Questions Post #8, Poll #2: Emo

[lettered]

And save me from my real life.

Jossverse
Didn't Tim Minear (or David Greenwalt?) explicitly say in an interview that Fred was included in Connor's birth scene to fill out the role of the Virgin Mary? If so, can someone link the interview? Who?
How else is Connor's birth scene like the birth of Christ?
Why is Connor so fucked up?
What are the shower facilities like on Serenity?

Technicalities
Why does semagic close itself automagically so often?
Where on semagic does it tell people's birthdays?
Do you have to have PhotoShop to make cool graphics?
Isn't PhotoShop expensive? Did you all dl it? Isn't that illegal? Does that bother you?

Life
When I interrogated the mirror this morning I found that my hair had built a large but well fortified battlement atop my head, intent on defeating that mighty insurgent, the comb. But HAHAHAHA! The comb played the villainous hair for a fool, foiling its nefarious scheme of mischief and mayhem by not aproaching, instead retreating to the eternal peace of its crowded kingdom, the drawer. Wherefore the miscreant hair reared it's ugly split ends, as in a banner of victory, mocking the cowardly comb with wild abandon and occasional snarling.

Meanwhile, my oft treacherous jeans took the opportunity to sway the allegiance of my much beloved shirt, a shirt which I have lovingly attended with the tender ministrations of a friend and ally, the kind of ally who knows you must be kind to anything you put against your boobs. But alas, that sneaking and insideous zipper, so intent on degenercy and disgrace that it descends, drops, falls, without the least provocation, and despite my better efforts to raise it back up into the light, to Eden and to heaven and the proximity of my naval with a safety pin, that zipper connived with its foul intent to disrobe me by stealing away yet another buttor from my beloved shirt. It became, if you will, a turn-shirt, exposing my vulnerable flesh to the wanton eye.

And then, what should happen but the coffee maker, spying the way my hair had taken to with my scalp, and the way my abdomen was bared of all defenses, judged me but a weak accomplice at best, and issued the poorest, most watery of coffee... an underhanded move--not out and out villainy (decaf) but still, a blow, a crippling blow indeed.

[Poll #704339]

OMG NO I REALLY, REALLY NEED TO KNOW RIGHT NOW:

Anything going on with you? Fic bits you want to share? Stories? Jokes? Adventures in clothing, coffee, and hair? Thoughts about wearing hardware store shirts with other people's names on them? Odes to the dodo bird? Your favorite quote? Words you keep meaning to start using, but don't? Phrases? What you did last summer? How many licks it takes? The meaning of life?

I demand from each of you either one thing very clever, be it prose or verse, original or repeated -- or two things moderately clever -- or three things very dull indeed. And I engage to laugh heartily at them all.

*clings madly to lj*

Comments

[swmbo.livejournal.com]

Answers require elaboration! Because I do that.

Emo = omg, so cute! In a way that they would *hate* but seriously, aww, wee, existential angst and suffering in what is usually a pretty good life, but it's so SINCERE. It's adorable. Particularly emo boys, but on emo girls as well. Shh, never tell them I said that.

My Space is *shudder* busy and shallow and not a good place for actual conversation - the crucial key to my happiness.

Starbucks is - everywhere and, worse, not actually GOOD coffee. Better than work coffee, but...


To your other answers!

Semagic should give birthdays when you click on the friends tab.
I don't have photoshop because I have no icon ability - and not the patience to learn.

And omg, your jeans are trying to make you NUDE! I would laugh except for the fact that your description of coffee has traumatized me and - oh man, you need a REAL cup!

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I've heard lots of different explanations of what emo is. Yours does align with what I've seen...especially the having a good life but so sincere about their existential angst. I have trouble finding it cute. I just want to shout, get over yourself!

My BFFs have My Space; I got an account to talk to them...but then realized, as you say, it's not good at all for talking. I want to tell them to get lj (ok, I did) but I'm not so sure they would understand my predilection for vampire porn. Or even my predilection for the word "predilection."

I like Starbucks Americanos, and Starbucks espresso. It depends on the machine though; if it's the newest espesso machine omg heaven, but if it's one of the older ones, eh.

