New Installment in my perennial lyrics quiz. As always, 1 point per each of album, song and artist.


1) Now we have left the kingdom of the damned, heroes of the day, legends forever.
2) Pictures at an exhibition played as he stood in his trance - Savatage - Chancebestiavolaticus
3) The dreamer and the wine, poet without a rhyme
4) All we want from you are the kicks you've given us
5) Look at me standing, here on my own again Black - Wonderful Life - Blackbonedancer
6) Seasons of gasoline and gold, wise men fold...
7) First crystal tears, fall as snowflakes on your body
8) Screw that, forget about that, I dont't wanna think about anything like that - Therapy? - Screamager - So much for the ten year planicarusdave
9) As the light starts to dim, the fear closes in, and the nightmares begin - Judas Priest - Night Comes Downbestiavolaticus
10) Saving me for I was forlorn, in your light I am reborn
11) There'll be times when my crimes seem almost unforgivable
12) Tell you what I'll do, I'll make the first one free
13) You must know that this is not for show
14) Please don't ask me my name, does it matter, I'm just here for you
15) I'm not reaching you, everything you do leads to my disgrace
16) We who make our rules so we never fail
17) Tonight a thousand angels fall, heavens up against the wall
18) Stars as far as the eye oh say can you see....
19) So when you're down and you lost your self control to the one you believed could save your soul
20) What makes a man, is it the woman in his arms? - DVDA - Now you're a Man - Orgasmo Theme.
21) You are the wolf that frightens the thief and you are the voice that they disbelieve
22) Don't hold back, cause you woke up in the morning with initiative to move
23) Your eyes of fire have stole my soul, still coming back for more
24) Dig deep down from Planet X, yeah
25) and she said pray for daylight, pray for morning.

I exist. I continue. In some ways, I prosper.

I'll make a proper entry at some point as soon as I have the time and energy. In the meantime, I have stopped wishing that the weather would make it's mind up. It has.

Another icon of my youth gone. It has reached my ears that David Eddings died on the second, age 77.

A glass will be raised, as is usual, in memory of a man who co-created a whole bunch of books I still think helped me cope with school.

rRest in peace, and I hope you're with Leigh, wherever you are, David.

It seems that it's that time of year again. The time when I have to suffer, until I can find a doctor to mitigate my suffering, so that I can breathe and see as normal.

Yes, my hayfever has made itself known once again, which means I've spent most of today sneezing and unable to do much beyond talk quite nasally. Now.. lets be fair, I probably won't get a doctors apt now at any point I can actually get there until the back end of next week at the outside, so time to be hitting Boots, I think.

In other news:

For anyone who didn't get the memo. Yes, I did myself a mischief at the last larp event I went to. Slipped, landed on my elbow, got a hairline fracture of the ball of my shoulder and quite a nasty amount of soft tissue damage in my upper arm. Yes, it hurts like buggery, yes, I'm doing my physio as I should, which is helping, but not stopping it hurting very much. It will heal. It will take a while, but it will heal, as long as I continue to not be silly at it. Of course, it's worsened again for about the last week, but thats what you get when you try and rebuild something that wasn't especially well built in the first place.

No status updates. Work continues. The rest of the world I'm sure I can explain once I'm quite sure I know just what on earth it's doing. Mild Bemusement seems to be my stock-in-trade right now.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8073734.stm

New companion announced, and to go with the young Doctor, said new companion is also very young.

Redhead too, which is nice.

Hilights of Day 1:
Ian Watson explaining exactly why his novel Space Marine was pulled by games workshop.
Discourse on the wearing of hats and why it relates to chaps and cads.

The phone conversation went something like this:

Me: "Hi, just ringing up to check when my broadband contract is ending, I have a rough idea but need to know the exact date."

BT Bod: (after usual validation stuff) "Right, that finishes on the 19th of October."

Me: "Um, no, it doesn't. That's about 5 months out."

BT: "According to this, you recontracted for a further 12 months in October 2008."

Me: "... No. No I didn't. In fact, the only times I've ever called in regarding my broadband account, you assured me in fact that my contract was the same as it always was."


It went downhill from there.

