rants and ramblings of utter randomness

So I'm wondering what Nick Lea has been up to recently, and gee, it would be really nice to see him in something again, maybe a movie or TV show.

So. I find out that not only is he in a Cool SF TV show, but also that he's in another TV show that may or may not be cool (if I can even access it, being south of the border, here).

And to top it all off, he's gonna be in Butterfly on a Wheel, which doesn't exactly sound like my kind of film, but.

*looks at rest of cast list*

*flails*

Yeah. I'm so there.

Also, this is the most random, funniest thing I've heard in ages. It's so random it's isn't funny. Except it is.

Tim Wilson - George is On My Mind

Download, listen. Laugh hysterically.

Okay, going for a walk, now. It's not like my car works, or anything.

That song meme that's been going around. 'Cause ooh, music! The original meme doesn't say to link to song files, but I couldn't resist, natch.

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your livejournal along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to.

1. Cowboy Junkies - To Lay Me Down. Repeat loop, yes. A sultry, languid song reminiscent of a humid summer day. Billions and billions of thank-yous to cedarlibrarian for finding the prodigal file.

To lie with you,with our dreams close together
To wake beside you, my love, still sleepy,
To tell sweet lies one last time, and then say good night

2. Natalie Merchant - My Skin. Also repeat loop. Because Natalie has a voice like liquid velvet and the violin solo at the end is just right and I seem to be into slow, angsty songs by women these days. But probably mostly because of this beautiful thing. Seriously, the best vid I've ever seen in any fandom. Of course, now the song is spoilt for me for anything else, but I can't say as I care much. :)

Well is it dark enough?
Can you see me?
Do you want me?
Can you reach me?
Or I'm leaving
You better shut your mouth
and hold your breath;
you kiss me now, you catch your death

Geh. I could quote the whole thing, it's so lyrically gorgeous. <3 Natalie.

3. Seals and Crofts - My Fair Share. This song needs to inspire a fic. My muses are all comatose or I'd figure one out myself. That's me, zillions of epigraphs and no actual substance. But really:

Fair is a changing word, but fair is an honoured promise;
Justice, if you're still there, I will have my fair share.


4. Annie Lennox - Stay by Me. Another seductive, sultry song, with imagery that'll melt your insides.

Sweet darling, don't you know
that we're no different to anyone.
We stumble, we falter,
but we're no different than anyone

And all the winter sun has melted down
into a pool of silver water
and we are standing in a thundercloud,
dark as your hair...dark as your hair

5. Indigo Girls - Language or the Kiss. Oh, teh angst. The Girls are good at that. Another song with imagery to spare.

I said to you the one gift which I'd adore;
the package of the next 10 years unfolding
but you told me if I had my way I'd be bored;
right then I knew I loved you best born of your scolding

When we last talked we were lying on our backs
looking at the sky through the ceiling
I used to lie like that alone out on the driveway,
trying to read the greek upon the stars;
the alphabet of feeling

6. Rebecca Jenkins - Something's Coming. From the (nonexistent, dammitall) Wilby Wonderful Soundtrack. Woah, something not angsty! I'm pretty sure there's no studio recording of this. The only version I can find is this one, taken directly from the film (which if you haven't seen, you should, especially if you need some cheering up). If anyone DOES know of a studio version, I'd love to know where to get it. Although I bet no version could match this one for utter, dancing sweetness.

Oh, I like to lie down gentle in your arms, oh, so warm,
And with peace in my heart, I can start to call this world home.
Will you come with me, my love, oh, my love of a thousand lives?
Will you come with me, my love? I see it all there in your eyes.

7. Marmalade - Reflections of My Life. An old, old song. I heard it yesterday and remembered how much I love it. I downloaded it right away and have been playing it a lot. Sometimes the old almost-forgotten songs have hidden poetry that's pretty amazing. This one does.

I'm changing, arranging,
I'm changing,I'm changing everything,
oh, everything around me
The world is a bad place,
a bad place, a terrible place to live,
oh, but I don't want to die


And of course, an extra bonus selection, because you know I can't not have an extra bonus selection. Complete with t00by folkie pimpage colour commentary.

