"it is complete now, two ends of time are neatly tied"

[thanate]

(and can anyone tell me what that song is actually about?)

Item 1: went to doll show (social points! with my mother! shocking!) and saw many worthy things and only bought a box of doll stands for the barbies, some of whom are getting squished feet &/or hair from standing and learning against things. There were several doll pocket watches of a good size for kittymaru, but they all seemed to average in the $100 price range, which seemed somewhat excessive. First prize for disturbing (even after the antique ceramic screaming baby dolls) goes to the small blue box labled "This box contails a Live Baby Rabbit." And if it actually had when new, one hates to think what state the rabbit would be in at this point... (it had a sign glued to the box bottom saying something along the lines of "well it did, he must have gotten away")

Item 2: my little brother, who as a few of you know got into his first car accident and crunched the hood slightly on the way here from thanksgiving, is still here... the car is totalled, due to the cumulative cost of replacing all the headlights and front supports and junk. So he needs the title mailed to him from Rochester before he can go on to the replacing it and all that... but in the mean time, someone pestered him into sending out another resume, from which he's gotten a reference to someplace that actually does want new-but-competent programmers for something related to real computer games (which is what he wants to do, and will be terribly good at if he ever gets out and gets a job) and that so far seems like a really good match if it works out. Although it'll mean his living about on the fault line in Santa Clara/San Jose. Which'll be really bad someday, but so it goes.

Item 3: social points for tomorrow involve getting out of the house slightly before nine-ish to meet fishy1 and metro up to drive out to a girls-only "toy" party hosted by friends of the pooka798 & sarah. I'm so confused why I've gotten involved in this one. Oh well. Should be entertaining, or at least girly... it's probably one of those cultural blocks to check off, like going to a mary kaye party, just so you know what you're missing. So, sorry, dante_di_pietro, I shall once again not come out to discuss the histories and the fencings. (But when/if you ever get to quarterstaff, I'm totally there.) And I shall not be calling up Barrett and going out to see him this weekend (not, of course, that he would know I was thinking of it, not being online at all) but there was much of the cookieness, and there's a container of them in the freezer for him when I do get around to it.

...and I found another excellent christmas carol: Remember o thou man (Thomas Ravenscroft, written in 1611) Verses 2-5 are perfectly ordinary. But verse 1 is easter-ish and totally unprovoked. "...remember o thou man how thou art dead and gone..." hee!

Comments

Tomorrow Wendy

[scraun23.livejournal.com]

From the somewhat confused comments at the beginning of the live version on Still in Hollywood it's about someone dying of AIDS that chooses to take her own life instead of dying of the disease. Though the lyrics could just as easily apply to the condition of life in general, which is also an invariably fatal disease.

Re: Tomorrow Wendy

[grauwulf.livejournal.com]

when I saw concrete blond last time Janette told a the story about the song. It was a friend of Jim's who had decided to take her own life. as close as I can remember it she said something to the effect of

"I don't, we don't, condone sucide. I do believe in the strength of the human spirit, and the right of an individual to gracefully say goodbye to those that they love and spare them the pain of watching somebody die a little more every day. Thats a kind of strength that nobody else can understand, but we can respect it."

so yeah

Re: Tomorrow Wendy

[thanate.livejournal.com]

So not that I've ever gotten as far as actually looking up the lyrics or anything, but for some reason suicide was totally not what I got out of that song. fascinating. thanks.