Dream on

So. Sometime in the near futrure I intend to ilelgally download several songs off the internet.

Whym, you ask?

YOu see - I have bought these songs legally. I downloaded them form my operator#s music store to my cell phone. and these files_ .DCF files are so full of DRM that I cannot even use them as ring tones - let alone move them to my computer or any such thing. And id I did move the hideous quality ones to my computer and convert them to mp3? this is still omg illegals.

I will illegally download thsese songd because I have already paid for them but they have not been provided to me in a satisfacttory manner. I will not buy these songs again on Amazon or Itunes, or in any other manner pay again for these specific songs.

Cause lets face it - I pay for my music. I have bought 12 physical CDs, 2 full album downloads and 20-odd Mp3 downloads since the start of 2010. and now made themistake of downloading these fucking dcf files. I measure my collection in number of albums, not gigabytes.

the lesson here is> I am willing to pay for my music. I wnat to pay for my music. and in exchange for my money, I want my music. Simple, yes?

carry on.

So, I have been reading a lot of meta on STXI's female characters/lack of and then copios amounts of genderflippy pr0n at the kink meme.

Of course this leads to thinky thoughts.

I thought "Who haven't we genderflipped?" Pretty much. And came up on...

Captain Robau.

This made me think. He could very well have been a female captain in the movie. Same level of pic badassery, right? (note: I have no bloody clue what was established about him in ToS/Novel canon, i am going by Memory Alpha here)

And then I thoght about it.

No. It wold not happen that wah. She would not have been a Memetic Badass. In fact, she would get many, many complaints. Basicay smming up girl!Robau as "disposable woman" instead of any kind of memetic badas.

And that? Is epic suck.

I donöt realy know what to say about this. Other than it aqnnoys me, it sucks, and smacks of doble standard. I am not very goo with thinky thoghts I canpt rally rticlate well al the implications of this paticlar what-if.

i heart lazy days, internet and lush baths... *sighs happily*

So, when i was coming home forn the Tesco today, is tarted thinking baout osmerhting. what do I actually wnat from all the musicians I adore?

in the end, i think it boils down to the same thing I have for them - affection and respect. Yeah, I admire them, adore them, love them... but in the end, it really does boil down to afffection and respect.

Maybe one day, I will have that. maybe one day perople will know who I am. But I sure as hell do not want that fame by the way of Pamela des Barres. cause I know that as much as I might just love the idea of, say, getting to fuck the brains out of Graham Ooliver or whoever my flavour du jour is, I still have too much respect for them and myself to make that my primary goal.

cause I can;t help it - I love musicians as people, and i love hanging out with them. and I am too ambitious for my own good to not to go for the ones on top.

.. or something like that anyeway.

Dear God, but I feel like a fanbrat.... I need to vent. Under cut? rambly thoughts I have for potential sequel(s!) for ÄMM. oiones that make me cringe and go "Wtf?" but.. I want to think i can pullt hem off.... but Ijust don'ät know! *flails*

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So, I hasd some really bizarre dreams last night.

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and incidentally; under cut #2, the screencap that proves that Cucuy HAD a wedding ring. plot bunnies, anyone?

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So, instead of preparing for my trip, I am writing meta. Go me! (also, note: I am leaving for several days at 6 am GMT on the 20th so expect comment delay)

And what am I intending to ramble about? Canon. Namely, the line between canon and interpretation.

Lately I have been thinking a lot about canon vs. interpretation – just how explicitly does something have to be stated in canon to make it, well, canon instead of interpretation? What is fact and what is subtext?

For example, let’s take Lorenzo in Once Upon a Time in Mexico. When we first see him, he is performing ina a dingy dive with scantily-glad dancer girls. He kisses a girl, gets handed a whole lot of money, and the announcer goes off to tell that it’s Mariachi happy hour – a song for 5 pesos, a kiss for 20 pesos and a fuck for 50. he’s walking away, runs into an old friend,. Who asks him – note; this is a translation, since I don’t understand the Spanish that is spoke ant that point – “Still fucking around=?” to which he doesn’t answer and just says “Let me get Fideo:”

Later, we get to hear him gripe about money repeatedly – “can’t buy half a tequila with this shit”, “Fuck honor. We need money” and “Wonder how much we’re going get paid for this shit” I should also note that after wondering how much they would be paid, he winks and blows a kiss t a richly-dressed, middle-aged woman. Other characters make references ´to Lorenzo wanting things, especially tomorrow – “enough for everybody, even you Lorenzo”.

Now, these are all facts that relate to the question, “is Lorenzo a whore in addition to being a gun-slinging mariachi with a guitar case-flamethrower?”

There are people who would say that yes, this would make it canon that he is a whore. Others would deny it vehemently.

