Favorites of 2009 [27 Dec 2009|01:14pm] audiography [cosmicautumn] I just made a huge year-end post on my blog with songs that I loved during each month, and I thought I would post  them here as well. ( 12 Months of Music ) 7 comments|post comment

Top 5 ATM [25 Dec 2009|10:52pm] audiography [bizzatch] [ mood | awake ] [ music | Take it from me - the weepies ] So I've been following audiography for years but have never posted. Figured I'd give it a shot. Happy holidays to y'all, have some non-holiday music. First up, two songs by this queer vegan acoustic guitarist I went to high school with. She's based out of Westchester/NYC and has/is (currently?) opening for Melissa Ferrick, which, when you're a queer woman, totally means she's on her way to making it. If you like these songs, I DEFINITELY recommend that you buy her newest album, Goodnight Sugarpop,  or her EP, For Making Art. 1) Dysmorphic - Mal Blum, from Goodnight Sugarpop What I really love is the flow of this song and the use of imperatives. Some of the lines are a little interesting if you go back and listen clearly to what she's saying. The guitar and her voice lull you in. 2) Tumbleweed, Live in NYC - Mal Blum, For Making Art A little faster, I like it live because then you have the little comments that really own the song ("Stop cheating on me," just as an aside). I also love the line, "you've got two character flaws that I can see, one you don't know how great you are and you are leaving me." Next, Josh Ritter, who I feel like is kinda famous, but maybe not. Last.fm tags describe him as folk, alt-country, indie, but the only real description he falls under for me is singer-songwriter. I'm a lyrics girl, but he's a real storyteller with this soothing voice. "I stir my sugar with a spoon" is such a simple line, but I swear it chased me around for days and I couldn't figure out where it was from the first time I heard this song. If you listen to his other stuff, he's all about intertextuality. Buy Josh Ritter's stuff. 3) One More Mouth - Josh Ritter, The Animal Years  Ani Di Franco is amazing. I saw her in concert last year and this woman is still making albums, though they've got happier content these days. (And she's always talking about her child/husband and glorifying obama, which is weird for someone who used to talk about the demicrans and republicrats.) Little Plastic Castle is probably her most mainstream album in terms of being popular. I abs. love swandive, mostly cuz of that opening line "cradling the warmest, softest part of you in my hand" and its intimacy. Buy Ani, she's awesome. 4) Swandive - Ani DiFranco, Little Plastic Castle My roommate gave me The Weepies cd, Say I Am You, right before thanksgiving and this song has sort of stuck with me. It's got that spacy voice thing going on, but it's happy-ish. And the guy is on the main vocals, which really changes their sound. I feel like they've got this Jeckyl/Hyde thing going on because his songs are more poppy while hers feel a little more folky.  5) Riga Girls - The Weepies, Say i Am You For a good Weepies song with lead female vocals, I like Take It From Me and Nobody Knows Me at All. 2 comments|post comment

Update on Corda d'Oro 3 [25 Dec 2009|04:02am] la_corda_doro [yuliyudo] [ mood | sleepy ] [ music | Pull Tab to Can - Wonderful Days ] NEWS In the Corda 3 official website, the following sections have been updated: - CHARACTERS There are 10 new side characters, including Satou Akemi's (Fuyuumi) new chara. The rest include more students from all 4 schools and more =) - WORLD Each school updated with the side charas. There are 2 new school as well. - GAME New CGs up! + chibi charas (collectible? downloadable? not really sure xD) Have fun lurking! I must say that some of the side charas are quite... surprising xD Last but not least... HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!! 7 comments|post comment

Symphony of Pleasures (a La Corda d'Oro Fanfiction) [25 Dec 2009|03:42am] la_corda_doro [nerizu] ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) 3 comments|post comment

