The Mouse's Roar

I LIIIIVE!! F'reals ppl Also, I need a new novel-length fic to be addicted to. House of Crows is finished, and no one else is updating fast enough -_-

so a few days ago i posted about how awesomely my music blends in with the city sounds around my workplace, and scdsam suggested that i create a playlist for the downtown life... well, ask and ye shall receive! 

I kinda fudged it a bit so this is more of a "Transit Life" playlist, a set of songs that fit my trips on the train to and from work, walking on the streets around my office building, etc etc.. you'll notice the songs all have a similar type of sound, but really not much else in common.  I didn't choose these for the lyrics (except the last one), only for the fact that sirens and cars whizzing by and ppl chattering on the street and in train cars blend in really well with the music itself. So without further ado:

Songs for the Downtown Commuter

The Dandy Warhols - Sleep (rush hour traffic, automated doors opening and closing, this is how we begin and end all of our days)
Jimmy Eat World - My Sundown (this one is nice to listen to when staring out the window of the train with the rhythm of the railroad tracks rumbling beneath your feet)
Switchfoot - Dare You to Move (for the rush of people getting on and off the trains and hurrying up and down the street)
Angels & Airwaves - The Adventure (walking into the office for a brand new day, coffee in hand, bounce in your step, a flurry of productivity; cars honk on the street below your window and the shiny silver express train thunders across the rail bridge)
Revis - Everything After (lunchtime! ppl bustling in and out of the office, chatting, laughing; drivers honking impatiently at crowds ambling slowly on the crosswalk, rushing back for meetings and lunch meetings)
Placebo - Sleeping with Ghosts (walking past the hospital after dark, the flourescent lights glowing in the windows and ambulances crying in the distance)
Fort Minor - Slip (leaving work late night, strolling down quiet streets while cars zoom past and ppl try to have conversations from opposite sides of the street)
Fatboy Slim - Wonderful Night (for Fridays at 5 pm)
Death Cab for Cutie - Passenger Seat (my dad picks me up from the train station at the end of the day and drives me home)

As usual, all songs (in addition to many others) are posted on mediafire for your listening pleasure. Enjoy!

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One of the things I like about working in a downtown area is that when I put my headphones in, the city sounds blend in with my music so awesomely.

Some ppl are like eh? Too soon. I dunno.. I feel like he's done more for the state of the world, and the general attitude of International Relations than some winners in the past. Still I had to laugh at this post from scdsam :

"Dear Nobel Peace Prize committee:

I'm so very glad you <3 Obama. We do too. Barack Obama/Kim Jong Il is like our FAVE ship. But please tone down on the fangirling, sock puppet voting. You're ruining our cred."

The world always looks different and amazing when you've got jimmy eat world as your soundtrack.

i want to write drabbles/ficlets for Skip Beat and Until Death Do Us Part... anybody wanna give me word prompts?

You Are 48% Weirdo

You're definitely quite strange, but you can act like a normal person when you have to. (But just because you can act normally, it certainly doesn't mean you want to!) You have normal aspects to your personality... but you usually don't choose to emphasize them.

actually this is a lot lower than i was expecting....

also, crazy nature video: 30 Japanese hornets decimate a beehive of 30,000 European honeybees.. MUST WATCH!

...and smartycat my fellow avid shoujo manga reader... have you been reading 'The One'?  It's a Taiwanese manga...almost of the same vein as Skip Beat, but there are TWIN bishounens... yes... and they're both delicious... not sure how i feel about the heroine tho.. i sometimes feel like her characterization is a little inconsistent (maybe i just want her to be more like Kyouko ^^;) but i like the storyline... it's very fun.. check it out if you haven't already!

have I mentioned how much I love 31_days ?

Title: The Moth and The Flame
Day/Theme: August 18- feathered by moonlight
Series: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Zuko/Katara

Everything about her glows. 

In the sunlight, her skin radiates golden bronze, like the statue of an ancient goddess, like he imagines Agni’s wife must have looked like. When she is happy, a dusky blush illuminates her face, and somehow the pinkish tint ends up reflecting onto his cheeks as well. 

But, it’s only in the moonlight that she really shines.  

There is something unearthly that flickers in her eyes when she stands under the moon, as if she’s channeling the spirits themselves. The water she is bending glitters around her like liquid diamonds, and on the nights when the moon is full and heavy, he feels as if she could overturn the oceans themselves until they billowed over the continents and drowned the land beneath them.  

His heart is tight as he watches her, the power in her movements suffocatingly beautiful. He marvels at her ability to both freeze him in his tracks and melt his bones under his skin at the same time. He remembers the story of the moth who would destroy himself out of love for the flame, annihilate himself to be one with her. He wonders if the flame could love the sea with such a passion, and extinguish himself to be with her.
 

Zuko takes a running leap into the ocean (to Katara) to find out exactly that.

The "You Should Write..." Meme!
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Go to my thread (linked above) and let me know what kind of stuff you think I should be spending my time writing... pretty please?

wrote another drabble! yay for creativity! it's all because of this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1XUbJEPShE (or download here: http://www.mediafire.com/?jzmj03wq2dw) and the August 10th prompt at 31_days

Title: Gently Into that Good Night
Day/Theme: Aug. 10 - out of the lightning dream
Series: Cowboy Bebop
Pairing: Spike/Julia

It felt like she would never stop falling, like she was floating in midair, like time had stopped. It started again suddenly, and she was on the ground before he could blink, like a crumpled doll, broken and still. It felt unreal, impossible, that after all this time apart, all this time he’d spent looking for her… She couldn’t leave him like this, not again. It couldn't be true. He turned her over on his lap, and her eyes slipped open, like she was half asleep.

