Somni Comminuta

brynnmyrddin @ 2008-07-06T17:01:00

2008-07-07T00:02:56Z

Yesssssss he'll be home by midnight on Tuesday <333333333

Okami is like crack, yo.

2008-06-08T02:37:20Z

Damn, I didn't realize it was International Loli Day until this afternoon when I saw all the posts, and since I'm at my dad's house this weekend I couldn't even belatedly dress up. Oh well, I get to wear loli on Monday for the meet and Wednesday for my finals, so that's good.

I can't stop playing Okami. I've already beaten it once, but I'm playing through again and whenever I get a chance to play, it's all I do. I've been playing since I woke up this morning and I'm at the endgame now, I'm just going back to get a couple stray beads before I go into the Ark of Yamato. I'm trying to race Kai through the forest but she keeps beating me. DDD: ARGH.
Edit: After like, 7 tries, I finally beat her and got the stray bead!

School is good, though. English was successfully dropped with no penalties a few weeks ago, so the only finals I have to prepare for are Japanese and Geology, which are both on Wednesday. I have a lot of outlining to do, but I'm not really worried.
I need to sign up for summer classes.

I've been tagged!

2008-04-11T07:46:54Z

MEME TIME!
1. REPLY TO THIS POST, AND I WILL PICK THREE OF YOUR ICONS AND SEVEN OF YOUR INTERESTS.
2. MAKE A POST (INCLUDING THE MEME INFO) AND TALK ABOUT THE ICONS/INTERESTS I CHOSE.
3. OTHER PEOPLE CAN THEN COMMENT TO YOU AND MAKE THEIR OWN POSTS.
4. THIS WILL CREATE A NEVER-ENDING CYCLE OF SQUEE. WHOO!

mcgooglykins to the rescue, giving me something to do instead of going to bed like I should be doing.

Tea and old letters conjure up images of romance the way it used to be, and the bits of greenery suggest that the person reading the letters is sitting on a porch somewhere, enjoying the breeze on a warm day.

The Morrigan is an ancient Celtic goddess associated with war and death, often seen on the battlefield in the form of a great crow. Her name translates as Great Queen or Phantom Queen.

This icon makes me grin every time I see it. The text is pure genius. I love HP, but I also love making fun of HP.

decoder ring: Decoder Ring and The Gin Club each had a track on a Jack/Elizabeth fanmix that I downloaded during the brief time I was heavy into the PotC fandom. This particular mix was full of songs and artists I'd never heard of before, and I still love everything on it. This song is the only one of theirs I have.
Carillon

the gin club: You Don't See.
Acoustic guitar and strings. There's just something about melancholic music that I love instantly.

After having all these songs already uploaded, I just now realized that you can only play the mp3 files in the browser - m4a files are download only. I love box.net less now.

striped scarves: OMGHARRYPOTTER. I don't think I've ever posted pictures of my Slytherin scarf, and Mike has my camera so I can't take any right now. I really, really love the HP house scarves, and I'm going to make a Ravenclaw one and a different Slytherin one when I get some more things done in my GIANT backlog of knitting projects. By giant, I mean that my queue on Ravelry (I think you can only see it if you're signed up and logged in) is almost 50 projects long, and that's not even complete. Here's a picture of the first part of my queue.

fake?: I really can't express how much I love this band. The singer is half Japanese and half British, so a lot of their music is in English. They're creative and complex, yet still catchy and not weird enough to be lumped in with "all that weird shit you listen to", as Mike puts it. >>; Thanks honey.
Drip
Snow - seriously one of my top songs of all time.

library books: I rarely read a book more than once, so the library saves me loads of money. :D I'm such a cheapass.

egl: FRILLS, YO. Manifesting my dark/girly personality split.
"elegant gothic lolita", aka Lolita or "loli", aka, where all my money goes when I'm supposed to be saving it for bills and such. Strangely enough, I seem to have no pictures of myself in loli. I know there are some on my camera...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think egl is one of the biggest lolita communities online. Loads of pictures and explanations there for those that are curious, though most of you are either into it already or have absorbed some of my random blabbering about strange fashions.

ega: "elegant gothic aristocrat", aka "this corset is so tight that my ribs will be sore for a week." Long skirts, ruffled shirts, dark/muted colors. Like this. And yes, this is really a man.

Holy crap, I got my dream skirt!

2008-04-11T00:42:59Z

I never thought I'd be able to get the black stained glass print BtSSB skirt, but I found it on Mbok and had Celga get it for me!!! I'm a little annoyed that they paid the buy-it-now price instead of bidding since there was no one else bidding and I could've saved $50, but that is a rare skirt and at least no one else can BIN and get it >>
my preciousssssss....

