Cream colored ponies and crisp apple strudel.

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After some discussion sparky77 and I have decided we're vetoing this month. (Did I not tell you, Q? Executive decision, baby!)

So, while we await the changing of the tide/moon/karma and the proliferation of male!skating!slash (don't front I know y'all are gonna turn this stuff out), I thought to myself, "Self, all is not flaming poo and Sarah Palin. There must be some things that make you happy."

So, this post is to talk about happy things.

Jeff Buckley bootlegs make me happy. So do puppies. Christina Hendricks (shocking). Really anthemic work out music (feel free to share if you've got some!). Finding new artists. Quality public transportation. Disney movies make me happy (except for, like, Snow White which freaked me out in my formative years). Old movies with Marilyn Monroe or Paul Newman. Musicals. Double whammy of The Daily Show and Colbert Report. My guitar. Bacon. Good stories fanfic or pro. Books.

I could go on all day. And I possibly will, but now it's your turn, we all know what pisses us off, but what makes you happy? Is it a story? A song? A photo? An old shirt? A movie?

I bet you'll feel better just talking about it!

Comments

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

*raises eyebrow*

[alethialia.livejournal.com]

And just what are we implying?

[bibliokat.livejournal.com]

My mom and I were discussing the amazingness of their flannel sweater-coat-shirts and their demin-like snowpants. Way to bring grunge to the Olympics, boys! DUDE IF I MADE AN OLYMPIC TEAM I WOULDN'T CARE IF I HAD NO CHANCE OF MEDALING BECAUSE ATHLETE'S VILLAGE, BABY!

YES THE JUMP! I wouldn't have cared if he fell but HE DIDN'T! Because he's SHAUN WHITE! Did you see the little blurb with him and Tony Hawk? Awwwwwwwww!

(heeeee, I love his ridiculous red hair. It's so not fair, guys' curly hair doesn't have to look nice.)

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

OMG! I love The Sting! I prefer it to Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, which is considered blasphemy in some parts, but I don't care.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

You are one of the few people I know who genuinely seems to enjoy what they do; I am envious (but in a good way). And Beer! Oh, joyous lovely beer. And word to what you said about music that changes how you feel.

[inmyriadbits.livejournal.com]

I love it better, too. BC&tSK just makes me kinda sad. I have a friend who likes to watches the two back to back (she's a huge Paul Newman fan, and despite being good friends, The Sting and BC are the only two films they ever made together), and she insists on seeing The Sting second so as to end on a good note.

I think the ending is one of the main reasons people think BC is so genius (and, granted, it is iconic), but that may be my film major side rolling its eyes at all the other film students I've known who seem to think that Art = Being Miserable. I actually wrote a paper on The Sting (god, I loved being a film major; my research involved things like reading about the prank wars Robert Redford and Paul Newman got into during production), and George Roy Hill does some really interesting things with the film.

By which I mean to say, you are totally justified in liking The Sting better. *gives film major stamp of approval* :)

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Misery is not art; art is art. Sometimes people seem to get that confused. I'd much rather laugh than cry; then again, it's much harder to make people laugh, which probably why most people claim drama is better: it's easier to make someone depressed than to lift spirits.

[inmyriadbits.livejournal.com]

I always think of Sullivan's Travels (the movie which, trivia time! is where the title of O Brother, Where Art Thou? came from), especially when the main character says "There's a lot to be said for making people laugh. Did you know that that's all some people have?" Preston Sturges sure knew what he was doing when he made that movie. I met so many people in film school that wanted to be taken seriously, and thought the only way to do that was to be completely serious themselves.

I personally think you need both; neither unrelenting misery nor unrelenting humor make for very successful stories, and both don't mean a thing without the other. I prefer to laugh, but that has a lot to do with knowing just how shitty things are when you can't. So if there's a choice, well, I'll laugh, thanks.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Guess what's on telly right now? The Sting! All that just from a few LJ comments.

*thinks*

I would also like an excellent job that pays an outrageous salary, a gorgeous flat with high ceilings, large windows, central air and heat and no vermin, the brilliant, gorgeous Marine of my choice and $10 million dollars. What? I hear if you put it out in the universe it'll happen. Possibly in the next few hours! *waits patiently*

[inmyriadbits.livejournal.com]

Hee. I just discovered that, by some fault of the cable company, we have HBO (!), so maybe it is our lucky day!