Oh, whoa, I'm lame. I didn't even know what all those buttons in the corner (on semagic) were!

My clothing was unkind today.

I love coffee, like life itself; I wish it was the blood that flows through my veins. Except that my body would reject it, because drinking coffee often gives me headaches, and often makes me lose sleep...even when I drink it in the morning. My body is just an utter spazz about any form of caffeine, so I really cut back, because it kinda freaked me out... And so I read your posts about your coffee, good or bad, and just...lust for what I can't have. And then I see your mood theme and just...lust for what I can't have. Don't cry for me, it's okay. *emo-tes*

[ros-fod.livejournal.com]

I run! I scurry!

No one seemed to be able to keep track of who they wanted to play the Virgin Mary to Connor, although Fred is the one during that scene in the alley, Cordelia is doing the job here (http://pics.livejournal.com/ros_fod/pic/0000t5t8), with the Three Wise Men Persons bearing the Miracle Baby gifts.

*zooooooooooom!*

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I never noticed that!

That's one thing I love about AtS though. Anyone can fall into any metaphoric place you want them too. IT'S SO UNBELIEVABLY WHOA AND WOE-FUL TO WRITE, OMG.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

I have a strong need for a random screened tee-shirt from a kiosk at the mall with a little dark-haired boy that reds: Manuel loves Gramma.

Just to walk around and wear a random child on my teets. That would be satisfying.

And I keep meaning to use "rat farts" more, but I haven't. I'll get on that.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

What you SHOULD do is get a REAL boy, and ask him about his granny until he starts wailing and crying of his own free will, and then you can admire his pudgy red face with impunity. Or lots and lots of punity because you made him cry, but who cares if you lock him in the closet?

OR you could find a child and shrink him down to pint-size, and place him on the shelf of your teats, (it catches the crumbs that tumble when I'm eating, so he'll have plenty of nourishment) and give him a ride.

OR: ELEPHANT BALLS.

[lynnenne]

Holtz pointing the crossbow at baby Connor is reminiscent of King Harod, who, upon hearing of the birth of a new King, slew every first born male child in the kingdom. But the Holy Family escaped because God came to Joseph in a dream and told him to take Mary and the baby Jesus to Egypt; which is kind of like Wes pulling up in the car to whisk them away. If the convertible was, you know, a donkey.

Emo is Sartre updated for the new millenium. Starbucks is evil. My Space is a giant pick-up joint for people who can't carry on a conversation in person.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I'd thought of Holtz as Herod, but not of the convertible trip to Egypt...thank you.

Emo is Sartre updated for the new millenium.

I think I missed the existentialist aspect first time through. I was too intent on the black-rim glasses.

Starbucks is evil.

I love it.

My Space is a giant pick-up joint for people who can't carry on a conversation in person.

My BFF keeps trying to convince me it's to network bands. I find it freaky how many people use their real pictures as icons, when on lj that's just lame.

[rahirah]

My answer to all questions today is, "Huh?"

Also, when I tried to post this, MY CONNECTION WAS REFUSED! You hate me, don't you? Plus the intrawebz hate me! God, life sucks and my life is the suckiest of all! <-- [emo]

[tkp.livejournal.com]

No I love you! But I hate me! My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes! <--[ditto]

And happy birthday. Or a very merry unbirthday, if today is your unbirthday. I am like you, bad at keeping track, and hoping everyone will just ignore mine (because no one knows it and I'm not telling! MWAHAHAHAHA!) so I shall shut up now.

[semby.livejournal.com]

What is going on with me...

Today I had a mini freak out, along the lines of "I don't wanna be a grownup! I don't wanna make life-changing decisions!" which... I'm not quite over yet. And don't intend to be, until a real grownup tells me what to do.

I am like this close || to finishing my CYA fic yay.

And that's about it.

Dude, sounds like the inanimate objects in your life are conspiring against you. Watch your back.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Today I had a mini freak out, along the lines of "I don't wanna be a grownup! I don't wanna make life-changing decisions!" which... I'm not quite over yet. And don't intend to be, until a real grownup tells me what to do.

