Denial

New Favorite Stuck-In-Your-Head Song

nobody@vox.com(Denial) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:14:31 -0700

I've been meaning to post this the last couple of days:

Katy Perry - I Kissed a Girl (Official Video)

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If my life were a musical

nobody@vox.com(Denial) — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:58:10 -0700

here would be the two songs for this act:

Psycho- Puddle of Mudd

Dancer in the Dark : Bjork - I've seen it all

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It has happened again.

nobody@vox.com(Denial) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:06:08 -0700

Yep, I am once again ill. I don't think I mentioned it last time since I was slightly better than death warmed over. Yeah yeah, I know that you all believe I have a superhero worthy immune system. And I do! But I am convinced this year's coughing yuckiness is a super bug. My family has met its kryptonite. All of us have had it at least once now. Poor Rain has just recovered. With my luck, I have caught it right before my midterm. Thankfully, I don't expect it to be a terrible one. That is unless in the next day and a half or so it gets much, much worse. But let's keep our fingers crossed that that doesn't happen, shall we? Until then, I sit here in front of a fan holding a frozen bag of Brussels Sprouts. Yeah, I think I have a little fever on top of us having a couple days of very warm weather. What will make me feel better?

Eddie Izzard. Duh.

Eddie Izzard - Machines That Lie

and Ellen.

Ellen Degeneres-TheBeginning-Part 3

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Alright, this is just awesome!

nobody@vox.com(Denial) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:41:08 -0700

If you follow this (like I did, dammit, LOTR got me again) you will find Yahoo! Mail's new promotional vid. I think they're trying to get me to upgrade to something. Unfortunately, they just showed me the only content I'd upgrade for. That is unless hobbits start IMing me with "What's up, G?"

Gandalf + Frodo + Bilbo + Yahoo! Mail = Yahoo! of the Rings [YOTR] LOL

Damn, that was ten times better than the last Lucas film.

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My kind of people

nobody@vox.com(Denial) — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:36:53 -0700

red vs blue zombie plans

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A Glance Into the Psyche of Denial

nobody@vox.com(Denial) — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:52:59 -0800

Should a movie ever be made about my life, this is my current soundtrack.

Life Of Brian - Ending

*Whistles and skips away*

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Vox Hunt: Listen to the Lyrics

nobody@vox.com(Denial) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:13:45 -0800

Audio: Share a song with powerful lyrics.

This is my favorite of the moment.

Natalie Merchant - My Skin

"My Skin"
Take a look at my body
Look at my hands
There's so much here
That I don't understand
Your face saving promises
Whispered like prayers
I don't need them
I don't need them
I've been treated so wrong
I've been treated so long
As if I'm becoming untouchable
Contempt loves the silence
It thrives in the dark
With fine winding tendrils
That strangle the heart
They say that promises
Sweeten the blow
But I don't need them
No, I don't need them
I've been treated so wrong
I've been treated so long
As if I'm becoming untouchable
I'm a slow dying flower
Frost killing hour
The sweet turning sour
And untouchable
O, I need
The darkness
The sweetness
The sadness
The weakness
I need this
I need
A lullaby
A kiss goodnight
Angel sweet
Love of my life
O, I need this
Do you remember the way
That you touched me before
All the trembling sweetness
I loved and adored?
Your face saving promises
Whispered like prayers
I don't need them
No, I don't need them
O, I need
The darkness
The sweetness
The sadness
The weakness
I need this
I need
A lullaby
A kiss goodnight
The angel sweet
Love of my life
I need this
Is it dark enough?
Can you see me?
Do you want me?
Can you reach me?
Or I'm leaving
You better shut your mouth
Hold your breath
Kiss me now you'll catch my death
O, I mean it

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Knowledge is Fun - Like Drugs!

nobody@vox.com(Denial) — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:16:17 -0800

In name of Knowledge (yeah, capital K, baby!) in the last two days, I have learned two staples of life. One is the proper way to drink Absinthe. The other is the proper way to prepare Laudanum. Now, if you're anything like me, when you hear about Absinthe you think of licorice, Sound of Music, and Kylie Minogue.

Moulin Rouge - Sound Of Music

Oh and old men speaking french. Can't forget the old.

Old Man Speaking French and Drinking Absinthe.

I now know that he was using the classic method of preparing his absinthe. He was placing his cube of sugar on his absinthe spoon and pouring chilled water over the cube, disolving it and producing a louche effect. Yeah, I said it. Louche.

Personally, I prefer the bohemian method of placing the sugar cube (soaked in absinthe) on the absinthe spoon and lighting it on FIRE! And then stiring the spoon full of sugar (does anyone hear their nanny?) in the absinthe, lighting the whole thing on fire! And then quenching it with the chilled water and producing the all so important louche effect.

Now, I very rarely drink alcohol. It's simply not my thing. I don't like licorice or hallucinations (sorry, Green Fairy) and so I feel absolutely no desire for drinking absinthe. But the damn fiery spoon calls to me. So here's my idea.

