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[adiva_calandia]

So I was looking up ambrosia and nectar in Wikipedia for a tag I was writing this morning, which led me to ichor, which led me to The Dunwich Horror, which led me to the library to pick up some Lovecraft for the hell of it. Yay?

I also picked up some books for the paper I'm gonna be writing. I was originally gonna do it on pirate kangaroo courts, but I'm not sure I know where to look for resources on that, so I'm gonna go back to my original idea of exploring how thieves' cant and other slang worked as a method of separating the socially deviant underworld from the rest of society. Which sounds so much better than "I'm using this paper as an excuse to learn thieves' cant for a character I roleplay online," doesn't it?

I need to make a Milliways post about zombies later, but I have to write this paper proposal and work out first.

Man, I already miss working on MacB. *sadface* It was so nice to feel involved in theatre again.

So I have this theory about all these classic rock songs from Supernatural. The rhythm of them fundamentally implies motion; they're all in very steady 4/4, at a pace that very often equals a brisk walking pace, at least for me. I'm not sure if my legs are just exactly the right length or what, but if I listen to them while walking, I'm pretty much always stepping on the beat.

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Re: PS

[the_croupier]

Actually, if you want to get insanely technical about it, it wasn't even born in Detroit, but in a teeny little community called Belleville, halfway between Detroit and Ann Arbor, which is where Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson and Derrick May grew up.

And if you'd ever been there? You could see why they'd be motivated to find anything, anything, to make their lives more interesting. =)

Re: PS

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, Rick, you rock my world so damn hard. The fact that you even know what I'm TALKING ABOUT makes me love you all the more. I was thinking of people like Jeff Mills, too!

I bet you like Green Velvet. You like Green Velvet, don't you.

Re: PS

[the_croupier]

I haven't heard a lot of GV? But 'La La Land' never stops being funny. So I've liked what I've heard!

Re: PS

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Green Velvet's been around since the mid nineties! He's got a degree in chemical engineering from UC Berkeley, even. Everything he puts out is awesome. But also? He's a supremely excellent DJ. He puts up mixes and podcasts frequently over on his MySpace page. I'm sort of sad that he shifted all of the content from his website over to MySpace, because his website was beautifully designed. He does everything from hardcore funk techno to trance to just all out INSANITY.

I will never be able to say the phrase "is a BALLOON" again without laughing hysterically, thanks to Green Velvet.