Jerry's House of Ass Beating

1. I don't understand the Sims. arymabeth made fun of me because I don't like to let them nap. I want them to have a good night's sleep! They shouldn't sleep until they're tired!

IDK. My Sims also never leave the house. I always get annoyed when they have to go places and talk to people. This is... probably why I hardly play the Sims anymore.

2. I regret to inform you that I dropped out of Remix. :/ I just had nothing. The author hadn't written much in the fandom we matched on; there was this one thing that I thought I might could work with, but then I was just like, I'm retracing my steps, I've written this story before, I can't write it any better.

So. I feel bad, because I've dropped out of several challenges lately, but there's nothing to be done, except to stop entering challenges, which is my present plan of action.

3. I have discussed this a little on tumblr, but: I may be very close to fulfilling a great desire, flist. I may be buying a theremin. I don't want to jinx it, but there's a Moog going for a really good price right now- I could get a B3 or a Zep for cheaper, but if I'm going to do this, I'm not going to screw around about it. Zep is pretty much for flailing around pretending to be Jimmy Page, and B3 just... isn't as good. So I'd rather just shell out the extra money for the Moog and be srsface about it- that is, of course, provided I can buy this Moog, because I fucking CANNOT afford a new Moog theremin.

If I'm going to buy this and learn to play it, I'm going to learn it properly and seriously; I'm not buying it to make spooky noises with when you can do something like this or this- no wait, sorry, this with it.

But I will be trying this just as soon as I can.

I mean, seriously, how could you look at a theremin and NOT want to play it? Truly, it is the instrument of wizards. Bonus: you can always let your dumb friends screw around with it with no fear- you don't actually touch it to play it, so they can't break anything.

And oh, I am finally going to get back at that neighbor kid who plays the recorder badly all afternoon.

4. I reaaaaally gotta get my shit together. The "semester" is almost over, but I've just realized that it's pretty much gonna be seven more weeks before I'm actually done. Ugh. The amount of hurry-up-and-wait is what I really can't stand. I should be in my second week of comps now, but... I'm not. Good and bad.

I would like it to be Comic-Con right now, plznthnx.

5. Right right right, that's the other thing I was going to post: timestamp meme time again!

Give me one of my stories, and a timestamp sometime in the future (after the end of the story), or sometime in the past (before the story started), and I'll write you at least a hundred words some words of what happened then, whether it's five minutes before the story started or ten years in the future.

So I've been steadily compiling an XMFC playlist, as one does when one is in a fandom, and IDK, I got bored and decided to share it with you, the journaling public. I think of this as an Erik playlist, but it's equally a Charles playlist, and also kind of a Raven playlist in places.

( I warn you now that it is VERY depressing )

I'm working on my customary year-in-review playlist (which means I am staring at a playlist containing The Gears, a song from Stop the World I Want To Get Off, and not much else), and here is something that will probably not make it, but that you need in your life anyway.

So here is my ultimate Erik, post-divorce, my boyfriend left me so I'm going to fuck his sister in retaliation, burn the world down song. And like all the best very angry songs, it has a catchy, peppy tune. Enjoy, won't you?



(Link if embed doesn't work. No, I don't know what's up with the picture. I never do, with YouTube song videos.)

( Lyrics )

Unrelated note: should I do this snowflaking thing? I am considering.

Something happy to post about! For the Halloweens, arymabeth and I went to a MC Frontalot show (who we have been trying to see at least since 2006). So great. As it were the Halloweens, the two of us went as goth girls, which was quite fun (it is always fun to wear a cape and a top made of ripped up fishnets).

The show was pretty awesome. Front was the opener, which was a little bit of nerd culture shock. I forget that many of my favorite artists are tiny indie acts even among tiny indie acts, but Front is, well, he's a big name as far as nerdcore goes. But still, one of the bands was local (okay, okay, it was Protomen, but I live in Nashville, Kings of Leon is a local band), and when mc chris played the same venue a couple years ago he was the headliner, so idk.

The set list was pretty badass. He opened with Tongue-Clucking Grammarian, which I kind of didn't expect and is one of my very favorites for obvious reasons. I was kind of surprised, because he didn't do much off of Solved, but, tbh, I like Zero Day and Final Boss a lot more, and a lot of the set list came from there, so no complaints here. So he did Spoiler Alert, Scare Goat, First World Problems, and suchlike in that vein. He also did some older stuff off of Nerdcore Rising that I wasn't expecting to hear (This Old Man, Pr0n Song, etc) and, of course, Yellow Lasers.

