Ninjas STILL can't catch you if you're on fire

Keeping everything else I want to post on the backburner AGAIN, have some YT clips that have been rocking my world lately. I must pack for my imminent wake-up in uh, 5 HOURS because I will be flying to BANGKOK!! again for 5 days FUCK YEAH. Three days without work, glory glory hallelujah.

NUMERO UNO: SANTANA ROCKING THE FUCK OUTTA VALERIE (ALSO: MIKE CHANG & BRITTANY = BEST EVERRR)


NUMBER TWO: I NEED TO WATCH THIS MOVIE ASAP. Historical anecdotes apparently spun to high heavens and movie-transformed! EPIC TRADITIONAL MUSTACHES!! FUCKING BADASS FIGHT SCENES! Muay Thai remains one of the most hardcore and awesome things everrrr *wipes away a tear of national pride*.


NUMMER DREI: THIS SONG HAS BEEN MY EARWORM FOR THE LAST FEW DAYS DURING WORK. And also the awesome banality of the lyrics never stop cracking me up-- a sample: "Found a wallet/but there were no thousand baht notes there/Want to go for a mountain road-trip/but there's no gas in the car" OR "Bought fancy wine/didn't know how to open it/now it's expired/Want to go to heaven/but forgot to make merit/so now it's probably hell for me" A+++ I LIKE.

(ughhhh why the fuck didn't embedding work just now?? *shakes fist at LJ*)

PEE ESS ...we still have to check out things + everything is still super tentative and dependant on a million things BUT I. AND I MIGHT BECOME HOUSEMATES (!!) SOON. There is a house basically across Ma's where the owners who live in BKK or whatever need tenants to uh, keep the mice away after they get the exterminator to do their thing. The rent would be something ridiculously low like 5,000 THB which I. and I would split anyways + utilities and just... This would be so much less than my current rent for my dinky apartment, an ACTUAL HOUSE and also: SEPARATE BATHROOMS (!!!) so I can happily live out my neuroses of not wanting to share bathrooms/toilets with other people! SWEET. Of course, we'd both actually have to get/renew our driver's licenses respectively, but one would have actual incentive now lolol

And I am doing absolutely nothing for it, besides visiting Michelle and Elli for a bit later tonight. Can't say I really mind I guess, still have many more years in front of me to do the whole Halloween bash and dress-up thing where I don't have the niggling pressure of imminent BAKK2 thesis at the back of my head. Am basically at the 50 page mark now, with no more than three or four pages more to come if at all from some extra theory padding. I have been staring at it so long that I cannot feasibly tell how my prof will like it. I remain hopeful for a pass, first and foremost, though I admit that the embers of what used to be the fire of my nerd pride still hope for at least a 3 or MAYBE, TPTB willing a 2?

Have been existing in weird semi-work/semi-distraction limbo these past few days still, so here be another attempt at flushing some of my open tabs by posting them here:

MUUUSIC: I had heard a bunch of these Live Lounge covers seperately before, but I had no idea that they were from an entire series. Covers are always something I enjoy listening to, and these are pretty fantastic.
Lily Allen does The Kooks "Naive" ...Lily Allen's singing voice remains endlessly charming to me, and I love what she does with a song that I am already very fond of.
White Lies do Kanye West's "Love Lockdown" ...say what you will about the dude, but Kanye really has a flair for songs, and these songs lend themselves so well to being covered by others. (See also Exhibit A, Kris Allen and Heartless, ahem). The dude's voice is kind of strange, but it fits the song.
Jamelia does Linkin Park's "Numb" ...I admit to having been a massive LP fan back in the day, and I miiiiight still have some of their songs on my ipod ("Bleed it Out" has ridic lyrics but gets me pumped up like woah, ngl), so obviously I am not that much of a hard-sell to like this. Still! I think it's a fab version that might appeal to LP haters, too.
Lee Ryan does Foo Fighters "Best of You" ...I was thrown a bit a first to who this dude was, but it was the hot one from that one UK boyband! "Blue" or something like that. So on that factor I am kind of fond of this version, though NOTHING EVER can top the Dave Grohl vocals on the original ♥
The Fray doing Shakira's "Hips Don't Lie" ........LAWWWWWL, just. Ahahaha. And still, the dude's voice is fantastic.
The Noisettes do The Killers "When We Were Young" ...This is by far my ~favorite~ of the batch, and I really like what they do with the song. It sounds so lovely with the female vocals, ahh.

