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From the crazy, crazy man who put this together:
This is dedicated to all fans of Queen and hey let's not forget about Mike Myers and Dana Carvey of Wayne's World. No effects or sampling was used. What you see is what you hear (does that even make sense?)
Atari 800XL was used for the lead piano/organ sound
Texas Instruments TI-99/4a as lead guitar
8 Inch Floppy Disk as Bass
3.5 inch Harddrive as the gong
HP ScanJet 3C was used for all vocals. Please note I had to record the HP scanner 4 seperate [sic] times for each voice. I tried to buy 4 HP scanners but for some reason sellers on E-Bay expect you to pay $80-$100, I got mine for $30.
I keep hearing parts of the song are out of tune. Keep in mind the scanner and floppy drive are not musical instruments. These are mechanical devices whose motors tend to drift and can cause some notes to be out of tune.
The moon hangs on a clouded sky.
I am surprised that I live.
Anxiously and with great care, death looks for us
and those it finds are all terribly white.
Sometimes a year looks back and howls
then drops to its knees.
Autumn is too much for me. It waits again
and winter waits with its dull pain.
The forest bleeds. The hours bleed.
Time spins overhead
and the wind scrawls
big dark numbers on the snow.
But I am still here
and I know why and why the air feels heavy -
a warm silence full of tiny noises circles me
just as it was before my birth.
I stop at the foot of a tree,
Its leaves cry with anger.
A branch reaches down. Is it strangling me?
I am not a coward. I am not weak, I am
tired. And silent. And the branch
is also mute and afraid as it enters my hair.
I should forget it, but I
forget nothing.
Clouds pour across the moon. Anger
leaves a poisonous dark-green bruise on the sky.
I roll myself a cigarette,
slowly, carefully. I live.
Jun 8 1940
The Terrifying Angel
The terrifying angel is invisible and silent
inside me, he doesn't scream today.
But then I hear a slight noise,
no louder than a grasshopper's jump.
I look around you and don't find anything.
It's him. But he's cautious now. He's getting ready.
Save me, Oh you who love me, love me bravely.
He hides when you're here. But as soon as you leave
he's back. He rises from the bottom of the soul,
screaming. And screaming he accuses me.
This insanity works inside me like poison.
He doesn't sleep much, lives both in and outside of me,
and when the moon is out, and in the white darkness,
he runs through the meadow in whistling sandals.
He searches my mother's grave an wakes her up.
"Was it worth it?" "Was it worth it?"
He whispers to her about rebellion, about giving in.
"You gave birth to him and he dies of it!"
Looking at me, sometimes he tears off
the pages of the calendar too soon.
"How long" and "where to"
depend on him forever now. Last night
his words fell into my heart
the way stones fall into water,
forming rings, wobbling, and spinning.
I was just going to bed, you were already asleep.
I stood there naked when he came in
and started to argue with me quietly.
There was a weird smell, his
breath chilled my ear. "Go ahead!"
He urged. "Skin shouldn't cover you.
You're raw meat and bare nerves.
Tear it off! After all, bragging about skin
is like bragging about prison,
it's crazy.
That thing all over you is only an illusion.
Here, here's the knife.
It doesn't hurt. It only takes a second, there's only a hiss!"
And the knife woke up on the table and flashed.
Aug 4 1943
KA Applegate. I own all but a handful of the "Animorphs" series. SHUT UP, YOU DON'T KNOW ME.
2) What Book Do You Own The Most Copies Of?
Probably "Outlander": I think I have 3 copies of that.
3) What Fictional Character Are You Secretly In Love With?
Secretly? Not sure. Not so secretly? Jamie Fraser, fo sho. And Septimus Warren Smith. (How's that for a juxtaposition?)
4) What Book Have You Read More Than Any Other?
"Outlander". I probably read it 2-3 times a year. It's the book I read when I need to thoroughly escape the world.
5) What Was Your Favorite Book When You Were 10-Years-Old?
"The Giver" or "Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry. I was a huuuge Lois Lowry fan. Well, I still am. =P
6) What Is The Worst Book You've Read In The Past Year?
I never finish bad books. Right now, I'd have to say, the Hannah Howell romance "Highland Bride" which was literally so awful that even the fact that it was about a Highlander couldn't force me to read it. I got to the part where the heroine was talking about how ashamed she was of her "huge milky breasts and tiny waist" and put it down. Which is really too bad, because Howell is super prolific and I am always on the prowl for series. Right now I'm also reading "Fallen Skies" by Phillipa Gregory, which is about the love between an innocent flapper and a shell-shocked soldier, which should be right up my alley, but honestly all of the characters are so unsympathetic I can't even tolerate it. I read that the protagonist, the shell-shocked soldier that the back cover leads me to believe I'm supposed to pity, is actually an abusive, manipulative fuckwit. Not exactly the tale of redemption I was hoping for, and I don't know if I really want to read something miserable just for misery's sake.
