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This is a chinchilla. It is small, grey, and friendly. graeae is giving me one, which was the brilliant plan I mentioned the other day. I hadn't planned to really mention it further until it turned out that three people had three different ideas on what it should be named. In desperation, I turn to you.

I told apiphile that I wanted to name it Wentz. She scorned this notion because, basically, the Wentz has a suite at the CDC, and it ain't for swine flu. She did point out that cute, fluffy, liable to chew on anything and unable to clean up their own shit made her think of Bert McCracken.

AND SO THE JOKE BEGAN.

Imagine the tweets about McCracken. About putting McCracken back in his cage. About McCracken shitting in his food tray again. About sleeping with McCracken. About, basically, everything that would make everyone on Twitter think that my apartment is Rock Star Prison Camp. (By the way, that should be a reality show. In my apartment.)

Enter graeae, worried because, and I quote, "Normally when you say great ideas, I try to think of something considerably less cute and more psychotic." She voted for Gerard, on the theory that chinchillas sort of basically look like Gerard.

And now I don't know what to call it. I like both McCracken AND Gerard as names, and both work for this joke. (What I really need here is two chinchillas.) So I ask you all.

[Poll #1396137]

I may not take your votes under advisement! I may, in fact, do whatever the hell I want! But everyone loves a radio button, so.

I am shoe shopping again.

Oracle says:



Y/N/MFY?

So.

Garrison Keillor at Town Hall on Monday the 8th, 7:30

OR

She Wants Revenge, Kenna, and someone else at the Showbox on Monday the 8th, 8:00.

These are the decisions my life is made of.

Before someone, like spamcola, comes along and threatens to kill me for not automatically picking She Wants Revenge etc, I will point out that a) I already have the ticket for Garrison Keillor, and b) I haven't really liked their new album. It's fine and all, but it would be finer if it wasn't the same as She Wants Revenge, which got a little long on the "my love life is TOTALLY SCREWED UP", or to put it in LOLspeak, "my fucked up love life, let me show you it."

I really liked Garbage's first album because it was zany and crazy and made of cake and awesome and I loved it, but when 2.0 rolled out, it didn't sound different ENOUGH for me to like it. I didn't want them to change their style completely, but I did want them to evolve on their own path, not release an album that totally sounded like the second disc of a two-disc set, composed at the same time. And having heard This Is Forever, I feel like I'm in the same time warp. Same songs, different disc. Also, you have to do something really special for me to like an album that starts with an instrumental track. I don't know why that is, but the only albums I like that start that way (out of, I'm sure, the millions that are released that way *rolls eyes*) are Bob Mould's Workbook and MCR's I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love, but I didn't get Bullets as the start of a new obsession*. The track on This Is Forever just sounds like it SHOULD have vocals, given that it lasts forever and doesn't seem complete in itself. I kind of diss on Kill Hannah's Until There's Nothing Left Of Us for the Life In The Arctic instrumental track, even though I like the album overall. It has to sound right, and unusual, not just "we played the same ten-second loop for a minute and a half and forgot to track vocals!"

But...Kenna. Mmm, Kenna.

So it's sort of tempting to give the ticket for Garrison Keillor to my dad, who wasn't sure what shift he was working and couldn't be sure he could go and now doesn't have one because they're sold out and go to the other show, but at the same time, it's sort of not. I know I'll like Garrison Keillor, I don't know that I'll like She Wants Revenge, and all in all, I have some deciding to do, pretty goddamn promptly.

If my dad HAD a ticket, I'd do both and just go late to the Showbox, but...he doesn't.


* I also don't particularly like Romance, the track in question. But I do love typing out the full name of the album.