Don't Want to Say Goodnight

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Since I decided yesterday to do up my concept in cyberpunk instead of run-of-the-mill sword-and-sorcery fantasy, I realized I already had the perfect playlist to accompany my writing.

Inside of You, In Spite of You - ThouShaltNot
Heaven's Gaze - The Crüxshadows
White Rabbit - Collide
Extreme Ways - Moby
Ready Steady Go - Paul Oakenfold
Panic Switch - Silversun Pickups
Battle Flag - Lo Fidelity Allstars
Tears - The Crüxshadows
Tesko Suicide - Sneaker Pimps
Girl and the Sea - The Presets
Cherry Blossom Girl - Air
Don't Panic - Coldplay
Dissolved Girl - Massive Attack
Dirge - Death in Vegas
Requiem for a Dream - Paul Oakenfold
Eden - Hooverphonic
Angel - Massive Attack
Silent Shout - The Knife
11h30 - Danger
Technologic - Daft Punk
Reinvent the Pain - Neuroticfish
tiktikboom - Peter Gresser
Aletheuo (Truthspeaking) - DJ Krush feat. Angelina Esparza
Let Go - Frou Frou
Natural Blues - Moby
Boten Anna - Basshunter
Dragostea Din Tei - O-zone
Bale Out - RevoLucian
Sinnerman (Felix da Housecat's Heavenly House Remix) - Nina Simone
Ordinary World - Aurora feat. Naimee Coleman
Leva's Polka (bbm remix) - Loituma
Face the Music (Kascade Club Mix Edit) - Conjure One

I call it EEPROM because it resonated for some reason, which at one point I backronym'd, but can't remember what I came up with (it really stands for Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory).

I might, for the purposes of this writing experiment, add in some .hack//SIGN and Ghost in the Shell tunes (See-Saw, Origa, and Yoko Kanno for the most part) which aren't originally in this mix but have the appropriate mien; also wishing I had more Imogen Heap.

(Heh. The auto-detect location thinks I'm in St. Louis.)

Meet Belladonna, the latest addition to my electronics family, thanks to Graydancer.

I'll update more eventually.

One of my huge pet peeves is people who post anything on the internet under their significant other's account/screen name.

I can understand if it's a joint computer and someone forgot to sign out, or you're borrowing your SO's machine and forgot to switch--but for the love of codependency, if you have to make more than one statement on any particular registration-required medium for any reason, get your own damn account.

Group creative endeavors squeak by, as do multiple systems--but if you occupy a separate body, you are physically and mentally capable of posting to the internet yourself, and there is no good reason for co-opting another's account (laziness does not qualify): please, please, please, claim a distinct internet identity.

As a side-note, while I can understand the convenience of one account per physical pair of hands, it would also be great for system journals who do not have separate accounts for each member to at least identify each post by who's fronting to write it. If you're not sure, or your system doesn't work like that, or all/most posts are collective efforts, fine; but if you are separate people and writing as such, it's a whole lot easier not to have to piece who's writing what together by writing style or attitude. You have a name for a reason; use it.

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Why don't zombies eat other zombies?

I have just discovered that I can post to LJ from IM. Let's see if this works.

I just finished Dragonseye, and there's a problem.

This book is set at the beginning of the Second Pass. There is no mention of the drum towers.

I know for sure that Todd McCaffrey's Dragonsblood speaks of the drum towers while Wind Blossom is still alive, sometime during the First Pass and soon after the emigration to the Northern Continent.

I think that either Dragonsdawn or Chronicles of Pern: First Fall mentioned or detailed the invention and inception of the drum towers, both of which were written before Dragonseye.

If they did, what was Anne smoking when she wrote Dragonseye to thus disregard her own canon with no explanation?

If I'm remembering wrong and they don't, what was Todd smoking when he wrote Dragonsblood to thus disregard his mother's canon with no explanation, and even base a significant part of the story in a setting that places the creation of the drum towers during Wind Blossom's lifetime.

That said, my trawling of the internets turned up no help on this subject, but it did reveal that another Pern book is expected for 2008. Ann was born in 1926. She's 81. Wow. May I have the fortune and the strength to make a comparable impact on the world.

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I think it's time to give my computer a name.

Ze hasn't suggested one so far, so does anyone have any ideas?

FYI, my video iPod's name is Prince, and I think my photo iPod had a few names but has been Valar Dohaeris for a really long time now--GRRM, you better not reveal it actually means something nasty or I will be upset.

EDIT: I think ze's name is Ginger. And my external hard-drive, who also needed a name, is Junior. Thanks guys. :)

Was exploring Neil Gaiman's blog today and found this, talking about the importance of having a literary will. I know many on my Flist are creative and might benefit from such considerations.