Rainy Romance

[thedeadlyhook]

First off, a very belated happy birthday to paratti!

Valentine's Day not too eventful - I'd hoped to have some writing done to post by then, alas no, but thankfully theohara put up a gorgeous little ficlet that made me bawl like an idiot, 'cause I'm a big ol' softy, what of it? Toyed with the idea of posting some songs for that "rec a love song" meme thing, which I still may do, because sharing music? The most awesome thing ever. Just trying to find the best of my eclectic secret stash that might make me look like I actually have taste. And, uh, also to figure out how to upload to our server, because I'm hardly a tech whiz. Possibly some results later today, when I'm more awake, and there might be less cursing. (And is there some way I haven't been able to figure out to actually download songs from yousendit to a Mac instead of just streaming-playing them? Frustrating. As. Hell.)

Our local free weeklies had lists on lists of Valentine's events to go to; I'd picked out going to see art exhibits because, hello, free, plus looking at erotic art with current art student hubby to give commentary seemed like a pretty fab idea, good times. Only the weather dawned here gray and rainy and the idea of trudging through downpours to go see the shows was less than romantic, so we ended up going out to lunch, getting a bottle of honey liquer to swig at the homestead whilst inside and toasty.... and then just as we settled in to watch our second movie of the day (Logan's Run; the first programming item was Earth Girls Are Easy, a guaranteed pick-me-up charming alt-romance movie of Alien Love, plus all those bright colors and Julie Brown, yay), the power goes out. Then it comes back on, then goes out again. And again. The third time it stays off, and lasts for a couple of hours... but unfortunately, just as evening is falling and I've got the place lit up with candles (ooh, romantic!), the lights come back on! Dammit! So we ended up going out to dinner at an Eritrean restaurant, a closeby fave that requires a calorie-burning walk up a hill, but pays off with the fun of terrific food and eating with your fingers. Pretty much end of evening: we go home, put on another movie (Island of Dr. Moreau, the one with Brando - it's better than most people think, and a great showcase for David Thewlis; we'd had a conversation over dinner about sci-fi and the ethical questions inherent in robots and artificial life, yadda yadda, which made us want to look again at H.G. Wells... hard to explain)... and then I doze off on the couch bed while Toys works on his art homework, which involved doing a charcoal drawing of hockey players. Exciting, huh?

I find it funny that the point where the power kept cutting out while playing Logan's Run was the scene in which Michael York has just picked up Jenny Agutter for anonymous sex through a sort of On-Demand beam-into-your-home service, and she's just about to ditch him because she doesn't wanna do it with someone of his job description. Both times, the lights went out before she could get to the dumping. Significant!

Comments

[elisi]

Sounds like you had a lovely day. We spent the evening at home watching 'Howards End' (which came free with The Sunday Times last week). But we're going out tonight! Nothing fancy, but it's nice to get away sometimes. :)

And now I want to watch 'Logan's Run' again - it's been years since we've seen it! *sigh*

[thedeadlyhook.livejournal.com]

I'm rewatching the film right now while Toys is at school. Box is going off about "fish and plankton and protein from the sea." Marvelous! And then all those great old optical effects...

[http://users.livejournal.com/_jems_/]

I know absolutely nothing about Macs, but what browser are you using? Because with Firefox you can choose how to handle each file type under Tools - Options - Downloads. If you're using it, just scroll down to mp3 and change it to "Save to disc..."

[http://users.livejournal.com/_jems_/]

Or, you know, "Save to disk"

[thedeadlyhook.livejournal.com]

I'm on Safari, and so far, when I try to control-click, which usually works fine, I just get the html file that points back to yousendit. Confusing!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_jems_/]

Never used Safari either - I rarely venture out of my computer comfort zone. =)

Okay, here's the most obvious question: you do know that in order to download YouSendIt files you first click the link you're provided (left-click on a PC) and then at that page you download the file, right? The only other thing I can think is that there's either too much of a delay (after about a minute, any YouSendIt link that you've clicked on becomes stale) or the site is simply not compatible with Macs. But that just sounds weird.

[thedeadlyhook.livejournal.com]

I think you're right - the problem's got to be at the download page somehow. I'll try fiddling with menus and see what I can find. It just doesn't make sense there'd be no way to make it work on a Mac. But thanks for the suggestions - I'm just a slow learner on this stuff!

[fishsanwitt]

Your Valentine's Day sounded lovely :)

Jim and I went to a jazz concert, featuring Cole Porter, at our Art Gallery. It was very nice!

[thedeadlyhook.livejournal.com]

Ah, Cole Porter. Sounds wonderful! Someday, really must sign up for some kind of dancing class...

[lillianmorgan.livejournal.com]

because sharing music? The most awesome thing ever. Just trying to find the best of my eclectic secret stash that might make me look like I actually have taste.
I firmly believe you get a very good idea of a person by their taste in music so yay, yes please, good luck!
Only the weather dawned here gray and rainy and the idea of trudging through downpours to go see the shows was less than romantic,
Weather was in synchronicity then across the globe. Was absolutely abominable here yesterday as well.

[thedeadlyhook.livejournal.com]

It's still raining today. Not much luck on the music uploads - I've been mostly cooped up in the apartment and trying to write, very bad day for futzing with technology that makes me angry. : (

[paratti.livejournal.com]

Thanks, pet:) I apprecaite it:)

[thedeadlyhook.livejournal.com]

I hope a very good day was had!

Yousendit downloads

[(Anonymous)]

No problemon the Mac if you upgrade QuickTime to the pro version. Once the track has downloaded for streaming you'll be able to save it to disk. Hope that's of use to you...

BTW Love your writing which is why I'm here, but are we going to be getting any more Bad Eurotrip or The Dead Walk?

Re: Yousendit downloads

[thedeadlyhook.livejournal.com]

Thanks - I'll look into the upgrade. Seems likely I just might not have the right sort of thing installed, since we just did a new system install lately, and there's probably all sorts of things missing.

My long neglected WIPs! Glad to hear they're not totally forgotten by now. : ) "Bad Eurotrip" for sure, since that's been pretty heavily plotted, and I can count on Toys to help keep the ball rolling - we've just been on hiatus since we took a break for summer vacation and then my Spuffy plot bunny ate my brain while he went back to school... but yes, it shall return. "The Dead Walk," also yes - I put that on hold to start "Does It Have to Mean Something?" and now I keep getting the urge to go back... I think it helps me to change perspectives now and then, so it's getting to be about time for me to revisit the old threads. Thanks for asking!