Let's All Meet Up in the Year 2000

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? Bold the ones you've read. Italicize the ones you've partially read. Strikethrough the ones you've never heard of.

( all them books )

Take that, BBC!  I'm a bit embarrassed by how many I haven't heard of, but hey, at least you can't say I'm not well versed in the classics...
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Anagram site, via iterum:

Anagrams with my real name, since my LJ name doesn't turn up anything much:

A Roaring Shiner
Again Err Rhinos
Arraign Her Ions
Raga Risen Rhino   <--- that would be an awesome band name, for just the right band
Aha Sinner Rigor
Sharia Erring No
Hearing An Orris
Grannie Roars Hi
Oranger An Irish  <--- oranger an Irish what?
Anger Air Rhinos
Ashen Rain Rigor

Every year I participate in a mix CD swap with friends.  This year's is Friday, and I think I have finished my mix.  Probably I still have too many songs and will have to cut it down.  Last year I was very elaborate and made a fake movie soundtrack, along with a movie synopsis.  This year, it's songs that make me happy.  So it's no surprise that I quite enjoy my mix :-)  I'll post a track listing after the party, so as not to spoil the surprise for the person who gets it.

Tonight I am once again supposedly picking up all the Raks Spooki DVDs.  We'll see.
 

I should be dancing, doing laundry, prepping vegetables for dinner, etc., but instead I do this.

meme a la redbeka_rose:

DIRECTIONS
1. Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. You must write that song name down no matter how silly it makes you look.
4. Title this post what the answer to your last question is.
5. Good luck and have fun!


( the answers )

Sigh, how else can I procrastinate...

 

Grab the nearest book. Find the 5th sentence on page 23. Append it to the paragraph below. Append your name to the list below of people who have contributed to the paragraph. Post the result to your LJ.

( i've read worse )
 

from suzycat .  If you want to play, comment here and I'll give you a letter!

She gave me the letter S:

1. Siouxsie Sioux.  That hardly needs explaining, but I will anyway.  For a long time I was rather set against liking Siouxsie and the Banshees because as a goth girl everybody assumed I would love her.  I am often pigheaded that way.  But then I started really listening, not to mention dancing, first to the Creatures and then to the Banshees and then her new solo album is something that has really resonated with me, so now I believe she is the cat's pyjamas and I probably do gothic belly dance more often to music she is involved with than any other artist.

2. Seals.  I fell in love with them in Alaska.  So bright and pretty and fluid with limpid eyes, and also tough and wolf-like with big teeth.

3. Souhair Zaki.  A classic Egyptian dancer with ever so precise hip work and the sweetest smile ever.

4.  Scimitars.  Specifically, my baladi scimitar from Kult of Athena.  Other scimitars might be bigger and fancier but I like this one just fine.

5. Saudade, or the experience thereof.  A perfectly balanced state of longing and joy, satisfaction and loss, crying because you are so happy, laughing because you are so sad.

6. Seti.  Speaking of saudade.  He's no longer here but he will always be one of my favorite things in the world.

7. Sushi.  yum yum yum!

8. Savasana.  The all too rare moments when my apartment and my neighborhood and my brain are all quiet and calm enough to enter true relaxation are precious.

9. Samba.  I don't think I'll ever be much good at it but it's fun and it pushes me to pick up my feet and move fast.

10.  Salon.com.  I read it pretty much every day.  It unabashedly comes from a particular ideological orientation but I think is also pretty fair in its reporting, and since the ideological orientation is copasetic with my own, it sits well with me.  The one shortcoming is the entertainment reporting, as I think most of their TV and movie critics are not that smart.  I like the guy who writes the independent film blog though.

Wow, the prettiest black and purple butterfly just landed in the tree outside my window!  I am thinking it is a black swallowtail, after googling.  Mine looked more purple where the photo looks blue, but that could have been its iridescence.  Pretty!

		I will marry Johnny Depp.
		After a wild honeymoon, We will settle down in Paris in our fabulous Apartment.
		We will have 5 kid(s) together.
		Our family will zoom around in a slate blue-grey Lamborghini.
		I will spend my days as a secret agent, and live happily ever after.

I think Vanessa Paradis is already in the process of doing all that, but whatever. A girl can dream.

Which sci-fi crew would you best fit in with? (pics) created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Moya (Farscape) You are surrounded by muppets. But that is okay because they are your friends and have shown many times that they can be trusted. Now if only you could stop being bothered about wormholes. Moya (Farscape) 94% Babylon 5 (Babylon 5) 88% Serenity (Firefly) 81% Millennium Falcon (Star Wars) 75% Deep Space Nine (Star Trek) 69% Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix) 69% FBI's X-Files Division (The X-Files) 63% Enterprise D (Star Trek) 63% Heart of Gold (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) 63% SG-1 (Stargate) 63% Bebop (Cowboy Bebop) 56% Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica) 50% Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda) 44%

Of course I am surrounded by muppets!