They's no beatitude for the lonesome.

No one is trying to kill you, sweetheart; now eat your dessert like a good boy.

2009-11-01T09:12:27Z

I told Becca, like, 98324234 years ago that I'd make some Catch-22 movie icons, so... here you (and anyone else who wants them) go. Actually, these are kind of a stopgap thing until I get a chance to make the shippy ones. NEEDZ MOAR NEKKID YOSSARIAN.

1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12

Can I just say...

2009-10-26T01:03:40Z

THAT THE CHAD MITCHELL TRIO CONCERT WAS ORGASMIC?!

Okay, first note: their voices are still amazing. Chad's is a wee bit lower and Joe's a smidge more husky, but I'll be damned if they don't continue to rock my socks off. They harmonize bee-autifully, and they're shockingly sprightly for being--*counts on fingers*--almost seventy.

Secondly, they are hilarious. They were doing the little skit before performing "The Great Historical Bum," and it went a little something like this.

Joe: I'm from Lebanon, Pennsylvania, which is nestled in the beautiful Lebanon Valley.
Mike: Isn't that near a town called Intercourse?
Joe: Yes, it's part of a historical triangle of cities: Intercourse is situated right between Blue Balls and Climax.

...did I mention Joe's a priest? XD

They also showed a few clips from their appearances on variety shows, and... Mike and Joe were a lot prettier than I thought. Well, to me at least. And Chad was flipping adorable, as usual.

Near the end, they spoke out against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, performing Business Goes On As Usual and Johnnie. Some of the concert-goers (who, predictably, were all seniors) were clutching their pearls about it, but I thought it was very poignant. Finally, at the end, everyone joined in on "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream." I almost cried.

Oh, and Chad and Joe are still gay for each other. Don't think I didn't see you two put your arms around each other when you walked off stage.

This is probably the most disjointed post I've ever made, but... WHAAAARBLARGL CHAD MITCHELL TRIO. Sadly, no pictures, as I am but a poor, digital camera-less child from the sticks.

So... yeah. *keels over*

deify73 @ 2009-10-14T19:28:00

2009-10-15T02:30:25Z

I had the following conversation with my teacher when I walked into a German class she was lecturing:

Me: Mrs. B, I'm here with a message.
Teacher: Auf Deutsch, bitte.
Me: Uhh... Frau S. braucht Ihre help, weil she hat die Schedule für die Classes upgejackt. If Sie don't help her, she wird her students mit einem Stapler murder... en.
Teacher: ...come again?

Which is a perfectly understandable statement if you speak Deutschlish.

They asked for more and he replied, "Why, sure!"

2009-10-12T00:04:15Z

You guys. You guys. Two days until the Gordon Lightfoot concert. You know what that means...

Amy's Unsolicited Gordon Lightfoot Songspam Super-'Splosion 2009!

1) Early Morning Rain
2) If You Could Read My Mind
3) The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
4) Sundown
5) The Pony Man

Expect an even more flail-y fanfare when the Chad Mitchell Trio concert rolls around. You have been warned.

I cannot even convey to you how much fun this was.

2009-09-26T00:18:49Z

Just so you know, I did this for the sole purpose of blathering and lulzing about non-existent fandoms for media no one's ever heard of. Beware.

01. Comment to this entry saying 'ICONS!' and I will pick 6 of your icons.
02. Make an entry in your own journal and talk about the icons I picked.

nerdork picked these icons:

I AM SO DAMN PROUD OF THIS ICON YOU HAVE NO IDEA. Okay, here we have Oz's resident Russian Jew and all-around badass Nikolai Stanislofsky. Notice how, in spite of his fabulously sparkly and obviously shoop'd kippah, he still looks like he could slit your throat at a moment's notice. Prekrasno. :D

This one is from a beautifully-filmed, totally incomprehensible Russian art house film called Father and Son, which I lovingly refer to as The Gay Russian Incest Porno. Because... dude. (NSFW) Aaaanyhoodle, there's so much homoerotic subtext that I'm utterly convinced it's just a big gay love dodecahedron, and these two are one of its many sides.

