i have a cd-rom that i want to rip onto my hard drive so i don't have to use the cd to boot the game (in this case, the myst masterpiece edition). does anybody know how i can do this without paying for software? i looked up the daemon tools pro thing and the ultraISO thing, but i'm concerned that if i DL the free trials they'll have a size limit or something that will prevent me from using it how i want. any ideas? should i just try the free trials and see how it goes? heeeeeeellllllp. :D

PS - brian williams just announced that the stephen king foundation donated $140,000 to a middle school to help kids in the band get new instruments, after the man himself saw the 'nightly news' report about how they were sharing instruments and using really old broken things-- how cool is that. way to go, s.king. PS HIS NEW BOOK IS THE SHIT. not that i expected anything else, but still.... also, way to write a story that's basically like "the cat with hands". JUST SAYIN'. THE MAN.

y hlo thar livejournal.

so, i've been busy. lol. but i wanted first to make sure i said thanks to everyone who recced and/or linked me music -- i've been having a ton of fun with all of it, and i really appreciate all of it. cobra starship is totally my new favorite thing ever, omg. <3333333333

so much has happened except there's not really anything to tell. oimizza is coming to visit me this weekend, and i couldn't be more excited. it's been a hell of a long time since i've seen her, and while 48 hours is hardly long enough, it's a good tide-over til i can manage a visit to chicago (or drag her out here again). my life has actually been running pretty fucking smoothly these past few weeks-- working some strange hours aside, honestly, i was so right about the money making up for any 'meh' feelings i might have had about any part of the job. it is so nice to have a schedule, to come home every wednesday and have a check on the table, to know that after i get caught up with my bills, no one is going to have to reproach me or hound me or have a Talk with me about money for a long long time-- as long as i keep working here, at least.

media news.... been reading a lot. hour-long lunch breaks are good for that.

• mistress of the art of death by ariana franklin and a poisoned season by tasha alexander -- both period mysteries, both excellent. probably liked the alexander one better, but it's so much easier to make a busy plot in the victorian era than in the middle ages-- society breeds mystery, even if the whodunit is just wondering who took your glove.


• the talisman, finally-- also excellent, though definitely weaker than if sai king had just written it himself. wolf annoyed the crap out of me-- linaeloisetook was so right, he is hagrid, and i don't care if it makes me a bad person but hagrid annoys me too most of the time, lol. but i loved richard, and jack is deeply awesome, obviously a jake chambers twinner/archetype....


• going postal by terry pratchett - not finished with this yet, but obviously it is also deeply awesome. i feel like i ought to go back and read some of the pratchett that comes between mort and the stuff he's written lately -- when i was in high school i read that and the one that's a phantom of the opera spoof, and was like meh, pratchett, he's okay but nothing great -- but NOW it's like whoa, the man is using fantasy and ridiculous humor to make social commentary and ponder questions of philosophy. amazing.

i've also picked back up with the sopranos and am reminded of why i love that fucking show so much. it's really deep and not very uplifting, but god it's like crack. and it never ceases to amaze me that the deeply italian new jersey family reminds me so hardcore of my father's deeply irish long island family, in so many ways. aaaaaaaaalso saw 'becoming jane' and am enthralled. it's rare that one's two biggest celebrity crushes get put into one movie; even rarer, i think, that said movie is GOOD. which this was, very very good. i hope JM and AH act together again; they had amazing chemistry. yummmmmmmmm.

randomly, i really miss home. i haven't been to my mom's house in months-- probably the longest stint of me not going home since this time last year. i hate that; it's so funny that i used to really not like living with mom, but her house is like an instant recharge to me. it's like when my '06 friends were still at mhc and i'd go visit, or when the girls still lived in the apartment on 3rd street.... i didn't want to leave when sunday came, and the "real" world seemed duller than the place i'd just left. of course the comparison is different when talking about your mom's house than when talking about OpCA's House of Debauchery...... ;)

ok.... definitely time to feed myself. nom nom nom nom nom.............

so. i wanted to post something memeish, so you may have a collection of options.

a. am borrowing a page from sazzlette's book and doing something in preparation for the holidays. the 12 fics of xmas. i can only promise drabbles, but since my "drabbles" tend to wax onward of 500 words, you can be assured a little content. first 12 people to comment with a request, get it. i will write for: hp, runaways, firefly, dark tower, bsg, asoiaf, vmars, kushiel, rent, the office, supernatural, weeds, prison break... oh god i'm not gonna list them all, y'all know what i like by looking at my icons, lol. go out on a limb and if i don't know it or can't write it i'll let you know. :)

b. ( meme oneCollapse )

c. ( meme twoCollapse )

d. icons & interests -- ask me to explain any of my icons or interests, have me ask the same of you. :)

okay that should keep me busy for a while, right? :D

so i've been reading stephen king, and after hearts in atlantis i kind of understood why linaeloisetook is so nuts about the 60s. i guess i never really got it before, or haven't thought about it since the last time i watched 'forrest gump', but it really just smacks you in the face, that book. what the hell are we doing with ourselves? in a time when we have just as much of a chance to change things as kids our age did in the 60s, why are we just sitting back and watching MTV?

and it all boils down to john fucking mayer. stupid little cunty whiny man-- that first hit off his new album has pissed me off for a while, every time i hear it i think 'wtf does that mean, waiting on the world to change? why fucking wait, why not go out and change it your goddamn self?' it's all 'one day our generation is gonna rule the population' yeah and what, create more self-absorbed drug-addicted fat lazy consumer whores? greeeeeeeeeeat. and then today i heard a new mayer track which was, if possible, even worse! 'we're never gonna win the world / we're never gonna stop the war / we're never gonna beat this / if belief is what we're fighting for' -- and yeah, okay, i realize that in a sense he's saying the same thing as the pascal quote on my profile -- men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction -- but at the same time it's like what do we have left? the ratio of people who are smart enough and idealistic enough to want to change the world, to the number of people who are actually willing to get outside their comfort zone and act on those ideas... it's appallingly small.