That is actually what is happening to me RIGHT NOW, except I didn't want to go all emo over my lj so I rambled about my clothes instead. I prefer to focus on trivial conspiracies when LIFE CONSPIRES AGAINST ME BY THRUSTING ME KICKING AND SCREAMING INTO ADULTHOOD. I almost wrote quicking instead of kicking and then I deleted it and put kinking. Possibly because I was thinking of adulthood as a giant reverse-vagina. I CANNOT HELP THE SICKNESS OF MY MIND, SEMBY. *smooches*

What does CYA stand for anyway?

Yeah except I can't watch my back without a mirror and today the mirror was LAUGHING at me. *woe*

*freaks out some more. With you. Tostitos?*

[moss6886.livejournal.com]

Oog. And I thought I had a bad day, what with narrowminded coworkers and all. But when the daywear rebels and the coffee performs sabotage... Ouch!

Don't worry, we love you anyway. Though I suspect that there are those that might love you more after a successful clothing coup...

(Clever? In public? Nonononononono!)

[tkp.livejournal.com]

At least the coworkers were not conspiring to GET YOU NAKED. O.o Or maybe they were? Their minds are dim, dim and fraudulent and hokey, filled with adjectives the DO NOT APPLY.

*snuggles you*

*naked*

*couped of clothing*

*doesn't care that couped is not a word*

Hi!

[stultiloquentia.livejournal.com]

I give you big hug and silly song.

Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry - Where is the Lid?

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Ahhhhhhhhhh! Cruel! I can't listen to anything on this comp; it doesn't have a sound card.

But thanks just the same. ((hugs)) <--clingy arms.

[terilyn4.livejournal.com]

you have scary clothes

or the person in the clothes is scary

I love your posts, I usually don't understand everything in them, but I love them :D

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I love the person in your clothes! The nekkid person in your clothes!

And yes. Sometimes I am callous and strange. I am sorry I am so spazzy, but if you squint really hard, and ignore every other word I say, sometimes I make sense. I'm glad for people like you who put up with me anyway!

((((massive hugs and CHEESE!))))

[anelith.livejournal.com]

Is that picture from "A Little Princess"? It looks like it should be, even if it's not.

As for your poll about "emo," I feel slightly too old to really understand it fully. I didn't really become aware of the whole thing until recently. It seems you have to be very mopey and glum to be emo? So, in other words, a teenager?

My Space is another phenomenon that seems to be linked to teenagers. At least that's what I read about in the paper -- words of warning directed at parents. "Warn your teen not to reveal private information!!!" etc. Also about how it's full of sexual predators. Yikes!

To complete my ignorance of your poll subjects, I never learned to like coffee. I am, however, a tea addict. In fact today I got another shipment of tea from my favorite tea bar, which sent me (*counts up on fingers*) 900 g of tea leaves. That should last me a few months. Starbucks only matters to me when I'm desperate for a pastry!

If you ever figure out why Semagic sometimes closes itself, please let me know too! I see someone told you about how to do the birthday thing. You might want to know that under "Journal", then "Edit Friends" you probably want to click on the "Update from server" occasionally. This just updates all your flist info, including their birthdays.

I don't do fancy icons, but my brother is a graphic artist. My understanding is that there are multiple versions of Photoshop. The full version is indeed very expensive. I *think* you can get smaller versions for cheaper, but I don't know how *much* cheaper.

I am just not good with the clever or funny, although I wish I were so I could divert you after your battle with clothing, hair, coffee... But I will tell you that I'm reading a book that somehow I think you might like. Ilium by Dan Simmons. Hmmm, here's a review if you want to check it out. The reason I think you might like it is the mixture of science fiction and literary references.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

It is from A Little Princess. I love your tastes in books! One day, I'm going to get a header made of this, this and possibly the picture of Sara in the pink dress walking in on Becky asleep in her chair... both are so much how I feel about lj as an escape and a warm cozy place...

I'm still not sure what emo is. Some people say it's music, some say it's teenage angst, some say it's more undergrad or grad age angst, a slightly more intellectual angst, and when I first heard the term it was to refer to those snobby intellectual types who think that only the things that're uncommercial and untrendy are cool. I don't know!

I have a My Space account. Apparently because I'm an emo teenager. Yis.

