After having a fascination with them for years, I'm now the happy owner of a pair of two tone brogues. :D

 

Mother's reaction: Are they men's shoes? Hmm.
Father's reaction: We all have our individuality. You should learn to tap dance in them!

Procrastination Method #37: Open the Dictate thing on Word, sing to it and see what it thought you said.

Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon?             Huh you have learnt the ruins of the blue woollen   
Ever asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned?                           LO and between workouts way he can we   
Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain?                         The news silhouette will release a his other nomes in    
Can you paint with all the colour of the wind?                                 MUK here’s where long: certainly who and      
You can own the earth and still all you'll own is earth until           You can earlier than zero all you’re only as a loan to know 
You can paint with all the colours of the wind.                                 During the day with no other curlews are Lulu YU 

I'm considering entering work for this season's Teen Ink writing competitions, only I'm not sure if they'll accept entries from outside the US. No harm in trying, though. :)

Hope life's treating everyone well this Tuesday evening!

What I Did On My Weekend

- watched Doogie Howser, MD 
- made some resolutions to go jogging more and drink more
- spent Saturday night in a friend's 'pub' (a shed in the garden, kitted out with cast off furniture and no heating)
- scrolled covetously through vintage fashion websites
- studied critical responses to Othello
- successfully purchased something on Ebay for the first time
- put together this album of Youtube mash-ups
- not a fat lot else.

Toxic Love Shack (B-52s & Britney Spears) Listen | Download
Take On La Vida (A-Ha & Coldplay) Listen | Download
Smells Like Billie Jean (Nirvana & Michael Jackson) Listen | Download
Hey Hey You You I Don't Like Your London Bridge (Avril Lavigne & Fergie) Listen | Download
Hot N Human (Katy Perry & The Killers) Listen | Download 
Poker Dreams (The Eurythmics & Lady GaGa) Listen | Download
Every Car You Chase (The Police & Snow Patrol) Listen | Download
Smooth Ghostbuster (Michael Jackson & Ray Parker) Listen | Download
Take Me Out For A Milkshake (Franz Ferdinand & Kelis) Listen | Download
Sgt. Pepper's Paradise (The Beatles & Guns 'N Roses) Listen | Download
That's Not My Cloud (The Ting Tings & The Rolling Stones) Listen | Download
Download Whole Album Zip

There aren't many occasions where members of the public pay for the privilege of going out in public wearing hideously little clothing, for the purpose of being rowdy and distracting professionals from their job. But there is Rocky Horror, on stage, where I and a group of friends went last night.


It was amazing. Frank, played by David Bedella was fantastic, and very sweet in that he kept giggling at the heckles. The narrator, Brian Capron, played along brilliantly with everyone. I even knew a few of heckles and shouted along. XD I left the theatre knowing one thing for sure: I'll be going again. :)

I have a Geography exam on Tuesday which consists of a) science questions and b) maths questions. As a class, we're going to work into our essays some form of the phrase "piecharts with too many colours are silly" because it says it in the textbook, therefore they have to give us marks for it.

Hope everyone's had a good weekend! :D

★  Interview Meme! Questions posed to me by fantasy_bubbles.

1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will post the answers to the questions on your blog or journal.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions. And so on...

Give me a review of your favourite film in less than 100 words.
That's a tough decision, but one of my favourites has to be The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Brad and Janet, two young, ordinary(?), healthy and newly engaged kids are forced to seek help at A Creepy CastleTM when their car breaks down late at night. The host of the Crystal Maze welcomes them in, and things only get weirder from there. Brad and Janet are thrust into a world of sexual abandon, murder and alien folk-dancing, all set to an appropriately fun and crazy soundtrack. I like this film because it makes no apologies for its madness, and seems to just want to have a good time for its own sake.

Do you have any pets? If you do, what are their names and why did you name them that?
I don't have any pets - we had a dog for a very short period when I was younger but my Mum turned out to be allergic to her. She was called Sally, and I don't know why we chose that name. I wanted to call her Poppy because she had black fur and it reminded me of poppy seeds.

What's your favourite drink, alcoholic and non-alcoholic? 
The only alcoholic drinks I like are the ones that don't taste like alcohol - lime Bacardi Breezers mixed with Coke is my favourite, though I usually prefer Coke on its own. My favourite non-alchoholic drink is probably tea. :)

What's your ideal date? 
I don't do dates, but if I did they would probably be the best dates in the world I think I would like going to see a play or musical we both want to see, getting late night dinner/fish and chips afterwards and then walking through the streets til the early hours, while everyone else is asleep. :) And if streets can be subsitutued for beach, that night is unforgettable.

