I'd be curious to know the story behind my lj friends' user names.

I'll start.

'luxlis' is probably only the second user name I have ever had and I have used it since I was about 14 or 15. My first user name, which I used in a couple of trivia game chat rooms, was josiecotton. Josie Cotton was the name of the female singer of the band (or was it the name of the entire band?) that plays the prom in the fantabulous 80s movie Valley Girl. I came up with the name luxlis in a big hurry one day. I was trying to think of something that would be short and simple that no one else would have used so that I wouldn't have to tack on some random numbers to the end and I looked frantically around the room and saw a copy of The Virgin Suicides. I love the book, but I especially loved the name Lux Lisbon. It's such an awesome name... it's sounds like a super hero. So I shortened the Lisbon part to 'lis' and the rest is history. It was only later that it dawned on me that the name has a sort of emo-ish, depressing connotation since the Lux character in the book commits suicide, but that isn't why I picked it... I just liked the name. I kind of like that I've been using it for so long... it's got some history for me now.

"List five songs that you are currently digging ... it doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words or even if they're any good but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artist and the song in your blog along with your five songs. Then tag five other people to see what they're listening to."


1) The District Sleeps Alone Tonight by The Postal Service
2) I Want You Back by Jackson 5
3) Short Skirt, Long Jacket by Cake
4) Good Ol' Fashioned Lover Boy by Queen
5) Feel Good Inc. by Gorillaz



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Movie whore meme from writergeekgirl:

1. Take this list and post it into your own LJ, and mark the movies you've seen (in bold).
2. Add five more movies to the end of the list.
3. Count how many you have seen. If you've seen more than 100 movies, you are a Movie Whore. Post the score of how many movies you've seen in the subject line.
4. Use a LJ-cut since you've got at least one LJ-friend who doesn't really want to see an ungodly number of movies snaking its way down the computer monitor (now at 358).
5. (optional) Question your friend's taste in movies (cuz you can).

( The List )

Sometimes I think I'm weird in that when I see a movie I really like... as in one that will probably make it into my top 10 or 15 of all time list... I don't like talking about it for a while. It's like I need to keep it inside of me and process it before I want to discuss it with other people. It seems like it should be the opposite... that if you are so excited about something that you would want to talk about it with everybody.

One of the movies that I watched recently was Amélie... and, yeah, I loved it. And I know everyone has seen it, like, a million years ago, but I hadn't and I thought it was beautiful. Movies like this make me realize why doing something as silly as the Monday Night Movie Club is kind of important. I almost used Amélie for an MNMC review, but everything I wrote sounded too flippant and dismissive so I used another movie.

So... in celebration of Amélie I present my list of Likes and Dislikes:

Dislikes:

- When a tv station screws up and plays the same commercial twice in a row

- Tearing the roof of my mouth up on Cap'n Crunch cereal

- The phrase "...and whatnot"

- Watching people sing earnestly a la American Idol or Jessica Simpson

- Sitting down in a seat that is still warm from the previous occupant

Likes:

- Watching people fall down... especially at ice skating rinks

- Driving in barefeet

- Studying the used wax strips after I wax my eyebrows

- The way Norm from the New Yankee Workshop says 'measured drawing'.

- Saying the word 'tintinnabulation'

And I invite any and/or all of my friends to share their 'List a la Amelie' too.

from aemilia_parker

Haughty Intellectual You are 57% Rational, 0% Extroverted, 28% Brutal, and 85% Arrogant.

You are the Haughty Intellectual. You are a very rational person, emphasizing logic over emotion, and you are also rather arrogant and self-aggrandizing. You probably think of yourself as an intellectual, and you would like everyone to know it. You may have an unhealthy obsession with yourself, and consider yourself God's gift to the world, thus causing everyone to hate you for being such an elitist twat. On top of all that, you are also introverted and gentle. This means that you are just a quiet thinker who wants fame and recognition, in all likelihood. Rather lacking in emotion, introspective, gentle, and arrogant, you are most certainly a Haughty Intellectual! And, most likely, you will never achieve the recognition or fame you so desire! Sweet! ( Read more... ) With those credentials who wouldn't want to be my best friend? So... form an orderly queue everyone.

Since it's prom season (and since I'm bored and require entertainment)...

Tell me a prom story. Funny. Not so funny. Yours. Someone else's. Completely made up.

Let's hear it.

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My prom non-story:

I didn't go to prom. Everyone kept telling me that I would regret not going, but I still don't regret it yet.

However, I did go to after-prom and won a tv and vcr. Suh-weet.

And I got into a battle of wills with a magician.

Love Me, Hate My Music

Here's the game... Behind the cut are at least three songs by three different artists that I like but am normally ashamed to admit that I like. If you click, you must post the same meme in your LJ with your own shameful choices. You must also leave a comment if you like one of my picks.

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You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451. Which book do you want to be?
If you've not read it or seen the film then you need to know this is a novel of a future world where fascist anti-intellectualism rules and dissidents take it upon themselves to memorize and thus become a book, a perpetuation of a treasured work of learning or literature, against the day when it is safe once again to think freely.

Hmmmm...Chuck Palahniuk seems appropriate here. Perhaps Diary... the need to leave a written record of your existence? Or Survivor... for its message about identity.

Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character in a piece of literature?

Too many.

I have always had a crush on Atticus Finch from To Kill A Mockingbird. Also, for more giggly reasons, Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice and the Count of Monte Cristo.

The last book you bought is:

The Collector by John Fowles

The last book you read:

The Collector by John Fowles

What are you currently reading?

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clark
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes

Five books you would take to a deserted island:

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Sailing Alone and Around the Room by Billy Collins
Naked by David Sedaris


Who are you going to pass this stick to (3 persons) and why?

aemilia_parker, happystatic, and thelben...obviously they are not obligated to do this survey, but I am curious and nosy about their answers : )

What books have you read this year?
1. Schott's Food and Drink Miscellaney by Ben Schott
2. Diary by Chuck Palahniuk
3. Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
4. Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland by Chuck Palahniuk
5. Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
6. Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
7. A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George
8. Mall by Eric Bogosian
9. The Collector by John Fowles

What are you reading now?
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
A High Wind In Jamaica by Richard Hughes
Blue Blood by Edward Conlon

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