Fragments

[allana]

The dishwasher man is here *dances madly*. He brought along a huge spare part, about a third of the size of the actual dishwasher. It's taking a while to sort out, as his phone keeps ringing *rolls eyes*

I wrote a few hundred words of Kirk/Jerry goodness. Alas, I don't think madandy is going to be getting any beta work from me today, but it's getting closer to that stage :) For some reason, I have notes on this fic in three separate notebooks and two files on the PC. It's a little... fragmented.

Tonight we're going to curl up and watch a DVD or two and have some take-away. Chinese, I think.

Oh! I bought "Drawing Blood" yesterday, by Poppy Z. Brite. It starts off a little odd, and gets odder, but in a good way. I'm really enjoying it so far--it's good to see that reading Anne Rice as a teenager hasn't completely put me off books set in New Orleans and the South.

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[kraftpistole.livejournal.com]

Don't you hate that? [And I'm guessing the eye rolls means that you do] When repair folk come in and spend most of the visit taking calls? Makes me wanna take the spare part and say: "Here, just show me what to do. You talk, I'll screw this in." Jeez.

I never could get into Poppy Z. Brite. Someone I had a silly crush on introduced me to her work, and once the crush soured, poor Poppy never survived being linked to that whole, annoying mess.

[screwthedaisies.livejournal.com]

I never could get into Poppy Z. Brite. Someone I had a silly crush on introduced me to her work, and once the crush soured, poor Poppy never survived being linked to that whole, annoying mess.

I had that happen with Pepsi years ago. Go figure.

[kraftpistole.livejournal.com]

Ever drank it again? Not big on Pepsi, me. Never have been. It tastes like Coke on melted ice to me.

[screwthedaisies.livejournal.com]

I had thing for Pepsi Twist for a bit, but only on road trips ('cause me and caffiene usually don't dance well together, but on a road trip the caffiene can put itself to work in keeping me from getting highway hypnosis--as long as I don't do more than one 20 oz drink in a day *sigh*). Otherwise, I drink caffiene free Coke, sweet tea, root beer, or ginger ale.

[kraftpistole.livejournal.com]

Root beer. Good stuff. For reasons quite beyond me [Elliott suggested import laws] they don't carry root beer in most restaurants here. I miss it. Especially since it's pointless to have a root beer float made with Coke.

[screwthedaisies.livejournal.com]

But Coke floats are nice. Mark and I have been having them lately, with chocolate ice cream. We call them *cough* doo-doo monsters *cough*

[kraftpistole.livejournal.com]

I'm just not big on Coke. It's root beer that floats my, er, float. xD I've never had [cough] doo-doo-monsters [cough] before, though. Usually they just have Coke + vanilla, like it or not.

[glam-ang.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm, Pepsi Twist. I'm still torn between that and Diet Coke with Lime. Both nectar of the gods.

I do hope you're not as sensitive to caffeine as Zach is, in Drawing Blood....

[screwthedaisies.livejournal.com]

I don't remember a thing about Zach and caffeine.

I haven't had Diet Coke with Lime because I don't like diet drinks. I want to try the regular Coke with Lime, but it's going to have to wait for a road trip. Maybe when we go to Charlotte later this month; otherwise it'll be put off till the beach trip in July.

Or I could try putting lime juice in my caffeine free Coke....

[glam-ang.livejournal.com]

It's all finished now, and working! There are happy swishing sounds coming from the kitchen instead of tortured wails. And he swapped out a valve that was on the verge of breaking for no extra cost :)

Poppy is an experiment for me. I've been staring at her little bit of shelf-space at the bookshop ever since I met Heather and I've finally broken down and bought one. So far, so good. I completely understand associating books with people/events, though.

[kraftpistole.livejournal.com]

No extra cost? Ah, that more than makes up for the calling then. :)

I need to put more space between what happened and Poppy. But I find it hard to do... Which is dumb, 'cause the whole thing only lasted a few months. :/ Maybe I should try that book Poppy wrote that isn't about vampires/dark fantasy.