Now, as a point of comparison, let’s take, say, Will from Pirates of the Caribbean. Who makes references to craftsmanship, lives at a forge, clearly works there – and in addition, is verbally confirmed to being a blacksmith repeatedly. “You are a blacksmith and this is not the moment for rash actions”, “I’m sorry. Blacksmith’s hands - I know they’re rough.” And “After all… he is a blacksmith”

Even without these quotations, I am sure that a majority of people would agree on Will being a blacksmith. It is evident in canon from everything else in addition to the lines.

… and I have no idea just where the hell am I going to with this line of reasoning. I guess I am trying to ask just how much canon evidence is needed for something to be canon instead of matter of interpretation? Would someone calling Lorenzo a whore make it more canon than anything that is already pointing out towards it? Or would removing any references to Will being a blacksmith make him not one? How much DO different sort of canon evidences weigh in the grand scale of things?

I know I am still confused as fuck. Thank God for “practically canon”.

This is something I have thought about for a while now; namely, the way memes move through LJ, and through certain groups of people. When a certain meme pops up on my flist time after time, from a different contingent of the cast of thousands, I start to think about stuff like that.

Now, I have a v. extensive and somewhat eclectic f-list: there are people from several fandoms, several nonfandom people, and communities ranging from slash fiction to dieting to BDSM. So I get a pretty wide selection of people/fandoms. I will be concentrating on the fandoms for now.

Now, when a meme re-occurs on my f-list, it is usually within a certain fandom – the HP folks, the BtVS people, or maybe the Pirates. Or the Sorcereans (who aren’t a fandom but still a subgroup of note) Amongst these groups, there are several people who are on my f-list and who are on each others’ lists; even if I do not continue the meme, it is likely that they will pick it from someone else.

Now, when I pick a meme and repost it – it can jump from one group of people - The Pirates – to another – the HP Folks – and thus, start to spread in entirely different chain of people. Not to say that I myself am of any note, but rather the fact that my journal is a multifandom/multipurpose one. And thus, links different chains/groups of people together – and spreads memes.


Now, jumping between fandoms gives a meme a longer lifespan – so okay, maybe fandom A ids done to death with the Meme of Doom, but it is fresh and exciting for Fandom B – and perhaps a refreshing visitor from the past for Fandom C.

Err, I think I had a point, didn’t I? Ah yes. Namely, that there most likely are certain journals that work as fandom/meme crossroads – and there are certain qualities to those journals.

1. Large readership – I believe that approximately 30 regular readers would be enough to fulfil this category

2. Willingness to pass on memes/quizzes alongside other content – when someone posts only memes and quizzes, this is often found boring and easily overlooked.

3. Differing fandoms – There is a lot of fandoms that have much overlap in fans – Fans of Pirates of the Caribbean are often fans of other Johnny Depp or Orlando Bloom movies, Stargate fans tens to watch other sci-fi shows as well, supernatural shows like Buffy or Highlander have their own fan base…. For purposes of keeping a meme alive, someone who has overlapping fandoms without enough difference in them exhausts the spread.

So, anyone else out there think there are other LJ-specific qualities that could affect the spreading of a meme/quiz? I do not mean content-wise but rather, things in the LJ structure/community that would affect meme-spreading?

You know, I had a plan of writing a great and profound post about fandom and wankery and meta and people's rights to say whatever they want in their own journals; that was when I came into the realization that would, in fact, be rather pointless. Because it would be flogging a dead horse, and because frankly, who cares?

I am not a "BNF". I don't get featured in various "OMg! Look what s/he wrote now!" communities. I don't do fandom_wank, I am more inclined to just shut up and follow the "if you can't say anything nice then don't say anything at all" policy when reading/commenting. My journal is filled with personal rants and randm crap.

Right now, I am quite glad for this. because it means that random strangers won't trample all over it, won't qyustion my opinions and insult me in various ways, and then draw attention into completely falsified, misses-the-point-by-several-fucking-PARSECS "summaries" of what I have said.

I am glad to be a nobody.

I am being unusually updative today...

Gakk from th esteemed guede_mazaka...


1. Comment with any ship [or character] from a fandom that you know I like, or at least have some knowledge about.

2. I will ramble for 100 words about aforementioned ship. This may be incoherent gushing or exclamations of disgust, depending on what it is.

3. Put this on your LJ, if you are so inclined.

I am too lazy to edit my other post, so here is a promise: I have a drabble waiting the return of ability to post fics. It sucks, but... it happened :D

Also, Lorenzo was much ewasier to write before I started to truly ponder his characterizzation. My brain has been working overdrive on possible backstoriies and plot bunnies have spawned like hell - everythghing from weird humorous fic in the style of Arrested Develeopement following Lorenzos shotgun wedding to the daughter of a cartel boss to a crossover with 24 and a liberal dose of Lorenzo/KIm (also, I seem to have a weird fascination with Ramon/Jack but that is another ballgame...)

in short, I hate my brain.

The qestion that is bothering me is this: Lorenzo is a greedy, imm oral (am,oral? I never recall which word is which) little fuck - why is he a mariachi gunslinger/whore and not cartel?