A word in your pink and shell-like, oh shadow_5tails...

[reynardo]

Firstly, as mentioned before, am I the 46th person to point you towards the ABC's Opera Singer Competition? As far as I can tell, you're eligible. And we will, of course, stand up and beg and ring and do whatever's needed to get them to notice you.

And while we're on the subject of noticing, my very dear quatranoctal pointed out to me that he has re-discovered a contact from his Pratchett list days, who goes by the lj-nick of penguin2 - and he noticed a certain 5-tailed fox on that bod's friends' list...

Yeah. I know. There are 100 people in the world, and 50 of them live in Melbourne.

Comments

[shadow-5tails.livejournal.com]

Ah. I was wondering how the 'noctal knew the Penguin. She's a great woman who has my respect for all sorts of reasons, but I couldn't quite work out the connection, and while I know that she's impressed a number of readers through her comments in others' journals, I didn't think that was the case in this instance given their lack of overlap. Small World Syndrome strikes again!

You really should move to Melbourne in a few years, you know. Then we'd be that much closer to achieving a critical mass that would exert compelling pseudo-gravitational forces on all the wonderful people around the world! [insert mad scientist cackles here]

As for the Opera Wotsit, it has been pointed out to me, by the lovely 17catherines among others. I'm amused to note that while I'm in this limbo between studenthood and professionalism, I'm actually eligible to play. Now all I need is a pianist and a video camera for an audition tape...

[penguin2.livejournal.com]

Duuuuude! Now you're gonna have to explain to me who this person is in your ambit! ~waves at reynardo, whose journal is being unceremoniously hijacked here~

[shadow-5tails.livejournal.com]

Which person, exactly, were you referring to?

Midnight Fox, meet the Penguin's Bride. Penguin's Bride, Midnight Fox. You were both at my birthday party, so might recognise one another if placed in the same room at some point.

I can't say I have the pleasure of knowing quatranoctal all that well yet; if you know of one another from a Pratchett list somewhere, you & he have almost undoubtedly corresponded more than he & I so maybe I should be pressing you for an introduction! But he's reynardo's son, and from what I've seen an intelligent, articulate and quite charming chap whom I look forward to getting to know, if time and circumstance permit.

Rey, incidentally, is someone I adore from afar, and who should move to Melbourne so that she can be adored from up close more often. *grin*

[penguin2.livejournal.com]

Ooh ooh ooh! So Kitsune Person is the lady with a fellow synaesthete as hubby, and a major case of Samoyed lurve! Wheeee! Hot diggety damn - I was thinking ogodspeoplearestalkingmeontehinterwebarrgghh, and it turns out they're interesting people! Lovely stuff :-)

~waves again at reynardo~

I look forward to the next Mystery Instalment...

[shadow-5tails.livejournal.com]

*blink*

Was I meant to understand any of that?

[penguin2.livejournal.com]

~rolls about giggling~

Ohh-kayyy. Watch closely:

You said quatranoctal is reynardo's son, right?

quatranoctal's father is synaesthetic (I know this because we've discussed it via emails - comparing types and intensity of syn, etc.).

They're big on Samoyeds (as am I - my second Beloved Longtime Quadruped, Alex, was one).

Also, you vouch for reynardo; therefore she's not some scary internet stalker mentioning me in her LJ :P

Does that help? Hee!

[djfiggy.livejournal.com]

I'm in the wrong 50 then.

It's a sparse, lonely world, with no neighbours for miles but William Shatner and Geddy Lee...

[dorukai.livejournal.com]

That's spooky. A bunch of people on my list have penguin friended too.

[penguin2.livejournal.com]

Eek! Another Chris! Dude. This is getting entirely too Twilight Zone-y for comfort...

[dorukai.livejournal.com]

We're everywhere. Actually, we're gathering a huge Chris army and are going to take over the world, once pizza at a time.

I shouldn't be telling you this, but you're a penguin, so . . .

