the Dalaverse

Okay, so I can't check my email for awhile because this is the lead story (with accompanying front-page image that reloads every time I refresh). FU, Yahoo, FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU. And now I have another irrational scenario to lie awake and freak out over at night. I still remember a Daily Show report from like three years ago about how all these snakes were escaping from pet stores during hurricanes in Florida, breeding in the wild and growing larger than they should. They did this whole "Snakes on a Plane" bit with the snakes making their way north and overrunning D.C., and I was like THIS IS SO NOT FUNNY YOU GUISE. Oh god, I want to cry just thinking about it. I have to check under the couch for snakes now. If you think I'm saying that for an amusing exaggeration of my fear, you are sadly mistaken.

...So this is how the newer portions of my flist find out that I'm deeply ophidiophobic. I hate snakes, Jacques. I hate 'em. If you keep a snake as a pet, I'm sorry but yes I hate your snake too and no please don't take it out of the cage and I'LL JUST BE LEAVING THEN THANKS (a friend of a friend did this to me for real once, I still haven't recovered).

Oh, get this. I was driving on 270 today on my way from a site to the office, and I look over and there's a goddamn tank cruising down the far right hand lane. A actual tank, all camo and shit, and there's an army dude chillin on top. There was another identical tank up ahead. I missed my exit because I was boggling (and texting Quinn "THERE'S A TANK ON THE HIGHWAY WTF"). In retrospect I wish I had waved to the guys. I used to see the occasional military vehicle around St. Mary's, what with Pax Naval Air Station right there and Andrews not too far down the road, but I've lived here all my life and never have I seen one motoring down the highway in the middle of afternoon traffic. It was surreal, y'all.

Other news...thank you to celandineb for the milk and cookies! I think I will have some non-virtual milk and cookies this evening :)

Oh good, Britney's on the Yahoo front page now. Still can't put my feet on the ground yet.

Okay, there's this commercial using a theme from a movie that I know, and I love this little bit of music but cannot for the life of me figure out what it's from. At first I thought it was the theme from "Rudy," then "Forrest Gump," but I listened to them both on YouTube and that's not it. "Pleasantville," maybe? Oh look, somebody uploaded the whole soundtrack to YouTube! God bless the internets. But thought that is the least Randy Newman-esque of all his scores, it's still not it. AHA IT'S THIS! I knew that if I was just freakishly obsessive about it for a little while longer, it would come to me. Rachel Portman is awesome, I love her score for "Chocolat."

Uh. Did I really just spend twenty-five minutes of my life on that? Rivals the time I recognized the music they used to play off the Oscars at whatever godawful hour they ended. I was sitting in my dorm room listening to it, going "WTF why do I know this and why do I want to cry all of a sudden?" It took me the entire credit roll, but I finally realized it was the theme from "A Land Before Time" (orchestral, not the Diana Ross song. Although that works on me too. If we hold onnnnn, togetherrrr...::bursts in tears::). And now I have to use this icon or else what am I?

You know what one of the most played songs on my iPod is? "Dreams to Dream," the song Tanya sings in "Fieval Goes West." Everybody knows "Somewhere Out There," but nobody remembers this shit. It's so awesome, you don't even know. Hey I wonder if - score! Now if only I could find an mp3 of The Girl You Left Behind, my life would be complete.

Say what you will about the '80s, they produced some outstanding children's entertainment.