I'm sad about you and coffee. It makes me want to cry. (Why is the thunder so ANGRY?) I love tea on rainy and cold days, and chomomile tea when I can't get to sleep at night, but OMG coffee. Sbux has good tea though.

under "Journal", then "Edit Friends" you probably want to click on the "Update from server" occasionally.

Thanks!

I *think* you can get smaller versions for cheaper, but I don't know how *much* cheaper.

My mom got an old one...it was given to her so I don't know how much it's worth...but an example of how old it is? It's on floppy.

To hell with funny, I find you highly entertaining. That sounds like an awesome book. Sounds like I should go read the other one by him because if I read this one I'll be waiting for Olympus to come out and waiting is never good. I definitely love books with lots of literary references...I usually don't get them all, but it makes me feel all special. And intimidated. Like T.S. Eliot. Poor guy.

[baffae.livejournal.com]

your life is intense. I will never look at clothes the same way.

Starbucks is killing the local coffee shop but it's fantastic when us non coffee lovers need some caffeine in the form of coffee that tastes nothing like coffee.

what is a lick anyway? I went into more detail here but it began to sound sketchy and sexual at which point I deleted it and will repeat: what is a lick anyway?

I got my hair cut over the weekend. It was pretty until I decided to wash it and it became the same old tangled mess it's been all my life. Except that it was thin and only slightly wavy when I was younger but decided it felt like being frizzy and curly and thick several years ago.

I love being random. It's way too amusing.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

But my bra today was lovely!

The thing is, there were no local coffee shops around my parts until after Starbucks. Once Sbux started showing up, other small time coffee shops like it popped up, but before that, the only place to sit and gab and just drink a cup of coffee was downtown, and Houston downtown is eensy compared to the large urban--and suburban--sprawl.

Also, I started loving coffee by drinking the caffeine products that tasted nothing like coffee and working my way up. Mmmm mmm espresso now is the only way to go.

A lick? Did I say something about lick? Mmph? It's a slow stroke of the tongue across something. *licks your ear*

OMG FRIENDSHIP HAIR! Well, mine was never thin. It was incredibly thick, always. But it's all frizzy and curly now though it was straighter and smoother when I was young. I keep wanting to get mine cut short, but then I'll have days like this past Saturday where I wake up and OMG, it's SO FREAKIN' GORGEOUS. And then there's days like today I'm afraid to comb it it's so fucked up. But OMG YAY HAIRCUT! Even if it's still tangly I love that feeling when you go to put in the shampoo and you have SO MUCH LEFT OVER AND YOU CAN FEEL YOUR NECK AND FOR A SECOND IT'S LIKE, OH FUCK, WHERE'S MY HAIR? But then you just revel at feeling the water where you didn't feel it so intensely before.

I am never random; what're you talking about? Hee!

[amybnnyc.livejournal.com]

GAH... I am tremendously boring, so I offer three things very dull indeed, I am afraid.

1. Hair--Oh dear lord, how very much I need to have something done to mine. I'm growing it out, which is great, but the whole not really doing anything to it for fear of screwing it up in the meantime has wrought havoc that must needs be corrected very soon. Because it's driving me bug-shagging crazy.

2. I have no phrases I mean to start using, but I need to quit with using "for serious" instead of "seriously," because I'm now at the point where I'm on my own nerves with it.

3. Coffee has become a shameful, woeful addiction here lately, and I'm drinking far too much of it. Which is going to make the whole "kicking the caffeine habit" suck big freaking boulders when I finally get around to it.

See? Told you I was crazy boring.

Birthday thing: I know nothing about Semagic except it was mean to me the one time I tried to use it, but you can get your birthdays this way, too: TKP's Friendly Birthdays (http://www.livejournal.com/birthdays.bml?user=tkp).

(Incidentally: Much woe and lamentation re: the villainous rending of your faithful and verily most favored garment. :( )

[tkp.livejournal.com]

1. I know what you mean. I'm growing mine long too, which always meant before that I never did anything to it. But now I have this fabulous hairdresser who trims it just so so all my curls look fabulous, without taking too much off each time.

