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!

[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*.

[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... :-)

[norah.livejournal.com]

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

[fleurrochard]

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

[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.

[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)

:).

[cyprinella]

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

[birdsflying]

Cohen's Hallejulah.

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

Do you usually get your wishes?

[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.

[theamusedone.livejournal.com]

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

Let me know if you have any issues with it!

[skuf.livejournal.com]

1. Will send Danish candy for fic!

[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?

;)

[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]

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

Thanks, though!

[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]

Thanks! I'll download it on my usual Saturday broadband time!

[cereta.livejournal.com]

Okay, that so should be a standard mp3. Grrr. Lemme mess with it.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I can play m4a files! Thanks a bunch.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I'm not prejudiced!

[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.

[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.