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brokenrecord1. Your LiveJournal user name and what it means:
Before this, I had always used something like charmedwillow or spheathlown or spgcfan or spgcfreak or whatever, and... I wanted a username that was like... I don't know. I can't describe it other than saying just... words. Not really fandom related. So anyways, I had the lyrics booklet for Alkaline Trio's Good Mourning and I looked at the lyrics for the first song, "This Could Be Love". One of the lines was "I'm like a broken record, I've got a needle scratching me" and I just thought "Oh! I like that! I'll make my username brokenrecord!" ...except brokenrecord was taken, as was brokenrecord_, but I liked the name too much (and was too lazy to find another) that I went with brokenrecord__, with 2 underscores. I kind of regret this now, because a lot of people don't realize there are 2 underscores rather than 1, so they credit me as brokenrecord_, which is another user entirely. Oh well. ...but yes, that's where it comes from. It means nothing more than me liking Alkaline Trio.
2. On a scale of 1-10 (10 being the highest) how well does your LiveJournal represent who you actually are?
Uh, a 7 I guess. My journal posts usually make me sound pretty happy, or at least not... unhappy. I feel depressed a lot more than my journal makes it seem. And if I get angry at a real life friend that I think probably will read my journal, I don't talk about it. I don't know. It's a pretty good representation of me. It'll become better as time goes on. I'm still trying to get comfortable posting to LJ rather than my blog (though it feels a lot more comfortable than when I first started. Particularly because I'm not longer afraid that absolutely no one will comment to any of my entries and I'll feel all unloved).
3. How much about your life do you post to LJ?
Uh. Everything, really. Like I said, I used to post at a blog, and there only a few friends read it, and... I don't know. I had that from the end of 8th grade till the end of 10th, so I just got used to posting everyday about my life. It was kind of the opposite of LJ, because it'd be normal for me to post about my day, but I'd feel weird talking about fandom stuff because only like one of my friends would actually watch the TV shows I'd talk about. Here, I feel kind of weird talking about my real life because it seems kind of boring to anyone who doesn't know me and I feel a lot more comfortable squeeing about fandom stuff.
4. Is there anything you refuse to post about?
Yes. But since I'm not going to post about it, I'm not really going to say what it is here, either.
5. On a scale of 1-10 how interesting do you think your own journal is to others?
Um. Probably not very interesting. It'll be better once TV season starts. Then I'll talk about things people care about. :)
6. Has anyone ever joined LJ because of you?
uh. I think Lulu might have, but I'm not 100% sure. I know that Tiffany and I were on it first, though, and Tiffany joined for P/D slash and I joined pretty much at the same time, to post fanfics I had started writing. Annie might have joined too. I wouldn't say that anyone did solely because of me, though. It was more like... Tiffany and me talking about LJ and then them wanting to join communities/post fanfic/whatever. But hey, maybe if Annie joins again it'll be because of me! (JOIN LJ ANNIE!) Oh, and Jackie also might have. I don't know of anyone that I can say for sure did so at all because of me, though.
7. What proportion of your posts are friends only?
None. This isn't to say that I never will make a friends only post, I just... I don't know. I kind of feel weird about it. My blog was totally public, so I'm used to people being able to read everything I say. And like sometimes I'll see someone posting and want to find out more about them and see what they talk about, and then it'll turn out their LJ is completely friends only. So, I want other people to be able to see what I talk about. There was one time when I was actually going to post a friends only post because I was pissed at someone and didn't want them to read it, but instead I ranted to Annie about it and didn't feel the need anymore. :) I might make friends only posts in the future, but I don't see myself ever going completely friends only.
8. What is your favorite interest on LJ?
uh. I don't know. Spectrumming! Because I'm like the only person who has that listed as an interest, and anyone who doesn't live in Irvine won't really understand it.
9. How often do you post in communities, and did you ever start your own?
I made my own icon community with Tiffany. That was it.
10. How often do you respond to/comment on other people's journals?
I don't comment on other people's journals very often. I'm a bad LJ friend, I'm sorry. I reply to everyone's comments on my own entries! I'm just too insecure most of the time to comment on other people's. Especially if they've never commented on mine. If they've never commented on mine, then I assume they've friended me only for my icons and don't want me commenting on their own entries, and while that's a stupid assumption to make, that's just how I am. I actually do feel way more comfortable commenting on other people's entries than I used to, but... I still feel kind of weird about it.
