EXTRA! Drug bust on Wystone Ave.!
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azuriteJust as Grandpa and I were coming home, a champagne-colored sedan squealed around the corner of Superior and Wystone. Two guys immediately emerged from said sedan, which came to a rough, immediate stop at the house on the right corner of Superior and Wystone, one block and on the same side of the street as my house. Said guys came out with guns drawn, and said "Freeze! Put your hands up!" to the three or four guys outside of a red pickup truck, driver's side door open. My first thought was "Oh, some college guys are pulling a prank." Seriously. I thought they were just messing around.
But Grandpa didn't think so, and he purposely drove down a further street, taking the long, roundabout way home. When I got home, I wanted to check out what was going on, but when I got out of the car, all I saw was the sedan still pulled next to the pickup, both the doors still open, and I couldn't see any people-- presumably they'd gone into the house.
I think it was a drug bust! :O! Wow.
I've been on a theme song binge lately-- I got two versions of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer theme song (the original, by the Nerf Herders, and the cover, by The Breeders), and the Seasons 1-3 and Season 4 themes of Alias. I want the Season 5 remix of the Alias opening song, but I can't find it! GRR! Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'd like the long version, if possible.
Speaking of Alias, this 2nd to last episode wasn't too bad. I was screaming at the TV the whole time, of course. :D I'm just glad Vaughn's alive. Sark made me laugh (he sounds so sexy when speaking Italian. Or maybe it was the Italian that sounded sexy, and he just looked good doing it), and it looks like the finale will really be the end-all-be-all (without killing everyone off or without making it too ambiguous) with LOTS of old characters returning for a guest appearance. It's a shame they had to kill off Nadia and Renée the way they did, but alas! Such is life in the spy biz.
Better news! I got an A- on my English paper which I stayed up till 2am working on. I'm thrilled! :D I'm not so sure about my latest editorial for journalism, but it's the profile due next Wednesday that I really have to get cracking on.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
guardian_kysra, are you free to be annoyed this weekend?
I've also managed to finally get Thunderbird links to open in FF, but who knows how long that'll last? I only wish I could use the HTML form for replying to comments... but for whatever lame reason, TB misinterprets them, and LJ thinks there's no POSTID. Feh.
twilighteyes8120 updating her SxA piece "Mixing Business With Pleasure" has got me itching to finish up WDKY-- that and my sudden obsession with trailers. Yes, trailers. So I'm thinking of trying my hand at "AMVs" that aren't really, literally AMVs. I'd do Flash instead, which means people could view them embedded in webpages. I'd like to do one each for WDKY, CO7, and ED, but the question is... what do people want to see trailers of? WDKY's already been out for 2 years now, so people doubtless don't want to see trailers of things that have already happened. Also, the trailers would be entirely musical/textual. I don't have the time/energy to do/find voice clips, let alone appropriate ones, so that's why these trailers would be closer to AMVs. So here comes the fun part:
If you could pick ANY chapter of WDKY (up to 3) to influence a WDKY trailer AMV, which one(s) would you pick? You can pick chapters that have already come out, chapters I've hinted at/mentioned, or random numbers. Assuming the art isn't too hard to pull off, I could (and will) do it.
CO7 and ED are different matters altogether, and those are things I'll be storyboarding on my own time.
Music suggestions are also welcome, but I already have some ideas.
Last night after I burned some incense and cocktail-scented candles, I went to bed... and somewhere in the early hours of the morning, I had this extremely intense, upsetting dream. As with all dreams that you don't write down immediately, the details are sketchy, but needless to say, I woke up with the frightening thought that something had or would happen to Scott.
