This weather is driving me to feeling all snuggly in blankets... and I've been doing the emotional rollercoaster thing for a while, so we're going to do a mindless survey...



Favorites
So everyone has favorites "for now" and favorites "forever." Answer these questions with both answers, if you have separate answers, and be sure to say why.


( favorites survey )

Five random things about yourself that you don't think will change
I'm very extroverted.
I always prize lyrics above music, although classical, instrumental music played live is one of those transcending/close to sacred experiences for me.
I'm a bibliophile who is addicted to caffeine and loves having a random sleep schedule.
I'm very biased against the south.
I'm an atheist.

Five random things about yourself that you do think will change
My current music tastes are always switching depending on company, exposure to new genres and context for music.
The state of my room, I hope. It's a mess.
My ambition has waned very much this past year, as I've been emotionally pretty up and down. I hope I have some again at some point.
My social life has tended towards goth night/group of folks lately. I would be surprised if I was still doing just that as my social outlet next month and not perhaps hanging more with the gaming crowd or with the bookstore crowd or something.
My lack of a coat will hopefully soon change :)

1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List (and upload, if you feel like it) seven songs that start with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

V:
Val Kilmer- Bowling For Soup
Valentine's Day- Linkin Park
Vampire- Antsy Pants
Vampires In Blue Dresses- Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos
Velveteen- GITS: SAC
Visions- Faith and the Muse
Voyeur- Blink 182


Also:
Anyone wanna grab a beer tonight or something? I'm already wanting to decompress so badly and I'm still in St. Louis... but I should be back by early afternoon. Just text me or leave a comment here.

One spot of sunshine- about to get WHITE CASTLE.

EDIT: So Chuck and I were going to check out Bentley's at some time tonight. If folks would like to join in on my chilling with a beer time (please feel free) call me.

Ended up at Esquire. Good times!

Man, I wish I had something interesting to say.

Nobody really got back to me about going to see live music at the different parks this summer :( Bummer, I can think of a few that I think you guys would really like. This Saturday, I'm going to the Streetfest at 7 PM, if anyone is so inclined. And I want to see Exorna when they play (June 29), if anyone wants Irish music/picnic.

I feel like I'm not particularly connecting to people currently, as I never seem to get out exactly what I want to say, and I'm enjoying just staying in and reading. I hope this feeling passes soon, as it just gets me paranoid and worried and anxious.

In other news, I got contacted by some people out of absolutely nowhere, who want to hang out and get in touch again, and I'm not sure how I feel about it.

I wish I had a manual for life.

I leave you with a fun meme.

You are in a mall when the zombies attack. You have:
1. one weapon.
2. one song blasting on the speakers.
3. one famous person to fight alongside you.

Weapon can be real or fictional, you may assume endless ammo if applicable. Person can be real or fictional.

My answers:
1) Guisarme
2) Most anything by Prodigy or off of the Lola Rennt soundtrack
3) I'm going to go with either Christian Bale or Laura Ingalls Wilder. What? She survived an awful lot of stuff... I think prairie women are pretty badass.

Comment with your answers... Mere, Nick and I were answering the question after a fish and stir fry dinner and came up with such answers as Ash, George Washington and Shaun of the Dead (I know, kinda cliched but *shrug*), as well as some classical music choices and some weapons I had never heard of. Go figure. Grenade launcher is worrisome depending on how the zombieness is spread (don't want blood splattering everywhere if it's going to infect you).

Ok, everyone and their mom has been doing this... so voila.

Below is a list of the top 106 books tagged “unread” on LibraryThing. The rules:
bold = what you’ve read,
italics = books you started but couldn’t finish
crossed out = books you hated
* = you’ve read more than once
underline = books you own but haven’t read yourself

( I've read a bit in my day. )

Made my mix cd *probably more like two, actually*... well, made the playlist for it. Instead of being cool and putting all the songs down, I'm doing that silly meme where there's a line from each and ya'll can leave guesses of titles/artists. Haven't done it for this lj yet :) Leave guesses in comments and I'll update as they're guessed correctly. No cheating.

( mix cd/identify the artist/song )

Like I said, I think this'll be two cds; one manic, one dreaming. That's kinda how I roll.

So I've been told a few new things in the past few days. One- that I'm ego-centric. Two- that I listen to pretentious music/not enough softer things.

The first one, I have no response for, except that being vulnerable seems weak to me. I don't know how else to act when I'm surrounded by folks I seem to need to take care of, or folks that I don't know really well who are trying to take care of me. The few times I've broken down, well, I haven't really had the same response that people claim they're willing to do. And it's happened more than once (my car accident where my Dad said he was ashamed of me for crying, my breakdown junior year, the few times I've cried in front of folks).

The second, well, I have plenty of things that I'm a bit ashamed of, but I'm surrounded by cool people who have good taste and definite opinions, so I can only recommend the "pretentious" big-name stuff, because otherwise, you're going to get my true loves, which involve Jason Mraz, Switchfoot and Shakira.

So I have a tattoo... I don't know how much I've actually told people about it. It's the summoning dark symbol from Thud!. Yeah, big dork here. I love it though... I got a new piercing three days ago, my left conch pierced. I love it thus far.

The job is going well... very tedious, but fine. Living here with folks is going fine thus far, though I'm always waiting for the other shoe to drop... you know how it is.

Today I am hoping will be fairly laid back. I'm not going to make it to the Dawson concert, which bums me out a bit but I look forward to hearing about how awesome it was from Kelley. Hmmm... interesting things in my life thus far... Thursday= ear getting pierced, hanging out with folks at Pia's for about an hour and getting laundry done. Friday= work, then Paris, where we had a fun adventure culminating with Navajo getting alcohol poisoning and taking him to the hospital (he's fine now, we saw him the next day as we were leaving). Saturday= recovering from misadventures with napping time, relaxing, some Torchwood, attempting Seven Saints and ending up at Esquire due to Mom's Day weekend, me puttering out and going home because I'm lame and was feeling all blah, watching Across the Universe (guess not all musicals are terrible, mon ami?). Thus far, I'm 100% at showing it to people who are apprehensive and end up loving it a the end. Whoo.

Best line used this weekend, I'll let you guess which part was mine.

Just dance like you'd have sex, loosen up.
But there's no ropes involved?