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I'm still a great waste of time, etc., etc., yadda...

in retrospect, posting the first Russian story to AO3 is not much of an accomplishment, is it? '-)

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sound: Faithless - We Come One

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well, there's been this meme...
y'know, those situations when you can't, really can not do or say anything useful, helpful, encouraging, and what you can do will be harmful, so you just don't? do they suck...
so I do a meme in the dead of the night.

I name about 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/bands I like, you guess my favourite character from each, we... brag about the results and exchange fannish gifts? why not.
1. Lord of the Rings [book]
2. The Silmarillion
3. Star Wars, classic trilogy
4. Star Wars, prequels
5. Discworld
6. Harry Potter
7. Bleach
8. Peacemaker Kurogane
9. Rose Red
10. Ravenous
11. The Phantom of the Opera
12. X-Files
13. House M.D.
14. Near Dark
15. Tombstone
16. Star Trek TOS
17. Mahabharata
18. Marvel comics
19. Once Upon a Time in Mexico
20. Transformers
21. The Kabir Cycle by H.L.Oldie
22. Equilibrium
23. A.Dumas's Musketeers trilogy
24. Jules Verne's books

meep...
[info]black_dragon , 19/24. anyone else?

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today was... not my day.
I locked myself out of the apartment. I spent about two hours in a queue for nothing. I spent the next 4 hours at a shopping mall, where, among other things, I found out that memory cards my camera uses are sorta out of production. [yes, now I have one messed up card and a possibly dead card reader, and several good photos lost.] most fortunately I had Advil with me, for I was heartily sick most of the time.
the only person with the keys to the apartment got stuck in another town for another hour.
...and when I finally got home my brand new cell phone was missing. so I went back into the dark, using my old phone as a dowsing rod, and found the thing under a flamboyant tree [there actually is a kinf of tree called flamboyant in Israel, will tell in a happier hour].
when yesterday I said this day would be something else I did NOT mean like this #-(

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sound: Ryusei Nakao & Rie Kugimiya - 12

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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.
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jasmine-flavoured tea session happened. )
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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].
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then there's fooling around with a marker & a camera improvisation:
not!cosplay )
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I owe so much to so many %(

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sound: Shiro Sagisu - Invasion

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the sad fact that the paper is, frustratingly, not exactly square will not stop us '-) the process is most exciting. especially the pinwheel module stage, which in my case goes smth. like this: fold a spoke, get the hang of it, now turn the whole thing in your hands until it settles just right.
I do need origami paper.
and a job.
and a good reason to go on.
er.

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sound: placebo - the bitter end

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I wear these. )

#-)

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the main reason I do not make race fail is this: I don't get there, I fail earlier. I do not feel -- am not -- connected or conscious enough. it is a BAD thing & cause of many a trouble. I look at those social experiments and tests and find out I am prejudiced against people, no matter their color. not good.
what's weird is... how to put this? when there is a story to be told, I can see where it goes bad re: aspects of humanity. now, to learn that not everything can be reduced to bad writing...

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sound: Faithless - Tarantula

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turns out I strongly dislike vodka. I'm a rum girl '-)
jasmine tea, on the other hand, is fragrant and gentle. mmm, yum.
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turns out there was a festival in our town, and we somehow got there a couple of hours before it closed '-) there were... amazing machines, artistic improvisation, kleizmer bands, bubbles, fireworks..! and balloons #-)
well, ever since DWCon 2004 I wanted a balloon sword, and 5 years later I got one.
in black. )
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so there's that. also, I need a [friendly] kick to finish the only story that seems to have some plot. the Bleach one is a totally lost case of fanart writing #-)

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sound: Bleach Beat Collection - Zan

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those good old "list N characters, answer [crack] questions about them, PROFIT" memes? can't do them anymore, what with being an unimaginative scatterbrain. after a certain small amount of bad ideas and batshit scenarios generated brain shuts down. some things, however...
simple questions, actually, like "Is Starrk hot? How hot?"
*meditates*
*thinks about great cosmic indifferent solitude*
*meditates some more*
yrs truly, easily distracted & confused.