11. Do you prefer to write in your journal or read other journals?
I like reading other people's more. I write about boring things. I do like writing in my journal, it's become like second nature to me by now, I can't imagine all of a sudden stopping. But... other people's journals are far more entertaining.
12. Have you ever had something mean said to you or been stalked, harassed or got into an argument/flame war on LJ (or did it to someone else)?
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violetmist2003 is mean and hurtful and said I have 20 ears. Oh, but actually, I realized I have. I don't remember her username, but it was like a year ago and she was taking icons from my and Tiffany's icon community and not crediting and we asked her politely if she'd credit us and she was all "No. Why should I credit you?" and so on and "Oh, well they're crappy icons anyways" and I was all "THEN WHY DO YOU FEEL THE NEED TO STEAL THEM?!" She sucked. She never did credit us or take them down, either.
13. Have you ever banned someone from your journal?
Nope.
14. Who are your3 4 favorite LJ friend(s) and why?
...I don't like doing this. I feel mean. I love all my LJ friends. The first one is easy, but... gah. The second two are really hard to choose.
1.violetmist2003 - because I know her in real life and I've known her since 7th grade (actually since 6th, but we weren't friends until 7th) and she watches all the TV shows I tell her to and likes them and will squee about them with me. And she comments on all my posts and my comments and we have great comment conversations. And she suffered through Poole with me and gave me the first 4 seasons of QAF on CD and... yeah. I should stop writing all this about her or she'll think I actually like her, or something.
2.meegzi31 - I don't know her very well, and she doesn't comment very much on my posts and I rarely comment on hers, but, ok. Like a year ago when I was using my charmedwillow account and posting icons with Tiffany at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
woosh_icons, Tiffany showed me pr101icons and I totally loved all her icons, and so when I found that she commented in one of my icon posts and liked my icons it just... made me feel really good, because I had admired her icons for so long. And after that, I found out that we have a lot of stuff in common, and... yeah. So. I'm really glad she friended me, and I love her posts, and yeah.
3.fearkills - Three people have IMed me on AIM from LJ (excluding Lulu, of course, since I knew her before LJ) but she was the first one to, and she's the only one who's actually IMed me more than once. So yeah, even though we don't talk very much on LJ, I like talking with her on AIM. Plus, she makes really gorgeous graphics (...of course plenty of other people on my flist do, too, but I had to mention this anyways). And she's going to cap early Charmed seasons, which is totally awesome. It's hard to find good quality, early season Charmed caps.
4. Everyone else I've friended and who's friended me. I love you all, really. I chose kind of randomly for this, almost. Or at least, I chose people I actually had things to say about. Most of the other people I would've chosen would've just been "I love your posts and/or icons and/or fics. You're awesome. Yay." So, yeah.
16. Why are you most likely to add someone to your friends list?
Because I like their posts, they have similar fandoms as me, write great fic/make great icons. I rarely add someone who hasn't already added me, though.
17. Do you automatically add friends to your journal if they add you first?
No, but usually I do. I'm not very exclusive. I just check first to see if we have anything in common and to see that they don't type with so many errors I can't understand what they're saying. I also don't usually add journals that solely post icons unless I'm absolutely in love with their icons.
18. What is the most likely reason you wouldn't add someone to your friends list?
Absolutely nothing in common, and we disagree on a lot of things. It's ok if we disagree on things but we still have other things in common, though. Also, if they're racist/homophobic/sexist/etc. And, as I said, if they type poorly.
19. Is your "significant other" on LJ?
Yes, someone who does not exist is totally on LJ.
20. Have you ever wanted to meet someone on LJ?
Sure.
Stolen from numerous people on my flist:
I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.
I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman.
I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights.
We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.
I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room.
I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had. I wish they could adopt me.
I am one of the lucky ones, I guess. I survived the attack that left me in a coma for three weeks, and in another year I will probably be able to walk again.
I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too much to bear.
We are the couple who had the realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for two men.
I am the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I want to avoid getting the management called on me.
I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the children I bore, nursed, and raised. The court says I am an unfit mother because I now live with another woman.
I am the domestic-violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly cold and distant when they found out my abusive partner is also a woman.
I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support system to turn to because I am male.
I am the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other men.
I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that.
I am the man who died when the paramedics stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual.
I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a much better person if I didn’t have to always deal with society hating me.
I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don't believe, but because they closed their doors to my kind.
I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most: love.