Speaking of gay Russians—damn, are you seeing a pattern here?—this is from a Soviet-era miniseries called The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed. The unftastic Volodya Sharapov is helping Gleb Zheglov into bed because he's too tired to even speak anymore, let alone get ready for sleepytime. Which also means he wouldn't have much energy to fight off, say, a drive-by blowjob. Just a thought.

Another Oz icon. I remember seeing that expression on Chris' face and going, "Wow. That is the most flawless embodiment of slightly amused exasperation I've ever seen." So, yeah.

And yet more Russians. If you haven't read Crime and Punishment, go do it now. It's the bomb diggity. Anyway, the icon refers to a scene in which the main character, Raskolnikov, brutally bludgeons an old pawnbroker and her half-sister to death with an axe. (Don't worry, that's not a spoiler.) Always a good way to handle things, if you ask me. Of course, now that I think about it, Raskolnikov would probably be more likely to respond to a situation by getting sick and moping around all day, but that's no fun, is it?

Rita Moreno's boobs. And what magnificent boobs they are.

A choice selection from my school-assigned reading.

2009-09-16T02:08:48Z

"There was nothing idiosyncratic about him unless you looked at him from behind; I did as he turned to close the door after him. The flaps of his gabardine jacket parted slightly over his healthy rump, and it is that, without any sense of derision at all, that I recall as Brinker's salient characterisitic, those healthy, determined, not over-exaggerated but definite and substantial buttocks." -- A Separate Peace, John Knowles

As if I needed more proof that reality has a homoerotic bias.

deify73 @ 2009-09-11T00:53:00

2009-09-11T07:56:00Z

I NOW HAVE ALL SIX SEASONS OF OZ, YESSSSSSSSSSSSS.

You seriously cannot possibly comprehend how much I love this show. I think I should make some shiny new icons to celebrate.

deify73 @ 2009-09-08T16:51:00

2009-09-08T23:53:10Z

Goddamnit, I was promised mass socialist brainwashing of America's youth. I feel cheated.

deify73 @ 2009-09-06T23:14:00

2009-09-07T06:22:20Z

I now officially have enough money to buy a ticket to the Chad Mitchell Trio concert, AND a ticket to the Gordon Lightfoot concert that I just found out about, AAAAAND a sooper-dooper special gift for Becca which, sadly, has nothing to do with said concerts. But I think she'll pretty much die anyway. :D

Tomorrow, there will be much check-cashing and intertubes-shopping.

(Random tangent that has nothing to do with anything ever: "The Galway Girl" in Gaelic. I came.)

I think I'm going to cry.

2009-09-07T03:43:09Z

In order to make room for my illicit download of all six seasons (!!!) of Oz, I had to delete three movies from my hard drive. Fare thee well, Midnight Cowboy, Rebel Without a Cause, and Ballad of a Soldier. We shall see each other in another life.

I did not, however, delete an obscure Russian art house film that doubles as softcore gay incest porn. For obvious reasons.

deify73 @ 2009-09-01T05:04:00

2009-09-01T12:09:38Z

My dad's out of the hospital. He'll need to take heart meds from now on, but other than that he's doing great. :D

Also, school starts tomorrow. Senior year, whut.

Also also, the Chad Mitchell Trio concert is fast approaching. I wonder how many tickets I should buy...

And everything looks worse in black and white...

2009-08-28T08:26:31Z

Haha. Hahaha. AHAHAHAHAHAHA.

I just found an old Harry Potter fanfic I wrote when I was eleven. Sweet Jesus, I was such a dork. Naturally, it was a blatant Mary Sue, but the writing actually wasn't half bad. In fact, I'd say it was pretty damn good for a seventh-grader.

And you twats will never, ever see it.

Now I see what Kayli was talking about.

2009-08-26T07:27:19Z

It figures I would jump on the OZ bandwagon several years too late. Now I'm totally obsessed with the show and it's like no one even remembers it.

AND WHY ISN'T THERE ANY O'REILY/STANISLOFSKY HATE!SEX SLASH ASGSKDGSKFDGSDF

Warning: Spontaneous Combustion is Inevitable

2009-08-26T04:07:02Z

Ten Question Picspam Meme, woot! riabouchinska gave me Sal Mineo.

