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dancewildlydancewildly dancewildly dancewildlydancewildly dancewildlydancewildlyI'll be posting the same kind of stuff as here, and maybe some original fiction. I certainly hope so. Friend me there!
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Creativity rush!
Woah, what's up with me today? After weeks of writing nothing except my German story that still doesn't want to let me know what it's actually about, I wrote a short (really short) story and a poem/song type thing today, and it's only three o'clock. Where is all this creative energy coming from? I need more!
Writer's Block
Are you prepared for a zombie outbreak, or are you just going to wing it?
Totally prepared. My aunt has a nuclear bomb shelter (well, it's a cemented cellar with a really, really thick cement door, but still), that's where I'll take all my books and music until the zombies go away. Food? Who needs food?
Has anybody read Fun Home by Alison Bechdel? You should. It's about a young woman coming to terms with her father's suicide and that he had affairs with younger men, and her own homosexuality. Also, it's a graphic novel, and I have lots of love for graphic novels lately.
I'm thinking about starting a new journal. Really it's incredible that I've had this one for so long (almost 4 years, egads!), as usually with my (handwritten) diaries I only have the patience to fill one thin notebook before wanting something completely different. And this one has all my high school musings in it, which I would like to just forget. :P
I'll let you know when I open a new account, if I do.
ETA: Argh but choosing a new username is difficult! It was easier when I started, back then I loved dragons, easy as that. I didn't really have any other interests. Now... literature! History! Music!
Howabout dancewildlyalso? "Then the minstrels, which were disguised, danced; and the lords and ladies did wildly dance also, that it was a pleasure to behold" - it's a quote from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain.
Or sallygardens? "Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I being young and foolish, with her would not agree..." - Down by the Sally Gardens by W.B. Yeats.
Or pon_rep "'Pon rep!" was a polite exclamation in the regency period.
Anyway I won't bore you. That was just a demonstration of how difficult it is to find a name. :P
You're now of age, and you're thrown in a different cage, and you're faced with another blank page
My birthday was... interesting. I saw Mama Mia at the cinema with my best friend and my sister - and two bottles of cheap wine. By the end of the movie we were singing and dancing along :P I think even without the wine I really would have enjoyed the movie, I definitely want to see it again.
But the alcohol led to Sarah and Kimberly having a pointless (and endless) argument in the park after the movie. So I left them in the park and went to a museum just near there that I'd wanted to go to for ages. So all in all, it wasn't that bad.
I'm twenty now. I thought I'd be taller :P
ETA: Sarah made me the best cake.
It's shaped like a book! Hee :D
But the alcohol led to Sarah and Kimberly having a pointless (and endless) argument in the park after the movie. So I left them in the park and went to a museum just near there that I'd wanted to go to for ages. So all in all, it wasn't that bad.
I'm twenty now. I thought I'd be taller :P
ETA: Sarah made me the best cake.
It's shaped like a book! Hee :D
Oh look, there goes another year
I'm turning twenty tomorrow. Do not want!
Also I think I'm suffering from post-holiday depression. Or maybe pre-birthday depression? It's some kind of depression for sure. I feel horrible.
Also I think I'm suffering from post-holiday depression. Or maybe pre-birthday depression? It's some kind of depression for sure. I feel horrible.
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Oh god, this song. I watched it once and it made me teary eyed, then I watched it again with my mum and burst into tears. If you don't know Lusy Knisley, go check out her stuff NOW, either on
lucylou or Stop Paying Attention."I would hug my grandpa..." :(
Hello, I'm back from France! We had a great time. One of my favourite things was seeing the ocean - living in Switzerland I'd forgotten how much I love the smell of the sea. Mmm, seaweedy.
Montreux Jazz Festival
I saw Travis at the Montreux Jazz Festival last night. In the front row :D It was so amazing and if felt kind of weird, it's hard to explain why (though I'll try anyway). I discovered Travis when I lived in Geneva (I knew of them before, but I didn't actively go out and look for their songs, I just enjoyed them whenever I heard them on the radio). One night when I was babysitting the kids, I turned the TV on to a Travis gig. I came in just when they were singing the harmony part of the Beautiful Occupation, and I thought hey, I know this song, who is this band? Then they played Turn and Dougie did his little solo and I fell in love with them then and there. I went and bought an album the next day. Their music really got me through a lot in Geneva. And also while I lived there, I kept seeing posters for the Jazz Festival and thought I'd like to go there one day, even though I don't really like jazz, it just sounded so cool. So when I saw them on the stage with the Montreux Jazz Festival signs in the background, it felt like something was coming full circle.
I don't have much time so here is a kind of short review.