Blah, meaning to do this since we got the walls repainted a month ago. I also wanted to take a picture of my DVDs all lined up on top of the TV, but my mom put them all in separate boxes and I haven't been able to find them all. sigh. I'll do that one day. Anyways. Here's the tour of my house:
We shall start in the garage. We had it remodeled when I was like... 8. It was really pretty and shiny and nice and new then! ...now, not so much.
From the garage, we enter the family room. The lamp is blocking the TV that might as well belong to me, as I'm the only one who ever watches it (my parents have a big screen in their room. gr).
A side shot of the family room so you can see where my birds live during the day (they sleep in the guest room). The one in the box is Derek, and he's not in a box because we couldn't afford another cage or because we love him any less. Last... February-ish, we noticed that his right eyelid was kind of drooping, and then that he couldn't use his right wing anymore. We took him to the vet but he didn't know what caused it or how to fix it. Birds use their wings to balance, so without the use of his right wing, he falls down easily. He's in a box to prevent him from falling off the top perch in his cage. So, yeah, that's why one of my birds lives in a box rather than a cage.
The view from the other side of the family room.
My mom's office.
Another view of my mom's office. You can see into her walk-in closet and bathroom, too.
From the family room, we enter the kitchen. We had it remodeled last summer, which is why it looks so nice and shiny and new. It used to look a lot worse. ...though the chairs we had then were a lot more comfortable.
At the other end of the kitchen is the dining room. We only eat here on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the random times my dad decides to barbecue for dinner.
Through the dining room, you can see the family room. My mom rearranged the furniture after they painted in here, so it's all in the wrong place and bothers me. But dude, whoa, I just realized that my grandfather's rocking chair thing is in here! It wasn't before we painted. I wonder where my mom's been keeping that.
Another shot of the family room from the hallway.
Down the hallway, which leads to all the bedrooms.
The guest room. Not as nice as Andrew's insanely awesome guest room, but still pretty nice.
My parent's bedroom. You can't see the big screen TV in this shot, but it's directly across from their bed.
My parent's bathroom.
If you take a turn in the hallway, you reach my bathroom. Yeah. Not quite as nice as my parents'.
My dad's office. When we had bunnies, they lived in here. I'm not sure why it's labeled as my dad's office as whenever he does work at home, he does it on his laptop in the kitchen. Oh well.
Next to my dad's office, we enter my room.
One of the walls in my room.
And thus ends the tour.
Before this, I had always used something like charmedwillow or spheathlown or spgcfan or spgcfreak or whatever, and... I wanted a username that was like... I don't know. I can't describe it other than saying just... words. Not really fandom related. So anyways, I had the lyrics booklet for Alkaline Trio's Good Mourning and I looked at the lyrics for the first song, "This Could Be Love". One of the lines was "I'm like a broken record, I've got a needle scratching me" and I just thought "Oh! I like that! I'll make my username brokenrecord!" ...except brokenrecord was taken, as was brokenrecord_, but I liked the name too much (and was too lazy to find another) that I went with brokenrecord__, with 2 underscores. I kind of regret this now, because a lot of people don't realize there are 2 underscores rather than 1, so they credit me as brokenrecord_, which is another user entirely. Oh well. ...but yes, that's where it comes from. It means nothing more than me liking Alkaline Trio.
2. On a scale of 1-10 (10 being the highest) how well does your LiveJournal represent who you actually are?
Uh, a 7 I guess. My journal posts usually make me sound pretty happy, or at least not... unhappy. I feel depressed a lot more than my journal makes it seem. And if I get angry at a real life friend that I think probably will read my journal, I don't talk about it. I don't know. It's a pretty good representation of me. It'll become better as time goes on. I'm still trying to get comfortable posting to LJ rather than my blog (though it feels a lot more comfortable than when I first started. Particularly because I'm not longer afraid that absolutely no one will comment to any of my entries and I'll feel all unloved).
3. How much about your life do you post to LJ?
Uh. Everything, really. Like I said, I used to post at a blog, and there only a few friends read it, and... I don't know. I had that from the end of 8th grade till the end of 10th, so I just got used to posting everyday about my life. It was kind of the opposite of LJ, because it'd be normal for me to post about my day, but I'd feel weird talking about fandom stuff because only like one of my friends would actually watch the TV shows I'd talk about. Here, I feel kind of weird talking about my real life because it seems kind of boring to anyone who doesn't know me and I feel a lot more comfortable squeeing about fandom stuff.
4. Is there anything you refuse to post about?
Yes. But since I'm not going to post about it, I'm not really going to say what it is here, either.