1. Choose a picture of the funniest face on your person.

Escape from Planet of the Apes, wut.

2. Choose a picture of your person eating.

Mmm, sammich.

3. Choose a picture of your person with an animal.

I think Becca will appreciate this.

4. Choose a picture of your person with a member of the opposite sex.

Man!lashes. Woman!bewbs. Unfunf.

5. Choose a picture where you would have sex with this person.

Just one? Looool.

6. Choose a picture of your favorite outfit on this person.

I am so shallow.

7. Choose a picture of your person smiling.

Excuse me while I defibrillate myself.

8. Choose a picture of your person half/naked.

It's art, you guys. Art.

9. Choose a picture of your person doing an outdoor activity.

HURRRRRF DERP DERP.

10. Choose your favorite picture of this person.

I cannot cope with this man srsly u guyz.

I am amused.

2009-08-21T04:32:16Z

It's really amazing how much better my dad is doing. They're weaning him off medication, so he should be moving out of the ICU in the next few days. He's going to make a full recovery. :)

The best part is, though, they've got him on some gnarly new medication that's making him hallucinate like you wouldn't believe. During our last visit, he informed us of the following:

- UFOs were found near our house
- he was abducted and beaten by aliens
- he's going to sell the story and become a millionaire
- the whole family from Roseanne came to visit him, as did Obama
- something about turnips

I lmao'd.

Tagged by fangirl1981

2009-08-16T02:41:45Z

Meme time.

1. Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favourite lyric to your current favourite song.
2. I respond by asking you five questions so i can get to know you better.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanations and offer to ask someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions.

Where would you place yourself on the Kinsey Scale?

I think "predominately heterosexual but more than incidentally homosexual" is the absolute best way to describe my sexuality at this point in my life. So, 2.

What is the best book you ever read?

Midnight Cowboy. I don't know if you've seen the movie, but as brilliant as it is, the woefully underrated book is even better. Basically, it's about a naive guy from the West who goes to New York to become a prostitute to wealthy women and ends up living in squalor with a scruffy pickpocket. The characterization is to die for. Looooove.

What is your favorite movie?

Rebel Without a Cause, the film that made James Dean a legend. Any movie that still rings true (especially with teenage audiences) fifty years later is definitely a winner. And the sheer abundance of gay between Jim and Plato is... unf.

If you could visit anyplace in the whole world, where would it be?

Russia, for sure. I've had an inexplicable girl boner for all things Slavic since seventh grade.

If you could only listen to the music of one artist for the rest of your life, who would you pick?

Eish. That's a hard question, because my musical taste runs in cycles of utter infatuation with one artist/band. At the moment, I'm in love with a Russian band called Lyube, so that'd have to be my pick.

deify73 @ 2009-08-07T22:19:00

2009-08-08T05:20:32Z

We took my dad to the emergency room yesterday morning because he was having severe stomach pains; it was diagnosed as pancreatitis. Now it turns out he's having heart trouble and is going to stay in the cardiac ICU while he's being medicated.

Thank God I'm disgustingly optimistic.

CAPSLOCK RANT IS CAPSLOCK-Y.

2009-07-27T22:44:53Z

Goddamnit. I wanted to be close to the Chad Mitchell Trio.

I wanted to be so close I could count their liver spots. I wanted to be close enough to knock off one of their toupees. I wanted to be so close I'd be doused with the immense amounts of sweat they'd inevitably exude just trying not to lapse into a coma. I wanted to be in the front fucking row for those sexagenarian bastards. But no.

Apparently, $88.50 only buys you two seats in the middle of the theater.

