posted by
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.
(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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Also
BEWARE OF SPOILERS FOR THAT BOOK
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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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I should really read things three times before I post.
K.
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I recommend some nice Ravel or Debussy as well. They always get me in the creative mood. :)
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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!
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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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*giggles*
Yeah, I don't really do any of the things on the list.
Ahem... except make the Jude Law comments.
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"I like her. Smells kinda like windchimes."
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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 . . .)