...to win mushroom grow-kits. That raffle is international, so you can take part too if you want.
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Nia-TV
Yep. My favourite dance-workout has launched website, where you can among other things view instructed workout routines. (To be honest I haven't really checked out the "other things" yet.) It has a cost, but has two weeks free trial period. I've been meaning to test it all autumn long, but didn't really get round to it until now that my regular classes are on christmas break and my back is jamming from the lack of exercise. So, yesterday I finally decided to give it a try. My first test routine was called "Life", because it sounded vaguely familiar and I thought maybe someone whose classes I go to has had that routine recently. Actually no, but there was one familiar song on the playlist - by one of my fave instructors, who is also a singer-songwriter and I bought her album last year :D To be honest, even though I have rather long nia-history (12 years I think), my first thoughts with the chosen routine were "what kind of holy smoke hippie thing this is?" and I had trouble following some instructions - partly because I couldn't get the video to full screen mode so lower part of it seemed to be cut out (and that might have been my own problem. Unless the video really was shot weird). It wasn't so bad after all, and I think I will have to return to it some day (especially if I want to workout but easy and light - or see if I get something else out of it once the movements get more familiar), but thought I'd test some other routines first. So, today I picked "Wild" that had promising name - and it turned out to be faster, easier to follow and some of the songs (and moves) were familiar from those classes I regularly go to. That was fun and sweaty - I definitely will return to that one, especially if I want enhance blood circulation in my back!
Watching (ordinary) TV
Slowly getting through last season of Bones that I saved already on spring/early summer but haven't really gotten round watching until I had finished second-last season of Pretty Little Liars. I don't think the later seasons of Bones are as amusing as the old ones, but doesn't it feel like being around old friends watching the familiar characters...
Some new thing found was Jack Taylor, shown on the regular British crime show-slot, though this time it's Irish. First episodes seemed to be ridiculously tough Hard-Boiled Detective -genre (that reminded me of Dresden Files, that turkey), though third one dealing with irish sore spots like Magdalene Sisters took several steps towards noir of Hinterland, and was actually interesting. I wouldn't mind it staying more in that direction, though let's see what the other episodes turn out to be.
Gig-blog
Sent Kimi link to my review of the Lord Vicar gig and pics, he thanked and had shared the link on on Lord Vicar's official page almost immediately. Before I left for work in the evening, the visitor-count showed that the page had gotten about 40 hits within just matter of minutes, and today the visitor count is well over 200 O_O
It's moments like this I wonder if I should activate AdSense in my gig blog and start sharing the link every time I post. Then I remember my tendency to writer's block, that I wanted to keep the posting barrier in the blog low and post what I wanted. And the annoying social media drama last year when one gig organiser got annoyed for not only that I had dared to share the link on the event's page but that I had dared to write at all and one drummer got upset for that I had actually liked his playing and said it but not praised it in such way that would have pleased him (or whatever the fuck was the reason - he kept giving me stink-eye every time he saw me for months after that review, and at first thanks to face-blindness I didn't even know who he was, except that he had something against me). Of course it seems funny now, but it really wasn't then, and I don't think I would be able to handle social media drama more often. (Especially if some gig organisers get upset and decide I'm not welcome to their shows anymore, though to be honest more organisers have been just pleased of someone going to their events, taking and sharing pics.)
Yep. My favourite dance-workout has launched website, where you can among other things view instructed workout routines. (To be honest I haven't really checked out the "other things" yet.) It has a cost, but has two weeks free trial period. I've been meaning to test it all autumn long, but didn't really get round to it until now that my regular classes are on christmas break and my back is jamming from the lack of exercise. So, yesterday I finally decided to give it a try. My first test routine was called "Life", because it sounded vaguely familiar and I thought maybe someone whose classes I go to has had that routine recently. Actually no, but there was one familiar song on the playlist - by one of my fave instructors, who is also a singer-songwriter and I bought her album last year :D To be honest, even though I have rather long nia-history (12 years I think), my first thoughts with the chosen routine were "what kind of holy smoke hippie thing this is?" and I had trouble following some instructions - partly because I couldn't get the video to full screen mode so lower part of it seemed to be cut out (and that might have been my own problem. Unless the video really was shot weird). It wasn't so bad after all, and I think I will have to return to it some day (especially if I want to workout but easy and light - or see if I get something else out of it once the movements get more familiar), but thought I'd test some other routines first. So, today I picked "Wild" that had promising name - and it turned out to be faster, easier to follow and some of the songs (and moves) were familiar from those classes I regularly go to. That was fun and sweaty - I definitely will return to that one, especially if I want enhance blood circulation in my back!
Watching (ordinary) TV
Slowly getting through last season of Bones that I saved already on spring/early summer but haven't really gotten round watching until I had finished second-last season of Pretty Little Liars. I don't think the later seasons of Bones are as amusing as the old ones, but doesn't it feel like being around old friends watching the familiar characters...
