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Signal boost: podficpool (and on DW), a sort of podficfinder/podficgenrefinder with added recs. I like. :D

I've just been tagged in a billion photos from a work leaving do and although I look fat - surprisingly, because I am - I also look cute and happy. I am well pleased. Yesterday I went to Tewkesbury, and I'm moving soon and should be cutting down on what I'm buying, so obviously I tripped and bought five books:

Infernal Devices by Philip Reeve
The Bounty (the true story of the mutiny on the Bounty) by Caroline Alexander
The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama & Howard C. Cutler
Eleanor of Aquitaine by Marion Meade
and I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.

Not bad for £13. :D I also bought some pretty necklaces because I can't really afford new clothes for September.

Trying to decide whether to go back to sleep now; this post is brought to you at this hour by the fact that people going home from a night out at 4:30 are voted least likely to keep their bastard voices down. XD Also seagulls.

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If I could draw I think I would spend all of my time making up new A:TLA combi-animals. Starting with a slothturtle.

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What's your favourite piece of classical music?

Why?

(If you also have it to hand and could upload, that'd be awesome!)

I'm kind of shockingly lacking in variety, when it comes to classical - although apparently I do have 369 songs in that particular genre.

Some of my favourites:

Agnus Dei: Gabriel Fauré
The central part of this is used in this advert, which I've always loved - but I think that was because of the music rather than the other way around. I always have an affection for things I've sung, and I sang this in church when I was... I'm not sure. Only just a teenager, or a little before. Beautiful choral piece.

Mendelssohn: Concerto In E Minor, Op. 64 - Allegro Molto Appassionato
You're not allowed to judge me for this, okay. I love this because of toft's String Theory, which was the first story I read in SG:A fandom, the reason I started watching the show, and still my best loved fic. I'm a dork. Gorgeous violin.

Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92, II allegrotto: Beethoven
This'd be the piece of music I want to dance with - not to, with - partly because I think it'd have lovely boobs. Lovely orchestral piece that builds incredibly without too many theatrics.

Jazz Suite No.2 - Waltz 2: Dmitri Shostakovich
Sounds like a crazy Russian circus that's only half real.

Lux Arumque: Eric Whitacre
The piece that the virtual choir sang, something I've linked to before and you should absolutely watch. The whole album Cloudburst is beautiful and I recommend it massively.

Spem in Alium: Thomas Tallis
Spem in alium is a forty-part Renaissance motet by Thomas Tallis, composed circa 1570 for eight choirs of five voices each. I don't know where to even start with that. It's beautiful through its seeming chaos which keeps resolving itself into something unearthly and beautiful.

The Lament of the Mother of God: John Tavener
It was hard to know which Tavener to pick because his music is incredible; again with the oddly shaped chords that resolve themselves into something (traditionally) awesome. Beautiful choral music.

Boccherini: La Musica Notturna Delle Strade Di Madrid No. 6 Op. 30
Another hilariously geeky choice - this is the big gay love theme of the big gay film with boats, as an ex-flatmate dubbed it. Jack and Stephen started it, and then it was used at the end of an adaptation of Sherlock Holmes as Holmes and Watson dined together and subtexted madly, and that confirmed it. Never fails to make me smile. XD

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Today is just... made of Sunday, isn't it?

*grabs ankles and tumbleweeds across the internet*

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...dude. I am so tempted to go friends-only just so I can use this as a banner...

heeeeeeeeeeee

"I'M ANGRY AT MYSELF!"

*WHOOMPF*