music sharing, grumpiness

[cimorene]

I don't like autumn. Autumn is the time when you have not yet resigned yourself to the coming of winter, and keep fruitlessly clinging to the sun (and the temperature, although it will probably stay freakishly autumnal until January again, for all I know).

And I also don't like when it's windy enough to knock me over, or when it's overcast for weeks at a time, or when it's so rainy that you can get soaked to the skin on a 15-minute walk, or when the clouds and pressure systems are moving by so fast you have a huge pressure headache what seems like every other day.

Here is the playlist I have made for this autumn at lastfm. You can listen to it there, except for the songs that you can't listen to for whatever reason. There's multiple tracks of Girls Aloud, Queen, Kent, Emilie Autumn, Shakira, Simon & Garfunkel, Tori Amos, Kokia, and Christina Aguilera. And of course, vocal jazz, although it's a bit under-represented. If anyone likes it, I can zip and upload it with the files that aren't playable in lastfm included.

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[penm.livejournal.com]

and keep fruitlessly clinging to the sun

i work with a guy from russia, and it was particularly sunny outside sometime this week - i think wednesday - and he said, "maybe it'll stay like this until april!"

"you're dreaming, man," i replied.

my cousin comes from a tropical island and has never seen snow or experienced a 'winter' colder than 19C. it makes me laugh.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Weirdly last winter it was warm on Christmas and didn't start snowing till January, but then winter hung around until April.

[penm.livejournal.com]

two years ago, i bought a snowboard. i had a trip with some friends planned in february so i bought all my gear in december. boards, boots and bindings amounted to about a cool thousand, but it was all brand-new gear.

it didn't snow till the week before my planned trip and i spent the entire time on my ass on the bunny slopes.

[ida-pea.livejournal.com]

I love early autumn (as in right now) for the leaves changing color and gorgeous, sunny weather that's not too hot or too cold, just comfortable. I start feeling a bit down in November when the chill in the air is there to stay, the leaves fall of the trees completely, and everything looks bare and ugly. I also *hate* turning back the clocks one hour (why in the hell America still does this, I don't know)and getting out of work at 5pm and it being completely dark outside.

From your icons I take it you're a Closer fan. As painful as it can be to watch, I think it's amazing and I've seen it more times than I can count. I would also love to see it as a stage play and have been keeping an eye out for a production.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Well, of course our autumn weather is quite different. The fall colour is nice, but we don't have much sunny weather at all and there's plenty of chill.

I've loved Closer since I first saw it. I've had several people tell me they find it depressing or sad, but I never got that from it - I was just impressed by the wittiness in its construction, and I've always found Alice's storyline empowering and a little funny. It's really her character I love best, aside from all the various poetic ironies. I understand that the storyline differs in the stage production though.