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life is, indeed, confusing. I fail a job interview, because I cannot sell shit. once everyone and their mother got that, I'm offered another opportunity... interview for a job with prior experience in marketing and sales required. o_0

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not good news: job not found, teeth a mess, me - an even bigger mess, same old, same old.
not bad news: lived all right through tooth extraction, been taken to Jerusalem and back on a failed job interview, got tickets to the one & only Leonard Cohen concert in Israel. [this last one is, in fact, BEST news. pray all is well up to & on September 24.]
balance?
Zen?!

oh, and when, back then, I said I did not have enough bingo ideas a dear friend had wisely told me that they would come. right. they have. and they are MAD! [and still do not form a complete line, grrrr...] anyway, I will not fail it completely now. nice '-)

[and I am a coward, which is not new either. a certain kind of coward. which is also why, I guess, I like Ravenous so much: it strikes a chord.]

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3 [three] of my crowns just fell out.
on a weekend.
and my Sunday is pretty busy already, and after that things are uncertain.
but hey! let's see whether Elfie will shred her tongue with the sad [but sharp] remains of her teeth! or swallow something 10 years old that... okay. one quest at a time.

...fuck!

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I dreamt I lived in a country where it snowed 10 weeks a year. maybe more. for the rest of the year the snow just lay there '-) and it was so fine. so good. I not only survived, I actually enjoyed living there #-) suppose it was so incredibly cold you stopped noticig after a while. also, don't know wth is with gender switch in dreams, but this time I was definitely male. walking topless in winter... yes, sure.
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have met a third cousin of mine. he's a really cute and all around nice guy. he trains a junior tennis team, sings opera, speaks half a dozen languages, loves swimming and dancing. he resides in Sweden but will stay here till 26.07.09. and he looks more like an Israeli than most of us '-) aw, exotic family.
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I still am a terrible snob when it comes to writing/reading, and a grammar Nazi. somebody shoot me already #-(
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and last night, dear diary, we went to see Public Enemies.
deary me. )
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I really, really should be writing me bingo. instead I grumble about text formatting and contemplate not-quite-natural things to do to Tony. bad fan, no... nothing, really.
*headdesk*

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sound: Unheilig - Herz aus Eis

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still recovering. still floundering. have, for a change, had a nervous breakdown. ain't life fascinating.
on the other hand, "Reborn and down" could be an interesting experience.
[on the third hand, my source of fresh comic goodness is conveniently dead. ah-ha...]
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the Transformers are a somewhat suicidal civilization. o_0
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the funny thing is, I just might like movieverse TTf for the same reasons I love SW. now that's interesting, because my love for SW has got very little to do with tech #-)
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am still mildly pissed off by the fact that Batshit Romance would've made a perfect bingo story. who knew, who knew!
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had a mixed reading of Transformers, Courtney Crumrin and The Graveyard Book. do not try that at home #-S

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sound: Unheilig - Stille Nacht Heilige Nacht

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and now, more exciting family news! the company that provided legal guardianship for my disabled uncle has apparently disintegrated, with all fascinating legal and financial consequences it entails. I can't think of a right/good way to break the news to my mother, who does NOT need that shit on top of everything else.
abused the word "luck" in my last post, I have.

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today just about everyone called me: people I no longer work with, my insurance company, a bookstore, and my BFF in a pear tree with a stylistic/syntactic question '-) the one person who should've called me, though, - a job hunting consultant - didn't. ah, well. the bookstore ppl say they have the second part of Alumen for me. and Transformers 2 premiere's tomorrow. all sweet.
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I've built an interactive map/organizer for the bingo. technically it's great, completion-wise it looks sad: prompt/story ratio is not good, and certain lines are mutually exclusive. argh for 9 years of math studies turning up uninvited #-)
[speaking of uninvited, a vidlet to a Russian song will not do, will it?]

