Bored now.

[truepenny]

Bear explains post-novel ennui. Which is totally where I'm at right now. The back-to-back page proofs have kicked my ass, and I do not have enough brain right now to power a wind-up sloth.

And, yes, I'm bored.

The thing about writing is, you get used to being self-entertaining. Your brain gives you toys. And the problem with post-novel ennui is that you need the toys more than ever, and the toy box is empty. There's no there there, to quote Gertrude Stein. So you reach, and get nothing. Reach, and get nothing. Tell yourself to quit it and just relax already. Five minutes later--reach, and get nothing.

Yes. Scattershot and bored.

Be glad you don't have to live with me.

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[heresluck]

If I was there, I'd take you out bookstore-trolling, and then we'd have curry at LLX, and then there would have to be ice cream, and then we could come home and watch Slings & Arrows or Eddie Izzard or something else appropriately geeky, and then we could sing silly songs to the cats. *g*

heh heh

[selkith.livejournal.com]

how about a coin operated boy? That takes no brain power what-so-ever. Just put in a coin, and have fun ;). "Coin Operated Boy" by the Dresden Dolls, great song if you are not familiar. By the by, congrats on finishing the proofs, that's a bitch.

Yes, all that

[muneraven.livejournal.com]

For me, though, the brain toys I use to write are also my primary way of coping with the world. So while they never go away completely (okay they did once but we shall not speak of it), when I hit ennui, it is more like all the brain toys are broken. Like I am trying to play with an etch-a-sketch with no knobs, a deflated ball, and some Barbie dolls with broken legs.

It's just SAD. I become an imagination-urchin. I think my eyes get too big like those awful sad animal pictures. Waitresses and complete strangers in stores show me inappropriate sympathy and act motherly. It would be funny if it wasn't so disturbing.

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[poshlil.livejournal.com]

I second Coin Operated Boy. The song, or a real one.
Or a slinky. Slinkies are everlasting mindless amusement. Especially for one who owns cats as well as stairs. Trust me. :D

[beautifuldorian.livejournal.com]

I think I envy you. For me, the box is constantly overflowing and the little things that crawl out NEVER SHUT UP. Maybe if I wrote an entire novel - but by then it would have refilled with new ones. They breed at such unnatural rates.

(In that icon of yours, you look like someone I went to HS with, but unless you're only twenty three or so, you're not her. I only say something because her name was Sarah, too. We infest the world.)

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[beautifuldorian.livejournal.com]

I third this motion. That song is worth listening to for the lyrics even if you don't like the sound it has to it.

slinky + escalator = FUN x INFINITY

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[poshlil.livejournal.com]

Haha, yes. Coin Operated Boy amuses me enormously. Are you a fan of theirs? Because the lyrics of Missed Me amuse me in a similar way, if you never heard that one.

AT LAST! Someone who appreciates the true use of a slinky!! XD

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[beautifuldorian.livejournal.com]

Actually, my favorite song by the Dresden Dolls is 'Girl Anachronism'. It's kind of a theme song for me. I've never heard 'Missed Me'. I must now look for it.

And I have a cat that IS a slinky. That is, if you get her half asleep, she has no bones and will let you pretend she is an accordion or a slinky. It is highly amusing.

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[poshlil.livejournal.com]

I can send it, if you'd like. I love their stuff - Girl A was always up on my top list, but i think my absolute favourites are still Good Day and Half Jack. (though like everything of mine, it changes according to my mood *eyeroll*)

Haha, i want that cat. My cat likes to think he's a ninja or something, but he's about twice the size of a regular cat and makes elephant gallumphing noises when he jumps. As such, he never really manages to sneak up on me...

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[beautifuldorian.livejournal.com]

Thank you, but my leet internet skills have already seen it into my hands. I do like it, thank you!

I have another cat - Fatticus Finch. Fluffy monster of a thing, too old and dignified to gallop anywhere. At least, until we dose her with catmint.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I like your plan!

[allaboutm-e.livejournal.com]

:: pets you. carefully. in case you're channeling Vamp Willow a bit too much ::

Ways

[synsenielle.livejournal.com]

Reading's always good for boredom. Or drawing. I rarely get bored though, 'cause I always have something to do. *chuckles.* But maybe that comes with being a teenage writer with an extremely vivid imagination. ;) But, at least be glad ya finished another novel. ^_^ School always interfered with writing for me, 'cause the english teachers I've had always have been real bad teachers, and I haven't learned a damn thing about grammar, except the stuff that I managed to teach myself. @@ Anyhoo.... ^^; Hang in there. *pats*

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[selkith.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I am indeed familiar with that album, currently the only one I own. They are a very nice pairing with rasputina, and a few others, including oingo boingo, i have to agree that my fave dresden dolls song is "girl anachronism", though"missed me" is appealingly twisted, it would make a good apir with boingo's "Little Girls"

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[poshlil.livejournal.com]

That album's better than their other two, I think. There's some of Yes, Virginia that i really love, but overall the self-titled one seems better. :) And i've never heard Oingo Boingo - though i do know Rasputina. I particularly love Girl's School and (for some odd reason) Mayfly. I'll have to have a listen to this Little Girls.

heh heh, Boingo

[selkith.livejournal.com]

Oingo Boingo was the amazing group headed by none other than Danny Elfman, the man who does the music for all Tim Burton movies. He is a certified evil genius. he is also the man who was the singing voice for Jack Skellington in "The Nightmare Before Christmas". They also did the theme for the movie "Weird Science" titled the same, and the song "Dead Man's Party", which was featured in the Rodney Dangerfield movie, "Back to School". Check them out, if you like the Dresden Dolls and Rasputina, you'll probably like them, and they have a LOT of music out there. They started out as a theater group in San Fran called "The Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo" Rather Monty Python-esque.

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[poshlil.livejournal.com]

Excellent, shall do!

Oh, Weird Science. I remember that movie! The childhood nostalgia...