memes! 'cause i are sheep, yo

[chicafrom3]

From...everybody, pretty much:

Put your MP3 player/playlist on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results. The first line of the twenty-first is the title.

When You Were Young

Someday I'm gonna be famous
If you live around here
Break of day, the dawn is here
My eyes are fully open to my awful situation

I can't feel nothin' at all
Hey, Stephen, I know looks can be deceivin'
In passing glances
Whenever I see someone less fortunate than I

Each night you show up about a quarter to two
This step is one again our first
I solve my problems and I see the light
Hey ho, let's go

She's not a girl who misses much
A young cowboy named Billy Joe grew restless on the farm
How glad the many millions of Annabelles and Lillians
Let me set you straight

How the world can change
Little shop
Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak
They came from near, they came from far



From fandom_memes:

For each of your fandoms, list the 5 things in that fandom you're most grateful for (not counting the fen!)

Uh. Let's do a selection of main fandoms, here, 'cause if I do all of them that will just kill the Internet.

Fandom: Doctor Who
Favorite Ship: Barbara/Ian

Things I'm most grateful for:
1. Classic Who, particularly William Hartnell
2. the blessed saint Martha Jones, the woman who walked the world
3. circular temporal logic, both in canon and fic
4. an incredibly vast universe of choose-your-own-canon
5. Barbara Wright, whose awesomeness continues to be an inspiration some forty-odd years later

Fandom: LOST
Favorite Ship: Charlie/Claire, Desmond/Penny

Things I'm most grateful for:
1. sheer unadulterated crack
2. an impossibly pretty cast. Some with impossibly pretty accents.
3. a wide range of characters to pick and choose favorites from
4. crazy circular time travel stuff that makes no sense but is nonetheless very cool
5. plenty of crossover potential, even sheer unadulterated crack crossovers

Fandom: Andromeda
Favorite Ship: Harper/Beka

Things I'm most grateful for:
1. an active writing staff who were happy to communicate with the fanbase
2. an actually somewhat consistent time travel model
3. real science in the science fiction
4. Seamus Harper. Boston. Surfing. Two paperclips and a kiss. 'Nuff said.
5. Tough kickass and incredibly likable female main characters

Fandom: Psych
Favorite Ship: Gus/Juliet, Henry/Karen

Things I'm most grateful for:
1. pineapples.
2. Gus's no-nonsense attitude, up until the moment when he completely geeks out
3. complicated interpersonal relationships
4. Karen Vick
5. the fact that, pretty much all the main characters are in some way complete dorks

Fandom: Pushing Daisies
Favorite Ship: Olive/Alfredo

Things I'm most grateful for:
1. impromptu musical numbers
2. "the facts were these"
3. gorgeous cinematography
4. clever, convoluted, completely cracktastic writing
5. genuine romance

Fandom: Chess
Favorite Ship: Freddie/Florence/Anatoly

Things I'm most grateful for:
1. complete and utter crack
2. choose-your-own-canon
3. a small but very gleeful and lulzy fanbase
4. the Arbiter
5. incredibly realistic view of love ("You And I" is just *heartbreaking*)

Fandom: RENT
Favorite Ship: Roger/Collins

Things I'm most grateful for:
1. the joy of living
2. "friendship is thicker than blood"
3. a series of awesome casts. and less-than-awesome casts. and lulzy casts.
4. crack AU canon -- NYTW, specifically. We will not speak of that other one.
5. a study of all kinds of romantic and platonic relationships, and how complicated they inevitably are

And, also, because I can never pack too much into one post (?):
♪ CHRISTMAS MUSIC SHARING MEME ♪
'Tis the season to be jolly, fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la!

Aww, come on. December starts tomorrow.

Comments

[assiduous1.livejournal.com]

hey, if you come up to boston, we need to visit!

I MISS YOU LIKE WOAH!

[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

Count on it! This March, when teh Niki and I go up for the concert. We'll find a way to meet up. I MISS YOU. <3 <3 <3

[assiduous1.livejournal.com]

good. If it's during spring break I may be here, and if you want you have a place to stay if that's the case.

[assiduous1.livejournal.com]

it's not *sigh*

also, i may be playing floating aden over winter break, so maybe we can really get together.

[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

Aww. :( We'll figure something out.

If you can get down here, we'll definitely hook up and do something! I'm not goin' anywhere.

[foughtthewar.livejournal.com]

i'm coming up only to hold you under

i know i can't complain
i know there's no hope
yeah cause nobody searches
chimney falls and lovers blaze

i was just bony hands
threw out believable yesterday
four score years
so faithful, so few
ask me again

we should crash the party
my messenger in disguise
she floats like a stone
the hand on the clock strikes two

once when her mother called
wish i could remember why it mattered to me
plastic california looks like blood
i've heard there was a secret chord

i want the girl all dressed in white
this one goes out to the one i love
i've been a rambler all my life

[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

Parts of that work really well. "Yeah 'cause nobody searches/chimney falls and lovers blaze" is really cool-sounding.