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Thing the first and MOST IMPORTANT: I WILL LOVE genarti FOREVER AND EVER, and THIS IS WHY.

(Okay, there are in fact COUNTLESS reasons why, but Fullmetal Alchemist ANGST BINGO CARDS are high up there on that list! No spoilers, MUCH HILARITY.)

Thing the second: in_the_blue tagged me for a meme!

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Tag five people.

"But the kai el'Sol had spoken.

Jevri attended them, boy and girl; Jevri made clear - to the wife, not the husband - that the boy's welfare and sanity depended on her ability to keep him still. Jevri was wise, and although Marakas had acknowledged that fact from the first day they had met, he found it a surprise and a blessing to be so often reacquainted with the knowledge.

As for himself, he was given leave to draw his sword."

- Michelle West, The Riven Shield

(Oh, Michelle West. I am very fond of your books, but this passage does not really show off your deathless prose. It does show off your fondness for Ridiculous Fantasy Names, however. My favorite is how the commanders of the army are named Valedan kai di'Leonne, Ellora AKalakar . . . and Bruce Allen.)

I am not tagging five people. Instead I will say, if you have a book near you right now and you are reading this, just do it! I have an insatiable curiosity about what people are reading.

Thing the third: shoroko tagged me for another meme!

Rules: List seven eight songs (birdseyeview added one) you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now, shaping your fall (winter?). Post these instructions in your LJ along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to. (Still not tagging people. But do it if you want!)

This is a long one and so I am putting it under a cut.

1. River Town, Live (Lyrics)

you'd better turn back before the frost sets in
these desert nights are for weathered men
the ones who've already given in

As with many songs, I fell in love with this one when I started mentally planning out a vid to it. Now every time it comes up, I go back and listen to it and mentally align it with footage. But also, it is just so much more epic than the apparent theme would suggest.

2. C'est La Vie, Coralie Clement (Lyrics

c’est la vie qu’on mène
on baigne dans son sang tout baigne

This is a cute, quirky song in French with lyrics that occasionally jump all of a sudden into the incredibly creepy without you noticing! Because it's a cute, quirky song in French.

3. Seed of Wonder, Jesca Hoop (Lyrics)

ah oh ah no ah - all i want is to be writing
to be writing

once that wish did land
like a star in my hand - it burned and it burned and it burrowed in

Jesca Hoop is a recent musical discovery of mine and I have fallen kind of in love with her. This is my favorite of her songs, but I could listen to almost any of them forever.

4. Downfall, Matchbox 20 (Lyrics)

here we go again
ashamed of being broken in

This is another song I did not actually care about that much, and then I got a vid for it in my head and it won't go away now. "But it's so deep!" I explain to myself, upon which I then respond to myself, "Self, it is the same lyrics over and over." But I don't care, I love it anyways.

5. Blue (Da Ba Dee), Max Raabe and the Palaas Orchester (Lyrics)

And everything is blue for him and hisself
And everybody around
Cos he ain't got nobody to listen to

schiarire sent me a CD of Max Raabe songs when I first moved into my new apartment to distract me from moving-stress. And THAT IT CERTAINLY DID. Max Raabe basically covers pop songs in German cabaret style. It is GLORIOUS. *_* Oops . . . I Did It Again is the most brain-twisty, but this one is the one that gets stuck in my head the most.

6. Don't Stop Me Now, Queen (Lyrics)

i'm burning through the sky yeah!
two hundred degrees
that's why they call me mister fahrenheit

Something about the lyric "That's why they call me Mister Fahrenheit" cracks me up every time! Also it makes me want to chairdance. Look, I like Queen, okay, I never said I had claims to taste!

7. The Setting of the Sun, Seth Lakeman (Lyrics)

come all young fellows that carry a gun,
beware of late shooting when the daylight is done.
it is my reckoning that many hazards they may run.
I shot my true love at the setting of the sun

This is another one that makes me start giggling every time I hear it. Look, sometimes, you're having a rough day, you mistake your girlfriend for a swan, you accidentally shoot her. IT COULD HAPPEN TO ANYONE.

8. Listen, Tryad (Lyrics)

are we now finally seeing
what we’ve been always being

Sometimes, I want to listen to loud dancing music; sometimes I want to listen to quiet, whispery music, and this song falls into the second category.

Thing the fourth: no seriously, I'm still expiring of joy over the bingo cards.