So I decided that I'm going to compile an "episodic xena fanmix." The plan is to put together 6 volumes, 1 for each season, and have a song to represent every episode.
Awesome idea I think.
But(and this is where you guys come in), I can't do it alone. I'm gonna keep a list here of all the eps and cross them out as I get songs for each.
I'm looking for stuff that fits the general mood/theme/jist/idea of the episode, something that matches a scene that sticks out, or captures a character's experience.
So suggest me some songs!
The rundown:
~Credit will be given for each song I use that I got from someone else.
~Lyrics are preferred, but if it really fits, I might use an instrumental, so don't be afraid to suggest that.
~If you suggest something kind of obscure, please give a link to a download or youtube video or something, .m4a is fine.
~Songs used in the ep and ep titles that are songs don't count(too obvious)

SEASON 1 IS FILLED GUYS!!!!
SEASON 2 IS FILLED GUYS!!!!
SEASON 3 IS FILLED GUYS!!!!
SEASON 4 IS FILLED GUYS!!!!
( cut to hide the list )

it's funny. and then thought-provoking.






mmm, jenny is adorable

i actually went out on black friday. well, i should say i actually got sandra to go out on black friday! somebody call the history books(you heard me), this shit needs to be catalogued.
first we went to walmart at like 630. half of what i wanted was gone. actually, all of what i wanted was gone. they had a rock band set for $50. the whole fucking set. for fifty dollars! any surprise that they were gone? a friend of ours went out at midnight and stood next to the display until 5 am. at 4 she stayed in physical contact with one of the boxes til they could snag it. insanity. and the tv i wanted wasn't there anymore. the sheets sandra wanted...never did find where those were. but we got things. the cd i wanted for my mom for xmas was also gone(flyleaf).
disappointed about the tv we went to best buy.
and now there's cat puke. sigh.
anyways. best buy. wasn't too bad then. walmart lines were insane. barely any at best buy. got a 32" hd flatscreen LCD tv for $300. i wanted to get 2. one for out here and one for the xbox. cuz, hell yeah. i don't care if it is off-brand, i'm not picky bout that shit, it's 300 fucking dollars. but sandra couldn't stand to part with that much money. and of course a stand to put it on. which was half off. not bad. no games though, the only one left on sale that i wanted i have for ps2. and i'm not gonna pay $20 for a game i already have just cuz it's on a nicer platform.
sandra got some headphones that were on sale for i believe, half off as well.
was playing online poker last night and was kicking ass. not for money, oh no, i'm not that stupid. i had been down 3000 chips. but i made it all back in a couple hours last night. i was up, but now im' back down 200. but still, was awesome. and since i didn't buy a game or get one from work today(yet), i'll probably be doing that again for a while.

most likely won't be around during the next few days, as i suspect most of you in america won't. but i'm leaving this for you. one of the most beautiful, moving pieces of music i've ever heard. it exemplifies what it is about music that i love so, so much. on some days it actually moves me to tears from the sheer sadness and beauty of it. AND THERE'S NOT EVEN ANY WORDS.

a friend of sandra's came down this weekend. without going into it, she and her husband, whom she should have never married, and her friend came down to pick up some tires and rims for his truck. they went to the mall and sandra said she wanted some cookies from the mall. so i said lets go because THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN. i've been here 4 and a half years and i've been to the mall 4 times now, all of them were because someone else wanted to go. jaime and lisa wanted to shop for xmas, sarah wanted to get her bf a bday gift, jaime needed to stop at the bank in the mall, and now this past weekend. got some shirts, but my fucking god i wanted to punch sandra in the fucking face. she kept bitching at me the entire fucking time. i wanted to go to hot topic, why you want to go there, that's a kids store, are you a kid? FUCK YOU. she said that about some other store too, but i don't remember where else it was. but god damn, what the fuck bitch?
got a couple shirts from american eagle, they were on sale. and i was gonna get a labyrinth shirt, but i got bowser instead.:D bowser is the mother fucking king.
beat batman arkham asylum. bad ASS! game. going through now to grab all the bits and baubles i missed. i need to pick something that has live play. cuz this game doesn't, and wet didn't. to be fair though, i went in for borderlands, but they didn't have any copies. so i snagged batman instead. i gotta say, i fucking love the fact that harley is all over this game. harley has always been my favorite and she gets so often overlooked. AND most of the voices from the game are from batman ats, which is the only "right" version of batman in my mind. so to turn it on and hear bruce's voice and harley's voice and fucking mark hamill's joker voice, that's all i needed to know that it was gonna be good. and i wasn't let down. the game is awesome. poison ivy though, unfortunately, does not get the same actress. which is too bad cuz i loved ivy's voice. i loved everything about ivy. especially ivy and harley. mm, OH! i even got a little hint of subtext for ivy/harley in the one scene that they have together. which is so not enough, you hear me game developers! next batman game needs harley/ivy. next batman MOVIE needs harley/ivy. but man, their outfits....everybody else was pretty much the same. no catwoman or penguin or riddler(he has some involvement, but only audio). scarecrow was different, but eh, still basically the same, bane the same, joker definitely the same, ivy and especially harley....well, i'll just let photos say the rest.