A dream that I had the night before (or so) didn't help matters any; I dreamed about being dead, but that it was in an almost-fantasy world, where you got a letter of notice saying "Your time is up" or something to that effect- so you have 24 hours to tell everyone, do everything you want, etc. People can still be upset and freak out, but when you get the letter, that's it-- you die 24 hours afterward. Part of me thinks that'd be nice, so at least we could have chances to say things like "I'm sorry," and "I love you" or whatever. But on the other hand, it's a bit morbid and gruesome. Scott had to remind me repeatedly over the weekend that even though I never got to say "I'm sorry" to Michelle for fighting with her the day she died, or for accidentally rubbing it in her face that I had a dad to go off and spend the weekends with, and she didn't, it wasn't my fault, and she still knew I loved her.
This time of the year always has me contemplating big things like life, death, the purpose of it all, where I'm going, and if I'll end up somewhere, with someone, feeling loved and important and successful. To top it all off, July 20th, 2006 marks the 10th anniversary of my sister's death. As with many of the July 20ths of years past, I'm going to Land's End in San Francisco, come hell or high water- with Scott, Mom, or without either/both. It's a pretty decent hike that I've made before, but maybe this time, I can go to the REAL place (the place I know I shouldn't go, but...)
My sister doesn't have a grave. She has an unopenable urn of her ashes sitting on a shrine-like broken piano, in the same place it's been for the last 15 or more years since we moved into that flat on 15th. Mom won't ever get rid of that piano if she can help it.
Back to the point at hand -I called Scott immediately this morning to ask if he was okay. I'm glad he answered the phone (he did because he knew it was unusual for me to be calling HIM in the morning) and reassured me. I told him to be okay and safe and everything, and I last talked to him at 5pm. He was hungry and working tiredly -all for the sake of money, which he'll need, it's true... I'm a spoiled rotten brat in the situation I'm in, and I never think about getting rid of all my stuff. I have a lot of pointless things, but many pointless things with such intrinsic mental, psychological value to me...
But then, my memories mean more to me than anything else. I've fused memories into the objects I own though, and that probably makes them more valuable than they really are.
I want to start looking forward to summer again. I've been living for myself ever since I turned 20. Now I'm 21. Now I'm going to Japan, and I have to admit, it IS thanks in part to Michelle. It's all her fault, she's the one that gave me that Sailormoon sticker!
I need a hug.
But Grandpa didn't think so, and he purposely drove down a further street, taking the long, roundabout way home. When I got home, I wanted to check out what was going on, but when I got out of the car, all I saw was the sedan still pulled next to the pickup, both the doors still open, and I couldn't see any people-- presumably they'd gone into the house.
I think it was a drug bust! :O! Wow.
I've been on a theme song binge lately-- I got two versions of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer theme song (the original, by the Nerf Herders, and the cover, by The Breeders), and the Seasons 1-3 and Season 4 themes of Alias. I want the Season 5 remix of the Alias opening song, but I can't find it! GRR! Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'd like the long version, if possible.
Speaking of Alias, this 2nd to last episode wasn't too bad. I was screaming at the TV the whole time, of course. :D I'm just glad Vaughn's alive. Sark made me laugh (he sounds so sexy when speaking Italian. Or maybe it was the Italian that sounded sexy, and he just looked good doing it), and it looks like the finale will really be the end-all-be-all (without killing everyone off or without making it too ambiguous) with LOTS of old characters returning for a guest appearance. It's a shame they had to kill off Nadia and Renée the way they did, but alas! Such is life in the spy biz.
Better news! I got an A- on my English paper which I stayed up till 2am working on. I'm thrilled! :D I'm not so sure about my latest editorial for journalism, but it's the profile due next Wednesday that I really have to get cracking on.
guardian_kysra, are you free to be annoyed this weekend?I've also managed to finally get Thunderbird links to open in FF, but who knows how long that'll last? I only wish I could use the HTML form for replying to comments... but for whatever lame reason, TB misinterprets them, and LJ thinks there's no POSTID. Feh.
