tinhuviel | Entries tagged with itunes

I haven’t done one of these in about 10,000 years, so let’s get this show on the road.

1. Full name: Tracy Angelina Evans
2. Nicknames: Tin, Tinhuviel, George, Darth Shriek
3. Birthplace: Asheville, North Carolina USA
4. Birthday: 10 September, 1967
5. Where Do You Live Now?: San Diego, California
6. Parent(s): Father Unit has passed. Mother Unit is here in San Diego.
7. Sibling(s): ZERO
8. Looks: Better off invisible.
9. Favourite Animal(s): Anything non-human, except for millipedes and centipedes. Like humans, they can go fuck themselves.
10. Favorite TV Show(s): Impractical Jokers, Better Call Saul

11. Favorite Kind(s) Of Music: Most everything but Country and Opera.
12. Favorite Movie(s): Sci-Fi, Unusual, Conceptual, Foreign
13. School: Some college, focusing on English and Veterinary Assistance
14. Future School: I’m too old for this question. The Chapel Perilous

15. Future Job: Testing new, effective sleep aids.
16. Boyfriend/Girlfriend: nah
17. Best Buds: I’m a bit of a hermit these days.
18. Favorite Candy: Milk Dud
19. Hobbies: Music, reading, writing
20. Things You Collect: Grudges, CDs, movies, moments in time.

21. Do You Have A Personal Phone Line: Yes
22. Favorite Body Part Of The Opposite Sex? The eyes and brain
23. Any Tattoos And Where Of What?: Red & Black Triskele on right hand, Green Shriekback logo on left hand, Mwanza Flat-headed Agama with green and blue hues instead of pinkish and blue.
24. Piercing(s) And Where?: not anymore
25. What Do You Sleep in?: clothing
26. Do you like Chain Letters: aw HELL NAW.
27. Best Advice: Reality is peripheral.
28. Favorite Quotes: Hope for the best, expect the worst. - Mel Brooks.
29. Non-sport Activity You Enjoy: sleep
30. Dream Car: A transporter

31. Favorite Thing To Do In Spring: Avoid the sun.
32. What’s Your Bedtime: Whenever I’m lucky.
33. Where Do You Shop: Wherever I can.
34. Coke or Pepsi: Cheerwine

35. Favorite Thing(s) To Wear?: Something loose that will allow me to blend into my surroundings.
36. Favorite Subject(s) In School: English and Creative Writing

37. Favorite Color(s): Green, Red, Black
38. Favorite People To Talk To Online: People with brains and a wicked sense of humour that has set them on the road to Hell.

39. Root-Beer or Dr. Pepper? Root beer

40. Do You Shave? I’m too old for that bullshit.

41. Favorite Vacation Spot(s): I don’t do vacations. My favourite place to BE is England.
42. Favorite Family Member(s): Smidgen
43. Did You Eat Paint Chips When You Were a Kid? WHAT?
44. Favorite CD you own: Currently Without Real String or Fish by Shriekback
45. The ONE Person Who You Hate The Most: Going with an old standard here and saying Pat Robertson.
46. Favorite Food(s)?: Potatoes
47. Who Is The Hottest Guy or Girl In The World?: I have a very short list.
48. What Is Your Favorite Salad Dressing?: Bleu Cheese.
49. When You Die, Do You Wanna Be Buried or Burned Into Ashes? I don’t care, as long as I end up on Craggy Dome.
50. Do You Believe In Aliens?: Absolutely.

51. If You Had The Chance To Professionally Do Something, What would You Do? I’m already a Professional Misanthropist.
52. Things You Obsess Over: Various artists, ideas, philosophies, theories, general weirdness
53. Favorite Day of the Week: Don’t bloody care.
54. An Authority Figure You Hate: The Feudal Mistress still tops the list.
55. Favorite Disney Movie: Bambi
56. What Is Your Favorite Season? Winter
57. What Toppings Do You Like On Your pizza? Cheese, with extra cheese, and cheese on the side.
58. Do You Like Your School Food Itself (As In The District Food): I never ate it.
59. If You Could Live Anywhere, Where Would You Live? Avebury, Wiltshire, UK
60. Favorite Thing(s) To Do On Weekends: Sleep, if I can accomplish it.

61. Favorite Magazine(s): Don’t have one.
62. Favorite Flower(s): White rose

63. Favorite Number(s): 5

64. Favorite Ice Cream flavor(s): Ben & Jerry’s Wavy Gravy

65. What Kind of Guys/Girls Are You Attracted to?: Dangerously intelligent, beautiful, talented, and hilarious.

66. What’s Your Most Embarrassing Moment? I inadvertently introduced myself to someone as his wife.

67. If You Could Change One Thing About Yourself What Would It be? I would be fearless.

68. Do You Eat Breakfast First Then Brush Your Teeth or Brush first ten eat breakfast: breakfast first.

69. Favorite Time of Day: Whenever I get to sleep.

70. Can A Guy and Girl Be Just “Best Friends?”: Why not?

71. Do You Ask The Girl/Guy Out Or Do You Wait For Them To Come To You?: I don’t go there anymore.

72. Do You Mind Paying For Sex? I never would.

73. What’s The Most Important thing In Someone’s Personality: Sentience

74. Do you have a pager or cell phone? Cell

75. Favorite Sport: Flambodious Butt-walking

76. What Was the Best Gift You Ever Received? Love

77. How Long Did This Letter Take You To Finish?: Not very long.

78. What Did You Listen To While Completing It?: Electric Light Orchestra’s Alone in the Universe.

79. Are you or would you like to be married in the near future (next 5 years)? NEGATIVE

80. Don’t u just hate how psychics never win the lottery? I hate it more than I don’t win the lottery. I hate psychics, especially the ones who claim to talk to your dead relatives. They’re grifters who should be drawn and quartered. The End.