Now, by "the brilliant, gorgeous Marine of my choice," do you mean you want a choice of Marines (like a line-up), or a specific Marine? Because you really must be precise about these things... ;)

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Oh my god. I can haz a line-up?! I mean I'd be happy like a pig in slop with my very own Brad. Or Nate. Or Ray. Or Poke. Or Walt. Choice might make me indecisive though. I'll risk it!

[redjacket.livejournal.com]

The Olympics make me happy! Seriously. I don't know what I did before they were on six channels of my television but I am very, very happy they are.

[prysmicdork.livejournal.com]

I love their partnership SO much. I just finished 2.9, so um, ack, cliffhanger!

[prysmicdork.livejournal.com]

Hello! (and now to vanish back into the lurk zone)

Except, also, your Christina Hendricks yay is also making the world a happier place, I love seeing links of her randomly popping up!

[storm-petrel.livejournal.com]

Televised curling! Hot chocolate with Bailey's, bright colour filters, impromptu conversations with strangers, Canada winning medals at the Olympics, remote fieldwork up North where no one's ever been except your crew, teacup pigs, ice cream sandwiches, winter days when the sun comes out and it warms up and the air starts to smell like spring and Ray Person, obviously (I got into GK because of you, so thanks for that!)

[romanticalgirl.livejournal.com]

White Christmas is the way to go.

[chrismm.livejournal.com]

*delurks, sort of--is it still delurking if you've delurked before?* What an awesome post. (Also, February always sucks--I just forget from year to year how much. I'm not sure what February's damage is.)

What makes me happy now:

Southland. Homemade naan. My cat, Daniel. Hot showers. Excedrin for Migraines. Castle. Jon Huertas. Delaware St. John (http://www.delawarestjohn.com/volume1.htm). kd lang. xkcd. Art. Singing. Jethro Tull. Diet pop with Splenda. Stories, ooooh, yes. My friends. Smart people. We Are All Connected (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84Poeynk) (YouTube video). Janelle Monae.

But what makes me most happy right now: the Shared Work program, which means when I get my pay cut next month, I at least get to go part-time, so I won't have to work as hard for my reduced salary. :D

[inmyriadbits.livejournal.com]

Hi! Sorry to thread-jump, but I've been wondering too, and asking him on Twitter was a great idea, so I asked him (http://twitter.com/smokeofthought/status/9309387254) and he replied (http://twitter.com/Cudlitz/status/9310429460), to my surprise and delight. Confirmation! :D

[alethialia.livejournal.com]

YAYYYYY!!! Thank you!

Oh, this is why I LOVE Z's journal! You = AWESOME! Thank you for asking! And it IS "boot!" ::is vindicated::

[inmyriadbits.livejournal.com]

And thank you for the idea! I'd resigned myself to not knowing, but the magic of Twitter was just what was needed. Team Internet! *fistbump* :D

[sparky77.livejournal.com]

Aw! And, dude, if someone proposed to me with grilled cheese and bacon, I would be there's forever and ever and ever.


p.s. There's a uniformed fireman on my TV. All I seem to be noticing is how that would look on Cooper.
That is because you totally want to write the fireman AU!

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

When you meet somebody you approve of I will give them this insider information.

Also, stop helping. Really. thorne_scratch said you must be very helpful, I should've corrected her and said you were *too* helpful.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

The Olympics are like the lover you can't nail down. They show up every few years, you have marathon events where you act crazy and then they leave and you're sad about it for weeks afterward.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

a) What kind of fieldwork do you do if you don't mind my asking?

b) What is a teacup pig? I assume this is not bacon in a jar.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Also, February always sucks--I just forget from year to year how much. I'm not sure what February's damage is.)


WORD! I forget that and then suddenly's is February and all I can think is, Hurry up the orbit earth, this has to be over soon!

Also, what is a Shared Work program? I know not this concept. It sounds, however, like you don't get paid every month. I don't think I could do that.