InsaneJournal

Current mood:	happy
Current music:	various songs listed above

[Meme] That bang you just heard was me exploding. It's all good, nobody panic.
Praise the storm gods, it's FINALLY raining. I got joyfully soaked on the way through town and I feel so much better for it... life is good today, people. And you know what that means: a round of the six things meme!

1. The wonderful (lj)dastier has sent me the etext of the ultra-rare Lightning Tower/Dark King W40K chapbook, which contains two stories I absolutely HAD to have about two of my most beloved characters. I seriously, actually just exploded and had to respawn so I could post about it, I am so thrilled. Thank you D.T.! ^_____^

2. Speaking of presents, lookingforsigns got home back to Cambridge (huh, I totally typed that by reflex) yesterday and while this in itself is a Good Thing (call it 2a), good thing 2b is that she brought me a present! I now have... a little teeny New York snowglobe! ♥ It is exactly the sort of tourist-thing that nobody is EVER supposed to actually WANT to be given, and I adore it absolutely to bits. It has little tiny skyscrapers! And plastic snowflakes that drop out of its liquid air with all the grace of a small flurry of halfbricks! It is AWESOME. ^______^

3. I figured out where to get Koi-friendly pate! This is good because it means that on Friday night, I will be making venison Wellington for the four available members of the Triad using (lj)eviltwinemma's fantastic recipe. I am SO looking forward to this, both as a chance to test my culinary skills and as a cracking good excuse to eat until I fall over and stop moving. *grins*

(And related thing 3b, I have just discovered that there exists the "Eat Dangerously Cookbook". Sample quote from their Salad Nicoise recipe: There is a place in France where the naked ladies dance, and there is a salad in France that makes dancing ladies get naked. You'd think there would be a lady in France that dances naked on a salad, but there isn't. We checked. ...I think I'm in love.)

4. Music! My heart currently belongs, on the usual timeshare rules, to the following:

- Heather Dale's "The Farmer's Curst Wife" and "Crashing Down" (so sorry about the crappy intro and weird outro on the former of those, and the fanvids on both that I advise you ignore, but these are the only versions I can find online...)
- Hammerfall's Crimson Thunder, which I am completely in love with this week. Hammerfall have now been appointed Official Band of my Dark Redemption 'verse, because their songs keep on a) fitting and b) making me cry in the process. ^_^ Here, have a sample: "Hearts On Fire", complete with that awesome slow-build midsection that totally sounds like an invocation chant. I love it. ♥
- Songs where the very first chord makes me want to jump to my feet for joy. This is a bit of a special category but I have two good ones right here: Nightwish's "Know Why the Nightingale Sings" (again, sorry for the AMV but Nightwish songs get taken down off youtube a lot and I can't find a better version), and Cheap Trick's "Mighty Wings" from, er, the Top Gun soundtrack >.>. Anyone else have any songs that make them feel like that? ♥
- Root's "Aposiopesis", which turns out to have a video, to my surprise! I'm going to go out on a limb here and say this is the greatest Black Metal ballad I've ever heard. It's not like those are two concepts that normally sit well together, but this one sacrifices neither darkness nor emotion and the result is amazing. *shivers*

5. All the stuff that is living in my head at the moment, which is nothing short of awesome. I have around nineteen characters currently all taking it in turns to be up-front and I love all of them, and my ability to see both sides is being tested way past its limits and every damn one of them seems to be able to make me cry at the drop of a hat and it's just incredible. I wouldn't give them up for the world, seriously. ♥

6. And finally, I present, without further comment, this photo from one of NASA's orbital observatories. How unimaginably awesome is THAT, seriously?

Laters,
Rath

PS And I have another two things that didn't quite make the cut for the list, but:

- I went shopping yesterday and found candles that burn with coloured flames! Including purple ones! How cool is that?

- And this morning, I drank an entire can of Relentless Inferno on an empty-but-for-a-bit-of-chocolate stomach and am now consequently convinced that I CAN CONQUER THE UNIVERSE FROM HERE. Man, this stuff kicks ass. *_*