oceana

"I'm agree with your post" - is this really spam or something from the horse-forum?*1

"Be the master of bedroom" - Clearly you are offering a magic way to handle the chaos that is my bedroom, so gimme!

"Always perform in bed" - I sleep on the couch these days.*2

"Client's claim you" - They certainly do.*3

"What are you, crazy?" - Was it something I said?

"Wish to remember a youth?" - Sure, which one?*4

"It is me, J." - Jensen! Jeffrey! Jackson! Wait, no, too many Js already, sorry, J.


*is still very bored*


*1: I'm active in the bitchiest forum ever. Fandom-wank has nothing on the regularity with which these girls turn every single post into a wank. It's all about horses, yep.

*2: Like Mulder, only my bedroom isn't filled with porn, I'm just too tired to reach it.

*3: Work's picking up, which is good. Now I only have to actually start doing it.

*4: I'm thinking young Mark Harmon. I mean, he does getter better the older he gets, but he was still terribly cute when he was young. I'd point you to the pic from Ted Bundy (I think), where he completely looks like jailbait, and then challenge you to write a fic where Tony the cop arrests young Mark Harmon, but I am at work an can't access photobucket. Maybe you'll find it if you google "Mark Harmon jailbait". And if you don't find it, feel free to tell me what you found, because it sure sounds like fun.

*is not quite as bored anymore*

I know some of you wonderful people are crazy. Well, most of you are, one way or the other, but I know that some of you like running.

The reason I mention this is that I'm invited to a birthday party, and the only thing I know about the birthday-celebrator is that they like running. So, what would be a good gift for a runner? An mp3 player is out of question, but I was hoping there's some secret running thing that all runners like. Or, maybe a book about running? Anything? Help?

The new ipod has arrived! Yay! In order to be able to fully enjoy
Metallipod on christmas, when he will be actually mine (seeing how he
is a christmas gift), I'm transferring all my music, pictures and vids
to him.

The music was surprisingly easy, a lot better and faster than with my
old 4th gen (R.I.P. *sob*). Haven't started with the pictures yet, but
I suppose that will be easy, too.

What isn't easy is the vid-transfering. Now, if it were DVDs, I would
shameless download those eps in ipod-friendly format from the web
(cause really, I own them, why should I have to go through the trouble
of converting them if I don't have to?) But what I really want on my
ipod are fannish music vids.

I've found one program to convert these and tried it with one vid
(ipodconverter or something). The result was a horrible, way too
bright slide-show. I have no idea why the clips were transfered into
slides, but I'm guessing some of you ipod and vid-savy people do?

Does anyone know of a good vid-conversion program that would allow me
to transfer convert fannish music vids to ipod-format?
Batch-conversion would be a dream, but I take everything else, too, as
long as it works.

Help me and Metallipod?

I'm going on vacation this Saturday (yay!) and it suddenly occured to me that I don't have to live without slash for two weeks! There is podfic!

Now, I've read about podfic, but have never listened to it or downloaded it. Where can I find good podfic? I know Speranza has podfics on her website, and I'll most certainly will take them on vacation, but I'm sure there must be others. Maybe some Jack/Daniel? Or Highlander? Help, please?

Oh, and does anyone want postcards? I could set up a poll like I did last year, if people are interested. I enjoyed writing them.

So, my lj break is apparently over. Well, it was almost a week, and I almost have my inbox cleared, at least he fannish account.

1) Four weeks ago, I tried ordering something at dvdi.co.uk, because they order free worldwide shipping and had some good offers on DVD box sets. Sadly, Germany wasn't on the list of countries available when you entered your address. So I wrote them an email, asking why they don't ship to Germany. No reply.
A week ago I tried it again, because I really wanted the english version of the Miami Vice DVDs. Same thing: no Germany, mail, no reply. This time I had signed up with another email address.

Today I get replies on both emails at both addresses. One says "We don't offer free shipping to Germany, sorry for the late reply." The other says "We now offer free shipping to Germany, sorry for the late reply." Guess where I'm never going to order a thing.


