It's time to play Good Thing, Bad Thing!

[devi]

We used to do this on the Fibbers mailing list when I was in college.

Good thing: Thank you, whoever sent the virtual flower on my infopage.

Bad thing: I just discovered Death Cab For Cutie, who I love to tiny bits, are playing the Zodiac! Right here! In Oxford! The weekend after next! But I am in sodding Ireland then. Arse, arse, arse, feck. Feck. *kicks things*

Good Things and Bad Things, anyone?

Comments

[geeveecatullus.livejournal.com]

Oh, damn that, missing concerts sucks.
My friend recorded two videos at their show in Munich (actually I held the camera, but it's hers)
they are on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfIc2faC6PA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32HhSR0Y_cU

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Good thing - cjwatson
Bad thing - I'm ill.

[absinthecity.livejournal.com]

What a nightmare! That's exactly the sort of thing I fear they're going to say...

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Wow. My God, I love the internet.

[zenithed.livejournal.com]

Are they? I thought they were some emo/punk thing. I'll have to investigate.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Oh, I suppose they're kind of emo/punk *as well*.

[iresprite.livejournal.com]

Good Thing: I just got my paycheck!
Bad Thing: I'm still $40,000 in student loan debt.

[triskellian]

:-P

Meet you there at seven, then?

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Okay... I've been hunched over the computer all day, I need the exercise!

(Have just written several thousand words about China, maybe using my body too will help balance that effort out.)

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Oy vey!

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Good Thing: Only 20 minutes until banoffee pancakes !
Bad Thing: My cat has to go back to the vet due to chewing holes in her own bum. Again.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Poor cat. But how are you feeling?

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I can hardly ask you to throw your knickers at Ben for me, can I?

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

About 90% better now, thanks. Certainly well enough for pancakes !

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

Good Thing:



Bad Thing:

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Aaargh! (It's the spider baby!)

I can't see the top one, but my guess is it's the Addams Family's Thing?

[liriselei.livejournal.com]

• Good thing: Seeing beautiful people this evening.
  
• Bad thing: nickeyb revealing the existence of Feyd-Rautha / Piter De Vries / Beast Rabban slashfic to people yesterday evening <shudder>

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Good Thing: My head is full of ideas for Stuff.

Bad Thing: inannajones is not here, and therefore I am roaming the house, not yet able to sit down and write.

I'll adjust in a couple of days, but the first few are always strange. Are you going to be here for P-Con?

[kauket.livejournal.com]

God, it was snowing...
Ok I'm sitting here in my dressing gown, having not got dressed today, and so I've not opened the curtains. I'm missing weather!

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

I take that Bad Thing back: lawyer turns out to be something of a foxy babe. Bad Thing now: she's married!

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Tell me when P-Con is and I might be able to answer that. :)

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Eeeeek, my brain hurts now. Though beautiful people are always good.

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

P-Con is the weekend of the 11th.

http://www.slovobooks.com/phoenix/

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

Well, Ben Grimm from the Fantastic Four, but you were thinking along the right lines :)

[cartographer.livejournal.com]

A sort of a nice one:

Bad thing: I dropped my sax. I forgot to close the zip on the case and it slithered out of my taxi onto the road. It doesn't -look- damaged, but when you look closely, a couple of the pads are bent out of shape. No more Cs or Ds for me until it's repaired. This means a visit to an overly loquacious woodwind-shop guy, lots of waiting and, Pete reckons, about 100 quid. Pete's my teacher.

Good thing: Pete pointed out the damage and explained that it could cost a lot more to repair it, and I (shyly) asked whether it would make sense to buy a new one. I'm playing a student model, you see, and I'd hate him to think I thought I was more competant than I actually am. He was very encouraging, recommended his favourite dealers, offered to ship it home for me once I'd done some browsing, was generally pro- the idea. And this bolstered my confidence enough to mention that I'd always wanted to try out a tenor sax. The tenors are bigger and sexier and I'm a little bit intimidated by their coolness. And, awesome guy that he is, he insisted I borrow his beautiful, tarnished, genuine unlaquered brass one for the week. So now I have a tenor sax sitting on my bed, waiting for it not to be too late in the evening to play. I tried it out in the school and it's just gorgeous -- really deep and mellow and incredibly loud. I'm somewhat in raptures over it.

So that's my bad thing/good thing story. The good thing wins.