#hoomanao

[ho-omana-o]

thanks injusticeworth and protoslacker for the feedback. (and kulolo for the encouragement!) made the change to wordswilling!

[besmirchthis]

hoomanao replied to your post:seriously though words are being awfully ornery,...

do dragons still sit on treasures, hordes? ornery thornery hornery corny or rather corner-y. it’s striking or rather struck and hope it comes unstuck!

sometimes they do, if they are also wyrms prone to attacked Wiglafs.

also mostly i just just yes words those words are a mini-horde of their own, and i trust they have their own guardian wyrm flicking its tail over 'em.

[cantfindaproper1]

You can tell a lot about someone by the music they listen to. Hit shuffle in your iPod/iPhone/iTunes/media player and write down the first 10 songs. Then pass this on to 10 people.

I was tagged by maximinaluca

1. A Case Of You by Joni Mitchell

2. But Not For Me by Chet Baker

3.  We're Going To Be Friends by The White Stripes

4. Slow Dancing In A Burning Room by John Mayer

5. Metal Heart by Cat Power

6. A Sight For Sore Eyes by Tom Waits

7. The Wilhelm Scream by James Blake

8. Everything You're Not Supposed to Be (feat. Damien Rice) by Mélanie Laurent

9. Perth by Bon Iver

10. Wooden Nickles by Eels

Taggs: i-know-the-pieces-fit, intricacies-of-life, hoomanao, charli-mcda, aaajmachine, falterunbroken, aaaand idk

[besmirchthis]

First 10 (...12) Songs on Shuffle

tagged by m'sieur of the hoomanao sort. going to use the playlist i've had running for the CLEANING PARTY OF JOY.

you're also getting lyrics with 'em. because i can and because WORDS DAMNIT WORDS.

Tom Waits, 'Bad As Me': i'm the detective up late / i’m the blood on the floor / the thunder and the roar

David Carbonara, 'The Men of Sterling-Cooper'

Deb Talen, 'Rocks and Water': the devil he wore such a fine, fine shirt / and it stayed so clean while he dragged me through the dirt.

Nina Simone, 'Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood': sometimes it seems again that all i have is worry / and then you're bound to see my other side

Godfather in One Minute: remember how i said i wasn't joining the mob? / yeah / psyche!

The Kinks, 'Powerman': you call him names and he sits and grins / 'cos everybody else is just a sucker to him.

Third Eye Blind, 'How's It Going to Be?': i don't see lightning like last fall / when it was always about to hit me

Nine Inch Nails, 'Head Like a Hole': bow down before the one you serve / you're going to get what you deserve

Mark Lanegan, 'St. Louis Elegy': down here the winter will cut you quick / these tears are liquor and I've drunk myself sick

Nirvana, 'Drain You': with eyes so dilated / i've become your pupil/ you've taught me everything / without a poison apple

Bessie Smith, 'Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out': then i began to fall so low / i didn't have any friend, i had nowhere to go

Joan Baez, 'Sweet Sir Galahad': well you know I think my fate's belated / because of all the hours I waited / for the day when I'd no longer cry

tagginggggg... cannibalartist, pashchan, newperspective-xo, featherxquill, watertightvines, flowersintheseweeds, theyeatthemweeping, methleigh, worn-whorehouse-stairs, carladoyle... and if anyone else wants to join in the party, go for it. (and if i've tagged you in one of these before and you're like DAMN AM I SICK OF THIS wellll then i am sorie for this experience.)

[englishmajormusings]

Burn, Read, Rewrite: The Magicians; Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe?

Burn: The Magicians - I just read it a couple weeks ago and oh my god I hated it so much. I thought it was gonna be amazing and it was too long and weirdly misogynistic and gross. If I wasn't so bitter about it, I'd say rewrite BUT I'M SO MAD AT IT

Read: HP! Always

Rewrite: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. It could use some toning down in the whole heavyhanded Christian allegory

[besmirchthis]

plankton. sanctuary. litotes. (these memes do happen. and then we stop and take stock or rather inventory. anyway yes! choose like teeth and interpret like dance and tell as you will it)

PLANKTON is like “i’ll walk the plank again, but only if you’ll show me all the little-crowding pieces of the water where i’ll fall.” which would be great, because then the pirates would break out their pirate-crafted microscopes and everyone would have a major SCIENCE MOMENT (stars confetti and all) complete with little lime-green scuttling friends. (i don’t know whether any kind of plankton’d actually be lime green, but that’s the image in mind.) the word reminds me of something, though i can’t seem to land on what, something reaching back i think to middle school. in high school, we captured and studied macroinvertebrates, but that isn’t the same thing (scud! bloodworm midge! how dirty is the water? very.)

maybe it has to do with whales.

…that’s probably appropriate.

SANCTUARY i think of Faulkner and the summer my reading came fueled first by his works. at the time, it was Sanctuary - along with, always, Quentin’s section of Sound and the Fury - that called my rhythm my wanting to further exploration. there are words and phrase-flowers from the novel that have stayed with me, though much of the action hangs forgotten out of mind. in novels, in most writing, i rarely remember what happens, precisely (or it’s a different breed of happens). what i recall is a set of impressions, tone and some sense of language. usually. i think. i suppose my interest holds more in the how of saying.

and i think about Stafford Savage breaking his mirror breaking his glass and time shifting inconsistent, think about the self-driven deed that incited his shattering and from which there was no hiding, from which he maybe never sought to hide. always wondered what the fallout would be for him, and how might come recovery. because he does, i think, regain a balance of his own, learns to live with think with rhythms that once threw him out of synch.

LITOTES i looked up, ignorant one that i am; the language of rhetoric has never been close to me. which is to say i’ve never learned it, and as ever i am careful to guard myself with claims of ignorance, to call out faults before they can be ascribed from outside. something to work on. something i do work on, or have worked on. anyway. i AM, i would say, a proponent of negatives and of periphrastic speech. why offer a word directly when you can veil it tension it by placing it at odds with the meaning you’re attempting to ascribe? (oh lord, i’m getting convoluted, not so clear as i could be… for this particular responding, though, i’ll let it fly. excess words that maybe aren’t, and all.) why offer an idea directly when you can point out contradictions by the very form of your word-setting? sense in some direct fashion isn’t always necessary; general impression often serves.

with this word, i’ve found a descriptor for a way of expressing i employ in no small measure. oh god, the rockiness of that sentence - bursting with gravel with rocks to cringe its crossing - gives me pause. NO SMALL PAUSE. oh dear.

[ofyourshadow-blog]

A, D, and E?

A. If you could get away with one murder in your lifetime without any legal, social, or emotional repercussions, would you kill someone?

Honestly, it is difficult to both imagine someone I would want to kill and that it would have no emotional consequences, so I’m going to say no. 

D. Would you rather know everything the universe has to offer but in exchange lose all emotions or remain the way you are now?

No. I wouldn’t be human anymore, and I am not done experiencing, learning, and understanding what it is to be human yet.

E. If you could live and be healthy without sleeping or eating/drinking, which would you cut out of your life?

Sleeping, I suppose. I love sleeping more than I love food (except maybe goat cheese), but I would love to have more time to do things. I also think that food is something people connect over, and I wouldn’t want to lose that. 

[besmirchthis]

14, 18, and twentyfiiiiiiiiive?

oh-excellent, merci…

14 and 18: some favorite/favored words and sounds

25: monologue from a favorite play. Faith Healer and As You Like It. ALSO Brand (but not really exactly Brand).