2) I just spoiled myself for the NCIS Season 4 opener. ( Spoilers. )


3) Does anyone know of a good Stargate icon community, or another place to find Cameron icons? I'm watching stargate_icons and have been watching it for years, but there are to many icons for me to keep it on my flist, and a lot of them aren't even good. Plus, the majority seem to be SGA icons I'd prefer a real Stargate icon community, one where there are no SGA icons at all. I mean, there is atlantis_icons, which is for SGA icons only, but there doesn't seem to be an exclusive SG-1 icon community anymore, at least none that gets many posts. And they are separate fandoms, even though lots of people watch both shows. And I really want a Cameron icon.

So, how long until there are only the goal keepers left on the field?

So, just for fun, I thought, let's see if anyone on lj is interested in handbags. Turns out that entering "handbags" in the search function returns 333 hits. Since 333 is a umber of the devil (I think), I quickly added handbags to my own interests and saved the world. You can thank me later.

Then I found this post, and OMG! it's HANDBAG PORN! The handbag is totally doing a striptease, and then, avert your eyes, kids, it exposes its inner most secret!

I could seriously feel myself getting a bit excited about this. Good thing I'm not a Louis Vuitton fan, who knows what might have happened otherwise.



In other porn, I finally watched the second of my Yami No Matseui DVDs, which were entirely non-porny and very sweet. I decided to download some of the more porny anime, but I don't really get it. Yami is pretty, but I don't get the attraction. For me, the attraction lies in the art, not the story, and I can watch it just like I can watch art - for a limited amount of time. I found that I had no problem turning off any of the episodes I watched, something that usually doesn't happen when I watch a tv show. Maybe the story telling is a bit too slow for me. And some of the action scenes, which are basically stills which are somehow dranwn differently than the rest of the ep, reminded me of The Sentinel, the scene in every ep where Jim runs after someone for at least five minutes. You know, the ones that you watch once and then always fastforward?

Anyway, I'm fascinated with anime art, because it is so different from classical european animation movies. I think it has something to do with the japanese art of writing which is much more drawing or even painting than our art has ever been. Consequently, japanese art has always been much closer to writing, often containing actual words, than western european art. I feel as if there is a connection there somehow, as if anime and manga are somehow the logical succession of the more traditional japanese art. Take, for example, a look at Katsushika Hokusai's pictures like The Great Wave and you'll find that some similarities to modern mangas, IMHO. And yet, as a means of storytelling, I just can't get into it. Just like when I was a child and didn't have enough patience to read Mickey Mouse comics, I get bored when I try to read manga. I have to look at the pictures, and that slows the story down for me. Something about reading and watching pictures at the same time doesn't agree with me.

I also watched Zetsuai, which hit quite a few of my kinks (pop star falls in love with nobody who doesn't want him and gets all protective). The copy I had was japanese with subtitles, and now I find myself wanting to learn japanese, simply because it is so different from any of the other languages I have learned so far. How can I understand japan if I have no idea how the language works? I can't start any courses now, but I've been planing to learn another language for a while, and I think it'll be either japanese or arabic.

Okay, raise your hands if you knew that Axl Rose is an anagram for "oral sex".

Why has this never come up in the 1,5 years I spend worshipping him when I was 13/14?

Oh, my innocent youth. Here goes another piece.

1. Dear LJ,

please email me my comment notifications RIGHT NOW!
No love,

Oceana


2. Dear Coach Hamptons Weekend Travel Satchel,

I know you are eagerly waiting to be bought buy me. I'm sorry to inform you that you'll have to wait some longer, since I cannot find 350$ for a bag in my budget right now, even if you have pink straps.

So sorry,

Oceana


3. Dear Awesomeness,

thank you so much for inventing Puppy Curling. My life wouldn't have been the same without it.

Love,

Oceana

I really really want to marry Jessica Alba.