Ugh, school/ Yay, car

2008-04-02T18:28:19Z

So. Today is my first day back at uni after spring break. Thank God I wore my long wool coat today, otherwise I would've frozen to death already. It was supposed to rain today, but it hasn't yet. I'm slightly disappointed. I had Japanese class this morning at 9:20, got out at 10:30, and am currently on break. Geology runs from 12 to 1:10 (have to do my science requirement, and this class is only an hour 3 times a week, with no lab!) and then I have English from 2 to 3:50. Those are all Monday/Wednesday/Friday classes (except English, which is only Monday and Wednesday), so I have Tuesdays and Thursdays off. That will be very useful when I finally get around to getting a job. I picked up an application for Hot Topic last week, but they won't be hiring until May, and I don't know if I want to wait that long on the off chance I might get the job.

Things with Mike are going pretty well still. We argue a lot, but we always work it out and anyway that makes things more interesting.

I forgot I haven't told you guys that I got a new car! I'll try to remember to take pictures of it when I get home today. It's a red 1993 Nissan 240sx coupe, and it's gorgeous. And a stick shift, so I have to get used to driving it. XD My mum calls it the mini-Firebird. It really does look like a smaller version of my '91 Firebird - the paint is even the same color.

I want to bodykit my car now. Can you say pimptastic?

My Gaia Avatar

2008-03-19T23:55:24Z

brynnmyrddin @ 2008-03-09T12:23:00

2008-03-09T22:17:00Z

Stolen from asaphira_sachi

What type of Fae are you?

Not dead, just comatose.

2008-03-04T17:16:07Z

Finally getting back to being social on teh intarwebs again. Slowly. My PS3 is eating my soul; I spend all my time either out with Mike or home playing Folklore, so I'm never online. I'm trying to check my f-list more often, so bear with me.
I feel empty and frustrated. I need to create. I have half a scarf and about 2 inches of a crazily cabled sock done, but that just isn't enough. I need to move. I have all this energy stuffed down inside me but I can never let it out, so I'm just twitchy all the time.
Oh yeah, and I'm looking for a new car. Something pretty and fun to drive that's under $8,000... yeah good luck with that.

Music time! God Is An Astronaut is an instrumental (rock-ish) three-piece band from County Wicklow, Ireland.
If you click on the song title here, you can listen to the title track from their third album, Far From Refuge, which I've upped here on my Sendspace account.

It's my birthday!

2008-02-23T19:22:35Z

Today is my 19th birthday. Hope it doesn't suck this year. Going out for dinner with a few people instead of having the entire family at my house all day is a good sign, though, but it also means I can't hide in my room while everyone argues.

The truck is finally fixed, so I have to pick that up Monday, and my mum says I have to drive it instead of the Firebird now. I'm looking for a new (used) car, so I can get rid of the truck, but I don't know what I want yet.

LOLcat Bible

2008-02-09T01:37:07Z

most awesome thing evar, srsly.

From Genesis:

14 An Ceiling Cat sayed, i can has lightz in the skiez for splittin day An no day.15 It happen, lights everwear, like christmass, srsly.16 An Ceiling Cat doeth two grate lightz, teh most big for day, teh other for no day.17 An Ceiling Cat screw tehm on skiez, with big nails An stuff, to lite teh Urfs.18 An tehy rulez day An night. Ceiling Cat sawed. Iz good.19 An so teh furth day w00t.

20 An Ceiling Cat sayed, waterz bring me phishes, An burds, so kittehs can eat dem. But Ceiling Cat no eated dem.21 An Ceiling Cat maed big fishies An see monstrs, which wuz like big cows, except they no mood, An other stuffs dat mooves, An Ceiling Cat sawed iz good.22 An Ceiling Cat sed O hai, make bebehs kthx. An dont worry i wont watch u secksy, i not that kynd uf kitteh.23 An so teh...fith day. Ceiling Cat taek a wile 2 cawnt.

Oh God I nearly spit out my tea laughing

2008-02-07T08:52:14Z

So I just got this: Weezer singing Britney Spears' "Hit Me Baby One More Time" live to a small audience.
It's on my Box.net account, so you can listen to it without downloading it.

And even though it's a cover, and amusing, I think it's actually better than the original.

At least it wasn't suicide.

2008-02-06T16:23:40Z

"Accidental pill overdose killed Ledger."

The article goes on to say that he hadn't taken more than the prescribed amount of any of his pills, but 2 different painkillers, 2 different anti-anxiety pills, and 2 different sleep medicines should never be taken in the same time period, and if they're not working like they should (2 Ambien only giving him an hour of sleep), then he should've gone to the doctor instead of taking more pills. It's an easy mistake to make, but those things are prescription-only for a reason.

I feel so bad for his daughter, but at least she won't grow up knowing Daddy killed himself. His being gone is bad enough. Someone very close to me lost his father at a young age, and it's screwed up his life in so many ways. It's just not something you ever get past.

What the fuck?

