LJ is all Halloweeny! w00t!

[jedusor]

Last night I stayed up till 3:30 AM writing my honors seminar paper draft on the biology of HIV/AIDS, which ended up 12 pages including glossary and references. It remains to be seen whether it's what the teacher was looking for, but I worked damn hard on it.

Today was the Halloween party at the library. Laura wore this wonderfully skimpy ballerina outfit, the tutu of which kept coming off. Kim... I want to like her, I really do, and I think we could probably get along fairly well, but the very first thing I ever heard her say was how "gay" something was as an insult. I know it's commonly accepted slang in high schools, and I know for a fact that she's not homophobic, and I've heard other people I like use the term, but... I guess first impressions really do last. I can't seem to get over it.

Laura, Zak and I started an academic group, the purpose of which was never really decided. Laura is the official History Geek, Star is the Art Geek, Tom is the Math Geek, that kid whose name I can never remember is the PC Computer Geek, Rain is the Drama Geek, and I'm Dictator because I couldn't decide between Biology Geek, Mac Computer Geek and English Geek. DDR was played, various fruits and vegetables were carved, Chipotle was eaten (not, however, by me, as I refuse to support McDonalds in any of its ventures, no matter how delicious), and a really really bad Rob Zombie movie was watched. I decided about two-thirds of the way through that I didn't need to waste any more of my life on it and left, soon followed by Rain, who was having some really bad imagery issues with the movie. (There was some naaaasty shit in there.) We wandered into the kids' section and curled up in the globe chair, which I really need to take a picture of because I've spent so much time there. We talked about many things and had an amusing conversation with three little kids. Then Rain's mom drove me home, where I found the rest of the family getting ready to go out to Boo at the Zoo. I don't do zoos, so I stayed home and dicked around on the computer. I haven't had the time to waste time on the Net in a long time, so it was kind of nice. Not that I really have the time to do it now- that Darwin's Cathedral summary is due on Thursday and I've barely started reading the book, plus I have French homework and the English group project, and my honors seminar presentation. But nobody wants to hear about my homework, so I won't elaborate.

Now, pictures!

This is Link in his little Halloween costume:



This is my Emergency No Parking sign after the FKBs finished with it:




Perhaps I should explain that. The Flying Karamazov Brothers have this bit in their show where they ask people to bring up random objects, and then they have the audience cheer for each object and pick the three most popular for one of them to try to juggle. People who know about the "challenge" beforehand bring the weirdest objects to the shows. This time, there was a roll of toilet paper, a rotten pumpkin, a phallic squash, a stuffed Barney, and my Emergency No Parking sign, among other things. The sign, the pumpkin and the squash were chosen. The champion juggler gets to make three modifications to the objects. He broke the end off the squash, then bent my sign in half, then bent that in half again (that counted as two because he tried to juggle it between folds). It was amusing to watch, but on the other hand... they killed my sign! At least I got it autographed, and it'll be a nice mantelpiece story for my grandkids. Sigh.

I need new icons.

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[jedusor.livejournal.com]

And ooh! *points to music* NiN! And kinda like a cloud I was up way up in the sky... That song is right up there with Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds as a Song of Druggies.

[imagines.livejournal.com]

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is not a Song of Druggies. o_O

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Have you ever listened to the lyrics (http://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/beatles/14936.html)? Trust me. It's about being high.

[imagines.livejournal.com]

That's an urban legend. It's not about LSD; it's a song about a picture John Lennon's daughter drew. He asked her what it was, and she said it was called Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. -shrug-

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

That'd be one hell of a picture. Even if it is true, though, the song has a reputation at this point as a drug song. It's part of American culture.

To change the subject entirely, have you ever read Neophos 17 (http://www.caryss.net/neophos17/)? The whole time I was reading it, I kept thinking, "Dude, this is exactly like something Kat would write. Damn, Kat would love this. This author sounds a lot like Kat." Etc. Go read it, I know you'll love it.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Addendum, after doing some searching:

Son, not daughter. The kid's name was Julian Lennon. He knew a girl called Lucy at school, and drew a picture about her. She grew up to become art director of the film Chocolat, among others. However, in a newspaper interview in 2004, Paul McCartney was quoted as saying, "Day Tripper, that's one about acid. Lucy in the Sky, that's pretty obvious. ...There's others that make subtle hints about drugs, but, you know, it's easy to overestimate the influence of drugs on the Beatles' music." Also, while it's no longer debated whether the song's title was meant to spell LSD, John Lennon was taking a lot of drugs around that time in his career and the lyrics were most probably inspired at least in part by them. After all, the song isn't just about the picture, which I found here (http://www.heyjules.com/images/bio/lsdpicsm.jpg) and which quite obviously does not include all the images mentioned in the song.

*grins* God, I love the Web.

[imagines.livejournal.com]

Ah, you're right. Son. I couldn't remember for sure. Anyway, this is what I know about the background of the song:

http://www.snopes.com/music/hidden/lucysky.htm

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I found that page, but I'm playing devil's advocate here. The point I'm trying to make has nothing to do with the title of the song being LSD or the actual origins of the song's subject matter. My point is, the song is about drugs, and it clearly is. Anyone who's seen the lyrics and knows anything about drug trips can see that.

*sticks out tongue and stamps foot*

(BTW, sorry about not being at writing group. See my latest entry for the reason as to my absence.)

[imagines.livejournal.com]

(About that link to the story-- I will read it later. I can't at the moment for I am at the library. I'm afraid to click on it while I'm here, given the links you've sent me before. -grin-)

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

It's not a story, it's a webcomic, and there's no nudity. (Yet. She promised to give us a bunch of male-on-male nekkidness in Chap. 4. That's not up yet, though.) There are some violent images, but I don't think they'll give you shit about them.