new poem : places visited by Christopher Columbus [23 Dec 2009|02:51am] cellardoor_ [trackstar99] [ mood | sleepy ] [ music | Rubén Blades: "Plantacion adentro" ] places visited by Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus landed at Mòlsennikola, history tells he came to a place decrepit now and of course, undeveloped in his own time. in Latin America, we write a lot of Christopher, just as we write of Politicas y Gobierno de la Educacion Superior — that is to say, we talk with a pragmatic nostalgia, we look back, yes, but to see what walls best held back the storms. Rubén wrote of la Masestra Vida, and Ana Lydia Vega wrote of her ” historias de pasion” while in Haiti little words in French sprung out all around, little Frances to be found in a new world undeserving even of its accent marks it so proudly placed with fountain pen and ancient printing presses, lone hecatontarch to the wars of written word and the writer’s distinct realities. when you look at the prospects, in a place like this, like Mòlsennikola, for the politician (he may be shot!) or the doctor (he won’t hardly be paid!) or the farmer (man toils away!) being a writer is not so bad a path at all. Official efforts plenty are made, and I don’t mind writing of it . . . el Monumento a la Paz de .... de Libre Comercio con los Estados Unidos, principal socio comercial . . . yet as storms came, as storms were then . . . we have the now, just now . . . (and I write quickly, as in emails, often no accents, not the flame-words of that historical Haitain's travails) *** I am sitting on my friend Adrian’s back porch, in a condo much like every other one between here and Miami, we drink Barbancourt rum and sing along with Rubén, swirling together cultures that commonly do not speak of each other yet they know, they do know, each other via odd geography. it is a torrid evening in August with no excuses for its heat and with a storm on the horizon, we see colors all turn to caramelo y gris, and I can’t help but think of Sandra Cisneros who walked down not so different streets, knew dreams of another rough geography of tropical beaches, she. and we read de Montesquiou. oddly him, for soft words: Des plumes, des plumes, des plumes Pour composer un doux nid. we could write the official story, (we live as if we were paid to do the very same). or, we could write of only Coquito y Buñuelos, small hallmarks— we’d be better off with or without nostalgia? post comment

Hello! [22 Dec 2009|11:46pm] athanarel [unintend] Hello! (I'm really just introducing myself here) So, I was at my local library a few days ago in order to pick up some reading (just finished finals for the semester, so I was really in the mood to relax).  So I found a book that looked like it might be kinda fun.  As I pulled it off the shelf, I glanced at another book, The Trouble With Kings.  I read the back cover and decided to grab that too.  I finished The Trouble With Kings the next day, and, of course, had to look up the author online.  So, after a bit of searching, I decided to check my library to see if there were any other Sherwood Smith books.  I picked up Crown Duel (parts I & II) and finished that last night.  When I was done, I read all of the outtakes.  Needless to say, I absolutely loved them!  I just finished ordering The Trouble With Kings, Crown Duel, and A Stranger to Command on Amazon.  I usually don't order books until I've read them, but my library doesn't have anymore of Ms. Smith's books, so I ordered A Stranger to Command anyway, because I'm sure I'll love it too.  I haven't started the first book I grabbed off the shelf yet. Anyway, I guess I just wanted to introduce myself and say hi, as well as how obsessed I currently am with everything Sherwood Smith.  Also, I'd like to apologize if there is someplace I should have posted this instead.  I'm new to LiveJournal (I joined just to join this community), and don't really know how to navigate it.  I didn't notice anywhere that I should have posted this, but I could have missed it, even if it's really obvious.  Reading these books has made me want to write something, however I'm not so sure I can drag myself away from them long enough to actually accomplish that.  Hopefully this won't cause any problems come next semester... I look forward to reading some more Sherwood Smith stuff, as well as the stuff on here.  Umm yeah, I guess I'm gonna be done being awkward now, and will probably (maybe) post more after I've had more than a week of experience in this delightful little world. I think I'll go read that first book I grabbed off the shelf now... -U 7 comments|post comment

I hope I'll see you again [22 Dec 2009|09:27pm] cellardoor_ [jade_inpurple] Fields of blue, Broken skies, lay down dew to your sunrise I'm not surprised, that the sun is burning Seasons changed, fightless nights and Petal'd highs They'll blow away, but float back to us Your cloudless skies present to us, Losing your direction On your stem trailed perfection, young one; One by one, alone together... 2 comments|post comment