sai king says that the 60s were special because it was the first time in history that a group of young people had the tools and the conviction to change the world and they actually took it and made it happen. he says we have the same opportunities now that they did then-- moreso, even, because there are more of us now-- but we choose not to act. i refuse to accept that-- i REFUSE to subscribe to the john mayer mentality that sits back and says sure, once the world changes i'll start caring again. 'we just feel like we don't have the means to rise above and beat it'?? are you fucking kidding me??? you have the means-- we all have the means. and john fucking mayer above so many of us because he has 29384792387 hojillion dollars that he could donate to a hundred different nonprofits or organizations or politicians to actually help stop this sooner rather than on 01/21/09. if it's so fucking 'hard to beat the system when you're standing at a distance' then fucking STOP STANDING AT A DISTANCE AND GET YOUR FUCKING HANDS DIRTY. he said on npr a few months ago 'demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly - kids don't even like being talked to like kids anymore, you know. just give me the option and i'll think about it.' it makes me so angry i could spit. like, why don't people GET that if we all stopped having that 'it's not a fair fight so why bother' attitude we could actually DO something about it? it makes me want to spit. or light something on fire.

and really, i'm not saying i'm a paradigm of anti-war protest. i bitch about bush and haven't done anything to 'damn the man' as it were other than donate to EMILY's list and make sure i stay living in the most liberal state in the goddamn country. but i'm realizing i can't live with myself if i don't do something else-- i'm not sure what it will be yet but you can bet i'll be looking out for it.

and one last thing-- if john mayer thinks he can compete with stuff like this or this......... he's not only lazy, he's fucking delusional. the man wrote 'your body is a wonderland' for fuck's sakes... let's get a little realism here..........

19 still follows me : three of the lj posts i was tagging today got halted at 19 tags, and in VM 2x13 thumper has locker #19 in the auto shop classroom. also, it's only 19 days till mare moves in. XD

lindsay, this icon is for you.

keith mars has, i think, pretty much jumped to hold the crown of my favorite TV dad. he's so. goddamn. sweet. and how sad he gets about being disillusioned about terrence cook, agh. my heart bleeds. in addition, i would really like to be kissed by someone who kisses as well as jason dohring looks like he does. and/or by francis capra. cus guh. anyone else want to back me on shipping weevil and veronica really hardcore? cus double guh. i know it'll never happen on the show, but damn. a girl can wish, right? n___n;;;;

also on the note of media, 'stick it' was pretty bad. funny, but it's just like a repeat of bring it on. which is, let's be real, an awesome bad-in-a-good-way movie, so. XD but it passed the evening nicely, and i get to sleep in tomorrow cus i don't work till 8. 'on a clear day' was really good though, and 'find me guilty' was goofy and silly (though if you're looking for vin diesel comedy, 'the pacifier' is way better) and 'syriana' shockingly was awfully boring; i turned it off after 15 minutes. this makes me sad, as i expected more from george. but ah well.

also....... opposite plot is the best thing ever. just sayin'. >>;;;;;

eta: in collecting the music they play on vmars, i'm hitting a wall with 'dame esa cosa' by rene brizuela. anyone know how/where to get it? it's fabulous hip hop and i wants it, precious, but limewire does not like me today. alternately, anyone who'd know how to pirate the full mix from where it's posted here that would rock too. :D

so, this weekend i was in rochester with halfdreams, linaeloisetook, usually9_15 and sekala, which is of course, as usual, a grand old time. i almost just wrote grand old dime; it was not, in fact, a dime, i promise.

so, late sunday night we're sitting in a 24 hour dunkin donuts (predictably) just talking about stuff, and we get on the subject of the dark tower - a favorite of all - and we're chatting and drinking our coffee... and then steph looks up and goes 'guys, what is this song?' and we all have a mini freak out b/c there we are talking about DT and "someone saved my life tonight" is playing on the radio.

and then i look at my watch and realize it's 12:19, also known as 00:19 in military time.

yeah. EERIE ASSED, I TELL YA.

anyway, it was tons of fun, and i got an interview at blockbuster for friday and the guy seemed really interested in me and said that if i stay on past september they can definitely promote me to a shift leader position, which ROCKS cus more money = the awesome. cus then i can renew my paid account, and get all my pretty icons back. hee hee.

ALSO OMFG PIRATES 2 IS FUCKING INCREDIBLE AND EVERYONE GO SEE IT NOW. ( spoilersCollapse )

going now, to play some phase 10 and watch rin pack. :( to people i've been neglecting, mostly oimizza, i am quite sorry and will be getting my act together asap. promise. :D also, i found a stack of mix cd's that i had made for a bunch of you ages ago, and promise to dig up that list of addresses and send those along sometime this year. ;)

LOVE.

just when i thought movies in fifteen minutes couldn't get any better.

EVEY: I LOVE MUSIC.

ahaha.


why do i feel like there is a hedgehog in my throat? for rizzle. dear body, please stop being retarded and falling apart on me, no love, emily.

18 days till suzi, 20 days till jam [and congrats to sam again, i knew you would get it]

need job. need to not be ill anymore. need SPRING, motherfuckers.

and happy belated birthday steph! *gives imaginary flowers and cake*

OH ALSO.
am partway through book 7 of the dark tower, and not for nothing, but i hated mayo enough BEFORE roland said it looked like come. *glares*

this has been your daily dose of random. also, everyone plz. go look at my rent icons for abc_icons because i am wicked proud of them. XD [/self-pimp] goodnight now byee!!