Soo, I went over to Pris' today. Great fun. I ended up being late because of well(*gag*)-timed dentist/orthodontist appointments (fluoride is tasty! *gack*), although I'm kinda glad I missed most of the winceworthy (if that wasn't a word, it is now) adaptation of Twelfth Night they were watching. After lunch and a lengthy session of truth or dare (and me meeting Milo), we hung out a bit before everyone had to go home.
(I was going to put this at the end of the post, but I don't want it to be the last thing mentioned, so...) That said, I also managed to lock my knee again. Sad thing is, all I was doing was rocking back and forth on a swing chair (while my back, neck and hair were being attacked by Milo) and swinging (can't think of a better word, but it wasn't as vigorous nor energetic as the connotation) my leg from right to left.
Quick (ok, not so quick) backstory: back at the beginning of 2006, I was down on one knee, securing a jump ball in basketball, and while twisting, did something to my right knee which led me to be unable to extend it fully due to a pain barrier. After an hour, it was gone, but a few iterations of this later, it refused to unlock. Went to "emergency" (I swear, it should be called 'priority') at Westmead (Children's) Hospital and had the knee manipulated back to normal under general anaesthesia. This happened one more time, and the third time, the doctors decided to do an arthroscopy (insertion of a camera) to figure out what was wrong. They found an enlarged tissue (I recall being told and seeing it written as the 'plika', a tissue of no use that some people lack completely, but Wikipedia has nothing matching that spelling, nor description, so it gets relegated to brackets), trimmed it down, and sent me home. It locked twice in the following nine months. The orthopaedic doctors were stumped (moreso because when the leg was healthy, I could hop on it), and figured that I should just try to let it unlock naturally (it did, with the help[?] of acupuncture); this is a tad over nine months since the last locking.
Hopefully that didn't read like a rant, I'm frankly over it, and am somewhat accustomed to having to use crutches, and waste energy keeping one leg at 90°. Seriously.
Hmm, also, it seems that I am allergic to some dogs. ¬¬
In other news,"Out of the great book of fairytales" by naio ssaion (fourth song in the player on their Myspace. Yes, this band is so obscure, the track isn't on Youtube) is a great song. While it doesn't make me want to dance around giggling like an idiot while a smiling man in a white suit throws confetti on me, it's still delightfully random. If you've read the lyrics and disagree, I hereby dub thee "not human". While I'm on the topic of naio ssaion, it saddened me to find out that of the nine tracks not in the player of their Myspace, eight were rubbish, and the other was an instrumental (albeit a good one. It's awesome to find a band with a full-time violinist).
Also on the topic of music, I've been addicted to Apocalyptica's Ruska
(from their eponymous album) lately. To my shock, my brother likes the track, too! As I type, Hell is still recovering from the Great Freezing. I guess I should also clarify (for my [∏i — ℮i] readers whose names do not start with 'P' and end in 'riscilla') that contrary to what this post implied, most of Apocalyptica's stuff is instrumental, and thus lacking profanity.
Lacuna Coil's been growing on me, too. It sounded very generic upon my first listen a few months ago, but I'm coming to like some songs. Although most of it still sounds pretty generic to me. I'm especially digging Within me from their latest album, Karmacode, though. Might want to note that the video's pretty boring; it takes away from the song, in my opinion. (Like one Lithium, by Evanescence. Ugh.) Fragments of faith (crappy Sailor Moon AMV alert!) has been for me another demonstration as to how songs can be more interesting if you don't know the lyrics. Not because they suck (although they're not stellar), but because it's easier to mishear the melody as something cooler if you don't know them. Although I'm not entirely sure what's so cool about the misheard version, now, to be honest. First line of the chorus, to the words 'Can you feel it?'. Not that my misheard version fit that at all.
Also on the topic of mishearing lyrics, the chorus of Leaves' Eyes' Norwegian lovesong has the following lyrics:
Final music thing - Nightwish is releasing The Islander as their latest single. Great song, great MV. Despite the reservations one person seems to have against the woodwind instrument that plays at the beginning. *ahem*
New link to the right - a blog called Indexed on which Jessica Hagy posts amusing graphs and diagrams. Maths nerdiness helpful, but not mandatory. Here are some examples of what's posted. Also comic-related, Peanuts.com recently had an amusing wordless comic up from the archives.
Also comic-related, there were a couple of amusing wallpapers posted in the thread over on the xkcd fora. You'll need to see this before you'll find this one funny/awesome, and here's the other one.