dim love [21 Dec 2009|12:20am] cellardoor_ [lemonlanes] she placed one hand on his cheek, and felt him cringe. his eye twitched. “easy now,” she whispered, and he leaned closer. she felt his jaw clenching and his stuble tickled her left palm. she placed her other hand on his right cheek. he leaned forward, and said, “you know, how in love stories, and love in general, love is always fast and furious, with rushes of blood to the head and all that? how you just know, and then you’re together forever, until you realise you have nothing in common and then it ends? you know, how with most people it just strikes you and you never look back and you trust your better half without a second though? how you trust yourself like that? well, i can’t do that. i can’t ignore my brain, it tends to scream at me very often. someday, during breakfast, you’ll be wearing my shirt and i’ll be eating out of your plate, i’ll love you. but for now, i don’t. it needs to be easy. it needs to go slow. i need to know my heart first, before i can learn all about yours. i will need kisses, and long, comfortable silences, and i’ll need homemade meals cooked together. i’ll need birthdays, i’ll need christmases where you’ll try to decorate the tree, but break the star and you’ll want to cry, and i won’t let you, and i’ll get you a new one. i will need stupid fights about exes, but i’ll only do that because you’re amazing and i’m scared you’ll leave. it’ll be soft and slow, maybe too slow, but i want to love you. and i will love you, that much i can promise you.” she bit her lip, and he kissed it, and didn’t let go. 6 comments|post comment

winter song [20 Dec 2009|08:58am] audiography [abigail_nicole] [ music | Fionn Regan - The Cowshed | Powered by Last.fm ] I've decided Fionn Regan's The End of History is my winter playlist. it's lovely and sounds like winter. Right now, Snowy Atlas Mountains is very appropriate for being home, when the weather is desolate, in the snow and mountains. 9 comments|post comment

20 Icons & 1 Friends-Only Banner [16 Dec 2009|03:01pm] la_corda_doro [misako_chan] • Icons: [20]x La Corda d'Oro [20]x Kimi ni Todoke [08]x D.Gray-man [08]x Misc (Lovely Complex, Blood+, Amatsuki, Natsume Yuujinchou, Bleach) [56] TOTAL • Friends Only Banners: [01]x La Corda d'Oro [02]x D.Gray-man Teasers: ~Here at my journal~ post comment

Hino Satoshi community [15 Dec 2009|07:21pm] la_corda_doro [hiroki_chan] hi everyone ^^ me and my friends created a community for Hino Satoshi (Etou Kiriya's seiyuu), and it's now open for public: (click either picture / link) hino_satoshi hino_satoshi hino_satoshi I hope people who love Hino Satoshi could join, fangirl and spread the love together xD x-posted: seiyuu post comment

Pianissimo Update [15 Dec 2009|03:01am] la_corda_doro [cuethe_pulse] Title: Pianissimo ~ A Violin & Piano Romance 20: Finis; or, Six Months; or, Ryoutarou Makes a Mountain Out of a Molehill Fandom: La Corda d’Oro Pairing: Ryoutarou Tsuchiura x Len Tsukimori, Sasaki, Mizue (Mizue~>Ryoutarou), Kahoko Rating: PG-13 Disclaimer: La Corda d’Oro and its characters do not belong to me. Summary: Future fic. A series of one-shots and drabbles following the progression of the relationship between Ryoutarou and Len, from feuding roommates to friends to lovers. A/N: THE LAST CHAPTER. I’d planned on writing a sequel series and then another, but I’ve decided against it. I do have some more ideas for this plotline, so I’ll definitely have some sidestories that will take place after this. Anyway, thanks so much for reading, guys! Your comments are what keep me going! 20: Finis; or, Six Months; or, Ryoutarou Makes a Mountain Out of a Molehill post comment

Wren and Meliara [14 Dec 2009|11:07pm] athanarel [delaria] I just finished rereading Crown Duel again and came online to see if anything else was published with those characters. I was thrilled to find the scenes from Vidanric's perspective, especially that first one with Russav. I loved seeing Vidanric's side of the writing exchange, since that's always been one of my favorite parts of the book. I also found a link here, and I'm very glad I did. It's so nice to find other people who like the same books. I also have a quick question. I really love the Wren books, they're the first Sherwood Smith books I ever read, and I was delighted to see that there was a fourth book that had been published online, but I couldn't seem to find it. Does anyone know if it has been taken down or is still available, and if it's still available, where? Thanks very much in advance. 9 comments|post comment

[Do leaves go to heaven too?] [14 Dec 2009|10:26pm] cellardoor_ [ooeeokillertofu] Do leaves go to heaven too? With their deaths in -ray orange, -Beam yellow and red-like-fire; To dry up, crinkle in brown; They say we die, blast of light Before our eyes, nirvana Finally reached like no high. To all the falls before me: We shall one day meet again. 1 comment|post comment

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