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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
5:11 pm	Random question Does anyone know where to find Code Monkeys images or LJ icons? There's nothing good on the official site. Current Mood: bored Current Music: Law & Order SUV (Who's chillin' with Aaliyah?)
Thursday, September 22nd, 2005
4:33 pm	Remember me? My internet at home has been fucked up longer than I can remember. I usually only check my email a few times a week and LJ about once a week at the computer lab. I'm going to try to get my cable fixed soon, but we'll see. In other news, I'm having an ultrasound on my gall bladder Monday morning to determine whether or not I need surgery to stop me from going on random weeklong puking jags (even less fun than they sound). I'm finally on an antidepressant again, but Zoloft is keeping me up nights. I'm hoping that doesn't last. Also, it gives me crazy dreams that I can never remember. I may or may not be up for a management position at Hastings, the crappy video store I work at. Right now I'm annoyed with my bosses for halfway promising me the job and then not saying anything definite. Keep your fingers crossed or whatever. The Cubs are within a game of being eliminated from the Wild Card race, so I guess it's "next year" all over again. Last night I talked to an old friend for the first time in a good long while. It was nice. Transporter 2 sucks ass. Don't see it unless you have a free ticket (they come in the Special Delivery Edition of Transporter 1, which does not suck) and are really bored. Current Mood: tired (Who's chillin' with Aaliyah?)
Monday, May 2nd, 2005
10:58 pm	croupier and I spread rumors about famous people! It's common knowledge that any woman "romantically linked" to Tom Cruise is acting as a beard. If Mr. Cruise or his lawyers are reading this, rest assured that we are only referring to facial hair. Everyone else, take it however you want. Of course, Cruise also acts as a beard for all of his supposed significant others. Don't believe us? Nicole Kidman had her "best friend" Naomi Watts move in with her while she was still married to Tom. Penelope Cruz can't make a public appearance without hanging all over her "best friend" Salma Hayek. Which brings us to Katie Holmes. Her last boyfriend was a no-sex-before-marriage Christian. To quote Melanie Lynskey in But I'm a Cheerleader, "It's easy to be prude when you're not attracted to him." She's open about the fact that she's never had sex with a man. The real question is: who is Katie Holmes dating? We have an idea, and if we're wrong, they totally should be. But if we're right, you heard it here first! Current Mood: suspicious (2 dead celebrities | Who's chillin' with Aaliyah?)
Tuesday, April 5th, 2005
12:14 am	Opening Day! Hope springs eternal. Cubs 16, Diamondbacks 6. 23 hits. Club record for runs scored on opening day. Someone tell a sportswriter, so I don't have to keep reading about the Cubs' "lack of offense" without Sosa and Alou. Aramis Ramirez will be in a Cubs uniform until we have a new president. The new WGN commentators aren't bad, but no one will ever be Harry Caray. Tomorrow, it's Greg Maddux and his 305 career wins vs. Russ Ortiz and a very tired bullpen. All in all, a good day to be a Cubs fan. Current Mood: hopeful (Who's chillin' with Aaliyah?)
Thursday, February 17th, 2005
5:48 pm	Why has no one told me about this yet? Frank Miller/Robert Rodriguez is so my new OTP. (And if you haven't seen it yet, go to one of the sites IMDb links to and check out the trailer.) Current Mood: procrastinatory Current Music: The Killers- Mr. Brightside (2 dead celebrities | Who's chillin' with Aaliyah?)
Thursday, February 10th, 2005
1:31 pm	A return to the fabulous world of LJ Did you miss me? Yeah, didn't think so. It's been, what, a year or something? That sounds about right. I spent 2004 living in Dallas and telemarketing law enforcement supplies to police and sheriff's departments across the country. I was damn good at it, if I do say so myself. However, thanks to roommate issues that ended up lasting the whole year, I had no internet access at home. Anyway, I'm back in Norman, back in school and back to living by my DAMN self, so I'll try to update with a little more frequency. redfaerie, I'm so so sorry I missed your Mardi Gras partay; Free lamed out at the last minute and then I fell asleep. In other news, I've been Jossed (or, more accurately, J.J.'d). There was originally going to be more to that fic, including Vamp!Syd fucking Lauren and killing Vaughn (not necessarily in that order). Just ask divajess. Current Mood: tired Current Music: computer lab noise (6 dead celebrities | Who's chillin' with Aaliyah?)