Mood: cranky
Where? the house
Music: Jeff Lynne's ELO - All My Life

iTunes just played a song I've been hunting for for almost 20 years, without being able to remember the composer or title of the piece, except for the word "Gypsy". I had it on a cassette that was nothing but Romani-inspired Classical pieces, which I found in a bargain bin in Camelot Music in 1985. The tape broke around 1990 and I had long since lost the case card, so I couldn't remember one flipping thing about it. This song…this song was incredibly influential in the forging of Thiyennen Vathyella back in 1986. This, an assload of Antonín Dvořák’s works, and traditional Klezmer music.

The last time I tried to find the song was about mid-2014. I could hear it in my mind and, at one point was intent on translating it to keyboard, 'cos I used to be able to play things by ear. My hope was to record myself playing the song - badly - and share on social media, in the hope someone could identify it for me. I couldn't get to the Unit's keyboards, though, because *hoard*. It was only then I became resigned to never finding the song again.

It's been on my iTunes for fucking years and I didn't even know it!

What's so bizarre is, I was sorting through some paperwork having to do with Thiyennen at the time the song began to play.

That’s some Six Flags over Synchronicity shit right there, I kid you not.

Without further ado, I present the undeniably Vampiric Danse De La Gypsy by Camille Saint-Saens.

Mood: in shock
Where? the house
Music: Camille Saint-Saens - Danse de la Gypsy

Dammit, I can't seem to get all my iTunes transferred from the external HD to the new computer correctly, specifically the videos I've bought over the years. So I've decided to wait until the other computer gets back and am going to have the Geek Squad do their magick professionally for me. I can't afford to lose any of my music, especially since I've had to sell most of my CDs over the past couple of years. There's no way I can retrieve these songs, so I don't want to take any chances with this at all. It's gonna be a two week wait but, since I have thousands of songs, it's not like I'm gonna be running out of tuneage any time soon. Still, though...tarnation! It's not like I've not done this before. I'm forgetting to do something here and I'm a feeling a bit of an idiot at the mo. Blargh....

Mood: frustrated
Where? home
Music: tv noise

Son of iGor was beginning to act a little hinky on me. He's got some years on him and my invariable proclivity for dropping precious things visited itself upon him more than once. Thankfully, I keep him cased in a bouncy rubber iPod case, so the damage was minimal. Nonetheless, he's developed a glitch and, since I've had to sell all my music, my only source of music was the computer, which didn't garner any confidence because what if the computer died? See? I could lose everything.

On top of that, Son of iGor held only 7500 songs and I was well over 6100. I could still add music, but my photos had no place to stay on the already taxed iPod. My dream iPod was the 160 gig super iPod from Hell that held 40k songs and every picture known to humankind. I mentioned this to Aunt Tudi and she mentioned it to the Mother Unit. They went in together and got me one. In keeping with the Son of Frankenstein motif, I've named this iPod Froderick. I guess that means I should have a Froderick icon. When it came in the mail yesterday, I was out of my head. The Mother Unit even printed me out a book the size of War and Peace that explains everything you can do with the iPod Classic. I've got reading to do and in spades. I can't thank them enough for this because music is my life. I would never have written The Vampire Relics had it not been for music and my Joker wouldn't have developed the way he did without the Zoot Suit tunes provided him by iTunes.

This way, I can collect even more tuneage and my photos ~ all 6158 of them ~ are all sitting on Froderick now for viewing by everyone. I even got to show the girls at Doc's office a picture of Fitzgerald, so they'd know who the wormy little fucker was. It was a glorious thing, I tell you, a glorious thing. What's so cool is that I've used less than half the memory of Froderick and can put Uncle Michael's entire library of music on Froderick as well. I'll have so much music, I'll need some sort of musical kaopectate to help me through the wonderfulmousness. It took me about six hours to transfer all the music and photos onto Froderick, but that was well than worth it. I'll be just as patient hooking Uncle Michael's extensive library, if he'll let me borrow it.

This was my Christmas/Chanukah present from Aunt Tudi and Mama. They went ahead and gave it early since Son of iGor was showing signs of pooping out on me. I can't thank them enough. There's nothing I wanted any more than this other than Dave Matthews tied to my bed...nekkid.

Mood: grateful
Where? home
Music: Karen Matheson - World Stood Still

Nicked from

lonita.

Randomise your playlist. Write the artist and title of the first 15 songs that come up (no editing, no cheating).

Johnny Cash "Sunday Morning Come Down"
Fluke "Goodnight Lover"
The Marvelettes "Please Mr. Postman"
Shriekback "Mothloop"
Supertramp "Oh Darling"
Simple Minds "Let there Be Love"
Duran Duran "My Own Way"
Shriekback "Speed of Clocks"
Harry Nilsson "Daylight"
Electric Light Orchestra "Wild West Hero"
The Offspring "Come out and Play"
Marshall Crenshaw "Someday, Someway"
Erasure "Sixty-Five Thousand"
Dave Matthews Band "Rhyme & Reason"
The Black Family "Weave and Mend"

I'm not tagging anyone. Do it or not. You're all free agents.

Mood: awake
Where? home
Music: Oingo Boingo - Where Do All My Friends Go

These are the songs to which I've been listening for the past couple of weeks without end, whilst writing "Sui Generis."

( cut for courtesy )

The playlist will most likely be retired once the chapter is complete and I'll return to my more generic Vampire playlist used for the entire book.

Mood: blah
Where? home
Music: Illuminati "Eurydice"