Friday Night Musings
Oct. 12th, 2002 12:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miko2I write so many journal entries in my head. If only I could transfer them directly to my journal as I think of them, you'd have endless entries of mine to read. So that's probably a good thing that I can't do that.
Today I decided on a new ability that I wish I had. It's similar to what Banpei, Skuld's little robot from the anime/manga series Ah! My Goddess, can do. What he does is, for example, if Keichii and Belldandy are too close to each other, he launches an attack that prints the words "PERVERT" across Keichii's face, and in this way Skuld knows that Keichii has been messing around with her older sister.
SOOOOOO... what I need is the ability to make words appear on someone's forehead. For one example, the guy in the SUV who was changing lanes every 20 seconds while driving Southbound on I-5 today. I swear he switched lanes more than 30 times over a four mile or so stretch of highway, and yet he was always behind me. Aside from making the commute slightly more dangerous, what did he accomplish? Nada. Having some sort of magical/psuedo technical/however it might work ability to plaster the word "MORON" across his forehead would have been sooooo satisfying!
And if it washes away after a half day or so, that's okay.
The problem is that you couldn't give everyone this ability, or they'd misuse it. But every time I see someone driving like a moron, or passing me in the commuter lane with NOBODY else in the car but their own self, I want there to be some consequences. I don't really want Big Brother to place cameras everywhere and ticket people for every infraction committed on the road -- I just want certain people to realize that everyone else considers them idiots. Placing those words on their forehead for a few hours would go a long way to accomplishing this. ^_^ And it would be a much more benign form of road rage.
Tom called and left a message before I got home tonight. He wanted to come over, but decided that since I wasn't home at Midnight, I must be out doing something. Hello? I WORK until Midnight!
Naturally I wrote down his parent's phone number on a piece of paper a few weeks ago, and I don't remember what I did with it. Oh well.
I listened to NPR a lot tonight. FINALLY they weren't broadcasting more of the whole Iraq debate. Mind you, I realize it was important and I listened to a bit of it, including Patty Murray's speech, but there's only so much of senators and congressmen/women talking the same subject over and over and over that I can possibly stand. I just want something to entertain me while I work, most of the time.
So tonight was fun. One hour was devoted to stories that came out of the Chicago Sun Times classified ads. They did a story on someone who was looking for their dog. They did two stories on people who were looking for work. They did a story on a guy who was seperated from his wife and had to furnish a new apartment with stuff (from classified ads, was the angle). And most fun of all, they did a story in which a musician from the group The Mekons attempted to assemble a group from people who were advertising in the classifieds on the same Sunday. He got a conga drum player, a Jazz singer, a couple of alternative musicians, a Christian rock guitarist, an electric violinist who turned out to have anger management issues (he admitted to smashing his violin twice before duruing sessions) and an old guy who played a... dang, I can't remember what weird instrument it was, I want to say harmonium but I know that isn't it. He liked to have people come over to listen to him play (he was excellent) but he'd never actually joined a band before... but he decided to join this one-day-only band. They got together in a recording studio and did a cover of Elton John's Rocketman, and it sounded pretty cool. You can download it at their website. Which I'm doing now.
So. It's been a very... a week in which I accomplished little. I slept a lot Monday and Tuesday, to recover from the con. But in general I haven't been in the mood to write anything or even log on to EQ or AC2, except when I'm at work. For some reason I get lots of ideas when I'm at work, but when I get home I'm too tired and unispired to write. I was going to go back to an old story, "Had A Dad", which is about Miki Ito, the koala pirate marine on the Iktome that appears in a couple of my other stories. I was all inspired by a picture I bought at the con of a tough punk koala girl, who looked a lot like Miki. I had all these ideas of how to tighten up the story and make it work better. But I wrote very little on it. And I have ideas for "Magical Girls in Oz" and for a few other stories of mine including "Muyami Academy" which I probably should be working on... but I haven't written a lot in the last two weeks or so.