*crawls away*

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sound: Михаил Щербаков - Школа Танцев-2

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Israeli bureaucratic machine is sloooooooooow. e.g., in an office stuffed with computers, maintaining a sensible online presence & connected to all manner of other institutions I still have to come in person to communicate my data to various clerks. and I can safely bet the very data had been stored for weeks in their database. fcking yay.
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have sketched a script for the fanvid, am now afraid to touch it. like MA, the movieverse used to be a happier place - well, at first sight, - and here I... n-aww... oh, *headdesk*n.
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and then there were zombies.
in Ankh-Morpork.
...WAIT. there ARE zombies in Ankh-Morpork. a few well-known citizens, in fact...
...okay, there were rabid zombies in A-M. the devour-you-and-your-braaaaaains kind. zombie dogs even. *facepalm* you see what happens there? my subconscious does get contaminated with Marvel ideas, but it runs to the Disc. how mad is that?
[poor Lord Vetinari was not amused. not bitten either, though. damn, once in a while I dream of the man in his natural habitat & all, and there have to be zombies all around. bloody mood killers!]

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sound: Greensleeves ♥

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I have tried my hand at vidding! the yay: I am not sick of me sources [yet]. the sound *is* on a loop in my head, but that's normal. I also had major doubts about the project, what with my 0 experience and weird tastes... but once I put *some* of the video & audio together it became clear they were, indeed, made to be '-) the nay: something is rotten in my dear friend's version of Premiere Pro [yes, I had to start effing big]. apparently, something is even worse with my video source, because up close that mixed-up .avi looks *scary*. when I get home I'll try something... less professional.

no beta, but the fic has grown a title & will be posted as is. the title wanted to be in Italian - naturally, - but I could not find an exact translation and am not gonna screw up linguistically as well '-)
[the *other* fic is stuck not in the least thanks to pangs of consciousness. turns out I do not mind killing people - on paper, - but subjecting one Mr. Rogers to such amount of mindfuck is a no. *headdesk*]

I miss the sea - and friends beyond.

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sound: Unheilig - Stark

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the bad: my cousin is argh! )

the good: rumor has it that master Cohen will be in Israel on September 24 this year. cross everything and pray we all live to Be There!

the weird: cutting up a picture from Hypervelocity for album art seemed a good idea at the time. freaking out when it pops up in Winamp, though... not so much #-)

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there are these pretty Paco Rabanne sunglasses, oval & blue-green. I do not wear them often, but today felt like it. so... I came into an office, took the glasses off. I exited the office and put them back on. about half an hour later I took the sunglasses off again to clean an eye... and saw that the right lens was missing.
I've found the lens, so that's okay, but not only have I walked across the town with one dark lens missing and no-one I met said anything, *I* had not noticed anything wrong until I took off the glasses! my right eye must be screwed for good :-(

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sound: Leonard Cohen - A Thousand Kisses Deep

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I have to say this: I like our local Social Services office. maybe I got lucky today, but wth. they were tidy, organized, fast & efficient. plus, the office's just across the road from the marina. can't go wrong with that, and the morning sea is beautiful. quiet. serene. with long waves of sparkling translucent blue-green rolling in, dreamily, slowly...
sweet.
me: "So, what do I do now?"
social service clerk: "Why, nothing."
thank you. it's... novel, to be told specifically that '-)
meep.

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thanks to the good, good people who helped me to drag myself out of the emo black hole yesterday.

and today, for contrast, we have... Iron Slick of Sinfest fame. I kid thee not.
*facepalm*
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in other news, our cable TV cum phone cum internet is fixed, yay. [surprisingly, no furniture had been moved around! imagine if the guy tried to nudge that... hulk of a wardrobe, and the door fell on him!!]
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apparently, being able to fill in a registration form with no assistance means awesome Hebrew skillz. oh hell yay. the thing is, I am still allergic to the language, but. give me a good reason, and I'll learn what's needed. just gimme.

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I was vacuuming, and a door fell on me.
now, this place we rent is old, most of the furniture is crap and does fall apart now & then, but still, that was a big door. fortunately, [1] I caught it before it could damage me, and [2] by sheer stupid luck it fell this short of the fcking large glass balcony doors. very lucky, that.
I live in a slum.
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dear brain,
stop that. what I had in mind was a small, self-contained, amusing dose of crack, NOT a kinky, angsty trip in cybermindfuck. I do not care how beautiful someone looks with a star in their heart. I do not care about quasi-sentient armor's existential issues either. I have things to do and a job to hunt. can we go back to light crack, like, now?
yeah, right.

