and the holy dove was moving too.

i promised this to livehead16 several weeks ago and i'm finally getting around to doing it. after jason castro sang "hallelujah" on american idol, lara said she wasn't terribly familiar with the song, and since it's one of my absolute favorite songs in the history of ever, i am going to spam her (and the rest of you!) with several versions.

i actually used to have more (i know i had covers by regina spektor and...marc broussard, maybe?), but i lost a ton of stuff in The Great Harddrive Crash of Aught-Six and never recovered it all. so, if anyone has other versions that they'd like to share, pass them along! :D

and every breath we drew was 'hallelujah'...

leonard cohen. (the original; very different from most covers you hear)
jeff buckley. (oh, the pain...many consider this the definitive version of the song)
k.d. lang. (so beautiful...tied with buckley's for my favorite version)
rufus wainwright. (fairly straightforward, but it's rufus so of course it's awesome; this was the version in shrek)
imogen heap. (very spare and a capella; this played in the oc S3 finale when marissa died)
damien rice. (just got this tonight - lovely acoustic guitar version)
bob dylan. (found this tonight by mistake while looking for a non-itunes version of jeff buckley; listening to it now and it's pretty awesome)

things are shaping up to be pretty odd.

wow, you guys. wow.

pretty. odd.

i mean.

WOW.

i knew i'd like it more than a fever you can't sweat out. i did NOT know it would be, on first listen, in contention to be my favorite album.

too early to choose a favorite, but i will give shoutouts to "pas de cheval" (maybe my favorite), "northern downpour" (HEARTS in my EYES omg), "that green gentleman," and "the piano knows something i don't." which are incidentally the four songs i have listened to most recently. hmmm. XD

and "folkin' around"? bden, bb, A+.

i have no idea how this is going to do commercially. it really does sound NOTHING like the last album - it sounds to me like the beatles smoked a canadian indie rock band and this is what they dreamed, so of course i fucking love it. the teens who are all "OMGG BRENDAN IS SO HOT LOL"? idk. that being said, i think they're definitely going to acquire some new fans with this album, because it's rad.

all-around, i am bursting with pride. and awesomeness.

PANICCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC. ♥

ok, also, "SHE'S A HANDSOME WOMAN" omg.

god, brendon urie, shut your fucking face. ♥_♥

now it looks as though they're here to stay.

AI dress rehearsal recap. (spoilers, duh)

( beatles beatles beatles. )

she's a big teaser, she took me half the way there.

liveblogging idol!

( season 7, top 11 - the beatles, redux )

866.436.5706 XD

happiness is a warm gun.

jacob just banned me from twop for the 34465346th time and told me to stop trolling, lmao.

anyone who read blake's thread last year will probably remember a poster by the name of stormy4 who was a total idiot. i've been seeing her around various AI fandoms for something like four years. anyway, she came back under a new name (i forgot it already) and had been posting repeatedly that ramiele is the chosen one this year (i know, like...what?). and then she got banned again, and now she's back AGAIN and posting under the name Mcgillicuddy4 and she was agreeing with herself like so:

I saw a post not long ago about Ramiele being one of the CO or TRU. I think her going last tonight confirms it.

ok. the post from "not long ago" was by HER on her previous name (with everyone else telling her she was crazy). so i quoted that and simply said:

A post by you, heh.

...and then proceeded to go on discussing some other topic.

so i got to twop just now and what do i find?

Why is it whenever there's drama, you're always nearby? Please stop trolling this site -- there are a million fan clubs and fan sites that would work much better for you.

a) there was no drama!, b) THAT girl is a total troll and c) what i posted had NOTHING whatsoever to do with fannishness. wtf?

i'm sad; i really liked my current/former screenname! and apparently once you're banned you can't use the messaging feature...i wanted to tell jacob he was a douche. :(

i wouldn't have it any other way.

little faaaaaceeee! it's not quite up there with the original little faaaaaceee but it ain't bad. :)

(more at davidcookai7)

and omgggggggggg, it's donna's birthday today and her brother got her tickets for the final performance of RENT and she invited me to go with her. i could cry, you guys. like, right this second. ;alksdjf;dlkgj;lgk.