now lieks then about rewind rewind
low profile
Elefwin
User: [info]elefwin
Name: Elefwin
calendar
Back November 2009
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
2930
links
tags
a journal bound in leather fine
as soft as human skin
elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
the thing is... nothing particularly worth telling about happened. no, really. any day now RL is gonna start kicking me, hard, for loitering with intent.
~
jasmine-flavoured tea session happened. )
~
then I, uh... got sucked into another black hole fandom, against all odds -- yeah, there were days when I seriously thought I'd never read comics, too, -- and something strange happened. I read & watch canon in English only, but fanstuff? mostly in Russian. beats me why. maybe Russian ways of thinking are that bit closer to Japanese original? anyway. I've been spamming the web in my mother tongue. even wrote a classic romantic fic, Bummer: A Love Story [in Russian. I've also been translating *between* Russian, English & Romanian, but I don't think I'll ever do this one].
~
then there's fooling around with a marker & a camera improvisation:
not!cosplay )
~
I owe so much to so many %(

Tags: , , ,
mood: calm
sound: Shiro Sagisu - Invasion

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
for all not nice things I said about Marvel, there's this... to consider: you're having, like, a really, truly, very shitty day, and drag yourself back home pretty much hating the world & questioning the point of going on... and there's a link to good old Ultron scans #-) sure, does not change anything in RL, but the laugh does the body & soul *good*. so there.

and because someone said Stark... [yes, you should say it & drag me out of my own sorry head. and yes, you should probably shut me up sometime later. anyways]
there's The Kids Aren't All Right, which. which is an incredibly well-written manual on the awful & awesome that Tony Stark is/can be.
then there is Running the Risk. and The Devil Riding Your Back. and Daedalus. and the Extremis arc
...I could go on. but for inspiring & encouraging daring, experiment & so much good writing? hats *off*.

(odd stuff I've been considering writing keeps popping up. if it ends with a Reign of Fire fic... well #-)

Tags: ,
mood: exanimate
sound: Tom Yorke - Analyse

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
'cause we can? and in a hope it works...

love is a melody: the almost depressive playlist )

*meep*

Tags:
mood: exhausted

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
this song here. this one:

why.
why why whyyy, guys, why.
*headdesk*, repeat ad infinitum.

Tags:
mood: SToned

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
speaking of... autosexuality?
just watch.
said so.

Tags:
mood: content
sound: Leonard Cohen - The Future

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
I have managed not to screw up my experimental batch of hot chocolate. well, it's not *the* thing, but it's hot and chocolatey [sp?], so it counts '-) first time in ages I sort of cooked something with milk, too... *sucks on burned tongue*
nummy! 'm under influence #-)
~
speaking of influences, there's this story. written with love, skill and sense of humor, it be a living proof that every fandom must have a game of chess. and starships. and sex. well, less lucky ones can settle for 2 out of 3 '-) read, read, it's purrrfect.

oh, fck me, Elfie's got a kinky crush. wheee...

Tags: , ,
mood: amused
sound: Warren Zevon - My Shit's Fucked Up

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
there's a... plague, I guess, walking in our world to the sound of Mordred's Lullaby #-) it is fearsome and fair. it steps lightly yet leaves an unmistakable trail. et cetera #-) and over here one can find a collection of screenshots. (and where, pray, did they get a copy of H2 of such quality, and gods forbid I finally lay me hands on a DVD of that. the world will have to stop for us #-)
~
маньячное: по ссылке этажом выше лежит архив с издранными кадрами из второго Хеллбоя. оно само приползло..! (с)
(страшно представить, что будет, когда мну доберется до DVD этого счастья. aw.)

Tags: , ,
mood: impressed

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
in no good at all news, my desktop computer is apparently dead like a very dead thing, thanks to the latest blackout & the unwise lack of UPS. I think I pulled most necessary things off of it in time, but - crap. also, no Russian until I buy keyboard stickers.
life, thou sucketh. *headdesk*

in better news, the elusive featurette - when the Net feels like it - can be found, for example, here. look at them..!
[if my eyes do not deceive me, there be the prince with one eye already golden and the other one still sparkling blue. meep.]
[and yet - how, pray, can one download the precious thing? for there is, e.g., a BPRD featurette in the same style/format but much, much less elusive... then again, stealthy elves?]

