When I was thirteen, my favourite band was Take That. Mainly because they were the only one I'd heard of - and you had to have a favourite band, because when all your high school classmates asked you what kind of music you liked, "opera" wasn't an acceptable answer.

I was, overall, fairly clear about my taste in music. And remained so for several years.


Now?

My iPod includes:
- opera (still)
- Lily Allen
- the Bob the Builder soundtrack
- Billy Joel
- far too much country & western
- Jars of Clay
- Enya
- Madonna
- John Farnham
- The Dresden Dolls
- the Wicked soundtrack
- some acappella
- Queen
- Lady Gaga
- The Corrs
- Jonathan Coulton
- Evanescence
- Robbie Williams
- Avril Lavigne

What is my taste in music? I haven't got a clue. (But I don't like death metal or techno ...yet.)

I HAVE THE DOLLHOUSE DVD! WOO!

*is extremely thrilled*


I ALSO HAVE THE CD OF THE GERMAN BAND IN THIS VID!

*is dancing round the house to very funky music*


WOO!

1) There should so be a fanfic starring Tru Davies, George Lass, and Ned the Piemaker.**


** Virtual internet cookies to anyone who can name all three shows. (And if you can get two of them, you'll probably be able to guess an awful lot about the third...)



2) While I have a wide variety of reasons for not listening to some songs on the radio - such as crappy music, annoying lyrics, having those guys in the background who are just there to say the name of the singer at random point (usually "Beyonce!", or "Madonna!"), or so forth - I've now got one which is weirder than most.

Every time that "Romeo and Juliet" song comes on, I roll my eyes at someone comparing their love story to Romeo and Juliet and thinking that it's a romance rather than a tragedy, and I change the station - because I refuse to listen to the song until she goes back to uni and gets a better understanding of Shakespeare.



3) The backwards traffic lights outside Knox City now go forwards!

For those who have no idea what I mean (probably most of you): there's this one set of traffic lights, near my house, where the traffic light sequence is the complete opposite to normal - sort of like normal traffic lights go 'clockwise', and these go 'anti-clockwise', or something.

Except now they don't - they go the same way as all the others.

And it's weirding me out, because the Wrong Way Traffic Lights now go the Right Way, which is just completely wrong, and it feels very NOT RIGHT watching them going the Right Way, because they're supposed to go the Wrong Way, and it's all...

*whimpers*

1) It is my last day of holidays. On Monday I go back to work. *sobs piteously*

2) It's also exactly a year today since I, trembling with fear, posted my very first fanfic. Since then I have posted over 50 fics and 50 drabbles, written lots of meta, read even more meta, discussed old episodes, new comics, and various other shenanigans, got several dozen icons, and made quite a few friends on the other side of the world...

3) Out of the three cats I am well aquainted with, my parents' cat Rupert has the best purr, my sister's cat Max has the best will-you-pat-me-please meow, and Elf has the best oh-you're-patting-me-so-WELL stretch.
Must use my Science Lab Of DOOM to combine them all in one SuperCat.

4) For the first time in weeks, I have no dishes waiting to be washed, no dishes soaking in the sink, and no dishes in my drying rack. *feels very tidy and organised*

5) I love Killing Heidi and all their music.

6) Everyone seems to be posting Fic I Wrote This Year posts. But, given #2, I'd just end up linking everyone to my fic list, which is already fairly accessible...

7) My most popular post this year was on The Vegemite Effect, with 65 comments.
(Interestingly enough, my second most popular post was this one (59 comments), in which I lamented the lack of Lemon Lime and Bitters drinks outside Australia. My flist seems to have a fascination with Aussie food...)

8) The friendships that last for ages are never the ones you expected to.

9) Somewhere over the course of this year, I've actually started liking herbal tea. Oh the shame!

You know how there are some songs that, as soon as you hear the first few notes, you remember exactly what you were doing when you first heard the song?
Or, if the song is from a movie or a tv show, you suddenly really need to see that scene again so you can hear the song in its proper context?

This is really annoying me.

You see, there's this Dixie Chicks song.
And every time I hear the opening line, I go "Ooh! That's from an episode of Buffy!" and get an intense desire to watch that scene.

Unfortunately, I don't remember which scene it is.
Even more unfortunately, the song that plays in that scene isn't actually a Dixie Chicks song at all - they just happen to have an almost identical first line.

And I don't know what the actual song I'm thinking of is called, so I can't look that up to find out which episode it's from.
And I can't look up the episode to find out what song it is.

It's like an endless loop...

Dear Radio Station,

A brief vocabulary lesson for you: "breakfast" is a word we English speakers use to talk about a meal. In particular, a meal at the start of the day, usually eaten some time between 5am and 10am.
Logically, anything calling itself "breakfast radio" should be broadcasting around about the time that people tend to eat breakfast.

If I wanted to listen to breakfast radio, I'd listen at breakfast time. I don't want you playing repeats all afternoon just in case I missed something. I was trying to miss it.

Also, you advertise yourselves as a station that plays music from "the 80s, 90s, and today". Shouldn't that mean you occasionally... I don't know... play music, or something?
When I tried listening to you last night, I heard nothing but talking for twenty minutes straight. First it was ads, then it was the evening announcer guy, then it was a breakfast radio flashback, then it was ads, then it was some more of the breakfast radio flashback, then it was the evening announcer guy talking about how funny the flashback was... and then I switched stations.

Bring back my music.
Please?

You know how you can be listening to music, and not quite realise where it's up to?

I just found myself thinking "huh? Matchbox 20? How did they end up getting a cameo in Wicked?" before it occurred to me that the Wicked soundtrack had finished playing a while ago, and iTunes was now halfway through a different album...

 You know when you get a song stuck in your head, and no matter what you do you can't stop humming it?

Today it's the Crossing The Street song from PlaySchool.
Not the verse, just the chorus. You know:

Then you stop (yes you stop)
And you look (yes you look)
And you listen (nothing coming!)
Then you go...

It's interesting how little variation there is between different song names.

I just put the music on my computer in alphabetical order, on a whim. Here are the names of the first five songs:

All I Need
All I Really Want
All I'm Living For
All You Want
All You Wanted

And I really don't have a very extensive music collection.

As well as that, there are:
2 "Forgiven"s,
an "Everywhere" and an "Everything",
2 "Here With Me"s,
"Hello" and "Hello Old Friend",
"Like A Prayer", "Like A Virgin", and "Like You",
"The Only One" and "Only One",
"Sweet Misery" and "Sweet Sacrifice",
and finally,
"You Get Me" and "You Got Me"

Someone should write a thesis on this...

I finally caved, and bought the Firefly/Serenity soundtracks...

In other news, the movie "Stranger Than Fiction" is brilliant, and should be adored by all. Go see it!