I FUCKING LOVE THIS SONG.

Tell me, F-List,what are your favourite holiday songs done by pop artists?

ETA: I totally forgot that I put together a playlist of soul/jazz-based Christmas classics last year:



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The students apparently gave me something. Whatever it was is making me see double, fueling an intense mucous build-up in my sinuses, and triggering lung-hacking coughing.

It took 30 minutes to post 3 community comments.


I FEEL FUNNY. WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME?
IS THIS GONNA BE FOREVER?

There's snow all around me, and it's gorgeous.

What I'm wearing around is a knee length black/grayish coat that fits me like a charm, my signature black glasses and a new pair of green leather gloves. I sport a black manbag to top it off. Very sexy.

Yeah, that's what I've been thinking about lately. :) And I think only in winter do I like mornings. You know, when you have to go to college because some crazy-ass teacher's class starts at 7am, it's really a bummer. But now, you get to step out into the streets before anyone else, and then while playing music on the headphones, contemplate about stuff while trying to stay dry. I just love it.

Off to see b/f now, with whom I've had a rather peaceful and turbulence-less relationship lately. Movies, making out and him cooking for me (no one wants me to cook for them, and for a good reason). So I hope something changed, finally.

Oh, and my friend's friend from Vienna, who's madly in love with me (so much, he bought me a Burberry scarf after seeing me only once), is coming to Serbia this week-end. Should be fun. Although totally not my type, he's really sweet, and I look forward to hanging out with him.

To wrap it up, I just wanted to let you know, that in the last two days, I've been learning what picspams are (idiot). Amazing stuff. Someone make a VOGUE one from Madonna's Sticky & Sweet Tour. Just an idea.

xoxo

P.S. - I need more active friends on LJ. Anyone knows of any good communities where I could fine some cool peeps?

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I just got back from having my cement retainer reglued. I hadn't seen Dr. Repicci in probably 5 years now, and he's always been really nice to me. He never charged my mother a dime for any of the dental work he's done on me, including the monthly check-ups on my braces, the retainer fittings, the retainer replacements, and the cement retainer glue renewals. in general, he's a pretty decent guy.

After he renewed my glue we started talking about school, English literature and my plans for the future. I told him I'm a research assistant for the time being, to build up my resume, and started explaining my overall duties and the topic, which is basically sexological queer studies. He didn't realize "queer" was an acceptable term and asked me if I thought homosexuality was an abnormality. I told him it was not and he said he'd like to challenge my view. In my head I turned into mo'nique -- "Oh Hell No!" He basicalky said that homosexuality is an entirely acceptable abnormality, and is only an abnormality because homosexuality doesn't lead to procreation. I folded because I didn't want to argue a point that, for me, could end in blood shed and me paying for dental work that my insurance won't cover. So I'm going to vent here with a few points.

-The point of life is not procreation, the earth doesn't care if humanity sees tomorrow. Humanity is a plague that has destroyed the earth and erased entire species. Frankly, I think that encouraging procreation has done more harm than good, especially if you consider things like over population and suburban sprawl. In the end, procreation will probably contribute to what destroys us all.

-Women are not uteruses, and men are not sperm donors. Please stop reducing humanity to a single function. There are heterosexual men and women who choose not to procreate, and there are also men and women who physically cannot. Does this make them abnormal? No. Does that make them less human? No. That just makes them incapable of attributing to an already excessive population.

- If queers are not considered normal, we are certainly exceptional. We challenge traditional gender roles and escape the oppressive laws placed onto wo/man by "God", the government, and heteronormative society. By doing so we encourage people to embrace themselves as they are instead of blindly following established ideals of normality. We are, in fact, redefining what it is to be normal by simply existing.

Why are most Doctors so damn conservative in their views?

I'm in Bronxville-Yonkers-NYC from now until January 10th. A whole month!!

Get at me. Let's hang out!

hey y'all.

a recent code update from LJ will require new LJ users to specify their gender at sign-up. right now, you can choose "unspecified" -- in the future that will not be an option. (this is apparently so they can use gender-specific ads.)

obviously, this is not okay.

