YES!!! NUMBER 27!!!!!


On a slightly more personal note, it's hard to believe that their last pennant won was in 2000. That was the year my dad set my sister and I up (in tutus) to cheerlead for the Yankees in the subway series (to keep us from distracting him from the game). The same year I fell for baseball. :D This was the team that made me fall in love with baseball, and right now... I AM SO HAPPY!

Hi! This is another one of those story ideas that wouldn't leave me alone until written (hence, my chronic though random bouts of actual writing). The timing (the song below is very fitting for my life at the moment) is also rather... inconvenient most of the times.

This is my first attempt at this fandom, and none of the characters actually belong to me. I am not sure if I manage to capture the characters, but I hope that I did succeed if only a little bit. As always, any and all feedback is greatly appreciated. I hope everyone enjoys it.

Title: Pencil Drawings in the Afternoon Sun
Fandom: E/R (1985)
Characters: The Sheridan family
Genre: Gen (I believe?)
Rating: K+ (At most)
Words: 3070 (One-shot)
Spoilers: None really, except for some minor ones from throughout the show.
Summary: A bit of a prequel - there are moments in growing up that seem to define who we become - the shadows created by sunlight on paper that we choose how to trace out.

( Some of Eve's earliest memories were of the quiet room... )

This was a project that was spurred by a discussion item in rememberlaura  a few weeks (?) back on missing moments or scenes that we wished to have seen with Laura. Somehow, that, in my head, grew into music and little bits of writing - at times random, at times pure crack, and sometimes serious. The following is a fanmix that's also part of a story of interpreting experiences - trying to explore what it means to be with a character with which we graze in a single scene and imagine how the tangled web flows from there. In other words, it is waaay too late for me to be up and typing this, and I am probably not making any sense. XD

Anyway, this is just a fanmix/writing hybrid project - I hope you enjoy the music. This is both my first fanmix AND my first attempt at photoshop, so I apologize if it's not very good, but all the same - the music is music (eclectic at times as it can be), and I hope everyone enjoys it, and maybe, can imagine bits of their Laura in it as well - living through those scenes.

 

( Lost and Found Here... )
"You are awake. If this is a dream, the whole world is inside it." - Stay

Hee, I'm celebrating surviving orgo chem lab with no permanent scarring [that I know of]. As fun as it was, it was exhausting. (><)" 

That said - re: title of entry:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_5_lzags3I

There's no embedding allowed, but basically - they are making a movie out of the musical Nine! I am so excited. :D I saw the production they did with students here at the theater and absolutely LOVED it. And I finally saw and fell in love with Chicago recently, so I am thrilled to see this one! *SQUEES AND HAPPY FLAILINGS!* Also, JUDI DENCH is in this one. JUDI DENCH. And she's playing the PRODUCER. Frak. I really want to see this. LOL I don't know what happened to my patience.

There's something so completely different about watching a musical on stage and watching one on screen, but I LOVE both forms and their unique offerings... and just - *dances around looney* (Now all they have to do is pull through that rumored production of Sunset Boulevard and it'd be a great, musical year next year XD.)

*Deep breath*

Okay back to studying. (^_^)

Also, sidenote - if anyone's interested and has 500 Days of Summer playing near them - it was a funny and awesome movie (then again, my tastes vary widely on this front XD) - but it's a fun movie to watch with girlfriends. :D

Comment to this entry and I'll pick three of your fandoms. You must then update your journal and answer the following questions:

01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?

urei_sachi gave me D N Angel, Ouran, and Tenipuri, and recodes  gave me D N Angel and Tenipuri as well along with Harry Potter! So let's get rolling! (And sorry I am so abominably late on these ^_^")

( Memememememememememe... )
And that's... all. :D Well, that was fun.

I finally finished Special A recently due to a mention by daigranon, and I loved it so much. It reminded me of why I continually fall for and read/watch shoujo manga (and many mangas and anime in general) so much despite my dad's opinion that it is (and hence, me) is very childish. LOL! Outside of the wonderful art and hilarity that comes with many of them, they do convey important messages in interesting ways. So many interesting ways. However, Special A in particular carries that slightly optimistic quality that I admire in these stories - an optimism that things work out, that misunderstandings come into understanding, and people may exist within these complicated webs but at it's core, it's just all - life. : ) Everybody's got his or her own story to tell. A different perspective.

That said, the action mangas have been very... action-y recently, and I must cut for certain spoilers. (Naruto, Bleach, and Eyeshield 21)

( SPOILERS - some )
Sorry, my memes are delayed. (^_^)"

This is a bit late in terms of being "just on time" for today... *eyes clock warily*. (EDIT: Sorry, I am late.)

