Memearama

laurel714 obligingly provided me with a letter (G) for this meme. This is how it works: Comment on this entry and I will give you a letter. Write ten words beginning with that letter, including an explanation of what the word means to you and why.

1. Giardia: The reason I never, ever, ever have to expose myself to the horrors of peeing in the woods.

2. Gores and godets: I loves me some shaping in the things I sew. Yes, I'm a big ol' geek, in ways that you don't understand. Quit judging me.

3. Gonzo journalism: Without this, there would be no Spider. I am eternally grateful for gonzo journalism. Some would say that I should be grateful for Hunter S. Thompson, particularly since I adore Uncle Duke as well, but...I'm not. I found the one book of his that I read to be rather impenetrable, but given that it was written about Bush Sr's campaign, something that happened when I was twelve, it is possible that I lacked the context for it.

4. George Lucas: This word means to me "pretentious", which is sad, because it used to mean "brilliant". It is also a synonym for "money-grubbing". The sentence "George Lucas needs a bigger boat" contains at least one redundancy.

5. Gaydar: This was in the dictionary, which means to me that it cracks my shit up. Also, i totally lack it, at least in situations that would have relevance to my life. But I can spot a gay man a mile away - he is the man I am flirting with. Invariably.

6. Georgia: It's on my mind. It has been, since receiving this letter. I do not include this because Georgia means much to me, but in the hopes that I can get the damn song out of my head.

7. Grace notes: If I had any more musical awareness than a sock, I would particularly like these. I still do, but I'm not particularly adept at finding them. Still, the phrase itself is pretty, and I like sentences that use it. A whole lot.

8. Grunge: The music of my misspent youth. I misspent it by not being an idiot. I was sensible. Even though I listened to grunge. If I could do it all over...I would. Differently. Like, with explosives.

9. Grandmas: I have a dead one, a step one, and a total bitch of one. Guess which one I see the most? But life got easier when I realised that I wasn't even required to like my grandmother, particularly since she didn't seem to like me.

10. Geraniums: The worst thing in the world, next to Parmesan cheese. They stink. And they're ugly. I keep thinking that everyone who likes the damn things will come to their senses and we can get around to eradicating them, but no!


And now, because I was tagged by jkivela: List ten fictional characters you would have sex with, and then tag five friends.

Fictional characters...that's difficult. I shall blush to confess (and this is leaving out anyone that would make me a child molester, too) but I shall persevere, because really - this is LJ. What would life be like, if I wasn't making a total fucking fool of myself? I think they would take my LJ away.

1. Tell Sackett
2. Spider Jerusalem
3. Pete Wisdom
4. Young Man (from Dark Harbour)
5. Rogue (yes. With the powers. There is more to sex than the old in-out in-out.)
6. Sam Vimes
7. Jakita Wagner
8. Tulip
9. Jack Sparrow
10. Ceinwyn

I tried not to repeat fandoms, but honestly - if someone can create a character I want to shag, the chances are they'll create more than one. (As evidenced by the three Warren Ellis characters on the list.) And I was a bit surprised to see how many people came from comics. Either I'm a lot more visual than I thought, or I haven't been reading enough books with shaggable characters in them. I mean, how worked up can you get over The Bookseller of Kabul? Or Three Cups of Tea? Or A Strange Piece of Heaven? "Ooh baby, I want to shag your (delete as appropriate) bad self/asshole self/culture-changing self/axe wound/book collection/school in Pakistan." Not a lot of fantasy material there.

Seriously. I went to a book reading by a woman who was nearly axe murdered in 1977.

It's memealicious

It's that time of the day again when I decide to post like three fucking memes in a row. But seriously - this one is fun. Because no one will get these.

This is the last 35 songs off my iTunes (because I don't know when to stop). Comment with the name and I will (tomorrow, when I am back at work) suggest unto you all who guessed correctly and who did not. Anyone who uses Google will be killed by my minions of darkness.

( It's the song meme! )

Songs ignored - instrumentals, foreign languages, songs by the same artist/off the same album, extremely uncommon ones (and when I think that, say, 4 is more common than something off the Rough Guide to irish music, WORRY.