I put together two cds of music, stuff by Loreena McKennitt, Sarah McLaughlin, Indigo Girls, Hem, Tori Amos, and some of my favorite Celtic bands. I haven't even listened to them all the way through, since I was listening to NPR instead.
I wrote down more cd collection ideas too. Maybe someone can help me with some of these:
songs about Elvis, or possibly a full cd about Elvis and other old rock stars:
1. Elvis Presley Blues by Gillian Welch
2. Black Velvet by Allanah Myles
3. Outdoor Elvis by the Swirling Eddies
4. Elvis is Everywhere by Mojo Nixon
5. Big Ol' Gold Belt by Dread Zeppelin
6. Buddy Holly by Weezer?
(there ought to be a lot more Elvis songs about, and maybe some about Roy Orbison, etc. etc.)
Anthropomorphic/Animal Songs cd
1. Salamander by The Choir
2. Sled Dog by the Choir
3. Chase the Kangaroo by the Choir
4. Catnip Dream by Shonen Knife
5. Concrete Animals by Shonen Knife
6. I Am A Cat by Shonen Knife
7. His Pet by Shonen Knife
8. The Robin Song by Timbuk Three
9. The Rooster by Alice In Chains
10. Chickenman by the Indigo Girls
(I know there are lots more to add to this list, I just can't think of them atm)
Carnival Songs
1. Sri Lanka Sex Hotel by the Dead Milkmen
2. LOve Rollercoaster by Ohio Players
3. Anger by Ty Tabor
4. Comedians by Roy Orbison
5. Tears of a Clown by Smokey Robinson
6. Carousel by Siouxsie and the Banshees
7. The Passenger by Siouxsie and the Banshees?
8. Puppet Master by the Galactic Cowboys
9. Tilt A Whirl by the Galactic Cowboys
10. Bibleland by Daniel Amos
11. Jump From Hell by Feel So Bad?
12. Hooligans by the Heart Throbs
13. Send in the Clowns by whoever it was
14. Nellie the Elephant by the Toy Dolls
15. Loop di Loop by Shonen Knife
(hmmm... almost got enought for a full cd already)
Songs Of Mother Earth
I have scattered notes on this one... I think the idea was songs that celebrate the Earth and life on earth. My notes: Roam/Topaz (B52's) Earthshine (Rush) Earth and Sun and Moon/Golden Age (Midnight Oil) "Shonen Knife" "The Presidents of the United States of America" Brother Earth, Sister Moon (Cult) Ghost Dance (Patti Smith Band) Earth Household (Daniel Amos) "Dream Theater" Yellow Skies (Choir) "10,000 Maniacs" "Loreena McKennitt" Summerland (King's X) Night Comes In? (June Tabor/Oyster Band) "ELO"? "Kate Bush"? What I Am (Edie Brickel/New Bohemians) Soak the Sin (Blind Melon) Walking On Sunshine (Katria & The Waves) Salamander (Choir)
Hope
1. A Beautiful Day by U2
2. Golden Age by Midnight Oil
3. Earthshine by Rush
4. Summerland? by King's X
5. Don't Look Back by Boston
6. New Gold Dream 81-82-83-84 by Simple Minds
7. What A Wonderful World?
Despair
1. Sri Lanka Sex Hotel by Dead Milkmen
2. I Don't Like Mondays by the Boomtown Rats
3. Sweet Oblivion by the Screaming Trees
4. Bullet With Butterfly Wings by Smashing Pumpkins
5. Butterfly Wings by Machines of Loving Grace
6. Cemetary In My Mind by Midnight Oil
7. Minutes to Midnight by Midnight Oil
8. Rain When I Die by Alice In Chains
9. Down In A Hole by Alice In Chains
10. Eve of Destruction by Barry MacGwire
11. The Bottom by the Connells
12. Put Down by the Connells
(my mind runs in circles -- some of these songs appear on several lists mostly because of what cds I was listening to at the time).
