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 I started making mix cds of 80s and 90s music for my sister, and it has INFLATED MY EGO DRAMATICALLY. She keeps on telling me how great it is to listen to my awesome music in her car, and I am like, OF COURSE IT IS. And those cds are LONG, bitches. Like, 20 tracks each cd. Lots of the Cure and the Smiths.

Have you heard of the Smiths?

If Robert Smith and Morrissey ever sang a duet together, I guarantee that I would get pregnant from the sound of their voices alone. Mmm mm mm. 

1 - BAND NAME Go to "wikipedia." Hit “random article”
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 - ALBUM TITLE Go to "Random quotations"
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3

The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 - COVER ART Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days

Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 - Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.


Finished product: 

Aaaannd...here's the BBC's "big read" list.

Italics = read part of it
Bold = read ALL of it

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (starting this soon)
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

And then Shakespeare was every other entry?

Italics = I've read some of it
Bold = read ALL of it

Absalom, Absalom - William Faulkner
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Aeneid - Virgil
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Doblin
Blindness - Jose Saramago
The Book of Disquiet  - Fernando Pessoa
The Book of Job - Anon
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky
Buddenbrook - Thomas Mann
Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
The Castle - Franz Kafka
Children of Gebelawi - Naguib Mahfouz
Collected Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges
Complete Poems - Giacomo Leopardi
The Complete Stories - Franz Kafka
The Complete Tales - Edgar Allan Poe
Confessions of Zeno - Italo Svevo
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky
Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories - Leo Tolstoy
Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands - Joao Guimaraes Rosa
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories - Lu Xun
The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Essays - Michel de Montaigne
Fairy Tales and Stories - Hans Christian Andersen
Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Gargantua and Pantagruel - Francois Rabelais
Gilgamesh - Anon
The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Gypsy Ballads - Federico Garcia Lorca
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
History - Elsa Morante
Hunger - Knut Hamsun
The Idiot - Fyodor M Dostoyevsky
The Iliad - Homer
Independent People - Halldor K Laxness
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Jacques the Fatalist and His Master - Denis Diderot
Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine
King Lear - William Shakespeare
Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
Mahabharata - Anon
The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
Mathnawi - Jalal ad-din Rumi
Medea - Euripides
Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
Metamorphoses - Ovid
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
1984 - George Orwell
Njaals Saga - Anon
Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
The Odyssey - Homer
Oedipus Rex - Sophocles
Old Goriot - Honore de Balzac
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Orchard - Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi
Othello - William Shakespeare
Pedro Paramo - Juan Rulfo
Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren
Poems - Paul Celan
The Possessed - Fyodor M Dostoyevsky
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Ramayana - Valmiki
The Recognition of Sakuntala - Kalidasa
The Red and the Black - Stendhal
Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
Season of Migration to the North, Tayeb Salih
Selected Stories - Anton P Chekhov
Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
Sons and Lovers - DH Lawrence
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
The Sound of the Mountain - Yasunari Kawabata
The Stranger - Albert Camus
The Tale of Genji - Shikibu Murasaki
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Thousand and One Nights -Anon
The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
The Trial - Franz Kafka
Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett
Ulysses - James Joyce
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Zorba the Greek -Nikos Kazantzakis

FINISHED, BITCHES. Pool's closed. SO glad I'm done writing Sai's Fix and giddy that it got over 600 reviews! Man oh man, I still have no idea how it got so popular.

Oh well. Job well done.

/pat on the back


DF

And for good reason, too! Seriously, no updates since the end of October? That is ridiculous.

Chapter 20 is in the works, I swear. I will not feel my worth as a person until I have it WRITTEN and POSTED for you all to read.

Meanwhile: Naruto spoiler

If Kakashi ends up, like, dead for good, I'm going to curl up in a corner and cry. The end.