2. At least you don't say "for certain sure."

3. Coffee became a severe problem for me last year. I love it more than life itself (ok, sorta), but I think my body has serious problems with it. As soon as I stopped drinking it cold turkey, I felt much...more relaxed all the time. I've slowly started picking it back up, but only like a cup a week...and I never have Coca Cola or anything like that with caffeine; I reserve my intake for espresso and chocolate. Still, coffee tends to give me headaches, and if I drink it after noon there's no way I'm getting to sleep before 4 am.

You're not boring. I am not Emma Woodhouse! But even if I was she would not find you boring!

Semagic is very very nice to me. You should give it another try. And thank you for the birthday list! I'm bad at keeping up with people's birthdays. And I always mean to do a special post to wish people happy bday, but then I forget or get delayed and am late...most of all I fear I'll forget someone, and they'll be like, she did a post for every bday but mine! So I tend to just stay away or drop a comment if I happen to notice.

The shirt is okay but yea, verily, missing a button. Zounds! It was actually my mom's shirt...it's around 25 years old, but it's a freakin' AWESOME shirt.

[aloneinthetown.livejournal.com]

Emo is definitely the new goth with the self-hate. And I checked 'emo' on all the ticky boxes that said emo because what ISN'T emo these days? I mean, seriously. Emo has definitely taken over all our lives and it's craziness. Myspace is just a place where emo kids can look all mysterious and take pictures with only half their face showing or with some hair draped suspiciously over their faces. I have mad emo hate, if you haven't already heard :) (starbucks is so emo).

You know what started this whole damn emo trend? Harry mothereffin' POTTER! He's got the scarf, the glasses, and all that whiny crybaby baggage bullshit. DOWN WITH HARRY!

go here (it's my speshul myspace):

http://myspace.com/emopimple

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean, but Starbucks is really only emo in some emo crowds. In other emo crowds, anything commercial or corporate is teh evil...only indie films, music, and shops work for them because they DO NOT FOLLOW TRENDS. Except for the trend of not following trends. *facepalm*

I love Harry Potter, but I totally think he bumped up the glasses and scarf thing to new levels.

Huh? Whose My Space is that? Because I see a pic that looks like you friended. And I now have a My Space account (because my BFF has it and it's apparently where I should go to spazz with her online, nevermind that she won't get an lj) and could friend you and we could hate on it together! Except I'm not much for hating the places that host me even when they're lame. Oh well.

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

Tim Minear claims he did not realize that the Connor birth scene paralelled the birth of Crist paintings. I claim he is on crack. Or possibly he remembered that John Lennon was pilloried when he said the Beatles were more popular than Jesus and Tim figured he'd ignore the issue.

The real question is why isn't Connor even more fucked up?

In space, no one can smell your sweat.

I couldn't take your poll because you didn't list the correct responses:

The term "emo" means: your are 16 and dress in black.

My Space is: something I can't be bothered with.

Starbucks is: A place I would never go inside of.

As far as me, I have just posted my latest recap of "24" in case you didn't understand what was going on.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Do you know where that interview is? And do you have a link? And will you give it to me?

Everyone single person as a different definition of emo! It's no easier to decipher than it was before.

I can't believe you'd never go inside a Starbucks. God do I love that place.

And omg, yay. I was beginning to think you weren't going to do one. I can't believe how UTTERLY WRETCHED this week's ep was. Okay, more complaining over on your lj.

[cordelianne.livejournal.com]

I have your answer about the Tim Minear and Connor as Christ question. I couldn't find a link so I transcribed it. It's on the DVD Lullaby commentary with Mere Smith and Tim Minear:

Mere: I also really liked this with Fred there. I got the Virgin Mary imagery.
Tim: We have smart Christian imagery here. The reason Fred is in this scene was because I didn’t want Angel or Darla to cry. Because that would feel pathetic and maudlin. But I wanted somebody there who could represent the tears and represent the audience, which is why I put Fred into the mix. So she could actually do this as she’s doing. Also I wrote it so that Fred could be holding this coat over Darla so that there’s not rain falling on her. Well that looked ridiculous. So I just sort of had her put the coat over her head and suddenly she did look like the Virgin Mary. So while I’d love to take credit for this Christian imagery and this virgin birth. It was a fluke. I realized this as it was happening and I certainly milked it, and I thought it worked kind of well.