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sound: Jesus built my hotrod

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so the cable [phone, internet, TV] was down today. what, no morning mail?! no, thanks to laptop & the mysterious wireless, but. called tech support, found out that yes, our entire building's been cut off, mm, cool. in a couple of hours a technician arrived. before the technician arrived everything had suddenly come online. enter the guy with his phone full o'messages concerning planned works in the building & the resulting shut-downs, meaning the system was long aware of the situation. so there we are, looking like two pretty fools.
*facepalm*
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the washing machine is... being weird. it made me perform on it what looked & felt like Fisting 101, and NO THANKS. I'm also certain there are better scenarios involving latex gloves and white powder, and I am allergic to the damn thing #-(
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have finally watched Transformers. turns out I rather like Optimus Prime. *more facepalm* hello, crossfandom associations! *some more facepalm here*
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the plan is to finally set up my Wacom tablet & try out this SAI painter. that is, if the washing goes okay.
no, today might be NOT my day after all.

ETA: right. I am a snobby bitch & should not be allowed in the world of shiny & happy. but seriously, aspect ratio and proofreading are your friends. for real. shoot me.

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sound: Adriano Celentano - Jealousy

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young vegetable marrow [no, seriously?] stewed in cooking cream, I guess. oh dear. and I normally do not do squash.
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...and apples. apples are... tricky [scumble, anyone?]. and then people try to translate them apples, and it all goes pear fruit-shaped. so there's this soft drink made to smell like Granny Smith apples, good choice... but what we get is a drink with mysterious Grand Smith aroma in 3 languages. I'm keeping that label #-)
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in inedible news, the iPod now has a case to cover its bruised American flag skin. [those marks are like tiiiiny bullet holes. where can I put my face??] the thing fits on an arm perfectly and is black, gunmetal gray and... rust. *facepalm*
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the drabble meme is stuck [whew]. is it because no-one reads that, or people know what I can write and prefer not to, or people know what I can think of in return and... right '-) anyways, back to bad writing habits and zombie plotbunnies. meeeeeeeeeep.

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sound: White Stripes - I Don't Know What to Do With Myself

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so I decided to take not a shower but a bath, once in a while. that went amazingly well... up to the point where the bath tub suddenly wouldn't drain. so I did some pumping, which did drain the tub all right. brought up some suspicious debris, but - all riiiight... only all that water decided to stay with us for good, coming back up through shower drain and running gleefully into 3 rooms at once. we then went on having an eventful evening until the drains had changed their rusty minds and sucked the flood water down.
bloody rented apartment with its ancient plumbing, grr, aaargh.
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...and I am about to believe in fate here, because. because the story turned and twisted out of my grasp, apparently waiting for me to read Ultimate Power, part 9. [grr, argh, branching canon..!] because otherwise there'd have been a major factual screw-up.
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If we sleep together
Will you like me better?
If we come together
We'll go down forever.
If we sleep together
Will I like you better?
If we come together...
Prove it now or never.


indeed. fandom has this awesome [new] tradition of making musical mixes, and I just don't know what to do. what I have looks & sounds like trippy sappy twisted multiverse TFS mix. and who in their right mind wants that, hmm?
(aww, but IM fandom MUST listen at least to Skin... what to do #-)

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...and then there's this, concerning Amazon's new strategies:
"In consideration of our entire customer base, we exclude "adult" material from appearing in some searches and best seller lists. Since these lists are generated using sales ranks, adult materials must also be excluded from that feature."
surprisingly, this "adult" cut happens to include LGBT-themed literature regardless of genre & level of explicitness.
haven't we seen that before #-S
there is a chance of the fuck-up happening on the executive level and not actually being a policy, but the entire matter stinks.
I cannot begin to imagine how pissed off the writers affected must be. as a part of customer base, though? fuck you very much for this "consideration".