( behind me is some serious eye candy, you may want to get a napkin )

memento mori

Rain
Rain
Raining all the time
Something's missing in me
Bleeding alone
Alone on this way
Alone in this way
Skies fall down
Down and down and down
Robbing my mind of fairytales
And wet dreams
Washing out my colors
Erasing all I know
All I am
Who am I now?
I'm lost now

half a cig and i am BUZZED. like, my gods. wth?

i've been bitching here and there about the drama at my job. but today....whooo. few times in my life have i been utterly speachless, tonight was one of them.
so, guy #1, he's not so bad, kinda dumb and has a bit of a temper, but it's mostly cuz he doesn't understand a whole lot and recently had a medication change that made him super cranky, so that may have been an issue in the past as well. he's a nice guy really, just a little loud.
guy #2, he's the one who'd been causing all the problems. he's done on a few things that at any other company would have been instant termination, no questions asked. except that HERE, not only does he keep his job, it appears that no disciplinary action was taken AT ALL. and lately, he's been trying to get us both fired for TRIVIAL shit, i.e. the yo yo incident. and he tried to write me up the other day cuz i wear a hooded sweat jacket most of the time because the company issued jacket is either just a windbreaker which is too light or a winter coat which is too heavy. and he's trying to get me in trouble for not wearing my "proper uniform." cept his ass wears his personal jacket half the time and i've seen him come in with a saints hat on a time or two. yeah that ain't proper uniform either asshole.
ANYWAYS. the jacket thing, on top of the yoyo bit was just...it's done. sandra was looking through the handbook and there's a bit in there about harrassment and a number for the regional employee relations manager.
so, she decided to give this account manager one last fuckign chance to do her job. so she emails her this afternoon and tells her EVERYTHING that's been happening. and they exchange emails for a while. basically, what it came to was the account manager saying she didn't know anything about what was going on cuz there were no incident reports from sandra or i, only ones from guy #2 complaining about us.
so she kinda panics it seems and digs up every IR, every piece of paperwork and takes it all down to HR.
get a call tonight saying that guy #1 has been moved to another account and guy #2 is still at our site.

this is the best way i can find to describe how i feel about this.



so the account manager asked sandra if she felt uncomfortable or unsafe or whatever and if she wanted a DO to be there when she came in to relieve guy #2(DOs are like supes). she says hell yes. and guess what, NOBODY'S THERE when she gets there to come on shift.


other stuff that happened. today there was a fire drill that no one told the guards was going to happen. and there was a meeting today with like 20, 30 guys and i ran out of visitor badges to give them. and of course, they all had to be evacuated and then let back in. and the chick who was supposed to relieve me was stuck in traffic for an hour this morning so she was late. not much, she managed to be only 20ish mins late, which is no big deal cuz she called and told me she might be late. especially since today was only 4 hrs for me.
is nothing in my life EVER simple? EVER?


SLAPSGIVING 09

HELLO HOT REDHEAD NAKED AND IN BED.

so click this mother fuckers. click it and BE AMUSED!