And, to wrap up a loooooooong (-cat is looooong) blagging, two (related) amusing chatlogs. Lots of music references in the first, so lots of [editors notes], too.
(Seriously, sorry about the length. I wanted to finish posting before today, so that I didn't need to recount going over to Pris' in addition to the rest of the week, but I wasn't in the mood to blog.)
(I was going to put this at the end of the post, but I don't want it to be the last thing mentioned, so...) That said, I also managed to lock my knee again. Sad thing is, all I was doing was rocking back and forth on a swing chair (while my back, neck and hair were being attacked by Milo) and swinging (can't think of a better word, but it wasn't as vigorous nor energetic as the connotation) my leg from right to left.
Quick (ok, not so quick) backstory: back at the beginning of 2006, I was down on one knee, securing a jump ball in basketball, and while twisting, did something to my right knee which led me to be unable to extend it fully due to a pain barrier. After an hour, it was gone, but a few iterations of this later, it refused to unlock. Went to "emergency" (I swear, it should be called 'priority') at Westmead (Children's) Hospital and had the knee manipulated back to normal under general anaesthesia. This happened one more time, and the third time, the doctors decided to do an arthroscopy (insertion of a camera) to figure out what was wrong. They found an enlarged tissue (I recall being told and seeing it written as the 'plika', a tissue of no use that some people lack completely, but Wikipedia has nothing matching that spelling, nor description, so it gets relegated to brackets), trimmed it down, and sent me home. It locked twice in the following nine months. The orthopaedic doctors were stumped (moreso because when the leg was healthy, I could hop on it), and figured that I should just try to let it unlock naturally (it did, with the help[?] of acupuncture); this is a tad over nine months since the last locking.
Hopefully that didn't read like a rant, I'm frankly over it, and am somewhat accustomed to having to use crutches, and waste energy keeping one leg at 90°. Seriously.
Hmm, also, it seems that I am allergic to some dogs. ¬¬
In other news,"Out of the great book of fairytales" by naio ssaion (fourth song in the player on their Myspace. Yes, this band is so obscure, the track isn't on Youtube) is a great song. While it doesn't make me want to dance around giggling like an idiot while a smiling man in a white suit throws confetti on me, it's still delightfully random. If you've read the lyrics and disagree, I hereby dub thee "not human". While I'm on the topic of naio ssaion, it saddened me to find out that of the nine tracks not in the player of their Myspace, eight were rubbish, and the other was an instrumental (albeit a good one. It's awesome to find a band with a full-time violinist).
Also on the topic of music, I've been addicted to Apocalyptica's Ruska
(from their eponymous album) lately. To my shock, my brother likes the track, too! As I type, Hell is still recovering from the Great Freezing. I guess I should also clarify (for my [∏i — ℮i] readers whose names do not start with 'P' and end in 'riscilla') that contrary to what this post implied, most of Apocalyptica's stuff is instrumental, and thus lacking profanity.Lacuna Coil's been growing on me, too. It sounded very generic upon my first listen a few months ago, but I'm coming to like some songs. Although most of it still sounds pretty generic to me. I'm especially digging Within me
from their latest album, Karmacode, though. Might want to note that the video's pretty boring; it takes away from the song, in my opinion. (Like one Lithium, by Evanescence. Ugh.) Fragments of faith (crappy Sailor Moon AMV alert!) has been for me another demonstration as to how songs can be more interesting if you don't know the lyrics. Not because they suck (although they're not stellar), but because it's easier to mishear the melody as something cooler if you don't know them. Although I'm not entirely sure what's so cool about the misheard version, now, to be honest. First line of the chorus, to the words 'Can you feel it?'. Not that my misheard version fit that at all.Also on the topic of mishearing lyrics, the chorus of Leaves' Eyes' Norwegian lovesong
has the following lyrics:Between the bluebells
Sits a girl with blond braids
A blue-eyed angel
With strawberry cheeks
Sits a girl with blond braids
A blue-eyed angel
With strawberry cheeks
I managed to mishear the last quoted line as 'strawberry cheese'. Wooo. I have cheescake cravings now...
Final music thing - Nightwish is releasing The Islander as their latest single. Great song, great MV.
Despite the reservations one person seems to have against the woodwind instrument that plays at the beginning. *ahem*New link to the right - a blog called Indexed on which Jessica Hagy posts amusing graphs and diagrams. Maths nerdiness helpful, but not mandatory. Here are some examples of what's posted. Also comic-related, Peanuts.com recently had an amusing wordless comic up from the archives.
Also comic-related, there were a couple of amusing wallpapers posted in the thread over on the xkcd fora. You'll need to see this before you'll find this one funny/awesome, and here's the other one.
And, to wrap up a loooooooong (-cat is looooong) blagging, two (related) amusing chatlogs. Lots of music references in the first, so lots of [editors notes], too.
(Seriously, sorry about the length. I wanted to finish posting before today, so that I didn't need to recount going over to Pris' in addition to the rest of the week, but I wasn't in the mood to blog.)
// Session Start: Sunday, 23 March 2008 //
(8:42 PM) priscilla: aaron is lecturing me again
(8:43 PM) Barnabas : har
(8:44 PM) Barnabas : what does he say about the heart of everything [song]? that it's unnaturally low-pitched?
[Within Temptation. Aaron has previously complained that Tarja Turunen sings 'unnaturally high'.]
(8:44 PM) priscilla: he hasn't heard it yet
(8:44 PM) priscilla: i was listening to The Dream [Leaves' Eyes.]
(8:44 PM) priscilla: it got to the growling [see above link, 3:12 or so]
(8:44 PM) Barnabas : thought so
(8:44 PM) Barnabas : cue master passion greed!
[Nightwish. A step down from their usual stuff, with blasphemy and profanity, but the point is, it's a heavy song with screaming.]
(8:44 PM) priscilla: Aaron throws down his headphones and turns pleading i'm-scared voice in pris's direction:
(8:44 PM) priscilla: can you PLEASE not listen to that type of stuff?!
(8:45 PM) Barnabas : or the dark passion play section of the poet and the pendulum
[Nightwish. Blasphemy here to ruin an otherwise good song, but again, used as an example of a heavy song with screaming.]
(8:45 PM) Barnabas : what else?
(8:45 PM) priscilla: i actually think he'd tolerate DPP more than LE
[DPP: Dark passion play, Nightwish's latest album. LE - Leaves' Eyes.]
(8:45 PM) Barnabas : oh, chasing the dragon [Epica.]
(8:45 PM) Barnabas : the obessive devotion [Epica. Album cover used for the 'video' probably NSFW.]
(8:45 PM) priscilla: oh yeah, he got annoyed at me for that one too
(8:45 PM) Barnabas : XD
(8:45 PM) priscilla: ALL epica >_>
(8:46 PM) Barnabas : never enough only has background grunts [Epica. Video probably NSFW.]
(8:47 PM) priscilla: the point is that its there at all
(8:47 PM) Barnabas : but they actually add to the song!
(8:48 PM) priscilla: i agree, but the other half of the room doesn't
(8:49 PM) Barnabas : heh heh
(8:49 PM) Barnabas : hmm
(8:49 PM) Barnabas : you should download some mastodon just to traumatise him
[Mastodon, death metal. Sample: NSFW.]
(8:49 PM) priscilla: is that some creeepy haunt-my-dreams stuff?
(8:50 PM) Barnabas : no, it's heavier screamo
(8:51 PM) priscilla: honey, its gonna traumatise ME
(8:53 PM) Barnabas : ... call me that again and I'll find a way to get it into your ears |:
(8:53 PM) priscilla: well, at least that word slightly traumastise you =D
(8:54 PM) priscilla: honey
// Session Start: Monday, 14 April 2008 //
(4:37 PM) Barnabas : ... why do I have TWO pencil sharpeners in my pencilcase?
(4:37 PM) Barnabas : wait, one came from the pencil shavings box
(4:37 PM) Barnabas : nvm
(4:37 PM) priscilla: i don't even use normal pencils o_O
(4:38 PM) priscilla: juuuust my trusty mechanical pencils and no colours
(4:38 PM) Barnabas : I still have my assorted graphite pencils, but seeing as I don't draw . . . they'll live at home as of now
(4:39 PM) Barnabas : ... I just tried to type /next instead of alt+space "in" enter
(4:39 PM) priscilla: ouch D=
(4:39 PM) priscilla: and, don't you need them in geo tho?
(4:40 PM) Barnabas : nope
(4:40 PM) Barnabas : pacer's enough
(4:40 PM) priscilla: i read that as the mechanism that keeps the heart beating "pacer" rather than the mechanical "pacer"
(4:41 PM) Barnabas : they're called "pacemakers", hon /bemused
(4:41 PM) priscilla: yeah, but i never ever - ARRGHH you CALLED ME THAT
(4:41 PM) Barnabas : revenge is sweet
(4:42 PM) Barnabas : and this is going in my blag
(4:42 PM) priscilla: /stab
(8:42 PM) priscilla: aaron is lecturing me again
(8:43 PM) Barnabas : har
(8:44 PM) Barnabas : what does he say about the heart of everything [song]? that it's unnaturally low-pitched?
[Within Temptation.
Aaron has previously complained that Tarja Turunen sings 'unnaturally high'.](8:44 PM) priscilla: he hasn't heard it yet
(8:44 PM) priscilla: i was listening to The Dream [Leaves' Eyes.
](8:44 PM) priscilla: it got to the growling [see above link, 3:12 or so]
(8:44 PM) Barnabas : thought so
(8:44 PM) Barnabas : cue master passion greed!
[Nightwish.
A step down from their usual stuff, with blasphemy and profanity, but the point is, it's a heavy song with screaming.](8:44 PM) priscilla: Aaron throws down his headphones and turns pleading i'm-scared voice in pris's direction:
(8:44 PM) priscilla: can you PLEASE not listen to that type of stuff?!
(8:45 PM) Barnabas : or the dark passion play section of the poet and the pendulum
[Nightwish.
Blasphemy here to ruin an otherwise good song, but again, used as an example of a heavy song with screaming.](8:45 PM) Barnabas : what else?
(8:45 PM) priscilla: i actually think he'd tolerate DPP more than LE
[DPP: Dark passion play, Nightwish's latest album. LE - Leaves' Eyes.]
(8:45 PM) Barnabas : oh, chasing the dragon [Epica.
](8:45 PM) Barnabas : the obessive devotion [Epica.
Album cover used for the 'video' probably NSFW.](8:45 PM) priscilla: oh yeah, he got annoyed at me for that one too
(8:45 PM) Barnabas : XD
(8:45 PM) priscilla: ALL epica >_>
(8:46 PM) Barnabas : never enough only has background grunts [Epica.
Video probably NSFW.](8:47 PM) priscilla: the point is that its there at all
(8:47 PM) Barnabas : but they actually add to the song!
(8:48 PM) priscilla: i agree, but the other half of the room doesn't
(8:49 PM) Barnabas : heh heh
(8:49 PM) Barnabas : hmm
(8:49 PM) Barnabas : you should download some mastodon just to traumatise him
[Mastodon, death metal. Sample:
NSFW.](8:49 PM) priscilla: is that some creeepy haunt-my-dreams stuff?
(8:50 PM) Barnabas : no, it's heavier screamo
(8:51 PM) priscilla: honey, its gonna traumatise ME
(8:53 PM) Barnabas : ... call me that again and I'll find a way to get it into your ears |:
(8:53 PM) priscilla: well, at least that word slightly traumastise you =D
(8:54 PM) priscilla: honey
// Session Start: Monday, 14 April 2008 //
(4:37 PM) Barnabas : ... why do I have TWO pencil sharpeners in my pencilcase?
(4:37 PM) Barnabas : wait, one came from the pencil shavings box
(4:37 PM) Barnabas : nvm
(4:37 PM) priscilla: i don't even use normal pencils o_O
(4:38 PM) priscilla: juuuust my trusty mechanical pencils and no colours
(4:38 PM) Barnabas : I still have my assorted graphite pencils, but seeing as I don't draw . . . they'll live at home as of now
(4:39 PM) Barnabas : ... I just tried to type /next instead of alt+space "in" enter
(4:39 PM) priscilla: ouch D=
(4:39 PM) priscilla: and, don't you need them in geo tho?
(4:40 PM) Barnabas : nope
(4:40 PM) Barnabas : pacer's enough
(4:40 PM) priscilla: i read that as the mechanism that keeps the heart beating "pacer" rather than the mechanical "pacer"
(4:41 PM) Barnabas : they're called "pacemakers", hon /bemused
(4:41 PM) priscilla: yeah, but i never ever - ARRGHH you CALLED ME THAT
(4:41 PM) Barnabas : revenge is sweet
(4:42 PM) Barnabas : and this is going in my blag
(4:42 PM) priscilla: /stab
1 comment:
/stab
jeez. publicly slam me whydontcha >_>
might interest you to know that i was cringing infinitely when you were going into details about your overgrown plika /gag
I was allergic to Milo too. severely allergic but much playing made me not so. i think your allergic reaction will cease if you play with him enough =P also, I TOLD YOU SO!
I didn't know Indexed was by a girl! I thought it was guy with too much time on his hands =X. Also, the wallpapers deserve a medal each xD
you misheard by a WHOLE NOTE?! /shock horror. I heard cheese too >_>
missed my dissected name and reference to one who hates woodwind intro of The Islander. both required double takes. baahh you
/parting galre
-Pris
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