Monday, February 2nd, 2004
1:47 am	New fic Alias drabble Sark/Allison Spoilery for most of S2, and the S3 ep "Remnants" Located here. (Who's chillin' with Aaliyah?)
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2003
6:14 pm	Elliott Smith is dead. I don't want to live in a world without Elliott Smith. And I certainly don't want to live in a world where Elliott Smith can't find anything to live for. Current Mood: shocked Current Music: Needle in the Hay (5 dead celebrities | Who's chillin' with Aaliyah?)
Sunday, September 7th, 2003
3:11 pm	My First-Ever Fandom Rant! I meant to post this a week ago, when it was more current, but everything has been super-crazy since then. So, yeah, I know it's late, but I thought I'd go ahead and post anyway. This weekend, I went to a family gathering and had a nice conversation with my 14-year-old cousin about Harry Potter, Buffy and fanfiction. She reads Harry/Hermione and Spuffy almost exclusively. Until this conversation, the full extent of her experience with slash was stumbling across "like, two, Spike/Xander stories." And of course, she "didn't get" it. Completely understandable, considering that she's fourteen and not particularly intellectual (although she is intelligent--after all, she has some genes in common with me) and has been raised in a devoutly (almost psychotically) Christian home (where she's not actually allowed to watch Buffy most of the time) and sheltered from the queer influences in her life (our gay uncle and myself, and definitely any overtly queer media). Also, from what she said, it sounded like she had found some fluffy S/X, which even I don't really "get." But after talking to her for a short while, I was able to get her to understand how some people can see Spike and Xander together, in certain contexts. Up until this point, she only "got" Spuffy and B/A (which she doesn't care for). I mentioned Buffy/Faith, but she seemed a little more skeptical, having seen very little of S3. But my point is: she's fourteen, she doesn't meta, she likes what she sees on the screen and she doesn't entirely understand visual subtext (or subtextual dialogue). But at least she's starting to recognize that 1) different people have different, and not entirely insane, takes on relationships in any fandom and 2) just because two characters are not presented as a couple in canon does not mean that there is no basis to pair them together in fic. ( If only they were all that reasonable ) This rant is not directed at all Spuffy shippers, and certainly not people like my good friend redfaerie, or, obviously, my fourteen-year-old cousin. (3 dead celebrities | Who's chillin' with Aaliyah?)
Monday, September 1st, 2003
12:53 am	Insomnia Strikes Again! That song-title-name meme. Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins* Hey! - Oingo Boingo All Tomorrow's Parties - Velvet Underground Regret - New Order Kool Thing - Sonic Youth Wires and Waves - Rilo Kiley If Only - Tara Maclean Things You Say - Sleater-Kinney History Repeating - Propellerheads Freedom of Speech Won't Feed My Children - Manic Street Preachers Ears Ring - Rainer Maria Every Shining Time You Arrive - Sunny Day Real Estate There Is a Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths *yes, there is a song with that title--it's just not on the album Current Mood: awake Current Music: Toad the Wet Sprocket - Fall Down (Who's chillin' with Aaliyah?)
Friday, August 29th, 2003
11:00 pm	Major Life Changes As those of you who read croupier may have gathered, a billion fucking insane and unexpected things have happened to me in the past month and a half. There have been stupid fights over stupid shit (resulting, of course, in defriendings and refriendings), moving (and now moving again), loss of employment, the worst hangover ever (which ultimately resulted in a trip to the E.R. and a week of not eating for fear of vomit), more stupid fights over stupid shit and crazy wack-ass adventures with my crazy wack-ass friend J. And that's only the beginning. I'm going to be in Tulsa this weekend, to visit my parents, my brother and my Uncle Jeff from San Francisco who I see, like, three times a year. When the dust finally settles, I will be in Dallas. I'm not sure how long I'll be staying. For those of you with my cell phone number, it will most likely stay the same, but I make no promises. Current Mood: stressed Current Music: random computer-lab noise (1 dead celebrity | Who's chillin' with Aaliyah?)
