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the world is like an apple spinning silently in space.
This is probably going to be my last journal post this year, because, well, yuletide status update: WINDMILLS. WINDMILLS IN MY MIND.
(That music video has the distinction of being one where I knew the video by heart from having read it in a book before I'd ever heard the song. Like You Are My Sunshine, but unlike Mahna Mahna, which was actually on the LP as well as being in the book. ...the Muppet Show Book was really awfully amazing in a lot of ways; I've never seen anything do a better job of translating music videos into printed pages, and I suppose with the age of videotape the art has been lost. I should totally go see the new movie. And the new Holmes movie. After yuletide is over.)
Things I should have added to my Christmas list:
11. A way to use my NaNo discount to buy a paid copy of Scrivener without having to figure out a way to use GODDAMNED PAYPAL. AAARGH.
12. Dark blue denim scraps. Yes, before I designed a patchwork that requires light, medium, and dark blue denim I should have thought about the fact that no denim in this house goes in the scrap basket unless it's medium-pale at the darkest, but maybe somebody has cut-off hems from where they shortened a new pair of jeans or something?
13. The new Jonathan Coulton album. Okay admittedly mostly because it has a love song for kismesissitude on it - no, that's not the title, but it might as well be. So the thing about putting this album on my list: usually if there's some music out that I sort of want to try listening to, I will just torrent it. But this is JoCo, so I went to the website to see if he had any of it for free download? And he doesn't - the new songs are $1 each or $10 the whole album. And they're creative-commons licensed, which means that if I torrented it, it would be legal. And somehow that killed all my desire to torrent, and I'm like, 'hey, it's only 10 bucks, I should just give the man some money.'
...that didn't work with the Baen Free Library admittedly, but it probably would've if they'd had the whole Vorkosigan series for $10 before I'd bought all the paperbacks used.
(That music video has the distinction of being one where I knew the video by heart from having read it in a book before I'd ever heard the song. Like You Are My Sunshine, but unlike Mahna Mahna, which was actually on the LP as well as being in the book. ...the Muppet Show Book was really awfully amazing in a lot of ways; I've never seen anything do a better job of translating music videos into printed pages, and I suppose with the age of videotape the art has been lost. I should totally go see the new movie. And the new Holmes movie. After yuletide is over.)
Things I should have added to my Christmas list:
11. A way to use my NaNo discount to buy a paid copy of Scrivener without having to figure out a way to use GODDAMNED PAYPAL. AAARGH.
12. Dark blue denim scraps. Yes, before I designed a patchwork that requires light, medium, and dark blue denim I should have thought about the fact that no denim in this house goes in the scrap basket unless it's medium-pale at the darkest, but maybe somebody has cut-off hems from where they shortened a new pair of jeans or something?
13. The new Jonathan Coulton album. Okay admittedly mostly because it has a love song for kismesissitude on it - no, that's not the title, but it might as well be. So the thing about putting this album on my list: usually if there's some music out that I sort of want to try listening to, I will just torrent it. But this is JoCo, so I went to the website to see if he had any of it for free download? And he doesn't - the new songs are $1 each or $10 the whole album. And they're creative-commons licensed, which means that if I torrented it, it would be legal. And somehow that killed all my desire to torrent, and I'm like, 'hey, it's only 10 bucks, I should just give the man some money.'
...that didn't work with the Baen Free Library admittedly, but it probably would've if they'd had the whole Vorkosigan series for $10 before I'd bought all the paperbacks used.