The "Jeff Space cd"
1. Pump up the Spacesuit by Galactic Cowboys
2. Ranch on Mars by the Galactic Cowboys
3. Meat on the Moon by the Bobs
4. Stuck on Mars by Jeff Johnson
5. The Jupiter Effect by Jeff Johnson
6. Various Flop Songs/Need Retrograde Orbit?
7. They Might Be Giants?
8. DOTHT <--- I can't remember what this means! Oh wait... Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
9. It's the Eighties, Where's Our Rocket Packs? by Daniel Amos
10. Ticket to the Moon/I Love You 2095 by ELO
11. Rocket Man by Elton John, or covers by Kate Bush, etc.
12. Major Tom (2 versions)
13. Death Star by the Presidents
14. Jupiter by the Presidents
Nonsense Songs ie Pure Gibberish
1. Muleskinner Blues
2. Roundabout by Yes
3. Blinded by the Light by Manfred Mann's Earth Band
4. Just about anything by Cake, Idlewild, Presidents, Flop, etc.
Songs About Movies (one of Sky's ideas)
1. Night of the Hunter by Flop
2. Tiki God by the Presidents
3. It's A Wonderful Life by Fishbone
(include songs about tv? Primus does a song about watching Bevis and Butthead)
Spooky/Halloween Songs ie the Demon Hunter/Vampire Slayer mix
1. Zombie Zoo by Tom Petty
2. The Vampire Song by Concrete Blonde
3. Ghost of a Texas Ladies Man by Concrete Blonde
4. Dead Man's Party by Oingo Boingo (a must have!)
5. Exhuma Reincarnation by the Baha Men
6. Up In the Loft by Phoenyx
7. Barrowman by Tempest
8. In Love With Your Ghost by Indigo Girls
9. Building A Mystery? by Sarah MacLaughlin
10. Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon
11. The Ghost that Haunts Me by Crash Test Dummies
12. Lots of ghost/horror songs by Steeleye Span & other folk groups
13. Varulven by Garmarna (aka "Werewolf") also Vengeance
Songs About Sleeping/Dreaming (I actually did a version of this one for Gene)
1. Behind the Wall of Sleep by Smithereens
2. New Gold Dream by Simple Minds
3. Dream Time by Heart Throbs
4. Dreaming by Blondie
5. Dream You by Roy Orbison
Songs about Radio
1. Devil's Radio by George Harrison
2. Pilot of the Airwaves by whoever it was
3. Video Killed the Radio Star by the Buggles
(or if I include tv/news):
4. I Want My MTV by Dire Straits
5. Idle Gossip by the Toy Dolls
6. Dirty Laundry by Don Henley
7. Psychic Friend by Galactic Cowboys?
8. TV Talking by Bob Dylan
9. I'm the Six O'clock News by Larry Norman
Songs about... music, and pop culture
1. Antipop by Primus
2. Beat Meanace by Daniel Amos
3. Alarma/Through the Speakers
Gender Bender songs
1. Take A Walk On the Wild Side by... forget, is it Velvet Underground or just what's his name the singer?
2. Andi by Kansas
3. Dude Looks Like A Lady by Aerosmith
4. Lola by Kinks
5. You be Me for a while and I'll be you... whoever that was by, I forget
6. A couple of Go Go songs... How Much More and Turn To You?
Demons/Angels
1. Angel on the Balcony by Blondie
2. Teen Angel
3. Devil With A Blue Dress On
4. Catch That Angel by Swirling Eddies
5. Sympathy for the Devil by Rolling Stones
6. Devil Went Down to Georgia
7. SHotgun Angel by Daniel Amos
8. Why Is The Devil Red? by the Lost Dogs
9. Old Woman and the Devil by Caswell Carnahan
10. Devil's Dancing Floor by Flogging Molly
I make many more lists like this that I wind up loosing or throwing away... and rarely, I actually manage to assemble a "theme" cd of this sort. ^_^
Any more ideas?