The gig:
Oh. My. God. When we (eledh_3, sheentylla, my sister, another friend and me) finally got inside, there was a bit of worry about if we'd be able to stay in the front row (there were barriers between the stage and the crowd that obviously weren't going to hold) but that problem resolved itself nicely when, about three songs into the gig, some staff members took the barriers away and we could actually lean on the stage. Eeeee! :D
We were standing right in front of Dougie, I wish we'd been allowed cameras. :( Dougie dropped a plectrum on the floor and after the song I asked him if I could have it, and he handed me a new one from off the mic stand :D THAT'S HOW CLOSE TO HIM I WAS. And damn, the way that man plays bass should be outlawed! It verges on porn, honestly. Also, he totally knows what he's doing when he smiles. He flashed a huge grin at the girls behind me and they all screamed like it was the Beatles or something. Not that I find that silly, I was screaming the whole time too, especially after his Turn solo. :P
They played a few new songs, which was fantastic (Chinese Blues (aaaaahhh brilliance), Song to Self, J. Smith and a few others I can't remember). And Indefinitely and Slideshow! And Blue Flashing Light! But while we were waiting for them outside after the show, I kept thinking of songs they didn't play, like My Eyes and Why Does It Always Rain On Me (!). Also, during soundcheck someone played the first few notes from the intro of Humpty Dumpty Love Song, so I was really expecting them to play that. But they didn't. :(
After the gig, we waited outside for them.
Neil: *very quiet* He came out first and signed some stuff for people and left pretty quickly. I didn't ask him to sign anything because I was too shy DX
The others took aaaages to come out, I was almost asleep when they did. Maybe that's why I wasn't nearly as star struck and nervous as I was last time.
Fran: *had a sore throat* He told us how panicked he was on stage because he'd woken up that morning with a sore throat and kept thinking he was about to loose his voice on stage. You could only tell his voice was a bit off when he spoke, though, the singing sounded fine.
Andy: *SO DRUNK omg* He was really chatty and hugging people all the time, it was cute. :D I walked past him (I didn't see it was him because he was hugging someone) and he looked at me and went "heyyy, hi!" and I said "Hey, good gig!" and he said thanks, then went to hug someone else. :D
Dougie: *take me now* I have such a crush on this man, it's not fair. Me and about a fourth of the entire Travis fandom.
He talked about his son! Someone asked him how he's doing.
Him: He's doing great! *whips out phone, shows picture*
All of us: Awwwwww!
Him: He rolled over for the first time yesterday and he's learned to laugh!
Then he and my sister (who spent the last year working as an au pair, looking after a new born baby) had a really long chat about watching babies grow up.
Then he asked if we wanted anything signed or photos taken, ( Collapse )
I don't have much time so here is a kind of short review.
The gig:
Oh. My. God. When we (
eledh_3, sheentylla, my sister, another friend and me) finally got inside, there was a bit of worry about if we'd be able to stay in the front row (there were barriers between the stage and the crowd that obviously weren't going to hold) but that problem resolved itself nicely when, about three songs into the gig, some staff members took the barriers away and we could actually lean on the stage. Eeeee! :D We were standing right in front of Dougie, I wish we'd been allowed cameras. :( Dougie dropped a plectrum on the floor and after the song I asked him if I could have it, and he handed me a new one from off the mic stand :D THAT'S HOW CLOSE TO HIM I WAS. And damn, the way that man plays bass should be outlawed! It verges on porn, honestly. Also, he totally knows what he's doing when he smiles. He flashed a huge grin at the girls behind me and they all screamed like it was the Beatles or something. Not that I find that silly, I was screaming the whole time too, especially after his Turn solo. :P
They played a few new songs, which was fantastic (Chinese Blues (aaaaahhh brilliance), Song to Self, J. Smith and a few others I can't remember). And Indefinitely and Slideshow! And Blue Flashing Light! But while we were waiting for them outside after the show, I kept thinking of songs they didn't play, like My Eyes and Why Does It Always Rain On Me (!). Also, during soundcheck someone played the first few notes from the intro of Humpty Dumpty Love Song, so I was really expecting them to play that. But they didn't. :(
After the gig, we waited outside for them.
Neil: *very quiet* He came out first and signed some stuff for people and left pretty quickly. I didn't ask him to sign anything because I was too shy DX
The others took aaaages to come out, I was almost asleep when they did. Maybe that's why I wasn't nearly as star struck and nervous as I was last time.
Fran: *had a sore throat* He told us how panicked he was on stage because he'd woken up that morning with a sore throat and kept thinking he was about to loose his voice on stage. You could only tell his voice was a bit off when he spoke, though, the singing sounded fine.
Andy: *SO DRUNK omg* He was really chatty and hugging people all the time, it was cute. :D I walked past him (I didn't see it was him because he was hugging someone) and he looked at me and went "heyyy, hi!" and I said "Hey, good gig!" and he said thanks, then went to hug someone else. :D
Dougie: *
He talked about his son! Someone asked him how he's doing.
Him: He's doing great! *whips out phone, shows picture*
All of us: Awwwwww!
Him: He rolled over for the first time yesterday and he's learned to laugh!
Then he and my sister (who spent the last year working as an au pair, looking after a new born baby) had a really long chat about watching babies grow up.
Then he asked if we wanted anything signed or photos taken, ( Collapse )
More celtic pics
Being celtic
This weekend I was at a celtic festival. Sarah is in a celtic reenactment group and asked me to come along for the weekend. It was fun :D Basically we sat around all day telling people about the celts in Switzerland (there were celts in Switzerland!), I was making thread out of flax and and getting sunburn (very celtic). I slept outside the tent in the straw for two nights in a row, which was an interesting experience.
I'm in the brown peblos. Check out that celtic truck in the background :P
I'm in the brown peblos. Check out that celtic truck in the background :P