Musicy spam

My randomized playlist is a strange thing. The last three songs were Sabbath Prayer from Fiddler on the Roof (*), then a Ramones cover of Needles and Pins, then the theme from Dawson's Creek. And now it's Nine Inch Nails.

(* Geeky confession of the moment: I'm a big musicals fan all round - I have Les Mis in the original French, for crying out loud - but I love Fiddler on the Roof. My brother played Tevye in his high school production when he 16. I was ten, and because I was reading the lines with him I ended up learning it by heart. Still know most of it too. Also watched the movie a million times that year, and fell insanely in love with Perchik - it took me another 7 or 8 years to realize he was friggin' Starsky.)

Gratuitous poetry post

My layout's still very basic, but now has poetry running down the right hand side.

But since I could only squash so much onto the page, some other stuff I like will have to go here, so I can put it in my memories. (I really hope I lj-cut everything right; if not, it'll be fixed in a minute, and sorry for the huge space taken up on friendslist)

He Tells Her
by Wendy Cope
( He tells her that the Earth is flat )

Gifts
by Oodgeroo of the Tribe Noonuccal
( 'I will bring you love,' said the young lover, )

Burning Genius
by Brian Patten
( He fell in love with a lady violinist. )

Man in Space
by Billy Collins
( All you have to do is listen to the way a man sometimes talks to his wife )

Words, Wide Night
by Carol Ann Duffy
( Somewhere on the other side of this wide night  )

She Tells her Love
by Robert Graves
( She tells her love while half asleep )

Two Small Boys and an Elephant
by Fred Sedgwick
( That was hopeless love, when the brothers gazed at elephants at the zoo. )

The Once that Never Was
by Barbara Giles
( The Once that Never Was may be sooner than dreamed of. )

( it may not always be so )

- e.e.cummings

The Choosing
by Liz Lochhead
( We were first equal, Mary and I )

Birthday!

Happy birthday circe_tigana!

May the heathen gods give you a terrific day.

Fic question

A quite naive question from me, since I've never attended a wedding much less participated in one - where do you get bridesmaids' dresses? Are they custom made or bought off the rack? (I assume you can do both, so which is more common?) If they're custom made does the person have a shop, do they come to the house, what?

(This is for the backup Dawn/Xander fic, _green_, I promise I haven't forgotten *g*)

ETA: 763 words and Xander hasn't managed to make it into the fic yet. Dawn's just too demanding...

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David Boreanaz picture - no words. Well... two words and a sound. The hair! Eeek!

(ETA: to balance it out, a picture in which DB smiles goofily. Because I love the goofy smile.)

Happy new year, everybody!