It's not a cry you can hear at night, it's not somebody who's seen the light...

My beautiful friend Elva (Ashes of Eve) is working on a solo project. So here be pimping.

http://www.elvamusic.com/

If you join the mailing list you receive a link for a free download of the newly re-recorded When I'm Sleeping.

If you want to hear some of her gorgeous music, head on over to http://www.reverbnation.com/elvamusic and you can listen to When I'm Sleeping and Moment (which I currently have on repeat because it's so amazingly gorgeous). Every play helps her out, so have a listen!

And a Facebook link too, just because http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Elva/158295504223274

Dear Self,

You are almost thirty. I know you like Rob Zombie and Beautiful People by Marilyn Manson, but headbanging on your knees on the floor, even to cheer your damn self up, is probably not the best idea. You will spend the next day walking around like you are fifty years older than you actually are. Which isn't very fun, is it? No. No, it's not.

It was still awesome though.

Much Love,

Me



Also I hate my printer. But I love you! Today is much better, despite my sore everything. I haven't curled up in a ball on the floor once today. Progress!

Today I sat in the sun and I waited for a bus. I know. Amazing story. Fricking riveting. But I had on my Sirius Black t-shirt, I was listening to The Cure (greatest hits) and eating a chocolate ice cream cone and it was warm and yet windy and it was just one of those really nice moments where everything is just...nice.

Ice cream. Sun. Robert Smith. And Sirius Black apparel.

Awesome.

And then we had roast chicken and mashed potatoes and Alina was here and we watched Easy A which was hilarious and Ariadne was cute and it was all terribly lovely!

Dear Alina,

Please don't kill me for this. I am doing it because you are amazing. (And I love Hera. But I mostly love you.)

Love,

Lara!

SO this is a quote from the blog of one Hera Hjartardottir (http://www.herasings.com/blog which has lovely photos of Hera at Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer's artperformance wedding flashmob thing!) The amazing, Christhurch (via Iceland) singer/songwriter the LFoD likes to stalk.

And for those of you frustrated with the Icelandic interview... here is not a translation, but a documentary! by the super lovely Alina White, who contacted me a few months ago about doing this, it was her project for film school (- the school of fine arts, university of Canterbury.) She's also an awesome artist! Here it is in two parts :) xo

( Alina's Amazing Documentary, complete with THE CUTEST HERA EVER )

And Ali informed us that the song at the end was her suggestion and her favourite. It's gorgeous and I WANT A RECORDING. Makebelieve Girl is close to my livejournal's title (it's artificial girl, but close enough).

On a lighter note, if you want hours of fun, here's a game what plays music! Bill Bailey had one of these at his stand up show in Christchurch! Of course, his wasn't on a computer. He had someone put their hand on it and it played a song. It was awesome.

( Musical Squares )

Oh, Amanda.



I do love you and your piano and your music. The piano in this song is...wow.

( Lyrics )

I'm sorry, Angie! ;)

Character you’ve made more than once ~ I have several, though most of them are actually characters I brought over from my planned original fiction (or original characters from Buffy fanfiction, stfu) and put into Darker London. I have made lady_evanna twice because she originated in an RPG on GreatestJournal but that RP died, so I brought her over as Deirdre's cousin because I loved her too much to lose her.

Lavannah Adams lavannah was a medium character originally created for a story I was going to write and then got bored of (named Lora in the story, but changed because I knew someone named Lora by then). So I brought her to Darker London because I liked the idea anyway. She fascinates me because her grip on reality is soooo small, but she is so smart. And she says the weirdest things.

Kat angels_facade was actually an OC from a Buffy RPG I played with my Twinny for years. She was Rayne, Giles daughter. I have actually played her a few times, since I think she was in the Buffy RPG I started on LJ (which is somewhere in my communities) and then instead of making her someone's daughter in Darker London, I made her Peter's cousin. I love her to bits because she is so wonderful and so stupid. And her affair with Thomas was SO hot. And her hair was SO pink (it had been since Sunnydale so I am glad I could use Emilie Autumn!)

A band you’ve started to listen to because of rping ~Uhm... Well there's A Fine Frenzy. I saw her icons on Hollow Art and wanted to make her into someone. Then I looked her up on YouTube, listened to one of her songs and DIED. I love her so much. And there's Steve Vai, the PB for Spectre the rockstar angel (see icon) in_spectre_mors though his music kind of makes me want to shush him. He is SO ADORABLE. All the other bands from RP I probably would have listened to anyway because Lewi does love his bands!

We're listening to Abney Park playing Little Drummer Boy, which is awesome and hilarious. Ali is cooking and Leah's potatoes are baking. Lewi is here and we spent the afternoon watching Lord of the Rings in 60 minutes which is great fun starring my friends when they were teensy! And I cuddled a Simbacat and he purred so loudly it was slightly disconcerting :D

And then I learned that if you don't touch your flute in two years you forget how to play it ;) BUT I can learn again (much to the annoyance of my housemates I'm sure!)

Hera on Saturday was beautiful and she gave us hugs and we gave her chocolate and Leah got to request two songs and she dedicated her last song to us :D I LOVE her she's so freaking cute!

And Lewi is awesome :D

Ah, so it's viral bronchitis JUST LIKE LAST TIME! You know...it's so nice that ALONG WITH ASTHMA I have to put up with it causing a secondary infection every time I get a cold. THANKS A LOT, USELESS LUNGS!

Ahem. Anyway, I'm fine ;) I'll be FINE! I had a doctor chew me out for 1) going to work and 2) going to a concert... But you know...LEAVE ME ALONE! :(

As for me and Dream Theater? Oh. OH. Oh, our love is pure. They are so incredibly perfect live, I cannot describe it. HOW DO THEIR FINGERS MOVE LIKE THAT! Electric Progressive Lightning. EPL. That's it. They have an EPL factor of 10.

How do I come up with this crap.

Oh. Cold meds. Yay, I'm high on codeine. Can you tell?

Stupid lurgy.

Noel Fielding is an attracive man.

And the season 8 finale of Scrubs made me weep like a baby. Especially when I realised I will soon be leaving a job that makes ME feel safe and warm too.