not exactly a gip.

whoo 12 new icons.  ♥

wax got home and found the dishes still not done.  i'd have been peeved too, but i've felt stuffed with cotton wool most of the day.  in fact, i didn't expect her back anything like as soon.  and i always feel like, how can they be dirty already, didn't i just DO them?  i feel that way even if i did them like a week ago.  in this instance i did them wednesday, so i'm not at all surprised that we have no clean spoons left. 

i've turned the heat all the way up in every room of the apartment to no avail.  it's -12C outside. i'm wearing socks under wax's shearling slippers (did i ever mention how mine ripped totally apart?) and my fingers are numb.  i keep putting them on the hot water bottle which i'm keeping in my lap for the purpose.  but it's not helping all that much. 

soooo.  quiz time.
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how do you clip mp3 files?  i want, like, windows to start up with gerard panting "now let it be war upon you both."

great ladies of jazz downloads galore

i did a poll on the great ladies of jazz and most people wanted billie, nina and ella.  inside you can find several of my favourite songs ever.  there's billie holiday bouncy and catchy in "lock my heart and throw away the key" and "miss brown to you," intimate and introspective in "good morning heartache."  there's nina simone's defining recording of "i loves you porgy", ella fitzgerald and louis armstrong's of "summertime," and dinah washington's of "cry me a river."  for nina and her smoky voice there are the blues classics "nobody knows you when you're down and out" and "trouble in mind" (which has some of the best lyrics) and the spooky "tell me more and more and then some." there's ella singing a hooker song with a bafflingly sweet and innocent tone.  there's the slow, minor-keyed "brother, can you spare a dime?" sung by abbey lincoln and the confusingly up-beat "i know how it feels to be lonely" sung by morgana king.  and there's also some vastly amusing sexual innuendo.  yay!  jazz!  ( i feel like a circus ringmaster but i refuse to delete my pomposity up there cause i just love female vocal jazz THAT much. )