Random lulz:
The gossip corners of the internet seem to be a-flutter with news of Anderson Cooper in India with his supposed boyfriend? ...first off, good for Andy and daaamn that hotel looks swank. And secondly: DAAAAAAAAAAMN the arms on those two. This is veering into Jared Padalecki at his beefiest category now! I am also again in awe of the sheer information seeking stalker-power</> that many denizens of the internet seems to possess. No wonder Anderson is off somewhere in India for his holiday.

A Very Potter Musical ...yes, yes... FIVE MILLION YEARS LATER THAN EVERYONE ELSE, I also finally get around to watching this. Am halfway through and it is amazingly random and somewhat amusing, and I can't stop clicking the next part to see what weirdness will happen next, so there is that. Also, Voldemort is kind of hot. As is Harry. Ahem.

And I am slowly feeling that thrumming beat of OHFUCKOHFUCKOHFUCK that will hopefully spur me on to greatness, or at least a passable okay-ish grade by the end of this month. I have to get in done by the 1st of November (Sunday), get in printed on Monday, and as that takes 24 hours to bind and etc., I will then hand it in on Tuesday the 3rd, which Teach thankfully approved, though I just realized I typo'd the date in the email. Oh well. So far: I HAVE 13 PAGES. Of at least 50, but I think the hardest part is basically the theoretical part I am struggling through now. I hate writing these parts, all you're doing is regurgitating quotes and trying to wring some sort of a logical order out of them, all the while hoping you quoted correctly and are not committing indirect plagiarism and hoping the Prof doesn't notice you've been using the same three sources over and over again for one page. Ugh! TWO MORE WEEKS!!

Other than that I have been a winner in procrastination and time-wasting-- as two of the previous days were basically lost and spent in a stupor in front of the computer... man, I think I need to unplug the internet when I continue work tomorrow. WORST WORKER EVER I AM, that's for sure.

I do have some awesome links again though!

Things probably relevant to cheshire_tabby's interests:
"Twisted Princesses" ...basically this guy reworking the Disney princesses in ways that are creepy, scary and generally quite awesome. I like Mulan the most!
Fantastic "Lord of the Flies" illus ...got the link from wredwrat's LJ and I just loved the art. The cover is somehow supremely unsettling to me, lol wut.
ALLSAINTS IS SO EXPENSIVE BUT DAMN THIS COAT IS FINE ...seriously, it looks so damn swank and like the best damn trenchcoat ever ngggg the sexy, sexy detailing! The uneven edges! Also, THIS is also swoon-worthy. A double-breasted coat! The buttons! The almost suit-tails effect in the back! SIGHHHHHH ♥

Fashionistaaaa things:
Actually cute "vampire-inspired" jewelery ...well okay, it's a crocheted necklace, but still. I wouldn't wear it, but I'd strongly consider it for Halloween lol? Would make the perfect gift for some Twihard, I'm sure.
FFSkyer_nancy's Flickr photostream ...nabbed this link from bravecows and I simply adore how this girl also draws her outfits. So lovely and whimsical!

Supernatural vids:
A Charming Man by giandujakiss. Castiel-centric and ohhhh, how this makes the potential menace that Castiel had in early to mid-season 4 more present in my mind. I adore how tightly edited this vid is, in particular the sequences with Dean, Castiel and the Crossroads demon. And how the lyrics fit so damn well. Just noticed I still had the tab with this link still open lol, not that I haven't already downloaded it and watched it a kabillion times. Those of you who haven't should do so, asaaaap. So good!
Legion by sockkpuppett. A demon-POV-centric (Team Hell!) SPN vid set to a metal mash-up of Paramore's "Misery Business"? I would never have thought it, but it was pretty much AWESOME. And so fitting, given my still ongoing obsession with that damn song. Snappy editing here again, with some really smart moments and pretty neat, subtle effects.
Little Lion Man by killabeez. Featuring quite possibly one of the most addictive songs I have recently heard. It's one of the things I love about vids the most, getting introduced to these fantastic bands that I wouldn't ever have heard of before. Even if you aren't a SPN fan, I think the song itself is worth a listen to. That lead singer's voice! And of course, the BANJOSSSSS! And back to the vid-- oh holy crap, it's just a great depiction of the messy, intertwined relationship that our dear Winchesters have going on, and it especially shows that shoving blame on someone is a two-way game. The editing is nigh heartbreaking at times, gaah.