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even in Israel with its... strange seasons this month is lovely. thank God for small miracles.
only now I have this song stuck in my head, watercolor grey, full of soft hollow echoes, unexplicably sad, like rain in one's heart... [all right, either this one or Black Sabbath's Iron Man, and is it even a choice?!]
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been *gasp* shopping. all I really aimed for was a pair of good old sneakers. best laid plans, y'know. turns out they have refurbished the shop, how to put it mildly, a lot, so I inadvertently walked into a jeans bar #-) I got to the shoes section in the back, eventually. after 3 pairs of - I'm sorry to say - ill-fitting jeans and quite a show put up by the guys. honestly, if the trousers looked/fit any better, the sensual dance around a customer would make more sense & be less funny...
so it's blue denim [of course] sneakers and a nice leather belt [and another dance-around-ya & fun with belt loops] for what I can only call an unhealthy price. however, if that comes with cool sound, great service and a glass of awesome dry red wine? why the hell not.
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I am relearning how to rest, dammit. feels nice this far.
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and a happy Passover to everyone who.

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sound: Gary Jules - Mad World

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thou shalt not write pr0n at work. thou shalt not...

and a meme in Russian.
I apparently only attack for good reason... )

mnre...

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I know it's been trying... several months, you're exhausted, and restless, and starved for something out of the ordinary to do, and still as high on TFS as ever. understood. however, all of the above are not, mind me, not good reasons to generate mad, bad and positively indecent ideas. "no, literarily, fuck you, universe" is not teh best response, you know?
especially when there is a dozen WIPs on your conscience. NO instant crazy pornography. you can't do it anyway, silly.
but I'm afraid you will. nyargh...
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walked by the sea again. have not written anything, alas, but! have not caught a nasty throat infection either. balance is the key. also had a pineapple milkshake, which had stuck in the blender, I kid you not. the straw stood in it. *facepalm* another "hard sucking" situation. shoot me.
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had two weird, weird dreams: one about a convention trying to be, teh other about me [me!] being in the army. not quite clear *which* army, but I feel sorry for that unknown country, because the best I can do for national security is stay put. mean, we were about to depart for some complex & important exercise, and I could not find half of my gear. at least I knew my gear, mainly thanks to the fine, fine men I served with. I remember feeling v. glad to have known them, and v. sorry to be such a crappy soldier #-) dear subconscious, STFU?

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sound: Nine Inch Nails - Big Man With a Gun

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guess who just got fired.
yes #-)
right #-)
song, dance & flowers accepted here.
gods, if only I was not so sick it'd be perfect.

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sound: Robert Downey Jr. - Chances Are

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went to the sea again, sat myself down on a limestone outcropping halfway above the beach, and did not let up until I figured out at least one bit of writing '-) worked amazingly this time. strong breeze carrying a hint of smoke, soft sun in my face, some guy practising not bad juggling nearby... it was magic '-)
then I went all the way down to the water and just walked along. met a coworker with dog '-) found a nice shell. thought up a fitting title for the aforementioned bit of writing. walked into another town, most likely, to what looked like kitesurfers' favourite beach. admired the kitesurfers for quite a while. turned back as the sun went down and the wind became chilly. speaking of the wind, oh yeah! strong breeze, I said, turning birds on their wings... well, later on it literally blew the headphones off my ears and did its best to blow me along the beach #-) awesome. my shirt came alive and my hair looked like an octopus #-)
so there's that. once I muster up the courage to brush my hair, a fine day will be complete.
mrrrr...

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tomorrow our... small & selected company celebrates Purim. gifts of food - well, sweets - are expected to be exchanged. what did I do? took 3 of the many kusudamas I built a long time ago, dusted them off, stuffed them with candy. then I donned rubber gloves and covered them balls in gold & silver glittery goo #-)
[I am reading King, he inspires.]
now they look like 3 weird oversized spiky lollies, blow-dried and still glittery. wonder if my recipient freaks '-)

as seen at [info]disc_sophist's, celebrity death match look-a-lot-aliker in action:

but when I tried a more recent photo it turned out I am a snowflake! )

...meep?

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same old, same old: comments left in my journal for some reason do not reach me by mail. everything else from LJ does, including replies in other journals. a long time ago we have solved the problem, but damned if I remember how #-( ideas, anyone? [support suggests it's IP-related, but I wonder.]

am alive, well & back on about 4 hours of sleep schedule. I never learn.