Tags: , , ,
mood: cranky

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
пока я думала, как добыть из сети видеоролик с близнецами (ибо мало что сравнится с эльфийским лордом в полной боевой раскраске, жующим жвачку, например, - не выходя из образа), ролик даже на посмотреть онлайн исчез, как не было. не судьба...

...зато! нашелся один кадр из вторых "Иксов", в котором Малдер - ну очень Малдер, с классическим выражением "шо, опять?!"

вот.

um. the link above leads to one of my favourite pictures from XF2, in which Mulder is being very Mulder, mind the Russian site not '-)

I've been also looking for ways to dl the Royal Featurette for Hellboy-2, but now I can't find it even to watch online. if anyone knows where this sweet little thing disappeared to, pls tell?

Tags: , , ,
mood: okay

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
это надо видеть. это всенепременно надо видеть. крышесъездъ и мозговыносъ по полной программе. и финал очень, очень в духе Дурной крови.
мну ж теперь будет глючить Скиннером, выдающим: "Маня, ШО ЦЕ?!"

русские братья и сестры разбудили и убили наповал. респект!

PS: ОООООО... оне жгут дальше. lookit now! вредное мну подписывается всеми лапами #-)

Tags: ,
mood: ржунимагууу

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
go here. scroll down to The X-Files section and download the Rook vid. because it is one of the finest things ever done.
[a cappella + Fox Mulder = ♥]

Tags: , ,
mood: sad

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
over here be a song that made my day & night. it's amazing and hilarious, and its opening just about broke my XF-tuned heart #-)
it's in a heavily accented Moldavian language, part of the charm, but I provide a hopefully adequate translation.
enjoy '-)

a Gypsy & an UFO )

Tags: ,
mood: amused
sound: ahha, guess

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
now for reals, let me rec you some fic.

oyster by jordan. NC-17. dreamy. astounding. sublime. an adventure never to forget. terrible and beautiful and most deliciously written. classic.

...I was lucky to read it today, with khamsin beating against office windows and air ground to finest dust. light and dry, not quite here, perfect. bracketed by two pieces of poetry as wonderful as it's weird, a thing slim and fast, devouring. it had deserts and dreams, tricksters and control freaks, woven - weaving - breathtakingly tight... and instead of hammering down on all my buttons it made me look and press all the right ones myself. were it not for the sands, I'd most certainly drown.
and so forth.
times like this, when you can't help but realize there is magic in the world.

[and then, by way of great desolate spaces, dreams and mindfuck exquisite, an entirely wrong fandom steps up and nods approvingly, and how, pray, can you make it stay put?! men in black of twilight..!]

~

I am haunted by the name David. 's everywhere. there are reasons. still, opening a box on a stack of envelopes signed just like that, in neat black magic marker capitals... caught me unawares #-) should I wonder, though? looks like typical L-convergence.

~

there's a picture of House in a bath tub full of Vicodin bottles, right? can I has a similar one of myself, with Advil?

Tags: ,
mood: high
sound: Garbage - Push It

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
простите мой клатчский, но...
...зря я про лопату, видимо. потому что тут же ею и огребла. ой, огребла...
и надо бы сказать, а не получается, ибо горло перетянуто и мну способно выжать восхищение только односложно и ненормативно.
и морской привкус в перетянутом горле.
а к черту такие книги... только поздно уже.

Tags: , ,
mood: crushed

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
мозг, правда, был вынесен вчера...
А Вот! плюс комментарии, конечно. вот, например, почему русскоязычный фэндом - это ахххх. знание + воображение + талант + небелый нуменорский юмор.
...а у меня лопата наперевес и мысль почему-то о... волосах Боромира. которые сначала относительно коротко подстрижены (Совет Элронда) , несмотря на месяцы путешествия из Гондора и поисков Ривенделла, а вот в этой самой главе уже ощутимо длинны. либо путешествие в компании стимулирует, либо по выезде из Рохана его еще и постригли? ну, глючит меня...