Today I decided on a new ability that I wish I had. It's similar to what Banpei, Skuld's little robot from the anime/manga series Ah! My Goddess, can do. What he does is, for example, if Keichii and Belldandy are too close to each other, he launches an attack that prints the words "PERVERT" across Keichii's face, and in this way Skuld knows that Keichii has been messing around with her older sister.
SOOOOOO... what I need is the ability to make words appear on someone's forehead. For one example, the guy in the SUV who was changing lanes every 20 seconds while driving Southbound on I-5 today. I swear he switched lanes more than 30 times over a four mile or so stretch of highway, and yet he was always behind me. Aside from making the commute slightly more dangerous, what did he accomplish? Nada. Having some sort of magical/psuedo technical/however it might work ability to plaster the word "MORON" across his forehead would have been sooooo satisfying!
And if it washes away after a half day or so, that's okay.
The problem is that you couldn't give everyone this ability, or they'd misuse it. But every time I see someone driving like a moron, or passing me in the commuter lane with NOBODY else in the car but their own self, I want there to be some consequences. I don't really want Big Brother to place cameras everywhere and ticket people for every infraction committed on the road -- I just want certain people to realize that everyone else considers them idiots. Placing those words on their forehead for a few hours would go a long way to accomplishing this. ^_^ And it would be a much more benign form of road rage.
Tom called and left a message before I got home tonight. He wanted to come over, but decided that since I wasn't home at Midnight, I must be out doing something. Hello? I WORK until Midnight!
Naturally I wrote down his parent's phone number on a piece of paper a few weeks ago, and I don't remember what I did with it. Oh well.
I listened to NPR a lot tonight. FINALLY they weren't broadcasting more of the whole Iraq debate. Mind you, I realize it was important and I listened to a bit of it, including Patty Murray's speech, but there's only so much of senators and congressmen/women talking the same subject over and over and over that I can possibly stand. I just want something to entertain me while I work, most of the time.
So tonight was fun. One hour was devoted to stories that came out of the Chicago Sun Times classified ads. They did a story on someone who was looking for their dog. They did two stories on people who were looking for work. They did a story on a guy who was seperated from his wife and had to furnish a new apartment with stuff (from classified ads, was the angle). And most fun of all, they did a story in which a musician from the group The Mekons attempted to assemble a group from people who were advertising in the classifieds on the same Sunday. He got a conga drum player, a Jazz singer, a couple of alternative musicians, a Christian rock guitarist, an electric violinist who turned out to have anger management issues (he admitted to smashing his violin twice before duruing sessions) and an old guy who played a... dang, I can't remember what weird instrument it was, I want to say harmonium but I know that isn't it. He liked to have people come over to listen to him play (he was excellent) but he'd never actually joined a band before... but he decided to join this one-day-only band. They got together in a recording studio and did a cover of Elton John's Rocketman, and it sounded pretty cool. You can download it at their website. Which I'm doing now.
So. It's been a very... a week in which I accomplished little. I slept a lot Monday and Tuesday, to recover from the con. But in general I haven't been in the mood to write anything or even log on to EQ or AC2, except when I'm at work. For some reason I get lots of ideas when I'm at work, but when I get home I'm too tired and unispired to write. I was going to go back to an old story, "Had A Dad", which is about Miki Ito, the koala pirate marine on the Iktome that appears in a couple of my other stories. I was all inspired by a picture I bought at the con of a tough punk koala girl, who looked a lot like Miki. I had all these ideas of how to tighten up the story and make it work better. But I wrote very little on it. And I have ideas for "Magical Girls in Oz" and for a few other stories of mine including "Muyami Academy" which I probably should be working on... but I haven't written a lot in the last two weeks or so.
