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posted by [personal profile] selkie at 05:25pm on 15/02/2005
-- I need Straight Eye For the Queer Selkie. Please post your thoughts on how to act straight in the comments. To my knowledge, no one has mistaken me for straight since I was eighteen.

(I can act frum, but as Trembling Before G-d shows us, that doesn't do the trick.)

-- I wonder, if we played the Internationale at the wedding, would anyone notice? I would like to do it, out of homage to two people who would have gotten married, if they could have.

-- I was supposed to be asleep, but I'm writing. I hope I'm writing something I can use.

-- Why did I leave my copy of Dark Lord of Derkholm at work? And is Kit really dead? I really need to know whether Kit is actually dead. It's such a darkly parodic book, surely no one can really die. (For those who have not read, it features, as a bit player, a [male] dwarf named Galadriel who owes for a tankard of beer. Derk wonders what Galadriel's parents can have been thinking.)

--Recommend me a good film score to write by. My standards are Jane Eyre (Alessio Vlad and Claudio Caponi), Traffic (Brian Eno et al) and Girl With A Pearl Earring (Alesandre Desplat). No words, please, although incidental vocals are okay. I go different places in my head when I write, and words pull me out from the words I'm trying to make.

-- I wonder what taste synaesthesia would be called. I mean, tasting things as geometric shapes.
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posted by [identity profile] oneechan19.livejournal.com at 10:41pm on 15/02/2005
*waves* Hi. I just friended you, hope you don't mind. I've heard a lot about from Lynette, and you sounded very awesome. So, yeah. Hi.
 
posted by [identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com at 02:36pm on 17/02/2005
Hi C! Welcome!
 
posted by [identity profile] georgiamagnolia.livejournal.com at 10:45pm on 15/02/2005
The soundtrack to Orlando is one of my favourites, and only one or two tracks have some vocals. Un Coeur en Hiver is an excellent soundtrack if you enjoy Ravel and saw the movie, which was beautiful. Good luck otherwise, that is the extent of the help I can give on the topics mentioned. :)
 
posted by [identity profile] sanj.livejournal.com at 10:45pm on 15/02/2005
I'll be over on Friday (and thank you!), and I can help you pass; I do it all the time. ;)
 
posted by [identity profile] lonespark.livejournal.com at 11:24pm on 15/02/2005
Movie soundtracks with no words? I'm partial to The Two Towers, but I don't know if that's up to your standards. Plus I guess some have words, maybe. I lost my copy. *Weeps*
 
posted by [identity profile] metallumai.livejournal.com at 11:25pm on 15/02/2005
salt would be pointy; sugar would be concave.... hmmm. tea would be round, if it had milk and sugar....
 
posted by [identity profile] setissma.livejournal.com at 11:42pm on 15/02/2005
I cannot imagine it would be terribly difficult to act straight. I mean, really. The nice thing about people is that they assume. So, you know, if you don't make it blatantly obvious you're a lesbian (e.g. kissing women in front of them, commenting on how much you would like to sleep with female movie stars, mentioning that you're Engaged To A Girl, etc), they will assume you are straight.

Also

BEWARE OF SPOILERS FOR THAT BOOK





















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posted by [identity profile] twoweevils.livejournal.com at 12:43am on 16/02/2005
I don't think of it as acting straight so much as I think of it as acting safe--in other words, not like a Giant Evil Lesbian Who Makes All Women Lose Control by Her Mere Presence.

And I've found that people are willing to overlook a lot if they think they have something in common with you. My aunt-by-marriage loves Maura because she can crochet and will make baby blankets for my aunt's charities. Saves her from having to focus on less appealing topics, and gives us an automatic entree at church, since my aunt is to that church as Melanie Wilkes was to Atlanta society. You don't have to act girlish; just refocus people's attention for them.

I don't know if that actually helps or not. I hope so!

K.
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posted by [identity profile] twoweevils.livejournal.com at 12:45am on 16/02/2005
Oh! I didn't mean to imply in any way that you look or act like a Giant Evil Lesbian. I just mean that some people tend to see all women in same-sex relationships that way unless their attention is diverted elsewhere.

I should really read things three times before I post.

K.
 
posted by [identity profile] 3goodtimes.livejournal.com at 12:49am on 16/02/2005
Cold Mountain is absolutely beautiful, perfect for a calm or romantic perhaps even somber form of writing. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind is more for funny, scary, or just quirky stuff. Also, Amelie is quite nice and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

I recommend some nice Ravel or Debussy as well. They always get me in the creative mood. :)
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posted by [personal profile] vivien at 12:58am on 16/02/2005
Let's see, I qualify as a mostly straight kinda gal... what are the dead giveaways? (all said with tongue firmly in cheek)

You must say "Oh, so hot..." whenever Jude Law or some other very pretty man is on any screen (tv, computer, etc) you see.
Paint your nails a pinkish color.
Wear dresses with flower patterns.
Subscribe to Ladies Home Journal.
Shop. A lot. For shoes that you'll never, ever wear more than once or twice.

That will make you so straight, Rami won't know what happened :P

As for soundtracks - try one called Avalon by Randy Newman. It is beautiful, piano-based and haunting; no words. I can burn it for you and send it if you want ;)

And on the wedding song note, I played a Cure song for my processional, so really, I say go for playing whatever you want!
 
posted by [identity profile] lonespark.livejournal.com at 03:31pm on 16/02/2005
Eh? You aren't implying nonstraight ladies don't do that shoe thing, are you? I'll be ruined, Andre, ru...
Ah, actually, I guess I pass for straight as long as I don't open my mouth. Or move my eyes. Yeah, that's it. Oh, and I think I have quasi-dykish hair now, but the ladies in my office think it's cute.
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posted by [personal profile] vivien at 06:18am on 17/02/2005
Are you saying intense love for shoe shopping crosses all boundaries? ;)

*giggles*

Yeah, I don't really do any of the things on the list.

Ahem... except make the Jude Law comments.
 
posted by [identity profile] lonespark.livejournal.com at 04:00pm on 17/02/2005
It might. I'm sure there's women who don't need five pairs of black shoes (and that doesn't count boots!) but they are not me.
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posted by [personal profile] vivien at 11:47pm on 17/02/2005
One can't have too many black shoes. No, really - one can't. I have five pairs as well, but alas, no boots :(
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posted by [personal profile] batyatoon at 02:44pm on 16/02/2005
Taste synaesthesia would probably be called ... um ... synaesthesia.

"I like her. Smells kinda like windchimes."
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posted by [personal profile] sovay at 05:45pm on 16/02/2005
Dark Lord of Derkholm: good stuff.

Acting straight: errrr . . .

If you like Shostakovich, especially the second Jazz Suite, the score to The Luzhin Defence is rather good. Otherwise, I think all the scores I have are for musicals. (And Mission Impossible 2, because my brother put it on my iTunes . . .)

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