Wishlist

[resonant]

It's the time of year when I get to tell people what I want! I love doing that!



1. Foreign sugar. It's a pity to develop a taste for sweets you can't get at home! I'm looking for a few specific things, but I'd love to try just about anything, as long as it isn't mint or coconut.

- from Canada, Dare Maple Leaf Cookies. Also, there's this soft molasses cookie in the shape of a bear claw that I can't remember the name of. It comes in individual orange foil packets inside a cardboard box.

- from Australia, Tim Tams!

- Dark chocolate Tobler bars. I have no idea where they're made, but you can't get them here.

2. Music.

- A good choral performance of the Parker/Shaw arrangement of "O Sanctissima"
- A good performance of "Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella." English, French, I'm not picky.
- A carol called "Corpus Christi Carol," but not the Jeff Buckley one. It begins "The hen flew east and the hen flew west," and it was played on "Thistle and Shamrock" a long time ago.
- Carly and Lucy Simon doing "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day"
- Alan Parsons Project, "Lie Down With Dogs"
- Andy Kim, "Rock Me Gently" (shut up)
- Graham Parker, "Wake Up Next To You"
- That samba called "The Duck"
- "Hazel's Hips," any good version
- Jimmy Buffet, "Volcano," "Fins," "Cheeseburger in Paradise"
- Van Morrison, "Moondance"
- Cyndi Lauper, "True Colors"
- The Leonard Cohen version of "Hallelujah"
- A good choral performance of Mozart's "Ave Verum"
- A nice traditional version of "Tam Lin." (I've already got the Steeleye Span version, and I don't like the Fairport Convention version.)
- The Lefte Banke: "Walk Away, Renee" and "Pretty Ballerina"

edited to add: I'm running iTunes on a Mac, which means I can read .mp3, .m4a, and .aiff files, but not .wma files. And I can unpack .zip files but not .rar files, for some reason. OK, never mind, clearly people with sense bother to do a google search for utilities to solve a problem like this ...

3. A line to some contract/freelance editing, proofreading, or nonfiction writing work (particularly how-to writing).

4. Some tech-savvy person to digitize some LPs and cassette tapes for me.

5. Icons. I'd particularly like one that says "We wantss it, preciouss," with any art you choose. And any and all SGA icons.

6. For someone to extend my extra-icon subscription.

7. A paperback book you read and enjoyed and are now ready to pass on.

8. Music you think I'd like, to download or on CD. Or, hey, if you want to spend money, a gift certificate to iTunes or some other buy-by-the-song source would be lovely.

9. Cotton socks.

10. ... um, for someone to restore my enthusiasm for Snapefic, so that I can finish some of these damned unfinished stories?

Contact me at resonant8(at)att(dot)net if you need my address, as long as you promise you're not Alberto Gonzales or an axe-murderer with a really large travel budget.


Instructions:

Step One

- Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.

- If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.

- Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, or link to this post (it'll be public) so that the holiday joy will spread.

Step Two

- Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:

- If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free--do it.

You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.

There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

Spread the word by posting on jaxie926's LJ here, adding your list to the del.icio.us listing here, or using the fandomwishlist community.

Comments

[cereta.livejournal.com]

Cheeseburger in Paradise on its way!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear -- I can't play .wma files. Do you have a way to convert it?

Thanks, though!

[theamusedone.livejournal.com]

Five versions of Tam Lin, the Cohen Hallelujah and most recent version of True Colors has been zipped and is uploading *G*.

[theamusedone.livejournal.com]

http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3FIWY9RAKP36B1JBJXQRDLCQMZ

Let me know if you have any issues with it!

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't have any of the tracks you're specifically looking for, so I'm sending you a random bit of sacred music that I love (via yousendit). I think of it as a Christmas song, though I'm not sure there's any real justification for that association... :-)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It's beautiful, and, yes, it's traditionally a Christmas song.

[norah.livejournal.com]

True colors, shining through (http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1K7B0W5Q50YSM2095AQADMKY3Q)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Thanks!!

[fleurrochard]

Hm, the Tobler bars should be Swiss, but I only know Toblerone - do you mean that?

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, that's the one. Wonder where I got Tobler from?

I know the dark chocolate ones are available somewhere in the U.S., but not here in mooville.

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

Hey, something I can do!

