Profound or obvious? I don't know, but it's got a danceable beat.

[truepenny]

So, for reasons known to no one (bad brain chemistry? bad conjunction of planets?) I am having a lousy day, with that special Eeyore kind of glumness that feels like standing up to your ankles in cold mud while rain drips down the back of your neck and you wait for the bus to take you to the first day back from Christmas vacation of your eighth grade year.

Yeah. That.

Ergo, I was doing, for my own dim entertainment, the meme that heresluck just posted about (Jungle Jim would be the name of my band, and the album would be Phone Calls Taper Off, in case you were wondering), and the quote up from the Johnny Carson quote that produced the album title was this:

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
--Andy Warhol

And that is so goddamned true I had to post it.

Comments

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

You are my favorite porpentine.

So there.

[heresluck]

Focus on the purple flowers, o fretful porpentine!

Phone Calls Taper Off is a pretty good album title, actually. I did a few more iterations of the meme and got some great results, though not all at once. The best combo was a band called Holly the Ghost with an album titled Telekinetics Raise My Hand; unfortunately the image did not live up to it.

Possibly we should form a band called Kittens With Balloons...

[maureenkspeller.livejournal.com]

am having a lousy day, with that special Eeyore kind of glumness that feels like standing up to your ankles in cold mud while rain drips down the back of your neck and you wait for the bus to take you to the first day back from Christmas vacation of your eighth grade year.

I know the feeling only too well. It seems to have been something about yesterday. Let's hope today is much better.

[elisem.livejournal.com]

Hmm. My bands are:

Hotel Majapahit
album title: "name will live forever"
(picture of dead leaves on a lake)

Gobowen Railway Station
album title: "out your front door"
(arty picture of half of a woman's face in shadow)

Modern Green Grammar
album title: "an exceptionally good liar"
(picture of a blue mountain over a rushing steelblue sea with dramatic skies)

Interesting. I like "phone calls taper off" better than mine, though.

department of porpentine-cheering

[arkuat]

So I found and abandoned a copy-put-up-for-sale of Melusine at The Other Change of Hobbit while my friends were encouraging me to visit there. And I flirted with that copy for a little while and left it abandoned. Later I came back to buy it and found the book-Keeper's place was closed that day. I came back yet again with another friend, and bought that copy and took it home and read it.

And then the Obble made sure I could read The Virtu soon after I had finished reading Melusine.

And hey, presto! Look, another Sarah Monette fan is born!