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

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

The frightening thing is, I believe that is an almost letter-perfect description of what most of the people in the department really think. Oy.

join my club?

Are there dues? More importantly, is there a secret handshake?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Erm. You must have met cathexys?
*g* or rather not *g* since on Monday this bell tolls for me and I'm ill equipped to handle it more seriously than here.


Anyway. Dues, great idea. Gimme money.
I'll work on the handshake. Currently, my preferred name is "anti-p-m" or "pre-modernists", although I'm working from my base at deadpoetsslash coz I'm lazy at the moment.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

I do not know cathexys, and as usual I have no idea what is going on. *is confused by life* Illuminate me?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Hm, no, I was being very obscure, and I really want to spare you the boring details. And the unattractive whining.


But lying in bed just now I thought that the proper answer to your fellow student's argument would be that in the text, the mad hatter and the red queen and all the other characters obviously had a life before Alice came, so even if you take into consideration the very human idea/fear that things exist only in conjunction to us (tree in woods nobody hears) the text clearly shows them to be independent from the intruder, who is mostly clueless. (So I got up and wrote it down).

And that little paragraph should give you a clue that academia has me in it's claws and sadly is not satisfied with such meagre offerings as I'm depositing in LJ.

Ignore the jokes about you paying your fee to join my club as well. It's collected quarterly.