At some point, I must buy an Absinthe Spoon. In fact, I want a Les Cuilleres spoon. And I want to mix two of my loves together. That being Tea and Sugary Spoons of Fire. So at our next tea party, I'm going to have my "special" spoon beside me. And a lighter. When it comes time for "One cube or two?" I will take one! On my spoon. And light it on fire! And then stir. I look forward to this day. Take that, Earl Gray!

Edit: I have realized an error with this wonderful dream. Sugar cubes do not normally catch on fire. They melt but they don't hold a flame. They must be soaked in alcohol for that. So... Do you think my fellow Tea-Partiers will notice if I have Gin in a glass next to me? Grandma's Special Water. Dunk my cube real quick. "Oh, silly me! I don't want sugar water." Then scare the shit out of the table with my fire tea! Mwahahaha! The one downfall to this plan: I like water and thus might forget and accidentally drink Grandma's Special Water. That would be a terrible surprise for me.

Now onto Laudanum.

If you all do not know what Laudanum is...well, you should've followed my link above. If you've taken latin (who hasn't?) you know that it's name pretty much means, "Praise me, bitch!" Which of course means, it has to be good. It's pretty much morphine diluted in wine. Kinda.

I learned this today because of my novel. I had to look up how opium was used at the end of the 18th century to treat pain. And I found this lovely little site. What this told me is several things. One is that the next time I suffer "the trouble to which women are subject" I must ask my doctor to give me some opium. The second is that should someone try to get me with lilac poison, I must run to my cabinet and grab my opium. Third is the actual recipe for Laudanum, which I just like to say. Laudanumlaudanumlaudanum.

2 ounces of opium

1 ounce of saffron

1 drachm of cinnamon and cloves

Dissolve in Pint of Canary Wine

-classic recipe of Thomas Sydenham

The first thing it says after the recipe?

Laudanum can be habit-forming.

No shit? You mean, like morphine? So hear me, internet people, do not make Laudanum. Drugs are bad. None of the cool kids are doing it. But if you do, please send wiki a picture of it because at the moment, they do not have one.

Haha, random coincidence sited in wiki:

In William Faulkner's novel "Pylon", the reporter tries to buy absinthe, but is given gin with laudanum in it.

Am I the only one who immediately wondered about putting laudanum in absinthe?

And that is why I will not have either.

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I woke up this morning...

nobody@vox.com(Denial) — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:43:03 -0800

with "She's Always A Woman To Me" by Billy Joel in my head. Why? I have absolutely no idea. I haven't heard that song for at least a month and that was randomly on the radio. Before then, I hadn't heard it for years. Maybe because I've been working a lot on my novel recently (approaching the finishing line, people! woohoo!) and the main character reminds me a great deal of the song? Maybe. But damn, if you're going to have a song stuck in your head first thing in a morning, at least it should be a classic like this.

she's always a woman " billy joel

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Come Dance With Me

nobody@vox.com(Denial) — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:05:38 -0800

To the Tune of Random.

It seems that the long absense form the internet has affected my vox posting skills. Rather sad considering there's so much going on. I suppose that's the problem, there's so much going on all the time, it's hard to keep up nonetheless share.

Rain and I have been in our house for over a month now. I'm very happy with this house. Maybe its because I spent so much time working on it in the weeks going up to our move, but I feel very comfortable here and I have since the beginning. The layout of this house is just fantastic. People before 1960 really seemed to understand that you can make a comfortable house while still using space appropriately for living. The livingroom is just big enough to feel roomy but small enough not to feel overwhelmed. The diningroom is perfect for more formal dinners but no one feels out of place to have pizza in here or to sit down and get some work down on a laptop. The kitchen is a lovely galley style that seems so much bigger because the counters are the narrower size used in the 20s. That breakfast nook is perfect for guests to sit at during a party when the hostess is in the kitchen and you can easily have a conversation going on between the sunroom, kitchen, and breakfast nook. I think we'll be getting a lot more use from the breakfast nook once our kitchen is fully functional. The kitchen sink is supposed to be going in tonight! I am so thrilled. You guys have no idea how much you subconsciously rely on a kitchen sink until it's not there. Blasphemous's dad will be over to hook it up for us. So nice of him.

I love my bedroom. Even with its three doors leading in (not including closet door.) The uniqueness of having so many doors kind of adds to its charm. It's a little funny though to have so many shortcuts going through my bedroom. Sometimes, one can be a little overwhelmed with the options. For example, should someone knock on the front door while I'm in my room, what path should I take? Should I go out the door leading into the dining room and go to the livingroom that way or should I go out the door leading into the hallway and go into the livingroom like that? Or getting to the kitchen. Should I go out the door leading into the diningroom and go into the kitchen like that or go out the door leading into the sunroom and go through the kitchen like that? Seems really silly but the first few days, I had real trouble getting around because there weere so many paths. Maddie really loves that. She likes for me to go through one of the doors and for her to try to guess which door and room I'll use to get out. That can keep her entertained for a good long time.