и вообще, просыпаться и в путь! потому что оригами-экстрим в полночь под Призрак дома на холме хорошо, а в Реховоте лучше #-)

Tags: , , ,
mood: awake

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
надо наваять нечто в духе "I'm With Stupid" и носить, чтоб неповадно было.
(это я, несмотря на температуру, чувствую себя много лучше, дышу, ем с аппетитом и почти соображаю. ага.)
чтобы когда в очередной раз подумается: "Ладно, где наша не пропадала," - чтобы вспомнила, где именно, и очередных глупостей не делала. ластик для мозгов ни одна добрая душа ведь не даст.
ну, побродила я по Тол-Эрессеа. ну, еще раз убедилась, что angst must die. ну...
а потом возьми и раскопай это. слэш + стеб, написанный великолепным русским языком и со знанием дела... (мое бедное горло, давно я так не ржамши!)
ой.
#-)

Tags: ,
mood: high

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
to say nothing of the illustrations, but the translation is... remarkable!

Tags:
mood: blah

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
God bless Kasiopea.

Tags: ,
mood: amused
sound: Lux Aeterna, dammit

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
мееееме )
~
мама, русский фэндом мну все-таки доконает в один прекрасный день. (с)тащено с Хеннет Аннун: Гэндальф очень любил играть на балалайке (и, конечно, хоббитов).
(открывается, конечно, словами "У Фарамира была квартира окнами на Запад..." хелп %-)
~
flies in ointment )

Tags: , ,
mood: crazy
sound: Howard Shore - Minas Tirith

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
first, there's
Elfie precious )
~

and then, as the world speaks of the Yuletide treasure, there is
Looking Back [300, NC-17].
short, strong, true to the point... ah.

Tags: ,
mood: content

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
I wonder if this... fit of obsession wears off before I do something really stupid or the other way around. [and anyway I'm lucky to be hooked on something other than Silmarillion...]

but when I look for an image of Fëanaro and Google finds... Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest movie poster, it's not on #-)

on the other hand, I find that someone had illustrated Spartan Letters by Dwimordene. I mean, YES PLEASE? in my most humble opinion it's not spot-on, but there is world-weary strength, stubborn and gentle, instead of ever popular pardon-me-for-living look.

а тут еще Ronya вспоминается. ninqui, @#$%^&, ramar...

ETA: look. at. this.
*am blinded by the golden & in love...*

Tags: ,
mood: cranky
sound: о, помедли, постой, на меня оглянись...

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
here be a story most wholesome and delicious. here be a story of games played exactly right. here be a story of politics and chess, and the king is... well '-)

Black Captain by Altariel, who rocks hard.
read, love, and despair not at all '-)

Tags: ,
mood: grateful

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
господа хорошие и господа плохие, опять у мну Армагеддон Дагоррат из головы нейдет, хоть голову снимай. к чему бы это??
а так - хотя бы ясно, откуда у некоторых глюков... конечности растут. Гражданское Боромирие, его же рук дело... [info]imenno Хатуль, долгих лет ему и здоровья вкупе с вдохновением, возжигаше!
(знание того, что в Белом Городе хоть палаты на наш случай есть, утешает ;-)
~
...а очередной "горский" тест, пройденный по принципам "а выбор есть?" и "по-хорошему отвалите, ребята", обозвал мну кем? правильно, вечно неприкаянным Коннором МакЛаудом, настоящим паладином до костей мозга полного выноса мозга мозга костей. q.e.d. #-)

Tags: ,
mood: amused
sound: Sting - Fragile

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
so... yet more [old] LotR recs. because good crack ought to be shared.
~
Bored by make_it_stop: wherein the ability to read men's hearts is taken to test & extreme.
~
Not the Balrog by MJ: it's a slasher's nightmare. it's classic. it's totally crack'd. and it reminds me of Mithrandiriada in a very, very wrong way #-)
~
Elf Slash Sarcasm by Tyellas: oh man [and elf!] alive, it's a perfect, linguistically amazing, hysterically funny NC-17 rated story of how not to do it #-)
~
The Morning After: A Tale of Wanton DebaucheryTM by Eggo Waffles: I love this one to bits & pieces for embracing both fanfic crack in all possible shades & tastes and canon dear, up to the diacritics. though I would advice firmly against drinking anything while reading. especially tea.

go, read, tell me how much out of my mind I am, but I dare you not to laugh once.