5. On a scale of 1-10 how interesting do you think your own journal is to others?
Um. Probably not very interesting. It'll be better once TV season starts. Then I'll talk about things people care about. :)
6. Has anyone ever joined LJ because of you?
uh. I think Lulu might have, but I'm not 100% sure. I know that Tiffany and I were on it first, though, and Tiffany joined for P/D slash and I joined pretty much at the same time, to post fanfics I had started writing. Annie might have joined too. I wouldn't say that anyone did solely because of me, though. It was more like... Tiffany and me talking about LJ and then them wanting to join communities/post fanfic/whatever. But hey, maybe if Annie joins again it'll be because of me! (JOIN LJ ANNIE!) Oh, and Jackie also might have. I don't know of anyone that I can say for sure did so at all because of me, though.
7. What proportion of your posts are friends only?
None. This isn't to say that I never will make a friends only post, I just... I don't know. I kind of feel weird about it. My blog was totally public, so I'm used to people being able to read everything I say. And like sometimes I'll see someone posting and want to find out more about them and see what they talk about, and then it'll turn out their LJ is completely friends only. So, I want other people to be able to see what I talk about. There was one time when I was actually going to post a friends only post because I was pissed at someone and didn't want them to read it, but instead I ranted to Annie about it and didn't feel the need anymore. :) I might make friends only posts in the future, but I don't see myself ever going completely friends only.
8. What is your favorite interest on LJ?
uh. I don't know. Spectrumming! Because I'm like the only person who has that listed as an interest, and anyone who doesn't live in Irvine won't really understand it.
9. How often do you post in communities, and did you ever start your own?
I made my own icon community with Tiffany. That was it.
10. How often do you respond to/comment on other people's journals?
I don't comment on other people's journals very often. I'm a bad LJ friend, I'm sorry. I reply to everyone's comments on my own entries! I'm just too insecure most of the time to comment on other people's. Especially if they've never commented on mine. If they've never commented on mine, then I assume they've friended me only for my icons and don't want me commenting on their own entries, and while that's a stupid assumption to make, that's just how I am. I actually do feel way more comfortable commenting on other people's entries than I used to, but... I still feel kind of weird about it.
11. Do you prefer to write in your journal or read other journals?
I like reading other people's more. I write about boring things. I do like writing in my journal, it's become like second nature to me by now, I can't imagine all of a sudden stopping. But... other people's journals are far more entertaining.
12. Have you ever had something mean said to you or been stalked, harassed or got into an argument/flame war on LJ (or did it to someone else)?
violetmist2003 is mean and hurtful and said I have 20 ears. Oh, but actually, I realized I have. I don't remember her username, but it was like a year ago and she was taking icons from my and Tiffany's icon community and not crediting and we asked her politely if she'd credit us and she was all "No. Why should I credit you?" and so on and "Oh, well they're crappy icons anyways" and I was all "THEN WHY DO YOU FEEL THE NEED TO STEAL THEM?!" She sucked. She never did credit us or take them down, either.13. Have you ever banned someone from your journal?
Nope.
14. Who are your
...I don't like doing this. I feel mean. I love all my LJ friends. The first one is easy, but... gah. The second two are really hard to choose.
1.
violetmist2003 - because I know her in real life and I've known her since 7th grade (actually since 6th, but we weren't friends until 7th) and she watches all the TV shows I tell her to and likes them and will squee about them with me. And she comments on all my posts and my comments and we have great comment conversations. And she suffered through Poole with me and gave me the first 4 seasons of QAF on CD and... yeah. I should stop writing all this about her or she'll think I actually like her, or something.2.
meegzi31 - I don't know her very well, and she doesn't comment very much on my posts and I rarely comment on hers, but, ok. Like a year ago when I was using my charmedwillow account and posting icons with Tiffany at woosh_icons, Tiffany showed me pr101icons and I totally loved all her icons, and so when I found that she commented in one of my icon posts and liked my icons it just... made me feel really good, because I had admired her icons for so long. And after that, I found out that we have a lot of stuff in common, and... yeah. So. I'm really glad she friended me, and I love her posts, and yeah.3.
fearkills - Three people have IMed me on AIM from LJ (excluding Lulu, of course, since I knew her before LJ) but she was the first one to, and she's the only one who's actually IMed me more than once. So yeah, even though we don't talk very much on LJ, I like talking with her on AIM. Plus, she makes really gorgeous graphics (...of course plenty of other people on my flist do, too, but I had to mention this anyways). And she's going to cap early Charmed seasons, which is totally awesome. It's hard to find good quality, early season Charmed caps.4. Everyone else I've friended and who's friended me. I love you all, really. I chose kind of randomly for this, almost. Or at least, I chose people I actually had things to say about. Most of the other people I would've chosen would've just been "I love your posts and/or icons and/or fics. You're awesome. Yay." So, yeah.
