Pottering about

[chanaleh]

Meme ganked from dragonfriek. Okay, some of this (bolded) is dead-on, some (italicized) questionable. But lots of these I basically already knew were Libra characteristics anyway.

Libra - Your Love Profile

Your positive traits:

You are open minded enough to date outside your typical "type"... successfully!

You are diplomatic - and likely to end a fight instead of dragging things out.

You are easily loyal and faithful, but only for the right person.


Your negative traits:

You're a bit gullible, and partners take advantage of you. You still may not know it.

You find it difficult to decide where to go to dinner, what movie to watch, who to date...

You have to be in a relationship, or else you just don't feel like yourself.


Your ideal partner:

A smooth talker who enjoys socializing as much as you do.

Someone classy and cultured who knows which wine to order with dinner.

Is beautiful to you - although not necessarily attractive in the traditional sense.


Your dating style:

Romantic. If your date comes bearing flowers, wine, and poetry... well, your heart soars.


Your seduction style:

Giving. Your lover's pleasure is as important as your own.

Soft and sensual - you don't like anything to be rough.

Extravagant ... your fantasy involves staying at a five star hotel with your love.


Tips for the future:

Don't be so quick to compromise in relationships - and you'll get taken advantage of less.

Try being single for a while. Seems impossible, but you'll learn so much about yourself from doing so.

Make some decisions about your romantic life, right now. You'll be happy that you did.


Best color to attract mate: Green


Best day for a date: Wednesday


Get your free love profile at Blogthings.


Dresden Dolls at the Paradise tonight, 9pm. Although if I were smart, I would stay home, do some memorizing (of lines and lines), and get some rest. But when have I ever been smart that way? I don't especially have the money either, but, y'know.

The editorial staff of the excellent Harry Potter Lexicon are on LJ as hp_lexicon and hp_lexicon_jr. Hee. They seem to have posted for a while about Lexicon site updates, but given up of late. Still.
Also on LJ is harrypotters, for fans of Harry and the Potters, sort of a "tribute band" -- who, as it happens, are Boston-based and will be playing at the Middle East on August 3. Silliness abounds. I wasn't really impressed with the band's sound, but the concept is cute.

In other meta-Potter topics, I got this book the other day. People who wanna borrow it after I'm done are welcome to. Its style is a bit annoying, but on the whole it's interesting and at least insightful. It does seem to present fairly well-researched close reading. And she's actually pointed out a couple of things I managed to miss so far. I picked up the book because I'd already been formulating some thoughts on what *I* think are the meaningful mystery elements; I plan to natter on about those myself at some point. Maybe in August.

Off now to deliver buttons to scholargipsy. :-)
Shabbat shalom, y'all.

Comments

[navrins]

Make some decisions about your romantic life, right now. You'll be happy that you did.

I could have told you that. In fact, I probably have.

[infinitehotel.livejournal.com]

Hey, off of which Wainright album is that? It's a great cover of the song and Rhapsody doesn't have it listed...

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Hee! Believe it or not, it's on -- the Shrek soundtrack. (Yes, apparently it IS used in the movie. Just the last verse, I think.)

[infinitehotel.livejournal.com]

I knew that was one avenue. (They actually use almost all of it in the movie during the second act cut-sequence of what everyone is doing on the eve of Fiona's wedding.) I like it even better than the Leonard Cohen version so I've been hoping there was a Wainwright album that had it, saving the task of daring some tattooed, be-pierced Newbury Comics clerk to scoff when I slapped the Shrek soundtrack down on the counter. Ah well. :)

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Having now heard the LC original plus SEVERAL other covers (at a listening session for Honorable Menschen last Sunday), I can say that the covers (almost all of which resemble each other WAY more than they do the original) do very nice things with it, bringing more out of the song in some ways than ol' Leonard himself did.

Interestingly, though, the *lyrics* are also different in the covers: they have the same two opening verses as the original, but then three completely different ones. I haven't yet determined the provenance of the new verses since the whole thing is only ever credited to Leonard Cohen. Very, very interesting.

[infinitehotel.livejournal.com]

This gets convoluted. It seems Wainright on the soundtrack is covering John Cale's lyrics, but it's actually Cale that sings in the movie. Why they replaced Cale for Wainright on the CD is probably an interesting piece of Hollywood contract prosopography.

Aside from Wainright and Cale, who else did you hear? I have a weird fondness for covers and tribute albums. :)

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Huh. That is funny.

We heard Jeff Buckley's, and another by an unidentified woman whom I'm guessing might have been Avril Lavigne.

The other one I have but didn't bring in (though by popular demand I will next week!) is Bono's cover off the Tower of Song tribute album. If you haven't heard this, it's much more techno/spoken word, completely opposite from the more melodic treatments in all the other covers. I actually heard this *before* I had heard the original, and couldn't fathom where that approach had possibly come from. But once I heard the LC version, suddenly it made more sense: the half-spoken quality, the background choir on the chorus, even the beat. Pretty amazing.

[dphilli1.livejournal.com]

can you make bigger buttons? _much_ bigger buttons? 1ft diameter buttons?

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Um... sadly, no?

(Though there must be a way, surely... maybe they're available somewhere else for special order?)

Does this mean you got yours?

[dphilli1.livejournal.com]

yes, got the button. but I need a bigger one. that way I can be subtle and/or not-so-subtle when I ride the T.

[coraline]

hopefully see you at the show!