[penguin2.livejournal.com]

Now playing: Army of Chrisness, starring dorukai as Bruce Campbell, and quatranoctal as Bruce Campbell's evil zombie twin...

(actually I'm not a penguin - I just implemented a crazed scheme to marry one...)

[dorukai.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Bruce Campbell rocks my world, and as him I shall wreak a terrible vengeance upon my enemies!

"This is my BOOMSTICK!" etc.

Hrm. Well, married to a penguin makes you trustworthy as well. It's all good.

[penguin2.livejournal.com]

He also does the best Elvis since, well, Elvis (in Bubba Ho-tep, natch), and I would know. Hysterical!

Friend of penguins, too. Oh, and Linux user. Sphenisciformes rule :D

[dorukai.livejournal.com]

Damn, I so have to see Bubba Ho-tep! I keep meaning to, but somehow haven't managed it yet . . . maybe I'll just buy it on DVD.

That they do! On a related note, have you seen the latest Wallace and Gromit yet? There's a short at the start featuring the Madagascar penguins, which is pretty good!

[penguin2.livejournal.com]

Oh, it sooo rocks. And the commentary (also by Campbell) is of Teh Ultimate Funny.

Erm, W&G...let's not go there. As my RL mates know, if there's one visual medium I utterly despise EVEN MORE than ALL animation of ANY GENRE**, it's ~shudders and turns pre-projectile-vomit green~ claymation. Eurghk.

And it was going so well...c'est la vie. Back to work for me now, anyway :P :P :P

[dorukai.livejournal.com]

Mm, Campbell's always good. He managed to do a decent job even in Xena and Hercules, and as the tutorial voiceover in the Spiderman game. Go Bruce!

Vomit away. No way can you get my shoes from there :)

So is your revulsion of animation something . . . medical, or is there a reason behind it somewhere?

Games I can understand, though I personally consider them above contempt (obviously - hehe).

[penguin2.livejournal.com]

So is your revulsion of animation something . . . medical, or is there a reason behind it somewhere?

Oddly enough, there does seem to possibly be a medical reason. Certainly when it comes to manga/anime - I'm synaesthetic, and the horrible weird proportions of the typical manga face makes me smell and feel some very unpleasant things. But it goes back all the way to my earliest childhood anyway, and has to do with my tastes in art. Yep, that's right. Disney's "artists" are IMTAO of the ultimate suckage and should've been exposed at birth. I grew up on Marvel and DC, and even there, I always abhorred "typical" comix artists with their blocky, unrealistic renderings of faces - it wasn't until the days of the Claremont-Byrne X-Men, and Barry Windsor Smith, that comix art got flowing and sensuous enough to make me truly happy.

Also, I like my 2-D to sit there on the page, and my live action to be flesh-and-blood - 'tis just the way it is for me.

I love The Simpsons and Futurama - as audio shows:-)

[sarin-girl.livejournal.com]

hey..

Monday & Friday I work 8am - 4:30pm
Tuesday - Thursday 9:30pm - 6pm

We must dinner soon!

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

I have 5-1 Mon-wed, then graves. Perhaps Thursday? I have something for you from the US.

[sarin-girl.livejournal.com]

is it trent reznor?? is it?? is it???

Thursday sounds awesome! will message you about plans :)

p.s.

[penguin2.livejournal.com]

After all this hijacking of your LJ...

Hello! :D

Re: p.s.

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

Hello Penguin person.

Perhaps I should explain. I'm quatranoctal's birth-mother. I've met both his parents (and my mum and his get together and discuss how disorganisation is hereditary and then just sigh knowingly). But apparently we met at the birthday gig - and I'm sorry I didn't get to know you better then.

Re: p.s.

[penguin2.livejournal.com]

Aha! Well, half the known galaxy was at 'kira's birthday gig, so I'm not surprised that neither of us remembers meeting t'other :D