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[amand_r]

1. Still pissed about everything. Hrm.

2. Morning emails have revealed that partial pissiness is not unjustified. This is enlightening.

3. Was thinking of cleaning the house today. Sounds good. I am dismantling my dining room work station and relegating the computer to the recreational slot of "coffee table." Hopefully this will convince me that it is not as important as I have made it. I don't need a desk. I don't have a job. I need a dining room table.

4. I had big long post about hip-hop, but you people don't find the same things funny that I do, and so this is how the comments would unfold:

a) I get a bunch of tl;dr about music. This is the part where everyone talks about what they are currently listening to (Sidebar conversation about Lady GAGA, and possibly a funny joke about Bad Romance=Barrowmance).
b) I get yet more recommendations that I listen to some shit music that I hate, bonus points if their name ends in Wainwright, extra bonus if someone comes right after and wither bonds with the music suggester or says something like, "HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE X WAINWRIGHT/COSTELLO/HUMPERDINK?" when I fess up about not liking them. (Additional, I also hate Simon and Garfunkel--this was the source of several bitter arguments in my household.)
c) Someone will make fun of my music, even though I would never make fun of theirs (to their face), but they'll do it in a passive-aggressive way that indicates that they are "just joking! I joke because I love!" when in reality they really do hate my music and they can't just keep their fucking mouth shut about it, because they think everyone needs to hear their opinions on everything.
d) Someone will mention international rap or something. Bonus points for mentions of Daara J or MIA, the flavour of the moment.
d) There will also be a fight about rap objectifying women.
f) Then someone will talk about white people listening to rap.

Then there will be race!fail in my lj.

[insert bleaugh]

So no, I had a funny ass entry about how goddamn masterful, faily and funny this song was, but you all ruined it before it began.

Being pissy has somehow removed the filter from my frankness pipe. I am sure that we are all nice people in RL, but the internet turns us all into cliches, including me, the woman with PMS who posts irrationally one a month and everyone on her flist rolls their eyes and scrolls by, mumbling, "Someday I'll defriend that bitch." I know because I do it all the time.

Also, I cleaned up my flist. Nothing personal, just different reading habits and a few dead ljs.

Comments

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

I guess you wouldn't have liked my April Fool's Day post last year. when I turned my journal into a Simon and Garfunkel bandom kink site...

Just post your musical ruminations and turn comments off, frustrating those who would recommend things you hate! :D

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Nah. It's okay.

and I have long accepted that I am a Simon and Garfunkel minority, and I have come to like "Cecelia" a little bit. It's like when people find that I have never seen Top Gun, and go "OMG WHY HAVEN'T YOU SEEN TOP GUN? IT'S AN INSTITUTION, YOU HAVE TO SEE TOP GUN." but more vehement, like they think I just haven't heard the right S&G song or something.

It's amazing how many conversations in the world about personal preferences are just less offensive versions of "honey you're a lesbian because you haven't met the right man."

I'm just ruminating out loud here. Your April Fools blog sounds great!

[valancy-joy.livejournal.com]

*hands you pop tart*

I just downloaded awesome violinst to my iPod so who am I to talk? LOL.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I do like me some violin music.

What kind of pop tarts?

[cruentum.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever heard any Simon and Garfunkel

I like Blue Gillespie.

Ianto's in it.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

IANTO'S IN A PANTO.

[smirnoffmule.livejournal.com]

Oh come on. As any even slightly cool person knows, people are entirely defined by their musical preferences, and if they are bad then you are bad and you should feel bad. How could you possibly not want to hear my opinions on that?

I like music which makes me lol or is linguistically interesting. Often I suspect I have missed the point.

Also, I have never seen Top Gun.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

IT IS TRUE. I HAVE BEL BIV DEVOE'S POISON ON MY IPOD. I OBVIOUSLY NEED TO BE BURNT AT THE STAKE.

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

You know us so well.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I know a parody of us so well.

[mtgat]

*flounces and defriends you over your taste in music*

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

THIS WAS MY SECRET GOAL.