I'm a bit nervous about these, because, I'm not quite sure they fit. They run on similar themes to my last MOL entry - an "artisan" series of sorts. The first is a fic that is more gen than AR-centric, but IS AR (primarily part III). (The story itself was an old concept from last year, a bit adjusted, but mostly preserved as it was without knowledge of 4.5 with some adjustments made with knowledge of 4.5.) The second... the second... part is a piano piece, a sort of theme and variations on Bear's "Adama and Roslin" Theme composed and played by me (*shudders*) - called "Dancing in Variation". Therefore at its very core - I own nothing.

Title: Trompe L'oeil: A Triptych
Rating: PG (+?)
Length: 690
AN/Disclaimer: Please see above.

( ...illusionary life. )
Title: Dancing in Variation
Length: approx. 4 minutes more or less
AN/Disclaimer: I had never done anything like this before, but the idea of the project came to me last year, and I started working on it a few months ago. The theme was taken from Bear's beautiful "Roslin and Adama" theme. I do not own it. (There is also a solo piano version somewhere in the dossiers of deleted BSG 4.5 footage that would surpass anything I could do.) In writing this, I attempted to re-paint an idea, through this theme, of the AR relationship. It starts off staid and slow, and tries to follow the path and development of their relationship through the seasons to where they ended up. At times, painfully slow but solid, imperfect sometimes, conflicted and frenetic and not a bit lost... I'm hoping this is okay... Please enjoy. (And of course, all mistakes in playing - sadly - are my own. Recordings make me frightfully nervous. Also sorry about the strong reverb.)

( hoping for the best )</div>

ich kehrte gern zuruck,
denn bleb ich auch lebendige Zeit,
ich hatte wenig Gluck.
    - Gerhard Scholem, "Gruss vom Angelus"

His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catstrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.

                  ~ Walter Benjamin, IX "Theses on the Philosophy of History", Illuminations


So... I've been constantly in and out. It's a bit crazy [the relatively good kind though] around here. Apartment searching is... difficult. *HUGS* I hope you are all well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luRmM1J1sfg&feature=related

(It does not allow for embedment, so here's the link.)

This woman is wonderful. I'm so grateful to my professor for organizing the poetry reading; this woman is just amazing to meet and see in person. Anyway, the last from Susan Howe's "Chair" series excerpt in my book:

"The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory and to do something without knowing how or why; in short to draw a new circle. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. The way of life is wonderful; it is by abandonment" (E1 321).

~Emerson as quoted by Susan Howe in "These Flames and Generations of the Heart: Emily Dickinson and the Illogic of Sumptuary Values"

( BSG Spoilers... )
Anyway, please ignore the almost schizophrenic character of my posts lately - I need to sleep now.

I am Confuzzled. And feel a bit randomized in the head. The end.

I believe... that my brain will maybe return eventually after the small explosion it has gone through.

Frak.

I'm on a really strong Ilya Kaminsky kick right now... He's a little more coherent then Celan, but he has the most interesting weaving of memory and fancy and life into his poems.

"Author's Prayer"
 
If I speak for the dead, I must leave
the animal of my body,

I must write the same poem over and over,
for an empty page is the white flag of their surrender.

If I speak for them, I must walk on the ede
of myself, I must live as a blind man

who runs through rooms without
touching the furniture.

Yes, I live. I can cross the streets asking "What year is it?"
I can dance in my sleep and laugh

in front of the mirror.
Even sleep is a prayer, Lord,

I will praise your madness, and
in a language not mine, speak

of music that wakes us, music
in which we move. For whatever I say

is a kind of petition, and the darkest
days must I praise.

http://www.bornmagazine.org/projects/authors_prayer/project.html

http://www.ilyakaminsky.com

This poem, for whatever reason, haunts me:

( Maestro )The dynamics between him and Celan are so different. He writes in English though much of his work thus far, especially in this volume that harkens back to his birthplace in Odessa, involves Russia, a homeland that's no longer home. On the other side of this struggle is Celan, someone who survived the Holocaust and became a German poet, though he resided in Paris until the day he committed suicide at fifty. He grew this love-hate relationship with the German language, unable to resist writing in it though he was fluent in several other languages. If anyone's interested, I highly recommend "Death Fugue." One of his earliest works and clearly influenced by his past though it's a past he tries to avoid wallowing in in his later pieces.

http://mason.gmu.edu/~lsmithg/deathfugue.html

I should not. I should not have clicked that link on the sci-fi website. I should not have seen the sneak-peek into the next ep. Why? Why the frak did I click it.

(o_o)

Meep.

( One word spoiler.  )

*Incoherent ramblings...*

Oh BSG, no tv show should be able to leave me speechless with such constancy, but I don't regret it. (^_^)

*breathes in*

My thoughts:

( Longer than expected... SPOILERS AHEAD. )

Sorry I'm responding to this so late! These are the interview questions that daigranon  posed to me (and because I've posted this meme before... I'm not going to recopy.)

( 5 Questions... )