J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s/Sorcerer’s Stone
Day 8: inked
Day 5: tao
Day 4: reblog, rewrite, remix
Day 3: eraser
Radiohead - Go to Sleep (Little Man being Erased.)
of course I’ve already fallen behind track so get ready for a bunch of really uninspired posts
I sent some emails this morning that I’d been avoiding writing for a LONG while. Is there anything you’ve been putting off?
Meant to post this new one last week.
For those of you that are new I came up with cos of all of the “this one is stupid” or “I don’t feel like doing this one” that I see in 30 Day challenges. You can see the original here and like last time I’ll probably post this one again just so people who are not on right now will see it, cos I’m really curious to what you come up with. Do with it what you like, pictures, images, audio—whatever.
- quite time
- wistful
- eraser
- reblog, rewrite, remix
- tao
- yell
- u.n.i.t.y.
- inked
- open/closed
- past, present, future
- a pizza and a bottle of wine
- sos
- deer/dear
- fatal flaws
- going
- home
- just say no
- keep me in mind
- la la
- zig zag
- x-tatic
- canine
- vampire
- b.boy
- no can do
- me
- greater than, less than
- correction
- equality
- Deep dark truthful mirror
oooh! keithen’s first open-to-interpretation challenge was really fun and after a year and a half of pestering, he’s finally made another! you bet I’m gonna do this.
Day 30: positive
Port O’Brien - I Woke Up Today
I couldn’t do this post yesterday. After diligently working on Keithen’s challenge for the past month, I was stuck on the last day, assigned to post something for the prompt “positive”, and I was in the worst mood I’d been in in months.
So I did what any sensible person would do and ignored the problem, hoped it would go away, and went back to sulking. That is, I decided I’d do it tomorrow. That is, today. That is, yesterday since it’s now almost 4 AM but you get my point.
This song is ridiculously upbeat, as is its music video. It’s upbeat enough that I put it on a “cheer the fuck up”* mix for a friend who was prone to being incredibly depressive after breaking up with her girlfriend. And it’s catchy.
So thanks for this, Keithen; it’s been fun and I’d love to do it again sometime. And thanks to my favorite waltz lover for doing this yourself; otherwise I’d never have seen this particular challenge, let alone done it. Now, after essentially 60 straight days of posting to an assignment, though, I think I’m ready to do some posts on my own terms (not that I haven’t been able to, but you get my point).
* Note: the official title of the mix was not “cheer the fuck up”, it was something a bit nicer since being harsh would be counterintuitive.
Day 29: something about you and why
I apologize for not having much to say about myself… I just can’t think of anything deep or meaningful about myself that I haven’t already mentioned on Tumblr, frighteningly enough.
I suppose one thing might be my feelings about being a parent that I mentioned in this post. I said that, but I never really explained the why. Obviously I don’t want to go into specifics… but it honestly sometimes seems like every single one of my close friends has been fucked up in some way by their parents. and I’m not talking whiny teenager bullshit, I’m talking serious level stuff.
I may never have had any major issues with my parents and I do have some friends whom I believe to be the same… but they’re in the minority. and I find that fucking terrifying.
Day 28: divided
Bloc Party - Ares
I picked this thinking that the prompt was ‘divisive’ then realized my mistake when I looked to see what day it was. But I suppose fixing it would have been counterintuitive to the whole idea behind the vague prompts. DAMN YOU KEITHEN! it’s like you thought of everything.
But yeah. I fall on the “yeah, Silent Alarm was far better, but that doesn’t mean their other albums suck” side of the Bloc Party divide.
“Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss. A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear—and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed—stupid and mean.”
“This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings. This music was her—the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard. The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.”
- Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Day 27: two quotes
Day 26: more more more
“More more more” as in more uninspired posting from me.
Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie by Black Flag
Nothing beats the classics.
