foxtrot, tango, whisky, etc.

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I pulled a tragic, toe-scufflingly remorseful resignation at work this week. NAMELY BECAUSE I'M LEAVING IN 15 DAYS, 11 HOURS, YESSSSSSSSSSS. But on one level, I guess I could say it's kind of sad: I'm kind of getting used to spending 15 hours/week scanning archival documents from Halifax's House of Assembly in the 1810s, and listening to much of the following:

a) This American Life, aka Ira Glass' adorable lisp (sometimes he doles out relationship advice!);

b) CBC Radio 3, podcasts or just plain radio or sometimes just a random fishing of New Music Canada's billions of sexy Cdn artist pages;

c) podfic (even though I have to skip through the sex because dudes! I AM AT WORK!);

d) the New Yorker's terribly fucking hip Fiction Podcast that makes me want to simultaneously forget about writing real fiction ever and also delete my lj entirely because I am just that ambivalent;

e) my own excellent taste in music, which you should all definitely friend on last.fm so that I can be further shamed out of listening to Placebo ever again;

and;

f) the occasional mortgage advice podcast, because I am obviously living in a fantasy world where crippling student debt doesn't exist and me and my future pound dog will live in idyllic bliss in my fantasy 2-bed, 2-bath, fenced-yard character home within walking distance of the LRT, the Central Library and probably the homeless shelter, too, by virtue of geographic reality.

However, I have two weeks of full-time work left to fill with distractatory talkin and/or tunez, so if anyone has any recs for favourite radio stations, podcasts, music sources, AND YES, THE BEST PODFIC, do tell.

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Ahaha, I would add you on lastfm, but I am HORRIBLY EMBARRASSED by the music I have scrobbed there. I am officially unhip. But in my defense, my scrobs mainly come from my ipod which I use to get my ass moving as I work out, which requires hideous up-beat 90s pop. OH YEAH. I CAN FEEL YOU JUDGING ME, PAIGE. I SHOULD BE JUDGED.

SIGH.

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I AM VERY GOOD AT JUDGING PEOPLE. I require 80% CanCon, at least 30% bands I've never heard of, mandatory Final Fantasy inclusion and you're disqualified if you have an overabundance of male singer-songwriters, like, over a 3:1 ratio, because I hatessss them that much, with a few notable exceptions like Chad VanGaalen and dudes with names one-word monikers like Caribou, Destroyer or I guess Hayden. Hayden gets a free pass, but he better watch it.

I CAN MAKE THIS INTO AN EXCEL SPREADSHEET IF YOU LIKE.

What I'm trying to say here is: add me anyway, h0r! Don't make me stalk you down!

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I will give you plenty of amunition, let me tell you. The extent of my canadian music leanings is Theory of a Deadman (and more hideously NICKELBACK. Their new album is great for listening in the car when I'm driving in Toronto because the lyrics ENRAGE MY SOUL and I feel better about GUNNING my engine to beat little old lady drivers that cruise at top speed of 75km/h on the 401. Seriously, I feel like Nickelback is Canada's version of Rap singers in the US: misogynistic spew that makes your vagina pitch a OUT OF BUSINESS sign up.)


That and the occasional Celine Dion power ballad. Did I tell you about the time I left my office at grad school (to go watch a movie down the street) and my officemate (a guy) fucked around with my itunes and left a Celine Dion song playing for like... two fucking hours. And it scrobbed it over and over and over so she was in my top 10 artists FOREVER. I was SO NOT AMUSED when I came back. DEVIL!

Whatever. We all know you are more musically hip than I am.

OH OH, AND I REREAD THAT JO/DEAN you sent me way back in that card and I LOVE. I felt I needed to reiterate that. God, it's amazing. I am still desperately holding on to the idea that you will write more of that verse sometime soon.

UGH, THAT JUST REMINDED ME THAT I HAVEN'T STUCK YOUR DAMN CARD IN THE MAIL. TOMORROW IT WILL BE DONE.

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I LOVE THAT YOU USE THE NICKELBACK HATE TO FURTHER YOUR RAGE. BUT IT'S DELIBERATE. YOU'RE DELIBERATELY ENRAGING YOURSELF WITH CHAD'S JESUS HAIR. WHAT THE EFFFFFFFF.

Also, I'm totes saddened that Celine is not still up there. D:

And to be fair: you and your Clint Mansell? I just re-ripped that to my laptop this summer! Low compatibility no more!


ADSFKJADFLAKDJFAKDFJADKFJADSKFJADSFKJDSFSDAF. JO/DEAN.

D: D: D: D: D:D D: D::D :DF:D:D:D:DFAKDLfld.

