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I took the Myers-Briggs for a high school leadership conference something-or-other and I was classed as an INTJ. It describes me rather well for the most part, although I think my personality bleeds over into INTP territory as well.
I actually still have the booklet from that leadership conference that summarizes the different personality types, so here's what it says about INTJs and INTPs.
INTJs
Have original minds and great drive for implementing their ideas and achieving their goals. Quickly see patterns in external events and develop long-range explanatory perspectives. When committed, organize a job and carry it through. Skeptical and independent, have high standards of competence and performance - for themselves and others.
INTPs
Seek to develop logical explanations for everything that interests them. Theoretical and abstract, interested more in ideas than in social interaction. Quiet, contained, flexible, and adaptable. Have unusual ability to focus in depth to solve problems in their area of interest. Skeptical, sometimes critical, always analytical.
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I realize I've been slacking on the link-o-llections lately, but I hope this latest edition makes up for it!
Kit Whitfield has two interesting blog posts up about fictional villains: one on how she personally conceives of a villain/antagonist and one on various categories of fictional villainy. Writers on the flist, hop on over!
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vyctori sent me this one a while back - the 10 Most Insane Child-Warping Moments of '80s cartoons.
XKCD exposes the truth of Amazon's Kindle 2!
The blog of a Las Vegas escort girl who actually does not hate her lifestyle! Obviously NSFW.
wadewilson presents "an instructional discourse on how best to avoid being petty, divisive and annoying to other people when enjoying an online role-playing game of any sort. For I have grown tired and weary of seeing people I like behave like unpleasant high-schoolers, and I am also weary of trying to stop foolish misconceptions from growing into utterly inane enmities".
Got some time to kill? Have some free sci-fi short stories.
This has to be one of the most amazing things from nature I've ever seen lately - a fish with a transparent head with eyes that rotate around inside the head. Holy shit, that is so cooooool!
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eyecatching_art brings us the Stooge Lanterns. I would totally watch this show!
Finally, you don't Twitter about ongoing secret negotiations while they're in progress. You just don't.
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Memoira is a new gothic symphonic rock band from Finland, who just released a self-titled mini-album either this year or last. Their sound is like Lacuna Coil with more classical elements, such as piano, choir, and strings. Half-Alive is the main song from this mini-album that reminds me of Lacuna Coil, while Amortization is what the rest of their songs generally sound like. I also like Experimenter's Farewell. I wish the vocalist's track had been mixed a little higher, but overall, I'm interested to see where this band is going.
dantaron recently got me into, of all things, Nile, an American metal band whose music and lyrics are heavily influenced by ancient Egyptian mythos. I definitely love the instrumentation, but anyone who knows me knows I am generally (generally) not a fan of unintelligible death growls. No worries pour moi, though - I've been listening to Saurian Meditation instead, a solo album by the vocalist/guitarist/primary-songwriter for Nile, Karl Sanders. Saurian Meditation is basically if you stripped the metal and the rock from Nile's work to leave just the musical atmosphere. Sanders' solo work here is a lot more ambient and laid-back than the things he does with Nile, so it's easier for me to listen to. I'm fond of Temple of Lunar Ascension and Of the Sleep of Ishtar, though really, I like this entire album. I can't wait until Saurian Exorcisms comes out on April 14th! (I do intend to listen to the rest of Nile's work eventually, though - it's just that I'm not quite in the right mood at the moment.)
Versailles is a recently formed Japanese visual kei band. Their music is similar to Nightwish's, except that you replace Tarja/Anette with a ridiculously pretty Japanese man with a voice so smooth that it makes an ice skating rink look positively cragged. Here's the PV for "Aristocrat's Symphony". The video is delightfully dramatic in that Victorian gothic way (whatever that means?), the band members are awesome in those ridiculously frilly outfits of theirs (though their getups in this PV isn't anywhere near as ostentatious as in this one, LOL), and the music is just epic. I wanna make music like that. :(
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I recently took one ofysabetwordsmith's poems, Like the Dew on the Leaves, and put a vocal line to it. It's a bit tough to sing, and I wasn't wholly satisfied with what I'd gotten for it. Thinking more upon it, though, I could probably make it into something pretty if I could just layer various tracks of my a cappella vocals, like Noe Venable did for "Woods Part of When." Alas, that will have to wait, for I do not have a decent microphone yet or the requisite audio editing software. But this song is somewhere on the mile-long to-do list tacked up in the inside of my skull.