How is your bedroom decorated?
It's pretty plain, with pale wood floor, mostly white furniture and wheat sort of colour walls. Like beige but not as depressing. The curtains and duvet have big green and purple flowers on them, and that is my room. I had plans to make things for the walls, collages and stuff, but haven't got round to them yet. 

★ My Dad said 'fucking' to me the other day. Not at me, he was telling me about what he'd said to get rid of some guys playing football at 5am in the garden, and two things occured to me. One, that he's never said 'fucking' like that in my presence before, like an adult to another adult. And two, that my Dad has told damn kids to get off his lawn.  

★ I've been wanting to listen to more classical and instrumental music for a while, and while searching for some for a project I found this site, Freeplaymusic, which has dozens of such CDs for free listening and download. Use and abuse it: for personal non-profit use, it's legal.

The cast and crew of school Hairspray went together to see it up in London on Wednesday, with Phill Jupitus as Edna. And it was brilliant. Belinda Carlisle (Velma) was pretty dire, but everyone else was good enough to make up for her, and Link looked like a fourth Jonas Brother. We all were dancing along by the end, and spilled out onto the streets singing, vowing to go again XD

I typed 'crew' as 'screw' just now, saw it, erased it, and promptly did it all over again.

Okay, this meme!

A. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
B. Tag seven people to do the same.
C. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it".

1) If I get one hand wet, it doesn't feel right to dry it until I get the other hand wet too, and dry them both.

2) I can remember faces well, but have no memory for names.

3) I once dyed my hair plum colour with 6 week dye, and the redness didn't properly fade until over two years later.

4) I've never been drunk, and haven't been so much as tipsy since I was fifteen.

5) My idea of hell is being thrown a surprise party.

6) I once wrote a song about the evils of America's Next Top Model.

7) I keep a dream diary religiously: it's left open by the side of my bed with a pen on top so I can wake up, roll over and scribble. Over the last month my dreams have featured Harry Potter performing in drag, with gold ballgown and purple elbow length gloves; Neil Patrick Harris and I planning to overthrow a group of Spanish slavers; someone on my f-list ranting about midwives and George Bush; failing a formal exam on the music of Lady GaGa and a pub manager being teased for his substandard lamb pie.

I tag fantasy_bubbles, greenteaduck, chrryblssmninja, brixisxonfire, spazzyskittles, verselle, placebobitch. But if you don't want to do it, feel no pressure. :)

Question: is a lacy top, micro-mini skirt and over the knee socks with little bows on an appropriate outfit for school? I didn't think so either, but no-one's called the perpetrator out on it yet.

One Psychology resit down, one Psych unit and Geography unit to go. Good luck to everyone who has exams at the moment. :)

Someone tried to steal the bag of a girl in my year last night sa she walked home from school. Unfortunately for him, she studies taekwondo, so she kept a cool head, kicked him to the floor and ran home with the bag and glory safely in her grip.

Fans of A Very Potter Musical, I'm in the process of downloading the clips and making them into a full length film-type thing. Would anyone like me to put it up for download when I'm done?

Last night, I managed to pour tea on my laptop, specifically into the little cracks around the touchpad and mouse buttons. It doesn't like moving sideways anymore, and only works if I really bully it. :/ At least I know I'm not alone.

 

http://sleeptalkinman.blogspot.com/

Linked to me from msrubyroo. It's a woman who writes down all the surreal nonsense her husband says in his sleep, and it's fantastic:

"Do you like what you see? No? Well, bloody look harder. Strain your eyes!"

[in a cute, sing-song voice] "Time to bounce your face off the waa-aall." 

"I love you! No I didn't say it I didn't say it I didn't say it. I coughed.... MMM-hmmm, coughed."

"Vegetarians will be the first to go. That's my plan. Vegans haven't got a hope. 'I eat air, I'm so healthy...' Bollocks!" 

 Have anyone ever heard/committed acts of crazy sleeptalking? :D

RULES:
→ Reply to this post, and I will pick five of your icons.
→ Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
→ Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
→ This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee. Whoo!

And verselle picked these five:


I love the texture, it makes me think of sunrise. And I was on a real Kevin McHale kick when I saw it. The 'singing in the rain' photoshoot looked so pretty. :)


Okay, this one is all Russell Howard's fault. I made it 'cause the quote made me laugh and I had a stack of these neat space textures gathering virtual dust in my files.


