• If you've been to a Vixy & Tony show before, and,


• You come to this Sunday's show, and bring along two friends who have never been to a Vixy & Tony show before, then


• Introduce them to us after the show, and you'll get one free copy of our CD, Thirteen, to distribute as you please. Perhaps gifting it to one of those two friends, just to watch them fight over it.

• If you've been to a Vixy & Tony show before, and


• You come to this Sunday's show, and bring along three friends who have never been to a Vixy & Tony show before, then


• Introduce them to us after the show, and you'll get a copy of the album, as well as a special rare collector's item DVD, a video of our opening set at Horizon Temple last month. This DVD will not be sold anywhere, it's been made especially for the purpose of giving it as a gift to our fans, for bringing new people to our shows.

• Sunday, August 10, 2008, 3:00 PM at A Gathering Grove in Everett. This is another double bill, with Vixy & Tony opening for the fantastic Skinny White Chick. As before, there will be crossover, with Vixy doing amazing harmony on their songs, and vice-versa.


• Saturday, August 23, 2008, 8:00 PM at House Cerulia, in Seattle. This is a house concert at 8:00, preceded by a potluck dinner at 6:30. Everyone is welcome! Please contact them and let them know you're coming, so they can plan for capacity and such.


• Friday, September 12, 2008, 8:00 PM at Little Red Studio in Seattle, we have a very special appearance. Vixy & Tony will be participating as part of the band Skinny White Chick, who is opening for the amazing Wendy Rule. I highly recommend getting tickets in advance for this one, tickets here. This is sure to be a particularly amazing night, don't miss it!

Sooj Gig 1: Friday, July 11th, 8pm, at the Horizon Temple at 1423 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill in Seattle. Performance space is small, come early for best seating. A small suggested donation is requested, see our schedule for details.

Sooj Gig 2: Saturday, July 12th, 5pm, at A Gathering Grove at 2820 Oakes Avenue, Suite C, in Everett.

• The show at A Gathering Grove on Saturday, July 12th, has been changed from 7pm to 5pm. Reason: There is a "dueling pianos" bar nearby whose 8pm show tends to get loud enough to spill over into their space. The Gathering Grove folks found out about this ahead of time, and they are adjusting our schedule to prevent our show from being disrupted. How kind of them! I'm glad this got discovered this far in advance.
  
  
• Edited: The show on Friday, July 11th, at the Horizon Temple just got updated on their calendar from 7pm to 8pm. You might want to get there quite early anyway, as I'm told that the performance space is kinda small, so coming early might help guarantee an actual seat.

A nice person named Erin, who heard about us through Seanan's Strange Messenger Story, had some very nice things to say about the album recently.

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excited

Tony has already posted this, but I've been reminded that we don't have TOTAL overlap of readers. I'm just gonna copy him here, because I am a lazy, lazy creature very very busy at working hard, oh yes...

We're doing a show at A Gathering Grove this coming Sunday (August 10th) at 3pm. We're so eager for new people to see us playing with our friends Sooj and Betsy that we're making a special offer. Bring someone new, and get a very special treat! Here's what we'll do:

* If you've been to a Vixy & Tony show before, and,

* You come to this Sunday's show, and bring along two friends who have never been to a Vixy & Tony show before, then

* Introduce them to us after the show, and you'll get one free copy of our CD, Thirteen, to distribute as you please. Perhaps gifting it to one of those two friends, just to watch them fight over it.


But that's not all!

* If you've been to a Vixy & Tony show before, and

* You come to this Sunday's show, and bring along three friends who have never been to a Vixy & Tony show before, then

* Introduce them to us after the show, and you'll get a copy of the album, as well as a special rare collector's item DVD, a video of our opening set at Horizon Temple last month. This DVD will not be sold anywhere, it's been made especially for the purpose of giving it as a gift to our fans, for bringing new people to our shows.


If you bring more than three friends, I'm sure we can work out something even better!

mood

nostalgic

So, Jordan Mann is looking for some ideas. (Do go and help him out if you can.)

tfabris has outed me as to the fact that once, long ago, I re-wrote Ookla the Mok's "View Master" to suit my own childhood. One could think of it as the girly version, but it's not really, because I left some of it as it was-- I used to read Archie comics too, for instance. Also I had a Stretch Armstrong. We kinda destroyed him. I'm not sure what the brown goo was that came out, but I think it might've been corn syrup. Also? I never once played with My Little Ponies. When I was a kid, they were called My Pretty Ponies; I remember noticing when the ads started shifting names. Not that I had anything against them, mind. I was just busy dressing my Barbie dolls. And my Donny and Marie Osmond dolls. And playing with my drawer full of Legos.