ETA: Ignorance is Bliss, by Eggo Waffles also: what can I say?! The Truth Shall Make Thee Fret!

Tags: ,
mood: high
sound: Travis - Sing

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
see the hour? do you see the hour? right. that much for strength of will & presence of mind.
but my heart is full, and my online library is expanding. though I still much need a shovel.
it's a neverending wonder, it is, steady as stone, deep & vast as the sea, and just as strong, and light as the breeze. bad grace and grace most amazing. times, all of them. and so much light...
...am at a loss for words, wondering how, and what I have done now to fall up so hard '-)
~
...
~
have some HASA, they say it's good for you.
Emmaus

Tags: ,
mood: high
sound: Dido - This Land Is Mine

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
so, how do you fight an addiction?
when you know it perfectly well in your head & heart for what it is, you know exactly how and where it is wrong & dangerous... and you just can't stop. how do you stop, pray? [being addicted to something essentially good only complicates the matter.] staying up into ungodly hours of the morning with a shovel & a kind of literary gun is becoming a tradition I cannot physically afford.
perhaps I should go & climb a wall, literally '-)
~
LotR the film will never fail to piss me off for being a magnificent trainwreck and for inspiring a shitload of outright bad or badly misled writing. yet what I'm about to point to is not that. it's as good as, given the WTF source, it gets. yet if even a piece of damn good writing is a teeth-grinding experience to read... curse you, Jackson #-)
anyway, here be.
Silence of Sound.
~
and this is stuck today in tragic Numenorean part of my brain.
Ваше благородие, госпожа Победа,
Значит, моя песенка до конца не спета...
Перестаньте, черти, да клясться на крови!
Не везёт мне в смерти, повезёт в любви.

[info]black_dragon, sorry, глюк-с...

Tags: ,
mood: high
sound: Девять граммов в сердце постой, не зови...

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
the cats of doom! )
~
in other news, I am a pervert, for not only do I want certain bad & wrong crack to be written, I want it to be written well, so the reader wouldn't cringe and mentally puke a couple of sentences into it. come on, folks. you've already succumbed to the dark temptation of mindfuck, do you absolutely have to follow in bad writing?! *facepalm* I am almost, almost tempted to join some obscure underground LotR community & ask for it #-S
~
but!
there's sunshine and love to strengthen one's failing faith in writing fankind. as found in Henneth Annûn Story Archive, which abbreviates to HASA #-)
A Proper Name. read it. give it a big sloppy kiss hug. it's so worth it '-)

Tags: , , ,
mood: high
sound: Tic Tac Toe - Warum

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
Middle Earth race quiz )
still not king Numenorean.

~

and for the next 7 days for your aural pleasure Flames by VAST, understated, consuming, sublime...

Tags: ,
mood: okay
sound: VAST - Flames

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
first, there's this. it is in Russian. it's... kinky! literotic! funny! and made of awesome.
~
in a less funnier way, I'm not considering a wacky Sleeping With Ghosts RoF ficlet, I am not, I am... blast.
got 3 bottles of Bacardi, will trip.
~
oh, and House 3 is apparently out on DVD.
*definitely* will trip.

Tags:
mood: amused
sound: guess #-)

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
of classic literary delight, research thorough, plot solid, characters live and drama in the best sense of the word, I give you
Fraternité by Gondolier.
of mystery, and art, and crime, and wit, and number of chapters = meaning of life.
but most of all, of many faces of love.
never a smooth ride, to be certain, but a travel irresistible.
do enjoy.

Tags: ,
mood: calm
sound: Timur Shaov - Rat Catcher

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
dear obsession,
surprisingly, the first thing about you is, you make my heart smile.
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
even as you break it.
~
there is Earthbound, for one, an eerie and ethereal tale that rings too true - and reminds me of two great songs... it is of angels I wish to talk to you.

Tags: ,
mood: enthralled

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
while I can't and won't rec a certain something until it's properly finished or at least picked up...
...I can and will rec this:

His Hands (T)  by The Scorpion.
it's phanphic, dark, mad, morbid, beautiful, a perfect little piece finely composed. may leave you feeling queasy, faint, most wickedly amused, and fascinated either way...
blame me afterwards, but do read.

Tags: ,
mood: impressed
sound: Open Folk - King Of Fairies

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
via [info]vimeslady, Vampires: Biology & Evolution.
impressive!

