Journey to Gestalt

PULL YOUR PANTS UP.

Kthnxbai,

~ Ouri ~

There are just enough similarities between one of the main musical motifs in the "Avatar" soundtrack and one from "Titanic," that in listening to the Avatar CD I keep expecting it to veer off into Titanic-land. This was not nearly as noticible with the visual distractions of the film, but it gets a little annoying without them. James Horner, I am disappointed by this. I mean, I know there are things you like to work into all your soundtracks - there were certain rhythms and chord progressions that I could identify in "Star Trek II: the Wrath of Khan," "The Rocketeer," "Willow" - and yes, one or two of those carried all the way through to "Titanic." Those were mostly minor things, though, that happened once or twice in each respective album. To do it with a major recurring theme...? Meh.

Also, I am amused that the same composer wrote the original scores for "Star Trek XI" and "Up." :)

Have been amazingly non-productive lately. I'm starting to wonder if seasonal affective disorder could be part of the problem, and whether it'd be worth investing in a full-spectrum light. I mean, it'd probably be nice to have one of those for craft work down the line anyway, right?

Oh, and this isn't really music-related but might amuse velithya or kijikun... last time I hit Target, they had the season 1 DVD box set for Supernatural on big-time sale, so guess who'll probably be addicted in short order... ^^;;

Didn't manage to finish anything else yesterday, but I did make decent progress on two of the knitting projects. Tonight I should be able to finish Sis-scarf, and I got a bit more done on the other at lunchtime.

If I ever, EVER talk about doing this much gift knitting in less than six months, I'm begging you all to just whack me over the head with something until I stop.

Thank you. ♥

My brain is being thoroughly inappropriate today.

While skimming a Ravelry message board, I saw mention of a shawl pattern called the "Colonnade" and the prompt thought was: "Okay, so if you're supposed to make lemonade when life hands you lemons, under what circumstances do you make colonnade?" O_o;;;;

Then kijikun made a post on Twitter about D.C. (as in the District of Columbia) legalizing gay marriage - which is wonderful news! Really, it is.

Except that Inappropriate Brain piped up with "Now if we could just convince Marvel to do the same!"

... ... ... I'd really better hope none of my co-workers make any comments that could be twisted into innuendo and/or a bad pun. *sigh*

Okay, I haven't posted here in far too long because I was caught up in house- and craft-related stuff.

Before I LJ-cut this: the home inspection went well. I got approved for the mortgage. I close on the house next Tuesday, ( which explains some of the frantic activity. )

There will be house pictures once all the papers are signed and it's really, truly mine. (Well, the bank's - but you get the idea!)

It's the End of the World(s) As We Know 'Em... and I don't feel fine.

Not that I think Marvel was doing a bang-up job on its own, but - but - but - !!!!!!!!

The only good thing I can think of here is that now they may retcon the whole brain deletion thing... but is it worth it if it's a Deus Ex Mickey-na?

Okay, I'm very late trying to get the word out about this, but since I know several people on the f-list are fans:

Comedian Eddie Izzard has (so far, mind you) run the equivalent of 24 marathons in the month of August, to raise money for Comic Relief's "Sport Relief" challenge. I've been catching his daily commentary on his Twitter stream, and there's more info on his website blog. His goal is to run all the way 'round the UK!

Y'know, before the Iron Man movie got me back into Marvel fandom and made me learn more about the Avengers, I would never have thought twice about this statement:

"I’ve been known to sit on the couch and stretch the hank between my feet to wind balls."

Now, the poster was in a community on Ravelry, and referring to yarn - but all I could think (as I snickered to myself like a 12-year-old boy) was, "Oooh, kinky, Jan! But I thought Reed was the stretchy one...."

Oh god help me, I bought more yarn today. My family and some friends are going to be getting knitted stuff for the holidays, I see. ^^;;

I think I have to give up on my favorite of the houses I looked at, because I can't wait up to 4 - 6 months for closing. :(
Found out only last week that the house in question is up for what's known as "short sale," and did some research to find out what that means - it hasn't been foreclosed on yet, but the owners are behind on payments and are trying to sell it for less than they still owe and hoping that their lender will settle for what they can get. The catch to this is that the lender (or lenders, if they took out a second mortgage or equity loan on the property) have to agree to each step in the process, which can drag the process out to ridiculous lengths. The lender(s) can apparently also veto any offer at any point in the process, even if the seller accepts it.