THIS POST by synecdochic explains more, then asks you to set your gender to unspecified and send in feedback about this change.

please do that! and pass this on.

thanks. :)

ETA: someone got a response saying it was not meant to be mandatory, that's a mistake that won't be going live.

To a different continent, preferably. My boyfriend is driving me crazy, my school is insane, and my father is out of control. Shall we take it from the top?

Me and my boyfriend of 8 months (!) have developed this little ritual - he fucks something up, I try to talk about it, he gets defensive, turns it into a fight, I storm out upset/crying, he apologizes, becomes nice for a few days, and then the cycle begins again. And the worst part is, I've grown used to it. Seriously, I am starting to wonder what a healthy, beautiful relationship is like. And although I bitch about him, I love him. One of the worst periods in my life was when the doctors thought he might have brain tumor. On the other hand, we haven't had sex in roughly 2 months, mostly because I didn't want to. And I don't know why, but the idea of having sex with him is just... Unnatural for me. I don't trust him enough anymore, I guess,

My school is an offensive, stupid place. The teachers don't care about the best students at all, and always fail to acknowledge their good work. I am so running out of motivation, that I actually got two C's in literature. C's!!! I seriously need to get back on track and I think the best way of doing this is getting a scholarship and transferring somewhere far away. :) You guys have any ideas?

And I don't want to rant about my dad. So not interesting.

xoxo

DID NOT MAKE IT. DISAPPOINTING:

PJ Harvey & John Parish--A Woman A Man Walked By
Favorite song: "The Soldier"


Simian Mobile Disco--Temporary Pleasure
Favorite song: "Audacity Of Huge." This song is epic to me though.

THE LIST:

Chris Garneau--El Radio
Favorite song: "Dirty Night Clowns"


Lady GaGa--The Fame Monster
Favorite song: "Bad Romance"


Scott Matthew--There Is An Ocean That Divides
Favorite song: "Dog"


The Juan MacLean, The Future Will Come
Favorite song: "Happy House" 12 minutes of gorgeous electronica EPIC


Tori Amos--Midwinter Graces
Favorite songs: "Our New Year" amazing song that somehow accurately describes the hope of a new year in relationships and looking back on all those relationships from last year. "Candle: Coventry Carol" sounds like it's from the Middle Ages, a very interesting listening experience.


Kid Sister--Ultraviolet
Favorite song: "Daydreaming"


Junior Boys--Begone Dull Care
Favorite song: "Bits & Pieces." More epic electronica.


The xx--The xx
Favorite song: "Heart Skipped A Beat"


Brand New--Daisy
Favorite song: "You Stole"


John Frusciante--The Empyrean
Favorite song: "Unreachable"


Karen O And The Kids--Where The Wild Things Are Soundtrack
Favorite song: "Worried Shoes" May be my favorite song of the year.


Lily Allen--It's Not Me, It's You
Favorite song: "Not Fair"


#5 favorite album of the year, Calvin Harris--Ready For The Weekend
Favorite song: "Ready For The Weekend"


#4 favorite album of the year, Yeah Yeah Yeahs--It's Blitz!
Favorite songs: "Soft Shock" and "Hysteric."


#3 favorite album of the year: Patrick Wolf--The Bachelor
Favorite songs: "Thickets" and "The Bachelor."


#2 favorite album of the year: Little Boots--Hands
Favorite song: "Symmetry" and "Meddle."


ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Tori Amos--Abnormally Attracted To Sin What else were you expecting as number one? Duh.
Favorite songs: "Starling," "Fire To Your Plain," "Fast Horse," "Lady In Blue."


ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Laura Veirs--July Flame IT'S A TIE.*
Favorite songs: "Life Is Good Blues," "July Flame," "Wide-Eyed, Legless," "Where Are You Driving?" "Summer Is The Champion."
*NOTE: This album leaked in November. The pre-order came to me on Friday. It is not released officially until January 12th. However, I believe the pre-order being shipped in 2009 and the leak definitely qualifies it for me to consider this a part of my favorites of 2009.