...also, I just realized that for some reason I didn't touch the chorus at all, even the parts that didn't apply to me.

...also also, I didn't touch the bridge because I didn't have the bridge; Less than Art was out of print at the time I did this, so all I had was the Poor Man's Copyright version downloaded from their website. I didn't even know there was a bridge until I heard them do it live once. I still can't really remember how it goes.

Anyway, I don't think I have it online anywhere, and I figured this would be the easiest way. Plus then you can all giggle at me. :)

(I did actually get to sing this once, in open circle at Con... Con... whatever the Northeast Floating Filk Con was the year I went there with Seanan. Rand was there and Adam wasn't, so I persuaded Rand to let me sing the Adam-half of my lyrics with him.)

Without further ado, I give you ( View Mistress. )


...I still have this fantasy of starting an all-female Ookla the Mok cover band. I'd call it Princess Ariel.

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confused

Okay...

So I'm filling out my Pegasus Nomination Ballot. Which you should go do if you're a filker and you haven't already, because today's the last day. (Sorry for not mentioning it sooner. Been kinda busy.)

I'm trying to remember where I saw someone mention a song they were nominating by Barry Childs-Helton; all I remember is thinking to myself "oh hey, I like that song; I didn't know that Barry wrote it." But I can't remember what song, or who posted it.

So I'm skimming through all people I have tagged as filkers, which is a different and broader list than my usual reading filter. (Yes, I don't read everyone every day. Sorry about that; you outnumber me by many, many times.)

And I notice... posts I've never seen before. From several days ago. From people I *do* read every day.

I can't figure out if my filter is somehow not showing me all the posts it should, or if somehow I stopped going backwards thinking I had reached "ok I've seen that post before so I'm updated now" when I really hadn't. More likely the latter. PEBCAK.

So anyway, um... if you've mentioned something to me recently and I acted like I didn't know what you were talking about, and you found that odd, that's probably why. I *thought* I was caught up, but clearly there is a big chunk of reading missing. Not that it's an obligation, or anything, but... I find it really disorienting, actually.

I think I have a plan for airport-waiting tonight...

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contemplative

What's new in the world of me?

I finally updated my individual website. Not much, but I hadn't updated it since January, so it was kind of sad looking. Links updated to purchasing the new CD, purchasing prints and stuff from deviantArt, and most importantly, to the Vixy & Tony schedule page. It's starting to feel almost redundant to have this site around, actually, but there are still things it can accomplish as a way of finding me. I have a small to-do list of things I want to do to it next, but at least it no longer looks like an abandoned building.

To reward myself, I've been pirating in between loads of laundry and bits of rehearsing. Yarr! Tonight we played sloop soccer-- several larger ships on the battle board playing soccer, using a sloop as the ball. RAMMING SPEED! It was hilarious. My team won 1 - 0!

We leave tomorrow night for SpoCon! As is almost always the case with me before a con, I'm SO not ready. I've just been too focused on stuff with my mom and such to think ahead beyond the next day or two. Fortunately, Tony keeps me more or less intact. We'll be the Filk Guests, thanks to the good offices of bellyhousefrau.

I'm sorta wishing I could be in two places at once, because Faerieworlds looks more and more tempting the more I read about it! Perhaps next year... if there's someone staying in a hotel. I really hate camping. :)

There've been other things going on but I'm honestly not sure I remember what they are. Some of the Phoenix cousins are visiting, and they've spent some time with Mom, which was nice, and we had a get-together over the weekend. Mom's doing well in her new place, and getting along great with all the people there. I'm slowly getting her set up with doctors in the area.

Oh, I know what else! Today I had my consultation! About my tattoo! :) I'm going with Slave to the Needle in Ballard. I spent a lot of time looking at the art on their site and I really like what I see. Today I spent a few minutes telling my artist what I wanted, giving him sample pics, etc. In a couple weeks I have an art consultation to approve the line drawing, and a few days after that I get the actual tattoo! *bouncebounce* I'll tell what it is when I get it. I might even post photos.

I'm sure I had more intelligent things to say, but I've got to go figure out what to pack. :)

mood

loved

My birthday week has been a pretty good one! :D

Highlights...