My buyer's agent has already admitted he's never handled a short sale in his 20+ year career, so I don't think he could magically whisk me through it and get me the house I really want in short order.

I could wish the information had come out before I got a little too emotionally invested in that property. As it is, unless I get a lucky lottery ticket tonight, I think it's time to change focus over to the second-choice house. Which is still a quite nice house, it's just a little less privacy and not what I had kind of gotten my heart set on.

So yeah, I've been alternately stressing out about that, and doing mindless stuff to try to NOT think about it. Oh yeah, and some stressing about the local SF con play, but that's done now and went over pretty well. One thing off the worry-list, at least. Now I need to catch up on a LOT of stuff that I let fall off the radar. *facepalm*

...the epic battle to replace my battered old desktop PC's power supply, that is.

( Hardware Geekery (and abuse) Under Cut )

By 11:00 or so last night, the desktop booted up smooth as silk - and so quiet I hardly knew it was running, which is a huge relief. Hopefully I can make up the lost time on my Big Bang art and get it in only a couple of days late. >,0

So much to do, so little brainpower...

We had a Kaitou over the holiday weekend, which included a lot of quiet knitting, a trip to a local yarn shop (daaaaaangerous place, that!), local fireworks and a tasty brunch, all in excellent company. ♥

In less happy / Technology Hates Me news, I had to ask for an extension on my Big Bang art assignment, because my desktop PC (the one with Photoshop installed) lost its power supply fan. I'll be trying to replace the power supply tonight - wish me luck! (...I'll need it.)

I have plans to meet Renda next week for a wild, adrenaline-crazed roller coaster binge at Cedar Point - dependent on weather, of course. Keeping fingers and toes crossed for no (or minimal) rain on the chosen day!

The local SF convention is in 2 1/2 weeks, which means I need to nail my songs & lines for the play and make sure I have my costume stuff & wig lined up. Will probably not have anything for the Art Show, at this rate.

And of course, threaded through all of this is the house-hunting... and quite probably getting another buyer's agent, at this rate, because good ol' Marv seems to be blowing me off. (Guess I'm not a big $$ enough customer for him to bother with? In which case he can kiss my lily-white tuckus while I give somebody else the commission.)

After July, hopefully things will get a little more sane again. Well, aside from (hopefully) moving, and all that entails. ^^;;;;

"1940's Crotch Mahogany China Closet" ... ... ... "crotch mahogany" - so it's not only got wood, but knows of which variety? omg I am so completely juvenile

Also, in the Oxymoron Department: "2 brand new Antique chairs" I'm still trying to decide if that means they've only just become antiques, or what.

I has baby dragons! *squee*

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Feel free to ignore the eggs; I joined a doohickey called "Dragon Cave" for fun, and the eggs "mature" as a result of page views and clicks. You can certainly click on them if you want, or are curious - but I'm throwing them into entries mostly to get them passive page-views.

Instead of doing the multitude of things I probably should have done this past weekend - like laundry - I spent most of it reading the first post (yes, only the first, out of I don't know how many now!) of the Star Trek Kink Meme. >,> My, fandom has such creative minds!

Have to call my realtor and badger him with some questions, keep things moving on that front. There haven't been as many new properties listed lately, and even fewer in the areas/price range I was hoping to buy.

Just a few tweets - as ever, non-spoilerific.

* Gwyneth back on set and looking lovely. 8:11 PM Jun 17th
* Entertainment Tonight on set today to tape something to air later in the year. [about 24 hours ago]
* Garry Shandling visiting the set. [about 19 hours ago]
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I am weak, and the baby dragons are so cute.

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...hey, elke_tanzer, how much trouble have I just let myself in for, anyway? Any advice?

The friend I was going to see Star Trek with stood me up - too much other stuff going on in her life right now.

Still debating whether I feel up to hitting the theater on my own tonight.

I have just revealed to Cap/Iron Man fandom that I am frikking OLD.

For a fangirl, anyway.

( For those interested... )
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