Tags:
mood: amused

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
ranty mcrant )
what I was looking for - and have found, which amuses me - is the video for ZZ Top's Breakaway. funny thing, it's from 1994 but feels so much older... slow, drawn-out, repetitive, artificial like a brightly colored drink, and trippy little thing... with Fairuza Balk!.. oh dear. isn't it amazing, how the thing literally stuck in my head - for more than 10 years - as the other ZZ Top vampire song video? early 90s seem to have been vampire years for me. odd, that.
~
what this entry was supposed to be about... thoughtforms? though half down the road I got confused. how much conscious effort is needed to create one? is it always through careful directed concentration of willpower, or is sometimes a very strong leap of imagination & emotion enough? how continuous must the influence be? what kind of mind is capable of..? and so forth.
got lost.
[then got sneered at by Johnny Daemonic, my own fiction-of-fiction kind of guy with just enough real blood in him to linger on this side of heaven...]
~
...
~
the undoubtedly good fact of the day be [info]mistress_arion's birthday... which she happens to share with Terry Pratchett '-)
may they live long, prosper, and write happily ever after!

Tags:
mood: weird
sound: Billy Talent - Fallen Leaves

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
there actually is a Cohen song title beginning with N, but I had never heard the song, so that is okay... though I'd like to hear it now.
~
my participation in *the* SW movie marathon cancelled, because time waits for nobody [and now I crave that very song by Queen, argh].
on the other hand, regarding SW and why I do not understand merchandise, there is this. try not to laugh, I dare you '-)
~
and if there is anything constant, it's got to be these test results. percentage may vary, but the outcome doesn't.
You scored as Neither. You think neither like a man nor like a woman. What you are you may decide for yourself. Most people will consider you strange, alien, weird or funny. You are probably quite interesting.

</td>

Neither

64%

Either

54%

Male

54%

Female

32%

Should you be MALE or FEMALE?*
created with QuizFarm.com


hee, I wonder whether it means I should not be #-) ha.
[miss a certain someone badly, but on the other hand cannot contribute anything constructive or not destructive at least, so I shut up & hope like hell something positive happens... bloody lame. I knows.]

Tags: ,
mood: blah
sound: Queen - Time Waits for Nobody

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
the meme's all over the LJ, so why not...
Post a list of your top five favorite fics you've written, regardless of fandom or the reason you love them. This isn't about the BEST things you've written, but what you LOVE most.
~
the Secks trilogy thing!
(a crazy quasi-poetic experiment bringing Ecks from Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever and Sands from Once Upon a Time in Mexico closer than is proper and safe. in particular, I love how the liquid theme holds, and the thing flows smoothly despite, well, everything #-)
~
A Delicate Hand!
[one word: 'coronary' #-) a few more words: gods help me, it works so wickedly sweetly. plus, you know me & hands. in a way it's a story of self loving, 'cause it's got indulgence written all over it.]
~
Loose Ends!
[my first and only proper Discworld fic, folks, and said to be a good one too. I love how easily, in fact, it came to me, both imagery and words. I love how right it feels, up to the [in]famous "What, why?"]
~
they dance alone and see me not!
[the story of these two is probably longer than the stories themselves. in short, I loved League of Extraordinary Gentlemen's idea of Mina Harker meeting Captain Nemo. I also liked its freehand approach to various bits of canon, so I dragged fused several versions of Ms.Harker and the Captain for the two vignettes. I love how they just are there, no backstory, no reason, no excuse. if I ever captured sensual, it is there.]
~
*deep breath* Interesting Times three-piece!
(yes, the criminally insane Star Wars alternate reality one. part 1 was very hard to write, being a request & not exactly my thing, and I love to know I made it. I also love the way[s] it turned afterwards, absorbing lines from my favourite songs, and common sense, and impossible OTP. it's a truly weird child, this one, and a... strange thing to do to one's beloved canon, but in the end? it made this top 5 #-)
~
the list could've been different, had I written more/finished the accursed WIPs.
ow.