( Events, and people, and events with people, and kittens and chocolate and fire and shininess. )

And of course, the requisite birthday question: ( what'd you get? )

And then... there's the mystery gift! :D Some kind and generous and wonderful soul got me another item off my wish list-- a shiny shiny new red KitchenAid!! (The purple one is no longer being made; the red was my next choice.) I have an oldish one, and it works okay, but it was my mother-in-law's cast-off, and I've never owned a new one of my own. I am thrilled and can't wait to set it up! And I want to thank the giver... except... I don't know who the giver is. It's one of those situations where the item was bought through Amazon but actually sold and shipped by another seller, and the only "from" info anywhere in the packing or labeling is that of the seller. So I don't know who it was! If it was one of you lovely people out there, please tell me so that I can sing your praises. :) (Actually I suspect that this might *also* be my mother-in-law, but I haven't yet gotten past the weirdness of asking.)

Someone asked me if I also got Alton-esque flame stickers to go on it (like these). I am thinking maybe I will figure out a way to give it fox ears and a tail. :D

All in all, it's been a pretty good week. :)

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sleepy

Tuesday's my birthday! (I think. *checks* Right. Tuesday.) You don't probably wanna know how old I am.

I never remember people's ages, even after I've asked them, and I'm plain rotten at guessing by looks. I think I might come across as age-obsessed sometimes, because I'm always asking people their ages and comparing them to each other and to me. Now you know the real reason-- it's because I can't remember how old you are, and I can't tell how old you are, and so I always feel sort of eternally ageless and adrift and very much not like my real age, and like nearly everyone I just met and/or with a strong personality must be older than me, and I'm always sort of trying to orient myself in time that way.

My mother has wished me happy birthday two or three times this week. Each time she thought it was the actual day. Once she called me to sing. Actually she's not that far off; not bad for someone with a memory problem.

I have not, obviously, had time or brain bandwidth to plan anything. (I did bake brownies today, but just on a whim, not in honor of my birthday; as of this morning I'd kinda forgotten about it. They didn't come out that well anyway.) So I don't think I'm doing anything special.

On the other hand, I has a Fishy. At least through my birthday. That's pretty special. :D

mood

cheered up

In summary: ( Spoilery! )

Side note: I'm listening to "Brand New Day" over and over, and marvelling at the Sondheimness. Not just internal rhymes, but internal rhymes on every foot.

( Lyrics )

Daaaaaaaaamn. I hate him from the bottom of my much-scratched-out notebook.

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bouncy

1) Why, Joss? Why? Why now, why free, why us?

Once upon a time, all the writers in the forest got very mad with the Forest Kings and declared a work-stoppage. The forest creatures were all sad; the mushrooms did not dance, the elderberries gave no juice for the festival wines, and the Teamsters were kinda pissed. (They were very polite about it, though.) During this work-stoppage, many writers tried to form partnerships for outside funding to create new work that circumvented the Forest King system.

Frustrated with the lack of movement on that front, I finally decided to do something very ambitious, very exciting, very mid-life-crisisy. Aided only by everyone I had worked with, was related to or had ever met, I single-handedly created this unique little epic. A supervillain musical, of which, as we all know, there are far too few.

The idea was to make it on the fly, on the cheap – but to make it. To turn out a really thrilling, professionalish piece of entertainment specifically for the internet. To show how much could be done with very little. To show the world there is another way. To give the public (and in particular you guys) something for all your support and patience. And to make a lot of silly jokes. Actually, that sentence probably should have come first.

2) What happens when it goes away? Does it go to a happy farm for always like Fluffy did when mommy was crying and the neighbor kept washing his fender?

No, Dr horrible will live on. We intend to make it available for download soon after it’s published. This would be for a nominal fee, which we’re hoping people will embrace instead of getting all piratey. We have big dreams, people, and one of them is paying our crew.

And somewhat later, we will put the complete short epic out on DVD – with the finest and bravest extras in all the land. We’ll go into greater detail about that at Comiccon, but we’re changing the face of Show Friendliness a second time with that crazy DVD.

3) Joss, you are so kind, and generous, and your forehead is like, huge, like SCARY, like I think I can see Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint hanging off it… what can WE do to help this musical extravanganza?