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=179290815270&ref=nf

seriously, i laughed so fucking hard at that you don't even understand. i had a small collection of those things as a child. and sometimes i kinda miss them now.

i think i'm getting sick. kinda sucks. my cat is being an ass. they're not allowed on the bed while they have fleas. but she keeps getting on it. and every time i boot her off as soon as her feet hit the floor she bounces back up like fucking spring-heeled jack. this afternoon sandra went looking for her only to find her UNDER THE COVERS in the bed. on her side too. when we came home tonight, she was in the hamper, which is covered by a blanket TO KEEP THEM OFF THE CLOTHES.
i get that she just wants to be close to me. but look cat, there's a time and a place. and screaming in the living room and scratching at the door when i'm playing xbox is not gonna get you love. damn calicos.
doesn't look like i'll get to see lauren any time this week. but i guess that's cool. of the 5 days she worked last week, i saw her 4 of them. i spent a total of like 15 hrs with her. almost all of that alone with her. at work, but still, we talk a lot.
man, saturday night when she was driving me home, i really didn't wanna get out of her truck. i sat there with the door open and just couldn't force myself to get out of the vehicle. i just didn't want to go home and inside with sandra. i just wanted to stay in the car with lauren and keep talking and just chilling. THAT IS SO MUCH FUCKING EASIER OMG I CAN'T EXPLAIN.
something not so good may have happened at work today, i'm not sure. i'm not gonna stress about it right now. but just hope that it's not as bad as i think it may possibly be.(vague enough for ya?)
anyone ever feel like putting an lj cut at the VERY end of your journal with nothing behind it just for the hell of messing with people?
random things pop into my head when i'm kinda tired and don't feel so great.
OH, i remember what i was gonna say. this is just spectacular, let me just say that.
the radio station i listen to has a morning show that i catch at work, and on mondays they have a feature weekend intelligence. call in and tell them about stupid/crazy shit you saw over the weekend.
this lady called in this week. her son was having his first birthday and they decided to just take him out to chuck e. cheese(or something similar, she didn't name the place). nothing big, just let him have some fun. the kid has allergies a bit, and really, EVERYONE in texas has allergies. if you don't have allergies, move here, you will. so while they're waiting for their food, the kid sneezes. once. some lady nearby snaps at her kids saying stay away from him, stay away from him. she disappears and comes back with a manager. the manager tells the woman, i'm sorry but you have to leave because your kid might have swine flu. !!! ya know, if this stupid fucking woman is so god damned paranoid about germs and afraid of her kids getting sick WHY WOULD YOU GO TO CHUCK E. CHEESE?!
yeah, and with that i'm done.
i lied.
cept i forgot.
oh right. my ipod froze up on me this afternoon. not cool. this morning i fucked up my itunes cuz i accidentally clicked EVERY SONG in my library to be synched. yeah, i totally don't have that kinda space on my ipod. so i was scrambling to get as much that wasn't supposed to be put on there unclicked. still didn't manage. so i was trying to go through the albums that i know i didn't like all the songs to write down the ones i need to take off and while trying to switch albums boom, it stuck. i had to wait for the battery to die to unfreeze it. seems to be okay now though. i wish i had knoen before that lesbian mafia actually DID get onto it today. ah well.
i need new chapstick.
ok, for real, bed. sorry mica, you need to go and will be banned from the bedroom tonight.

NONE! not a single fucking book should be banned from anywhere, ever.
whatever happened to freedom of speech?
especially in today's ignorant, illiterate beyond internet acronyms society we should be encouraging teens and kids and ADULTS to read. who cares what they read, as long as they're reading.
you can't hide away from the world by banning it and filtering it out. it's still there! and who decides what's appropriate?

that issue at work. CUZ I PLAY WITH A FUCKING YOYO. A FUCKING YOYO! that bitch ass higher up guy from cps says he took a girl off a post cuz she was playing with a yoyo.
A FUCKING YOYO
i'm still on the schedule though, and nobody's said a word to me about not coming in or going to the office or whatever the fuck. but i mean god damn, are you fucking kidding me? it's a fucking yoyo you stupid piece of shit prick, get the fuck over yourself.
i'm so angry now, that i'm actually shaking, AND THEY DIDN'T EVEN MOVE ME. gods help these people if they tell me this afternoon i can't be on that post cuz of a FUCKING YOYO. i sit in a metal fucking box by myself, what the fuck else do you expect me to do asshole?
this is why i hate conflict, because my instinct when i get angry is always towards violence. and i can't fulfill that in this society. which just angers me more. the modern world sucks. gimme a sword and a vigilante society and i'll be happy. and possibly a small blonde counterpart with a stick.

