Lisa Loeb - "Do You Sleep?" [Or, Laundry is TEH SEX]

On the train (392 Saluki!) up to Champaign from Carbondale, the above song came up on shuffle. 


I really, really loved this song in high school, but never had the stomach to listen to it whenever I was actually going through a similar situation. I mean, "Now I don't know and I don't care if I ever will see you again" comes right after she practically begs to know if he's still thinking of her. Begs to know if he's losing sleep over her. 


And the video? As close as you get to washing a man right out of your hair...er...laundry. Its painful, your hands are going to blister from the hot water, but when you're done its all clean and you're exhausted and it was totally worth it. 


Lyrics:

do you eat sleep do you breathe me anymore?

do you sleep do you count sheep anymore?

do you sleep anymore?

do you take plight on my tounge like lead?

do you fall gracefully into bed anymore?

I saw you as you walked across my room

you looked out the window -- you looked at the moon

and you sat on the corner of my bed and you smoked with the ghost in the back of my head

Now i don't know and i don't care

if i ever see you again

i don't know and i don't care

if i ever will be there

do you eat sleep do you breathe me anymore?

do you sleep do you keep me anymore?

you kick my foot under the table

i kick you back can't say that i'm able

to stand for you or fall for you ever again

wish for a perfect setting

wishing that i am letting you

take me where you want me all over again

you can't give yourself

absolutely to someone else

now i don't know and i don't care

if i ever will see you again

i don't know and i don't care

if i ever will be there

i saw you as you walked across my room

you looked out the window -- you looked at the moon

and you sat on the corner of my bed

and you smoked with the ghost in the back of my head

do you eat sleep do you breathe me anymore?

do you sleep do you count sheep anymore?

do you sleep anymore?

i don't know (do you eat sleep do you breathe me anymore?)

and i don't care (do you sleep do you count sheep anymore?)

if i ever will be there (do you sleep anymore?)

will be there 

Connie Willis's Remake [Frankly, My Dear...]

From page thirty-eight of Remake:

"Frankly, my dear - I love you, too," Clark Gable said, and crushed her in his arms. "I've always loved you!"

 There's a knee jerk reaction to this, that they're fucking with literature and they should just leave it the hell alone. The happy ending comes at the price of meaning. And in some cases, yeah, okay, I get it. The ending to the movie for I Am Legend had that feel, yeah.

But changing the parts you don't like is what fan fic is all about. And maybe sometimes parts need to be changed. Maybe I want to change the end to Lost, because I hated the end and I knew what I wanted to happen with it, and it didn't.

In case you've forgotten the ending to Gone With The Wind:

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