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[whiskyinmind]

bored. bored. bored. bored. so bored right now...

Took flexi time last night so I should really stay till 5 tonight but it's a glorious day out there and I don't want to be here. (Do I ever?) I'm in an odd mood today, people are annoying me a lot now so I'm keeping out of people's way as much as possible. So why do they insist on talking to me and distracting me all the time? Grrr. I have headphones on for a reason you know.

I should do something productive with my time shouldn't I? I think I need someone to stand over me and tell me to stop slacking off. Effects... needs redesigned, the site I'm setting up for a band needs some content on there desperately, my fics need to be written, the icons need to be finished, ever get the feeling I have too many things on the go at once and that's part of the reason nothing seems to get done?

and since I'm so bored...

This is a top 5 meme, but a bit different. Comment here with what you want my top 5 list of (e.g., CDs, places to eat, characters, favorite toes on my left foot, etc.).

and the other


I think it's inevitable that as we read each other's journals we create mental pictures of each other. Post this on your own journal to find out who your friends see when they read about your life.

Two Rules:
1. The person must be in the movies or on TV (but doesn't have to be an actor/actress). The person can be specific to a role (e.g. Jennifer Elhe's Elizabeth Bennent) or just the person themself.
2. You have to post a link to a picture of said person in the comments.

These castings can be based on things in the person's personality or on physical traits you know they have.


These are only the things which I have a good chance of getting done this weekend.

Finish icons100 River icons
Crimson Regret next two chapters
Effects... redesign
Band site content/design
whedon100 Xander s3 first batch
zeppo_stillness entries
25of__ Faith icons
Banner contest for INAP
dawn_stillness entries
In the blood/always time chapter 1
Off Course chapter 1
Local Boy In A Photograph (this story will be a one-shot, I can't handle any more WIPs!)

Comments

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

Top 5...Songs that could be your theme song.


Gabrielle

[whiskyinmind.livejournal.com]

What a great question! I have to think about this now to do it justice!

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

Glad you like the question! Can't wait to see your list!


Gabrielle

[whiskyinmind.livejournal.com]

Okey dokey, here we go:

James - She's a Star
(much brighter than all this static, now she's coming through)

Jamie Cullum - Pointless Nostalgic
('cause I am one *g*)

Deacon Blue - Real Gone Kid
(I want that song played at my funeral!)

Gun - Find My Way
(it's all an illusion, in this world of confusion)

Garbage - I Think I'm Paranoid
(just 'cause you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not out to get you...)

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

And how sad is it that I have never heard ANY of these songs? I am so stuck in the 80's that's truly catastrophic!

I am sure these are all splendid and evocative tunes! Please forgive my deficiency in in never having heard them!


Gabrielle

[whiskyinmind.livejournal.com]

Heh! I'm not surprised about Deacon Blue or Gun - they're Scottish bands who have never really made it big elsewehere (in fact, Gun weren't even as successful as they should have been in Scotland)

And please, I'm a child of the 80s who's finding herself more and more out of touch with chart music these days!

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

Glad my lack of knowledge doesn't offend you! And hey, there is a Scottish band on my list of all time faves...Altered Images! I also like one or two songs by Bis. I hope I get a chance to hear Deacon Blue and Gun someday!


Gabrielle

[whiskyinmind.livejournal.com]

Altered Images with the wonderfully kooky Claire Grogan (Or C.P. Grogan, depending on what mood she's in)

Tiny bit before my time but I do remember seeing them perform "Happy Birthday" on Top of the Pops on one of the rare times I watched that programme!

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

The song I like best is one that was barely available over here, but that I was lucky enough to tape off of a radio program, the song was called "See Those Eyes."

Nice to hear that Claire Grogan is still kooky!


Gabrielle

[emeraldswan.livejournal.com]

Top five favorite poems. :)

And did I ever send you a banner? I don't remember.

[whiskyinmind.livejournal.com]

ooo - see, I like poets rather than specific poems... lemme think.

'kay

Tam O'Shanter - Rabbie Burns (couldn't not have at least one Burns poem in here!)

Your Attention Please - Peter Porter

Wild Geese - Mary Oliver (nwhepcat recently introduced me to this one and it's pretty resonant with me at the moment)

Do Not Go Gentle - Dylan Thomas

for the fifth, can I include a poem that was written (by Edwin Morgan) as part of a song lyric? If so then "Scottish Fiction" by Edwin Morgan

It isn't in the mirror, it isn'ft on the page
It's a red hearted vibration
Pushing through the walls of dark imagination
Finding no equation
There's a red road rage,
But it's not road rage
It's asylum seekers engulfed by a grudge

Scottish friction, Scottish friction

It isn't in the castle, it isn't in the mist
It's a calling of the waters as they break to show
The new black death with reactors aglow
Do you think your security will keep you in purity
You will not shake us off
Above or below

Scottish friction, Scottish friction

[whiskyinmind.livejournal.com]

Oh - and the banner? You sent me an unfinished one to get my opinion, but not the complete one.

:)

[rileysaplank.livejournal.com]

Top five things you'd not do, not even for £1million.

[whiskyinmind.livejournal.com]

-- Sell out a friend
-- Cause a member of my family to be hurt. (Well, unless it's the side of the family I *really* don't like)
-- Compromise my beliefs
-- stay in an abusive relationship
-- ignore injustice

Sorry, bit politically correct of me I know, but hey, it's the truth

[rileysaplank.livejournal.com]

To be honest I kinda expected a list like that from you.

[whiskyinmind.livejournal.com]

nice to know I'm predictable...

*g*

[rileysaplank.livejournal.com]

And for the other meme, because I actually know what you look like, I actually imagine you looking like you. The celebrity I most associate you with is Nick Brendon, which I'm sure you don't need a link from me to see some appropriate viewing material. *g*

[whiskyinmind.livejournal.com]

Not sure whether to take that as a compliment or not...

*g*

And hey, even though chances are pretty damn sure I've seen 'em before, more piccage is always appreciated!

[rileysaplank.livejournal.com]

Not sure whether to take that as a compliment or not...

The you looking like you?

Take it as a compliment, for that was how it was meant.

[rileysaplank.livejournal.com]

More piccage:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v644/rileysaplank/8b9d1227.jpg

[willowmina.livejournal.com]

*ditto on this one* 'cause I've now seen pics of you I see you and not a celebrity - although there was a long time when I saw ED when I thought of you - you have a lot of Faith icons...

[whiskyinmind.livejournal.com]

No questions asked, no ramifications, no fall-out?

Nick Brendon
Christian Kane
J August Richards
Josh Holloway
Eliza Dushku

Yes, you read the last one right. *g*

[whiskyinmind.livejournal.com]

He'd probably be number six to be honest, he's one of those actors who gets so into the characters (when it's well-written, as in Trainspotting, Shallow Grave, Young Adam and the like) that I can actually forget it's him. Does that make sense?