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I still don't like snow though
Dec. 5th, 2004 05:47 amI feel sooooooooo good right now. Writing is like heroin, only better.
I've begun a sequel to "Divine Rehabilitation." It's more of a remix than a sequel; it focuses more on the character of the young clerk who gives Jason the blue mints. So far it's a meditation on employment and boredom. I've even managed to make the burned-out bulb in the bathroom into a metaphor. (And this in four paragraphs.) I'm debating whether to include Dante and Randall as minor characters, possibly in flashbacks--if I do, I'll have to put in contemplations on "Star Wars", and then I'll have to gank lines from "Reeling Off The Years" for more Phildickian goodness (specifically the bit about the parallels between the Roman Empire and the Sith Empire, as well as the Jedi being early Christians--I was very proud of that idea).
I've also really, really officially given up on this fanfic chain thing. They voted for a fic about a scary future, I wrote a snip involving the aftermath of a nuclear malfunction, and everyone kind of shut up after that. Do you think I scared them off?
I'm in a fairly festive mood right now. I've just sent my holiday begging list to my parents (and am expecting a set of D&D dice and a version 3.5 player's manual). My dad even IMed me asking if I wanted anything "big". Besides a car, a girlfriend, and a SomethingAwful account, there was nothing I could think of, so we got into a conversation about armadillos instead. Dad is a cool dude.
I'm also making up a playlist for Christmas/Chanukah. No story here, just a lot of mildly subversive songs involving holidays (Adam Sandler's song will NOT be on the list. Three versions is two too many). Artists include Joey Ramone, Axl Rose, Spinal Tap, the Kinks, the Vandals, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Weird Al, some guys that do holiday versions of Beatles songs (this purely for novelty value), Bruce Springsteen ("Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" is not so subversive on its own, but I like his version, and anyway I sing my own lyrics to it), John and Yoko, Paul McCartney, and two versions of the Grinch song. I think one version is by the Blue Meanies, which is very funny to me. (I've just realized that this is in fact merely a Christmas CD; because of my aforementioned reluctance to put Adam Sandler's acoustic babblings onto the list, I have no Chanukah songs. I could put on "The 'Brews" by NOFX, which is about Jews beating people up and fits in nicely with the Chanukah theme of "We kicked the Greek army's ass, now let's celebrate", but Chanukah is really about the miracle of the oil lasting for eight days blah blah blah. I still think the Maccabees are cooler than menorahs. Or are hammers too militant for a winter holiday?)
I'm going to need this CD. Mom tells me that her favored radio stations, WNIC (the NIC stands for "nice" and not "nicotine" or "Nico" or "Nicaragua" or anything interesting like that) and 105.1 MAGIC! have been playing nothing but Christmas songs since the day after Halloween. The day after Hallo-fucking-ween. Have some decency, radio people, and allow our holidays to die in dignity. Or maybe they decided to do it to honor All Soul's Day or All Saint's Day or whatever it's called, I don't know. Are our zombies so bad that they must play Celine Dion to drive the spooky away?
ETA: Admit your ship that's oh-so-wrong yet ever so right! Neat.
I've begun a sequel to "Divine Rehabilitation." It's more of a remix than a sequel; it focuses more on the character of the young clerk who gives Jason the blue mints. So far it's a meditation on employment and boredom. I've even managed to make the burned-out bulb in the bathroom into a metaphor. (And this in four paragraphs.) I'm debating whether to include Dante and Randall as minor characters, possibly in flashbacks--if I do, I'll have to put in contemplations on "Star Wars", and then I'll have to gank lines from "Reeling Off The Years" for more Phildickian goodness (specifically the bit about the parallels between the Roman Empire and the Sith Empire, as well as the Jedi being early Christians--I was very proud of that idea).
I've also really, really officially given up on this fanfic chain thing. They voted for a fic about a scary future, I wrote a snip involving the aftermath of a nuclear malfunction, and everyone kind of shut up after that. Do you think I scared them off?
I'm in a fairly festive mood right now. I've just sent my holiday begging list to my parents (and am expecting a set of D&D dice and a version 3.5 player's manual). My dad even IMed me asking if I wanted anything "big". Besides a car, a girlfriend, and a SomethingAwful account, there was nothing I could think of, so we got into a conversation about armadillos instead. Dad is a cool dude.
I'm also making up a playlist for Christmas/Chanukah. No story here, just a lot of mildly subversive songs involving holidays (Adam Sandler's song will NOT be on the list. Three versions is two too many). Artists include Joey Ramone, Axl Rose, Spinal Tap, the Kinks, the Vandals, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Weird Al, some guys that do holiday versions of Beatles songs (this purely for novelty value), Bruce Springsteen ("Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" is not so subversive on its own, but I like his version, and anyway I sing my own lyrics to it), John and Yoko, Paul McCartney, and two versions of the Grinch song. I think one version is by the Blue Meanies, which is very funny to me. (I've just realized that this is in fact merely a Christmas CD; because of my aforementioned reluctance to put Adam Sandler's acoustic babblings onto the list, I have no Chanukah songs. I could put on "The 'Brews" by NOFX, which is about Jews beating people up and fits in nicely with the Chanukah theme of "We kicked the Greek army's ass, now let's celebrate", but Chanukah is really about the miracle of the oil lasting for eight days blah blah blah. I still think the Maccabees are cooler than menorahs. Or are hammers too militant for a winter holiday?)
I'm going to need this CD. Mom tells me that her favored radio stations, WNIC (the NIC stands for "nice" and not "nicotine" or "Nico" or "Nicaragua" or anything interesting like that) and 105.1 MAGIC! have been playing nothing but Christmas songs since the day after Halloween. The day after Hallo-fucking-ween. Have some decency, radio people, and allow our holidays to die in dignity. Or maybe they decided to do it to honor All Soul's Day or All Saint's Day or whatever it's called, I don't know. Are our zombies so bad that they must play Celine Dion to drive the spooky away?
ETA: Admit your ship that's oh-so-wrong yet ever so right! Neat.