Maddie is fitting in rather well with the routine around here. She's an absolute doll but not the brightest bulb. I'm used to German Shepherds and so I keep assuming that all dogs can learn a command within five minutes and be able to remember it from thereon out. Not so with Maddie. She needs a strong hand and repetition. It's not that she's stupid. It's just that she's not a German Shepherd. I've done some more research on Old English Sheepdogs and found quite a few useful tidbits of information. For example, OES (Old English Sheepdog) only have their tails docked if they aren't born naturally without a tail. That's why they're called Bobtails in the UK. How interesting since I thought they were like Rottweilers and had their tails docked when puppies. We think Maddie was naturally tailess because it's so close to her bottom that no one could safely dock a tail that short. There are definitely some ups to having a dog without a tail. We don't have to worry about her accidentally knocking things over with it or hitting the kids with it. And she does this little butt wiggle which would've been wagging her tail except she doesn't have one. It's so cute and reminds me of Casey, the rottweiler that my family had when I was a child.

Like I said, Maddie is an absolute sweetheart, even if a little bit more energetic than one would expect from a six year old dog. She regularly demands as much as three walks a day. And often these are not small walks around the block we take her on. She loves taking a walk down to the Tower District which is probably a half mile away and then taking a twisting way back. Not a really long walk but not a short one either. She likes to have a little run on her walks and loves to say hi to any children on the way. Maddie loves children which is fantastic since we have so many children in the family. On walks, she's very good at ignoring any aggressive guard dogs on the way and does a very good job of walking with her head at my thigh. She's so good on a lead, sometimes I can forget that she's on a leash at all.

Rain and I have been doing a lot of hoe-ing in the backyard to get the bad weeds up. And we've been removing any glass we find. It's to the point now that Maddie can run around back there and she loves the size of the yard. We need to find her some of the tennis balls we have around here because she loves to fetch.

We still haven't gotten to moving over the plants from my parent's yard to this one. We definitely want them here and planted somewhere before the first frost but its only recently that we've even been at the point that we could start thinking about it. I think the house will look so much better once it has some semblance of a yard. I think a lot of the reason that the house's bad paint job sticks out is because of the lack of proper landscaping. And, of course, the paint job just sucks.

We're having family Thanksgiving here so that will be interesting. Hopefully once the sink is put in and the fridges exchanged, we'll be able to finally get our kitchen in runnning order. I'm really hoping the our vintage 54 stove works. It worked when we got it but since then, it's been moved several times and things could fall out of place. This stove is gorgeous, you guys. I'll take a pic and upload it later but this is what it looks like. Good thing is we'll have a functional kitchen and be able to make our own meals. Bad news is, I'll be having to learn how to make our own meals. I know my mother had to have been at my point in the beginning and maybe even my grandma but it's hard for me to think they weren't born with an ovenmit on. I don't think I'll be bad at it once I learn to relax but until then it'll stress me. Especially things dealing with the burners. I'm good enough at things going into the oven. It's the damn burners that get me every time. And they know it. I think they giggle about it at night when I'm sleeping. The oven's more of a Hufflepuff, all "Come on, let's give her a chance." Those burners are Slytherin, all boastful of their mad potion skills. Show offs.

I still need to sew our blinds. Yes, you read that right. I need to sew them. My grandma has volunteered to help but I still have to sew blinds for the windows in this entire house. This house has a f*ck-load of windows. Give me a moment to count . . .1-2-3...22-23-24...I think I'm going to have to sew 24 panels. Luckily, it's not going to be all that complicated. At least in theory. We're making Tie-Up shades. You might be asking why we're making this instead of buying it. Simple. Our windows are HUGE! Normal window treatments are made for windows about 84 inches long. And then if you want the superbig ones (that are pretty damn expensive) it's 110 inches long. Our longest window is 120 or more inches long. Damn! So we're breaking it into these managable panels that will help keep the house insulated. Because there are several places in this house that if you stand next to a certain wall or window, you can feel a draft. So far my mad skills to find the warmest room in the winter has come through again. Which sucks because I'm the only person in this house that likes to sleep cold! Though our house has enough wholes to put the Titanic to shame, I'm throwing down my covers every night. How rude! Full House tone and all.

We've finally got most of the shelves installed in the bathroom and the medicine cabinet up in there. Finally, we have an accessible mirror. We aren't really mirror people but at least it's there if we need it.

It's great being close to so many useful things. We're a three minute walk from my sister's school and a ten minute walk from my favorite area of town, Tower District. We can walk down and get the best Chicken Pot Pies EVER! At the Chicken Pot Pie Shop. And we can rent movies and get Starbucks and all the best live theatre is here. And the dollar store. It's amazing what that store has and why we'd ever pay more than a buck for it.

I suppose that's a long enough post for now. I could probably go on for another five or ten pages, there's so much going on. Ten thousand important things at once. Some of the most important but also the most depressing of those I've purposefully not posted about. Maybe in the future, when it's over I'll be able. But right now it's too raw.

Hopefully, now that we have internet, I'll be making more posts. I think it's a good thing for me to have this vox. I've never been a diary person. But I think it's good for me to document what's going on in my life. At some point, I'll probably need to come read them and have a good laugh over what I wrote or good cry over what was left out. . .

There's lots of things happening today. Sink, Performance, Novel, Project Runway. And I bet you this song is going to stay in my head all day.

Seether "Fake It" Official Video

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