because they feel hopeless
But you don't have to be a thing like that
You be a ship in a bottle set sail

Stay or Leave
Dave Matthews Band
Remember we used to dance
And everyone wanted to be
You and me
I want to be too
What day is this
Besides the day you left me?
What day is this
Besides the day you went?

Lying is the Most Fun
Panic at the Disco
Is it still me that makes you sweat?
Am I who you think about in bed?
When the lights are dim and your hands are shaking as you're sliding off your dress?
Then think of what you did
And how I hope to God he was worth it.
When the lights are dim and your heart is racing as your fingers touch his skin.
I've got more wit, a better kiss, a hotter touch, a better fuck
Than any boy you'll ever meet, sweetie you had me
Girl I was it, look past the sweat, a better love deserving of
Exchanging body heat in the passenger seat?
No, no, no, you know it will always just be me

Unfaithful
Rhianna
He's more than a man
And this is more than love
The reason that the sky is blue
The clouds are rolling in
Because I'm gone again
And to him I just can't be true

And I know that he knows I'm unfaithful
And it kills him inside
To know that I am happy with some other guy
I can see him dying

In the Sun
Joseph Arthur
I picture you in the sun wondering what went wrong
And falling down on your knees asking for sympathy
And being caught in between all you wish for and all you seen
And trying to find anything you can feel that you can believe in

How to Save a Life
The Fray
Let him know that you know best
Cause after all you do know best
Try to slip past his defense
Without granting innocence
Lay down a list of what is wrong
The things you've told him all along
And pray to God he hears you

Make this Go on forever
Snow Patrol
Please don't let this turn into something it's not
I can only give you everything I've got
I can't be as sorry as you think I should
But I still love you more than anyone else could

Disenchanted
My Chemical Romance
Well I was there on the day
They sold the cause for the queen,
And when the lights all went out
We watched our lives on the screen.
I hate the ending myself,
But it started with an alright scene.

Fanmix One

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:27:45 GMT

Album

Strange Glue
Catatonia
When faced with my demons
I clothe them and feed them
And I smile, yes I smile
As they're taking me over
And if I cannot sleep for the secrets I keep
It's the price I'm willing to meet
The end of the night never comes too quickly for me

I'm Like A Lawyer With The Way I'm Always Trying To Get You Off
Fall Out Boy
Last year’s wishes are this year’s apologies
Every last time I come home
I take my last chance
To burn a bridge or two
I only keep myself this sick in the head
‘Cause I know how the words get you (off)

Delicate
Damien Rice
We might kiss when we are alone
When nobody's watching
We might take it home
We might make out when nobody's there
It's not that we're scared
It's just that it's delicate

Your Honor
Regina Spektor
I kissed your lips and I tasted blood
I asked you what happened and you said, There'd been a fight.
You said I've been fighting for your honor but you wouldn't understand
I said hold on your honor I'll get ice for your hand

Grand Theft Autumn
Fall Out Boy
You need him. I could be him...
I could be an accident but I'm still trying.
That's more than I can say for him.

When I'm gone
3 Doors Down
And everything in me
Wants to be the one
You wanted me to be
I'll never let you down
Even if I could
I'd give up everything
If only for your good

All the Same
Sick Puppies
I don't mind where you come from
As long as you come to me
I don't like illusions I can't see
Them clearly

I don't care no I wouldn't dare
To fix the twist in you
You've shown me eventually
What you'll do

Your Mistake
Sister Hazel
I’m not right
I’m not fine
I wanna be rain
That tastes like wine
I wanna be good
I wanna be great
I wanna be everything
Except for your mistake

Broken
Seether
I wanted you to know I love the way you laugh
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain away
I keep your photograph, I know it serves me well
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain

'Cause I'm broken when I'm open
And I don't feel like I am strong enough
'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away

Better Than Me
Hinder
I really miss your hair in my face
And the way your innocence tastes
And I think you should know this
You deserve much better than me

Falling for you
Jem
Coz I can feel it, baby
I feel like I'm falling for you
But I'm scared to, let go
I'm scared coz my heart has been hurt so

It's true I've become a skeptic
How many couples really love
Just wish I had a crystal ball
To show me, if it's worth it all

Beautiful Disaster
Kelly Clarkson

Oh when I don’t know
I don’t know what he’s after
But he’s so beautiful
Such a beautiful disaster
And if I could hold on
Through the tears and the laughter
Would it be beautiful?
Or just a beautiful disaster

His magical myth
As strong as with I believe
A tragedy with
More damage than a soul should see
And do I try to change him
So hard not to blame him
Hold on tight
Hold on tight

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:35:31 GMT

~~Um. I feel the need to make fanmixes. Give me a theme and a fandom, a pairing, a character. RP characters count. Doesn't have to be mine. Something?~~

Working on it!

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:44:50 GMT

Also, I watched the Black Orchid yesterday? And I actually gleed out loud, squealed and clapped my hands.

I did. I have no shame. (maybe a little shame)

Raoul de Chagney

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:18:18 GMT

Opinions of people who have read Phantom of the Opera, re: The character of Raoul.

Was he really a 12 year old girl or do I need to reread? Because. Yeah, 12 year old girlish is my memory of it.

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:53:33 GMT

Okay so. In Florida. Lizards are as common as, say, moths. They're everywhere, all the time. You can't keep them out of the house, and they're always running around.

I went outside to get my mom a pack of cigarettes from the car. I shut the door behind me. I came back in and a lizard fell on my head.

I screamed, shook, run away, and threw the cigarettes at my mom. Looked and told her she had to handle that because I sure as fuck couldn't. Because it was an eviscerated lizard.

I, apparently, shut the door on him on my way out.

Homg.
Homg.
Homg.
I showered.
Homg.
Scrubbed.
Homg.