In addition to pinning down more bits of the arrangement for "Gospel of the Shadow of Nobody" (that solo part is killing me ded), I've also, to my great surprise, resurrected an ancient song of mine, written back in December 2005. It was initially called "Regretfully Yours", but now bears the long and complicated (but more personally satisfying) nomer of "No Longer Yours Truly (Written Letter #2)". This song is notable for being the first set of song lyrics I ever wrote that I seriously intended to put to a vocal and piano melody. I'd written something called "No More Starz" about two or three years prior, but that was more like a poem that happened to have a song-like structure - I hadn't been thinking about a melody for it at all.
"Regretfully Yours", on the other hand, had been written in response to a simultaneously heartbreaking and rage-inducing situation I was going through at the time. Due to certain factors, I found myself blocked on my usual creative outlets of visual art and writing prose. So I turned to writing poems and song lyrics, inspired by these shiny new CDs I'd just gotten by this neaty-cool singer-songwriter named Vienna Teng. You might've heard of her before, I'm not sure. [/sarcasm] I'm rather embarrassed by the original song lyrics, so I won't post them here, but suffice to say, they were pretty sappy and sad. Which was appropriate for the time, I suppose, but now that I've walked many moons from the situation, I mostly just feel a faint sort of resentment and anger at the fact that something I thought had been beautiful and precious had been shattered like a Swarovski crystal figurine subjected to a jackhammer (LOL overwrought metaphor FTW), so now I want the song to reflect that. I excised most of the emo out from the original lyrics, changed the title, and this is what I currently have.
I did have chords and a piano accompaniment for "Regretfully Yours", but I pretty much ix-nayed everything I had besides the key signature because it was just so whiny and sad. Definitely a lot more satisfied with the revised music, although I'm a bit concerned that the vocals for the stanzas sound too similar to the chorus. Ah, well, I'm getting somewhere, at least.
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HON301 paper due date got moved to next Tuesday! Rawk.
-Reileen
no creation without destruction, no destruction without creation
I took the Myers-Briggs for a high school leadership conference something-or-other and I was classed as an INTJ. It describes me rather well for the most part, although I think my personality bleeds over into INTP territory as well.
I actually still have the booklet from that leadership conference that summarizes the different personality types, so here's what it says about INTJs and INTPs.
INTJs
Have original minds and great drive for implementing their ideas and achieving their goals. Quickly see patterns in external events and develop long-range explanatory perspectives. When committed, organize a job and carry it through. Skeptical and independent, have high standards of competence and performance - for themselves and others.
INTPs
Seek to develop logical explanations for everything that interests them. Theoretical and abstract, interested more in ideas than in social interaction. Quiet, contained, flexible, and adaptable. Have unusual ability to focus in depth to solve problems in their area of interest. Skeptical, sometimes critical, always analytical.
***
I realize I've been slacking on the link-o-llections lately, but I hope this latest edition makes up for it!
Kit Whitfield has two interesting blog posts up about fictional villains: one on how she personally conceives of a villain/antagonist and one on various categories of fictional villainy. Writers on the flist, hop on over!
vyctori sent me this one a while back - the 10 Most Insane Child-Warping Moments of '80s cartoons.XKCD exposes the truth of Amazon's Kindle 2!
The blog of a Las Vegas escort girl who actually does not hate her lifestyle! Obviously NSFW.
wadewilson presents "an instructional discourse on how best to avoid being petty, divisive and annoying to other people when enjoying an online role-playing game of any sort. For I have grown tired and weary of seeing people I like behave like unpleasant high-schoolers, and I am also weary of trying to stop foolish misconceptions from growing into utterly inane enmities".Got some time to kill? Have some free sci-fi short stories.
This has to be one of the most amazing things from nature I've ever seen lately - a fish with a transparent head with eyes that rotate around inside the head. Holy shit, that is so cooooool!
eyecatching_art brings us the Stooge Lanterns. I would totally watch this show!Finally, you don't Twitter about ongoing secret negotiations while they're in progress. You just don't.
***
Memoira is a new gothic symphonic rock band from Finland, who just released a self-titled mini-album either this year or last. Their sound is like Lacuna Coil with more classical elements, such as piano, choir, and strings. Half-Alive is the main song from this mini-album that reminds me of Lacuna Coil, while Amortization is what the rest of their songs generally sound like. I also like Experimenter's Farewell. I wish the vocalist's track had been mixed a little higher, but overall, I'm interested to see where this band is going.
