there's a lot of ways to make money in this world but i can't recommend insurance fraud.

More Mountain Goats things: Suit! Completely not breaking a sweat! In one of the related videos, This Year, you ca also see the bassist's vest but alas, cannot make out the pattern. I linked to this one because the sound quality is actually good and it's a great song. The other videos make it clear that I was right about the levels being too high on the drums - it's definitely too high for that person's camera to register quite right, ow.

Also, his FAAAACE. I think the next time they come through here there has to be a drinking game. Take a sip for every ridiculous expression he makes. Perhaps the size of the sip can correspond to to the hilarity of the face.

it's two am again and I can't remember what else I was going to write

Oh, gosh. Okay, so last week I read reseda_ptah's epic Stephen Colbert Swaps Realities With "Stephen Colbert" fic, and also her equally epic crossover of Doctor Who and The Colbert Report (I know, I know). Tonight I finally got around to reading copperbadge's epic recast of Doctor Who and Torchwood as American TV shows with the talent swapped around. Now I OBVIOUSLY desperately wish there was a crossover between the first fic and the last one in which Stephen Colbert and/or "Stephen Colbert" go for a ride in John-Barrowman-As-The-Doctor's TARDIS, but I think that may actually raise the meta level past terminal velocity, and then the internets would implode.

(No, okay, but imagine the Face of Boe meeting the Giant Head of Brian Williams, okay. GENIUS. THEY ARE OBVIOUSLY THE SAME SPECIES.)

...I'm done now. No, really. I'm not imagining Stephen's reaction to Hayden!Rose at all. *cough*

In other news, I now have the TAB for the Pirates of the Carribbean theme for guitar. It's not that difficult! XD Also have sore fingers from not enough practice this week, ow. And all my hand joints are clicking around because, OBVIOUSLY I had to schedule my eskrima class and guitar lesson within 24 hours of each other. Speaking of eskrima, I think I injured a noob. Er, noobier than me, that is, a few guys had their first lesson yesterday and Salvador paired them up with people who had more experience but not so much we had to focus on preparing for the grading on Sunday. We were doing the basic strikes, blocks and disarms, and the starting feature of most disarms is grabbing the other person's stick hand so you're pulling their thumb hard against their stick (this hurts). Then you push or pull the stick in whatever direction levers it out of their hand given the position it's in depending on the strike they were doing.

Salvador was all, "Okay, you want to resist the disarm a bit to give the other person an idea of how hard they need to push, but not too much, please don't hurt yourselves." and then went off to help the grading dudes.

So we started out just figuring out the movements, but eventually I was like "Okay, now try not letting go of the stick as soon as I touch you." And this time I couldn't get him to let go of the stick at all, and I was like "Aw, I kinda suck at this when actual effort is involved." And then he was like "Ow." And then I was like "Oh my god, what part of don't hurt yourself did you not understand!"