What type of music do you listen to while reading fanfic?

[campylobacter]

You know that adage "If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it"? I need to find a busy person, or clone myself. Or just blow off everything & blow a Ba'al clone.

I am so frelling behind on some of my favorite fandom activities:

• finishing my stargate_summer  Big Bang story, due in a few weeks
• reading fanfic rec'd to me
• leaving feedback for fanfic I've read
• posting about the next phase of the daniel_vala  Layout Contest
• nominating my favorite fanworks for the Gatefic Awards
• posting a boring update on my battle with comment spam
• polling about story length preferences

I've experienced 2 consecutive days of WiFail, and y'all know what dialup is like. Anyway, my "reading stack" is formidable, but TICKY BOXES might amuse you:
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Random question: If anyone is using a variation of Flexible Squares as your LJ layout, have you noticed any random default re-setting? I think LJ has rewritten some of its core code to thwart comment spam, and inadvertently broken layouts that may have had incompatible CSS.

Comments

[sg-wonderland.livejournal.com]

I've done several songfics and I really try to stay un-sappy because I don't really see either Jack or Daniel as appreciating that type of music.

Canon tells us Jack does indeed listen to opera (Shades of Grey) and what with Daniel's piano (The Light), we can speculate about what type of music he would play. It is my personal fanon that Daniel is a talented pianist who tends toward the classics but can rip out some boogie-woogie when so pressed.

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

My fanonical idea of what music Daniel listens to is a speculation based on his background. I assume he has a box of cassette tapes of UK alternative rock due to Sarah's influence in grad school (Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Talking Heads, The Smiths, Erasure), some vintage vinyl of Classical piano from his parent's estate, and an eclectic collection of the weirdest MP3s you've ever heard in every folk style & language on planet Earth: koto, bluegrass, mbalax, raga, zydeco, rai, mariachi etc.

[sg-wonderland.livejournal.com]

I think Daniel would have a variety of tastes in music, judging from his life adventures.