What you always do, peeps! What you’re already doing. Spread the word. Rock some banners, widgets, diggs… let people know who wouldn’t ordinarily know. It wouldn’t hurt if this really was an event. Good for the business, good for the community – communitIES: Hollywood, internet, artists around the world, comic-book fans, musical fans (and even the rather vocal community of people who hate both but will still dig on this). Proving we can turn Dr Horrible into a viable economic proposition as well as an awesome goof will only inspire more people to lay themselves out in the same way. It’s time for the dissemination of the artistic process. Create more for less. You are the ones that can make that happen.

Wow. I had no idea how important you guys were. I’m a little afraid of you.

mood

clicky!

Something I've been meaning to do for a while now...

It's the On the Way Home meme! Inspired by corivax, who did it here (along with the best description EVER of the cry of a Stellar's Jay). The idea is that you take a bunch of pictures as you go home from work or school and post them. Thing is, tfabris and I carpool to and from work most days, so you'd just see a lot of blurriness, some traffic at the occasional stop light, and the inside of Tony's car. So instead, I decided to make mine the On the Way To the Post Office and Back meme, since I walk there most days (it's part of my job duties to check the company's PO Box). Or, as I like to call it, There and Back Again. :D

These photos are taken from a few days' different walks over the course of a couple weeks, because Fishy's camera battery would last about a quarter of a mile or so each day before dying and being recharged overnight. Then it died utterly and I finished up with Tony's camera. Caution: LOTS of photos under the cuts.

( There )

( Back Again )

Vixy & Tony's Schedule

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busy

Hey LJ braintrust. I'm looking for your personal experience here...

Now that we won't be paying crippling amounts of rent to Mom's cousin anymore, we can afford to get Mom a cell phone. We want to get her something simple and program our numbers into it so she just has to find the name she wants and call. (It's kind of a pain for her to use the land line in her new place, and it would be reassuring to her to be able to call us any time.)

My sister had seen this phone advertised called a Jitterbug, which claims to be really easy, with live 24/7 operator help to call if you get confused (they'll dial for you and even add numbers to your call list for you)-- ideal for seniors. Thing is, the plans don't seem all that great to me. The highest ones are $80/month for 800 minutes, and $40/month for 300 minutes. I'm pretty sure she could blow through 300 minutes in no time; possibly 800 would be enough, but the price for that seems high to me. Voice mail is an extra $3/month, and add-on minutes are 15 to 25 cents a minute.

In your experience, is this way expensive for cell phone service? Or does this seem worth it? I just don't know what's standard these days.

Alternately, have you seen where anyone makes a cell phone whose UI is REALLY EASY to get to the speed-dials, and has a good deal on a service plan?

I should note that one of the reasons we got rid of her old phone was that somehow she ran her bill over a thousand dollars, either by going over her minutes or with long distance charges-- she was living in Phoenix then and my cousins were never really clear with me on that. Partly it was that my sister was texting her incessantly, realizing neither that the recipient is charged 20 cents a message nor that my mother didn't know how to read them anyway. But it was also partly that if she can, she will call us a LOT for reassurance, and talk a lot.

Tony suggested a pre-paid option, which I may look into, but then I still need to know if anyone's seen one thats *easy to use*. It's kind of impossible to tell that from a website. Anyone faced a similar dilemma lately?

mood

jittery

*jitters jitterfully*

Tonight and tomorrow night are the concerts with Skinny White Chick! Tonight's Capitol Hill, tomorrow's Everett. (See our schedule page.) I'm nervous, as I always am before a gig. (It's just what I do.)

And there will be harmonizin'! We had a fantastic rehearsal with them on Wednesday night. It went amazingly well and included a lot of lovely and generous hospitality and I'm SO EXCITED about what we're gonna do, and so thrilled that Sooj was pleased with what I came up with.

And, as a bonus, we got to be covered with kittens. KITTANS! Betsy, as it happens, breeds Maine Coon cats. So naturally, we got to take a kitten-break. And apparently recycled cotton smells REALLY REALLY GOOD to kittens, because many of them decided that 'vast expanse of white fabric' was the best cat toy EVAR. Kittens climbing into my lap to pounce my knees, kittens crawling under my skirt to bat at my hem, kittens sneaking around behind me. I could've stayed there for HOURS. :D Many thanks to Dave for dinner, Katie for toffee, K for techie-ing, Sooj for being generally awesome, and Betsy for ice cream and KITTANS.

