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Stole a funny either-or-meme from misbegotten to kill some time while waiting for my Doctor's appointment:

an either/or meme:

libraries or bookstores - Libraries

pens or pencils - Pens

handwritten or typed - Handwritten for aesthetic, typed for convenience ^^'

ending a sentence with a preposition or splitting an infinitive - Splitting infinitives I guess

truth or fiction - Fiction

poetry or prose - Prose. I do like poetry but I don't read enough of it

The Odyssey or On The Road - The Odyssey

Frankenstein or Dracula - Dracula

Barbaric yawp or Howl - These are not the kind of poems I like.

paintings or poems - Paintings. Same as before.

bouquet of roses or wildflowers - Wildflowers, no question.

wine or whiskey - Wine

swim in the sea or gaze at the stars - Both are nice! Swimming in the sea if it's warm enough.

coffee or tea - Tea. Stopped drinking coffee :<

early bird or night owl - Night Owl

chocolate or vanilla - Chocolate

spring or fall - Summer (spring)

silver or gold - Silver

snakes or sharks - Sharks are cool. Danger noodles are neat too. Difficult.

mountains or fields - For actually being in, fields. But mountains look amazing.

thunderstorm or lightning - Lightning

Egyptian mythology or Greek mythology - Greek

opal or diamond - Opal

butterflies or honeybees - Butterflies. (If you see this, sorry wolfie ;; I like bees a whole lot too)

spicy or mild - Spicyyyy all the spice.

opera or ballet - Neither :| Not a fan of overly formal art performances.

London or Paris - Haven't been to either! Probably London.

Vincent Van Gogh or Claude Monet - Claude Monet

denim or leather - Denim

ocean or desert - Ocean, at least if it's one of the warmer ones.

apple or cherry - Cherry

inside or outside - Depends! Usually inside though.

dawn or dusk - Dawn if I'm staying up, not waking up.

It's been a while (again><) but the new Friday Five is fun. I should do a CD update post at some point...

Anyways,

Would you rather [entertainment version]...

1. Download music // buy a CD

Buy a CD! I'll sometimes download hard-to-get things 💀 but I really love collecting CDs and music is one of the few "frivolous" things I spend money on.

2. Use MP3 player // Use CD Player

Use a CD player if I'm listening to a whole album, an MP3 player when listening to random things on shuffle.

3. Watch a movie at a theater // Rent a video

Neither? I guess a theater (I don't even know where the nearest rental place is...) but when I watch movies (which is rarely), I'd rather just stream.

4. Amusement park for the day // Picnic in a park for a day

Hmm, both are nice but I think amusement park, just because it's been so long and I'm kind of curious if I'd still like rides. I might get a chance to go to a nice one at some point this summer!

5. Read a magazine // Dollage with a magazine

Read. But I rarely do that either.

I haven't posted in a bit but there's a new Friday Five (on Monday Morning 😴 ) so~

Would you rather [hobbies version]...
1. shop // sunbathe

I like warmth, but not really sunbathing necessarily as such? Well, with a book or something it's nice. Shopping can be fun, I can spend hours in a good CD store ^_^' Let's say sunbathing when it's warm >>> shopping when it's cold but shopping when it's warm > sunbathing when it's warm. No one sunbathes while it's cold, obviously (well, this is not true, people do. I don't.).

2. dance // sing
I seriously suck at both but enjoy them immensely. Somehow last year I ended up doing both in the company of other people for the first time since secondary school (and in high school the dancing was Fancy Dances in a ~prom; furitsuke during gigs obviously doesn't count as dancing 😳). Getting me to dance or sing somewhere where other people can see/hear usually requires fairly large amounts of alcohol and I promise you'll regret it.

3. watch college football // watch NFL
No handegg for me thanks 😛

4. write // read
I like(d) writing, but I really like reading. I didn't read much for a while but I've been trying to change that lately : )

5. chat online with friends // hang out with friends
Idk, I like both, I very rarely hang out with any friends irl these days, but in principle the latter? I'd definitely much rather chat online with some friends than hang out with others. Both in moderation, though

It's been so EFdkəœıĸj߀ðoing cold lately ;; last week was <-15C every weekday, it warmed a bit the last two days but it was -16C again this morning. And so much snow. Aaaaaaaa give me spring.

Oops, missed a day again

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Day 14: A song you'd love to be played at your wedding

I picked the first song that came to my mind when I read the prompt



But tbh that was just because I had to give an answer. Happier Mono songs would probably be a more realistic choice, but idk what a real answer would be.

Day 15: A song you like that's a cover by another artist

Now here I had a plethora of options! I wanted to have both the coverer and the coveree be bands / artists I haven't used yet & am not planning to use, so I went with



which is a cover of this song. I'm fond of both of them and I love how the cover is totally recognisable but still in an entirely different genre.

Day 11: A song from your preteen years:



The single came out in 2004, I heard it in 2005, both years work. Also could've used this yesterday, Diru is still one of my favourites and I like this song a lot. Cw for (non-graphic) suicide-related imagery in the video.

Day 11: A song you never get tired of



To be honest, I rarely get tired of songs in general (or, let's say, haven't since I was 12-13), but this is one that I've listened to a lot, and I haven't used the band yet, so why not.

Day 8: A song about alcohol or drugs

I went with



which is a great live of a song I like a lot. Again, I'm running with a constraint of only including Japanese music, otherwise basically any folk metal or, say, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emj3QGa7zuA for more non-conventional drugs would've been an option.

Winter Questions in the Friday Five (╬ Ò ‸ Ó)(╬ Ò ‸ Ó)

1. What are your feelings about snow?
Fuck snooooowwwwjh kasnmd as hdJAH sthere's so much snow it's been snowing all day

2. What is the one thing you really dislike that is associated with snow
Its inherent snowness

3 What is the one thing you really like that is associated with snow
When snow melts in the spring

4. Do you anticipate or dread bad weather reports?
??!?? Dread

5. Are you dreaming of a White Christmas?
Yes it's definitely one of my nightmares, and a very likely one at that

Tbh for the last question, it's fine since I can stay indoors. It looks nice. As long as I'm warm and don't have to be anywhere near it.

It's been a while! I haven't really had anything special to post about for a long time and haven't really been feeling like posting anything either, but, well, I feel like it now and the new Friday Five is music related again. Aalso, I have an hour to kill before an exercise class I'm TAing, which isn't enough for anything productive (I'm also full of pizza so I couldn't be bothered anyways ^_^').

1) What is the first song you remember from your childhood?

It's difficult to figure out the relative times of these, so I'll just link a few possibilities:

1) Recorded children's music: Eg. This song by a band that makes (made?) children's songs, I had a VHS that had a story for every song (this is a version of a "lion-hunting song" where they end up running away because lions are scary).

2) Non-recorded children's music: Eg. A bedtime song my mum sang to me.

3) TV theme songs: Eg. The Moomin theme, since it's is a show for every Finnish kid born in the 90s watched.

I know my parents also made me listen to Mozart when I was a baby, but I don't remember that, and there is also pop music I was subjected to, but it's hard to time any of the songs >_>

2) What is the first music you purchased with your own money?

Probably Dir en grey's Withering to death (2005). I must've been given some CDs as presents before that, but I never really got *that* into music before getting into J-music.

3) What's a piece of music that you know by heart?

Like, the lyrics? Waaaaay too many to count, hah!

4) What's a song that makes you turn off the music right away?

I very very rarely listen to radio, and when I do, I'm not the one controlling it (so I can't turn it away). And I obviously don't have songs I dislike that much on my PC...

5) And why?

N/A, see previous answer :(


Ok, that took a good 30 minutes, excellent!