Mirah and Milla, oh my!

[trinityofone]

Today I:

1. Went to my 9 a.m. tutorial on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and almost strangled a guy who first went off on a LENGTHY tangent about some nonsensical "post-colonial" reading of the text ("See, the narrative doesn't exist until Alice arrives--she imposes it on the citizens of Wonderland!" Right. That imperialist, seven-year-old bitch) and then told me it was "utterly pointless" for me to suggest that possibly, this was not what Carroll had intended. Sometimes I really hate English majors.

2. Wrote a draft of my history paper. It makes no sense and it's four words short (after dinner: add adjectives!) but do I care? No. My inner Hermione is rather peeved at me, but honestly, I could not give a shit. *loves the delightful doneness of being done*

I'm utterly exhausted now--I feel like a deflated balloon--but in the interest of being mildly celebratory, here is some music for y'all:

I promised smittywing more Mirah.

Sweepstakes Prize (That's the one I already gave you, right?)
Cold, Cold Water (lcsbanana, this song totally reminds me of that Stephen Crane poem you gave me for a prompt. Must write that fic!)
Special Death (This one's totally my Teyla song.)
Advisory Committee
Dreamboat
Don't Die in Me
100 Knives
Engine Heart (And these last three are all major McKay/Sheppard songs to me.)

custardpringle said, "Milla Jovovich does music?" Yes, she does! Here are three of my favorites.

It's Your Life | 2nd link
Don't Fade Away
Satellite of Love

(She wrote the first two herself; the third is, obviously, a Velvet Underground cover.)

Finally, here is something cool I got off audiography today. I think it's an interesting Atlantis or John-and-Atlantis song.

Big Science - Laurie Anderson

Enjoy! And, um, write more porn! I'm going to go pass out now...

Wait, except first: GIP! Extremely enthusiastic GIP! siriaeve is the best friend ever, and you should all shower her with porn and chocolate. *nods*

ETA: My favorite RL story of the day.

Comments

[casspeach.livejournal.com]

Hee, I love those wacky 'readings' of texts. They make me feel like fanfic writers do when they have clearly been watching some completely different show to me in which the characters all have the same names but are otherwise nothing like the ones in the show I watch. My favourite so far was a reading of Great Expectations in which, it was argued, every time Dickens mentioned hands, that meant Pip was shagging someone. He got about a fair bit, apparently, according to this reading.

I am trying to get to the 'hooray, at least it;s done even if it's shite' stage with an essay myself just now, so a) feel my seething jealousy and b) yeah, I should really get off lj, shouldn;t I and write the damn thing?

The author is dead! Long live the author!

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Heh. Do you think in 100 years, people'll be reading our fanfic and applying bizarre interpretations to it? "Clearly, all this gay porn is really a metaphor!"

The author is dead! Long live the author!

I really ought to graffiti that all over the English Department; it is their unofficial motto, after all.

Good luck with your essay!