Cons, climbs, & memery

ArmadilloCon was a blast. I met and hung out with fun people, ate overpriced hotel food, drank only a reasonable amount, and gave away several copies of TDC. (Due to a snafu with Ingram, the dealers' room had none, so my stash of author's copies came in very handy.) I moderated a panel and no one died, and two people sat through my reading.

This afternoon I fled the con early to go climb, and spent the day route-setting. The Partners In Climb and I (my two compatriots did most of the work) set a bouldering problem, and then I finished an easy 5.7 that someone started and abandoned two months ago. I got a bukkit and everything!

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And now, because I'm tired but not sleepy yet, a long guess-the-song meme. No googling, yadda yadda. Bonus points if you guess what they all have in common. I even skipped the German songs.

1. What you see is what you believe and I can see how you want it to be

2. The in-crowd say it's cool to dig this chanting thing "Rock the Casbah" - The Clash (desperance)

3. Conquer and divide, choose your favorite side, loving you is not good for me

4. Hey hey hey hey, now now now now. Hey hey hey hey, now now now now. "This Corrosion" - The Sisters of Mercy (mekkavandexter and cmpriest)

5. Disconnected but not alone, scream to the tune of the background noise "Entropy" - VNV Nation (b1bl10v0re)

6. And I forget how to move when my mouth is this dry, and my eyes are bursting hearts in a blood-stained sky "Homesick" - The Cure (b1bl10v0re)

7. You used to say, "live and let live," you know you did, you know you did, you know you did "Live and Let Die" - Guns N Roses (1/2 katallen, 1/2 greatalexanders)

8. At the end of days, at the end of time, when the sun burns out will any of this matter? "Further" - VNV Nation (b1bl10v0re)

9. All the school kids so sick of books, they like the punk and the metal band "Walk Like An Egyptian" - The Bangles (graygirl)

10. I've been waiting here, waiting for faith and the word to fall. "Dark" - Gary Numan (alecaustin)

11. You can't stop the pain of your children crying out in your head. They always said that the living would envy the dead. "One of the Living" - Tina Turner (katallen)

12. Laissez faire, mi amour, c'est la vie. Should I return to shore or swim back out to sea? "Everything Goes to Hell" - Tom Waits (curgoth)

13. Kneeling roses disappearing into Moses' dry mouth, breaking into Fort Knox stealing our intentions "BYOB" - System of a Down (whiskeychick

14. Arm yourself because no one else here will save you. The odds will betray you and I will replace you. "You Know My Name" - Chris Cornell (katallen)

15. Like Prometheus we are bound, chained to this rock of a brave new world, our godforsaken lot. "Black Sun" - Dead Can Dance (whiskeychick)

16. All we do crumbles to the ground though we refuse to see "Dust In the Wind", but not the Kansas version (1/2 to b1bl10v0re and nathreee)

17. And in the mirror, who is that looking back? And I'm scared of whoever this is livin' in my skin. "Damage I've Done" - The Heads (whiskeychick

18. With no provision but an open face along the straits of fear "Kashmir", but not Led Zeppelin (1/2 to b1bl10v0re)

19. Living a law just short of delusion, when we fall in love there's confusion "This Must Be The Place I've Waited Years To Leave" - Pet Shop Boys (desperance and whiskeychick)

20. And we’re happy here, but we live in fear, we’ve seen a lot of temples crumble "Dance Along The Edge" - Concrete Blonde (alecaustin)

21. Shakes your hand, takes your gun, walks you out of the sun "Destroy Everything You Touch" - Ladytron (curgoth)

22. I lived through too many aeons, I've risen up and I fell the fall, I have been there and I have done that - "Mercy" - KMFDM (b1bl10v0re)

23. When I have to die then I want to strangle myself in your black hair "A Hole In The Wall" - KMFDM (b1bl10v0re)

24. All those special memories. Now I bleed for you--burn for me. "Blood & Fire" - Type O Negative (curgoth)

25. I'm the dusk, I'm the frightening calm, I'm a hole in the pipeline*, I'm a road-side bomb

26. Every tower must be razed to the dust from which it came. None will be spared, no remnant saved. "Kingdom" - VNV Nation (lj user="b1bl10v0re">)

27. We drink elixirs that we refine from the juices of the dying

28. And that voice that was hers alone still resounds in me. She left me dislocated, disavowed, and twitching. "Tragedy (For You)" - Front 242 (mekkavandexter)

29. Here by my side, an angel. Here by my side, the devil. Never turn your back on me. "Weapon" - Matthew Good (atheilen and mekkavandexter)

30. When I close my eyes, when I look your way, when I meet the fear that lies inside "Dominion" - The Sisters of Mercy (I'm actually listening to "Dominion/Ozymandius", but I will accept any of the three versions.) (alecaustin, cmpriest, and cpolk)




*I hear this every time as "I'm a hole in the plotline".