Poll and Miscellany

[thefourthvine]

Three things, almost entirely content free. (But one of them is a poll! There will be clicking, and that's always fun, right?)

I swear I will have actual content in this LJ again. Eventually. In the meantime -

1. Remember the poll? Um, this one? Thanks to everyone who took it, by the way, and I am slowly working my way through the comments, because they are meaty and thought-filled and fun. And I'm knee-deep in meta about it, but it's taken a strange turn. So I'm hoping that some of you will do my a favor, and run a poll like this one:
   
   [Poll #831564]
   
   Basically, I want you to ask your friends what archetype they think you are. (I've alphabetized the archetypes to make finding them easier.) And while you're here, please do pick mine; I'm truly curious to see if there's a difference between how I see myself and how others see me. (In this sense only. I'm not crazy.)
   
   Sadly, I don't have bribes to offer. But if you do run a poll like this, and you also drop me a link in the comments here, I will be forever grateful. And you will be furthering the cause of meta. (I know, I know, it's not precisely ever fan's dream, but - stay with me, here, okay?)
   
   
2. This is driving me insane, so - okay. I collect what I call genderswapped songs. Although, really, I should call them ungenderswapped songs - the song is covered by a singer of a different sex than the original one, but no gendered element of the song is changed. I have one song by Cam Clarke, from Inside Out, which is a whole CD of songs just like this. (The one I have is Son of a Preacher Man.) And I cannot find the whole CD anywhere. Does anyone have a copy of this? Or know where I can get a copy of this? I am experiencing the anguish of the thwarted collector, and it is not pretty.
   
   
3. This is more of a bonus item; I found it interesting. If any of you watch AMVs - and if you don't, why not? - you might want to take a look at this AMV-related survey.

Comments

[monroe-nell.livejournal.com]

http://monroe-nell.livejournal.com/201763.html

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[aaronlisa.livejournal.com]

my poll: http://aaronlisa.livejournal.com/606309.html

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[marici.livejournal.com]

I choose magpie, but I really think you should be a bower bird: same principle, but on a far more challenging and impressive scale.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Ooo. I like that idea: I am a fannish bower bird! I don't just find pretty things, I build a house for them. Cool.

Except now I want a bower bird icon. Hmmmm.

[settiai]

*points to pretty much everyone who's already commented*

When 3/4 of my friends list tells me to post this poll, I know better than to not listen.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Thank you! (And I must say that you have excellent taste in friends.)

[workerb.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, poll! My poll is here (http://workerb.livejournal.com/132064.html).

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[lilly-rose.livejournal.com]

Love this poll. Found it through another person on my flist. Am posting on my own journal. (lilly_rose. Thanks!

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Thank you! (And I'm glad you like the poll. There's another one here (http://thefourthvine.livejournal.com/62469.html) for you to pick your own archetype, if you like.)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

http://pearl-o.livejournal.com/795532.html

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[runpunkrun]

I put up a copy of your poll, but for some reason I can't figure out which fandom animal I am. Maybe I'll vote after everyone else does. *g*

http://runpunkrun.livejournal.com/182113.html

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Obviously no one else can figure out what fandom animal you are, either. You are a mysterious thing. Possibly the Questing Beast or some such.

Yes, it totally makes sense that you would be unclassifiable.

(By the way, I've been meaning to tell you that I have found the King of All Cosmos' theme song: Magnetic Fields - For We Are the King of the Boudoir (http://www.sendspace.com/file/9ll9oa). You can't tell me that's not him.)

[darchildre.livejournal.com]

my poll is here (http://darchildre.livejournal.com/1089124.html).

and, on the subject of genderswapped songs, have you heard dar williams' cover of wilder than her (http://www.sendspace.com/file/eva4ss)?

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Thank you, both for doing the poll and for the song. I haven't heard it, but I soon will. Yay!

Genderswap

[perkyrusalka.livejournal.com]

Lily of the West (by Roseanne Cash), on the Chieftan's Further down the Old Plank Road, if you like Celtic folk at all. There are another couple on the CD, but I can't find my copy to look up the titles. I think Lambs in the Greenfield is as well, and it seems like there was one more.

Re: Genderswap

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Ooo! I will have to put that on my Must Hear list, because I do like Celtic folk. (I'm not actually sure there's a genre of music I don't like.)

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

this looked interesting, so: here's mine! (http://cathybites.livejournal.com/501899.html)

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[mergatrude.livejournal.com]

I posted my poll here (http://secret-garden.livejournal.com/77558.html), but expect either a full load of human, or a nil return.

Also, I only have Cyndi Lauper's She's So Unusual on (crappy, black market) tape, so can't upload the song 'When You Were Mine' in which she switches pronouns several times. Her SO in the song is either a woman, or a man who likes to wear dresses.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Thank you! (And I picked human for you, I must admit.)

And now two people have mentioned "When You Were Mine." I have to get my hands on that song.

[bibliokat.livejournal.com]

Hee, my favorite song right now is the Arctic Monkeys' cover of "Love Machine." They're so cute;) I'd be happy to upload it if anyone wants it, though it won't be til tomorrow (way later today, whatever).

