#soupytwist

[highretrogamelord]

SoupyTwist (demo) for the ZX81

[minyboy]

Oh, I gotta yawn, stare at traffic, lick myself. And believe me, that could take hours if you do it right.

[pringlesaremydivision]

soupytwist replied to your post: hey kiddos nOT to discourage you from following me...

Who are you?

at this point who can say

[pringlesaremydivision]

soupytwist replied to your post: .

Hit me up, girlfriend. I love the show, but avoid fandom like the plague.

i will keep that in mind!

[metaneira]

Rules: In a text post, list ten books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard - they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you. Tag [ten] friends, including me, so I’ll see your list. Make sure you let your friends know you've tagged them.

1. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle (I own four copies of it? If you include the graphic novel adaptation) 2. A Ring of Endless Light, Madeleine L'Engle (I've read it every year since I was 8.) 3. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley (I think I spent a good chunk of my freshman year of high school wishing I could be a druid) 4. The Color Purple, Alice Walker (actually listening to the audio version of it now--read by Alice Walker herself--and it still makes me weep) 5. Arcadia, Tom Stoppard (maybe putting a play in here is cheating, idc) 6. Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien (establishing my nerd cred) 7. The Red Tent, Anita Diamant (lots of lady power on this list) 8. The Athenian Murders, José Carlos Somoza (If you like ancient history and mind fucks, this is excellent.) 9. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (yeah I know, I'm pretentious as hell) 10. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (one of the formative influences on my sense of humor)

I hate tagging people but then get slightly hurt when I'm not tagged, even when the person also doesn't tag people. So: pringlesaremydivision, noirbettie, soupytwist, lizbethanne, miggylol, pagerunner-j, sinvraal, turpskadey, chyrstis, zandrrr

[metaneira]

A thing that has always bothered me: How the fuck do I pronounce "Eurydice?" I know it's not "yuri-dis" or "yuri-dice" - is it "you-ree-dee-kay" as I see all over the internet or is it something else entirely like "or-ee-di-kay?"

Short answer: it probably doesn't matter too much. I say "Yure-RIH-deh-see" even though I know that's not faithful to the Greek. Long answer: the Greek is Εὐρυδίκη or Eurydike. The dipthong of epsilon-upsilon makes sound like "you" (the marking above the u indicates whether there was an H sound at the beginning of the word -- if it points to the empty spot, yes; if not, no). The second e in the transliteration is an eta, which (when finally used as a vowel sound by the Attic Greeks) sounded like the e in "bed". Kappa was a voiceless velar plosive which is a fancy way of saying it sounds like the k at the beginning of kiss, but you have to learn shit like that when you study ancient Greek because of ~*~reasons~*~. ANYWAY. Without looking into it too much I don't know if the other vowels were short or long but also keep in mind that linguists are kind of guessing about what ancient Greeks sounded like anyway so who knows. So my most pedantic pronunciation without busting out an LSJ would be You-ree-dee-keh and man I just don't remember where the stress on a syllable should go anymore and argh sorry this got out of hand.

Go back up to the short answer: If you're saying it with four syllables, you're doing pretty good. And if you say it authoritatively, no one's going to dig you for it. And if they do, tell them that you were troubled by troubled by the articulation of the coronal consonant and wanted their input.

[pringlesaremydivision]

music tag.

"You can tell a lot about someone by the type of music they listen to. hit shuffle on your ipod, phone, itunes, media player etc and write down the first 20 songs. then pass this on to 10 people. one rule: no skipping."

I was tagged by wearitcounts and holmesianpose:

the bends radiohead

ripe givers

my kinda lover billy squier

california phantom planet

grace jeff buckley

what goes around.../...comes around [interlude] justin timberlake

under the blacklight rilo kiley

billie jean michael jackson

slow and steady of monsters and men

sunrise norah jones

don't stop me now queen

fools gold fitz & the tantrums

ticket to ride the beatles

love will keep us together captain & tenille

wonderwall oasis

angie the rolling stones

love and war (11/11/46) rilo kiley

get away fitz & the tantrums

queen of apology (remix) the sounds

magnet & steel matthew sweet

so basically what we've learned about me is that my music shuffler sucks really hard. I mean, I have a lot of rilo kiley, but they shouldn't have come up twice in 20 songs. same with fitz & the tantrums.

as for tagging... thejupe, lglights-is-hiding, noirbettie, soupytwist, metaneira, and anybody else who wants to. because I'm lazy.

[metaneira]

soupytwist replied to your photoset:I literally just stared at this picture for five...

Which DC comics are you curious about? New ones or old ones?

I've been meaning to read Blackest Night for like three years now. Oh,, and finish Batman No Man's Land, but I have that in order already.