:(

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I AM. I used it today when I was driving in rushhour traffic.

you need music that revs your shit up when you're fighting with 23049823 drivers that drive either like they're in the formula 500 or racing a turtle.

I loves me some Clint Mansell. Such creepy fucking music. LOVE IT! Ahah, shit, I'm going to have to listen to some Caribou or Final Fantasy to pump up my compatibility with you, aren't I?

JO/DEAN, MAN. JO. DEAN. JODEAN. PLEASE. Someone asked me what verse I would want to write in that question thingy and it was THAT ONE. It's so dark and angsty and WONDERFUL. It fills my heart with dark joy. Mmmm. Yes.

Hey, this is a thing I can comment on!

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Oh, do I ever have podcast recs. I have spent the last three summers listening to hundreds and hundreds of hours of podcasts while raw-handedly scrubbing bones & pop bottles clean with a toothbrush. Mostly just talk-y podcasts, and you've already discovered Ira Glass, my secret boyfriend, so:

The Sound of Young America (http://www.maximumfun.org/listen.htm) - really great interviews with really interesting people.

Never Not Funny (http://pardcast.com/) - my favourite podcast, but you have to pay for it (there's a free 20-minute version, though -- also, I usually just delete them after I've listened, but I have three that are as-yet undeleted, and I can send them to you if you'd like!).

Stop Podcasting Yourself (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=275538947) - out of Vancouver! And really good!

Jordan, Jesse, Go! (http://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=207698746) - Two guys in California talk about stuff & are generally fun to listen to.

Battleship Pretension (http://www.battleshippretension.com/) - two guys talk about movies, and stuff, and it's alright.

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So basically I am subscribing to all of these, thank you! My one fear is that after these two weeks are done, I'm going to be back to not knowing how/when to listen to podcasts. It's hard to figure out what the perfect level of multitasking is: my job is extremely monotonous, so it works. But what else do I willingly do that would lend itself to radio? Commuting, I guess. If I ever get a job.

Thanks so much, dude. I will let you know how awesome they are as soon as you let me know when the eff you're getting to the AB!

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Eugh, email is in drafts and being sent, STAT. But it's the 21st to the 2nd. I will have more details for you shortly!

I know, though -- I have a billion podcasts built up now because I don't have enough time to listen to them. Between the hour of walking-commute, plus gym time, I'm catching up, though!

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THANK YOU! I too very much value good ear distractions, because lord knows, I can't be a minute without some sort of escapist...escape. Anyways.

I need to get my lastfm rehooked so that you can mock all my Panic listening. I've been listening to A LOT of can-punk lately, and even though Alexisonfire could take on ten Placebo's, I don't think they're much better. :/

I really love this podfic reader, ironically called Podfic_lover:

http://audiofic.jinjurly.com/category/readerpodficlover

She's got a great accent; super cadence too. Scroll down, I particularly recommend the SGA stuff. So hard to know what would appeal to you these days, friend.

Also, I got your card upon my return! lsfjsdlkjfhlksjhf Your sketches. I don't think there is any way to make this sound sincere, but I'll try: NICE UNICORN. It's just really well drawn, especially the haunches. God, you're good. Guess what is totally getting scanned in, enlarged and framed for my entryway? Oh yes.

Ah, so good to be home. What an excellent trip, full of excellent places and things and people, but I need you to do me a favour: next time I get it in my head to fly some place, for longer than three days, hit me in the face. Because as awesome as traveling may be, I think I am at that age where nothing compares to home, with my boys and my fam and my haunts. Driving, and anywhere in British Columbia, oh, and Sasquatch, do not count.

I am excited for your home buying. I know it is going to happen because you are so investment/$$$ savvy like that. I look forward to helping you move. Now is certainly the time to buy. Ah, recession. And cataloging for the CBE. You and the OC could attend holiday functions together. GAG. But seriously, that sounds very cool and important and exciting. I am constantly impressed by your job prospects. How soon shall you know? Oh, that's right, I need to start job-seeking in earnest now too. :/ Blerg.

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Do you mean the sga/eureka stories by rageprufrock? I am scrolling through a lot of Torchwood here, my friend. And I barely know what appeals to me anymore... I'm kind of frighteningly uninterested in the SPN story I'm listening to right now. Just. Wincest, whatever. Yeahalright.

I'm so sorry you didn't get my card beforehand! Shit, man. I'm glad you enjoy my decrepit unicorn. I want to suggest that we get high and watch The Last Unicorn, but I would probably piss myself when the red bull showed up. That shit is scary, yo. But you should see my varying levels of octopi. From the same class, of course.

And speak for yourself: I'm already stressed about Sasquatch. CAMPING. EN MASSE. WITH STRANGERS. MAYBE WE SHOULD JUST SLEEP IN THE CAR. As long as it's better than Warped Tour I guess. You know that I am ten times the homebody you are. Never shall I dip my toe off the continent, at this rate.

