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trinityofoneThank your lucky stars, my friends. 'Cause I was going to write a long, bitchy post about how all the people in my Victorianism class are idiots, but you have been saved--saved!--by the amazing and talented ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
slodwick, who made my afternoon and possibly my life by creating a gorgeous cover for my story Something Wicked.
Really, it's just exactly how I pictured it, likeslodwick somehow got inside my head. (Yeeeaaaah, it's kind of messy in there--sorry about that.) Go tell her how fabulous it is!
Ahh. *happy sigh* I'm having wonderful delusions of being a published author now.
As for the rest of my day, basically I endured the aforementioned tutorial from hell and--okay, I can't help myself, I have to give you a sample, because my blood is still boiling. We read Dracula, which is a tough read in a post-Buffy world; all the suspense is based on not knowing what's going on, but anyone who hasn't been living under a rock knows that the Count vants to suck your blood, so reading it is basically 400 pages of going, "Hello, guys? He's a vampire," before yawning your way through the unspeakably dull climax in which the big scary Count is killed in his sleep. All right, fine. Just 'cause the book is boring doesn't mean the discussion has to be--we could have talked about lots of interesting things, broken down precisely why the narrative structure fails, and mocked Jonathan Harker for being a wuss who was once portrayed by Keanu Reeves. BUT NO. Instead there had to be 45 million variations on this conversation:
Student: Um, when Dracula bites people, I think it might be, you know, kind of sexual?
Tutor: Huh, I hadn't thought of that!
trinityofone: *cries*
So instead I made a music video in my head. And damn, I wish I were a vidder, because this is, like, the most cracktastically awesome idea ever. Ahem. Get this:
Genius of Love to clips from 'Aurora.'
I mean, just listen to it! And check out these lyrics:
GENIUS OF LOVE--TOM TOM CLUB
What you gonna do when you get out of jail?
I’m gonna have some fun!
What do you consider fun?
Fun, natural fun!
[Am I the only one already cracking up? I mean, just think about John. In prison. In that outfit.]
I’m in heaven
With my boyfriend, my laughing boyfriend
[Clips from 'Hide & Seek,' hells yes.]
There’s no beginning and there is no end
Time isn’t present in that dimension
He’ll take my arm
When we’re walkin’, rolling and rocking
It’s one time I’m glad I’m not a man
[Because Shep is such a girl. *g*]
Feels like I’m dreaming, but I’m not sleeping
I’m in heaven
With the maven of funk mutation
Clinton’s musicians such as Bootsy Collins
[Okay, I have no idea what this means, and I DON'T CARE.]
Raise expectations to a new intention
No one can sing
Quite like Smokey, Smokey Robinson
Wailin’ and shakin’ to Bob Marley
[OMG RONON!]
Reggae’s expanding with Sly and Robbie
All the weekend
Boyfriend was missing
I surely miss him
The way he’d hold me in his warm arms
We went insane when we took cocaine.
[*coughenzymecough*]
Stepping in a rhythm to a kurtis blow
Who needs to think when your feet just go
With a hiditihi and a hipitiho
Who needs to think when your feet just go ...
Who needs to think when your feet just go ...
[A perfect excuse for Shep running, and/or being a dork! Not that we need an excuse for that.]
James Brown, James Brown
James Brown, James Brown
If you see him
Please remind him, unhappy boyfriend
Well he’s the genius of love
He’s got a greater depth of feeling
Well he’s the genius of love
He’s so deep.
[HEE.]
Yes, the crack I am on IS very good, thank you for asking.
*Seneca. Because I am pretentious as well as crazy. Whee!
slodwick, who made my afternoon and possibly my life by creating a gorgeous cover for my story Something Wicked.Really, it's just exactly how I pictured it, like
slodwick somehow got inside my head. (Yeeeaaaah, it's kind of messy in there--sorry about that.) Go tell her how fabulous it is!Ahh. *happy sigh* I'm having wonderful delusions of being a published author now.
As for the rest of my day, basically I endured the aforementioned tutorial from hell and--okay, I can't help myself, I have to give you a sample, because my blood is still boiling. We read Dracula, which is a tough read in a post-Buffy world; all the suspense is based on not knowing what's going on, but anyone who hasn't been living under a rock knows that the Count vants to suck your blood, so reading it is basically 400 pages of going, "Hello, guys? He's a vampire," before yawning your way through the unspeakably dull climax in which the big scary Count is killed in his sleep. All right, fine. Just 'cause the book is boring doesn't mean the discussion has to be--we could have talked about lots of interesting things, broken down precisely why the narrative structure fails, and mocked Jonathan Harker for being a wuss who was once portrayed by Keanu Reeves. BUT NO. Instead there had to be 45 million variations on this conversation:
Student: Um, when Dracula bites people, I think it might be, you know, kind of sexual?
