DONE! (Well, mostly.)

I'm FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

*runs around screaming*

3048 words, even. Okay, so there are a couple bits where I have "Blah blah blah analysis...um, I'll add more here later," and there are some spots I seriously need to cut down, but that's what revising, and thus tomorrow afternoon, is for. HOORAY!

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So Chandra loaned me her Calvin & Hobbes collection, which I've been reading on my breaks from this essay. (How I didn't discover C&H when I was a child, I have no idea.) Anyway, I'm writing my Wonderfalls essay and reading these comic strips, and suddenly my mental voice for Calvin is that of Spencer Breslin, the kid who played little Peter Johnson in "Lovesick Ass." Um, yeah. Ow.

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And now I go to bed, 'cause I'm getting up early to go buy food and mail stuff home. Royal Mail, please don't charge me too much in postage. I'm only sending three little boxes, and one of those is a book...

More essay grumbling; music stuff

The Wonderfalls essay is as good as it's gonna get, which is not very. And it's 100 words over. Arrrrrggghhhhh. There is nothing I can cut and still have it make the limited amount of sense it does. Die, maximum word counts, die.

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You should all run right over to iTunes and check out a band called HEM. I was hunting down some stuff for the essay, and I ran across a music listing for WF. They used a song called "Waltz" in "Wound Up Penguin," and as I'm a sucker for waltzes of all kinds, I went and looked up the song and the band. And they're pretty; kind of like folk meets chamber music. (Apparently the National Slovak Orchestra or something like that backs them on some tracks). And awesome lyrics, kind of like Fisher's style of lyricism, only more...rural? I dunno. The singer's voice reminds me of Sarah McLachlan, although her range is lower. I bought the whole "Eveningland" album, and it's awesome. Check out especially "Pacific Street," "Carry Me Home," "Redwing," and the title track, but all are fantastic.

And I so have Sheppard/Weir vid ideas for "Pacific Street." Bad, bad, bad. Still don't have vidding equipment, though, so I'm not that tempted! (But I'm not above begging if someone who does do vids has the same idea...)

Check out their website for full live versions of "Carry Me Home" and "The Tennessee Waltz." (Does anyone else besides me find it amusing that TN has five official state songs, while everyone else only has one or two? Or have I just been working on this paper too long?)