12:58 am	New fic! Lots of crazy shit going on in my life right now, but nothing I'd like to talk about here. So instead, you get the beginnings of a (sort of) Dawn/Tara fic. Beta by croupier ( Road trips and spellbooks and action figures, oh my ) (2 dead celebrities | Who's chillin' with Aaliyah?)
Wednesday, July 16th, 2003
12:01 am	There's a real entry coming, I swear. A fucking long one at the rate things have been going. But until then, a rec for all my LXG-slash-seeking friends: Tom Sawyer/Dorian Gray, PG-13 by prodigette, written for contrelamontre Current Mood: tired Current Music: Remy Zero (Who's chillin' with Aaliyah?)
Friday, June 27th, 2003
12:31 am	GIP! As soon as I heard the news, I knew what I had to do. I picked out the pictures and text, and diemydawny put it all together. Also, if for some reason you're looking at the main page of my journal instead of seeing this on a friends page, you'll have to chill with Aaliyah, because Randal is still my default. Current Mood: smurfy Current Music: White Stripes- Little Acorns (3 dead celebrities | Who's chillin' with Aaliyah?)
Wednesday, June 25th, 2003
4:39 am	Attention foolicious! Death in Venice slash! That is all. (3 dead celebrities | Who's chillin' with Aaliyah?)
Friday, June 6th, 2003
5:46 pm	My Brain Usage Profile Auditory : 50% Visual : 50% Left : 55% Right : 44% ( Read the full summary ) (Who's chillin' with Aaliyah?)
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2003
12:38 am	Remix Shenanigans The Silverlake Remix is up. The remix I wrote is here. My story that got remixed is here, and the remix of it (by Kate J.) is here. Current Mood: geeky Current Music: VH1 (Who's chillin' with Aaliyah?)
Friday, May 9th, 2003
8:04 pm	X2, Near-Decapitation and Birthday Week Geekiness I know it's been a while since my last entry, but here's a brief rundown of major life events since then. I saw X2; details behind the cut. ( Cut for sP01LaZ ) And then I was almost decapitated by a tire, bounding down I-35 with the wheel still in it. It was covered in glass, from where it had apparently broken through someone else's windshield and decapitated them. But thanks to croupier's intrepid stunt-driving skillz, my head remains intact and very much attached to my body. But it did glance off the roof of her car and cover our laps and the dashboard in tiny shards of glass. But, most importantly, tomorrow is my birthday (22nd, if anyone cares) and I have had an awesome birthday week. Last night all the cool kids threw me a kickass party and gave me some rad presents (a limited-edition old-school Daredevil action figure, complete with old-school yellow costume; the latest album by Rainer Maria on CD; a free-pizza coupon; and a gift certificate to a local comic shop to the tune of enough-to-subscribe-to-any-monthly-comic-I-want). I'm off work all weekend (and have the time for Heroclix tomorrow and Buffy CCG Sunday Sunday Someday), I managed to get my hands on three (!) free rental coupons from The Soul-Sucking Beast, and on top of all that I am working on preliminary plans for what could possibly be the greatest fanvid ever. So, yeah, not a bad week. Current Mood: happy Current Music: Some shit on TV from the other room (7 dead celebrities | Who's chillin' with Aaliyah?)