And my three things:

1. I need to get my hair cut. When my hair gets long the curls start to weigh down my hair and it gets flat. But I love having long hair so I always put it off.

2. OMG there was just a centipede in my apartment!! I am very afraid of bugs and couldn't pull myself together quickly enough to kill it. It's disappeared. WHERE DID IT GO?!!! This is when I hate living alone (most of the time I love it) because there's no one around to dispose of bugs for me.

3. One of my favourite quotes is, of course: "Will you please call me Cordelia?" she said earnestly.
"Call you Cordelia! Is that your name?"
"No-o-o, it's not exactly my name, but I would love to be called Cordelia. It's such a perfectly elegant name."

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you so so so so so so so time eleventy billion much for transcribing that! I haven't watched any of the commentaries...I really should, huh? And dude, didn't even think about how the Fred coat looked all Mary veil like. Thanks again.

1. Mine used to do that, but the way my hairdresser does it now makes it so it's relatively long while still holding curl. I'm not sure I'll ever get it as long as I used to wear it when I was in my preteens, though. It was down to my waist.

2. Ah! Ah! I'm sorry. I don't mind bugs except for roaches. Once, when I was like in 6th grade, I was sleeping over with some friends at my other friends' house, and we saw one like at one in the morning. We were so scared of it we all slept on her bed instead of on the floor like we'd meant to (and instead of in the living room, because the living room is where we saw it)...and she had like a single, not even a twin, and there were FOUR of us, and I had someone's feet in my face the whole time, and I HATE FEET! But not as much as roaches. I'm sorry about your bug. *pets you*

3. What is your NAME child, and no more foolishness!
Anne Shirley. Plain old unromantic Anne Shirley.
Anne Shirely is a fine, sensible name, and not one to be ashamed of.
Oh, I'm not ashamed! But if you're going to call me Anne, make sure and spell it with an e.
What difference does it make how it is spelled?
It makes a lot of difference! Print out A-N-N and it looks...absolutely dreadful! But Anne with an E is quite distinguished.
Very well then, Anne, with an E, how is it that you happen to be brought and not a boy?
If I were very beautiful, and had nut brown hair, would you keep me?
No, we have absolutely no use for a girl. Oh, don't stare there gaping! Since you're here we might as well put you somewhere for the night.

I just realized I can probably recite that WHOLE DAMN THING! Gah!

[spikespetslayer.livejournal.com]

My children say that emo is like punk, only not as anarchic (is that a word?) and more "emo-tional", hence the name, emo...I say they are full of shit.

I am trying to stop using the f-word, since I get so much gaffe from everyone about the amount of times I use it in one day, so instead I am saying "Snakes on a plane"...it is much less offensive, and people give you interesting looks...plus, it means something different to everyone.

Starbucks is the Devil. End of story.

I'm writing again. That is of the good.

Coffee? I grind my own beans (yah, I know, how anal retentive is that? ITS FRESHER!) and we're using about 5 lbs. a week...therefore, make no loud noises around our house, we're all jittery like crack addicts.

*WOE* over your hair problems and your wardrobe malfunction...I empathize completely...

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, emo seems somehow less...violent than punk. I mean, just listen to the music.

Dude, swearing is weird for me. I naturally swear. A whole lot. I do in my head like I was born with it or something. And I do not find it offensive AT ALL. But my BFF since SECOND GRADE, and my mom, really hate it, and these are people I love and see a lot, so I really tone it down around them, out of you know, respect...but I see them so much it's like I never swear, and so it's a kinda stifled feeling, like I can never say exactly what I want. What's ended up happening is if someone is around me who is swearing, I slip into it all comfortable like, like a drawl. But if the people around me aren't, I don't, out of habit. And that makes me feel a bit...I don't know, conventional! /rant

But yeah, snake on a plate is good. crazydiamondsue likes "sack of monkeys".

*loves the devil, not really, but omg, Starbucks!*

Yay, writing!

And omg, hair, it's like the universal mixer. Even people with gorgeous hair have days where they hate their hair. It makes me want to hold hands with people and sing kumbaya, except for the feeling that my hair is secretly worse than everyone else's in the whole world's.

[43100.livejournal.com]

I only go to starbucks when i'm in barnes & nobles.