SLEEP NOW. GAAH. TOMORROW'S GOAL: AT LEAST FIVE PAGES.

After nearly two weeks of blessed non-Sabrina-ness, she hath returned since a few days ago. And already I am being driven to heights of irritation from her conduct, and I guess there is also the residual annoyance of the state of things last week before cleaned them. The hairy and suspiciously be-liquided fridge, the grime-tastic state of the showers, you name it. And now the hair in the sink, and the presence what will no doubt be the usual scattering of what could be termed food rests and crumbs in the sink and surrounding areas, clogging up the drains. So I plucked up my reserves of indignation, and set to talk to her briefly about things.

And of course, all my cutting arguments, valid reasons and just pleas for sanitation became pale whispers and awkward stammerings when faced with her blank, unimpressed face. And of course, the bald-faced denial that I really should know how to deal with by now, but of course let go unchecked. How could she answer "what did you do to the fridge that caused it to look like that" with "well, I don't know what you're talking about. I clean it, too, and I must have overseen it, then." WELL DAMN, YOU "OVERSAW" STREAKS OF BROWN GOO? ENCRUSTED FAT OR WHATEVER THAT WAS HUGGING THE GRATES? YOU MUST BE BLIND, I GUESS THIS EXPLAINS EVERYTHING. So, all in all I guess that was another resounding failure in: Attempts to Negotiate with Slobs Part XIV-BILLIONTY, and I await what her next volley of filth will be. I saw that she has placed her own toothpaste on the counter, but still, mine remains ~*weirdly*~ moved from it's precise position every time I am in the bathroom after she's been in there. I think I need to hide my facewash or something, if this goes on. OH APATHY GOGGLES, PLEASE SWITCH ON AGAIN, I am feeling oddly all out of sorts because of this gaaaaaah I cannot have my own place too damn soon.

In other more pleasant news, am making slooooooow headway with the interview transcriptions, and hopefully will have them all done and at least a few pages of ACTUAL THESIS CONTENT by this Sunday! There is still time, I just have to remember that I finished my BAKK1 Thesis in basically two weeks and that managed to work out somehow (okay, that was also due to cheshire_tabby's mindblowing beta work mainly ♥). DEEP BREATHS.
Apparently I will also be out for a Girls Night Out with some friends of Wido tonight, we will be hitting up an Australian Pub, and I for one am intrigued. And already confused about how the best way for me to get home from that corner of town will be. UGH I HATE RUNNING AROUND TOWN ALONE AT NIGHT :///

Things that have been unbelievable in cheering me up and distracting me from my woes are the following YT clips, that I will be embedding behind the cut in all their glory.

( CLICK ME FOR FUNTIMES ♥ )

Admittedly, using such things for something as banal as turning back the time I did Not Do Exam Prep would be a horrific waste, but whatever. My point remains. Amazing how fast time can pass when one is trying to the best of one's abilities not to study.

( Suddenly, cleaning things becomes so appealing! )

In other news, I will be meeting Miss Olga tomorrow morning for a quick and yet much needed hang-out session and Sunday is apparently lunch at the Ra'mien again with Sven, Manfred and Nikki for Carmen and I. So much to do for a weekend that I should technically be spending crying over my study material. I SEE ANOTHER 4 OVER THE HORIZON, if I even pass lolol

Aaaand to round this entry of with something of actual interest to you guys-- ~*MUSIC*~!! gwy wanted some new tunes, and I took to the task in the zealous manner of someone desperately trying to distract herself. A selection from various Fanmixes and etc that I have had the pleasure of dling off the interwebs (btw metatarsus basically has crazy awesome music taste you guys, holy shit). HEEERE'S THE LINK TO THE FOLDER.

