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[bedlamsbard]

Happy Fourth of July! (To all the Americans on my rcircle/flist; to everyone else, happy July fourth, random Sunday!)

It is so windy here that the top of the chimney actually blew off, which I didn't see despite the fact that the chimney is right outside my window, but I heard it. So, the traditional barbecue is obviously off. So is the traditional viewing of Independence Day (because what's more American than defeating aliens?), because as last night's experiments proved, it is impossible to watch VHS on the new TV without getting a headache, and we don't own Independence Day on DVD, which we clearly must get on. I am fairly depressed about this, because it is traditional. (Uh, for my family, anyway.)

I am torn between working on Dust 21 (and trying to decide if I can actually keep the POV I have it in currently, or if I need to switch it, which I don't want to do, but I have to figure out if the chapter will work best in the Edmund POV or if I should go to Lucy or Eustace. I would go to Eustace -- suddenly, and I have no idea how, he became a Preferred POV -- but I don't like reusing the same POV so soon afterwards) and knitting. Sadly, I cannot do both at once.

In vaguely related news, I have had Long Long Journey (lyrics) stuck in my head for the past few days; I have also worked out that it is the last song on the Dust part one soundtrack. Now if only I knew the rest of the soundtrack.

Comments

[juniperphoenix]

Watching Independence Day is a July 4th tradition for me, too. :)

[bedlamsbard]

It is the only appropriate July 4th movie! I have no idea what we're going to watch tonight. *sad*

[sporky_rat]

We do Zombie Movies at Easter. 4 July is usually a day for sleeping off whatever we eat. Christmas is Indiana Jones, Thanksgiving is Star Wars and Halloween is usually The Princess Bride.

[lady_songsmith]

Thanks, now I have that stuck in my head too. *wanders off humming*

[darklyndsea]

Normally I feel kind of meh about the Fourth of July, but calling it meat and explosions day makes it so much more interesting.

[bedlamsbard]

Zombie movies at Easter. *dies* I really need to get Hocus Pocus on DVD, because that is my traditional Halloween movie and I haven't seen it in two years because I've been at university.

[bedlamsbard]

Dude, I have been humming that and Walking in the Air (warning: really abrupt sound at the beginning of the video) for two or three days now.

[bedlamsbard]

Heh. I wonder if we're going to have fireworks this year? (See above re: wind.) The last time I saw fireworks was...the day the Saints won the Super Bowl. Yes, someone in New Orleans was setting off fireworks within five minutes of the end of the game.

[darklyndsea]

Some of the towns in my area set theirs off yesterday, so I got a fireworks show while going to the gym...or at least for a few seconds until I had to make the U-turn. I haven't heard any (illegal in this town) personal fireworks, though. Possibly because I was sleeping.

this is sporky, I promise

[thesmallrat]

Zombie Movies at Easter were totally approved my local parish priest, who suggested some really killer ones.

Such great fun to freak out my mom at Easter when I pull out the original Dawn of the Dead.

[snacky]

I am so damned traditional. My Fourth of July is always 1776.

[bedlamsbard]

I have actually never seen that!