IF WE ATTENDED HOLIDAY FUNCTIONS TOGETHER I'D KNIT US MATCHING SWEATERS WITH CROCHETED POINSETTIAS. YOU KNOW I'M TALKING ABOUT ALL THREE OF US.

I'm going to capslock at you in glee that you are once again permanently available to me until I can come home and we can gossip like crazy bitches.

Getting high and watching the Last Unicorn: AN ANGEL JUST GOT HER WINGS, FRIEND. CHECK.

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Yes! I do mean the sga/eureka stories. Have I already tried to foist those on you already? Whatever the case, it's excellent. A town of super geniuses! I've never even seen the show, probably best to keep it that way.

EUUUGH, SUPERNATURAL. I don't even have the passing urge to catch up. Your warning wasn't even necessary, but still appreciated. I think I'm good with letting it go. We'll always have vocationverse.

Are you seriously stressed about the 'squatch? D: Dude, I wouldn't have even considered it without the several reports of low-key-ness I've received. I really think it'll be good and very music-focused. I mean, we'll probably be stopped and interviewed by like, Entertainment Weekly, but that's the price we pay for being so fucking awesome. Plus, sleeping in the car is an option - apparently, at Pemberton, everyone had to park and walk to their camp spaces, but at Sasquatch, you park right at your space. I am fairly sure this is correct, but I will check.

http://sasquatchfestival.com/2008/

Check it out - for an extra $20 per night, we could get a Primier camping spot. Bigger and possibly full of people older that you. :D It's going to be EPIC.

Also, you're one to talk about homebodyism, ass. Who here moved across the country for two years? I am shaking my fist at the computer.

you can't make angel jokes to me. it's like making napalm jokes to a 'nam vet.

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Basically: fuck SPN S4. I saw seasons 1-3 for sale super cheap at the massive video place yesterday and SCOFFED. I SCOFFED, BROOKE. Although I just bookmarked a finishing fic workshop over at spnroundtable. Especially the part that says how to finish fic where you now loathe the fandom. :/

Is it living above our means to get the fancy camping spot? What if Shia's set up next door? Would we just wave cheerily every morning and offer them some coffee, or try to hone in on his alone time with Zach? Is "premiere" just code for "groupies and parents"? IT'S SO HARD TO TELL. But I would like cleaner bathrooms, fucking princess that I am.

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Dude, I hate to be the one to bug you about this, but you HAVE to finish the ballerina fic. It's just too fucking brilliant to be extinguished. Also, the Jo fic. Actually, I am holding you to everything you have listed as a WIP. It's your own fault for being so damn good.

Eugh, Thomas and Mark were catching up on SPN last night and I couldn't even be in the same room. There was an angel/demon fistfight. Oh yes, certainly, that's how they would engage in conflict. So terrible. Then Dean gave a little speech about his vacay in Hell and I was SHOCKED at how bad Ackles was. We all know the kid can act, I think he's just given up. Also, Sam is doing Ruby. Why don't I just toss myself in the path of a combine, lord.

Lastly, I will ask Kim, re: lame-o, expensive camping. I too enjoy a flushing toilet: the spray is invigorating. Obvs, we'll be surrounded by serious artist types who will declare us muses (musi?) and insist we accompany them to meet the talent backstage. Then I'll hold the Condon while you rip his pants off. It won't be consensual, but it'll sure be sensual!

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GUESS WHAT I AM WORKING ON RIGHT NOW. AS WE TYPE. I JUST TYPED THE WORD "LAUNDRETTE" IN FACT. MY HIGHBROW SNOTTY HORSE-THEMED HET BRINGS ALL THE BOYS TO THE YARD. >:|

Fuck, that episode was by far the worst yet, to be fair. But it was frigging tazer-me-now-to-stop-the-pain awful. I agree with you on ALL POINTS. Fistfight: ridic. Ackles: shitty. Sam doing Ruby: unicorns are crying dewdrop tears. I MISS KATIE CASSIDY AT THIS POINT. It's like making her passive gave Sera Gamble permission to get some penetratin' done. >>>>>:|

re: It won't be consensual, but it'll sure be sensual!: this is why you make national billboard campaigns and I toil in obscurity. ilu so hard, bb.

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Haha, I wish I could take credit for that line, but I am fairly sure it was overheard and immediately appropriated by my gray matter. You know there isn't a single original thing that comes out of the Brooke maw. Nor the Brooke paws. Which could also be the reason I cobble national billboard campaigns. :/

YOU ARE WRITING HORSEWOMAN JO? This is excellent news, son! I am off for a refresher reread! Jo, kicking ass and being broody, I love it.