Cheeseburger In Paradise (http://s26.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1DCVEE40M7UA82XSMC5EF451R6)

Volcano (http://s26.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2OP5UXFTAG6S83IQEK2LWWF32Z)

Fins (http://s26.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2HG1BQV1IQPDS11LCSIOIWL6AY)

Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen) (http://s26.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0VM2FD25XOEW41D246W3VHTZSJ) (though I don't recommend it)

And if you like hard rock and are not already well-stocked with Hugh Dillon's music, I just recently refreshed my YSI pimping link for the Headstones and the HDRC (http://s8.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3IABGJPKMBU3634V4K5CR3BQP9). There are two or three tracks from each CD, plus one from HCL.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Thanks!

Hm, Leonard's version is kind of awful, isn't it? It has more lyrics, which is what I was hoping for, but they don't clarify things much for me. Oh, well, at least I can say I've heard it.

Wonder where the "Maybe there's a God above" verse comes from, if not from his recorded version?

[everythingisaid.livejournal.com]

Van Morrison, "Moondance" (http://s65.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=38LWKDNQSM3S421XVGJZWK49VW)
Cyndi Lauper, "True Colors" (http://s65.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=39VB95KMBLRQN2M8QJVI0W20I4)

:).

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Terrific! Thanks so much.

[cyprinella]

I've got a bunch of MP3 zipfiles linked on this post.

[birdsflying]

Cohen's Hallejulah.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I do wish somebody would remix a bunch of Cohen and take out all the excesses of production.

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

Do you usually get your wishes?

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

In fact I usually do get my wishes. I try to use my power only for good. Otherwise there'd be a lot more actual gay kissing on TV.

Thanks!

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

I have paperback books for you, if you email me your address. isis @ arithmancy.net.

And if you get a line on #10, give me some too, ok?

[jeez-louise.livejournal.com]

Hey, I know you don't know me, but... I do have those Left Banke songs but only in m4a format. If you want them I can you send it right up later tonight.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I can play m4a files! Thanks a bunch.

[skuf.livejournal.com]

1. Will send Danish candy for fic!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Ooh. I don't think I've ever had Danish candy. Want to e-mail me so I can send you my address? And to tell me what kind of fic you want?

[akaspeedo.livejournal.com]

They have Dare maple Leaf cookies in my supermarket. I'm addicted. But I'm on Long Island, not in Canada. yet.

[akaspeedo.livejournal.com]

What I mean is, will you take them from the US if they're in stock?

;)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I'm not prejudiced!

[umbo.livejournal.com]

I was going to ask if anyone knows how to un-copy-protect something uploaded to iTunes, because that's where I have Moondance, but happily someone else already had it :-)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

For reference, if you burn them to a CD, and then copy the actual file over from the CD -- like, literally drag it from the CD to the desktop, rather than opening it in iTunes -- then the file should come across without copy protection. Unfortunately, it will also come across without any of the information -- it may have title and artist, but it won't have album, date, notes, etc. -- so you'll have to write all that stuff down beforehand.

[ukcalico.livejournal.com]

10. ... um, for someone to restore my enthusiasm for Snapefic, so that I can finish some of these damned unfinished stories?

Do you mean writing his pov, or writing someone else interacting with him? I'm playing with the damned Draco/Snape foresty thing again, and as it's all Draco's pov I've been coming up with 5040923 ways to look at Snape sideways and go weak at the knees. I shan't bore you with them all, but three great things about writing Snape:

1. The voice, obviously. His mode of speech, described by JKR herself as "silky" and "lazy" one minute and sneering the next (HBP:29), is such fun to play with. He whispers threats (CoS:141), and backs Draco up in "his most dangerous voice" (PoA:95). He listens to others' impassioned statements and responds "in a bored voice" (HBP:32), or "in a voice of deadly calm" (PoA:128), or with "his voice delicately inflected to suggest his disbelief" (HBP:34). JKR *loves* his voice, she *indulges* it, and I do too.

I suppose I grew up on Avon from B7, but I find that I particularly enjoy putting words into a dispassionate, arrogant man's mouth, knowing he has the poise and reputation that the reader will *feel* them...

2. The way he moves. Stalking the corridors; *bending down and whispering something in Draco's ear* (CoS:145). Walking swiftly, "his black robes swishing" (PoA:208). He sits alone in the staffroom to be discovered by Lupin: "His eyes were glittering and there was a nasty sneer playing around his mouth" (PoA:100). Not to mention pushing Harry roughly aside to get to the wounded Draco (HBP:489 *swoon*). JKR gives Snape all the best exits and entrances, and spotlights him every time he's on-scene.