Now I decide what to wear. Tony never varies from his t-shirt and black pants, so there's not really any way I can either match or mis-match him, but I'm thinking about dresses, which I rarely do for gigs, but it's summer and I'm sure it'll be hot. So I'll be changing outfits and tossing clothes about like a teenager while Tony and Jeff are off at panicStudios having Jeff's album mastered. (Did I mention we have a Jeff?)

Also I've got some Mom-related calls to make and such. (Bureaucracy is never-ending.)

MAN I'm glad I took the day off work today.

*goes to listen obsessively to her rehearsal playlist some more*

hpapillon

...women's heart attack symptoms can be different from men's -- we might feel pain in the back, jaw or stomach instead of the chest, for instance, and the radiating pain down the left arm we all hear about doesn't show up as often in women. Why, I asked the doctor, had I never heard that before, at 25 years old? "Well," he said, "until about 20 years ago, they just didn't test much on women. The assumption was that it would be the same for them as for men."

...Worse yet, the information they did have by the time my mom died wasn't even common knowledge for some reason -- and still isn't.

...And when I read today that women with Type 2 diabetes and heart disease are given less intensive medical treatment than men, I was furious all over again.

When I was in cardiac intensive care, I was surrounded by women. Women who had had several untreated heart attacks - women in their 30s, 40s, 50s, who had not known the symptoms of heart attack in women and had ignored them, or more strikingly, had gone to a doctor or an ER and been told that their physical symptoms were from untreated mental illnesses - depression, stress, etc. These women walked out of doctor’s offices and Emergency Rooms in the middle of, and directly after, having a heart attack because they were diagnosed with a case of ‘its all in your head’, or being told the problem was that they could not handle stress.

And because they were denied early care, the damage to their hearts continued, until one day they just fell over in full blown cardiac arrest and ended up sharing a room with me, in a cardiac watch-ward.

...Because they were not treated in time, because they eschewed science for cayenne pepper, because ‘everybody’ knows that young women don’t have heart problems, and that young women includes all women under 50, because when they complained of chest pain they were told to lose weight instead of being evaluated, because they were taught that women’s hearts are not as valuable as their male counterparts’ hearts, not treated with the same care and worry and concern, they all died.

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sleepy

Me: See, in French, there's an accent mark... you know the one that looks like this? (Makes hand shape to indicate ^)

Marty: Yeah.

Me: Well, in French, that's an accent circonflexe; it often indicates where, over the evolution of the language, an S was dropped. Like in the French word hôtel, it's over the o, because that word would have come from hostel.

Marty: Uh huh.

Me: So, since the scar on my forehead looks like an upside-down circonflexe, I like to say that that's where I lost an S when I was little.

Marty: I see. So you used to be Smichelle?

Me: No, I used to be Mischelle, with an S-C-H. So now my circonflexe is over my i.

Marty: So why did the French lose all these S's, anyway? War reparations?

Me: Nazi invasion.

Marty: Ah. Somewhere, deep beneath Berlin, there's a vault... filled with Jewish gold, and French S's.

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loved

Okay, I've been meaning to post this for about a month or more, and keep getting distracted. But the tab's been a consistent part of my ongoing saved session for all that time.

Someone-- I think it was either Anne or Jovanie-- happened to point me to this

Vixy and Tony lyric icons.

Vixy and Tony. Icons.

OMG.

Someone heard something I created, and loved it so much that they used it to create something *else* that was beautiful. I'm totally overwhelmed.

Edit: Check out her other icons too. I may be swiping some of the Golden Compass ones soon...

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procrastinating

In happier and miscellaneous news...

Part of my Amazon order just arrived. This includes a new battery for Fishy's old camera (the battery was working for roughly ten minutes at a time per overnight charge); if this works, then I can finally finish the on the way home meme. And maybe also the Week in the Life meme.

This order also includes the next Laurie R. King book that I haven't read, and another Jeeves book. ('Cause I figured, as long as I was ordering a battery from Amazon ANYWAY...)

iPod: still shiny.

Summer weather is here! It's sunny and warm and I can wear skirts and summer weather clothes and not even need a sweater at 7:30 am when I leave the house!