Also re: emo - melodramatic, for me, or when you're constantly playing a martyr/victim over the SMALLEST SHIT POSSIBLE and acting like it's HUGE and acting like you're wronged wronged wronged about fucking EVERYTHING when all you do is wrong everyone around you and act like a fucking PSYCHO

...Yes. I'm having issues with someone at the moment. >.<

Your hair scares me, man.

I have no answers to your questions, really, but I'm commenting anyway.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I started going to Starbucks in the first place because it was at my Barnes and Noble, too.

Awww! *pets you* I'm sorry people in your life are acting like everything's an emo-gency!

My hair scare me too!

And heh. I just wanted to talk to people, even if we have nothing to say. *curls up with you in front of fire*

*gossips*

Tea? One sugar or two? :o)

[my_daroga]

When I answered that "emo is punk," what I really meant was "emo is punk in the way that punk today is punk, which is to say, not at all, except in name."

I have pigtails! Whee! My hair is easy and short because I don't mind looking 12!

I had something else to say, but then I got distracted by your sartorial difficulties and the resulting potential for nude tkp.

Oh, wait. Didja read this? Or this?

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, true. My friend was trying to convince me these chef guests on Iron Chef were punk, and I was like dude, those guys are surfers! But punk today is a lot more emo than punk used to be.

Heh. Whether my hair is short or long I've always managed to look about a decade older than I am.

bahaha my sartorial difficulties. Nude TKP ain't that distracting, actually!

I was saving up your phantom fic to read...but I've never seen the original thing the second fic you link is based on. Won't I be confused? Or can it be read without seeing the source material?

[ravenwings-7.livejournal.com]

There are no shower facilities on Serenity. That would require way too much water to transport. So they all take sponge baths instead.

My hair is downright silly and will stay that way until this weekend at least. I have kind of a relaxed mohawk-type-thing going on. The catch is, it's been several weeks since it was trimmed, so the sides of my head have about 3/4"-1" of hair, meaning I have weird flat spots in some places and weird spiky spots in others. Which would be bad enough, but I've also got the stripe of 18" long hair down the middle, replete (I'm certain that's a word; I'm not certain I used it properly) with split ends. My hairbrush is afraid. I wore a bandanna all yesterday.
My only clothing issues of late have been constituted solely from boredom and ennui. That, and I recently discovered that after being sick for a while, my favorite pair of baggy pants are (is? The item is singular, but the word is plural...) now loose enough that there is considerable risk of them coming off by accident.
Woe. There truly isn't much worse than bad coffee. Except for maybe no coffee. Brr.

Did you know that the numerical price for a whatever-they-call-small coffee at Starbucks is the same no matter what country you're in? America, Canada, Australia, Britain. Same number, no matter the exchange rate. Which means coffee is kinda pricey in Britain, but kinda cheap in Canada, with USA somewhere in the middle (I don't know how the Australian dollar relates). Weird, innit?

I have several favorite quotes, some of which are quite amusing. Unfortunately, my mind tends to go completely blank when asked a direct question, so I can't remember them. Ooh! Wait! BUGS BUNNY: "Stop steamin' up my tail! Whaddaya trying to do, wrinkle it?"

One of my goals in life is to use "prestidigitation" in a sentence without it being gratuitous.

Lately I seem to have started writing in an English accent without meaning to.

And the meaning of life is 42. Didn't you know?

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Your use of "replete" was technically correct, though not very colloquial. "Pair of pants" is singular because "pair" is singular. But I have no idea what "prestidigitation" means, so I hope you do use it in a sentence some day! (well, I do know now because I just looked it up.)

It seems like a space ship would have some kind of water recycle system.

Ha! You have a mohawk! Cool! Yeah, among other things, the reason I would never have a mohawk is it sounds like a lot of upkeep. I just don't spend enough time on my hair to do anything elaborate with it.

I'm sorry about your baggy pants! All of mine are too tight because I keep gaining weight.

I didn't notice in the UK that Sbux price numbers were the same, but I believe it. Many things in the UK seem to have similar number prices to things in the US. Since the pound equals almost $2, everything costs almost twice as much. That was thing thing I disliked most about living there.