So happy that my two favorite musicans ever, Tori Amos and Laura Veirs, share the #1 spot!

I probably shouldn't have made this list. There is so much that I intend to download but never get around to and then I forget about them and then there is so much that I intend to download but I forget because I keep on listening to the same songs over and over and then there is so much that I don't even bother downloading and then there is so much that I download the whole CD and then I only listen to one song and forget to listen to the rest of the CD and then there is so much that I don't have time to listen to. Und so weiter.

Here is my list from last year in which I neglected to mention Santi(o)gold, Kaskade's Strobelight Seduction, Lady GaGa's The Fame, and other stuff that escapes me right now.

In 2010, I am looking forward to hearing Courtney Love's Nobody's Daughter, LCD Soundsystem, Santigold, Patrick Wolf, OutKast, No Doubt, Matchbox Twenty, Broken Spindles.

lame: i get so annoyed when i start getting heavily into a Thing that i've heard of over the past couple of months, or years, and then i want to pinpoint exactly where and when i first heard of said Thing because i like to have a nice neat timeline of all the Things i am into, but of course i can't remember because who could remember?

cool: a treat for me lately has been rediscovering music my dad listened to when i was a kid. i learn to appreciate it on its own merits, but there's also a familiarity and a warmth that makes it X-tra special. dads and i saw chris smither at the record collector last night. we were about a foot from the "stage". kind of uncomfortable but kind of really awesome. he liked my penguin hat. have i mentioned that i love that place and i want to go there every weekend and hang out with all the dads? because i do.

but it's always awkward when i get into a folk blues mood because it makes all but a very small percentage of my music collection unlistenable. hey whatever, john prine next month.

for those keeping track at home: three exams and a make up speech on monday. one exam on tuesday. final speech next monday. no more school after that. punk rock flea market this weekend. this is the week that is on the 28th. christmas on christmas. cinematic titanic on new years.

i should know by late january if i'm accepted to arcadia or not. i don't see a reason why i won't be, but ugh, what if i'm not? then i have to find another school to apply to - one that preferably doesn't have any essays to write or recommendations to obtain.

life is BORING. i've taken to wearing my penguin hat when i go outside because people always talk to me and then i don't feel so lonely. but i'm taking care of things in the hope that the future won't be so lame. even if that doesn't pan out, at least i can cut myself some slack now. i'm trying, right?

i ordered these shortz today. they were at the show but they didn't have them in small. so now when i'm lying around the house being boring i can at least do it in style.

GOLD. NAIL. POLISH.



OMG.

And I have cheek stain that smells like grapes. Speaking of Cheeks, he has an amazing new video. God, I love him. "Your opportunity just so happens to be standing in the way of my civil rights."

One more thing:

In response to this, the fact that apparently some people on my flist agree that it's just a show, and the usual "it's just fic" responses in my criticisms of fanfiction:

Art is a reflection of life, and life is a reflection of art. Our media is influenced by society, and society is influenced by our media. They aren't separate, and it's not just one or the other; the are intrinsically connected. Thus if you want to enjoy something and not think about what it reflections, or what its possible repercussions are, that is your choice. But to say that it's just a television show or just a story and criticize anyone who thinks analytically about it means you are ignoring this very important truth.

Glee, for example, has problems. Yes, that article that caused wank was right: Glee focuses on the white students and pushes students of color to the side. Yes, the comments in response to the article that were critical of Glee were also right. The situation with Puck and Quinn having sex is sketchy, and Glee at best ignores it and at worst puts it all on Quinn. It was rude and potentially offensive when Mr. Schue's Glee Club butted in on the deaf glee club's performance of "Imagine." And Mr. Schue's reaction to finding out about Terri's faked pregnancy was scary and abusive.