PS & ETA: I cheat! it is not a fic but a poem, but it is love pure. Deserted Sonnet for El Aurens the magnificent, dammit '-)

Tags: , , ,
mood: sick
sound: Leonard Cohen - Waiting For The Miracle

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
well, The Theme I've been babbling about is here for the next 7 days, should anyone want it.
~
the writing, not all that surprisingly, is not being done. I'm looking at the list of projects, and gods, it's... argh. where there's no murder there is madness, etc., but mostly both. wonder why. while I realize there are few purely happy endings, I still wonder why I can't make up something not that screwed. hint: something wrong with the would-be author?
[when Johnny Daemonic needed to leave the city, he bought a damn fast car & drove at top speed into a rock face just outside the suburbs. because we're all mad here. *headdesk*]
~
the hell, I have gone & friended [info]sadtranslations, a Russian community that reminds us how a translation can be fucked up. [thoroughly.]

Tags:
mood: apathetic

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
something one can't change is not worth angsting over, my former therapist would've said. still hurts, though. I feel frail. a funny feeling, sorta, but I'd rather not have it. blah, weekend, New Year, blah... it's like being high and hyper and not knowing when your heart decides to stop. has scared the bosses into leaving me alone for the weekend, blah...

and my - well, almost mine and almost original - characters have made me cry. how stupid is that?! not actually writing, you know, or coming up with something resembling a plot, but crying like a silly little thing because that is that?? stupid, stupid, stupid.

on top of that my mail bounces when I try to write to Z. Zachary? your mailing server hates me or what?

okay, something NOT sucky: Yuletide treasure!!!
Code 69 - MiB. J/K. NC-17. pure gold #-)
Cleopatra's Needle - The Addams Family [movieverse]. something new blossoms in young Morticia's secret garden.
The Bridal Path - The Addams Family [movieverse]. A beautiful wedding, a thrilling honeymoon, a moving funeral. What more could a girl hope for?

*sigh* and that movie quote meme. here's the one on which the generator finally got stuck. figures...
meep. )

Tags: ,
mood: calm
sound: Rolling Stones - 19th Nervous Breakdown

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
*weeps with joy* Russian LOTR fandom makes best. songs. ever. and when crystal-clear voices join and rise to heaven, singing a damn good made with love parody of some classic, my heart can't help but swell.
~
turns out you can cap the 12 Days of Hogswatch clips.
like this. )
...squee?
~
for dear Zachary, who had probably seen them already, but bis repetita placent and all that...
draw me a Sith Lord! or a lamb #-)
~
that it?..
I'm so absurdly happy at the mo, I wish I could give it away in bundles. meep.

Tags: , , ,
mood: content
sound: ...Не Ородруин ли это?

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
black stripe: the good man I've been dealing with, computer-wise, had gone through a divorce and all that, and he's apparently left the business, and I can't just call & talk... for reasons awkward. *headdesk*

white stripe: bought and installed new DVD drive #-) take that. am v.dusty and rather proud of myself, but that's because I grew up encouraged to think that computers are like these exotic animals. a barbarian, basically '-) 's a good thing computers are logically based. I have consciously swapped the master and the slave drives, but the... thingy plugged into the CD R/RW was an educated guess. so I'm easily impressed by it all working at first try. have also changed the keyboard, finally.

wtf stripe: my computer at work got this habit of freezing up dead for no good reason, usually in the middle of something urgent and important. our technician, upon examining system logs, says the problem is caused by... CDs. not even the drive, the discs. blank CDs. frankly, I dunno how the fck... but it's he who gets paid for figuring out, so I care academically '-)

stripe multicolored: was incredibly, terribly late for work... 'cause I kinda lost the track of time reading NewBond AU slash #-)
Doing the Double by the one and only [info]guede_mazaka. for the way she picks at their heads... and more... is love.

...and it's midnight again! where the hell does time *go*???

