Voting up for tori_icontest here.

_beauty_icon has a new vote up here. This week's challenge was B&W, and I really like the icons that entered, including my own :P

So, I went to see David Gray live last night and as I was walking across the Grote Markt (the eh, not so Grand Square) in Brussels, I had 'Kathleen' (from his latest album) on my mp3-player and I was just contemplating how beautiful the Markt really is and how so many people over centuries had stood where I stood, and how I had no idea of knowing with whom I'd shared that feeling . And who do I see? Who do I walk past, caught in all my ponderings?
Mister David Gray himself.
I've always said that he was the one and only famous person I would ever walk up to, to tell him how much I loved his work, but I didn't. Because it was such a perfect moment, like a glitch in spacetime. But it was so perfect.

And of course, afterwards he played a 2 hour set that was so incredibly good, I'm still not buying it was real.

edit: ( Set List )

And here we go again: lotr_lims has got the third round up here. Since I'm miraculously still in the running, this vote really matters.

toon_icontest has a new vote up here, including one for a reminder banner. Please go vote *puppy eyes*?

bones_stillness has a new vote up here. Lots of awesomeness going on, too.

New vote for _beauty_icon up here.

Taken from _ainariel

( Alrighty then )

Dear Big Dude In the Sky,

when I kindly, politely asked you to make me feel more like a real person in 2010, and less like a cardboard character floating around the background of other people's lives, I didn't mean this. Okay? All the 'going out' stuff and the 'meeting up with people' and the 'having exciting stuff happening at work', it's all sort of happening at the same time. Granted, this makes January 2010 probably the busiest and most interesting month of my life, but hey, TOO MUCH. Okay?
Also, I was quite pleased not having any libidinal impulses to speak of. That was all fine and dandy. All this hormonal stuff happening lately? NOT GOOD. And while we're at it: sending the object of my - for lack of a better term - attention into a crowded classroom, twice, in one day while I'm already off my game due to sucky hyperventilation and general stress? YOU SUCK. Okay? You suck. Obviously, you never stood in front of a class of nosy teenage girls who already tried to fix you up with said object of attention, much to my delight. Or you did, and you thought it'd be fun to put me through it, too. In that case, you suck even more. (But I do say this in a adoring sort of way, since you're omnipotent and stuff.)

That said, cheers for actually listening to me. Just, if you could tone it down a little, that would be way awesome.

Yours,

Elke

New challenge for bones_stillness up here.

And round 2 of lotr_lims is up here.

I participated in the lotr_lims for the first time. I don't think I'll last long, given the awesome quality of the icon makers. If you'd like, you can vote here.

Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted To Sin (*)
Tori Amos - Winter Graces (**)
Arctic Monkeys - Humbug (***)
Arid - All Things Come In Waves (**)
Beirut - Gulag Orkestar (*****)
Beirut - The Flying Club Cup (****)
Björk - Voltaic (2CD + DVD) (****)
Bloc Party - Intimacy (****)
British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music? (*****)
Michael Bublé - Call Me Irresponsible (***)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig!! Lazarus Dig!! (****)
Gabriella Cilmi - Lessons To Be Learned (*)
Cocteau Twins - Lullabies to Violaine vol. 2 (2CD) (****)
Depeche Mode - Violator (CD + DVD) (*****)
Depeche Mode - Ultra (CD + DVD) (****)
Depeche Mode - Exciter (CD + DVD) (*****)
Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe (***)
dEUS - Worstcase Scenario (deluxe reiussue) (*****)
DAAU - Domestic Wildlife (****)
Lisa Ekdhal - When Did You Leave Heaven (****)
Elbow - Asleep In the Back (****)
Elbow - Cast of Thousands (****)
Elbow - Leaders of the Free World (***)
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid (*****)
Catherine Feeny - Hurricane Glass (***)
Feist - The Reminder (****)
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (*****)
Nelly Furtado - Mi Plan (**)
The Gossip - Music For Men (***)
David Gray - Draw the Line (*****)
PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Woman a Man Walked By (****)
Hooverphonic - The President of the LSD Golf Club (***)
Ice King - The Second Sailing (****)
LaisLenski - LaisLenski (*****)
Seth Lakeman - Freedom Fields (***)
Mark Lanegan - Field Songs (****)
Mark Lanegan - Scraps At Midnight (****)
Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum (****)
The Last Shadowpuppets - The Age of the Understatement (****)
Cerys Matthews - Never Said Goodbye (***)
Mika - Life In Cartoon Motion (**)
Moby - Wait For Me (*****)
Mogwai - Rock Action (****)
Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More (****)
Muse - The Resistance (*****)
Novastar - Almost Bangor (***)
Oasis - Stop the Clocks (Best Of) (*****)
Placebo - Battle For the Sun
Cat Power - The Greatest (****)
Radiohead - I Might Be Wrong (*****)
Radiohead - Com Lag (***)
R.E.M. - Live At the Olympia (CD + DVD) (*****)
Rodrigo y Gabriela - Rodrigo y Gabriela
Nitin Sawhney - London Undersound (****)
Mariee Sioux - Faces In the Rocks (*****)
Starsailor - All the Plans We Made (***)
Sting - If On a Winter's Night (*****)
The Stone Roses - Second Coming (****)
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures (****)
Martina Topley-Bird - Quixotic (*****)
The Travelling Wilburries - Vol. 01 (****)
Tricky - Maxinquaye (*****)
U2 - No Line On the Horizon (*)


Eurovision Song Contest Moscow 2009 (***)
HUMO's Top 2008 (****)
Into the Wild OST (*****)
Life Is Music 2009.1 (****)
Life Is Music 2009.2 (****)
Make Some Noise - Feed Darfur (John Lennon cover album) (****)
New Moon OST (****)
Rendez-Vous (*****)
Songs For Tibet (The Art of Peace) (****)
This Immortal Coil (*****)
Warchild: Heroes (*****)

Voting up for tori_icontest here.

Didn't do any work. Didn't manage any writing, recreational or otherwise. Have proven for once and for all my complete and utter lack of self-control.

Empire made a 50 Sexiest Women and 50 Sexiest Men list, and it SUCKS ASS, as I think as said before. Ahum. (RPATTZ comes in SECOND? SRSLY?) Surely, we can do better? Here's my shot at it, but please: add people if you want. I did mix my males and females, because I don't see the point of not doing that.

( So, without further ado: )

And back - Tom McRae is back. BACK. And how!


Tom McRae - Out Of The Walls on MUZU

Votes up for toon_icontest here.

In other news, I:
- am totally head over heels in love with yet another fictional character (would be nice if it happened to a real person for a change). Good news: it's not a creep, or a loser, or a sparkly vampire. Bad news: it's a fictional character, and I'm still 16 years old.
- am still 16 years old. Mental note to 16-year old self: no, randomly smiling at a guy just to see how he reacts is NOT a good idea when in reality you're 30 years old and the guy is your much loathed, freakishly small coworker. And smiles back. Because now, you're totally stuck with him.
- suck. (see above)
- have made a list of the 50 sexiest people in the movies. If I manage to do all my homework before tonight, I will post the list and you can all frown and pout that Alan Rickman and/or R-Pattz didn't make it. I didn't do this randomly, but because Empire made a list and it SUCKS ASS. Badly.
- find that so many things in life suck ass, badly, lately, that it's best to tackle each problem head on. In order of least importance. So, problem #1: Crappy Empire List - dealt with.
- want to know how you can shake off a dwarf in less than one day. Any ideas?

New vote for _beauty_icon up here.

I'm a bit late, but better late than never: Dear J.R.R., thank you. Really, seriously, thank you. You are my rock, and the world you created for all of us to share and occasionally live in, has been one of the best things in my reasonably short life. In eternal lines to time, thou growest.

Vote for toon_icontest is up here.