Though I lack your power, I will still persist.

I'm okay.

Well, actually, I'm not okay, but I'm okay with that. It is not my fault if I'm going through a low patch with my depression, even if I really should have seen it coming a mile off - that was a mistake, everyone makes them, right? Right. Anyway, I'm making up for it by treating myself nicely. I'm even offsetting having a bath (I hate baths, I'm a shower person, but I don't have a shower and even if I did I'd probably fall over, so a bath it is) with 80s classics. Of course, Christmas songs would have been better, but even with all the stations I can get on my radio, there doesn't seem to be one devoted to Christmas music, which is a massive shame, because I would so listen to that :(

So, what are your favourite Christmas songs?


(Christmas music makes me happy, and I could do with more happy, so the question is totally relevant to the rest of the post.)

I woke up to an evil amount of pain in my back and a distinct lack of money in my bank account. One phone call and a couple of painkillers later, and both of those problems were sorted. And the day only got better from there.

Some of the things I did today:

• Had a bath
• Listened to music (including a few songs I haven't heard for ages)
• Came up with a new fic idea
• Sat out in the garden just to feel the breeze
• Started organising something small for next month

Okay, there were some other things that happened that weren't so good, but it's the end of the day and I feel good, and that doesn't happen often, so. I'm just happy that I've had a good day that's left me with more mental energy than normal.

Having said that, I am completely shattered, and should probably go to sleep now.

I swear, there is nothing - and I mean nothing - that is annoying in the same way as being on the verge of tears all day and still not actually being able to cry. Even listening to all the sad songs I own (all 30 of them!) isn't helping.

This is getting ridiculous.

Moral of the story: I need sadder songs. Also, "That's Why They Call It The Blues" by Elton John.

SO. I would like to talk about a few things.

Firstly, if anyone ever asks me how I feel about my gender ever again, I'm just going to point them to Being Liquid by rotaryphones and just say something like ~that~, because that's pretty much it. Plus, it is an incredibly good fic.

Secondly, I spent most of last night watching this vid by glass_moment, because the song is crack and the vid is perfect. It doesn't hurt that Lancehot Lancelot has chemistry with everything¹.

Thirdly, and on the subject of Merlin, this Merlin!Puffs cartoon is possibly the cutest thing since this Puffs! At The Disco one. And I don't even listen to Panic! At The Disco².

Fourthly, if I don't get "In The Mood" by Glen Miller out of my head any time soon, I may just explode. The same goes for "Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)" by Elton John, "Thnks fr th Mmrs" by Fall Out Boy, "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" by Pat Benetar, "Rock You Like a Hurricane" by The Scorpions, and Gun's cover of "Word Up". Naturally, I own none of them, because that would be useful, and my life doesn't do useful.

Fourth-and-a-halfly, my brain almost did explode on Thursday for that reason, but due to the songs "Echo Beach" by Martha & The Muffins, "King Of Wishful Thinking" by Go West, and "The Joker" by the Steve Miller Band. Luckily I found them all on my granddad's collection of freebie CDs³.

Fifthly, I could do with learning how to deal with having crushes on people better, especially if I'm going to keep having this many going on at once⁴.

And lastly, I should try to work out if all those other numbers really needed the suffix -ly. I'm pretty sure that they didn't, but I really can't be bothered to correct them.


PS: After the last comment I wrote, I'm not writing anything else today, including any of the huge number of replies to comments I need to do. I no longer trust myself to make any sense at all, because my brain has just decided to do this, which just happens to be excellent timing because OMG THERE'S A COOKIE!

*noms*




¹Including, but not limited to: Arthur, Gwen, Merlin, Gaius, a Griffin, a sword, his own hair, and the bars of his cell.
²And now I've seen the cartoon, this may be subject to change in the very near future.
³You know the ones I mean - the ones that come free with newspapers every now and then, but only ever seem to have one song on that you actually like. For some reason, my granddad has a stash of them, and he doesn't even like any of them.
⁴Also, I'm starting to think that if I have a crush on someone for more than a year and they don't notice at all, I need to learn to let it rock let it roll let it go⁵.
⁵Also, I must learn not to make bad lyric references that no-one else will get.

Made sure I spent last night having a good time. Watched The Daily Show (would have been on TV on Monday in America - We get it a day later at 8:30pm (our time) here, on More4 for those in the UK who want to watch it) and got to see Jon Stewart singing part of "Turning Japanese" by The Vapors (why do I not have this song?). Watched a re-run of Have I Got News For You, and got to see Ian Hislop saying he liked "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana. These are the times when music makes me feel even better - when the result is great comedic effect.

At the bus stop this morning (and this is somewhat related), some guy decided to talk music with me. Bad idea, hip-hop boy. First rule of talking music with me - don't take the music too seriously. Because, hey, I'm a Def leppard fan, you can't take that sort of music seriously, you just can't. Rock music is about the absurd and the outrageous, so they say. Of course, this was something that hip-hop boy did not get, and try as I might to explain it to him, he still did not get it. I tried to explain it using "Pour Some Sugar On Me" by Def Leppard - "I've heard it" hip-hop boy says "but it sounds like something you'd hear in a strip club". "That's why the band themselves call it 'The Stripper Anthem'! It's stripperific!" says I. He gives me a weird look, the bus comes, and we sit as far away from each other as possible.

This leads to me working out what 'stripperific' actually means. And I figure that it means something that you can not only strip to, but pole dance and other forms of erotic dancing. But the song should not be taken too seriously, because it's going to have that label attached to it, and you couldn't possibly take a song seriously after that.

SO. Let's see how stripperific some songs are, for a laugh. The first three songs that came on my mp3 player this morning, plus the stripper anthem itself. Vote 10 for 'totally stripperific', 0 for 'totally not stripperific', any other number for anything inbetween as you see fit. If you don't want to vote on all the songs (because you don't know them or whatever), there's an 'abstained' option you can use.

[Poll #1278908]


PS: Like I said, this isn't to be taken seriously.

PSS: All that work, and I put the wrong song in the poll *headdesk*

So, acroamatica did this meme, Ten Sentences That Mean You're Definitely Talking To... and I thought "That's cool, but I can't even think of one thing." So let's see if you guys, between you, can think of 10 sentences that mean you're talking to me.

Have fun with that XD




It also hugely amuses me that, as it stands right now, over 50% of people would marry me purely for a choice of first-dance song. It's beautiful, that's what it is.

So it's set - this year I'll be making all the Christmas presents I'll be giving out. Which gives me about 10 days to get it right.

And as for you guys... What about 3 more music mixes? All I need to do is upload them, but they may be a bit rubbish as they're more party songs and some guilty pleasures that I wasn't allowed to listen to at home while growing up. Oh, and a 5ive mix. Sorry, but I'd forgotten how much happy they give me. So they'll be up at the music post (that I've now stickied to the top of this journal to make things easier) when they upload.

Oh, and how on earth is it that everyone thinks it was the Vengaboys who did "Sex On The Beach"? IT WAS T-SPOON YOU FOOLS! Maybe letting me do music quizzes is a bad idea...

It's amazing what a shower with good music can do for a person.

I no longer have blue legs either.

Congrats to the London bid team, I know you won't be reading this in favour of getting drunk. Oh well.