Kivrin

Months ago my brother shared this video with me, and I believe I have neglected to share it with you. Bizarre, hilarious, historically inaccurate rap about George Washington. WARNING: profanity and earwormitude.


( According to this meme I am weird but very, very slightly unique in my LJ-ing )

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, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they're listening to.

Sufjan Stevens, "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing"
Pirates of Penzance 1981 Broadway Cast Recording, "My Eyes Are Fully Open" (yes, it's from Ruddigore, not Pirates, but in that production it was interpolated. Roll with it, dude.)
Patty Larkin, "Hallelujah Baby" (I think it's actually just called "Hallelujah" but as a song title that means either Handel or Leonard Cohen to me, so.)
Chanticleer, "Jefferson (Glorious Things Of Thee Are Spoken)"
Haydn's Little Organ Mass (quit snickering)
Carbon Leaf, "The War Was In Color"
Tracy Grammer and Jim Henry covering Jackson Browne's "Shape of a Heart"

Comment on this post. I will choose seven userpics from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are using them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so others can play along.

wesleysgirl chose the following:
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1. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
2. Tag seven people to do the same.
3. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag whoever to do it.
Anyone who feels like doing this, do it. :)


1. I didn't get my driver's license until I was nineteen, and I've never owned a car. I kind of hope not to ever have to own a car, primarily (I must confess) for lazy reasons: I don't want the hassle of upkeep and insurance. And I like living in a city, where I can walk or take public transport most places I need to go. That said... I'm SO glad that I know how to drive. It makes logistics so much easier.

2. Any environmental gold stars I might earn for not driving are probably cancelled out by how much I fly. I realized, when en route to Michigan with breadandroses for Pony & G's wedding, that I fly a LOT for someone who doesn't travel for work. The last time I went a year without getting on a plane was 1994. I went to undergrad and graduate school several states away from my parents, but still went back there for most breaks. For going up and down the northeast corridor, flying or taking the train often costs about the same, and flying is SO much faster (even with security regs the way they are.)

3. I'm most comfortable falling asleep on my side, though I usually wake up lying on my back. I find it really difficult to sleep without something over me - at least a sheet and ideally a blanket or coverlet too. The weight is reassuring.

4. I like stitchy handcrafts; I used to do counted cross-stitch and now I like knitting, though in neither case have I ever taken on large projects. Of late I've developed rather a line in making tea cozies as gifts (five, so far, and I'm halfway through number six.)

5. After experiment and repeated attempts, I have concluded that I can't write with music on. Rather, I can but it's a waste of electricity because I don't listen to it in any meaningful way. I'll come to alertness to realize that the piece whose mood I thought would support whatever I was doing passed by three tracks back.

6. I am a recovering sucker-for-the-claims-on-the-back-of-shampoo-bottles, as the graveyard of hair products in my closet demonstrates.

7. I have a sneaking ambition to sing karaoke. This ambition may not survive actually entering a karaoke bar, but it exists. Clearly the bit of me that once upon a time wanted to be Mary Martin has not entirely gone away.

What lolcat are you? meme
( cut because many of you have understandably moved on )

A few selections from some of my less-recent not-gen stories.

( Never Spoken )

( Three Conversations in Liminal Spaces )

( Winter Garden )

( Watchers' Oaths )

Revisiting the meme here...

Whip out your music program, click the random button, and pick out 10 songs. Alter the name by turning it into a convoluted, wordy synonym. For example: Silent Night = Nocturnal Time Completely Lacking Noise. When someone guesses the title correctly, italicize the convoluted one and put the real title and the person who figured it out.

1. One More Celtic Lyric for Performance While Imbibing Another Irish Drinking Song, by Da Vinci's Notebook. Guessed by breadandroses.

2. Difficult to Succeed Hard to Make It, by Dave Carter (performed by Tracy Grammer.) Guessed by breadandroses.

3. It Arrived at the Midpoint of a Nocturnal Period Without Precipitation It Came Upon a Midnight Clear. Guessed by breadandroses.

4. Nocturnally Luminescent Synthetic Superhuman Being Glow-in-the-Dark Plastic Angel, Nerissa and Katryna Nields, guessed by kelilah.

5. Approach the Liquid Dihydrogen Monoxide. Go to the Water by Kat Eggleston.

6. Hibernation Season at the Point of His Departure Winter When He Goes, by Dave Carter (performed by Tracy Grammer.)Guessed by breadandroses.

7. Female Lacking Parents Orphan Girl, by Gillian Welch (performed by Crooked Still). Guessed by breadandroses.

8. I Reside at a Location Separate from That at which I Fornicate. I Live Not Where I Love, traditional, sung by Kat Eggleston.

9. Burial Ceremony in the Center of His Circulatory System Funeral in His Heart, by October Project. Guessed by kelilah.

10. At the Time of My Departure When I Go, by Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer. Guessed by spiritdance.

I shall now attempt to start a geektastic meme.

When you see this, quote Monty Python. If you hate Monty Python, when you see this, please quote your favorite Britcom instead. If you hate all Britcoms without exception or moderation in degree, quote something you do find funny.

