I Suddenly Remembered My Charlemagne

I have watched this video a lot today. Like, a LOT a lot. And laughed hysterically every time.



Happy Dance Vids, FTW!

The new Imagine Dragons album came out today. I put off buying the singles as they became available, because I wanted to listen to the whole album together (this failed, obviously, thanks to my BFF Youtube Repeat, which allowed me to listen to I BET MY LIFE almost 400 times), but I picked it up this morning after Twitter reminded me it was a thing.

I've listened through once, and my first impressions are that it is a solid album, but less "catchy" than the first one. It's also a bit quieter, I think, but I was working while I was listening, so it's possible I missed things. Aside from I Bet My Life, though, there's nothing dance-y, they way the first album had music you could dig into. It's all flying this time around.

THAT SAID, they did manage to write two songs that are SHATTERINGLY PERFECT for PRAIRIE FIRE. The aforementioned I Bet My Life, and also Warriors, which is the last song on the whole thing.

I'll calm down and listen to the whole album a few more times. Hopefully I find something to sink my teeth into.

This is so far up my alley that it found the muggers lurking there and beat them up and left them webbed to the wall for the cops to pick up later with a note signed “Your friendly neighborhood Jazz Cover”

...

That metaphor got away from me a little.



This is my everything.

(I don't often miss high school, but high school was the most musical time of my whole life, and GOOD LORDE, I miss that.)

I haven't made it to FROZEN yet, but, man:



*swoons*

Royals is probably my favourite song right now, That Inevitable Victorian Thing or no, and so I'm a bit leery of covers? And WotE is usually good, but I wondered what they'd do. The vocals aren't quite what I like (though they are very, very WotE), but the choreography is AMAZING, and reminds me why I started watching their videos in the first place.

In case there is ANYONE on the planet who hasn't seen this yet, Mumford & Sons has released the official video for HOPELESS WANDERER and it is, well, it's epic:



Don't, like, drink anything while you're watching.

brb, dying FOREVER. (Seriously. Watch it on HD.)

Also, I don't remember if I mentioned this here, but I think a Thorin/Bilbo vid to this song would be HILARIOUS:



Except maybe the original, though I really do like this version a lot.

RunRabbitRun has written more Babies of the House of Durin fic. I need all the hugs: Midwifery.

Also, I need more Babies of the House of Durin fic.

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I think I'm going to type up some of the essays I wrote TEN YEARS AGO when I was freaking out about The Two Towers. They'll be awful, but there's one in particular that explains me as a fan and...well, it's still true.

It is entirely possible that I am going to listen to this on repeat until my roommates kill me.



P!nk. Fun.. Seriously.

This is why it's very very dangerous to fall asleep on school trips.



So much love!

Apparently, when Erin Bow saw her in concert, she came through the side door and sang this walking through the crowd. I think I might have passed out, had I been there.