Seriously though. It took forEVER to finish chapter 16 (although, I must say that I'm quite pleased with the way it turned out), and chapter 17 is going to take even longer. I do promise plenty of wonderful Sai-trying-to-win-Sakura-over-even-though-she's-not-having-any-of-it action sometime in the next few weeks, but that goal moves farther and farther away as university breathes down my neck.

Oh well.

On the OTHER HAND: I just finished my most recent One Piece one shot and I AM SO HAPPY WITH IT I COULD PUNCH A MOUNTAIN IN HALF. Go check it out or whatever. It rocks.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4530044/1/End_of_the_Age

Today a Greenpeace volunteer asked me if I would like to save the planet.

I said "no thanks" and kept walking because it was lunchtime.

So, I've been working on chapter 14 this week, and I'm pleased to announce that it will contain excessive amounts of KIBA. I just can't enough of that guy; he's almost as much fun to write as Kakashi. ALMOST. Unfortunately, this chapter has been taking FOREVER to write, and I'm not sure why. I think it's just because I'm too lazy to sit still and write the stupid thing in one go. Forgive me for my short-comings. It will be out sometime this week or the next. I promise, ok?

DF

That's right, you guys. I finally published chapter 13 of "Sai's Fix". And, may I be so bold as to mention, it is COMPLETELY AWESOME. Or at least, that's what I think at the moment, in this haze of sleepiness and relief that I finally managed to write the stupid thing. Hope you guys enjoy it immensely. I'll work on chapter 14 if I can before I leave, but it won't be published until the beginning of August.

Sorry about that.

Seriously, though. I just got home this evening, and I'm already throwing my clothes in the laundry so that I can pack them again and take off for the West Coast. My poor ff.net audience. I'll try to get at least another chapter of "Sai's Fix" up before I go, but I make NO GUARANTEES.

However, for the few people who actually look at this, I will give you a sneak peak at what I've got cooking behind the scenes. And let me tell you. It is delicious.

That was lame.

Anyhow, here's the shiznit:

Possible Story No. 1: One Piece-Sanji x Nami
The most epice One Piece fic you will ever read in your life. It's so wonderful, my head nearly exploded just thinking it up. Dude. It will be TREMENDOUS. I finally figured out the problem to actually getting Sanji (who I love dearly) and Nami together convincingly (it requires something drastic, like nearly fatal injuries or whatever). I'm also placing it in the same vein as "Captain's Prerogative", and by that I mean everyone is a bit older, althought not quite as far along as Luffy and Zoro are in that particular one shot. Yeah, but THIS story will have, like, 50 freaking chapters. Ok, maybe not that many. Below 30. But it will be epic nonetheless.

Possible Story No. 2: Dragonball Z (oneshot) - Vegeta
Something along the lines of last thoughts before he 'splodes himself when he's fighting Buu? Fantastic oneshot possibilities.

Possible Story No. 3: Dragonball Z (twoshot?) - Gohan x Videl
Also in the Majin Buu arc. The part where Goku announces that Gohan and Vegeta didn't make it. Very sad. Very awesome. Like usual.

I won't be doing any more Naruto fics in the near future once I FINALLY wrap up "Sai's Fix" and "Sharkskin". My Sai x Sakura story, although enjoyable, is time consuming and has sort of drained me of all desire to write about the Narutoverse for a while. Sorry about that.

That seems to be all the news I have for now.

DF

I'm sure that everyone who's got me on author/story alert back at ff.net is pitching a hissy fit because I haven't updated in over a week. My apologies to the audience. I'm currently on vacation, tucked away in the pleasant wilderness that is the Rocky Mountains with no computer or internet readily available. Just sit it out for another week, ok? I promise that I'll get "Sai's Fix" and "Sharkskin" back on track as quickly as possible.

Also! I am VERY pleased to announce my first recommendation to a livejournal community! That's right, folks! "Sai's Fix" was included in a post on the SaixSaku lovefest by kagami_pon (who is now very much my livejournal friend). So, thanks for that.

DF