Serendipity has been the catchword for this gig, man. First it was me half-heartedly scanning the new dates with the expectation that nothing would be anywhere near me, only to discover that there would be a show in Toronto and it would actually be during the window of time that I would be there. Then, oh_johnny_ was not only able to come with, but picked up our tickets. We discussed on the weekend where we should park, and had settled on a place, and then ended up at a different parking garage just around the corner from the one we'd picked - both of us, on the same level, about six cars apart. And then twitch from the Rockfic board had said she was getting a ticket after I'd posted over there about my glee that I could go, and with one thing and another I totally forgot to PM her and enquire after meeting up, but as luck would have it, she randomly sat right next to us and as we were talking about Paul, and Rob, and then about Green Day, she leaned over and asked if I was me. Hee! So I did get to meet her after all, which was awesome.

( Paul's been stuck at 19 comments on the album on iTunes and would really like to crack 20... [hint hint nudge nudge]Collapse )

screwthedaisies posted today on the RF board that the Press is going to be dissolved as of April 15th, the US tax deadline; there's more detail in her post. She's having a 'going out of business' sale until the 14th so if you had a story in Behind the Attitude but never got a copy, or you were considering getting any other books, now's your last chance.

MuchLoud is playing an hour from an Alice Cooper concert. His entrance music? Phantom of the Opera. Hee! He's looking a little worse for wear these days but damn, I'd still do him. *needs to look up the video for Poison sometime, nngghh*

*facepalm* WHY didn't I THINK of Alice/Tré when the xmas_rocks noms were open??? Tré plays in his frigging charity golf tournament every year! In pink accessories, even! Augh.

Speaking of, sign ups for xmas_rocks are open now, until November 3rd. Go sign up! sidewinder even made some spiffy icons to help advertise! You know you wanna. *grins*

In the last two weeks or so, I have had: someone join my basically defunct egroup; a fangirly email from someone on the reunion list; a request to archive my lone Candy fic somewhere new; and a request for links for a couple of my Dreamer fics. Hi, Roswell, how ya doin'? *facepalm* Okay, so with the last of those, I realised that hey, Land of Dreams went kaput except for the archive that used to be Desert Dwellers and I never did move my stories in there, just had them on the board itself. Ergo, most of the links on my Work By Author page at Fanatics are broken, because I'd linked to the prettified versions of my stuff at LOD, and clearly the threads didn't make it over to Majik's after all. Ergo, I've spent the last couple of hours tracking down my work. Veracity is the only one I'm missing. (Thank GOD it's not Forging! *shudders at the thought of reposting all forty-nine freaking chapters of THAT*)

Although, it's only sort of missing. Did y'all know that Roswell Heaven reposted a whole bunch of the fic that was on the Boardello before it closed? It says they tried to ask permission from the authors, but that's bullshit because my email address is exactly the same - has been since before the show even *aired* - and not only that, but both my ezboard and my Fanatics accounts are set up to accept PMs, and no one contacted me about my stories. Therefore, I've requested to have them taken down. I'll repost Veracity myself at Fanatics: with all the formatting intact, thank you very fucking much. muffinkath7, if I PM you when it's all up, would you be able to lock the thread and move it to CC Completed, please? I don't want to repost for feedback, I just want the damn thing up somewhere!

ETA: You know what's even weirder about all this? I heard Seether/Amy Lee's song Broken today while I was out, and that's the core song for Darkness Cries. Which none of y'all know because I never got farther than the prologue and half of chapter one before I realised that I so did not want to make the commitment to another long Rosfic. It's the one that I love the idea for - I have it fully outlined and everything - and want to turn into an original story (there's enough there for a novel-length work) except I can't quite figure out how to make it NOT-Roswell. But listening to that song always stirs it up for me. :-/

Daughter of ETA: Since this is already about archiving, even though RockFic is a tooooootally different archive, I am an idiot and forgot that I only got a one-year sub last year and it's gone and expired on me. *headdesk* *adds trip to bank to Monday's to-do list* On the plus side, at least the dollar amount will be exactly the same in Canadian as in US this year. :P

We did not get hit with the mounds of snow yesterday - there was just enough to cover the ground - but it's been every kind of rain since then, from fat wet drops to little frozen pellets. My dad watched the newspaper deliverer skid and slip his way up our steep driveway, then decide the prudent way to get back *down* would be to slide down on his butt. He ended up halfway across the street. :D In other words, it's absolutely gross and I'm very glad that I ended up taking yesterday off to take care of some stuff and did my running around then, b/c I do not fancy chipping the ice off my car whilst getting soaking wet that would be the necessary prelude to leaving the house today. I'm perfectly happy to stay right here in my pyjamas!

And drink coffee. *gasp* Yeah, I had a yen. I kinda wish I'd been prescient about it since I would've bought some that I like a lot better than what my mother drinks, but it's all right once it's been doused with enough sugar.

The audiography theme this week is movies, which I'd thought would go on my "Largely ignore" list but man, some good stuff posted that's making me wicked nostalgic. Did anyone else know that there's an expanded, remastered edition of the Top Gun soundtrack? Because I did not until today. And I wants it, precious. I have the original one, but on vinyl, actually. Though it inspires fond memories still as my friend and I got out of the movie right before the mall closed and raced to the music store to buy it. Hee. I don't think I've done that since for a soundtrack! It seems to be a nostalgic week in general for me. There are worse things, when the weather is such crap and you're curled up warm and safe inside.

I *would* like to get some writing done this weekend. That "Your five favourite writing pieces" thing was posted on RockFic and I had to look at my files to choose b/c I have soooo many stories by this time, which of course highlighted the fact that there's a nice big dollop of WIPs in there too. And I've finally caught up on posting all my GD stuff on RF so from here on out, I'll actually have to complete writing it before I can post it lol. Well, except for Saints, but we're not quite done with it *here* yet so not 'til after it's all up here. *sigh* Maybe I can push through the middle of the calendar one that I'd wanted to finish and post for New Year's. Eep. (If anyone wants to see the list o' 5 I can post it here, too.)

I had originally wanted to go out tonight, too, but my one friend can't go and it's sufficiently shitty for me to choose not to go anywhere either. Not to mention that I'm just tired of going places alone. Even among the wider circle of acquaintances, no one ever wants to do anything that falls into the category of, "Things Tas would find fun." It's all about karaoke and hanging out at bars that are within a five minute drive of work. You know, I think I would have - or even *did* - liked karaoke as an occasional fun activity. I've had fun sometimes. But, dude. Every week? Sometimes TWICE a week??? Fuck me but no. I don't think I've gone since before Christmas, although some of that was due to general emotional disengaging thanks to that wee slip of depression, and also just being sick for most of February because of the paint at work. I have been assured multiple times that I have a standing invitation to join everybody but mostly, I don't. Because I don't want to. And while I think they're nice people, they aren't really my friends. I try not to worry about it too much.

And wow, that got all emo on me. Usually writing shit down makes me more optimistic! O_O