8. Stan Rogers - Northwest Passage. Dude. This song is a heck of a lot more than just Ben and Ray's t00by Love Song. It's Stan Rogers, after all. My music folder has a whole Stan Rogers subfolder; the guy was as prolific as he was talented. This particular song is not so much a celebration of Sir John Franklin's discovery (although it's certainly that, too) but a metaphor for midlife. To me, at least, it's about reaching forty- or fiftysomething and realising that the years behind are more than the years ahead; the drive to set out and make something of one's life before it's too late to do it.(My current LJ name is from the line This tardiest explorer driving hard across the plain, because I get it, I get it in spades, so I do). And then when whatever it is, whatever adventure or project or love affair is done, the roads all lead back home. It's really beautiful, and Stan Rogers of course was a bloody genius. Folk music at its best, definitely. And, well. It's also Ben and Ray's t00by Love Song. That, too. *g*

How then am I so different from the first men through this way?
Like them, I left a settled life, I threw it all away.
To seek a Northwest Passage at the call of many men
To find there but the road back home again.

And there's an unpublished additional verse which I don't think was ever recorded, unfortunately:

And if should be I come again to loved ones left at home,
Put the journals on the mantle, shake the frost out of my bones,
Making memories of the passage, only memories after all,
And hardships there the hardest to recall.

And okay, so seven tags (well, eight, actually, because of the bonus and Things Needing to Match). Feel free not to do fileshare or commentary, it's not part of the meme. I just couldn't help myself, is all. I have music and opinions, I must share them, whether anyone wants me to or not. :)

songdog
february_sea
patchfire
geoviki
eltonroo
moony
moonlight69
karabou

And anyone else who feels inclined to share. Whee!

Crossposted to audiography


( Ani Difranco, The Indigo Girls, and CURT WILD!!! )

Dear Neil,

I feel your pain.

Love, Me


( From Neil's Blog )


When I started buying cassettes, and then CDs, instead of LPs, the sound of the original was so imprinted on my brain that I knew when all the scratches/skips on the record was.It bothered me that they weren't there anymore. It's nice to know there are other obsessives out there like me.

That antiwar song meme, gacked from many:

When you see this in your journal, post the lyrics to an antiwar song

This one isn't in-your-face antiwar, but its subtle message is very much so--nonviolence can do miracles, and it has. So, drop the gun. :)

HOW MUCH DO I LOVE PETE? THIS MUCH! *STRETCHES ARMS WIDE*


Take It From Dr. King
Words and music by Pete Seeger


Down in Alabama, nineteen hundred fifty-five
Not many of us here tonight were then alive;
A young Baptist preacher led a bus boycott,
He led the way for a brand new day without firing a shot.

Don’t say it can’t be done
The battle’s just begun
Take it from Dr. King
You too can learn to sing,
So drop the gun.

Oh those must have been an exciting 13 years.
Young heroes, young heroines.
There was laughter, there were tears,
Students at lunch counters,
Even dancing in the streets.
To think it all started with Rosa
Refusing to give up her seat.

Song, songs, kept them going and going;
They didn’t realize the millions of seeds they were sowing.
They were singing in marches, even singing in jail.
Songs gave them the courage to believe they would not fail.

We sang about Alabama nineteen hundred fifty-five,
But since 9-11 we wonder: Will this world survive?
The world learned a lesson from Dr. King:
We can survive, we can, we will.
And so we sing —

Don’t say it can’t be done
The battle’s just begun
Take it from Dr. King
You too can learn to sing
So drop the gun


Now to go help more with the getting-ready stuff for ickle Jacob's first birthday party. *blats on virtual noisemaker*

Okay. On the heels of robinhoo and songdog, who are way ahead of me, I give you my latest


( <strike>100</strike> 105 lyrics meme )

Guess away, guys. Winner gets to choose five songs from the list, and I'll send them to her/him. I'd offer to write something, but I haven't been able to find the time/energy to write stuff for ME, and I really want to, woe.


In other news, it's FREAKING FRIGID around here. And? My heat is not coming on. It comes on when it's fifty-five, oh, yes, but when it's THIRTEEN? Apparently not. Have called. Have heaters. But my feet are cold. *sigh*

In still other news, I'm going to enroll in ALACE's Childbirth Educator Training Course. Am v. excited. :)


Also, bleh. I have a cold sore. It's an active infection, the skin isn't broken. Should I go to work? I'm going to call my supervisor for advice but eep. I don't want to spread this to people who are already compromised (I'm on the detox unit...we have people with Hep C and HIV and other nasty viruses). I also don't have a heckofalot of sick time.

mr_t00by is in his room listening to The Who, specifically "Who Are You". My work is done here. :)

Also, I hab a code. Second day I've called out sick. Am now out of sick days. *coughs*