There's a fanfiction story about a character who is tired of being called cute, and so he takes an experimental drug (a steroid, I think), and becomes abusive towards his boyfriend. At one point he becomes mad at his boyfriend and the boyfriend's friend, and beats up the friend badly enough that he ends up in the hospital. The boyfriend, however, thinks about how much he loves the abusive character, and how it must not be his fault because something is "off" with him, and stays. It's not done yet, but I can make a good guess at how it will end: the boyfriend will continue to stay through the abuse because he loves the abusive character, and finally that love will lead him to get help and get better. They'll have a happy ending.

There's nothing inherently wrong with showing any of those things. People of color are often ignored. People often are inconsiderate towards the deaf. When a man finds out his wife is faking a pregnancy they wanted, it's very likely he will respond harshly. And all too often, victims of abuse do stay with their abusers. The problem here is that all of these things are unquestioned or presented as okay. It is not the issue that's the problem, it's how it's presented.

The fact that these are presented as okay just as they are, without being questioned in any way, shows that other people, in the real world, think it's okay, too. Other people think that Mr. Schue's response to Terri was not just realistic, but actually proportional. Other people think that it's actually perfectly okay if you stay with someone who's abusive just because they might be influenced by something else and, hey, you love them.

So that's the problem. If in the real world someone said something racist or sexist or homophobic, or otherwise ignorant of those issues, and you believe it's your responsibility to call them on it, it's just as much your responsibility to be aware of how those same things are reflected in our media. At the very least, don't get upset and angry when other people do it. It's not "just entertainment." It's not hating on the show or book or fic (hey, I like Glee). It's important.

Seeing as the holiday season is upon us, I thought I'd post this picture of Harvey, his boyfriend-at-the-time Jack Galen McKinley, and their Christmas tree. (Or perhaps it's a Hannukah bush?)



Wow, Harvey looks just skinny-skinny-skinny in this picture, doesn't he? The dog's name is Trick, by the way. The cat, not pictured, was named Trade. Yes, Harvey, very subtle...*rolls eyes and starts giggling*

don't worry i'll never delete my livejournal. although it came up in class the other day and this girl was like "who uses livejournal anymore? i had one of those in middle school" and i was like :/

I CAN'T BELIEVE I FORGOT THIS but three weeks ago, when i saw devo, was also the 6 year wireversary. 6 years since i bought pink flag. i know it's corny but without that album and my subsequent obsession with all things artpunk i would have probably died of boredom by now. seriously, what would i have done with the past 6 years if i didn't have all those weird old bands to geek out over? i probably would have been into anime or furries or something. thank you, ex lion tamer.

my insane TV habits are getting me into trouble again. i have an arseload of work to do, but i can't seem to force myself to do anything until i watch at least five episodes of house first. although i'm now at the point where i can just watch the scene where wilson takes amphetamines and i'm good to go. i can't wait until big love comes back in january so i don't have to feel guilty about discovering shows so late. ten years from now i'm going to be like "HEY! HAVE ANY OF YOU GUYS HEARD OF '30 ROCK'?". i hate myself. i should read books. it's not...um...sarcoidosis.

so i've started the zoloft. the people seem to think i have PMDD (super-PMS, basically), which makes me rage a little bit but actually sounds plausible. it just doesn't sound sexy! i'm pleased that i'm finally taking these steps to fix my brain and become a functional human being, but part of me thinks that therapy would have helped a lot more back when i was being a self-destructive little bastard. i mean, sometimes i think back to how i spent my prom weekend, and i wonder how it ever got that lame and bad and why no one ever noticed. i survived, i guess, so maybe i shouldn't spend too much time dwelling on it. but you know me. poor old me. world's smallest violin, etc.

i'm in class right now and the girl sitting next to me has chick fil-a. i'm about to swipe that shit.

I have completed my paper.

I have no idea what to do without comment notifications.

I am bored but refuse to go to bed at 10:30 when I have no class or finals tomorrow.

Thus, party in this post. Link me to your holiday wishlists (mine are: personal lj, holiday_wishes, ontdai_wishes; there are a couple differences in each one). Tell me what's up. Ask questions for anyone to answer. idc. just make it good!

THIS IS NOW A PANTSLESS PARTY.

NO PANTS ALLOWED.