i may be a bird in a cage but at least it's your cage

things, in a numbered list:

1. livejournal, what are your favorite instrumental scores, from movies or tv? bear mccreary's battlestar galactica (2003) score (both s1 and s2, and one of the things that i was most excited about for season three? NEW SCORE MUSIC) is one of my favorite things to write to, and i also very much enjoy joel goldsmith's stargate scores and howard shore's lord of the rings scores, but i don't know how to find others that i would like.
   
   [throughadoor, i really loved the track from the fountain on your end-of-the-year mix; is the rest of the score that good?]
   
   HELP ME, LIVEJOURNAL, YOU'RE MY ONLY HOPE! good instrumental scores: what are they, and will you send them to me?
   
   
2. the other day, i hid my bundles on delicious and ordered by tags by frequency, just to see what my most-used tags were. as follows, in order:
   
   
   1. fic
   2. sga
   3. mckay/sheppard
   4. gen
   5. recipes
   6. duesouth
   7. .reference
   8. au
   9. fraser/kowalski
   10. sg-1
   
   things that were unsurprising about this include the fact that fic is number one -- i tag every single story i bookmark "fic", and as of 01.10.07, that's 1704 links. it's the CLEAR winner. the stuff that followed wasn't all surprising, either -- mckay/sheppard is the closest thing i have to a real otp (i call daniel/vala my otp, for example, but i actually read more jack/daniel than i do daniel/vala), and sg:a is probably my primary fandom, at least when it comes to reading, followed closely by sg-1. i bookmark a lot of recipes because i watch a lot of food network and read a lot of food blogs. ".reference" is my standard tag for anything that i might need to refer to on a regular basis, whether it's a map or something encyclopedic for writing.
   
   i was mildly surprised that "duesouth" and "fraser/kowalski" were both in the top ten -- i don't read a ton of due south fic these days, and i haven't for at least six months. but fraser/kowalski was a major otp for me when i first got into the fandom, and my due south bookmarks were the first thing i transferred from firefox to delicious. so it makes logical sense, if i think about it.
   
   what surprised the HELL out of me, though, was that "gen" and "au" were in the top ten AT ALL. i do read more gen than i suspect the average fangirl does, and i like a good au, but that i have enough of each of those types of stories bookmarked that they appear in my top ten overall tags? hell of a surprise. IF i was to hazard a guess -- and i'm not saying i am -- i would guess that gen is so high because i will read good gen in any fandom i enjoy, whereas i will not read pairing fic in all of my fandoms. if i love the fandom, i'll be a sucker for a good story of any sort, romantic or not. gen i can justify.
   
   "au", though, hell, i just don't know. i think i'll blame it on mckay/sheppard, though; lots and lots of crazy-ass aus in sg:a fandom, yo. *blames*
   
   (the next ten, for what it's worth, are hp, supernatural, yuletide, 2006, smut, basketball, crossovers, jack/daniel, osx. most of those make sense. osx, however, is so bizarre that i don't even want to think about it.)
   
   
3. i have, of late, become completely obsessed with the database backend that runs itunes -- how does it index? how does it update the xml that stores your library? IS IT SMARTER THAN ME OMG. this is in part because i am picking back up a summer project to listen to and rate every song in my library (i only have 2800 left to rate! that seems like a lot until you know that i have something like 7300 songs in my itunes library) and in part because in last semester's hideous database class of doom, i had to do a project on how audio files are stored in databases. that class has ruined my life in more than one way, i tell you what -- every time i rate a song, i think, but how does it know to DO THAT? how does the searching work in the index? IS IT A DENSE OR NON-DENSE INDEX BY SONG NAME?
   
   then i want to lie down on the floor and cry, because i am a HUGE NERD.
   
   
4. i'm hoarding all the fic i've finished since the holidays for 14valentines, and i'm having a very hard time with the hoarding and the waiting -- i have two finished stories sitting on my hard drive, plus another that needs to go to beta sometime soon, and three that are half-finished, and i want to post them noooooooooow. thankfully, february is closer than it feels. which is also sort of a depressing thought.
   
   
5. despite having watched it three times since yesterday, i'm still trying to process out all my thoughts about sg-1 10x11, "the quest (part two)". if you've read any of my sg-1 fic, it's no surprise that the relationship i am most interested in -- if not invested in, because those are two different things, and i am not surprisingly most invested in jack/daniel -- is the one in all directions between cameron, daniel and vala, and "the quest part two" gave me all sorts of fodder to think about. i'm still parsing it out in my head, but basically the episode validated some things i'd been thinking for a while, as well as validated some things i hadn't known i thought but apparently had. all in all, it gets two thumbs up. perhaps i will meta later. perhaps i will just watch the episode again.
   

today i am: a) hungover; b) exhausted; c) possibly getting sick. NOT ON, BODY. of course, all the red wine i drank during the second half of the carolina/virginia game didn't help.