[adjovi.livejournal.com]

oh...sing it, sister. i have been feeling insecure in the music arena lately. you know what is funny? we all went to trivia night last night, and one of the categories was pictures of album covers. so, the boy is all into alt and indie rock and knows all of the covers except one--college dropout--which is the only one i did know. i dated a trinidadian hiphop dj for a couple of years, and so yeah. that be my groove, baby. for the record, i'm pretty sure boy mocks my music choices in his head, but i still make him listen to my whacked out mixes every time he gets in the car (eminem followed by journey followed by ccr followed by jay-z).

bummed i won't see ya this go round to the 'burgh! i'll prob be back sometime in march or early april for mom's bday.

i never eat poptarts and had one for breakfast today--strawberry. out of a vending machine.

(repost b/c somehow i underline-tagged the whole post)

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

omg i need me some trinidad hip-hop.


TL;DR: Have you ever hear Iam? He's a french rapper. There's something lolarious about french rap, and I think Crue sent me some welsh rap once, and I LOLED.

[madder-rose.livejournal.com]

Music!Wankers. As long as it's got a good baseline or percussion and makes you wanna boogey while cleaning the toilet, it's all good.

They can't take my Barrowman/Neil Diamond lovefest away from me! Or your hip to the hop away from you! *has pitchfork*

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

OMG NEIIIIIIIL!

[count-to-seven.livejournal.com]

There are some bands that I am genuinely afraid to admit out loud that I don't like for fear that Bono will drop from the ceiling and bash my face in.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

IS ONE OF THEM THE SUNDAYS?

[ophymirage.livejournal.com]

my entire iPod is filled with canadian/irish trad and jazz from 20's/30's/40's, so I am utterly unqualified to comment on modern music of any kind. Also, nobody should listen to my mixes. also, you kids get offa my lawn, with your haircuts and your morris dances.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

The Frug! don't forget the Frug. and Crumping.

[djin7.livejournal.com]

So no, I had a funny ass entry about how goddamn masterful, faily and funny this song was, but you all ruined it before it began.

That made me LOL and LOL.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

SERIOUSLY IT WAS COMEDY GOLD---IT WAS YOUNG MONEY'S "BED ROCK".

[sivatheminty.livejournal.com]

...bah....
I'm reminded of the time when someone "broke into" my rusty buick and stole my walkman (which I had attached to little speakers so I could listen to hawt tapes in my shitty car), and subsequently stole an awesome mix tape you sent me :(

I don't think you ever sent me hip hop though...I like hip hop...I wish I still had a walkman..again sadness :P

Also, I dated a boy who liked S & G...Barf

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

MIXED TAPES WERE AWESOME. Because you had to wait for the song to run through while you were recording it, you got a better flow on the mixed tape. Now it's just line up a bunch of songs in a list and hit burn, and you lise that organic feel. I used to make a list of songs, and then when I was making the tape, I'd think of other different songs that wuld go better, or I'd switch the order. And that was how you got good mixed tapes. It's not the same now.

[phaetonschariot.livejournal.com]

I think I'm the only person in the world who doesn't care what music other people like. IT'S NOT A BIG DEAL. OMG PEOPLE HAVE DIFFERENT OPINIONS I CAN'T HANDLE IT THE WORLD IS GOING TO ENDDDDDDDDD!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I think every person on this post would beg to differ with your opinion, snowflake.

[blue-fjords.livejournal.com]

So you don't want me to recommend any Rufus to you, or for Nick to say that he listens to it, too? Okay. Don't listen to "14th Street." I'm going to listen to it for you. You listen to something so I don't have to. Then we can both feel good about the sacrifices we have made for each other.

Priscilla is telling me to take a nap. So I'm going to do that, too.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

lol I KNEW IT. I KNEW SOMEONE WOULD BRING UP RUFUS!

LOL I like cigarettes and chocolate milk, or whatever that song is, but I just, he's nice, but I would never buy his stuff, or DL it, you know? I think we all just have preferences.

Go take a nap.

[planejane.livejournal.com]

LOL; I nearly added this to my memories instead of adding a comment. I spent 4 hours on a beta today when I should have been cleaning my house. HAHAHAHA! I'll run round in a minute with the swiffer duster, squirt bleach down the toilets and no one will notice.