( What fires and stirs the woodcock in his springe or wakes the drowsy apricot betides? )

I thought about making it "quote Fawlty Towers" but writing "it's been trodden on" just doesn't get the point across.

Take your icons. List the people who appear in them. Alphabetize, and pair off.

Private Baldrick/ Violet Baudelaire - She'd be kind to him and possibly would invent something to either keep him from smelling bad or to keep her from perceiving the smell. However, romantically that just... isn't.

Captain Edmund Blackadder/ Dream of the Endless - Can you imagine what Blackadder would say if confronted with Dream? "Oh, God, what are you, some runaway from a mummer's troupe? A renegade mime? Look, thickie, the idea is to run out of the trenches, disguise yourself as an artist... or mental patient... and hide in a town. Not to put on black draperies and a lot of white face-paint and then come cavorting about in a trench!" "I do not... cavort" "All right, mincing about. Anyway, sod off. Some of us are busy trying not to get killed."

Elizabeth I [Cate Blanchett]/Eowyn of Rohan - I can't decide if they're alike in ways that would make them get along or kill each other. A royal wedding between them would be very pretty, though.

Rupert Giles/Xander Harris - Well, it's not a new idea. :)

Qui-Gon Jinn/The King of Siam [Yul Brynner] - Wow. That would be... kinda hot. They'd enjoy talking about Buddhist philosophy. And hello, the pretty.

Veronica Mars/Lilah Morgan [Stephanie Romanov] - That would be... really, really dark and scary. There's just no way for the age and experience difference not to make that a completely exploitative situation. Maybe when Veronica's older...? But I can't really picture it. Except in a scary way, with Veronica thinking she could handle herself and then being totally over her head with bondage games and W&H and oh, no, badbadbad things.

Willow Rosenberg/Lt. the Honorable George Colhurst St. Barleigh - This just makes me laugh. He'd be intimidated by her, and she'd think he was kinda cute, and they'd stammer at each other a lot.

Buffy Summers/King Theoden of Rohan - They would probably kick significant ass as co-generals, but I think there would be way, way, WAY too many cross-cultural issues to a personal relationship.

Jane Tennison [Helen Mirren]/Andrew Wells - Oh, now that's just cruel. To them both.

Lord Peter Wimsey/Wesley Wyndham-Pryce - HEE!! Now, let me be serious... HEE! Heeheeheeheeeheee! *cough* *ahem* Well, Wesley could stand to learn about how to use the silly-ass-about-town facade to one's advantage. And Peter could... well, okay, Wesley's job would probably give pre-Harriet Peter a nervous collapse, and post-Harriet Peter is not going to be looking at anyone else, though I suppose the two of them might raise a manly glass together on the village green, or some such. (Peter/Wesley. heeheeheeheeHEEEheehee!!)

meme from saskia139

5 things you are wearing
1. classy-looking black mules that I bought at a yard sale.
2. long red skirt with a vaguely Indian batik-like design in black and cream
3. black t-shirt
4. six little hair-claws in my hair
5. green amber earrings and ring

5 things you can see
1. monitor
2. two insulated mugs
3. "mind the gap" mug with a London underground symbol holding pencils
4. slip of paper with contact info for the (rather cute) historian from IU who's doing research with one of my collections
5. Turkoman Bokhara Mouse Rug

5 things you are doing right now
1. blinking to try to get a stray eyelash off my conjunctiva.
2. thinking about the papers I'm working on.
3. wondering if I'll go get ice cream later.
4. sliding one foot in and out of my shoe.
5. typing

5 things you ate in the last 24 hours
1. hummus.
2. not-too-great broiled salmon (the frozen-salmon-filet-from-Trader-Joe's
experiment was not really a success.)
3. rice.
4. chocolate-covered peanut-butter-filled pretzel nuggets.
5. lemonade coolatta.

5 things you did so far today
1. Took trolley in to work
2. Answered some questions for that researcher
3. Made a Dunkin' Donuts run for my officemates.
4. Poked at my finding aid
5. Ate lunch

5 things you can hear right now
1. humming of the hvac system
2. traffic four stories below
3. my own typing
4. colleagues typing
5. nothing more

5 colors you can see
1. black
2. red
3. blue
4. peachy-beige-tan-Caucasian-skin-color
5. white

5 thoughts in your head
1. Even though I just ate, my mouth still wants that buffalo chicken wrap that I virtuously passed up in favor of hummus and crackers.
2. So, wait, the guy who donated this collection also donated another collection of papers about one of the same people, a collection which he subsequently took back and then gave to the University?
3. why am i so apathetic? what is wrong with me? this project should be finished already. those emails should be written already. i'd hoped i would do this better. damn. [I could have saved time and just said 'Radio KFKD' here, I guess.]
4. How you do that with the page numbers is... uh, you click on... no, to the... yeah... no... here, let me do it...
5. Is freon a chlorofluorocarbon or other kind of greenhouse-effect-enhancer?