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I've been trying to recall what I took when Xanax did not work, couldn't, but then again this something else did not work either. meh. thing is, I do not drink, smoke, do drugs etc. also because similar effect can be easily achieved by simply having a [wrong] idea. so I'm screwed, but it's not like I can give something up to get straight. in absence of a mental eraser. well. and I cannot have someone monitor my informational intake, really.
so I dragged family out for a walk by the sea. we talked some over lasagna and Baileys milkshake, and took silly pictures of each other, and while we have not found a way to make me less of a mess, at least I was a cheerful mess by that time, and all in all it was a good idea.
now my head aches, probably from fresh air OD, and my face is sunburnt #-)
slowly but steadily snapping out of it, I hopes......................

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sound: Space - Female of the Species

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sooo, we're into spontaneous blackouts now. there's nothing like coming home to no lights, no phone, no heater and possibly melting stuff in the fridge, not to mention the computer I left running #-) luckily, everything seems okay with the power back on. t-t-t...
I feel odd. tried to sleep during the blackout, got a headache. something in the flat smells like burnt plastic. this week I've been living on black tea mostly, and that's... maybe overdoing it. coffee makes me sleepy, tea gives me this weird buzz, am consciously forcing myself to relax, dammit, ahaha, forcing to relax, nice try '-)
I really, really wish I could recall what possessed me to get into this bloody mess arc. even if I've got only myself to blame, I'd love to know why. it's killing me, none too subtly, with overdoses of crack, angst & WTF distilled!
...
...and yeah, Batman. today a guy from Scans stuck a Batman logo paper cutout to a computer case. just like, you know, we use to decorate windows with cutout snowflakes for the season. and because of the creative placement of said logo this line of brilliance was made possible:
"Press on his sternum, watch his nipples light up."

oh aye, we're all mature and mad here.

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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 #-)
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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...

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oh my God, I've been out for a month, like. seriously out.
and tonight I received an issue of DWCon Chronicle in the mail.
there is commentary by [info]vimeslady. there's [info]merrymoll the shiny. there's [info]gmh the cool. there's Archer... there is a modest, modest shot of the Vetinari Ward.
gods, I feel so damn guilty for not being 100% there at the time.

poke me.

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guess who is ill again. I am coughing my head off, listening to old soundtracks & persuading myself to call in sick tomorrow.
99.68F. aarrrrgh. winter's coming #-S

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I, ah, got junk [no pun intended] mail with a... bizarre subject line: You will see your penis on MTV.
the first & only possible reaction to this was, of course, the immortal line from Don Juan DeMarco: "It... SINGS?"

yes, that is the depth & the low to which I sink in a fit of seasonal depression. bury me in gold petals & leaves.

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today a client [not mine, thank goodness] requested files to be sent to them on a CD and not, please, in read-only mode.
consider that.
O_o

...and look where I should be living. )

y'know, that house in Ithilien... #-)

OH, AND: if anyone received blurry DWCon photographs from me, pls do say so. my e-mail's acting up :-(

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ощущается острый недостаток премьеры в организме. он, а также спание по 4 часа в сутки не способствует легкости унд живости характера.
поэтому мну страдает хней. вот.

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my little cousin! has been advised, by friends, to pick a book to read.
what she picked? Hobbit & Lord of the Rings!
where she picked it? at frineds's place!
so now we have about 5 editions of LotR in the house #-) ooooo... yeahh.
watching the girl tear through the book is gonna be awesome!

[by the by, it warms my heart to see hardcore ru!tolkienists get GdT's elves, and get them right. prrrrrr.]

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guess who's bringing 3 fancy outfits and 3 pairs of shoes to the Con. *facepalm* I are an idiot...
[there's even a Big Black Dress. shoot me.]

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fairly early in the day I received a call from... our landlord's real estate agent. he kindly informed me that the apartment we're renting was for sale & asked when he could bring prospective buyers to look at the property.
I, ah, was struck speechless for a moment there. our bloody landlord had not said a word to us about his intentions to sell the apartment. and now he's out in the USA till October, the bastard. all right, we still have till March 2009 to live here - as the agent finally told us this evening, - but FUCK, who does that?!
I'm very much willing to sock him one if only for stressing my mother out with this shit.
lest I departed for DWCon with a light heart, eh?

[got the shoes to go with the monster skirt #-) now I foresee my sorry self asking for a gentleman to break my fall...]

