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My Goth name is either Pixie Corpse or Liquid Vamp. Depends on where I place my middle name.
((thanks hils for the link))

2.
I just listened to my radio sation play Johnny Cash doing an acoustic cover of the Nine Inch Nails song Hurt.

And it did hurt. Sometimes, guy, you just get a little too old to be singing. You're there now. So please stop singing a song that I love and making sound like...that.

3.
On the new LJ posting limits. I don't oppose the idea of limits. If the limits had been instated when I joined, it wouldn't have kept me from joining. But I do think 3 posts a day for the free users is too few. Since I average 4 posts a day, it's not enough. 6 or 7 would be a more reasonable number. I don't think hardly anyone ever posts more than 10 in one day... 6 updates every 24 hours is a decent, sensible limit.

4.
I'm going to bake cookies this afternoon and mail them out to my brother on his ship. I know that sounds like a such a cliche 'feminine' thing to do-- but he really *does* appreciate getting them. Apparently the food provided by the U. S. Naval Forces is less than "yummy." And he did say that I didn't need to make them, he'd love just store-bought kind too. But I like making sweet stuff, and I know mine are better than Chips A'Hoy. Not into overall cooking so much as... dessert baking. Probably becaase I like desserts.

He also would like me to loan him book[s] too. He wants to read more "famous literature stuff," so I'm to send him my copy of Les Miserables (which is a pretty good book), and anything else I want. As he says--this is the time that I can get him to actually read the stuff I'm always telling him about (usually various fantasy books). Because on a ship he has no escape and few alternatives. He's probably read more famous lit than I have; when it's not part of school, I prefer fantasy novels.

5.
Did you know that nicotine actually improves memory / mental retention? Releases more neurotransmitters across the synaptic gap between nuerons in your brain. Huh. Too bad it totally sets you up to be deader than dead addict monkeys at the same time. Psych class is interesting.

6.

How evil are you?

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[sisabet.livejournal.com]

See - I'm gonna have to disagree. I am loving everything on "The Man Comes Around" especially "Hurt" - I played it back to back with the original today and I prefer Johnny. His voice is gravelly and he has seen better days - but he sells the song, IMO. I'm vidding Wes/Angel - eventually- to his version. Johnny moves me emotionally. NIN did that when I was 19, but I'm not feeling it at all these days. To me, Trent singing those words sounds silly, self-important and pompous. White boys with problems trying to be deep but just whining (oh yeah I have issues.) Johnny has the experience and maturity to pull it off - the song becomes a haunting anthem of regret - not self-pity. It's not a country prejudice either - I hate current country pop - But I have actually teared up listening to this CD and that doesn't happen with me often. Maybe because Johnny's health is so poor and this is in all likihood his last studio effort, or maybe because it took 3 years to compile this album, or just maybe I find his voice startlingly honest. Sorry I hijacked your LJ to pimp Johnny Cash - but if you do get a chance to lsiten to the complete album listen to "I Hung My Head" - truly haunting.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Yeah, see, that's a weird thing. It's the same reason I can't get into that guy anniesj and wisteria_ like so much... god I forgot his name, but I think he's an old white guy singing 'haunting' country/blues-y songs too. Something Buffalo. I don't know.

Johnny Cash does nothing for me, though I respect that he has so many fans and such a long career. I suppose I just don't get anything from it that you do. And since it's music, that's understandable, as music is such an intensely personal thing. ...:raise eyebrows: Except if you like the Kid Rock song "Picture"--then you're just wrong and there's no salvation or dancing schnauzers in your future.

And I don't like very gravelly singers, almost across the board, even when the song is good. I'm sure there's one or two on my hard drive that I can't think of right now, but for the most part it's a put-off.

NIN did that when I was 19, but I'm not feeling it at all these days.

:grin: It's funny that you say that. I'm going to be 19 on March 26th. How old are you now?

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[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Well - I turned 28 this week. Come to think of it - I did a complete rejection of "roots" musicians when I was in my late teens/early twenties (well except for Bonnie Raitt - I never could diss her, ever) in favor of angry driving music like NIN, Alice In Chains and Eye Hate God. Hey, I got knocked unconscious in the pit at a NIN show when I was 19 - I loved Trent muchly. Back then I couldn't stand any form of music my parents listened to - including bluegrass and country. Now cowboy ballads and Allison Kraus make up a large majority of what you'll find in my stereo. I was much angrier way back then (about what, I have no idea considering that I was a pampered little shit - maybe I was pissed about being privledged?) and that was the music I was drawn to - somewhere along the way a lot of that changed - also I moved to New Orleans where listening to all kinds of music was a daily requirement. Since I live in Memphis now - the tradition continues.

RE: Kid Rock - dr dawn loves him irrationally (Psst -there is a Pimpin' Angel Vid in Progress to "Cowboy" on my harddrive). I find him amusing. That "Picture" song is a hoot - all that heartbreak and they have been apart 3 days!!! Hee!! I know people like that... plus Sheryl Crow - she is of the extreme coolness so that song can't be too wrong, can it? Anyone? Hey don't run away....

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Back then I couldn't stand any form of music my parents listened to - including bluegrass and country

I like a lot of the msuic my parents listen to. Almost none of it was bluegrass or country though-- they were into more of the easy-listening classic rock stuff, and ballad-y stuff. And Jimmy Buffet, who weirdly is in a category all on his own. It took a while for me to like him, but I got used to it. There's some of their music that I don't care for, but on the whole it's ok, and some I really like (the Beatles, the Eagles). And I'm getting my mom to like some of the stuff that's coming out now, which is a progressing project.

I was much angrier way back then (about what, I have no idea considering that I was a pampered little shit - maybe I was pissed about being privledged?)

I'd have to be angry about that too. I'm surprisingly not angry. I have that whole youthful angst thing, but it's less anger than confusion about what to do with my life. And most anger I do have is at the problems in the world, not at my parents.

I love alternative. That's always been and always will be my lifeline in music. Since there's very little of it left, I listen mostly to rock and pop and punk (90's and recent, not classic punk) and ska. Occasionally metal, but not often and mostly specific bands.

I know people like that... plus Sheryl Crow - she is of the extreme coolness so that song can't be too wrong, can it?

I listened to that and I said aloud in my car, "Lady, stop. C'mon, this is beneath you." But that's just my opinion.

My brother came back from the navy t

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

My brother came back from the navy training listening to pop-country music. It's was horrid. But at least he's gotten over his rap phase, and the worst he does now is hip-hop and R&B.