Tutor: Huh, I hadn't thought of that!
trinityofone: *cries*So instead I made a music video in my head. And damn, I wish I were a vidder, because this is, like, the most cracktastically awesome idea ever. Ahem. Get this:
Genius of Love to clips from 'Aurora.'
I mean, just listen to it! And check out these lyrics:
GENIUS OF LOVE--TOM TOM CLUB
What you gonna do when you get out of jail?
I’m gonna have some fun!
What do you consider fun?
Fun, natural fun!
[Am I the only one already cracking up? I mean, just think about John. In prison. In that outfit.]
I’m in heaven
With my boyfriend, my laughing boyfriend
[Clips from 'Hide & Seek,' hells yes.]
There’s no beginning and there is no end
Time isn’t present in that dimension
He’ll take my arm
When we’re walkin’, rolling and rocking
It’s one time I’m glad I’m not a man
[Because Shep is such a girl. *g*]
Feels like I’m dreaming, but I’m not sleeping
I’m in heaven
With the maven of funk mutation
Clinton’s musicians such as Bootsy Collins
[Okay, I have no idea what this means, and I DON'T CARE.]
Raise expectations to a new intention
No one can sing
Quite like Smokey, Smokey Robinson
Wailin’ and shakin’ to Bob Marley
[OMG RONON!]
Reggae’s expanding with Sly and Robbie
All the weekend
Boyfriend was missing
I surely miss him
The way he’d hold me in his warm arms
We went insane when we took cocaine.
[*coughenzymecough*]
Stepping in a rhythm to a kurtis blow
Who needs to think when your feet just go
With a hiditihi and a hipitiho
Who needs to think when your feet just go ...
Who needs to think when your feet just go ...
[A perfect excuse for Shep running, and/or being a dork! Not that we need an excuse for that.]
James Brown, James Brown
James Brown, James Brown
If you see him
Please remind him, unhappy boyfriend
Well he’s the genius of love
He’s got a greater depth of feeling
Well he’s the genius of love
He’s so deep.
[HEE.]
Yes, the crack I am on IS very good, thank you for asking.
*Seneca. Because I am pretentious as well as crazy. Whee!
(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-25 10:01 pm (UTC)The cover is incredible. It just fits so great with the story (which is still haunting me in the best way possible, btw).
Student: Um, when Dracula bites people, I think it might be, you know, kind of sexual?
Tutor: Huh, I hadn't thought of that!
Crack = good. I really wished I could vid. Really. Also, because of this
I’m in heaven/With my boyfriend, my laughing boyfriend/There’s no beginning and there is no end I'm not stuck with Mariah Carey's 'Fantasy' in my head. Now we know where she 'borrowed' these lines from :|
(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-25 10:29 pm (UTC)*knows a lot of Classics geeks*
*also, loves her Bartlett's*
The cover is incredible. It just fits so great with the story (which is still haunting me in the best way possible, btw).
Oh, thank you! I'm so glad. (In a 'yay, lasting imagery,' not an 'oh boy, I'm giving everyone nightmares' kind of way. Well, maybe a little in a 'heh, nightmares' way. *eg*)
I'm not stuck with Mariah Carey's 'Fantasy' in my head. Now we know where she 'borrowed' these lines from :|
Really? Verbatim? I know next to nothing about Mariah Carey--enough to get Glitter jokes, and not an ounce more. ;-)
(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-25 10:48 pm (UTC)Well, maybe a little in a 'heh, nightmares' way. Heh. It's kinda your trademark. 'Little Things' haunted me for weeks.
Really? Verbatim?
Yep. Listen. It starts around 1:00. Also, somewhere near the end (3:50) they used What you gonna do when you get out of jail?/I’m gonna have some fun! as well. Or how original the hiphop scene really is...
(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-26 04:48 pm (UTC)*grins evily* *then own brain exacts revenge by giving self horrific zombie nightmare*
Payback's a...yeah. ;-)
Or how original the hiphop scene really is...
Yeah, that's some...sample. Sheesh.
I can't believe you got me to listen to Mariah Carey. =P
(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-26 04:52 pm (UTC)Eep, sorry =) Would you believe me if I told you this is some of her better stuff (and this particular song is from 1995)? It only goes downhill from here. :S
(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-26 05:05 pm (UTC)Oh, it's a world of sad lightly flavored with indignity!
*has small existential crisis*
*okay, better now*
(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-26 05:12 pm (UTC)o_O Oh, God. Yes, this is definitely enough to enduce an existential crisis.
And I can't believe you hadn't heard any of her stuff before. Sorry for ruining your perfect music world. =))
(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-26 05:22 pm (UTC)I live in a cave. Or I don't have a radio. One of those. ;-)
Sorry for ruining your perfect music world.
Are you kidding me? Yesterday I listened to "The Bad Touch" by the Bloodhound Gang. Twice. *eg*