I put together two cds of music, stuff by Loreena McKennitt, Sarah McLaughlin, Indigo Girls, Hem, Tori Amos, and some of my favorite Celtic bands. I haven't even listened to them all the way through, since I was listening to NPR instead.
I wrote down more cd collection ideas too. Maybe someone can help me with some of these:
songs about Elvis, or possibly a full cd about Elvis and other old rock stars:
1. Elvis Presley Blues by Gillian Welch
2. Black Velvet by Allanah Myles
3. Outdoor Elvis by the Swirling Eddies
4. Elvis is Everywhere by Mojo Nixon
5. Big Ol' Gold Belt by Dread Zeppelin
6. Buddy Holly by Weezer?
(there ought to be a lot more Elvis songs about, and maybe some about Roy Orbison, etc. etc.)
Anthropomorphic/Animal Songs cd
1. Salamander by The Choir
2. Sled Dog by the Choir
3. Chase the Kangaroo by the Choir
4. Catnip Dream by Shonen Knife
5. Concrete Animals by Shonen Knife
6. I Am A Cat by Shonen Knife
7. His Pet by Shonen Knife
8. The Robin Song by Timbuk Three
9. The Rooster by Alice In Chains
10. Chickenman by the Indigo Girls
(I know there are lots more to add to this list, I just can't think of them atm)
Carnival Songs
1. Sri Lanka Sex Hotel by the Dead Milkmen
2. LOve Rollercoaster by Ohio Players
3. Anger by Ty Tabor
4. Comedians by Roy Orbison
5. Tears of a Clown by Smokey Robinson
6. Carousel by Siouxsie and the Banshees
7. The Passenger by Siouxsie and the Banshees?
8. Puppet Master by the Galactic Cowboys
9. Tilt A Whirl by the Galactic Cowboys
10. Bibleland by Daniel Amos
11. Jump From Hell by Feel So Bad?
12. Hooligans by the Heart Throbs
13. Send in the Clowns by whoever it was
14. Nellie the Elephant by the Toy Dolls
15. Loop di Loop by Shonen Knife
(hmmm... almost got enought for a full cd already)
Songs Of Mother Earth
I have scattered notes on this one... I think the idea was songs that celebrate the Earth and life on earth. My notes: Roam/Topaz (B52's) Earthshine (Rush) Earth and Sun and Moon/Golden Age (Midnight Oil) "Shonen Knife" "The Presidents of the United States of America" Brother Earth, Sister Moon (Cult) Ghost Dance (Patti Smith Band) Earth Household (Daniel Amos) "Dream Theater" Yellow Skies (Choir) "10,000 Maniacs" "Loreena McKennitt" Summerland (King's X) Night Comes In? (June Tabor/Oyster Band) "ELO"? "Kate Bush"? What I Am (Edie Brickel/New Bohemians) Soak the Sin (Blind Melon) Walking On Sunshine (Katria & The Waves) Salamander (Choir)
Hope
1. A Beautiful Day by U2
2. Golden Age by Midnight Oil
3. Earthshine by Rush
4. Summerland? by King's X
5. Don't Look Back by Boston
6. New Gold Dream 81-82-83-84 by Simple Minds
7. What A Wonderful World?
Despair
1. Sri Lanka Sex Hotel by Dead Milkmen
2. I Don't Like Mondays by the Boomtown Rats
3. Sweet Oblivion by the Screaming Trees
4. Bullet With Butterfly Wings by Smashing Pumpkins
5. Butterfly Wings by Machines of Loving Grace
6. Cemetary In My Mind by Midnight Oil
7. Minutes to Midnight by Midnight Oil
8. Rain When I Die by Alice In Chains
9. Down In A Hole by Alice In Chains
10. Eve of Destruction by Barry MacGwire
11. The Bottom by the Connells
12. Put Down by the Connells
(my mind runs in circles -- some of these songs appear on several lists mostly because of what cds I was listening to at the time).