Personal favorites include:
__ Bat For Lashes- "I'm on Fire" (mcollinknight I THINK THIS MIGHT BE RELEVANT TO YOUR INTERESTS. Delicate and shivery-fine.)
__ Chicken Legs Weaver- "John the Revelator" (If you only knew the Depeche Mode version like I did, this is just so awesome, too)
__ Pedro the Lion- "Bad Things to Such Good People (the geetaar strumming throughout this song basically kills me)
__ Beirut- "La Banlieu" (...not so much new as a band I listen to eternally. Love the main singer's voice and the richness of the songs. Mhhh)


PS. ATTN: luscious_mangos!! KAT!! WHAT IS THIS ANNA IS FB-ING ME ABOUT YOU POTENTIALLY BEING ABLE TO COME TO FUCKING VIENNA NEXT WEEKEND AND NOT EXACTLY WANTING TO??? DUUUUUUUUUUUUDE COME ON YOU MUST! I haven't seen you in ages and we can have cake! And wander round Vienna! OR we could just bum around my dorm room and watch DVDs if you want (hopefully Sabrina will be away that WE), lol it'll be business as usual except you get to listen to the dulcet tones of my live-commentary again. DUDE I COMPEL YOU TO COME ;_____; I HAVE A GIANT EXAM THAT COMING MONDAY AND OTHER DEADLINES AND I WILL GLADLY FLING THEM ASIDE FOR YOU MY DEAREST. COME ON COME ON COME ON. IT'S BEEN YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARS.

......because now I only have a smidge of time before we have to leave for the train station. AHHHH ROMA ROMA ROMA BECKONS!!

SO. I declare a short FIVE DAY HIATUS!!.

Everyone, your mission if you choose to accept it entails the following:
1) MISS ME
2) MAKE SURE THE INTERNET DOES NOT COLLAPSE IN ON ITSELF
3) MISS ME SOME MORE

and

4) DOWNLOAD THIS SONG, BECAUSE I'VE HAD THE MEDIAFIRE FOLDER OPEN FOR DAYS AND KEEP FORGETTING-- N.A.S.A ft. Kanye West, Santogold and Lykke Li -"Gifted" IT IS SO BOSS ♥

oh and before I forget.

5) ADD ME ON DREAMWIDTH IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY. I can has the same username because I am Uncreative Like Hell :Dbb

I might have internet in Rome, but if not---- see ya on Monday again!

.....I see a disturbing trend establishing itself already, and it is called: WATCH YOUR LIFE AND VALUABLE UNI PRACTICE TIME FLASH BY WHILE YOU ARE PARKING YOUR ASS IN FRONT OF THE COMPUTER SCREEN GODDAMMIT WHYY. Damn you, time and space, damn you.

Things I managed to do today:
__ Somewhat break even on my outstanding social email etc correspondence. 'cept for mails to the parental units, efff!
__ Bring back Zeitgeschichte Library books, transcribe 3 pages of quotes that may or may not be usable.
__ Discover that my room is currently a bastion of dust and DESPAIR. I should probably vacuum tomorrow when there is enough natural lighting, whoooooops.
__ Make extensive hypothetical plans with Carmen what to do with our annual ~*MAY TRAVEL*~ holiday date. AIRBERLIN IS SO EXPENSIVE. We just want to fly to Rom (since last year already lol that turned out to be Stockholm), why does that keep getting cockblocked?? All the other destinations there otherwise are practically bunk. Helsinki would be interesting, alas you can't really check the prices in May already and the current flights in April are already around the 100€ for ONE direction mark, blargh! Skyeurope has Amsterdam as a location of interest, but again with the $$ factor. Ryanair offers a 74€ flight to Edinburgh!! from Bratislava (*puke* 20€ bus ticket there fuuck) though, which is extreeeemely tempting, though I bet that would be way compensated by the intensely expensive cost of uh, EVERYTHING ELSE there. Though the yahoo!currency converter tells me that the Pound and the Euro are basically at the same worth at the moment? What is this madness. Scotland would be so boss though, there are Loch Ness tours! HARRY POTTER DORKERY only on my side! Scottish accents!