3. The way his mind works. Better to skulk than shout. Never let your guard down. Always better to creep up behind them than let them know you're coming - "Or maybe," said a very cold voice right behind them, "he's waiting to hear why you two didn't arrive on the school train." (CoS: 62 - not to mention his splendidly obsessive tendencies (eg. noticing two missing out of the hundreds of pupils just arrived). And yet he's volatile, so easy to poke - one minute quiet confidence, the next, roaring anger. He sulks. He schemes. He has a modicum of integrity: he's sly and deliberate and extremely manipulative, but sycophantic? no.

If none of that convinced you: didn't you see his cuffs? Okay, it's movieverse, but still. *spellbound*

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's really impressive. Seriously, you ought to post that. There are others who share my plight.

And maybe someone has screen caps of the cuffs. Just for, you know, inspirational purposes.

[pendrecarc.livejournal.com]

*waves* I've been hanging about your journal over the past few weeks, and I like your taste in music.

Do you have the Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Club version of Tam Lin? It's traditional but unorthodox (if that makes any sense)--reels gradually building in the background with a single male voice speaking the lyrics in a lovely accent. I'd be glad to send it along, if you're interested.

And just out of curiosity, can you recommend a good version of "Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light"? It's one of my favorite Christmas Hymns, but not one I see often.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

You know, I could swear I had a copy of that hymn, but I can't find it in iTunes. It's possible that it's not in English and therefore doesn't turn up when I search on "break forth."

I'd love to have a copy of the Scottish Fiddle Club version of Tam Lin, though! Thanks.

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

Afterthought... I've been preparing for a big Canadian rock and roll pimping post, so if that appeals to you:

The Tragically Hip (http://s26.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0NQSFF81A5L750VK799XDK75PZ) (16 tracks)

Big Sugar (http://s26.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3VTYLQ57MC4P41UUK1PT3C2YQR) (11 tracks)

[veronamay.livejournal.com]

Can send Tim Tams and dark Toblerones at the drop of a hat. I've emailed you. :)

[tryfanstone.livejournal.com]

I'm going to rec Frankie Armstrong's version of Tam Lin from the album I Heard A Woman Singing. The album itself is one of the most frightning pieces of music I've ever heard, and whilst the track Mr Fox is outstanding, her Tam Lin is excellent. Simple and haunting. I only have it on tape or I'd upload the mp3, but there seems to be a link here (http://www.mp3.com/albums/79987/summary.html) - and maybe someone else might have it?

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I have "Mr. Fox" -- it's on Amazon's free download list -- and it's amazing. I've been watching for the CD, but when they come up on eBay they tend to go for a lot more than I'm willing to pay!

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

And finally (no, really), because I never miss the chance to pimp GBS to anyone who doesn't run away screaming:

Great Big Sea (http://s26.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=12B966PM0YJHQ1U9ICTTXI80RN) (26 tracks)

Okay, I'll stop spamming you now. Promise.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Excellent! I've managed to grab all three collections, and am really looking forward to making my way through them! Thanks so much.

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

The Maureen O'Brien version of Tam Lin is on its way to you via yousendit. Let me know if you don't get it.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Thanks! That's just exactly what I wanted -- catchy tune, nice simple arrangement, all the verses are there. Beautiful.

[misspamela.livejournal.com]

I just sent you "Minstrel Boy," by Enter the Haggis. I think you might like it!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I really like that. I'm not familiar with the band, but I love their style. Thanks!

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

Candy is easily doable, and paperbacks are quite possible. Although I'm not sending anything until after Christmas, when I'll have more money.

Any candy requests other than Tim Tams? I'm sure there's a limited range of Australian sweets that don't include mint or coconut in some way. Probably.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Hm. kaneko sent me an Australian surprise box once -- she's the one to blame for my Tim Tams addiction -- but the only other thing in there I remember by name was a Cadbury Flake bar, and they don't seem to travel very well.

No problem on the waiting till after Christmas -- in fact, if you'd rather wait till the weather's a little cooler there, you can do that, too.

Care for any American chocolate in return? I understand you don't get Butterfinger bars there ...