Some new thing found was Jack Taylor, shown on the regular British crime show-slot, though this time it's Irish. First episodes seemed to be ridiculously tough Hard-Boiled Detective -genre (that reminded me of Dresden Files, that turkey), though third one dealing with irish sore spots like Magdalene Sisters took several steps towards noir of Hinterland, and was actually interesting. I wouldn't mind it staying more in that direction, though let's see what the other episodes turn out to be.
Gig-blog
Sent Kimi link to my review of the Lord Vicar gig and pics, he thanked and had shared the link on on Lord Vicar's official page almost immediately. Before I left for work in the evening, the visitor-count showed that the page had gotten about 40 hits within just matter of minutes, and today the visitor count is well over 200 O_O
It's moments like this I wonder if I should activate AdSense in my gig blog and start sharing the link every time I post. Then I remember my tendency to writer's block, that I wanted to keep the posting barrier in the blog low and post what I wanted. And the annoying social media drama last year when one gig organiser got annoyed for not only that I had dared to share the link on the event's page but that I had dared to write at all and one drummer got upset for that I had actually liked his playing and said it but not praised it in such way that would have pleased him (or whatever the fuck was the reason - he kept giving me stink-eye every time he saw me for months after that review, and at first thanks to face-blindness I didn't even know who he was, except that he had something against me). Of course it seems funny now, but it really wasn't then, and I don't think I would be able to handle social media drama more often. (Especially if some gig organisers get upset and decide I'm not welcome to their shows anymore, though to be honest more organisers have been just pleased of someone going to their events, taking and sharing pics.)
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anwyn_elfmaiden's)
If there are one or more people on your friends list who make your world a better place just because they exist, and who you would not have met (in real life or not)
without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.
LJ did make world a better place in its heyday - recently Facebook has been reminding me of being friends for 10 years there with several such people I had originally met via LJ. People from different countries, even different continents, who I wouldn't have met without internet and specially LJ, some of whom I've met in real life and even if I haven't, have kept contact for several years.
anwyn_elfmaiden's)If there are one or more people on your friends list who make your world a better place just because they exist, and who you would not have met (in real life or not)
without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.
LJ did make world a better place in its heyday - recently Facebook has been reminding me of being friends for 10 years there with several such people I had originally met via LJ. People from different countries, even different continents, who I wouldn't have met without internet and specially LJ, some of whom I've met in real life and even if I haven't, have kept contact for several years.
Swallow the Sun released their triple album yesterday that I'm curious about, and I have usually liked Swallow the Sun anyway.
Then I've been thinking about getting that Skepticism's "Ordeal", that was released in September already - and recorded live in front of audience, that also I was part of, in January. I don't own much Skepticism on album, as it requires certain state of mind to listen, and listening it from the album is still very different experience from really heavy and cathartic live experience. However, having seen and heard "Ordeal" live already when it was recorded makes it interesting to hear in comparison.
Then I've been reading very good reviews about My Dying Bride's new album and was wondering should I buy it or not. I confess "Dreadful Hours" (back in 2001) has been probably last MDB-album that truly impressed me, and even if I've bought quite a bunch of new stuff that has come since then, it has felt somehow faceless - I have listened to them for a while and then forgotten them to shelf. If I feel like listening to MDB, I usually pick something old. (And I confess they have also fallen off my radar quite a bit - every time I go to record store, it seems there's some new releases by MDB that I hadn't even heard of, but then quite some of them seem to be maybe lives and collections). So I'm sort of pondering would this new album be any different and/or would buying it in lump with a lot of other slow and depressing stuff overshadow it. Well at least I like the glass window-style cover art... And then on the other hand, if I was buying Skepticism also for support, why not MDB as well?
Apparently also Dark Buddha Rising has released something that got praising reviews. They were so impressing live that listening them from the album would be (again) very different. So, not sure will I buy it or not. Maybe later.
Also, Facebook has few times advertised me new album by Draconian. I reviewed their two first albums for Imperiumi about a decade ago, and actually remember liking them, but they also got overshadowed by Swallow the Sun, and me keeping reviewing a lot of stuff then, so I don't really know what they've been up to later. So every once in a while I keep thinking should I check them out or not. (Also, not going to buy their album in a lump with others, but will listen to recommendations if someone has them.)
Then I've been thinking about getting that Skepticism's "Ordeal", that was released in September already - and recorded live in front of audience, that also I was part of, in January. I don't own much Skepticism on album, as it requires certain state of mind to listen, and listening it from the album is still very different experience from really heavy and cathartic live experience. However, having seen and heard "Ordeal" live already when it was recorded makes it interesting to hear in comparison.
