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Writer's Block: It Sounds Better When You Say It

  • Jun. 6th, 2009 at 3:48 PM
by jexxilandia, garden state

No matter what language you speak, you've probably come across words or phrases in another language that sound better than their equivalents in your native tongue. What's your favorite word or phrase in a foreign language?


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Die Toten Hose. When I was in Germany last summer my friends and I were watching German music videos & there was die Toten Hose on tv. Yes, the dead pants. Best band name ever.

And pretty much anything in French sounds beautiful. =)

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Writer's Block: Long Nights, Short Poems

  • Dec. 21st, 2008 at 6:55 PM
by jexxilandia, garden state

It's the winter solstice in the Northern hemisphere, summer solstice in the Southern hemisphere, and Haiku Day in the U.S. Does that inspire you to write a three-line poem with five syllables in the first and last lines and seven in the middle line?


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Why yes, I'll think I'll write a lovely little (awful) haiku:

Ahem.

Shiver twig fingers
Branches scratch the window pane
Bring me warm coffee
  • Mood: nauseated

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Writer's Block: Full Moon Fever

  • Dec. 12th, 2008 at 9:38 PM
by jexxilandia, garden state
I'd never heard about the correlation between full moons and finding your love, but that sounds nice. Anyway, I take full moon lore seriously, because if you think about how the lunar phases affect the tides, and the fact that our bodies are mostly composed of water, it would seem that we'd be slightly affected, too. This might be some really poor evidence, but my mum used to work at a hospital, and she'd tell you that WEIRD ass things happen on full moon nights. It's not just something take supersticously and start creating their own fear and feeding off of it. How coincidental that elderly people, people that couldn't tell you their name let alone what phase of the moon it is, all seem to act strange on the same night? 

I love this stuff. =)

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Writer's Block: Physical Education

  • Dec. 2nd, 2008 at 5:46 PM
by jexxilandia, garden state

Call it gym, P.E., recess, or pure hell, most people have participated in a class at school that focused on games and athletics. What sport or game did you hate the most when you were a kid? What sport or game was your favorite?


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Being extremely non-confrontational, I pretty much disliked...all games in which there was a hint of one person "beating" another person. So...pretty much all games. Especially dodgeball...I don't know how it was decided that it's okay for kids to launch balls at each other during their various stages of pre/post pubescence, but really, it's not a good idea. I pretty stood around, occasionally tossed a ball at someone's feet and looked as inconspicous as possible. I think people generally felt bad if they tried to hit me, too, so there was occasionally that awkward time when you and two others are left and you have to do something stupid just so you can sit out with the rest of the kids. Interestingly enough, I never got too bad of grades in PE...hmm... Anyways, the games I DID like were running, and games like freeze-tag in elementary. Those were good times.

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Writer's Block: Personal Holidays

  • Oct. 8th, 2008 at 12:50 PM
by jexxilandia, garden state

These days, there's a holiday for everything from punctuation to pie. If you could create your own holiday, what would it be and how would you celebrate?


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I think everyone should celebrate inner child day. Everyone could wear comfy clothes, like onesy pajamas or mismatched pants and shirts. Playing tag in the park would be work & coloring could be your job. Peanut butter and banana sandwiches would be the best food around. You could make a tent in the living room & store your favorite toys and things inside. Watch Disney movies and drink kool-aid and have no worries. Wouldn't that be the best? It could be an inner child week...hey, I'm starting now. Today.

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Writer's Block: Smashed

  • May. 1st, 2008 at 6:56 PM
by jexxilandia, garden state

If you had a crowbar and could smash anything in your home or office, what would it be? Why?


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I'd smash my bathroom scale. =) No more bad days for me because of a digit change!

I"d almost smash the crap out of the fire detector because it keeps beeping.

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