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

I want it! Yes, please! *eager anticipation*

[meredevachon]

Saw this at slodwick and cathybites, and thought I'd join the fun too. Here it is.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Cool! Thank you.

[that_mireille]

I posted the poll in my LJ here.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Thank you! (And thanks for linking people back here, too.)

[thejennabides.livejournal.com]

Got here through a friend of a friend, and if you don't mind that many degrees of separation during the data collection process, I've put up the fannish archetype poll here (http://www.livejournal.com/poll/?id=831952).

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Excellent. Thank you!

[ria-kukalaka.livejournal.com]

Great idea for a poll and it's been popping up all over my flist so I couldn't resist any longer. *g*

Poll here (http://ria-kukalaka.livejournal.com/76834.html)

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Thanks times three: for liking the poll, for posting it, and for linking me to the post. I'd like to say there's a certificate of achievement or something for that, but, well, there's not. Just, you know, my gratitude.

[foreverdirt.livejournal.com]

*furthers the cause of meta* (http://foreverdirt.livejournal.com/302235.html)

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Oh my god. Not only did you further the cause of meta, you commented about it with a Katamari Damacy icon.

I love you forever now. (And, hey, you can join Punk and me in the Katamary Damacy fandom, which consists of just the one story and a couple of people addicted to rolling, but is an indubitably cool fandom nonetheless.)

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

My poll is here (http://mamadeb.livejournal.com/616491.html).

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

I did it! Here: http://louiselux.livejournal.com/374734.html

I didn't recognise myself exactly in any of the descriptions, so I must be a chimera! *goes to see if that's a popular choice*

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I didn't recognise myself exactly in any of the descriptions, so I must be a chimera!

I picked turtle for you, but now I think I should've picked gorilla. Perhaps you're a gorilla-turtle hybrid. (Um. I'm sure you're a very lovely turilla, but - not my favorite hybrid of all time, there.)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Er, how do I cut and paste this poll to put in my LJ?

*is stupid*

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

You can't directly cut and paste, unfortunately. What you do is go here (http://www.livejournal.com/poll/create.bml), choose "radio button" for your first question, and then cut and paste each individual answer into the form. But I know it's kind of a pain, so remember: you're not obligated to do it - only if you think it'd be fun. (But if you do, please tell me!)

[cad27.livejournal.com]

I have nothing deep or brillint to add- although I've got a few ungendereswapped songs floating around if I can just remember what the hell they are- (Hey! The White Stripes didn't change Jolene, I don't believe)- but it occurs to me that it would be awesome if you did a rec set about Daddy issues. Or Mummy issues. The maternal kind, not the bandages kind (which clearly deserve their own set).

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Hey! The White Stripes didn't change Jolene, I don't believe

They surely didn't, which led z_rayne to make the best Lord King Bad Vid ever. Please tell me you've seen it.

a rec set about Daddy issues. Or Mummy issues.

*ponders*

The temptation I'd have to fight, of course, would be to make the whole set DCU. Because nothing says Daddy Issues like Batman, Nightwing, and the Deluxe Robin Assortment.

[obsessedmuch.livejournal.com]

here's mine (http://obsessedmuch.livejournal.com/324120.html)

Can't wait to see what you end up compiling from all this. :)

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Can't wait to see what you end up compiling from all this. :)

At this point, I'm in danger of meta-ing for the rest of my life about this, because I am learning so much interesting stuff.

[sciurida.livejournal.com]

My poll is here (http://sciurida.livejournal.com/49010.html). I don't have that big of a fannish flist though, so it might not get all that many answers. But, for what it's worth!

The Cam Clarke version of Son of a Preacher Man is brilliant. I've listened to it a lot.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

The Cam Clarke version of Son of a Preacher Man is brilliant. I've listened to it a lot.

I'm developing a worrying obsession with it. Thank god I am not a vidder; if I was, this could only end in badness.

[marycrawford.livejournal.com]

I can't post a poll because I have a cheapo LJ account. Woe!

Also, I love the songs people have put up, and I wanted to add one: Too Drunk To Fuck (http://www.yousendit.com/download/1SfKwpOY) by Nouvelle Vague.

The original is a punk rock sort of thing by the Dead Kennedys (I didn't know this, because I suck at musical history, but Lum told me *g*), and this version is sexy and light - Nouvelle Vague is a wonderful French band who specialize in very different, danceable, bossanova style covers of new wave songs.

There's no mention of either gender in the song, but the lyric:

'Went to a party/I danced all night/I drank sixteen beers and started out a fight/So now I'm jaded/You're out of luck/I'm rolling down the stairs too drunk to fuck'

sounds different when sung by a cheerful French gal. :-)

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

I can't post a poll because I have a cheapo LJ account. Woe!

That is a tragedy. But you remain cool even if you are poll-less.

I wanted to add one: Too Drunk To Fuck by Nouvelle Vague.

OMG thank you. That is the best song ever. And it perfectly fits the genderswap criteria to my mind, because - well, let's just say that in my adolescence, there was no such thing as a girl too drunk to fuck. You could be unconscious and guys would still happily do you.