erika: Text: A strange game.  The only way to win is not to play. (movies: only way to win is not to play)
This week's life lesson is apparently about the nature of time and mortality.

My dog, Ronon, fell suddenly ill on Sunday. I found him in the bathroom, a place he never goes except getting dragged in to take a bath, and he wouldn't leave, wouldn't move, wouldn't come when called.

Now, he's known for not coming when he's called when he doesn't want to. )

I feel like such a bad dog parent for not rushing him to the emergency vet, but he was tracking, he was responding to stimuli and so I cuddled him for a while and let him be. He fell asleep, then was fine and eating dinner not six hours later, so although terrifying, it was temporary.

And now David Bowie. Shit. This guy is more eloquent than I can be right now and my feelings echo Brian Eno's statement "David's death came as a complete surprise, as did nearly everything else about him. I feel a huge gap now."

Life. It ends. Do what we can with our time. I've been spending more than usual cuddling with my animals and taking care of myself. It feels good.
erika: (tea: milky tea)
song lyric analysis )

The title of this song is Rumors, by Josh Ritter. (youtube link, download link).

I can't decide if the titular Rumor is the iceberg that broke the relationship, or if it's the rumor that results in the shift of perspectives seen in the verse change. Having listened to quite a few of Ritter's songs (and from the plural in the title), I'm guessing it's both.

As I said before, Josh Ritter is a horrible, horrible man (for conveying these emotions so well) who sings incredible songs.
erika: (movies: in ur delorean)
Ding ding ding: we have a winner for today's epic yet tiny pet peeve.

So I went with Lydia ([personal profile] panda) and saw the remake of 21 Jump Street in the theatre today.

It was actually a decent movie, overall, and we saw a matinee—so instead of an arm and a leg, I only lost several fingers.

(This pet peeve includes no spoilers, if you're worried. >_< )

I graduated from high school in 2003, and the two main characters had a flashback at the very beginning to just before prom the year they graduated, supposedly in 2005.

The movie starts with 'The Real Slim Shady' playing. OK, fine, whatever, Eminem isn't exactly timeless, but they're in high school, they're not supposed to have great taste.

But the entire flashback was just a shit-ton of anachronisms.

Clothes were crap that was popular, at the latest, in 2000. Hairstyles, again, same thing.

It wasn't just the guy who was supposedly 'the nerd' in high school that was like this, either. The other dude was supposedly 'super-popular dude' and he was just as bad. I'm pretty sure he was wearing JNCOs in the last scene of the flashback. JNCOs.

It's not like there weren't goddamn cell phones and digital cameras around in 2005, for christ's sake. It was seven fucking years ago, not the 19th century. Or even the '80s!

(And for completion's sake, I feel the need to mention that 'The Real Slim Shady' came out in 2000. You see what I'm saying?)
erika: (words: lost for words)
This is for someone who should know who he is—especially since I'm going to link him to this post once it goes live.

(Oh, and anyone else would know, too, if you checked the tags.)

Download all 25 songs here.

This is not precisely a list of love songs [though it is a very long list of songs] )
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