2008-01-13T22:03:22Z

I just got home from going to Petsmart with my mum to get cat food. After we got in the car, a couple black girls in pajamas and slippers got out of the SUV next to us. They were probably 14 or 15, no older. I'd been looking out the window at the BMW Z4 two spaces over (the guy had locked himself out of the car and was on the phone with someone, lol), waiting for my mum to return the cart, and as they walked by into the store they turned around and started making agressive hand movements, flipping me off, and mouthing "bitch" at me. The hell? What kind of dumbass whore harasses a random stranger in a parking lot, especially one who's obviously older and bigger than them? They kept doing it, too, all the way to the store entrance, so when we pulled up near them on our way out of the parking lot, my mum told them they were stupid twits, and I rolled my window down and said "I was looking at the car, not you stupid shits. The BMW is worth looking at. You are not." Then I rolled the window back up and we left.
Owned.

Still, what the hell would make someone do that? I just don't get it. I really wanted to get out of the car and smash their faces in, but not with their mom and sister/someone still in the car, and not so close to the store. Haha, I should keep a BB gun in my truck just in case something like that happens again.

In other, better news, FATASS IS FINALLY MOVING OUT. TODAY. MOST OF HER SHIT IS GONE ALREADY.

I'm so fucking happy about that. My mum said as soon as all her stuff is out of our house and storage locker, that we're cracking open a bottle of champagne even though I'm not legally old enough to drink. ilu mommy.

Lol, its true.

2007-12-22T09:25:09Z

Quiz ganked from asaphira_sachi.

Which character from Togainu no Chi are you?

Gunzi
Take this quiz!

Bed now, it's almost 1:30 in the morning.

Ok Go

2007-12-13T04:51:01Z

Ok Go - selftitled

Ok Go - Oh No

Twitter

2007-12-12T01:51:36Z

Does anyone else have a Twitter account? My username on there is Finiuin.

Procrastination

2007-12-10T03:20:19Z

I really, really should be studying for finals. Econ is tomorrow morning, Japanese is Wednesday morning, and Art History is Thursday afternoon. Of course, instead of outlining the chapters I'll need to know for tomorrow, I'm playing around online. Oh intarwebs, thou dost make a mockery of my efforts.

Oh, I have a couple good instrumental albums for y'all. I picked up these two CDs at the Dickens Fair yesterday.

Myra Joy - Violoncello: Cello with violin, drums, and other instruments. Classical styling but with a rhythmic, middle-eastern feel.

Chris Caswell - Celtic Tidings: Chris Caswell owns Caswell Harps, and their booth at the fair was where I picked up both these albums. This album is harp, flute, fiddle and other celtic instruments. It's beautiful, mellow Christmas music that isn't cheesy or overbearing. I'd listen to it all year long.

I also have the Battlestar Galactica Season 3 OST. I've only seen the show a couple times, but I downloaded the OST from sharealbums and I really like it. It's very well orchestrated and gives a good sense of drama.

new layout

2007-12-08T21:38:14Z

brynnmyrddin brynnmyrddin brynnmyrddin

Look Ma! I'm a crazy, alcoholic, bitter old man!

2007-10-15T21:54:19Z

Lol, I just realized while looking at this that Claude is played by Christopher Eccleston. Addding that to his playing the Rider from Seeker: The Dark Is Rising and the Ninth Doctor... I do believe he's now my favourite actor.

Your Score: Claude

You scored 25 Idealism, 54 Nonconformity, 37 Nerdiness

Everyone's like the rest. That's why they're the rest.
Congratulations, you're Claude! You're the classic cynical hermit with a secret heart of gold somewhere underneath it all. You're also a mentor whose teaching methods may or may not involve making fun of your young learner's hair and punching them in the face. You have seen and experienced a lot of negative things from people, but people really haven't seen much of you.

Your best quality: You're a misanthrope, and can be quite amusing.
Your worst quality: You're a misanthrope, and probably aren't very happy.

Link: The Heroes Personality Test written by freedomdegrees on OkCupid, home of the The Dating Persona Test

brynnmyrddin @ 2007-10-14T23:09:00

2007-10-15T06:13:28Z

My life feels so empty.

Stardust OST

2007-09-28T09:58:51Z

Here y'all are~

Stardust

2007-09-13T00:51:10Z

I have the Stardust OST, if anyone wants it.
Y'all have to see this movie. Henry Cavill, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert DeNiro (as a hardcore manly-man pirate captain who is secretly gay and loves to dress up in frilly dresses and feather boas and dance the can-can, no less)... and it's narrated by Gandalf! (Ian McKellen). Wonderful, wonderful movie.

Here are a couple songs from the soundtrack:
Shooting Star and Coronation.

I'll probably make a batch of icons from the stills from IMDB when I get back from visiting etherealdark this weekend.

brynnmyrddin @ 2007-09-10T20:34:00

2007-09-11T03:35:22Z

Has anyone ever seen the film Mirrormask? I saw it last night and it's just gorgeous.

OMG OMG OMG

2007-08-23T04:59:41Z

WITHIN TEMPTATION IS COMING TO SAN FRANCISCO ON SEPTEMBER 21!!!!!!

And it's only $17.

Wooooooo

2007-07-23T13:34:53Z

It's 6:33 a.m. and I just finished reading Deathly Hallows after starting it around 1:45 a.m.

Damn. Is it me or is it just... a little underwhelming? And the epilogue, wtf. Seriously, that was weird.