[glam-ang.livejournal.com]

Yes... it is one of the perks of being a housewife with large boobies. I can almost hear a horde of furious feminists racing down the road towards the house :P It wasn't my idea!

You could try her culinary one? Heather has it on her reading pile and the reviews on Amazon sounded promising. Um, Hard Liquor, I think?

[screwthedaisies.livejournal.com]

Just LIQUOR. I think hard_liquor is her lj for it. No, wait, that's prime_liquor (which makes sense since LIQUOR's sequel is PRIME). I've never actually visited prime_liquor. I like just reading her docbrite posts. Today's was especially rewarding because she has exactly the same trouble with endings that I do, it turns out. Always nice to not be alone.

[kraftpistole.livejournal.com]

I've had Mexican repair men give me discounts simply because I'm Latina. It cannot be my boobs, 'cause I'd have to actually have boobs for that. xD

[screwthedaisies.livejournal.com]

Tonight we're going to curl up and watch a DVD or two

That's what Mark and I are doing, too, after we run errands. We started watching The Hills Have Eyes like a week ago and hope to finish it. Then move on to Last House on the Left. (I'm in a seventies horror flick mood.)

I really need to reread DRAWING BLOOD. I have it lying around. I wonder what I think of it ten years and a massive amount of slashfic later.

[glam-ang.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what we're watching. Possibly Hero then House of Flying Daggers? They're both in the pile of DVDs to watch.

I think you'll still like Drawing Blood. She does fucked-up thin, pretty boys very well. I haven't winced yet at the phreaks and hax0rs either. The tiny bits of voodoo and magic have made me smile. I will say this... there's an astonishing lack of women in the book. One will pop up every time I think to myself, "Are there any women in this town?" and that's about it. As for the sex, it's...gently... graphic. An oxymoron perhaps?

[screwthedaisies.livejournal.com]

I have yet to watch House of Flying Daggers. It's in the DVD pile.

I love that the book lacks women. :D Discovering that and the movies Reservoir Dogs and Glengarry Glenn Ross all within a few years of each other was great--I realized I didn't have to have women in my stories. (Unfortunately, that was also about the time I stopped writing stories altogether, but hey, I was just waiting for the Metallica muses to show up, right?)

[glam-ang.livejournal.com]

I thought you saw it at the cinema?

It's just a semi-weird vibe, the not having women thing. I know I don't write women into my stories either (aside from Mustardseed and her sisters!) but I didn't expect it here. Actually, I have no idea what I expected other than sex. It's kinda nice... but at the same time I feel smug that every man there is (to varying degrees) incapable of taking care of themselves properly. Although, that may be my inner housewife talking--she's been very talkative this week.

[screwthedaisies.livejournal.com]

We never made it to the cinema. We didn't make it for Constantine either. I'm waiting for Constantine to hit Asheville Pizza's $2 theater. (HoFD will never make it to Asheville Pizza--not mainstream enough. *hrumph*)

[glammetalkitten.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed 'House of flying Daggers', me and my sister esacped the extended family on Boxing Day and went to see it. Now I really must invest in the DVD.

*Eyes ever-growing Amazon Wish List warily*

[glammetalkitten.livejournal.com]

'Drawing Blood' is a good choice. I like it a lot better than 'Lost Souls', which I have only read a couple of times, and 'Exquisite Corpse', which I couldn't even finish. *Nods* Enjoy.

And Kirk/Jerry goodness? Nice to see someone else is writing JerryFic. Makes me feel less pressured to perform ;)

[screwthedaisies.livejournal.com]

I couldn't finish LOST SOULS. Tried twice.

[glam-ang.livejournal.com]

Lost Souls is the vampire one, and Exquisite Corpse the serial killers, right? I flicked through the first 10 pages or so of EC and it didn't do a lot for me. Which is odd. I love reading serial killer crime books, my bookcase is testament to that, and I love reading about m/m love stories... but together.... I don't know why it doesn't work, but I do know that I don't want to read that book.

[glammetalkitten.livejournal.com]

Yeah, EC is the serial killers one. It didn't do anything for me whatsoever, and it isn't often I'm unable to finish a book I picked out myself (as opposed to one given as a gift etc).