The "Jeff Space cd"
1. Pump up the Spacesuit by Galactic Cowboys
2. Ranch on Mars by the Galactic Cowboys
3. Meat on the Moon by the Bobs
4. Stuck on Mars by Jeff Johnson
5. The Jupiter Effect by Jeff Johnson
6. Various Flop Songs/Need Retrograde Orbit?
7. They Might Be Giants?
8. DOTHT <--- I can't remember what this means! Oh wait... Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
9. It's the Eighties, Where's Our Rocket Packs? by Daniel Amos
10. Ticket to the Moon/I Love You 2095 by ELO
11. Rocket Man by Elton John, or covers by Kate Bush, etc.
12. Major Tom (2 versions)
13. Death Star by the Presidents
14. Jupiter by the Presidents
Nonsense Songs ie Pure Gibberish
1. Muleskinner Blues
2. Roundabout by Yes
3. Blinded by the Light by Manfred Mann's Earth Band
4. Just about anything by Cake, Idlewild, Presidents, Flop, etc.
Songs About Movies (one of Sky's ideas)
1. Night of the Hunter by Flop
2. Tiki God by the Presidents
3. It's A Wonderful Life by Fishbone
(include songs about tv? Primus does a song about watching Bevis and Butthead)
Spooky/Halloween Songs ie the Demon Hunter/Vampire Slayer mix
1. Zombie Zoo by Tom Petty
2. The Vampire Song by Concrete Blonde
3. Ghost of a Texas Ladies Man by Concrete Blonde
4. Dead Man's Party by Oingo Boingo (a must have!)
5. Exhuma Reincarnation by the Baha Men
6. Up In the Loft by Phoenyx
7. Barrowman by Tempest
8. In Love With Your Ghost by Indigo Girls
9. Building A Mystery? by Sarah MacLaughlin
10. Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon
11. The Ghost that Haunts Me by Crash Test Dummies
12. Lots of ghost/horror songs by Steeleye Span & other folk groups
13. Varulven by Garmarna (aka "Werewolf") also Vengeance
Songs About Sleeping/Dreaming (I actually did a version of this one for Gene)
1. Behind the Wall of Sleep by Smithereens
2. New Gold Dream by Simple Minds
3. Dream Time by Heart Throbs
4. Dreaming by Blondie
5. Dream You by Roy Orbison
Songs about Radio
1. Devil's Radio by George Harrison
2. Pilot of the Airwaves by whoever it was
3. Video Killed the Radio Star by the Buggles
(or if I include tv/news):
4. I Want My MTV by Dire Straits
5. Idle Gossip by the Toy Dolls
6. Dirty Laundry by Don Henley
7. Psychic Friend by Galactic Cowboys?
8. TV Talking by Bob Dylan
9. I'm the Six O'clock News by Larry Norman
Songs about... music, and pop culture
1. Antipop by Primus
2. Beat Meanace by Daniel Amos
3. Alarma/Through the Speakers
Gender Bender songs
1. Take A Walk On the Wild Side by... forget, is it Velvet Underground or just what's his name the singer?
2. Andi by Kansas
3. Dude Looks Like A Lady by Aerosmith
4. Lola by Kinks
5. You be Me for a while and I'll be you... whoever that was by, I forget
6. A couple of Go Go songs... How Much More and Turn To You?
Demons/Angels
1. Angel on the Balcony by Blondie
2. Teen Angel
3. Devil With A Blue Dress On
4. Catch That Angel by Swirling Eddies
5. Sympathy for the Devil by Rolling Stones
6. Devil Went Down to Georgia
7. SHotgun Angel by Daniel Amos
8. Why Is The Devil Red? by the Lost Dogs
9. Old Woman and the Devil by Caswell Carnahan
10. Devil's Dancing Floor by Flogging Molly
I make many more lists like this that I wind up loosing or throwing away... and rarely, I actually manage to assemble a "theme" cd of this sort. ^_^
Any more ideas?
