a csi:ny question

[bedlamsbard]

So do we have a rough estimate on how old Danny is? Early thirties-ish, somewhere 'round there? And do we know when he joined the NYPD and the crime lab?

Because if we don't, I can totally, like, make it all up. Which, okay, AU anyway, but it'd be nice to have a couple guidelines, so he doesn't end up being anymore super Danny than he already is.

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[limmenel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw your post about the B&tB re-write :D. I am highly entertained.

I never really knew any of the band kids when I was in high school... like, I knew some of them through other people, but only the marching band kids, not the orchestra kids at all, so my mental image of them is the super-smart, really geeky stereotype, which I think is why it's difficult for me to apply Flack in that setting. Doesn't mean I don't want to read it, though!

Sweet, SGA fic. I'm tempted to print this off to read during my Shakespeare class today.

What about Tanglewood, then?

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I hate writing romance, though, so this should be a good experience. Hurrah for rewriting fairy tales!

See, I know all the band kids. All the band kids. And a lot of the orchestra kids (my school doesn't have an orchestra program, but we do have a strings program run through CWU, and I'm a part of the youth orchestra, which is as good or better than any high school orchestra). And a lot of the choir kids. Music types come in all shapes and sizes. (I also know a couple of music majors up at the college, from orchestra or private lessons or camp.)

String Theory always makes me want to go practice. A lot. IT IS THAT GOOD.

*purses lips* Probably happened, although to a lesser degree. Or a stronger one, maybe that was why Danny wanted to get the hell out of dodge in the first place.

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

I like music. I like listening to it. But I couldn't tell you anything about notes or tone or whatever TO SAVE MY LIFE. I had to learn music for a class once... I think I got a 26% on the test. Seriously, I just can't connect to it outside of my iPod. But I read fics like String Theory, where music plays a central or main part, and really enjoy them!

I can see Tanglewood as being the thing that drove Danny into the AF, but could that past still come back to haunt him?

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I've got thirteen years of musical experience, three band classes, three sets of private lessons for three different instruments, orchestra, and pep/marching band, so...yeah. Music? Basically has taken over my life. I'm happier if I don't think about how much musical stuff I do.

Yes. Definitely. He'd probably deal with it better, though. Although now I'm thinking, in the first Tanglewood ep, when Mac goes off on the tangent about joining the USMC to be a part of something, what Danny's reply to that would be. "Yeah, I know how that is," or...what? Because I don't think his reasons for joing the USAF are the same as Mac's.

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

I don't even own a radio... o.O. I have my little iPod shuffle and whatever I download offline in the way of Rock or Pop, and that's my musical limit. I can listen to classical music on occassion, but only a select few pieces really get to me.

Maybe his reason for joining is something a lot more simple? He was part of Tanglewood, he wanted out, and knew his family wouldn't support him through university... so he did the whole see-the-world/pay-for-college thing, and found he really enjoyed being a part of a team like that, and the freedom of flying?

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Amazing Grace always makes me cry. *nods firmly* I own a lot of movie soundtracks, and then I practically grew up on classical, although I really prefer more contemporary, like Aaron Copland, and then, like, exotica (Middle-Eastern music, the like). I listen to a lot of pop and country, too (yes. I am a country fan). And some jazz -- I don't really like listening to it so much, but I like playing it.

I'm thinking it's something like that, although if he did that, then he probably didn't go to the Academy, or he went AFROTC. The Internet? Is so not helping me with the information on training thing.

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

Despite being from Texas, I really dislike country on the whole. But, like, I can totally listen to Tchaikovsky for HOURS. Good stuff.

Has Wikipedia failed you? I've found that ANYTHING can be found on Wiki...

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

But...COUNTRY! Okay, so I come from a town where "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy" is taken literally, but still...yeah, I'll be quiet now.

Tchaikovsky's okay. Classical really doesn't do all that much for me, I'll take the neo-classical, contemporary stuff, or the movie soundtracks, anyday.

I just really haven't been looking too hard. *sneaky eyes*

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

My sister is the hick in our family, not me. I know about three country songs, and none of them involve tractors. One of them is "Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy", though, so that probably counts as double.

Movie OSTs I can totally do. Mmh, good stuff in those. I have about a dozen, because I do homework to them and listen to them while driving.

Wikipedia is GODS GIFT TO MANKIND.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Ha, I know that one. They play it at, like, every school dance. We should replace the fight song with it.

I need to get around to spending money on them and get the Mummy and the Mummy Returns soundtracks, and Pirates 2. *sigh*

I KNOW.

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

Man, I'd actually have gone to my school's football games if that'd been our fight song. Actually, I never DID go to a school game, so maybe it WAS our song, and I just didn't know it. Ah, four years of ignorant bliss.

I usually download them, or copy my friend's CDs. I'm so illegal like that... o.O

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I have been to all my school's home football games over the past three years. Free! Yay, being in the band. I'm the one playing the damn fight song (ours is "On Ye Bulldogs", a.k.a. "On Wisconsin", like, oh, every other high school out there. And the University of Wisconsin-Madison).

I frequent fanmix, so I got you there on the illegal thing. Oh well!

