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

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

My poll is here (http://musesfool.livejournal.com/1202393.html).

My favorite non-genderswapped song is the Cyndi Lauper version of "When You Were Mine."

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Thanks for doing the poll.

And, man, I should've asked you people about this a long time ago. How did I not figure out that fans would love genderswapped covers? It's what we do.

*adds "When You Were Mine" to the list of Songs I Must Find Immediately*

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Heh. I have it at home - I can upload tonight (though in all the SPN premiere squee, I can't guarantee I'll remember). Also, I have the Cowboy Junkies cover of "Thunder Road" in which they don't change the pronouns or anything, I'm pretty sure. Sadly, Jennifer Warnes changes some of the lyrics in "Famous Blue Raincoat," or I'd offer that, and I don't have the Emiliana Torrini cover of "I'm Your Man."

Also, my poll breaks out that I am likely 2/3 Magpie, 1/3 Gorilla with a tiny smidge of Human in. Which I would say is probably right, though I tend to have one primary fandom and many secondary and tertiary ones, because I read in as many as I've written in (and sometimes more), so...

as of this morning, 113 have taken the poll (I did not), 60 said Magpie, 25 said Gorilla, 8 said Chimera, and 7 said Human. The others are all 1s and 2s, and a couple of those are, I think, people who were confused and answered for themselves instead of me (I am not a Canadian Goose or a Lone Wolf by any stretch of the imagination).