And the closer was Goth Girls, which made us quite happy. :D

He's really awesome in concert. I mean, one doesn't know what to expect from rappers in particular on stage, because rapping is, one has to admit, a lot of vocal work, and sometimes people just kind of stand up there. But he was truly rocking out, and I applaud him for it.

The current lineup is pretty badass as well. I was particularly impressed with Vic-20 (aka Ken Flagg), who can damn well sing. But apparently he is leaving the lineup? Or maybe he is the new keyboardist. SOMEONE IS QUITTING ON KEYBOARDS. THAT IS ALL I KNOW. And the bassist did the entire concert, including singing, through a full Cantina Band face mask/helmet, and he rocked it. Front went as MC Frontalot with a mustache, a low maintenance, rhyme-facilitating costume.

And we got to meet him! I mean, I didn't have anything to say, because I was all "eee it are Frontalot!" but Lizzy bought some things and got her CD signed (which I would have done if I could find mine, but as previously discussed EVERYTHING IN THIS HOUSE HAS BEEN MOVED). He was just chillin' at the merch table, as one does when one's touring crew consists of four people, and he was very friendly.

So that was Frontalot. I approve greatly.

Dude. Paul Simon. Dude. I can't even express to you how epic it was.

So I was sitting back in row X, yeah? And halfway through the show, no shit, it starts raining beer. Not, like, a couple of drips, like my shoulder was soaked, Apparently someone in the balcony spilled theirs, and the whole thing rained down on us, copiously.

So someone calls the usher over, and she's like, "Come with me," and I'm thinking, "Oh great, she's going to give us a refund and I'm going to have to explain that I have a scalped ticket." But no, she takes my ticket and reseats me.

In row K.

Yeah. So I was super close for the rest of it, which was awesome. The energy in the room was really great- it's a small venue with really good acoustics, and most of the crowd (except the dude next to me, for some reason) was really into it. He did a bunch of songs off the new album, and several songs from Graceland (he opened with Crazy Love, Vol. II, which I didn't expect him to do and was pleasantly surprised by), and some older stuff (Peace Like a River, The Boxer, The Sound of Silence, etc). He only did one song from Rhythm of the Saints, but it was The Obvious Child, so no complaints there. He had a couple of guests- Don Everly came out and they did Bye Bye Love, and Jerry Douglas played the dobro on The Boxer, which was super pretty. He also did some covers- Here Comes the Sun was beautiful, and kind of turned into a singalong, which is fine with me.

The only thing that he didn't do that I wanted to see was You Can Call Me Al, which I'd read was his closer for this tour; but it turned out the closer was The Boy in the Bubble, and trying to choose between those two songs is like trying to choose between my children, so I was happy.

So epic. I was so excited I didn't even know what to do with myself. I still don't, really.

Okay, so, I'm writing this paper on global hip-hop, and I'm trying to get more international examples other than the ones used in class, and I figured if anybody could answer this question, it would def. be my flist, so:

Does anyone know of any protest-themed hip-hop songs in the following languages?

-Japanese
-Brazilian Portuguese
-any Latin American Spanish

I mean "protest" very, very loosely- I once successfully argued that "Single Ladies" was in fact a protest song. Anything goes- songs against the government, songs about how cultural norms can suck it, songs about being a NEET, songs about how America sucks, w/e. Out of these languages, I only understand Spanish, so something with an English translation available is vastly preferable. The only artists that are off limits are Orishas and Anderson Sá/Grupo Cultural AfroReggae (as I have already used them).

I'm not asking you to do any research at all for this- I can do that myself- but if you know one off the top of your head, it would be very, very helpful.

1. This is the kind of afternoon I'm having: I put pants on so that I could go and collect my mail (wherein I found my new big subby wristband), then immediately took them off again. Now I am, as you can often find me of a Saturday, sitting in my underpants, drinking a beer, listening to David Bowie, contemplating making some brownies.

I have, it should be pointed out, totally earned this beer and underpants time, as I spent the whole morning working on my paper for this conference next week. And hey, my underpants even match my shirt. It almost looks like I planned it.

2. ( Very mild butt-related TMI )

3. intoabar is almost over! I am both excited and relieved!

So, I've kind of been listening to Weep all day? I can't help it if they are awesome, or if Doc Hammer occasionally gets butt naked at their shows. And somehow this devolved into a giant post of covers that I like. I swear, this was a logical progression.

( Do not click here if you do not like things that are AWESOME. )