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Every once in a while, I go and read Joe Mallozzi's blog. I started because I adore SGA and he used to do rundown of the episodes and give us little insights to the show.

Some people don't really like him because he's a pretty snarky individual who doesn't pull punches. If you're an annoying twat, he'll tell it to you as he systematically destroys your argument in his mailbag.

And things haven't quite gotten better with the SGA cancellation. I get it, he's a visual figure of the Stargate writing staff and he actually interacts with fans. Online. Daily. Who does that? Most people say they don't even go online to read what fans say about their show.

I don't really hate him and I don't always agree with him but today I read something in one of his past posts that made me think.

( Random, sorta convoluted paranoid thoughts about the nature of Mallozzi and Flanigan's relationship )

Anyway, in completely unrelated matters, it's really cold here! And I'm still trying to write/finish my Ginny/Harry scene. I don't know why I'm resolve their tension since it was supposed to be a source of conflict for Harry but somehow, my muse had lead me that way. Me, I'm thinking either Harry has co-opted her to have a much less complicated love life or that Draco did it so he would have no competition for Harry's affections. Either way, it's happening but I'm trying to delude myself into thinking Ginny's just biding her time and lulling Harry into a false sense of security before she pounces on Harry again.

And I've realized that as much as I adore FictionJunction Yuuka, there's really only one song of hers that I really want to be listening to, Dare mo inai basho (translated loosely by me as "The place where no one is"). It's just so beautiful! The piano! The violin! The sweeping instrumentals! I can't stop listening to it.

And the lyrics! My god, sooo good. My first urge to translate lyrics in a very long time.

( My first Japanese song translation! )

It's probably not the most elegant translation (or probably the most accurate ><) but I tried my best. And it took me 40 minutes... T_T I'm so bad at Japanese... :(

But what a sad song! It's like telling the story of how love was lost through inaction and indifference until it was too late to change things... Somehow, I feel like people drift apart like this a bit too often... *sigh*

My favorite parts are the second part and the last because I love the image of this person who tries not so hard not to hear the truth ends up still having to bethere and having to acknowledge it despite her denial. And the last because the image of an empty ocean with loud waves is just so beautifully heartbreaking. What can I say? I go for corny things like that. *shrugs*

And I've probably procrastinated enough... :\ Okay, maybe I'll get a little writing in now... Hopefully...

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I've been writing a lot of entries lately... I don't know what's with me actually since I don't generally write anything at all. :\ Well, at least not several posts daily and not for a while now.

Anyway, I renewed my domain for another year today. I was going to let it lapse but in the end, I couldn't do it even though I don't use it for anything at all... *sigh* But even though the price went up from last year (over $10, what a rip off!), I ended up finding a nice little GoDaddy coupon online that dropped to a price that was even cheaper than what I paid last year. Sure, it was only by three cents but it's still cheaper in my book so I'm oddly content.

And that means I continue to do things like share songs like this one:

Greg Laswell - This Woman's Work

You might know it from the Kate Bush (whom I've never heard of before today) version that had been used in that 80s movie She's Having a Baby (which I never saw since I was like three at the time it came out and now that I've read what it's about, never, ever want to watch) and various other TV shows (none of which I remember this song being featured despite having watched several of them before) or the Maxwell version that was released back when I was a freshman in high school and was recently used in So You Think You Can Dance (which I also don't watch because dancing reality shows bore me).

Anyway, this is the new cover done by Greg Laswell and was used in last week's episode of Three Rivers. It was quite sad actually... And personally I would have liked it if they had decided they were going to work through their differences (stupid doctors who think they're god/rock stars and neglect wives but still want to have babies with them that they'll probably neglect anyway -- go her for not trying to have a baby to save their marriage because it would suck for the kid) but then he wouldn't be able to get with the ER doctor chick. *rolls eyes*

But this song was pretty amazing. And heart-breaking. I went back and listened to the two earlier versions and I definitely like this version better. It feels more real and I guess less prettier than the other two? Which is odd, I know but I think it just works better. And I've been using it to do my hopefully sad Harry/Ginny break-up scene. It's so odd, but I feel like all my best scenes are when those two are together... That's probably bad since it's a Harry/Draco story. But I want so badly not to fall into that trap of demonizing Ginny because I don't hate her, I just find her inconvenient. It's like how I found Sam inconvenient in Stargate but it always pissed me off how badly she was written by some SGA authors who made her evil. That's not Sam at all! If they had seen any SG-1 and had not resented her presence in SGA, they would have seen that. And I didn't want the same thing to happen to Ginny in my fic.

Hopefully I won't fall into the cliche of the other extreme where Ginny becomes super buddy-buddy with Draco and is the ultimate supporter of their relationship. That almost makes me gag just as much. Ultimately, both extremes is just too convenient... But I suppose I could say breaking Harry/Ginny before Harry/Draco could start is convenient as well... Gah, I feel like I'll have to tread carefully. It's been so long since I last written anything that I wonder if I ever thought this much about my past stories... :\