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My life, let me show you it.
I spent the morning at my daughter's university graduation ceremony. We'd just gotten through the speechifying and had started in on the reading of names. She, luckily, was fifth (out of about 1500 or so), and they managed to get through the School of Education when the wind finally became unbearable. They brought things to a merciful end with a hasty "And the rest of you lot, you're all graduated, too," and sent us off. So, one child down, one to go. Unless we yield to irresistible temptation and drown him in a pond. Some days, I'd bet on the pond.
Thursday, I did a unique and speshul-snowflaky thing. A good friend of mine is the high school choir director at Golden (home of Coors beer, FYI), and it's the end of the school year. The natives are getting restless, in other words. So I worked up a 90-minute presentation on cover songs for the choir and the orchestra. They seemed to really get into it - I hit the high points (Nine Inch Nails, 50 Cent) and the low (Mrs Miller). They especially like Weird Al, apparently, and do not recognize The Rolling Stones at all. What are they teaching these kids nowadays??!
The schedule for Terminus is out! Who is giving a roundtable on Albus Severus/Scorpius?? Me! Who is giving said roundtable on the very last hour of the very last day?? Guessed it in one! I was concerned earlier this week about having enough space for all you slashers. Suddenly that worry has evaporated. I think the 2 or 3 of us left on Sunday at 4:00 will just head off to the bar and be done with it.
I'm still really into X Japan and Miyavi. I may commit bandfic. Let the mass defriending begin.
Thursday, I did a unique and speshul-snowflaky thing. A good friend of mine is the high school choir director at Golden (home of Coors beer, FYI), and it's the end of the school year. The natives are getting restless, in other words. So I worked up a 90-minute presentation on cover songs for the choir and the orchestra. They seemed to really get into it - I hit the high points (Nine Inch Nails, 50 Cent) and the low (Mrs Miller). They especially like Weird Al, apparently, and do not recognize The Rolling Stones at all. What are they teaching these kids nowadays??!
The schedule for Terminus is out! Who is giving a roundtable on Albus Severus/Scorpius?? Me! Who is giving said roundtable on the very last hour of the very last day?? Guessed it in one! I was concerned earlier this week about having enough space for all you slashers. Suddenly that worry has evaporated. I think the 2 or 3 of us left on Sunday at 4:00 will just head off to the bar and be done with it.
I'm still really into X Japan and Miyavi. I may commit bandfic. Let the mass defriending begin.
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No, I haven't got(ten) into Death Note, but I think I should. I've been really hooked into the relatively unknown mangakas so far. Tell me more...
And I will share Miyavi with you:
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Death Note is a great big plotty story about what happens when a very dilligent and brilliant student (Light Yagami) happens upon the power to kill anyone in the world by writing their name in a magical notebook (belonging to a Death God only he, as the holder of the notebook, can see) whilst picturing their face. He decides to change the entire world for the better using this tool - to murder criminals and evil-doers, and thus make people afraid to commit crimes. Which sounds good, almost...apart from the whole MASS MURDER element. Hmm.
Meanwhile, pitted against Light, is the equally brilliant, wildly eccentric (totally fucking adorable) 'L', the world's greatest detective. Who is determined to bring the mass murderer (who quickly becomes known as 'Kira', and acquires a massive cult following) to justice - and who just happens to be a scant handful of years older than Light.
What unfolds is an awesome, thrilling, convoluted and plotty (not to mention SLASHY LIKE WOAH) battle of wits and wills, as L tries to pin the murders on his Number 1 suspect, Light, and Light tries to outsmart (and kill) L in order to bring about his Utopian vision of a new world order.
There are oral fixations. There are handcuffs. There are twisty twists and turns and heartbreak and pathos and OMGWTF moments, and lashings of irony and slash slash slash coming out the wazoo. It is Made Of Awesome. It made me cry. It made me commit fic for the first time in months and months and months. I am at this very moment, in fact, wearing a Death Note wrist watch, and using a Death Note bag - for yea verily, I am a big geeky fangirl!
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I say Go Manga, Choose Manga! (I'm working my way through the anime at the moment, but in, you know, JAPANESE, which I don't actually speak. But the anime is possibly even more slashy than the manga, actually. Hmm. Apparently it airs on Adult Swim?)
The Manga is published by TokyoPop & I guess it's available in the manga section of All Good Book Stores, hopefully - it's v. well known.
And it has occurred to me that, as someone with a fondness for Draco, you're probably going to like Mello (who crops up later on in the story) really quite a fair bit.
::bounces::
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