Ten Little Chances to be Free

A year. A freaking year of the big computer being broken and having nothing but a netbook that can't install software and can't play music. Now it's finally fixed I have a bunch of last.fm artist recommendations that I want to follow up on, and... I don't know where to go. So, friends-list poll: if you download music, how do you do it?

Before my computer had an accident with a cup of tea, I got my musical theater and classical and opera mostly from LJ communities, and used DC++ for my goth fix. Tried torrents a couple of times but couldn't get them to work. I assume the LJ comms are still around; I've applied for membership at a couple of goth mp3-sharing comms, but none of them look very active, so I need suggestions. Easy ways to get torrents to work? P2P clients that aren't disgustingly spyware-ridden? Or, if any of you happen to partially share my taste in music, blogs or LJ comms where I can download all the House of Usher and Black Tape for a Blue Girl my little heart desires?

Bonus guess-the-lyrics music meme, based not on random playlist shuffling but on songs that have been stuck in my head recently.

1. It's a rip in the bustle and a rustle in the hay / and I'll pitch the quick fantastic / with flings of confetti and my petticoats a-way up high - The Miller's Son from A Little Night Music, mmebahorel

2. Because we may be the haunted men / but we will hold our heads up when / we're walking down the street of dreams

3. Will you bury me deep? / I must never be found / when at last I find sleep / and I'm cold in the ground

4. Aux clartés des étoiles / je crois encore la voir / entr'ouvrir ses longs voiles / aux vents tièdes du soir

5. Moments lost though time remains / I am so proud of what we were / no pain remains, no feeling / Eternity awaits Beloved - VNV Nation, mmejavert

6. In ancient times, if you were sick / they make you bleed / oh honey I know it hurts

7. Cupid from his favour'd nation / Care and envy shall remove / Jealousy that poisons passion / And despair that dies for love

8. I see no signals, I see no signs / this is our life that's undermined / It's just six before dawn / and the waves come crashing down, come crashing down

9. The history of the world, my pet / is learn forgiveness and try to forget - Sweeney Todd finale, viorica8957

10. We found you hiding, we found you lying / choking on the dirt and sand / Your former glories and all the stories / dragged and washed with eager hands

Because I haven't done a meme in ages, yoinking this off la_signora.

∙ Go to IMDb.com and look up 10 movies you love.
∙ Post 3 official IMDb "Plot Keywords" for these 10 picks.
∙ Have your friends guess the movie names.

1. Vow Of Chastity / Decadence / Dream Sequence Quills (pocapiccolina)

2. Fish Out Of Water / Loneliness / Ice Sculpture Edward Scissorhands (glamourcorpse)

3. Propaganda / Fireworks / Piccadilly Circus London V for Vendetta (elyse24601)

4. Hand Grenade / Dehumanization / Birthday Party Napola (pocapiccolina)

5. Corset / Rescue From Drowning / Anti Hero Pirates of the Caribbean (glamourcorpse)

6. Severed Hand / Giant Worm / Father Son Relationship The Empire Strikes Back (brouhaha)

7. Toaster / Shot To Death / Nose Bleeding Pulp Fiction (pocapiccolina)

8. Stapler / Embezzlement / Traffic Jam Office Space (glamourcorpse)

9. Asylum / Laughter / Powdered Wig Amadeus (glamourcorpse)

10. Stabbed In The Shoulder / Impalement / Male Bonding

Tagged by duva.

The rules:
Once tagged by this entry, the assignment is to write a journal entry for this meme with six random facts about yourself. Then, pick six of your Flist and tag them - no tag backs. These rules should be included in your entry.

1. Despite being raised on baseball (as the previous entry indicates), I cannot hit a real pitch. At some point I hit the age where things were divided into boys-only baseball leagues and girls-only softball leagues, got shunted into softball, and was forced to re-learn batting with underhanded softball pitches. (I hate softball. What a fucking wussy substitute for real baseball.)

2. My first obsession ever was The Little Mermaid.

3. I will occasionally stay up all night for no reason whatsoever. Like tonight.

4. I've dreamed in French, but never German. Which is odd, because my command of French is mostly passive (reading), whereas I can actually hold a conversation in German.

5. I think Pascal's triangle is one of the shiniest things in the history of evar.

6. There is a crazy and possibly rabid squirrel outside my window this very moment, plundering the bird feeder.

I tag no one. Steal it if you want it.

Another music-uploading meme: your username, spelled out in the first letters of song titles.

Lullaby - The Cure
Emprisonnée, L' - Dark Sanctuary
This Vicious Cabaret - David J
It Couldn't Please Me More - Cabaret
Temps des Cathédrales, Le - Notre-Dame de Paris
Amarilli, mia bella - Cecilia Bartoli
Lady Stardust - David Bowie
Lügner - Tanzwut
Glitter and be Gay - Candide
Our great Mikado, virtuous man - The Mikado

I recommend... oh, hell, I recommend all of them, but I'm particularly pleased at having dug up This Vicious Cabaret.  Former Bauhaus member singing a song from the V for Vendetta comic, how shiny is that?

Yoinked from sweeneytodd: What are your most unpopular fandom-related opinions? Do not be afraid. List at least five things.

( Oh boy. )

The anonymous meme, because Lulu poked me into it. Ten comments made to ten people, and I'll never tell who's who. Not all are on the flist, by the way.

( O, the mystery! Or not. )

*CHOKE*

( Okay, it's time for another round of Barricade Boy Googlism! )

P.S. The first result that pops up when you search Googlism for 'Victor Hugo?' "victor hugo is spinning in his grave."

It's been a while since I did a silly meme, isn't it? Personal Dna Report thingum.

Haha, it lies.  Confident and not prone to anxiety wtf?  Faith in others wtf?  Clothing guided by practical concerns?  Hahaha.  Okay, the rest is depressingly accurate, though.

(also that bio exam was teh ev0l omsb)

Comment on this post to request a drabble-fic (real drabble: 100 words exactly) from you. In return, they have to post this in their journal. Post the fandoms you're willing to write for.

Fandoms: Les Mis, Star Wars, Phantom of the Opera, Harry Potter, V for Vendetta, French revolution, His Dark Materials

BPAL makes me happy. :D Drama makes me unhappy. But I must still be in the thick of my LM obsession, because every time I'm in a bad mood and I open to a random page in my Brick, five minutes of reading and I already feel better. 78954 times more satisfying than the same couple dozen fanfictions over and over, and I'm not likely to get bored with it either. LM canon > LM fandom. Eeeeee.

Also a meme, for your entertainment:

1) Make a list of 15 characters first, and keep it to yourself for the moment. (That way you're not leading the questions asked to fit the characters.)

2) Ask your flist to post questions in the screened comments.

For example:

"4, 6, 12 & 15 are starting a band together, what is their name and what kind of music do they play? Also, who's the lead singer, and what instruments do the others play?" Or "2, 7, and 10 are stuck on a raft in the middle of the ocean and have run out of food. Who gets eaten first?"

3) After your flist has asked enough questions, round them up and answer them using the 15 characters you selected beforehand, and then post them.