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[brigdh]

Hey, livejournal. What is up? I know I haven't posted in ages, but I'm still around, so feel free to comment or email if you ever want my attention. I blame the not posting on, well, everyone else not posting. Which is a terrible excuse, I know. I could follow fandom to Tumblr, but I don't like Tumblr. It is fine for pictures of cute animals (which is an important part of the internet), but I don't like it for conversation, or fic, or making friends, which are the things I want to do.

Anyway, who else is panicking about Yuletide? Hopefully not just me! At least my story is already 1,300 words long, so I will have something to upload by this evening, even if it's not a masterpiece. I may be looking for a beta later.

Also, I have a favor to ask. I'm looking for a few songs that I used to have, but have lost in past computer crashes/ipods inexplicably erasing all their music/lost thumb drives/etc. If anyone has any of these songs and is willing to upload them for me, I will be eternally grateful.
Massive Attack - Safe from Harm (Live in Berlin '03) I'm not sure the parenthesis on this is accurate, but I remember it was a lot more acoustic/guitar sounding than the album version.
Spoon - The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine
Head Automatica - Please Please Please (Young Hollywood)
Matthew Herbet - Birds of a Feather
Shout Out Out Out Out - Self Loathing Rulz (Malente Remix)
Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Part of Town
Freezepop - Bike Thief (Tubeway Mix)
Freezepop - Mastermind (Manipulate Mix)
Kaiser Chiefs - Every Day I Love You Less and Less (Boys Noise Remix)
Stars - He Lied About Death
The Spill Canvas - The Tide
Magnetic Fields - No One Will Ever Love You
Peter Mulvey - Ithaca
Mindless Self Indulgence - You'll Rebel to Anything (As Long As It's Not Challenging)
Rufus Wainwright - Greek Song
Regina Spektor - Fidelity (Blockhead Remix)
The Hold Steady - Citrus
Bif Naked - Lucky
Madeleine Peyroux - Dance Me to the End of Love
Bowerbirds - In Our Talons
Moses - Beautiful Gun
Professional Killer - KMFDM
Hannah Fury - The Necklace of Marie Antoinette
Suede - Attitude
Bell X1 - Flame (Chicken Lips Mix)
Steeleye Span - Boys of Bedlam
Ryan Adams - New York, New York
Nump featuring M.I.A - Grapes (Remix)

What a strange list. Also, if anyone has anything from the Alec FST I made a few years ago, I would really, really appreciate it. I'm so sad that I put all that work into it and then lost the whole thing.

Comments

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm in the same place. It's hard to keep posting to LJ when it feels a bit like shouting into the void, but tumblr is just so unappealing.

And you, too! I think you've become one of the more frequent posters on my flist, sadly. Not sadly because of you, but sadly because there just seems to be so few of us left.

[call-me-ishmael.livejournal.com]

Wow. Considering how often I post, that really is sad.

I guess I'll have to decide if I want to attempt being more active at dreamwidth or settle for tumblr and a lot more live chatting (as I've seen attempts at tumblr "discussions" and they're complete shit to attempt to follow, I refuse to deal with that. FFS the site automatically cuts it off after so long unless you use a browser addon!) Even if I stay here I'm not going to end up happy. Just like you said, it feels like shouting at a void. The communities I follow and getting slower and slower as people seem to migrate to AO3 for fic.

I guess this is where I sit on my lawn and wave my cane at the young whippersnappers like a proper curmudgeon.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Is dreamwidth more active than LJ? I have one, but I'm always forgetting to check it, because most of the people I know post the same things to both places. I'm willing to switch there if it's worthwhile, though. I also didn't know people were still into livechatting; that hasn't been part of my fandom experience in years and years. I don't even know what program would be popular now! People can't still be using AIM, are they?

[call-me-ishmael.livejournal.com]

I noticed some migration and talk of communities trying for more activity but nothing seems to reach the residual levels on LJ. At least that I've noticed. I'm also terrible at checking DW because most of it is the same stuff.

Hilariously enough I got back into IRC with Sherlock. (Talk about a blast from the past.) That could be unique to us, though. Google seems to have won out the assorted chatting things. I see gchat come up most frequently as well as talking with people in gdocs for betaing, that kind of thing.