I really wanted a TOS icon, so went scouting and found forceiswithyou. I think this one is just gorgeous, plus Chekov and Uhura look so cute dancing together.
 


This one's simple as. The manip's hilarious. I wanted to be able to flash a bit of that round LJ.


I made this for my first and only icon challenge. Found the photo on Flickr after searching for "wedding" and amidst all the idealistic, white dresses and perfection pictures, it just struck me as a little sad and really interesting. I wondered about who had got married in Rm. 257, what had led them there, how their married life played out.

Packed up the decorations and Christmas tree a day or two back, while listening to an Eddie Izzard show. No other way to do it. And we found out my little brother had only snuck one of the chocolates off it, a vast improvement from last year. My Uncle used to do the same, when my Gran hung Quality Streets on her tree one year, and he twisted the wrappers back up to make it look like they were still full. This might have been endearingly ingenious if he were a child, but he was about 35 at the time. :)

Pairing: Brittany/Tinkles
Rating: PG
Length: 1288
Disclaimer: I don't own Glee, nor do I make any money from this
Summary: Written for a prompt on the Glee kink meme daring someone to write Tinkles/Anyone, and seconded with a simple "TINKLES/BRITTANY". I wanted to make it more sweet than creepy; I think it is.

( 'I can’t play instruments,' she says, trailing one finger back and forth on the shiny black top of the piano. 'but I like watching people who can.' )

Rating: G
Length: 124
Disclaimer: I do not own Glee, I do not make money from this
Summary: Written for the gleeverse Hallowe'en Poem challenge, which was exactly what it says in the tin: write a poem involving the Glee cast and Hallowe'en. This got first place.

( Their first Hallowe’en celebration/ There was alcohol in the equation )

Paring: Figgins/Rachel, God help us all.
Rating: Hard R
Length: 504
Disclaimer: I do not own Glee, I do not make money from this
Summary: Written for a prompt on the Glee kink meme, which said "I DARE someone to do Figgins/Rachel. Dare you. XD On top of the pile of mattresses in the choir room. Bonus points if Will walks in on them." So I did. :S

( Rachel, come down from there right now! )

Two very short bits written for gleeverse challenges.

Characters: Kurt, Burt
Rating: G
Length: 198
Disclaimer: I do not own Glee, nor do I make any money from this.
Summary: Written for the Double Drabble Contest, with the theme of giving thanks. I came first place :)

( Kurt tucks his napkin impeccably into his collar... )

Rating: G
Length: 199
Disclaimer: I do not own Glee, nor do I make any money from this.
Summary: Written for the Dear Diary Contest. 

( Another New Directions rehearsal... )
 

Pairings: Spock/Uhura, Kirk/McCoy
Rating: PG
Length: 1026 words
Disclaimer: I do not own Star Trek, nor do I make any money from this.
Summary: Written for a prompt on the Star Trek kink meme: “Ghost!George and Ghost!Amanda discussing their kids, their worries for them, and their relief that their kids have found people who truly love them."  

( She poured a cup of Earth tea and set it on the table in front of him. )

Pairing: Kirk/Spock
Rating: R for some language and sex
Length: 571
Disclaimer: I do not own Star Trek, nor am I making any money from this.
Summary: Written for a prompt on the Star Trek kink meme: “Kirk and Spock bake a cake together. Spock's half turns out perfect and logical, and Jim's half turns out... well, not that good. Then they have sex.”  
   
 
( Jim’s face was too busy being utterly bewildered to look particularly upset. Spock was considering the confection with his head tilted slightly to one side.  )

Pairings: None
Rating: PG-13  
Length: 605
Disclaimer: I do not own Star Trek, nor am I making any money from this.
Summary: The Enterprise is under attack – from Internet memes. The prompt was that all Federation Standard be replaced with Lolcatz or Netspeak, and this evolved from there.  (UrbanDictionary and KnowYourMeme are useful for any references which make no sense.) 
 

 ( WTF is your game, Enterprise? )

Pairings: Kirk/Everyone
Rating: Hard R for language and sex
Length: 1024
Disclaimer: I don’t own Star Trek, I don’t make any money from this.
Summary: Written for a prompt on the Star Trek kink meme: “Kirk has important information that needs to be briefed to his senior crew. Spock volunteers to doing it by a projected mindmeld. Something goes wrong and images of Kirk in sexual situations are projected - Kirk being sucked, sucking, fucked, fucking, caressing... Most of the crew have either come or are hard.” Um, yeah. This was a challenge but I enjoyed it. Hope you do too. :)  
   
 
( I just telepathically did the entire crew? )