Thursday, May 1st, 2003
11:52 pm	The Best Hastings Story Ever! So tonight, at work, everything was going along normally, like usual and then this couple walks in. They both look like they're in their late 30s-early 40s (although they might be aging prematurely due to drug use, so I'm really not sure) and are very, very white trash. The man has a serious mullet and appears to be strung out on something, most likely crank. His wife appears to be sober, and is carrying a copy of Novocaine (the Steve Martin/Helena Bonham Carter movie) on DVD, brand new, with the shrink-wrap and Walmart pricetags still intact. Masking-taped to the front of the DVD are two receipts: one from Walmart, one from Hastings. On each receipt there is an item circled: on the Walmart one, something listed simply as "DVD" priced at $5.88; on the Hastings one, a PVT (previously viewed title--the ones we rent out for a few weeks and then sell at a discounted price) copy of the movie, priced at $5.99. And above the printed price, they've written "10.99". Apparently, they bought a PVT copy of the movie at our store for $5.99, and later found a new copy at Walmart for $5.88. Somewhere along the line, they got the impression that they had bought a new copy at Hastings instead of a PVT (I'm not sure if they thought it was new when they bought it, or just got confused later on, but that doesn't really matter). Then they called Hastings and spoke to someone in video who told them that the new price was, and had always been, $10.99, so there was no way they had paid $5.99 for a new copy at our store. Instead of thinking, "Oh, maybe this copy wasn't new when we bought it," they assume that the receipt is wrong and they actually paid $10.99 for it. Later on they came in and spoke with one of the GSMs (Tony, who they repeatedly referred to as "that Asian-lookin' guy"), who may have told them that they could get a refund or might have just told them that they should buy it at Walmart and stop bitching about our DVDs being overpriced. So they come in with this Walmart DVD and the altered receipt and demand a refund of $10.99. They say they spoke to someone who told them they must have paid $10.99, and that Tony told them to go buy it at Walmart. I tell them that if the receipt says $5.99, that's what they were charged. They insist that there is no way they only paid $5.99 for the movie, and as "proof" they say that the items on the receipt could not possibly add up to $96.02 unless they paid $10.99. Without bothering to add it all up, I point out that it could (and did) add up to that amount. Then Joyce (the GSC, the manager above all the GSMs) comes over and tells them exactly what I've told them, and adds that we can't give them a refund on another store's (i.e., Walmart's) product. They say that they were "bein' nice" by giving us the unopened copy and continue to bitch and tell their asinine and nonsensical version of the story. At about this point, I realize that the product code on the Hastings receipt is a PVT code, not the code for new DVDs, and I try to explain that this is the source of all the confusion. The guy starts accusing me of calling him a liar, which he does repeatedly throughout the whole bizarre exchange. And then he starts talking about how they drove 40 miles to get to Hastings. And as time goes on, 40 becomes 45, which becomes 50, and by the time they leave they've got an 80-mile drive back home. Ryan, another GSM, comes up and looks up the PVT price and tells them point blank that they bought a PVT. The guy then accuses him of "callin' [Joe Crankhead] a liar," to which Ryan replies, "I'm not calling you a liar; I'm telling you exactly what happened. By now, the man is furious and his wife is close to tears because we're "bein' so mean to [them]." They leave, and come back a minute later carrying not only the DVD but also a calculator. A cheap clear-plastic calculator. With RHINESTONES on it. The man informs me that his woman added up all the prices on the receipt, and it is more than $10.99 less than the total. After his repeated insistences that he must have paid at least $10.99 for the DVD, I add it all up on the register. The total? $96.02. The exact total on the receipt. I tell them this, twice. Emphasizing the part about how the total is the same as the receipt total. Finally, they talk to Ryan some more and he says that without the actual DVD they bought at Hastings, there's nothing he can do anyway, and they leave, bitching about how we're "bein' jackasses to [them] over six dollars! Six dollars! SIX DOLLARS!" Except, not. Because the difference between $10.99 and $5.99 is NOT six dollars. It's five. (And anyway, they're trying to scam us for $11.87) After they left, I turned to Joyce and said, "How much do you wanna bet they come back later with the DVD, and it has a huge yellow PVT sticker that says $5.99 on it?" God, I love my job. Current Mood: amused Current Music: High Art, from the other room (4 dead celebrities | Who's chillin' with Aaliyah?)
Sunday, April 13th, 2003
4:12 pm	New Computer I finally have my new computer (tonight strph and I are dragging it back to Norman), and it kicks so much ass. Just having a working computer of my very own kicks enough ass, but having one with a CD burner, a 60-gig hard drive and high-speed internet (which I won't have again on *my* computer until we get a router, but still) KICKS! SO! MUCH! ASS! I can download Angel episodes. And, for that matter, Brak Show episodes (I'm dl'ing one of each at the moment). And burn CDs. Oh, and did I mention that I have a webcam? I do. I'm thinking about quitting Hastings and becoming a camboi and getting money from random people who like watching me online. But back to the downloads. I got GTA3 and, dude. So very awesome. And even more awesome 'cause it was free. Oh, and croupier? Heroes del Silencio is your new favorite band. Also, listening to their music makes the East L.A. Morrissey revival so much more understandable. Current Mood: excited Current Music: Heroes del Silencio - Maldito Duende (1 dead celebrity | Who's chillin' with Aaliyah?)