I LOVE Simon & Garfunkel. I really, really do. I used to sing Kathy's song to my oldest baby like a lullaby. You don't need to know this. I have a varied taste; depends on my mood. I'm still kinda stuck in the 80's but there is some 21st century stuff on my ipod. I loved Abba when they weren't cool (I was 12) and I still do. You love what you love.

I cleaned up my Facebook flist and got hatemail! Too funny. I was upset for about an hour (actually maybe a day).

Moody is fine with me.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

OMG I HAVE A FRIEND WHO SWEARS ABBA'S WATERLOO IS THE BEST SONG TO CLEAN THE HOUSE TO.

OMG I have never got hatemail for cleaning the flist, but there is a first time for everything, fr srs. My mum gets it when she does her flist clip. They are like, "Y DID U DEFRIEND ME?" and she's like, "sigh, I'll friend you back, my bad." and in her head she's all, "BECAUSE U R CRAZYCAKES."

[planejane.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHA!

Also, I know all the words to almost every Taylor Swift song. Poor kel_reiley was subjected to me and the sprogs singing Our Song at the top of our voices in the car while we went to pick up Thai food. The things that woman will do for Pad Thai.

[planejane.livejournal.com]

I am having trouble hitting reply. :(

[huesiemama.livejournal.com]

I may harass folks on their musical tastes(hubby, I am looking at YOU!), but man, to each their own. If it makes you happy and gets you to shake yo groove thang, get down.

And now for something completely different: you need this for the next Snowpocalypse: http://www.greatwhitesnark.com/2010/02/18/snow-melting-fire-breathing-dragon-video

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

THAT DRAGON IS FECKING AWESOME.

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

...i like music discussion, even if i don't like the music (b/c i KNOW i don't like some of the stuff you like and MOST DEFINITELY you'd be like OMG WHAT IS THIS CRAZY SHIT SHE LISTENS TO?!Z!!!! ...i dont know how that Z got in there, but i'm not deleting it)

anyway, MAN I WISH I HAD MONEY TO GO TO MORE CONCERTS!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

The Z adds emphasis.

[sthayashi.livejournal.com]

Judging us already? I suppose we are predictable.

Course I'm disallowed from judging anyone anyways, because my musical knowledge comes largely from the radio spoon feeding it to me with a few exceptions that I won't list. I mean, I've never owned an iPod and I've learned over the years that I have little use for any music player (despite owning several through the years).

[blackbird-song.livejournal.com]

I am sorry if my post or anything I have written or said to you over the past few months offended you enough to defriend me. I shall miss you, probably more than I should, and am saddened by your decision, but will respect it and you, as I always have, even when we have disagreed.

I very much enjoyed meeting you at Hub 3, I apologize for being too scared to know how stand up to Martin, and I appreciate the support that you offered me on a particularly painful post of mine.

Thank you.

Catherine

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

This is what I meant when I said it wasn't personal. Lots of people got the axe, because I don't filter, and I felt like I just wasn't giving your posts the weight they deserved and you have been posting in other fandoms, so we really don't have anything to talk about.

You didn't offend me at all. That was why I said it wasn't personal.

[topgeargirl2.livejournal.com]

Music discussions are alright actually. I don't mind saying that I like Glenn Miller or that recently I got into Belle and Sebastian. They are an alternative group from Glasgow who have this sort of 60s sound.

Come to think of it most of my favourite bands are British.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Glenn Miller is nice. Yeah...:D

[curriejean.livejournal.com]

Likewise, nothing personal.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

LAWL. See you around, space cowboy.

[annemjw.livejournal.com]

Hey now, I found out the other day that a friend of mine hasn't seen The Wizard of Oz and I was perfectly polite about it.

I think I had a point with that. Maybe it was that I'm awesome? Let's go with that.

[brilliant-snark.livejournal.com]

I don't discuss music anymore. ;) People ask "what's on your iPod" and as soon as I do the "let's check...first few songs at random" and get Mozart followed by Pussycat Dolls followed by NIN followed by something from a musical followed by some random pirate group from the local ren faire followed by Arabic pop...I usually get this face: o_0 and silence in response.

And that's just my husband.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

LOL haaahahah AWESOME.