7) What Is The Best Book You've Read In The Past Year?
"Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro, although I actually first read it a couple of years ago. It's seriously fucking fantastic. I bawled forever at the end.
8) If You Could Tell Everyone You Know To Read One Book, What Would It Be?
I couldn't even say that, because I know very different people and thus would make very different suggestions. "Never Let Me Go" is magnificent, but I'd probably hawk "Outlander" because it's pretty multi-faceted.
9) What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read?
Challenging intellectually, or emotionally, or just damn hard to get through? Intellectually, probably anything by Virginia Woolf. Emotionally, "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood: I read it in a marathon read over two days, and then couldn't sleep afterwards. Damn hard to get through, "Lord of the Rings". BOOOOOO-RING.
10) Do You Prefer The French Or The Russians?
Can't say I'd be able to distinguish (hangs head)
11) Shakespeare, Milton Or Chaucer?
Shakespeare's a great go-to guy for plays (especially his tragedies because I am secretly forever a teenage girl), but Chaucer has a GREAT sense of humour.
12) Austen Or Eliot?
Eliot, I guess. I'm not going to try and pretend to be a big fan or anything.
13) What Is The Biggest Or Most Embarrassing Gap In Your Reading?
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shibaiko, definitely the 19th century, which is made even more embarrassing by the fact that Victorian England was kind of my focus for History. 14) What Is Your Favorite Novel?
I can't even answer that, man. Different novels for different reasons.
15) Play?
AGH. "The Ecstasy of Rita Joe". Not exactly a tough pick, seeing as I'm not really all that much of a theatre buff. But that shit was great on paper: not sure how I'd like it performed, if it's followed literally.
16) Poem?
Still "Sunflower Sutra" by Ginsberg.
17) Essay?
Not my area.
18) Short Story?
OOOOH shit: Eden Robinson. "Queen of the North". Blood and guts in that one, man.
19) Non-Fiction?
I'm really looking forward to getting my hands on "A Pint of Plain" by Bill Barich, all about the evolution and commodification of Irish pub culture. (drooling sounds)
20) Graphic Novel?
I'd love to use "V for Vendetta" as a teaching tool, but I honestly prefer the movie esthetically. I think novel and movie interact in a really interesting way though.
21) Science Fiction?
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep". . . but NOT BLADERUNNER. Oh, and "Oryx and Crake"
22) Who Is Your Favorite Writer?
I dunno, I like books, not really authors. I like Diana Gabaldon alot, but at this point in the "Outlander" series I think she's starting to suffer from Anne Rice syndrome, but without the ego. But the "Lord John" books have gotten progressively stronger. (The latest one was fucking fantastic, okay).
23) Who Is The Most Overrated Writer Alive Today?
All of the authors I really hate aren't really "overrated", they just have disproportionate popularity to their talent: Dan Brown and Stephanie Meyer, to beat a dead horse.
24) What Are You Reading Right Now?
"Fallen Skies" by Gregory, and "The Serpent's Tale" by Ariana Franklin.
25) Best Memoir?
Can't say I have ever (or will ever) read one.
26) Best History?
Like, in general? Shit, IDK, I read alot of that shit. "The Jacobite Song" was pretty rockin', but that's not really popular history. I'm really trying to get a hold of Niall Ferguson's book on WWI, which Rob praised endlessly and it seems to have a delicious anti-British thesis which you KNOW I am all over haha.
27) Best Mystery Or Noir?
I don't know if they count, but I like Ariana Franklin's medieval mysteries, and Diana Gabaldon's pseudo-fantasy mysteries with Lord John, although I like those more for the human element of the character than for the actual mystery component (which I can take or leave).
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I'm arriving at Vancouver airport in the afternoon on May 3rd. Is there anyone with a car willing to take pity on me and pick me up at the airport and drive me and my suitcases up to SFU on that day? I will buy you dinner for your effort.
I won't have a ton of stuff (obv) but enough that it would be unpleasant to have to take transit across the city.
PS Everybody else at SFU. . . have you gotten your summer UPASS yet?
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Walking the three tiers in first light, out
here so my two-year-old son won’t wake the house,
I watch him pull and strip ragweed, chicory, yarrow,
so many other weeds and wildflowers
I don’t know the names for, him saying Big, and Mine,
and Joshua—words, words, words. Then
it is the moment, that split-second
when he takes my hand, gives it a tug,
and I feel his entire body-weight, his whole
heart-weight, pulling me toward
the gleaming flowers and weeds he loves.
That moment which is eternal and is gone in a second,
when he yanks me out of myself like some sleeper
from his dead-dream sleep into the blues and whites
and yellows I must bend down to see clearly, into
the faultless flesh of his soft hands, his new brown eyes,
the miracle of him, and of the earth itself,
where he lives among the glitterings, and takes me.