OKAY, REALLY? THERE IS NO FUCKING WAY TWELVE ROWS OF SEATS ARE ALREADY FILLED. IT'S THE CHAD MITCHELL TRIO. NO ONE--EXCEPT ME AND BECCA AND MAYBE A COUPLE OF BLUE-HAIRED GRANNIES WHO LONG FOR A TIME WHEN SINGERS DIDN'T DARE SHOW THEIR ANKLES FOR FEAR OF A SEX SCANDAL--GIVES A SHIT. NO ONE. BESIDES, SPOKANE ISN'T EVEN A BIG CITY. THERE CAN'T BE THAT MANY OLD GEEZERS AROUND HERE. SO WHAT THE FUCK? IS THERE SOMETHING I'M MISSING? IT'S A FOLK GROUP. FROM THE SIXTIES. WHO, FOR ALL THEIR TALENT AND HUMOR AND HARMONIES AND ALL-AROUND AWESOMENESS, NEVER HAD A SINGLE HIT. I WOULD LIKE AN EXPLANATION AS TO WHY, THREE MONTHS IN ADVANCE, HALF OF THE SEATS ARE UNAVAILABLE. I WANT--NAY, DEMAND--TO BE FRONT ROW CENTER SO THAT IF, BY SOME BENEVOLENT COSMIC INTERVENTION, THEY
DECIDED TO PICK SOMEONE TO COME ONSTAGE AND DANCE LIKE A SPASTIC CHICKEN OR SOME EQUALLY SADISTIC
SHIT BECAUSE GOD KNOWS IF THEY TOLD ME TO I'D DO IT WITHOUT BLINKING, I WOULD BE THAT PERSON.

Nevertheless, I'm still going. And I am literally going to explode from excitement. Like, they'll be scraping my duodenum off the wall. It's gonna be awesome.

In other news: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.

2009-07-26T22:14:53Z

Oh, God, guys. I'm going through another Rebel Without a Cause phase. Brace for impact.

THE GAY. OH LORD. THE BLATANT HOMOSEXUALITY. IT IS RIGHT THERE.

THIS IS IMPORTANT.

2009-07-24T07:14:03Z

View Poll: #1434302

Blah blah literature.

2009-07-19T07:41:21Z

I just finished re-reading Crime and Punishment. Some thoughts:

1) Dostoyevsky is my boyfriend. My dead Russian boyfriend.
2) Svidrigailov, WTF? "I'm going to blackmail you and rape your sister! Muahaha! Nope, just kidding. ::blows brains out::"
3) Who in the hell gets run over by a horse-drawn carriage?
4) "Prussian hen's leg in a crinoline" has to be my new favorite insult. Ever.

Musics.

2009-07-03T03:01:50Z

I've come to realize that I have a desperate need to share my music with people who don't give a damn. Thus:

1. Reply to this post requesting a letter, and I will assign you one.
2. List (and upload, if you want) 5 songs that start with that particular letter.
3. Post them in your journal with these instructions.

fangirl1981 gave me a G:

1) "Gimn Rossii," Lyube (A rockified version of the Russian national anthem. Yes, it's as awesome as it sounds.)
2) "Green Grow the Rashes," Dougie MacLean
3) "Graceland," Paul Simon
4) "The Great Historical Bum," The Chad Mitchell Trio
5) "Gypsy Music," Luka Bloom

The songs are here, if anyone's interested. They're all in one folder because I can't be bothered to do it any other way. So nyeh.

Spoiler Alert!

2009-06-28T23:00:22Z

OH JESUS CHRIST NO.

Billy Mays, star pitchman, dead at 50

He was like a hero in my household. There no words. T_T

MY LANGUAGE IS CHANGING AND I DON'T LIKE IT.

2009-06-27T06:23:50Z

Please tell me I'm not the only person who uses the subjunctive.

I get that languages constantly evolve, but "I were" just sounds so cool. As if you're saying it wrong, but it's actually correct. It's like getting a grammatical punch in the face. "*BAM!* Oh, shit! Was that the fucking subjunctive mood? WHERE IN THE HELL DID THAT COME FROM, SON?"

...I'm way too invested in this.

Oh, Scottish folk music.

2009-06-23T02:22:50Z

Have you ever listened to a song and thought, "That's such a beautiful melody!" only to realize later that the lyrics are totally vile? Like, it's about a woman who was raped and impregnated by a soldier, and when he comes back he tells her she shouldn't be stacking hay in her condition, and she's all, "Bitch, you raped me and said you were going to kill me!" and he's all, "I'm not gonna kill you; I'm gonna marry you! :D :D :D"?

...hypothetically speaking of course.