dantaron recently got me into, of all things, Nile, an American metal band whose music and lyrics are heavily influenced by ancient Egyptian mythos. I definitely love the instrumentation, but anyone who knows me knows I am generally (generally) not a fan of unintelligible death growls. No worries pour moi, though - I've been listening to Saurian Meditation instead, a solo album by the vocalist/guitarist/primary-songwriter for Nile, Karl Sanders. Saurian Meditation is basically if you stripped the metal and the rock from Nile's work to leave just the musical atmosphere. Sanders' solo work here is a lot more ambient and laid-back than the things he does with Nile, so it's easier for me to listen to. I'm fond of Temple of Lunar Ascension and Of the Sleep of Ishtar, though really, I like this entire album. I can't wait until Saurian Exorcisms comes out on April 14th! (I do intend to listen to the rest of Nile's work eventually, though - it's just that I'm not quite in the right mood at the moment.) Versailles is a recently formed Japanese visual kei band. Their music is similar to Nightwish's, except that you replace Tarja/Anette with a ridiculously pretty Japanese man with a voice so smooth that it makes an ice skating rink look positively cragged. Here's the PV for "Aristocrat's Symphony". The video is delightfully dramatic in that Victorian gothic way (whatever that means?), the band members are awesome in those ridiculously frilly outfits of theirs (though their getups in this PV isn't anywhere near as ostentatious as in this one, LOL), and the music is just epic. I wanna make music like that. :(
***
I recently took one of
ysabetwordsmith's poems, Like the Dew on the Leaves, and put a vocal line to it. It's a bit tough to sing, and I wasn't wholly satisfied with what I'd gotten for it. Thinking more upon it, though, I could probably make it into something pretty if I could just layer various tracks of my a cappella vocals, like Noe Venable did for "Woods Part of When." Alas, that will have to wait, for I do not have a decent microphone yet or the requisite audio editing software. But this song is somewhere on the In addition to pinning down more bits of the arrangement for "Gospel of the Shadow of Nobody" (that solo part is killing me ded), I've also, to my great surprise, resurrected an ancient song of mine, written back in December 2005. It was initially called "Regretfully Yours", but now bears the long and complicated (but more personally satisfying) nomer of "No Longer Yours Truly (Written Letter #2)". This song is notable for being the first set of song lyrics I ever wrote that I seriously intended to put to a vocal and piano melody. I'd written something called "No More Starz" about two or three years prior, but that was more like a poem that happened to have a song-like structure - I hadn't been thinking about a melody for it at all.
"Regretfully Yours", on the other hand, had been written in response to a simultaneously heartbreaking and rage-inducing situation I was going through at the time. Due to certain factors, I found myself blocked on my usual creative outlets of visual art and writing prose. So I turned to writing poems and song lyrics, inspired by these shiny new CDs I'd just gotten by this neaty-cool singer-songwriter named Vienna Teng. You might've heard of her before, I'm not sure. [/sarcasm] I'm rather embarrassed by the original song lyrics, so I won't post them here, but suffice to say, they were pretty sappy and sad. Which was appropriate for the time, I suppose, but now that I've walked many moons from the situation, I mostly just feel a faint sort of resentment and anger at the fact that something I thought had been beautiful and precious had been shattered like a Swarovski crystal figurine subjected to a jackhammer (LOL overwrought metaphor FTW), so now I want the song to reflect that. I excised most of the emo out from the original lyrics, changed the title, and this is what I currently have.
No Longer Yours Truly (Written Letter #2)
With every day that goes to die
The anger smoulders in my eyes
At your pathetic weakness
I should have known
The lines were never drawn
So it's time for me to move on
If only I could stop
Wanting you as my own
This can't last, this can't be
Forever blurred between you and me
I only asked for what I was due
But it's clear now:
I'm never getting an answer from you
With every week that Time doth reap
I wonder at the secrets you keep
I can't believe you've still left me
Waiting for your reply
You think we can save what we've found
But your honeyed words don't fool me now
If you can't make up your mind
Then it's time to leave behind
The fairy tale that could be
'Cause this can't last, this can't be
Forever blurred between you and me
I only asked for what I was due
But it's clear now:
I'm never getting an answer from you
I gave you the choice
But you gave it right back to me
Why did I have to be the one to set this free?
This could never last, this could never be
Forever blurred between you and me
I wouldn't have loved if I knew
That through it all
I'd end up loving a bastard like you
I did have chords and a piano accompaniment for "Regretfully Yours", but I pretty much ix-nayed everything I had besides the key signature because it was just so whiny and sad. Definitely a lot more satisfied with the revised music, although I'm a bit concerned that the vocals for the stanzas sound too similar to the chorus. Ah, well, I'm getting somewhere, at least.
***
HON301 paper due date got moved to next Tuesday! Rawk.
-Reileen
no creation without destruction, no destruction without creation