16. Why are you most likely to add someone to your friends list?
Because I like their posts, they have similar fandoms as me, write great fic/make great icons. I rarely add someone who hasn't already added me, though.
17. Do you automatically add friends to your journal if they add you first?
No, but usually I do. I'm not very exclusive. I just check first to see if we have anything in common and to see that they don't type with so many errors I can't understand what they're saying. I also don't usually add journals that solely post icons unless I'm absolutely in love with their icons.
18. What is the most likely reason you wouldn't add someone to your friends list?
Absolutely nothing in common, and we disagree on a lot of things. It's ok if we disagree on things but we still have other things in common, though. Also, if they're racist/homophobic/sexist/etc. And, as I said, if they type poorly.
19. Is your "significant other" on LJ?
Yes, someone who does not exist is totally on LJ.
20. Have you ever wanted to meet someone on LJ?
Sure.
Stolen from numerous people on my flist:
I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.
I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman.
I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights.
We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.
I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room.
I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had. I wish they could adopt me.
I am one of the lucky ones, I guess. I survived the attack that left me in a coma for three weeks, and in another year I will probably be able to walk again.
I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too much to bear.
We are the couple who had the realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for two men.
I am the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I want to avoid getting the management called on me.
I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the children I bore, nursed, and raised. The court says I am an unfit mother because I now live with another woman.
I am the domestic-violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly cold and distant when they found out my abusive partner is also a woman.
I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support system to turn to because I am male.
I am the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other men.
I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that.
I am the man who died when the paramedics stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual.
I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a much better person if I didn’t have to always deal with society hating me.
I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don't believe, but because they closed their doors to my kind.
I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most: love.
Blah, meaning to do this since we got the walls repainted a month ago. I also wanted to take a picture of my DVDs all lined up on top of the TV, but my mom put them all in separate boxes and I haven't been able to find them all. sigh. I'll do that one day. Anyways. Here's the tour of my house:
We shall start in the garage. We had it remodeled when I was like... 8. It was really pretty and shiny and nice and new then! ...now, not so much.
From the garage, we enter the family room. The lamp is blocking the TV that might as well belong to me, as I'm the only one who ever watches it (my parents have a big screen in their room. gr).
A side shot of the family room so you can see where my birds live during the day (they sleep in the guest room). The one in the box is Derek, and he's not in a box because we couldn't afford another cage or because we love him any less. Last... February-ish, we noticed that his right eyelid was kind of drooping, and then that he couldn't use his right wing anymore. We took him to the vet but he didn't know what caused it or how to fix it. Birds use their wings to balance, so without the use of his right wing, he falls down easily. He's in a box to prevent him from falling off the top perch in his cage. So, yeah, that's why one of my birds lives in a box rather than a cage.
The view from the other side of the family room.
My mom's office.
Another view of my mom's office. You can see into her walk-in closet and bathroom, too.
From the family room, we enter the kitchen. We had it remodeled last summer, which is why it looks so nice and shiny and new. It used to look a lot worse. ...though the chairs we had then were a lot more comfortable.
At the other end of the kitchen is the dining room. We only eat here on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the random times my dad decides to barbecue for dinner.
Through the dining room, you can see the family room. My mom rearranged the furniture after they painted in here, so it's all in the wrong place and bothers me. But dude, whoa, I just realized that my grandfather's rocking chair thing is in here! It wasn't before we painted. I wonder where my mom's been keeping that.
Another shot of the family room from the hallway.
Down the hallway, which leads to all the bedrooms.
The guest room. Not as nice as Andrew's insanely awesome guest room, but still pretty nice.
My parent's bedroom. You can't see the big screen TV in this shot, but it's directly across from their bed.
My parent's bathroom.
If you take a turn in the hallway, you reach my bathroom. Yeah. Not quite as nice as my parents'.
My dad's office. When we had bunnies, they lived in here. I'm not sure why it's labeled as my dad's office as whenever he does work at home, he does it on his laptop in the kitchen. Oh well.
Next to my dad's office, we enter my room.
One of the walls in my room.
And thus ends the tour.