Needless to say, I am not best pleased. Actually, I'm furious. I'm just very well aware how slow the Wheel of Bureaucracy turns when dealing with complaints.

It's not been a good day for the old favourites:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5083460.stm - Patrick McGoohan

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aPbN0_ikRnf4&refer=us - Ricardo Montalban


Finally, something worth a khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnn!!!!!!!!

Be seeing you.

Grab the nearest book.
Find the 5th sentence on page 23.
Append it to the paragraph below.
Append your name to the list below of people who have contributed to the paragraph.
Post the result to your LJ.

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as nicked from motherkat again.

One little compliment can make you feel amazing. So give me a compliment, anything in the entire world, even that my shoelaces are pretty. Put this in your journal. And once you get some comments, put that entry in a memory or tag and when you are feeling down, just go to that entry and this will remind that you're not so bad in other people's eyes after all.

I haven't posted in quite a while. I thought it high time to do so, as many people had not heard from me in a while, and still others simply thought "out of sight, out of mind." Well, anyway, here it is, an update. Such as it is.


Work continues. I have now been upskilled, and sell other things, not just the things that I was originally hired to sell (if it seems like I'm being needlessly cryptic, then understand that I'm not going to mention my employer on open comment, because in this world, I simply don't know who's watching, and what can be used against me. call it a vague insurance policy.)

In other news, well, there really isn't a lot of that. Work is ALL I've been doing of late, aside from LARP (and seriously, you should see my robes for that. My god, so impressive. Ask motherkat if you want any larp gear making, seriously. Reasonable rates, good work.) Other matters show a steadfast refusal to go along with the new program of actually working after a fashion. This whole new world has lead to other parts of my brain remembering just what they're for, and what they do. The rest of the observable universe hasn't caught on yet. Still don't know what to do about that one.


Suffice it all to say, despite some still major issues, things I'm still trying to work around the "you can't have that" kick the worlds been on the last few years, I seem to be much much happier about the world in general. Mostly.

One obituary to the tune of another...


Okay, enough with the bad taste puns. This is, indeed, a tragedy. The loss of a great talent.

So, in the spirit of the man himself, anyone fancy some Memorial Mornington Crescent?

I've said before, that some people passing is a shock.

Some, it just shakes the world.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7304004.stm

From my point of view, this isn't just one of the Gods, it's one of the Titans. Before Gods. One of the people who profoundly affected what I read, what I believe, heck, what I think on a daily basis. Who affected a world, and caused that world to think anew. Who asked us to dream of the future, without us fearing it.

Unto a better place, teacher mine.

Well that was fun...

As almost everyone on my f-list is reporting: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7266136.stm

1) Pick 15 of your favourite films
2) Go to IMDb and find quotes
3) Post them here.
4) Fill in the answers as people post.
5) No Googling/IMDbing, or you get poked with blunt sticks.


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Nothing really exciting to report today.

My d20 Star Wars game appears to be kicking off to a good start (at least the players haven't told me they hate it yet, which is always a good thing,) and the players have now found themselves flying to Correllia with a Base-in-a-Box, loads of silk and illegal booze, and a curious metal cube with a heart on the side, that has no discernable purpose (the squib likes junk.) They haven't been arrested by the Imperials yet, but no doubt that'll be coming along eventually. It usually seems to.

In the absence of any interesting memes of the day (well, there's one, but I can't actually do it) we'll just skip straight onto the results of my latest web trawl. I hearby present to you Geek Eats (includes videos,) which gave me several laughs. Also tickling my funny-bone this week were the assorted reviews from zeropunctuation. Dark sarcasm at 9000mph for the win.

Other fun things: Making money, the new Discworld book, rocks. Really it does.

I was also pleased to read this, about the Doctor Who Children in Need Special. For the win.

Hmm. One of these days, I must do something about my Giant robot obsession.

An otherwise unremarkable story of rebels in Africa is made altogether more amusing by a choice of group name.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6988679.stm

It also leads to possibly the best quote ever from a serious BBC story.. "...the government was also concerned by the presence of thousands of Ninjas..."

It is therefore Made of Win.

No. Just No.

Suddenly, I've lost what little faith I had in RTD.

...and so you have to be when running games. I could get used to anonymous evil...


Nothing to report today.