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In response to this image, sent to me by amand_r, I wrote you all a little song.



IT GOES LIKE THIS

Deck the halls with nightmare demons,
Fa la la la la, cthulu ia!
Tis the season to be screamin'
Fa la la la la, cthulu ia!
Nameless terrors lurk in corners
Fa la la, la la la, sho-og-goth,
And the narrators are goners,
Fa la la la la, cthulu ia.

Meteorites fall and curse us
Fa la la la la, they fall at night
Demon gases eat our horses
Fa la la la la, they're made of light
Things are creeping in New England
Fa la la, la la la, down the well
Leaving blasted heaths steamin'
Fa la la la la, an evil blight!

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Things I do not need to write: a Big Bang Theory fanfic where they're all doing sound-bite clips for a documentary about physics. One of you, get on that, wouldja?

Why yes, I am watching a documentary about the formation of the Universe. One of the guys just said "We're still banging, if you like" and because I am nine, I snickered. It's narrated by Mike Rowe, too, who I think is one of the cooler people on television.

I'm also updating and installing and generally still getting to know the new laptop. I keep installing programs in batches as I remember which ones I need, and then I'll restart and all the little programs will wake up and play happily together. IN THEORY. So far it's working out.

iTunes doesn't like to play with the other programs, but then iTunes is the most ill-designed mass-use program I've ever encountered. I don't use it except to get new music onto my iPhone, and even that simple task inspires rage. There is no reason you shouldn't be able to drag and fucking drop a playlist from your phone to your hard drive, rather than exporting and re-importing it; there really is no reason you shouldn't be able to drag and drop music, either, instead of having to import it into iTunes and then FIND IT AGAIN and sync it up; my Android phone is a piece of shit and yet it manages to grasp drag-and-drop.

Still, this is the price one pays for the convenience of an iPhone. I think honestly the problem is that it's hard out there for a pirate. Most of my music was not purchased through iTunes. I did actually pay for the indy stuff -- I went so far as to buy a CD of some of it -- but iTunes is like the Disney version of the British Navy, shiny and shipshape and ultimately useless, and I am Jack Sparrow. Arr. Here is what I am about to do:

-- Pay 99 cents to download Willie Nelson's cover of The Scientist.
-- Play the song while running Audacity, in order to record a hassle-free version that doesn't have iTunes branded all over it.
-- Locate and delete the 99-cent version of the song and, in iTunes, "add" the hassle-free version I recorded from the pay version.
-- Cry for the loss of all human innocence.
-- Resync my entire music library because I added one song and iTunes says it will add one song if you tell it to, but it won't actually add it.
-- Control-alt-delete to get to taskmanager, because iTunes also won't close when you tell it to.

Rage.

I will say this though, as someone who's not a huge fan of Willie Nelson or Cold Play, that song is totally worth it. I might make it my new header on LJ.