“It’s all just a dream,” she murmured, before going limp in his arms. If it was a dream, did that mean he was still sleeping? That she’d woken up somewhere, without him? Yes, it had to be a dream, because this couldn’t be his life. This couldn’t be all there was to it. This suffering, this loneliness, this couldn’t be living. He would wake up now, he’d leave this dream and find her again. Vicious would do it, Vicious would shake him into consciousness. He owed his former partner that much.

And when that sword plunged into his chest, he didn’t feel it at all. He could feel the blood pouring out of his wounds, the gun in his hands, the roaring in his ears, but there was no pain. And then it was quiet, and there was light. When he fell, it was like that odd sensation of settling back into your body right before you wake in bed. He knew then that he would see her again soon.




::sigh:: as much as it makes me want to cry, I love the ending to this series.. it's so freaking shakespearean!

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So since fst is a member-locked community, I thought I would pimp the soundtrack I made for my Ordinary fic arc here on my journal as well. This has been 6 years in the making, people!! Thank god for Anything Goes Month! (Also, many thanks go to coley_merrin and
zapenstap  who checked out the tracklist for me and helped me figure out which songs should be included in this monster ^^)


( Is this considered gratuitous self-pimpage? )</div>

random moment of the day: 

I took a shower this afternoon, and as usual, didn't blow dry my hair. It's shoulder-length and layered, so it dries pretty quickly on its own.  My sister walks into the kitchen just as I'm about to start eating my post-shower snack and says,

"Why do you look like David Cassidy?"

...and that, my friends, is the story of my life.

hmm.. sounds about right... altho i'm curious about this book now

Hanging out at my bro's apt, which happens to be next to the United Nations. Had lunch at Bryant Park and now off to spend some time at NY Public Library!

seriously i feel like the laziest person alive... i borrowed Bird By Bird from the library to inspire myself to start writing seriously and haven't even written on LJ since i got it.. even mellie 's wonderful writing challenge that i had thought to take on has been brushed aside... (how are you doing with that by the way?)

so yeah i suck

in other news, everybody needs to start reading the manga Shinobi Life.. it's really yummy and intriguing and flangsty and all the good things good shoujo manga is... smartycat are you reading this?

i'm also feeling deprived of good Zutara fic.. tho Chains by Wohitzi is finally turning in an interesting direction! I want some well thought out post-series character development!! if I knew how to write it, i'd do it myself! my one fic idea kind of died.. do you remember it coley_merrin ? I think it grew too big in my head and got convinced that i'd never be able to write it all.. i need to do that 1 inch picture frame thing..

anyway grandlarseny , today is that last day of june and i never finished posting my fic recs... but then again.. nobody else did either... soooo.. i don't feel so bad? ::sheepish:: do we have a new challenge for july? maybe i should just post my recs here...

ok that's enough rambling for now i guess...i'm all over the place lately..maybe that's why it's so hard for me to just sit down and do something -_-

SO I WAS ACTUALLY RIGHT!

coley_merrin , crystaltear do you remember this convo we had on IM in like...february?

 

( i knew i wasn't crazy! )

 

for wordynessie who gave me 1xR, prompt: path unwinding... I wrote a true drabble for this one! 100 words!! (you might find this feels like an epilogue to my fic arc, Ordinary.. well if any of you remember it, that is)


There is the past and there is the future. And what of now? Now, she sits beside Heero, while he reads his book and she writes in her journal. Now, they rest… together. They've each walked their own paths, trying to find their way until they found each other.  So they walked side by side as their paths converged until they reached the end. And now, side by side, they breathe for a little while. Now, they have all the time in the world to choose from the paths unwinding before them. This time they’ll walk them hand in hand.



in other news, coley_merrin recommended the book, Bird by Bird.. so I'm attempting to write without an internal chopping block editor from now on.. let's see how long that lasts ;) so yeah feel free to provide me with more prompts... whatever you're in the mood for.. check out myanimelist for fandom choices

Sorry for taking so long! Here's the little drabble from smartycat 's prompt: Corn on the cob/Character: Faye Valentine

Faye Valentine did not eat corn on the cob. There was just no attractive way to do it. And if Faye couldn’t do something in a sexy way, it just wasn’t worth doing at all. So what if she was hungry? A girl didn’t maintain her figure by eating every time she felt like it after all. No matter what kind of happy sounds Ed was making while gnawing at that bright yellow piece of Genetically Modified Organic Produce, she wouldn’t lower herself to that level.

Ed grinned at her in mid-gnaw, yellow-white kernels lodged in her teeth and clinging to the edges of her lips. Faye raised an eyebrow and pursed her lips, before turning up her nose with a tiny sniff. That is exactly why you’d never catch her dead eating one of those things.

“Look Faye-Faye! It’s you!” Ed brandished her unfinished cob proudly. Sure enough, the corn had been eaten off cleanly from all but two little strips around the middle, looking remarkably like it was wearing her tiny pleather top and shorts. Ed had even colored the top black and drawn in a little red smirk with marker on the pointed end of the cob. The real Faye growled and lunged at Ed.

“Why you little—“