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syncope at 01:10pm on 03/07/2007
syncope at 01:10pm on 03/07/2007Yesterday, JJ trimmed my hair because it's getting a little out of control. I think I might actually have to get it thinned out. The problem is when I let it dry down, because it's different levels of curly in different places, it looks like my hair is all messed up. Mainly I just wear it up anyway.
These are some Elseworld comics I've never read that I want to. Has anyone else read 'em?
Superman is Enlgish!
Robin in a fairytale!
LJA with a drug addicted, religious nutbar Aquaman?
Steampunk JLA!
Superman and Batman were WIMMIN!
Considering my adoration of Elseworlds, I have no idea why I haven't read these gems.
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Some more of the give me topics thing:
From Cathy: Why I Should Never Say Never (or, How Kassie Comes to Love Everything She Mocks)
This really has nothing to do with fandom but is more of a indelible personality trait. I used to hate bright colors, pick up trucks, the South, all sorts of things I now either love or find amusing. I think mainly it’s because I can’t really make an effort to truly dislike something. Mocking is about as far as I get, and if I mock something enough, I come into constant contact with it, which makes me completely amused by it and from amusement I move onto actual liking something, because why talk constantly about something that brings you anger or unhappiness. That reasoning displays plainly my inability to take anything seriously, too. We’re all going to die anyway, why care about what anyone else enjoys, I ask you? The SGA thing was a very unexpected example of this. I did really think it sucked at first. I should write myself notes “don’t mock Republicans or the Christian Right,” because who knows when I’ll end up at a Junior League party talking about interest rates on investment property in the ghetto and how I need to get into slum lording before the gays move in and start gentrifying.
(Also, Cathy’s real topic was her karaoke skills, who are unparalleled. Part of that is her shameless exhibitionism and part of it is being a totally smoking rock chick.)
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From Callmesandy: Major label music and the future thereof:
On my more cynical days, I would say that Sony will just eat the world and because the government has decided that all the anti-trust and monopoly laws were just for the lolz and aren’t applicable anymore there’s not much to be done about it.
The bright side of this is that I think that truly indy music—a guy in his living room making 4 or 18 track recordings with equipment he got at a pawn shop—is the future anyway. Because of the internet, networking websites, and the fact that most people under 40 are disaffected by Clear Channel and other radio monopolies, we’re moving towards a new system of music dispersal. I think to a large degree, this is also a Think Globally, Act Locally situation where people who wouldn’t have ever even thought of it ten years ago are now supporting their local scenes (which is, amusingly enough, an outgrowth of the hipper-than-thou scenster movement, where one had to be in on the ground floor on any given act to be “cool”). If I tell my friends in Chicago about a band I know here and they tell me the same about their local scene and we spread that virally, we’ve already done the work of an overpaid PR person who doesn’t know the nuances of the individual scenes anyway. I think right now were’ at the early stages of this, but pretty soon, acts will realize that gorilla marketing and being very tied to key people who can make that happen to them work better than major label fumblings and commodification anyway. It’s already happening. It’s also been done before: it was called punk. But it’s so much easier now, so lazy people can get famous without having to flog their cassettes and eps out of the back of their mom’s old station wagon.
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For Harmonyfb: Reckon what books Rodney McKay likes to read in his off time?
First of all, Rodney has no off time, as he’d happily tell you with a scoff and sneer. But if he were to take a break from playing Sim games with Sheppard and chess with Radek, he’d probably read all of the popular science books published so that when ignoramouses tried to “spark” conversation with him (at their own peril) then he could shut them down with a set of three points or fewer on each book. Examples include: The Trouble With Physics (pure axe-grinding), anything with God in the title not written by Richard Dawkins, A Short History of Nearly Everything (don’t even get him started), and The Science of Harry Potter. (The Physics of Superheroes he enjoyed, and he and Radek debate the truthiness of the information over lunch sometimes.)
When he reads fiction, he reads comic books, and novels with dragons on the cover.
These are some Elseworld comics I've never read that I want to. Has anyone else read 'em?
Superman is Enlgish!
Robin in a fairytale!
LJA with a drug addicted, religious nutbar Aquaman?
Steampunk JLA!
Superman and Batman were WIMMIN!
Considering my adoration of Elseworlds, I have no idea why I haven't read these gems.
*
Some more of the give me topics thing:
From Cathy: Why I Should Never Say Never (or, How Kassie Comes to Love Everything She Mocks)
This really has nothing to do with fandom but is more of a indelible personality trait. I used to hate bright colors, pick up trucks, the South, all sorts of things I now either love or find amusing. I think mainly it’s because I can’t really make an effort to truly dislike something. Mocking is about as far as I get, and if I mock something enough, I come into constant contact with it, which makes me completely amused by it and from amusement I move onto actual liking something, because why talk constantly about something that brings you anger or unhappiness. That reasoning displays plainly my inability to take anything seriously, too. We’re all going to die anyway, why care about what anyone else enjoys, I ask you? The SGA thing was a very unexpected example of this. I did really think it sucked at first. I should write myself notes “don’t mock Republicans or the Christian Right,” because who knows when I’ll end up at a Junior League party talking about interest rates on investment property in the ghetto and how I need to get into slum lording before the gays move in and start gentrifying.
(Also, Cathy’s real topic was her karaoke skills, who are unparalleled. Part of that is her shameless exhibitionism and part of it is being a totally smoking rock chick.)
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From Callmesandy: Major label music and the future thereof:
On my more cynical days, I would say that Sony will just eat the world and because the government has decided that all the anti-trust and monopoly laws were just for the lolz and aren’t applicable anymore there’s not much to be done about it.
The bright side of this is that I think that truly indy music—a guy in his living room making 4 or 18 track recordings with equipment he got at a pawn shop—is the future anyway. Because of the internet, networking websites, and the fact that most people under 40 are disaffected by Clear Channel and other radio monopolies, we’re moving towards a new system of music dispersal. I think to a large degree, this is also a Think Globally, Act Locally situation where people who wouldn’t have ever even thought of it ten years ago are now supporting their local scenes (which is, amusingly enough, an outgrowth of the hipper-than-thou scenster movement, where one had to be in on the ground floor on any given act to be “cool”). If I tell my friends in Chicago about a band I know here and they tell me the same about their local scene and we spread that virally, we’ve already done the work of an overpaid PR person who doesn’t know the nuances of the individual scenes anyway. I think right now were’ at the early stages of this, but pretty soon, acts will realize that gorilla marketing and being very tied to key people who can make that happen to them work better than major label fumblings and commodification anyway. It’s already happening. It’s also been done before: it was called punk. But it’s so much easier now, so lazy people can get famous without having to flog their cassettes and eps out of the back of their mom’s old station wagon.
*
For Harmonyfb: Reckon what books Rodney McKay likes to read in his off time?
First of all, Rodney has no off time, as he’d happily tell you with a scoff and sneer. But if he were to take a break from playing Sim games with Sheppard and chess with Radek, he’d probably read all of the popular science books published so that when ignoramouses tried to “spark” conversation with him (at their own peril) then he could shut them down with a set of three points or fewer on each book. Examples include: The Trouble With Physics (pure axe-grinding), anything with God in the title not written by Richard Dawkins, A Short History of Nearly Everything (don’t even get him started), and The Science of Harry Potter. (The Physics of Superheroes he enjoyed, and he and Radek debate the truthiness of the information over lunch sometimes.)
When he reads fiction, he reads comic books, and novels with dragons on the cover.
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