10fluential books, L word

My week: I've been making a Carmen Miranda costume for Kicky. Red sequin fishtail skirt with ruffles. Little bitty top. Giant headdress. It's going to be fucking fantastic. Unfortunately, thanks to Jesus, I couldn't go to the fabric store today. He's sure as hell not my savior.

I owe everyone everything, but it's not happening tonight, I don't suppose. Instead, memeage:

Well, I thought about how to approach this, and I really couldn't decide. There are way more than 10 books that have been influential in some way. Not all of them are "good" books, by any means. I think I've done one of these before, and I was more scattershot about it; these are the more or less chronological early ones that I can think of that truly made a difference in me, what I thought, how I felt, how I thought the world worked. For better or worse.

( 10fluential )

So, no Little Women here (that book has always seemed so gay to me, fwiw), no Judy Blume books, no Paul Zindel, no Zorah Keatley Snyder. But they could have been on the list if I wrote it up a different day. The teen books would include Orwell's 1984, the lurid Christiane F., and Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged--and no, I've never been an Objectivist for even a moment. Rather, I did enjoy how all the "good" characters smoked and need to be faux-raped/pseudo-tamed by an "equal," and the notion that architectural critique could inflame the passions of the nation and serve as a means to social and moral change. Heh.

( The L Word )

overstimulated / remember when / shiny!

I needed caffeine, but now I've had too much. There's this little muscle above the outside corner of my left eye that's just going berserk, I feel vaguely nauseated, and I want to cry and tell someone (i.e., someone other than me) that the way I am feeling right now is all their fault. But that's not actually true, I don't suppose.

If I'm going to carry through with my plans to burn out rather than fade away, I suppose I ought to post some fic soon. Does anyone remember when I used to write stories?

This costume-making gig is shiny in both the literal and Firefly senses of the term. There are sequins everywhere.