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[tadorna]

First, lookee look at my icon from shanalle! How cool is she? How pointy!

Second, do you like art? If you like art, put up your hand. Now put it down again and go and join novanumbernine's new artalert community. Go on, do it. It's going to be fabulous. jcsynthetics, I'm looking at you here. And you, galactic_jack. Come on now, you know you want to.

Third:

Answers to the lyrics quiz

1. I read your manifestoes and your strange religious tracts. You took me to your library and kissed me in the stacks
Magnetic Fields - Swinging London

2. Capp Street is an underwater cave filled with crutches and canes
American Music Club - Over & Done

3. The smell of leaf-mould and the sweetness of decay are the incense in your funeral procession here today
Pulp - Trees

4. See this watch you gave me - well it still ticks away
Eels - The Medication Is Wearing Off

5. I'm not a hostess waiting to fuck you. I'm not a waiter - I wanna be served
Six by Seven - My Life is an Accident

6. Every tongue will wag if you want it. Every lung has a shadow on it
The Divine Comedy - Mastermind

7. Heard voices in dial tones. Last traces of her zones
The Paradise Motel - Derwent River Star

8. She puts the weights into my little heart, and she gets in my room and she takes it apart.
Interpol - Obstacle 1

9. Hand over hand up the lifeline, luckily the knots stay tight.
Morphine - Rope on Fire

10. Regret that you fell or be damned to hell, one more chance
The Real Tuesday Weld - One More Chance

Well, that's random for you.

Now for the Yuletide bastard. Anyone who sees me online, give me a slap.