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sages_of_chaos - she isn't an original character, but since she only exists in a couple of DS9 Relaunch books (in one of which she's already dead) I'm not sure anyone there knows who she is. It's something of a handicap not knowing very much about comic characters or anime characters, but then neither would she, so I'm just taking people at face value.
I'm rather hoping![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
stitch_in_time will show up, but it doesn't look as though that's going to happen. It was quite some time ago when he last posted in Sages. Ah well.
I must read the damn book again. It's not like I don't practically know it off by heart but I haven't read it since I had the idea for the character.
Go look if you're curious. I shouldn't be too hard to spot...
Anyway.the_reader has tagged me for the music meme. That's more difficult than I expected, because I'm in a musical flux right now, and the songs I most want to hear are ones I don't actually have. Nevertheless, here goes...
List five songs that you are currently digging... it doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words or even if they're any good but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artist and the song in your blog along with your five songs. Then tag five other people to see what they're listening to.
1. Nazareth - This Flight Tonight. I have found and listened to Joni Mitchell's version, but I like Nazareth a good deal better. This song has everything - sappy lyrics, a perfect screechy hard-rock voice and a horny galloping rhythm. I love it, love it, love it.
2. Georgia Satellites - Battleship Chains. 'Nuff said.
3. Steve Gibbons Band - Down In The Bunker. Classic rock. Witty, bizarre lyrics involving golf, sex, and wartime, with more innuendo to the line than even I can manage on a good day, fantastic guitar, lovely voice. I've been in love with this song since I was a teenager, and it's as good as it was twenty-five years ago.
4. The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet. One of those songs I have to sing along and bounce up and down in my seat with.
5. Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't Have Fallen In Love With) See above. Equally compelling, with the added bonus of sappy romantic lyrics.
6. Because five isn't enough... The Men They Couldn't Hang - Hell Or England. I no longer have the Men They Couldn't Hang album that I really, really want (Silvertown - magnificent clever hard-edged modern folk-rock, like the Pogues only better - in fact they almost were the Pogues, I think one of them is a Pogue's brother) but Hell or England is marvellous. The band are marvellous. Go listen to them. Spread the word!
7. Sweet Jane. I have a whole bunch of covers of this song by a whole horde of different people, but my favourite is a live version with John Cale and Lou Reed from the late 80s or early 90s.
8. Squeeze - Hourglass. Take it to the bridge! Throw it overboard! See if it can swim! Back to the shore! Repeat! Yay! Squeeze! Rock! I'll mention Cool For Cats, Pulling Mussels From The Shell and Up The Junction here as well, but Hourglass is grabbing me a tiny bit harder just at the moment.
9. The Ramones - Every song they ever did. The one I'm enjoying most is I Wanna Be Sedated, but only because Squish won't let me play Blitzkrieg Bop any more (he's added it to his list of Songs To Howl Like A Deranged Timber Wolf To, and the neighbours complain if there's too much of that). There's no depression that the Ramones can't help lift a little, I'm finding.
10. Jesse James - One More Shot. Emmylou Harris, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Levon Helm. Bloody marvellous!
11. Grateful Dead - Wang Dang Doodle, One More Saturday Night, Black Muddy River, Push Comes To Shove and Tons Of Steel, just to name the current favourites. The Dead are lifeblood to me, I can never go too long without them.
12. The Bangles - Walk Like An Egyptian. I like to play this and dance round the flat. They aren't a band I was ever especially fond of, but this particular song - such a rush!
13. Nick Cave - Red Right Hand and Stagger Lee. Dark and crunchy.
14. Nick Lowe - All of his earlier songs, before he went sappy - especially Switchboard Susan, I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass, 36 Inches High, Marie Provost, So It Goes and Big Kick, Plain Scrap!
15. New Riders Of The Purple Sage - Glendale Train, Henry, Hello Mary Lou and Red Hot Women and Ice Cold Beer. That thing they do with steel guitars and banjos makes shivers run up my spine.
16. Cockney Rebel - Mr Raffles (Man, It Was Mean) - The words! The way Steve Harley sings them! Swoon!
17. Country Joe and the Fish - Feel Like I'm Fixing To Die Rag. Just go listen to it...
18. I can't believe I got this far before mentioning Bob Dylan. The ones that are getting me right now are Idiot Wind (always my favourite Dylan song), Lay Lady Lay and Changing Of The Guard.