YET AS COMMON SENSE DICTATES, we'll probably end up going to Budapest by train lol. Around 40€ for the three hour train trip would free up a larger amount of cash to live it up a little bit there at least. And it IS one of the remaining places in our corner of Europe that I still want to see. I admit that Croatia/Slovakia etc etc don't really tempt me all that much. Or just the train trip doesn't, boo long train trips D:

TO WRAP THINGS UP: Have a picture of a knitted brain instead!

First of all, EVERYONE GO LOOK AT THE AWESOME ON MY PROFILE PAGE IMMEDIATELY. mcollinknight, you crazy darling, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE MY LITTLE PONY EEEEE ♥

Today was otherwise a marginally productive day! But sadly productive in that not-quite tangible way-- met up with my AT Hist peeps to go look for books at the Zeitgeschichte library at the AAKH, found a bunch that I will have to go borrow for over the weekend, and I later managed to read through a few pages of my actual BAKK1 reading whilst feigning interest at some people's presentations during said BAKK1 session. They were all so good! And someone is already done with her BAKK1 Arbeit!! Man I wish I were that crazy. BUT! The deadline has been stretched to the 13th of February and not the end of January as I had expected-- moaar time gained TO ACTUALLY START GODDDD I AM SO DUMB, yesss! Though I better act as if the deadline is as good as still there, not like I'll be getting much done in BKK I reckon... ACH UNI-LIFE I HATE YOU. Must drag self out of bed early tomorrow for more library hopping, effff.

BUT to end this admittedly slightly pointless entry on a fannish note of yay, please feast your eyes of this hilarious clip: ANDERSON COOPER LEARNS ENGLISH WITH THE ZUIIKIN GALS. The clip itself is comedy gold all on its own, but when Anderson does the 'I can't stand the sight of you' dance move too?? *DIEEEEEEEEES*

Deadlines are nearing ever so quicker and I have yet to get as much done as I wanted! But it is still doable, just I guess that tomorrow won't be all that relaxed nor will Thursday be so D:
But fuuuuck time just flieees! It's nearly winter hols already and it doesn't really feel like it. This time last year we had already gone to over 6 X'mas market/bazaars, and now? Only by virtue of having Sociology lectures in the AAKH do Carmen and I walk past the Weihnachtsdorf. But today was also faaaaar too cold and drizzly, we spent a very toasty warm and delicious dinner at the Stiegl Ambulanz again, god I LOVE that place. Sprang for a Tafelspitz for 12 euros and hmmm was it ever so worth it! Delicious meat and soup veggies with a lovely portion of just right creme spinach ♥ Perfect meal to satisfy an appetite and keep warm! Especially in comparison to lunch at the Cafe Einstein near the uni, where we met up to discuss our PAED essay thing. First of all the three other dudes we are forced to do this assignment with are sanctimonious asshole fuckfaces, the acoustic in the cafe was so bad you couldn't really hear anyone speak and to add insult to injury the food sucked ass. I have never had such a dreadful Wiener Schnitzel before, and at the very least it 'only' was 5 euros. Michi's Caesar Salad didn't even have a dressing! (Although no wonder the place sucked, it was suggested by one of the three other dudes after all!)

Oh and I managed to lose my gloves. GOOD JOB, ME >_>;; at least I have a spare pair...

AND: Hot 49er dude sat in our row in the cool Soz. class! Alas it made furtively staring at him very difficult, but still! Eee :D (also he seemed very tired and was often facefirst on the table, which in a way was very facilitating for my ninja attempts at ogling |D) Carmen was already making fun of me that I kept checking out whoever was coming it to the lecture hall late if it was him and hah! he ended up coming. Not so much with the punctuality, Mr. mysterious hot dude! Ohoho

PS Have been reading copious amounts of looooooong Life on Mars fics these past few days. Eeee want S2 DVDs noooow plz DD: