Keith: Of course I know how exciting it is to get mail! Especially mail with fannish goodness! And I read the first few pages of the book I got signed for you, and it’s awesome. Tra-la!

Will: Giles’ song is “Standing”, but the “Standing”/”I’m Under Your Spell” reprise duet with Tara is entitled “Wish I Could Stay”. Or at least, that’s what the filename says. *checks Amazon* Oh. Nevermind. It’s just called “I’m Under Your Spell/Standing (reprise)”. Yeah, I lose. Hmm, I really need to make an honest woman of my iPod with respect to that album…

Tanja: I believe Undone27 on LJ linked me to the “I Hate Being in Love With Elijah Wood” song. The lyrics are mostly unintelligible, but those I can understand are funny.

Becky: What email address should I send it to?

And the amusing news link of the day: British Prankster Smuggles Art Into Top NY Museums

Cross-Fandomish Link of the Day: Emma Caulfield (Anya) to appear on Lost? Haha, more fodder for if anyone wants to try their hand at the hilarious JJ&J Challenge.

Finally saw the new Episode III trailer. GUH. Maybe this one won’t suck as badly as the first two.

Oh, and we have a date for Thud!: October 1st!

Meme from Nicki: Take the first 20 songs that come up on your playlist on random and add “in my pants” to the end. (As you can see, I got really carried away.)

  1. Weird Al — I Remember Larry in My Pants
  2. Avenue Q — Fantasies Come True in My Pants
  3. Tori Amos — Wrapped Around Your Finger in My Pants (now that just sounds wrong)
  4. Beatles — Two of Us in My Pants
  5. Phantom of the Opera — Down Once More/Track Down This Murderer In My Pants
  6. Stanford Fleet Street Singers — You Always Hurt the One You Love in My Pants
  7. Les Miserables — Confrontation In My Pants
  8. Pink Floyd — The Happiest Days of Our Lives in My Pants
  9. Jekyll and Hyde OSC — How Can I Continue On in My Pants
  10. Tori Amos — Let It Be in My Pants (almost as good as “Let it Be… Naked”)
  11. Once More With Feeling — Wish I Could Stay in My Pants
  12. Yellow Submarine — Sea of Holes in My Pants (yay! One that is not actively dirty!)
  13. Tori Amos — Mermen in My Pants
  14. Stephen Speaks — Out of My League in My Pants
  15. Once More With Feeling — I’m Under Your Spell in My Pants
  16. Pink Floyd — Money in My Pants
  17. The Chipmunk Adventure (shut up) — Wully Bully in My Pants
  18. How To Succeed… OBCR — A Secretary Is Not A Toy in My Pants (too easy)
  19. Les Choristes — Les Choristes dans Mes Pantalons
  20. Rent OBCR — Over the Moon in My Pants
  21. Little Shop of Horrors NBCR — Finale Ultimo (Don’t Feed the Plants) in My Pants (it rhymes!)
  22. Tori Amos — Merry Little Christmas in My Pants
  23. Phantom of the Opera — Magical Lasso in My Pants
  24. Chicago NBCR — We Both Reached For the Gun in My Pants
  25. Les Miserables OLC — Lovely Ladies in My Pants
  26. Van Morrison — Someone Like You in My Pants
  27. Little Shop of Horrors OBCR — Suddenly, Seymour in My Pants (*snort*)
  28. Wicked — What is this Feeling in My Pants
  29. The Full Monty OBCR — Big-Ass Rock in My Pants
  30. Bat Boy OOBCR — Ugly Boy in My Pants
  31. DaVinci’s Notebook — Secret Asian Man in My Pants
  32. Little Shop of Horrors NBCR — Suppertime in My Pants (SO WRONG)
  33. Chicago NBCR — I Can’t Do it Alone in My Pants
  34. Les Miserables Original London Cast — On My Own in My Pants
  35. Angel: Life Fast Die Never — Start the Apocalypse in My Pants
  36. Wicked — I’m Not That Girl in My Pants
  37. How to Succeed OBCR — Brotherhood of Man in My Pants
  38. Barenaked Ladies — Pinch Me in My Pants
  39. Pink Floyd — The Thin Ice in My Pants
  40. Tori Amos — Leather in My Pants
  41. Jekyll and Hyde Studio Cast Recording — A New Life in My Pants
  42. Tori Amos — Pretty Good Year in My Pants
  43. Jekyll and Hyde Studio Cast Recording — Streak of Madness in My Pants
  44. Tori Amos — Pirates in My Pants
  45. Bride and Prejudice (in Hindi) — No Life Without Wife in My Pants
  46. Ben Lee — We’re All in This Together in My Pants
  47. Tori Amos — I’m On Fire in My Pants
  48. Pink Floyd — Hey You in My Pants
  49. Phantom of the Opera — Poor Fool (He Makes Me Laugh) in My Pants
  50. Pink Floyd — Wish You Were Here in My Pants

I am far too entertained.

Oh, and now that I have iTunes, I can do the iTunes meme!

How many songs in total?
1471 (I’m running low on disk space)

Sort by Song Title – first and last?
…To Save the World — Core 13
Ziggy Stardust — David Bowie

Sort by Artist – first and last?
Men of Station — 13+God
Pearls — (something using Japanese characters)

Sort by Time – first and last?
Bonus Track — DaVinci’s Notebook (from Brontosaurus)
Wizard People, Dear Reader (part 2)

Sort by Album – first and last? (ignoring everything with no album listed)
Passion — 1 Giant Leap
Yellow Submarine in Pepperland — The Beatles/Yellow Submarine

Top Ten Played Songs:

Looking over the top 10, I see that I haven’t been using iTunes long enough for it to really cast any insight, but the top songs included chunks of “Abbey Road”, “Once More, With Feeling”, “Angel: Live Fast Die Never”, Dragostea din Tei, and Rasputin.

Find “sex” – how many songs show up?
2:
Middlesex Times — Donnie Darko soundtrack
Sexy Sadie — The Beatles

Find “death” – how many songs show up?
2:
Death! — Danny Elfman, Edward Scissorhands
Even in Death — Evanescence

Find “love” – how many songs show up?
I’m not typing 32 song titles. Wow, and think of how many dozens more I’d have if I had all my early Beatles music on iTunes… But hah, the first one on “Shuffle” was “My Baby’s In Love with Eddie Vedder” (Weird Al), so I’m entertained. (And the second: “I Hate Being in Love With Elijah Wood” *snort*)

I got nearly 12 hours of sleep last night. Mmm. Next stage in The Gauntlet: Finish modeling all characters, props, set objects, etc. for 3D Animation final project. Due Monday. Oh, and Saturday and Sunday are out, because they are Load In and Tech for Lady in the Dark, so I’ll be at the theatre all day, beginning at something like 10 in the morning. So I have a couple hours today, then all tomorrow to model two hero characters (old ladies with walkers), their various props, and their Nursing Home environment. And I’m about a third of the way done with the first lady. Hah, that’s funny.

Whee! One more tight squeeze overcome in the Gauntlet of Academic and Extracurricular Doom that is my life right now. The Virtual World Design game really came together. It’s slow-loading at the beginning, but it works perfectly. And my models and graphics are pretty, and the 28-second intro animation I put together in the last 24 hours went off without a hitch! Well, actually, there were a lot of hitches, but it worked in the end. Even though AfterEffects can’t compress Quicktime files to save its life, and the 28-second animation at Medium/High quality at 640×480 was nearly 500 megabytes. Yeah, that was fun to transfer from the animation lab. Thank gravy for the grand abundance of webspace in tnm.n’s new plan at Dreamhost!

I’m heading for bed now, as I pulled an all-nighter to finish the project, but before it disappears under a huge mental stack of other things to write about, yes, I did get to see Terry Jones today, and because I had to go to rehearsal before he finished his lecture and therefore missed the booksigning, Will graciously agreed to get my books signed for me. I haven’t talked with Will since then to verify that he indeed was able to, but Keith: I’m pretty sure you can expect something shiny and political in your mailbox soon. I don’t have your address on file, so let me know where to send it at priscellie at gmail.

And now: blissful unconsciousness. Good night, everybody!

Meme, ganked from Tanja and others:

01: Take a screencap of your desktop.

02: Upload the screen cap to your image server.

03: Reply to this entry with A LINK TO your screencap. Along with any explanations you feel are necessary.

04: Post your cap in YOUR LJ along with these instructions.

DAS LINK.

Bwaha! I love it when schoolwork coincides with fandom. I keep up with several Copyright blogs for class, and today, one of them posted about the hilarious thorn in the WB’s side, Wizard People, Dear Reader, an “alternative sound track” for Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone.

Meanwhile, I realized today in Animation class that if I ever were to start vidding (which I never will, as I have far too many time-consuming hobbies as is, and my computer would choke and die), my first project would be to set Buffy season 4 interactions between Spike and the Scoobies to Avenue Q‘s “The More You Ruv Someone (The More You Want to Kill Them).” [Edit: Though come to think of it, it would be even funnier and more fitting for Spike/Angel. *cackles*] I love how all the dorky vid ideas I’ve had are all for songs from musicals… I’d love to see the Hobbits with Leprosy singing “Oh Fabulous One” (Lady in the Dark) to Glory, or a delightfully OOC Spike singing “Let Me Walk Among You”, from Bat Boy. Or a Bangel “Inside Your Heart” for the “Blood of a Slayer” scene in Graduation Day part 1. Clearly, ship loyalties mean nothing in the quest for a good laugh. XD After all, I helped facilitate Cyth’s Simon/Inara vid because her idea was hilarious. (You ever going to post it, Cyth? Or do you still need the boot of “Shindig”?)

In short, if you ever see me walking to or from class, listening to my iPod, snickering to myself with an impossibly wide grin, now you know what I’m thinking about.

A few fannish things:

Oooh. Mirrormask soundtrack, coming September 20th (on Amazon)!

Haha, ABC offers a Lost refresher course! Also Desperate Housewives, *snerk*.

Dom nominated for a PRISM Award, honoring “outstanding efforts in the accurate depiction of drug, alcohol and tobacco use and addiction in film, television, interactive, comic books, music, and video entertainment.”

And Dad — 42 is the Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything. Don’t you recall your literature?