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Meme stolen from musesfool:

Footnote: My memory of this year starts at around November, aka the TIME I STARTED TO LIVE AGAIN, so this list may seem a little end-of-the-year-focussed.

Your main fandom of the year? Dexter.

Your favourite film watched this year? Probably XXY, though I thoroughly enjoyed Iron Man.

Your favourite book read this year? A difficult question this year, since I hardly remember any kind of fiction reading. On the non-fiction front, I have to say that I'm in love with Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man, because, while not new, I only realised the scope and brilliance of his argument when confronted with the context. I got to appreciate Zygmunt Bauman (esp. Dialectic of Modernity and Wasted Lives) and Andrea Smith's Conquest. Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide broadened my horizon with the elegance of detailed historical feminist research and the bluntness of a sledge hammer. One publication that I awaited anxiously and that lived up to my expectations was Jan Philipp Reemtsma's Vertrauen und Gewalt. Versuch über eine besondere Konstellation der Moderne. [Violence and Trust. An Essay on an exceptional constellation of modern thought.]

Your favourite album or song to listen to this year? José James: The Dreamer, Parov Stelar (& band): Shine, Gotan Project's new live album, Sisters: Gender Riots, Nneka: Heartbeat, and, last but definitely not least: Buraka som Sistema: Kalemba (Wegue Wegue).

Your favourite TV show of the year? Pushing Daisies, though True Blood and SPN S4 were strong contenders this year, too.

Your favourite LJ community of the year? Hm. Wasn't around much.

Your best new fandom discovery of the year? The only new thing that makes me want to write fic at this point is True Blood - and I'm mainly interested in Pam & Eric as badly dressed Sapphire and Steel clones - (I'm too heartbroken about the Pushing Daisies cancellation) and maybe Lucifer; but I'd like to finish that one first.

Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year? Pushing Daisies! Cancellation! What the heck! Also, House, and the whole anticlimactic something that was Dexter S3. (Of course, the whole trainwreck that's Heroes and Grey's, but these were anticipated)

Your TV boyfriend of the year? Either Josh Lyman or one Sgt. Doakes, mentally added in all Dexter's S3.

Your TV girlfriend of the year? Charlotte "Chuck" Charles.

Your biggest squee moment of the year? Werecollie! Boston Legal's final episode! (I'm going to miss that show so much)

The most missed of your old fandoms? The West Wing and Weiß Kreuz. I've got serious cravings for good stories in both of them.

The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to? I hear a lot about Entourage, Life and Merlin.

Your biggest fan anticipations for the New Year? Dexter S4! True Blood S2! BSG comes back! Also, Massive Attack may just finally - finally finally finally - publish a new album (MA are one of the only bands I still feel genuinely fannish about) and there's a Blur reuinion up the alley.

http://karma-apple.insanejournal.com/8073.html

Fandom will survive just fine. It's the best thing about us, we're very adaptable. :D

Morgan Dawn has a metric assload of info on how to move/migrate/save your stuff:
http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/tag/ljtools

Maybe LJ won't be shut down, I sincerely hope it won't be, but it's always good to back your stuff up.

( Random BabyPish picture )

No reason!

So Amazon had some free MP3s that I picked up yesterday. Of the five I downloaded, only one of them wasn't a total win. Not bad for free.

Gaslight Anthem: The '59 Sound
This song sounds so much like a Bruce Springsteen sort of song. But unlike other songs (*cough*Sex on Fire*cough*) it doesn't feel like a bad cover. It's original enough that it doesn't irritate me. Instead it evokes the mood/sound/style of Springsteen in the best way. The lyrics are not exactly uplifting, but then neither were most of Springsteen's. It's a good song and it makes me interested in hearing more from them.


Down Down Down: Run Like Hell
Nice piano, interesting falsetto moments. It feels nostalgic. It reminds me of, the mid-80s in a way. It's catchy and very listenable. The lyrics are a little emo, but that's hardly a criticism. I'm definitely going to be checking out more of there stuff.


Blackpool Lights (myspace link - warning for autoplay): This Town's Disaster
Kind of reminds me of the Toadies. I like the sound and the sort of rough vocals. It's definitely a repeatable listen. I think they'd probably be pretty interesting live, because they sound like they're holding back slightly for the recording, just waiting to break free and really scream it out. Another I'm interested in checking out further.


Chromeo: Momma's Boy
This is the one that disappointed me. The music and vocals are really enjoyable. Very catchy. But the lyrics bug me. They're not grossly offensive or anything, they just happen to irritate one of my personal issues. I still enjoy the song, but I can't listen to it often because of the button pressing thing. I'd have to see the lyrics before I listened to any of their other songs.


Ani DiFranco: Emancipated Minor
And now for something completely different. I'd heard of Ani DiFranco before so I thought I'd give the song a listen. While not exactly upbeat musically, it is a good song and I'm interested in hearing more.


At the time of my posting, all of these are still free.

A few hours ago, this was going strong. Yeah... cupodtealight is kind of an idiot. And when I say kind of, I mean really.


THE END IS NIGH! THE END IS NIGH! LJ IS FIRING PEOPLE DURING A RECESSION! CREATE COMMUNITIES, MAKE ICONS! START SINGING SONGS FROM MOVIES!

As seen on coffee_n_cocoa's and eeyore9990's LJs:

1. My username is _____ because ____.
My username is a combination of "J.Lu" (my name under the old "J.Lo" formula), an underscore because LJ won't allow periods in usernames, "Luna" (my favorite Harry Potter character), and "lunatic" (palpably obvious to anyone who has ever met me).

2. My journal is titled ____ because ____.
3. My subtitle is ____ because ____.
4. My friends page is called ____ because ____.
I don't have names for any of these because I first couldn't be bothered to come up with anything clever, and now am too self-conscious to try to do it.

5. My default userpic is ____ because ____.
Between my workplace at the time I made this icon and my primary fandom, headdesk moments are frequent.

( I'm so disappointed I can't stop laughing. )

From the naughty list meme (as seen in bryonyraven's journal, among many others). My score was $190.60, and I don't particularly regret any of it (except for the thing I regret doing, and that has to do with work rather than more classically moral issues).

( THE LIST )

Apparently if one has a LiveJournal and an interest in the Harry Potter fandom, one is obligated to comment on J.K. Rowling's recent comments that two characters who previously had not been planned to be killed would die, and a third, who had been projected to die, has gotten a reprieve. But I haven't seen anyone note that just because this character will be spared death, does not mean that his or her story will end happily.

( Here be rambling. )

Title: The Rottenest Day of the Year
Pairing: Harry/Ron; unrequited Neville/Harry
Summary: It's 12:05 a.m. on 14 February, and Neville's Valentine's Day has already begun badly.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 547
Author's Notes: This was rattling around in my brain for a few days. quackaddict's The Really Last-Minute VD* Challenge inspired me to sit down and write it out. Feedback might console me for yet another Valentine's Day without a significant other.

"Happy Valentine's Day!"

"Wuh...Ron? What time is it?"

Neville dragged his pillow on top of his face, wishing for a temporary Deafening charm that would block out the sounds coming from Harry's bed.
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