twilighteyes8120 updating her SxA piece "Mixing Business With Pleasure" has got me itching to finish up WDKY-- that and my sudden obsession with trailers. Yes, trailers. So I'm thinking of trying my hand at "AMVs" that aren't really, literally AMVs. I'd do Flash instead, which means people could view them embedded in webpages. I'd like to do one each for WDKY, CO7, and ED, but the question is... what do people want to see trailers of? WDKY's already been out for 2 years now, so people doubtless don't want to see trailers of things that have already happened. Also, the trailers would be entirely musical/textual. I don't have the time/energy to do/find voice clips, let alone appropriate ones, so that's why these trailers would be closer to AMVs. So here comes the fun part:
If you could pick ANY chapter of WDKY (up to 3) to influence a WDKY trailer AMV, which one(s) would you pick? You can pick chapters that have already come out, chapters I've hinted at/mentioned, or random numbers. Assuming the art isn't too hard to pull off, I could (and will) do it.
CO7 and ED are different matters altogether, and those are things I'll be storyboarding on my own time.
Music suggestions are also welcome, but I already have some ideas.
Last night after I burned some incense and cocktail-scented candles, I went to bed... and somewhere in the early hours of the morning, I had this extremely intense, upsetting dream. As with all dreams that you don't write down immediately, the details are sketchy, but needless to say, I woke up with the frightening thought that something had or would happen to Scott.
A dream that I had the night before (or so) didn't help matters any; I dreamed about being dead, but that it was in an almost-fantasy world, where you got a letter of notice saying "Your time is up" or something to that effect- so you have 24 hours to tell everyone, do everything you want, etc. People can still be upset and freak out, but when you get the letter, that's it-- you die 24 hours afterward. Part of me thinks that'd be nice, so at least we could have chances to say things like "I'm sorry," and "I love you" or whatever. But on the other hand, it's a bit morbid and gruesome. Scott had to remind me repeatedly over the weekend that even though I never got to say "I'm sorry" to Michelle for fighting with her the day she died, or for accidentally rubbing it in her face that I had a dad to go off and spend the weekends with, and she didn't, it wasn't my fault, and she still knew I loved her.
This time of the year always has me contemplating big things like life, death, the purpose of it all, where I'm going, and if I'll end up somewhere, with someone, feeling loved and important and successful. To top it all off, July 20th, 2006 marks the 10th anniversary of my sister's death. As with many of the July 20ths of years past, I'm going to Land's End in San Francisco, come hell or high water- with Scott, Mom, or without either/both. It's a pretty decent hike that I've made before, but maybe this time, I can go to the REAL place (the place I know I shouldn't go, but...)
My sister doesn't have a grave. She has an unopenable urn of her ashes sitting on a shrine-like broken piano, in the same place it's been for the last 15 or more years since we moved into that flat on 15th. Mom won't ever get rid of that piano if she can help it.
Back to the point at hand -I called Scott immediately this morning to ask if he was okay. I'm glad he answered the phone (he did because he knew it was unusual for me to be calling HIM in the morning) and reassured me. I told him to be okay and safe and everything, and I last talked to him at 5pm. He was hungry and working tiredly -all for the sake of money, which he'll need, it's true... I'm a spoiled rotten brat in the situation I'm in, and I never think about getting rid of all my stuff. I have a lot of pointless things, but many pointless things with such intrinsic mental, psychological value to me...
But then, my memories mean more to me than anything else. I've fused memories into the objects I own though, and that probably makes them more valuable than they really are.
I want to start looking forward to summer again. I've been living for myself ever since I turned 20. Now I'm 21. Now I'm going to Japan, and I have to admit, it IS thanks in part to Michelle. It's all her fault, she's the one that gave me that Sailormoon sticker!
I need a hug.
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Date: 2006-05-18 03:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-19 03:51 am (UTC)An WDKY trailer? Sounds interesting. Hmm, but I can see Yami Bakura with the tarot cards and he gets pissed when he sees the uncertain/unknown between his card and Téa's. Sorry I forgot which chapter it's in.
::hugs::