Blinding Flash of the Obvious

The word nada is Spanish.

I went through nearly twenty years of my life with nada as part of my lexicon, always used correctly, and never once did it occur to me that it might be a Spanish word.

I just thought it was slang. California slang. haha. You can all laugh at me now.

Boys On The Radio

( pretty )

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I really think Courtney Love gets a bad rap. Like Jennifer Lopez. I mean, lots of Nirvana fans hate her. Call her the Yoko factor. There was also that whole tiff she had with the surviving members over the legal stuff. People say she can't sing, or she's only famous because she's Cobain's widow...

But I do like her band. I bought Celebrity Skin when it came out and listened to it so much in my portable CD player that I ended up scratching it and making my favorite song (above) play wrong. Which sucks, by the way.

Anyway, I just wanted to come out and say, "Hey, I like her. I bought her CD and would do so again. I wish she'd make more music."

my fandom loves ironical foreshadowing

from Tabula Rasa:

Spike: We kissed, Buffy. All gone with the wind with the rising music and the rising... music.

Fast forward a year and a half.

Buffy waits until the last minutes, and finally says "I love you."

Spike (nicely) tells her to get bent.

Heeeheehe. Someone likes the classics...

one more tonight

Oh, now that song by Third Eye Blind is playing. Wounded. This is the penultimate post-resurrection!Buffy!angst song, spoken from Spike's POV. I wish I could see a really well-made vid for it.

last one, I promise

nautical terms or words that originate from sailing:

"Hit the deck"
to "deck" someone, verb
"Helm's to lee"
dead in irons
belly-up (probably more of a fishing reference)
three sheets to the wind
flotsam
jetsam
jettison
deep-six


This probably doesn't interest anyone but me. But sailing interests me, so I'm putting this here for my own entertainment. I'm trying to think of words that are common phrases that are directly related to sailing but not necessarily used to talk about sailing, as opposed to words like "jib sheet" which are really only about sailing.

(no subject)

Godnight Elizabeth by The Counting Crows would make a bittersweet Buffy vid.

books

( BBC book meme )

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What did this list come from? All I saw in the meme title was "BBC". If this is someone's "grestest books ever" list, I find it a little off-base. I mean, Harry Potter books are nicely written, clever, and fun, but they're hardly on par with books like 1984 or Lord of the Flies (as much as I did hate that book) or Crime and Punishment or anything by John Steinbeck.

And for that matter, this list is lacking a lot. Where are the books by Joseph Conrad? Or Ray Bradbury? Mary Shelley?

If they're doing children's books too, where is The Giver by Louis Lowry? Or The Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson? Why isn't Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls on the list?!

So I found my CD and put it in...

God, now I'm listening to Miller's Angels by The Counting Crows... ::sniffle::. It's so sad. Both the song, and the fact that my well-worn CD keeps trying to skip.

I was really hard on my early CDs.

So... Counting Crows have amazing lyrical talent. But you all knew that, right?

( Goodnight Elizabeth )

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( Daylight Fading )

ahh... Another Horsedreamer's Blues is so blues-y...

Looking at a green sky
Sun like a red eye
Bright blue horses are the fortune she lives by
She's tired and lonely
scared and depressed
Her visions of one day go racing the next
She's trying to be a good girl
And give 'em what they want
but Margery's dreaming of horses


And of course... who doesn't love A Long December? There's some tasty lyrics.

Where do The Counting Crows hail from? They talk about California a lot in their lyrics, and stylistically it would sort of make sense if they came from here. I'm curious.


EDIT: www.mtv.com says-
This San Francisco, California, USA-based adult rock band grew out of the acoustic duo Sordid Humor, formed in 1989 by Adam Duritz (b. 1 August 1965, USA; vocals) and David Bryson (b. 5 November 1961, USA; guitar).

Hah. So, San Francisco. That makes a pleasng kind of sense. I love Bay Area rock bands.