...and my manic dream is to see a drawing of Nuada by Ted Naifeh. & die of graphicgasm, perchance.

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sound: Rammstein - Mein Herz Brennt

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новый Хам Путтер нежно любимого мною серебристого цвету, безропотно простоявший в ожидании подключения почти 2 дня... ламер я, лааамер... он работает. теперь дай еще Господь памяти установить все, что надо...ооо... до отъездааа...
...прикид костюм есть. туфель пока нет, а очень надо, ибо без каблука и платформы это будет стелиться по полу. (а с каблука и платформы я имею все шансы упасть, но не перевелись же еще на конвенте джентльмены, авось поднимут #-)
но рыдайу я не поэтому. меня же с легкой руки [info]kyellinn занесло на diary.ru, а таммм... там же вкусное лежит без оглядки на копирайт, там есть грамотный (!) свун, и а-куда-это-моя-крыша-так-быстро-полетела идеи, и..!
"А что ему сделается, он же статуя..."
и так далее. кстати, клип.
Эльфи-варвар, конечно, не знал, что в трейлере ко второму Хеллбою звучит именно Раммштайн, причем именно эта вещь... зато теперь!!!
зато теперь это горящее сердце и Mordred's Lullaby у меня "споются", и будет так хорошо, что даже плохо. о, а еще к ним присоединится Sky Is Over, которая вся из себя очень... эльфийская... аммэ!!
Mordred's Lullaby, конечно, не совсем о том, но child of my pipe, flesh of my soul и особенно LOYALTY - это оно, всегда.
(ойййййй-е мое, а ведь есть еще пылающее любовью сердце из католического легендариума и Milagro...)
все, мозг вынесен в очередной раз. soundgasm.
а ведь это еще не все )

словом, спасайся, кто может.

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sound: Rammstein - Mein Herz Brennt

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the computer lives,
elven blood is definitely the colour of gold/amber,
and it's little more than 2 weeks till DWCon2008.
[costume! insurance! phone! panic at work! whatever!]

...I'll be off, dreaming of faces like carnivorous flowers.

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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?]

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this be written on my brand new laptop '-)
all systems go, like.
niiiiiiiice...
~
so's life wouldn't seem *too* good, XF premiere in Israel has been moved to 31.07.2008. am heartbroken here, esp. after this.

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I've been dreaming of very small & gravity defying cats. a black kitten lounging on the ceiling. the ceiling cat can has upgrade #-)

there is an invisible movie in Israel! Hellboy-2! the grape vine sez it premiered in the country yesterday, yet it absolutely cannot be found in cinemas. o_O

[and David D. played an invisible man once, and we know how that ended]

movie-wise, one has to love translations '-) I Want to Believe in Hebrew has transformed into רוצים להאמין - '[we/you/they] want to believe.' that is... interesting, how indeed they, plural, want to believe, but for very individual personal reasons '-) somewhere out there ought to exist L-continuum where stories are told in full & right '-) [Le Guin's Earthsea with its Old Speech and true names cometh to mind...]

...aw. I can go on for hours, weaving associations together, bringing up [obscure] knowledge fascinating yet irrelevant. maybe there are some wizardly leanings after all #-)

...oh, and I bought a laptop. sort of.
[did not think to bring any ID to go with the credit card, but as the guys seemed to really want to, the bargain's been made. reminded me sweetly of Celebration IV T-shirt Stall Challenge: their wireless card readers didn't quite work in a crowded & closed space, a vertical t-shirt-lined tube basically, so the tallest seller had to hold the device as far up as he could reach & wave it around '-) those were the times...]

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well then. I was distracted from my reading in the morning, when Mother's alarm went off. haven't crashed yet, but just barely. that'll make about 36 hours... and all for what?!
*major facepalm*

more writing- and readin-wise, of course there would be bumps. and sharp turns, and potholes, and whatnot. no-one sensible expects a smooth ride. but I just cannot stand this writer's trick of digging potholes & making bumps up. thing is, after a while the repetitive dance around an imaginary issue loses it. reminds me of therapy in the worst way imaginable, esp. when there are so many *real* possibilities to play with. *sigh*

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sound: Wonderful...