Yay! Friday!

[annathepiper]

+0: I am completely songvirused by Jonathan Coulton's Skullcrusher Mountain. I am particularly giggling over the second verse ("you like monkeys, you like ponies / maybe you don't like monsters so much") and the third one ("I've been patient, I've been gracious / and this mountain is covered with wolves"). I am amused that these two bits occur in exactly the same part of the melody.

Also, Mandelbrot Set is almost as funny. But I like it more for the feel of cross between Schoolhouse Rock and Tom Lehrer's "New Math" that it's got going on. ^_^

solarbird bought his CD, since it was cheap. Recommended for amusing geek fun, and also, one of the other songs on it almost comes across like Barenaked Ladies.

+1: It's official--Carbon Leaf is also songvirusing me. I need more of their albums. Especially if that'll help 'em do more shows with Great Big Sea. ;)

+2: Anybody out there in the New York area who might be interested in being an editorial assistant? Go check out alg's post about Tor hiring for that very position here.

-3: My tuner is broken. Stupid tuner. I can't tune my bouzouki or my guitar very well without it. (Dara has a tuning fork, which I need to try; I don't necessarily trust my ear yet when it comes to tuning my instruments without electronic assistance.) But it'll require soldering snapped wires together, which'll probably take me forever... though it'll probably be cheaper than getting a new tuner.

+4: I WILL bang my active bug count down today. Dammit.

-5: I owe my LJ another book review post. Still having trouble summoning up the interest to get through The Poyson Garden, but at least I've now read two more of kathrynt's books and I can return them when we have poker this weekend at the Murk! Somebody poke me to get that review post done.

+6: Somebody poke me to make sure I get on the treadmill again today, too. I feel pretty good physically after doing it last night, and I need to get back into the habit!

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[seimaisin.livejournal.com]

It's official--Carbon Leaf is also songvirusing me

Hee.

Hey, if you want live CDs, holler - they're a taping-friendly band, and I've been gleefully downloading some of the shows available online. I'd be happy to make you copies, if you'd like!

[annathepiper]

Yeah, I remember reading on the OKP that they encouraged fans to tape their shows. :) I'm going to buy 5 Alive when I get buckage, but if you have any recommendations for particularly choice fan recordings, do let me know.

I think what's grabbing me about these boys is particularly catchy rhythm to their choices of words in their lyrics. Also, Barry has a REALLY nice voice--though he still can't trump Séan when it comes to belting out "Mari-Mac". ;)

[seimaisin.livejournal.com]

Fan recordings - my current favorite is a show from Plattsburgh, NY, from 7/10/04 - available up on archive.org. Three disc set, just before Indian Summer was released, full of the best songs from that album plus my favorites from old albums, and a few really fun (and odd) cover songs. Great stuff. If you're ever over downloading, give it a listen!

though he still can't trump Séan when it comes to belting out "Mari-Mac". ;)

Heh. I think even CL fans concede that one - I once read a thread over on their board, and the one thing they did insist on was that, in live performance, you're much more likely to understand what the hell Barry's singing than Sean. :D

[annathepiper]

Thanks for the link recommendation!

And hee--actually, the most recent versions of "Mari-Mac" I've seen GBS perform are significantly slower than they were doing when I first started going to GBS shows. Just for giggles and grins, compare the tempo of "Mari-Mac" on Road Rage to the performance on the Great Big DVD--or that shiny new webcast. ;)

[solarbird]

though it'll probably be cheaper than getting a new tuner.
It's less than a penny's worth of materials (including electricity) vs. $50. So yeah, cheaper.

[shadowhwk.livejournal.com]

I so wish I lived in New York.

[annathepiper]

Yeah, tell me about it. ^_^ Most of my brain is going, "But, but, but, you hate editing YOUR OWN WORK, much less anybody else's..." But part of it is going, "But BOOKS!"

[neutronjockey.livejournal.com]

I must not be right in the head. I love to edit other people's work. I know you're thinking, ' Insensitive schmuck, taking something that another person poured their heart and soul over for months; slashing it to and fro with your red/blue/black ink pen, offering suggestions of your 'expert' opinion', but I really enjoy doing it :P
In truth I just want to move to NYC to watch heroin addicts dressed in trash bags on the subways...eh?
-=Jeff=-

[annathepiper]

*grin* Hey, I'm not saying it shouldn't be done! Some folks have a better temperament for it; I'm just not sure I'm one of those folks. But then, I also haven't tried to seriously edit someone else's work. I'm only going by how much editing my OWN stuff is driving me bug-eyed, and this is after having finished the book several months ago!