Then I've been reading very good reviews about My Dying Bride's new album and was wondering should I buy it or not. I confess "Dreadful Hours" (back in 2001) has been probably last MDB-album that truly impressed me, and even if I've bought quite a bunch of new stuff that has come since then, it has felt somehow faceless - I have listened to them for a while and then forgotten them to shelf. If I feel like listening to MDB, I usually pick something old. (And I confess they have also fallen off my radar quite a bit - every time I go to record store, it seems there's some new releases by MDB that I hadn't even heard of, but then quite some of them seem to be maybe lives and collections). So I'm sort of pondering would this new album be any different and/or would buying it in lump with a lot of other slow and depressing stuff overshadow it. Well at least I like the glass window-style cover art... And then on the other hand, if I was buying Skepticism also for support, why not MDB as well?
Apparently also Dark Buddha Rising has released something that got praising reviews. They were so impressing live that listening them from the album would be (again) very different. So, not sure will I buy it or not. Maybe later.
Also, Facebook has few times advertised me new album by Draconian. I reviewed their two first albums for Imperiumi about a decade ago, and actually remember liking them, but they also got overshadowed by Swallow the Sun, and me keeping reviewing a lot of stuff then, so I don't really know what they've been up to later. So every once in a while I keep thinking should I check them out or not. (Also, not going to buy their album in a lump with others, but will listen to recommendations if someone has them.)
Night before last night I had a dream that involved running cuckatoos. That sweet dream was brutally interrupted by alarm going off ass o'clock, because I had work shift starting at six.
Last night I had a dream that my friend's chinchilla had escaped and gone missing - and then was found under our porch, and because it was cold outside the chinchilla had dressed himself into a doll-cardigan and a matching, if somewhat hipstery wooly cap, and looked just stinkingly cute. (Oh, and in real life my friend's chinchillas are both black and not grey like the chinchilla in my dream was - though we both had grey chinchillas when we were little. None of them showed hipstery fashion sense, though.)
Have come across in some blogs papery journalling into calendars, drawing some pictures beside few words of each day. (The blog I first read about it called that type of journalling "hobonichi" or "fauxbonichi" depending on whether it's kept on a japanese calendar or into western calendar or notebook of same style, but it turned out that at least term "fauxbonichi" refers to a certain type of file or folio to keep your notebooks arranged rather than style of journalling, so I don't really know what to call that style). As that journalling style looks nice and I've badly fallen back on keeping real life diary these days, I sort of challenged myself to test such journalling for one month that happens to be May. Just few everyday things, like was I at work or off, what did I eat (as that seemed to be very important content of examples seen in blogs) or watch from telly, and if I don't feel like writing, then drawing more pictures. It wasn't intended to be a dream journal, but as I had shortage of content yesterday, I drew a running cuckatoo, and I guess today I must draw the chinchilla from my dream.
Last night I had a dream that my friend's chinchilla had escaped and gone missing - and then was found under our porch, and because it was cold outside the chinchilla had dressed himself into a doll-cardigan and a matching, if somewhat hipstery wooly cap, and looked just stinkingly cute. (Oh, and in real life my friend's chinchillas are both black and not grey like the chinchilla in my dream was - though we both had grey chinchillas when we were little. None of them showed hipstery fashion sense, though.)
Have come across in some blogs papery journalling into calendars, drawing some pictures beside few words of each day. (The blog I first read about it called that type of journalling "hobonichi" or "fauxbonichi" depending on whether it's kept on a japanese calendar or into western calendar or notebook of same style, but it turned out that at least term "fauxbonichi" refers to a certain type of file or folio to keep your notebooks arranged rather than style of journalling, so I don't really know what to call that style). As that journalling style looks nice and I've badly fallen back on keeping real life diary these days, I sort of challenged myself to test such journalling for one month that happens to be May. Just few everyday things, like was I at work or off, what did I eat (as that seemed to be very important content of examples seen in blogs) or watch from telly, and if I don't feel like writing, then drawing more pictures. It wasn't intended to be a dream journal, but as I had shortage of content yesterday, I drew a running cuckatoo, and I guess today I must draw the chinchilla from my dream.
Had a dentist today, and anesthesia feels only to get stronger when more time passes :P Also heading for evening shift today, I really hope it would get easier before that - and at least enough so I can have lunch before shift! (Just noticed I've been likely biting my tongue for last half an hour and felt nothing, uhh...) Actually there had been some discussion of meeting Anna today for lunch, but I already sent her message about other forthcoming lunch dates, not knowing if I'm in lunch condition today.
...I think I mentioned how weird it felt when the funfair had that disco-techno song with repetitive "he's a motherfucker"-lyrics. Well, apparently someone has decided it's very suitable song for kids, as today I went geocaching with Heidi, and we passed a big Street Basket-event for schoolkids - and there was the motherfucker-song blasting again from the sponsor's truck!
Oh, and this new layout doesn't let me send the post. Meh!
Oh, and this new layout doesn't let me send the post. Meh!
...Now there's also slightly different friendzy I was told about - looking for penpals instead of new LJ-pals.
http://cappuccinotogo.livejournal.com/66457.html
http://cappuccinotogo.livejournal.com/66457.html
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LJ did make world a better place in its heyday -
I missed much of that as I only got on here in 2009 or so. I've met some nice folks online and enjoy reading and 'talking' with them. I have…