Tags:
mood: accomplished
sound: Jarvis Cocker - I Can't Forget

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
there's to skinny young men with amazing vocal talents [no, honestly, you look at a person, and there is not much room in there as it is, and then comes the voice, vast and rumbling and deep... how the hell!]...
...and kittens. can't go wrong with kittens. the page is in Russian, but who cares, you're not gonna read it, you're gonna look at the amazing kitty '-)

Tags:
mood: better
sound: Jarvis Cocker - I Can't Forget

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
there's another perfect fan video.
oh, there are quite a few great House vids, but this one is just guhhh plain awesome. runs smoothly & fucks with your head just like the source, and it's cut like a diamond, and the song is it...
aw, just go & watch Bukowski by [info]astolat, do.
~
some of the best songs ever I first heard in fanvids... vidders be blessed!
~
coming next, provided I don't pass out from work and/or sickness, Perfume, DDS and a painted movie #-)

Tags: ,
mood: cranky
sound: System of a Down - Kill Rock 'N Roll

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
новое видео от [info]ukhardosh_vi: В поисках любви и Федя Джонс и вставные челюсти.
а на десерт - миф от [info]vetertann.

ENJOY!

Tags:
mood: excited
sound: System of a Down - Holy Mountains

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
all of ya who read Russian, go! go there, read, and weep, it's that good!
just don't eat or drink anything while you're at it...

Tags:
mood: ecstatic
sound: System of a Down - Soldier Side

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
why must it be so? why, once I fall [hard] for something, the world blossoms with links and signs? on the one hand, to love everything is a sign... but on the other hand, the number of coincidences is mindblowing.
what I'm gonna link here is, methinks, an essay... and a damn good tribute to American gunfighters & their weapons of choice. it is in Russian, it is awesome, and it has found me all on its own.
part I and part II.
~
it is true art: creating something so spectacular as to burn - blaze - through years of prejudice & indifference, to inspire love, and to have that love withstand the real historical evidence.
that, and a good taste #-)

Tags:
mood: excited
sound: leonard cohen - heart with no companion

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
look, another awfully informative post! how does she do that?!

la... yesterday, a small miracle happened: been to Halper's and had not carried away anything. first, because of being stupid & really not knowing what books off a tightly packed stand I might need, and secondly, because horror, thriller & sci-fi sections held no new old wonders. [money? what money??] on the other hand, listening to Garbage's It's All Over But the Crying while looking at the aforementioned stand was an experience #-)

so now instead of books [and where, pray, IS all my mail?!] we have Sensations Brut 86% dark chocolate. one can't possibly eat more than a small piece of it at a time, and that is also an experience '-)

mmm... I wonder, is this an addiction or could it still be filed under 'perserverating interests'? knowing something by heart & going over it over and over again because it's that good? meh...
if I were just that bit crazier [and richer], I'd be collecting handwriting samples [which is not the same thing as autographs]. the trouble is, so many people did not leave a bit of a written trail after them, when you think of it. pity & shame.

and another silly tidbit before I have to rush to work: dreaming about Reacher Gilt trying to sell me software must be symptomatic. first, I am not in the habit of buying software... and gaming software at that... I am truly lost here.

ah, what gives... would you like a cat? go on, look at one '-)

Tags: ,
mood: blah
sound: Garbage - Why Do You Love Me?!

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
must've gone completely & utterly mad. am downloading Tombstone and uploading old poetry on skyehawke.

is it weekend yet?

Tags:
mood: crazy

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
which is so not true... )
business, eh?

~

but seriously, over here is a very, very nice story combining Phantom of the Opera and E.T.A.Hoffman. go & read, it's... [mental] fireworks!

~

ETA, 'cause it just... I looked at Courtney Crumrin site, and this just cracked me up, badly: "...the dark and dangerous early years of a younger Uncle Aloysius and the world of witchcraft that shaped him into the magical creature he is today." mean, all of it is perfectly true, but it's not irony, it's heavy metal! either that or I have an odd sense of humor.

Tags: , ,
mood: bored
sound: Gold Digger

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
lookit this! lookit NOW!
it's... it's The Da Quirm Code all over again, only in Star Wars terms #-)
my only question is of the wereabouts of one Senator Organa... ah, well.
am reminded of the bloody BRILLIANT PTerry's saying about the having & eating of the cake.
am finally dead because of something other than the cold, which seems... gone. Dexamol x Quantum vitamins rule.

oh dear, oh dear, ohdear, I'm afraid I'm off to watch SW III again.

Tags: ,
mood: amused

elefwin
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
oh, and you do want to look at these [by incredible [info]geek_kitten]. first, it's some damn fine photography. secondly, it's, well, the Trial of the Monarch Vetinari.

Tags:
mood: ecstatic
sound: Easy As Life