I'm the same way about quotes. Also, jokes. Also, clever words I'd like to inject into my vocabulary.

Also, in England, I started talking with a (very bad) English accent whenever I got tipsy. I can't imagine writing in one though!

And yes, I know the meaning of life. However, it is always beneficial to discuss, as 42 is such a broad and engaging subject.

[violaclaire.livejournal.com]

What are the shower facilities like on Serenity?

From the shooting script for the pilot: "She is sponging off -- the only kind of bathing you'll find on this ship." So, not much in the way of shower facilities.

And woe to the hair/clothing mishaps! Is the shirt beyond-repair ripped or can you take it to some alterations-type person?

My three things:
1. I found a hair salon advertised at naturallycurly.com with seven pages of positive reviews that was supposed to be the best curly hair place in Philadelphia. I went on Tuesday, and they charged me more than twice the advertised price and cut my hair (previously about a quarter of the way down my back) to my shoulders. It now gets frizzy easier than ever, and is refusing to hold the ringlets I spent months cultivating. I am still bitter.

2. Colleges are driving me insane! I have to choose between going to an okay place and graduating with no debt and without dipping into my parents' SRA, and going to a good place and looting the SRA, while still taking out loans. Grrr.

3. "pity poor flesh

and trees,poor stars and stones,but never this
fine specimen of hypermagical
ultraomnipotence. We doctors know

a hopeless cause if—listen:t here’sa hell
of a good universe next door;l et’s go”
-e.e. cummings, "1 x 1"

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From the shooting script for the pilot: "She is sponging off -- the only kind of bathing you'll find on this ship." So, not much in the way of shower facilities.

Hahahahah!!!!! Cool! I didn't know there was a real answer!

Is the shirt beyond-repair ripped or can you take it to some alterations-type person?

It just lost a button. And it's lost buttons before. It's a 35 year old shirt! Still, I get peeved whenever a new one goes missing.

1. Oh, bummer! *combs soothing fingers through your hair* How were cultivating ringlets, anyway? For a while, I could just put gel on my hair after I washed it, and twirl my finger through a clump at a time, and end up with these really loose, big ringlets...but then it stopped working.

2. I had the same dilemma when choosing schools. It probably won't be instructive to you, but...I chose Rice, the cheaper, more mediocre school, and I always regretted not going to Columbia, the uber expensive, flashy school.

3. You know, I used to hate e e cummings. Now I love him. I'm a ... slow learner. And thanks!

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What are the shower facilities like on Serenity?

I don't know, but I volunteer with any male member of the crew to find out (esp Jayne or Mal)

The watery coffee is a sure sign of a bad day. I would have given up and gone back to bed. Either that, or went to Starbucks for something. But oh, dear... if the watery coffee was from Starbucks, that would be just plain wrong!

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Heh. Someone else replied that the shooting script for the pilot actually explained about the showers! Crazy!

MMM. Mal showers.

I HAVE gotten watery coffee from Sbux! Isn't that awful? I always get Americanos, and Americanos are just espresso and water, and sometimes I think they skimp on the espresso and add extra water! But most times it's really good. But anyway, this was from my machine. It used to be such a good little machine (now, it DOES have a name...Aureliano) but now it has become sucky! I don't know why! But yeah, I didn't want to go to Sbux because I only go there to treat myself. It's so expensive, and also, it's so good that I would need to go there every day if I went there often!

[hannasus.livejournal.com]

What are the shower facilities like on Serenity?

I am totally late for this party, but in case you still care... In "Objects in Space" Shepherd Book is shown coming out of what is presumably a bathroom in the common area outside the infirmary. It might contain a shower... or it might not. The diagram of the ship in the Serenity RPG (which is not technically canon but can be handy anyway) does show a shower in there. The crew presumably have sinks and toilets in each of their rooms, based on the shot we got of Mal's bunk in the pilot.

Personally, I like to think that room by the passenger dorms has a shower. I shudder to think of all those folks cooped up on that ship for weeks with nothing but spit baths. And I can't really imagine that Inara could do business that way.

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I'm incredibly dull right now--tired and overwhelmed but you entertain me.

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"'Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world... but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen.'"
-Colin, "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Pg. 248