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

I was supposed to go to this one highschool on the east side of Dallas... and a month before ninth grade, my parents moved, and I had to go to a totally new school on the complete opposite west side of the city, so I hated all four years of my high school because of that. Our fightsong was... oh. I haven't a clue. Something about Hawks, probably?

Without music downloads, I'd never listen to ANY music ever, because without a radio, I never know any of the new stuff otherwise.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Oh, that sucks. I like my high school. It's -- high school. You know. *waves* The kind of school that makes me watch the early seasons of Buffy and Smallville and go, "Dude, writers, have you ever actually been in a small town high school? It doesn't work that way!"

I have a radio, but people on the internet have much better taste. *nods firmly*

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

I had a radio when I had a car. It was awesome. Now, I have no car, but it doesn't matter because Canadian radio stations play more country than Texas ones do, from what I've heard.

My highschool was like something RIGHT out of that TV show, Friday Night Lights (which, hey, come to think of it, was quite possibly based off my high school. Huh.) It was very stereotypical, except for the fact that a lot of really rich kids went there, like the kids of famous basketball players, so they were all snotty, too.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I go to high school in a college town, a college town which is also out in the middle of farm/rodeo country (I'm not kidding here), so you have two clear types of kids: you have the hicks, the ones who are in 4-H and FFA, and then you have the kids whose parents teach at the college. Then you have the kids whose parents teach at the college, live out in the country, and have a couple of cows and a flock of chickens. I was the latter type (we had goats for a while. No more). We're a bit like Sunnydale High except for, well, the fact that rodeo queen is a lot more important than homecoming queen (not kidding here!) and no gate to hell in the library. (although that would make school much more interesting)

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

and no gate to hell in the library. (although that would make school much more interesting)

How disappointing... mine didn't have one either, alas.

Okay, yeah, your school? SO MUCH MORE HICK THAN MINE.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

But the high school in my original does! Sort of.

That's because my school ROCKS. Seriously, the reason they can't make the school year start any earlier is because the county fair is over Labor Day weekend, and, like, at least half the students in the school district are involved with the fair somehow. Fair is a major deal here: the band and the cheerleades are in the Rodeo Parade, 4-H and FFA show their animals, people get jobs selling rodeo posters and stuff on the fairgrounds, and it's just...county fair. Ya know?

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

Hey, my school gave us a long weekend so we could go to the Texas State Fair, so I TOTALLY know what you mean. (they gave us free tickets, too, yeehaw!)

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

If the band won the rodeo parade, we could totally get into Fair free (and we had to play the national anthem at the Rodeo, too, but that part's not so much fun). School usually starts the Wednesday after Labor Day; everyone comes in summer-tanned and lazy, with Fair ink on their hands and ride and exhibitor bracelets on their wrists, gloating over the cows and pigs and goats they sold for lots and lots of cash (seriously, you can make good money. I did dog 4-H; you can't sell dogs).

...I want it to be summer. I miss marching band. And I only have one year left!

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

Just thinking about selling cows and horses and whatever makes me SO GLAD that I'm a city girl. I've never even seen a goat, outside of TV. Saw a llama once, though, and I've seen cows while driving, but that's about it. I don't even like the outdoors, so animals? Yeah, I'll just stay indoors with my cat ;).

I want it to be summer, too, just because it means omg NO MORE -14 WINDCHILLS *shivers*

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

They don't sell horses! You can't eat horses! (Which is totally what they're selling the cows and the pigs for -- seriously, good money. That's where people get their college fund from, ten years of selling animals at Fair.)

But...but...country! Animals! Let's not even get into the porcupines in the mud room (and the ROAD ohmygod my mom ran over one once) and the deer in the backyard and the COWS in the backyard (stupid neighbors) and the sheep/goats/cows/horses/deer/dogs in the road and the skunks, Christ, skunks and mice and owls and hawks and birds of all types and coyotes down by the river...

Sometime when 1 degree F isn't warm. *sigh*

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

Does that mean they eat GOATS? Because, ew.

Okay, that nice long list of animals and stinky wild things? IS EXACTLY why I don't want to live anywhere with a population under 500,000. I did my first year of university in a town (a TOWN, I say, because wow, so not a city) in Iowa where the population (not counting the uni itself) was only 30,000 people, and it was like living in the boonies.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

*frowns* I don't know if they eat the goats. I think they sell the goats, but I don't remember. I KNOW they sell the cows and the pigs for food -- because, wow, yum.

My town is about 15,000 WITH the college students, about 9,000 without. We have much smaller towns in the valley. Like Easton. Or Cle Elum and Roslyn; they have to share a high school even though they're technically two towns. It's why I always go off into gales of laughter whenever I watch Smallville or Buffy and they talk about how small the town is, because Smallville and Sunnydale are, like, twice to three times the size of the Burg and Ellensburg doesn't function like that small of a town AT ALL.

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

I love me some pig and some cow. Except for the part where my family is Jewish. And the part where I didn't eat beef for four years. But other than that. (how did i survive 12 years of my life in texas?!)

Ngh. Ottawa, where I live now, is 800,000 people. And it's a small city to me. NYC, where I want to go for Grad School, is 8,000,000, which is MUCH BETTER, in my opinion.