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the_dala at 06:37pm on 03/07/2003
the_dala at 06:37pm on 03/07/2003Clearly the whole returning-from-the-cut-to-the-regular-text deal didn't work. Ah well, I don't expect to be doing much of that anyway.
So, now I have to actually write something!
Er. Good evening.
Today wasn't particularly eventful. Got up at a reasonable hour because for some godforsaken reason, I agreed to work a couple hours today, since the office is closed tomorrow. I do not like working three days in a row (sidenote: hey, look at that, it automatically opens and closes the italics command! Guess my rudimentary knowledge of HTML won't be seeing the light of day after all.)
Anyway, work. Bleah. I did manage to watch a good forty-five minutes of "Almost Famous" this morning, though. It's getting to the point where I have part of the director's commentary memorized. Oh commentary subtitle option, how I love thee.
I actually only worked from 12 to 2:30ish rather than 4, because hey, Gail and Ellen and Tracee were ALL there, and there was no real need for me. I pulled EOBs, I filed -- those were my grand accomplishments. Then I went driving through the Village just for the hell of it. Full tank of gas makes me wasteful. Kind of pissed that the payrolls weren't in today. I wanted to write a check for the July car payment this weekend and now I'll have to wait.
::grumbles at nearby stack of CDs:: Last night, see, I had this sudden urge to make a mix of love songs. Here's the song list:
I hope I did that list right...
As you can see, it's not the best mix I've ever made -- it's embarrassingly sentimental. But that's the point, isn't it? I wish I had more room, because I didn't get to have any Harry O'Donoghue songs (seriously considering exchanging the "Wonderful Tonight" for his lovely cover). Also, I was forced to pick "If Not For You" over "Lay, Lady, Lay" -- unquestionably the better love song -- because it's much shorter. Wahhh. Perhaps I'll throw Rod Stewart out.
It certainly is Eva Cassidy-heavy. But...it's Eva Cassidy. The thought of leaving any one of those three off a mix of love songs makes me whimper (I only wish I had room for "Songbird" too).
If I make a tape of it, I can add another ten minutes' worth of music. But tapes are generally only for car music, and this isn't really a car music mix.
Too much thought!
Heh, looks like I lied about the cut tag thing, no?
I had gotten more than halfway through the recording process, silently thanking the burner for being so uncharacteristically cooperative (it only rejected the blank disc as not having enough space twice!) when it suddenly decides that Eva Cassidy's Time After Time is not, in fact, Time After Time. I spent twenty minutes trying to get it to accept the CD -- I popped in other CDs, I played Time After Time on three other CD players, I wept in frustration. None of it worked; I conceded defeat and sadly shut the program down. Of course, of course that was the last blank CD in the house.
On the other hand, I did make an absolutely beautiful CD -- the front is the Layla cover:
which I thought fitting, and the inside is this image of Lord Frederick Leighton's Flaming June (is art supposed to be italicized, or quoted? Anyway, it's possibly my favorite painting of all time). So at least that was some kind of accomplishment. Finding just the right image of Flaming June took me the better part of an hour (I am notoriously anal about my mixes).
Anyway. Wow, that was a lot. This is fun!
So, now I have to actually write something!
Er. Good evening.
Today wasn't particularly eventful. Got up at a reasonable hour because for some godforsaken reason, I agreed to work a couple hours today, since the office is closed tomorrow. I do not like working three days in a row (sidenote: hey, look at that, it automatically opens and closes the italics command! Guess my rudimentary knowledge of HTML won't be seeing the light of day after all.)
Anyway, work. Bleah. I did manage to watch a good forty-five minutes of "Almost Famous" this morning, though. It's getting to the point where I have part of the director's commentary memorized. Oh commentary subtitle option, how I love thee.
I actually only worked from 12 to 2:30ish rather than 4, because hey, Gail and Ellen and Tracee were ALL there, and there was no real need for me. I pulled EOBs, I filed -- those were my grand accomplishments. Then I went driving through the Village just for the hell of it. Full tank of gas makes me wasteful. Kind of pissed that the payrolls weren't in today. I wanted to write a check for the July car payment this weekend and now I'll have to wait.
::grumbles at nearby stack of CDs:: Last night, see, I had this sudden urge to make a mix of love songs. Here's the song list:
- "Your Song," Elton John
- "Unchained Melody," the Righteous Brothers
- "Secret Garden," Bruce Springsteen
- "Fields of Gold," Eva Cassidy
- "Wild Horses," the Rolling Stones
- "Can't Help Falling in Love," Elvis
- "I'll Have to Say I Love You In a Song," Jim Croce
- "As Time Goes By," Mark O'Connor
- "Wonderful Tonight," Eric Clapton
- "She's Always a Woman," Billy Joel
- "Stand By Me," Ben E. King
- "Reason to Believe," Rod Stewart
- "Time After Time," Eva Cassidy
- "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing," Aerosmith
- "Dream a Little Dream of Me," Cass Elliott
- "When a Man Loves a Woman," Percy Sledge
- "If Not For You," Bob Dylan
- "Danny Boy," Eva Cassidy
- "Something," the Beatles
- "All I Want is You," U2
I hope I did that list right...
As you can see, it's not the best mix I've ever made -- it's embarrassingly sentimental. But that's the point, isn't it? I wish I had more room, because I didn't get to have any Harry O'Donoghue songs (seriously considering exchanging the "Wonderful Tonight" for his lovely cover). Also, I was forced to pick "If Not For You" over "Lay, Lady, Lay" -- unquestionably the better love song -- because it's much shorter. Wahhh. Perhaps I'll throw Rod Stewart out.
It certainly is Eva Cassidy-heavy. But...it's Eva Cassidy. The thought of leaving any one of those three off a mix of love songs makes me whimper (I only wish I had room for "Songbird" too).
If I make a tape of it, I can add another ten minutes' worth of music. But tapes are generally only for car music, and this isn't really a car music mix.
Too much thought!
Heh, looks like I lied about the cut tag thing, no?
I had gotten more than halfway through the recording process, silently thanking the burner for being so uncharacteristically cooperative (it only rejected the blank disc as not having enough space twice!) when it suddenly decides that Eva Cassidy's Time After Time is not, in fact, Time After Time. I spent twenty minutes trying to get it to accept the CD -- I popped in other CDs, I played Time After Time on three other CD players, I wept in frustration. None of it worked; I conceded defeat and sadly shut the program down. Of course, of course that was the last blank CD in the house.
On the other hand, I did make an absolutely beautiful CD -- the front is the Layla cover:
which I thought fitting, and the inside is this image of Lord Frederick Leighton's Flaming June (is art supposed to be italicized, or quoted? Anyway, it's possibly my favorite painting of all time). So at least that was some kind of accomplishment. Finding just the right image of Flaming June took me the better part of an hour (I am notoriously anal about my mixes).
Anyway. Wow, that was a lot. This is fun!
excited
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