On that note, I went shopping last night and indulged in a bit of retail therapy. (Possibly unwise; I'd been counting on the $500/month I'm currently paying to Mom's cousin for rent/caregiving to become available soon to start paying down my debt.) But anyway, all hail new and comfier summer underwear that was on sale, new bras 'cause they were also on sale, and the things I mainly went on a quest for: skirts and tank tops. I went a little crazy, because Penney's was having a massive sale and the skirts were FIFTEEN DOLLARS EACH. Fifteen dollar skirts! And the tank tops were FIVE DOLLARS EACH. In many lovely colors! And some cute capri pants that were buy one get a second pair for 88 CENTS. And two of the skirts have POCKETS. It is so hard to find cute skirts that I like (that is, skirts that don't look like camping gear or an army uniform) that include pockets. I now own more flowly calf-length skirts than I care to admit, but two of those flowy calf-length skirts have POCKETS. es.

Also, some of the skirts are this brand of clothing that claims to be all recycled cotton. The sizing on that brand was REALLY erratic, even across the same cut/style, but then, that's women's clothing for you. We're used to stupid sizing.

Pondfilk weekend was fantastic but too short. Douglas & Juliana are excellent hosts, the people were lovely, the weather was lovely, the music was lovely. Next time I swear I'll find a day off somewhere so I can stay and SHOP. (And eat at the Blue Fox!)

chimera_fancies is about to have another pendant sale! This is the very definition of shiny.

Finally and most importantly, we have summer gigs coming up! Friday July 11 and Saturday July 12. Both gigs opening for Skinny White Chick! ( Details: )

I am absolutely a-jitter about this (I swear, s00j runs on jet fuel or something), and am listening frantically to mp3s in hopes that our scheme of singing with each other a little can be pulled off. (I should've started listening *sooner*, but... y'know. There's that other thing going on.)

Gotta keep focusing on the shiny things, don'tcha know.

And now to finish my sandwich and get back to putting off work.

Vixy & Tony's Schedule

	mood		cheerful
	music		Wait Wait Don't Tell Me podcast

This was going to be a comment to this post of cadhla's from not too long ago, but I decided to make it its own post instead. To quote: Yesterday's glee...caused me to stop and contemplate physical belongings -- what I have, what I've acquired on purpose, what's been given to me -- and realize that sometimes, what gives me joy is entirely out of proportion with how much effort went into obtaining it. These are ten things that make me happy by existing in my possession. Because I can.

I figured I could use a little bit of dwelling on the shiny right now. So, herein are ten things that make me happy just by existing in my possession. They are in no particular order except how they popped into my head as I wrote this on & off over the course a few days. (I own more than ten things that I love and adore, of course. But I have to let you stop reading *some* time.)

( Prized possessions )

What shiny things make *you* happy?

Vixy & Tony's Schedule

	mood		pensive
	music		Robert Plant, "Ship of Fools"

Totally random thought: someone *seriously* needs to make one of those Dr. Who fan videos to this song.

Some days ago, while I was wandering around my house putting away laundry and being overwhelmingly depressed by "Midnight", iTunes decided to come up with this song. (Thanks, iTunes.) Man, if this doesn't fit, I don't know what does. I mean, c'mon. Who claims that no man is an island / While I land up in jeopardy - more distant from you by degrees / I walk this shore in isolation / And at my feet eternity draws ever sweeter plans for me... Can't you just see it?

Besides the music itself just being incredibly melancholy and lonely.

I dunno, it really fit my mood that evening, and it just came up on shuffle again and reminded me. I know there's video editors out there...

( Here's the full lyric, in case you wondered. )

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delighted

From tsukara comes News I Didn't Know About:

Matt, aka "Where the Hell is Matt", aka BadDancer, has a new video out!



This makes me unutterably happy. Especially the crowd scenes. If you've never seen this guy, you should watch the older ones first and then the latest one. If you've already seen the older ones, this one has some bits that will surprise you. I think my favorite bit is in Gurgaon, India. Also there are lemurs, crabs, and freefall.

This makes me all teary. I can't help it. :)

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tired

How to add extra steps to your walking regimen, #232: Lose something on your walk back from the grocery store, half a mile away. Ask the nearby businesses, who don't have it. Retrace your steps looking for it, the whole half mile to the store. Have it occur to you about halfway there to ask all the businesses along the way to see if someone picked it up and brought it in. Discover on the way *back* that someone *did* pick it up and bring it in-- to the store that's two buildings down from your office. :P

Depressingly, my current mileage shows that in the race to the filk cons, I haven't even left Washington yet. I'm somewhere south of Mount St. Helens. Fond as I am of active volcanoes, I was still hoping I'd made it a little farther.