~ Len Roberts
- Socials 11 lesson plan
- History 12 powerpoint: Battles of the Pacific Theatre
- History 12 lesson plan
- sign up for classes tomorrow evening
- apply for rez for the summer
- do laundry
- put away laundry
- organize daybook
- tidy up diningroom
My favourite?
Probably "This book is more expensive in Canada" or "Under the Houseboat Fire".
- all of the boning broke in my $1000 dress and my boobs fell out. My bridesmaids cut the strings from my corset to fashion straps for me. They sewed them on using a hotel kit in my in-laws' hotel room. So that was fine.
- I cried. All the way. Through my vows. And then I laughed at myself crying. So I spent my vows laughing and crying at the same time.
- As I was dancing with my grandfather, the ribbons holding my bustle tore, and my grandfather nearly had a heart attack, and kept saying "are your stays breaking? is that your stays? is that your stays?" basically the whole time we danced.
Things that just went wrong:
- it rained. and rained. and rained. and rained. my hair was ruined, we were covered in mud, we only had about a half hour window to take any pictures, and during that time my hair was ruined and I was covered in mud.
- I forgot $60 worth of corsages in the honeymoon suite's fridge.
- By the time we got back to the honeymoon suite, we were too fucking exhausted to actually use it. We took a ten minute bath in the jacuzzi tub and then fell asleep.
Things that went absolutely right:
- My mother got absolutely hammered and it was FUCKING HILARIOUS. She apparently told Erin and James to get on with the breeding already.
- Declan and I two-stepped.
- I ripped my dress to shreds dancing to Cotton-eye Joe, which is the best "trash the dress" ever. Far better than jumping in a fucking pool.
- My drunk grandfather and Declan's drunk father and my drunk brother all decided to compete for the microphone by telling jokes and singing songs. It started with Declan's father singing a sappy wedding song, teary-eyed, to his wife. Afterwards, my brother got up and said "Now that you Irish have had a song, we Canadians need to do one" and proceeded to sing roughly 20% of "The Good Ole Hockey Game" after which my grandfather started telling jokes to insult Delcan, and then Mick (Declan's Dad) sang a song to insult the British (ie my Grandfather), etc etc etc. It ended in the bartender telling Jenny that this was the "best wedding she'd ever seen".
- Declan's father got ridiculously drunk and ended up dancing shirtless and also dancing with the (young, female) bartender. He also tried to get the caterer to dance too, but he mostly stood aside and laughed.
- The food and cake were WONDERFUL.
- Everyone there drank at least 1-2 bottles of Guinness.
B) Tag 8 people to do this quiz & those who are tagged cannot refuse. These people must state who they were tagged by & cannot tag the person whom they were tagged by. Continue this game by sending it to other people.
1. What are your nicknames?
Heddy, Heddychaa, Hedder, Pumpkin, Squarearse (thanks Declan)
2. What do you do before bedtime?
I`m not saying ;)
3. What fandom(s) are you most into at the moment?
House!
4. What is your favorite scent?
Nothing in particular.
5. What videogames are you playing at the moment?
I play Wii Fit occasionally.
6. What do you eat the most?
Subway sandwiches.
7. Do you trust easily?
Not particularly.
8. What was your first big fandom?
Sailormoon!
9. Is there anything that has made you unhappy these days?
No, I`ve been quite cheerful (obv).
10. Do you have a good body-image?
Actually, I`m really positive about my body, on the whole.
11. What's one childhood item that you still have with you today?
A whole shitload. Most notably, my sooky blanket, my kitty kitty kittens.
12. What websites do you visit daily?
LJ and hotmail. Cracked.com
13. Who are currently the most important people to you?
Declan, my parents, my grandparents, my brother and sister, all my family really.
14. What kind of person do you think the person who tagged you is?
I was tagged my Joseph, who I have always regarded as being really intelligent and level-headed, and very honest to boot. And a hoot to be around. :D
15. What’s the last song that got stuck in your head?
Ohhh the good ole hockey game, is the best game you can name. . .!
16. What’s your favorite item of clothing?
Probably my various shoes.
17. What's better: to give or to receive?
I love buying presents!
18. What turns you on in the opposite gender?
I love guys with a nice shoulder-to-waist ratio. Yeah.
19. What would you like to achieve within the next 3 years?
I want to own a house, and start a family. I want Declan to have permanent residence and be in a good job. I want to be finished PDP.
20. What should you be doing right now?
Socializing =P
21. Do you always use conditioner when washing your hair?
Every. Time. Obsessively.
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The size of it made us all laugh.
I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave -
They got quarters and I had a half.
And that orange, it made me so happy.
As ordinary things often do
Just lately. The shopping. A walk in the park.
This is peace and contentment. It's new.
The rest of this day was quite easy.
I did all the jobs on my list
And enjoyed them and had some time over.
I love you. I'm glad I exist.
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Required Pace: 155 words/hour
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