19. Counting Crows - Mr Jones. I just love this.
20. Lightning Seeds - Pure. It's the intro that gets me, but the whole song is really, really good.
I suppose I'd better stop now... Who shall I tag? Let's pick some people whose musical tastes I don't know too much about yet:
lady_alethea
huntingdon - not because I don't know, but because you're entertainingly eclectic...
manicitalian
crusherdisciple
wychwood
I do intend to try and get some writing done today, I promise...
sages_of_chaos - she isn't an original character, but since she only exists in a couple of DS9 Relaunch books (in one of which she's already dead) I'm not sure anyone there knows who she is. It's something of a handicap not knowing very much about comic characters or anime characters, but then neither would she, so I'm just taking people at face value.I'm rather hoping
stitch_in_time will show up, but it doesn't look as though that's going to happen. It was quite some time ago when he last posted in Sages. Ah well. I must read the damn book again. It's not like I don't practically know it off by heart but I haven't read it since I had the idea for the character.
Go look if you're curious. I shouldn't be too hard to spot...
Anyway.
the_reader has tagged me for the music meme. That's more difficult than I expected, because I'm in a musical flux right now, and the songs I most want to hear are ones I don't actually have. Nevertheless, here goes...List five songs that you are currently digging... it doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words or even if they're any good but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artist and the song in your blog along with your five songs. Then tag five other people to see what they're listening to.
1. Nazareth - This Flight Tonight. I have found and listened to Joni Mitchell's version, but I like Nazareth a good deal better. This song has everything - sappy lyrics, a perfect screechy hard-rock voice and a horny galloping rhythm. I love it, love it, love it.
2. Georgia Satellites - Battleship Chains. 'Nuff said.
3. Steve Gibbons Band - Down In The Bunker. Classic rock. Witty, bizarre lyrics involving golf, sex, and wartime, with more innuendo to the line than even I can manage on a good day, fantastic guitar, lovely voice. I've been in love with this song since I was a teenager, and it's as good as it was twenty-five years ago.
4. The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet. One of those songs I have to sing along and bounce up and down in my seat with.
5. Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't Have Fallen In Love With) See above. Equally compelling, with the added bonus of sappy romantic lyrics.
6. Because five isn't enough... The Men They Couldn't Hang - Hell Or England. I no longer have the Men They Couldn't Hang album that I really, really want (Silvertown - magnificent clever hard-edged modern folk-rock, like the Pogues only better - in fact they almost were the Pogues, I think one of them is a Pogue's brother) but Hell or England is marvellous. The band are marvellous. Go listen to them. Spread the word!
7. Sweet Jane. I have a whole bunch of covers of this song by a whole horde of different people, but my favourite is a live version with John Cale and Lou Reed from the late 80s or early 90s.
8. Squeeze - Hourglass. Take it to the bridge! Throw it overboard! See if it can swim! Back to the shore! Repeat! Yay! Squeeze! Rock! I'll mention Cool For Cats, Pulling Mussels From The Shell and Up The Junction here as well, but Hourglass is grabbing me a tiny bit harder just at the moment.
9. The Ramones - Every song they ever did. The one I'm enjoying most is I Wanna Be Sedated, but only because Squish won't let me play Blitzkrieg Bop any more (he's added it to his list of Songs To Howl Like A Deranged Timber Wolf To, and the neighbours complain if there's too much of that). There's no depression that the Ramones can't help lift a little, I'm finding.
10. Jesse James - One More Shot. Emmylou Harris, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Levon Helm. Bloody marvellous!
11. Grateful Dead - Wang Dang Doodle, One More Saturday Night, Black Muddy River, Push Comes To Shove and Tons Of Steel, just to name the current favourites. The Dead are lifeblood to me, I can never go too long without them.
12. The Bangles - Walk Like An Egyptian. I like to play this and dance round the flat. They aren't a band I was ever especially fond of, but this particular song - such a rush!
13. Nick Cave - Red Right Hand and Stagger Lee. Dark and crunchy.
14. Nick Lowe - All of his earlier songs, before he went sappy - especially Switchboard Susan, I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass, 36 Inches High, Marie Provost, So It Goes and Big Kick, Plain Scrap!
15. New Riders Of The Purple Sage - Glendale Train, Henry, Hello Mary Lou and Red Hot Women and Ice Cold Beer. That thing they do with steel guitars and banjos makes shivers run up my spine.
16. Cockney Rebel - Mr Raffles (Man, It Was Mean) - The words! The way Steve Harley sings them! Swoon!
17. Country Joe and the Fish - Feel Like I'm Fixing To Die Rag. Just go listen to it...
18. I can't believe I got this far before mentioning Bob Dylan. The ones that are getting me right now are Idiot Wind (always my favourite Dylan song), Lay Lady Lay and Changing Of The Guard.
19. Counting Crows - Mr Jones. I just love this.
20. Lightning Seeds - Pure. It's the intro that gets me, but the whole song is really, really good.
I suppose I'd better stop now... Who shall I tag? Let's pick some people whose musical tastes I don't know too much about yet:
lady_aletheahuntingdon - not because I don't know, but because you're entertainingly eclectic...manicitaliancrusherdisciple wychwoodI do intend to try and get some writing done today, I promise...