right now it would be halestorm. lzzy hale's voice is fucking fantastic.

my apologies for my ridiculously rambly and self involved post last night. i just am having a bad week emotionally i think. i feel a bit like i'm losing my mind. well, that's not really. i feel like the universe is ripping me in 2, pulling me in different directions.
it just seems like a lot of things are culminating at once and i'm kinda so not prepared for it.
advice was taken, and noted. and for the most part agreed on. but i think there is still one thing missing from the puzzle. and i may or may not solve that this weekend.
i don't expect really any of you to follow my emotional outpourings, but it's appreciated when you do. mostly they are posted to simply get them out of my head and possibly sort some things out.
and i'm sure you all love being privy to the post-it covered, cobweb filled, apparent tornado fallout zone of a brain.

Guns Don’t Kill People
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/?p=4907

I've been awake for an entire day.
But it was totally worth it to come up here and spend 5 hrs with lauren. The last couple helping her out with some of the closing shit. So, yeah, apparently I do like her enough to forego sleep for quite a while.:)
Also, do not shoot an entire 5 hr energy drink because it will fuck up your stomach and make your hands shake like sandra bullock's in 28 days.
But I'm betting I scored points tonight. Not that that's why I came up here, but still. She knows I didn't have to. She knows how long I've been awake. And she appreciates when people help out rather than just sit on their ass. And me, I'm the type that I'll help out if I can.
Leaving, peace mother fucker.

questions from shinealightonme

( what's a word that ends in -ity? )

Emelia sucked in her stomach as she pulled up her shirt. The bullet had just grazed her side. 'That's what you get for bringing a knife to a gun fight.'
"It's a sword." She replied to herself as she took the katana from her back and placed it on the dingy table. The abandoned warehouse that was her temporary quarters was hardly a suitable medical facility, but she had to make do.
She winced as she pulled her shirt over her head. There was a small hole from the bullet; blood soaked the fabric around it. By now it was mostly dry. She tore the bottom of the shirt off in a long strip. A half-drunk bottle of whiskey sat on the table. Emelia took a swig before pouring it on her side. She bit back a yell as it burned the wound. She tied the cloth from her shirt around her stomach and took another shot from the bottle.
She slammed the whiskey down on the dried and faded wood. She strapped her sword onto her back. "No rest for the wicked." She raced off into the shadows.

( or if you're familiar with the game wet... )

so i'm a little rusty. it's been a long time since i picked up the pen. but i've been feeling the beginning of that urge to write. i looked over the stories i have going on right now, the 2 main ones, and i just couldn't get either of them going. so i flipped to a blank piece of paper and waited. and this is what came out. not exactly shakespeare, but it serves its purpose. and i cannot get eliza dushku's voice out of my head, it is now the sound of my inner monologue. damn you faith and your sexy sexy voice.(yes, i call her faith because i like it better than her actual name, i am aware that she is not, in fact, a slightly insane, murderous, renegade but then redeemed vampire slayer).
hey...now there's a subject for a picspam i haven't covered yet...

but i just couldn't finish my project today. which sucks cuz i REALLY wanna finish it and share it. but i just couldn't get into it enough to finish it off. i was working and after a while i just couldn't get the vibe. i'm sure i've crossed the halfway mark. i hope i have cuz it's now over 70 images long.

hehehe. i keep watching this one chick's standup routine because well, she's funny. but also, in there is this story.
i was walking back from the dry cleaner with the dog. and this car stopped and a woman got out and she was like omg, that's the cutest dog ever. and she came over and she was petting her, and playing with her. and i looked down. AND IT WAS SHANE.
BEST.STORY.EVER.
and of course, this chick says when her gf finally gets home, really, she played with the dog for 30 minutes?

of course she then ruins my basking shane moment by talking about L word and saying she just wants to be on the show, doesn't need a big part, just a cameo, no lines or anything, just walking down the street, the camera pans down on me and i shoot jenny.
BOO.

course then i think about season 6 shenny action and i'm okay.:)