So here's my complete list of some of my favorite vids from Vividcon. These are not the only good vids from the con but the ones that stick out to me whether because of originality, emotion, movement or favorite show.

Vogue (300) by sockkpuppett: This is a memorizing vid that uses split screen, motion with sped up/slowed down footage and color to beautiful effect. Also, there are pretty, pretty men. A must watch no matter if you've seen the movie or not. Female gaze, FTW!
Women's Work (Supernatural) by sisabet and sockkpuppett: This is the part of the Supernatural that most people would like to ignore. The visual treatment of women on the show can be disturbing and offensive to watch all at once but it's all from the show and vidded with the greatness you can expect with these two vidders. A feminist vid that really needs to be seen and thought about no matter your conclusions.
Snakes on a Plane (Harry Potter) by dualbunny: The song choice makes the vid with all the awesome snake imagery in Harry Potter and little!Harry having to grow up to face the world. Hilarious clip choices and fantastic use of motion. Another great Harry Potter vid, yay!
Want (Supernatural) by destina: Deliciously dark and sexy evil point of view vid with the lyrics fitting incredibly well. Visually this vid is stunning with distinctive images, overlays, parallels and motion. And taken from fandom's pov, it only gets better.
Sugar (Smallville) by keewick: I never thought I'd see the day a good vid about Lana would premiere at Vividcon but this one completely blew me away. It shows Lana's relationships with Whitney, Clark and Lex and why she's with with them. The imagery is incredibly beautiful and the song choice is perfect for all the different aspects in her life.
West of Her Spine (Dexter) by sweetestdrain: Incredibly disturbing in a very, very good way. The music has the underlying dark edge to it that works for a great twist in the point of view character showing both the true and false sides to his soft sides. A unique and very affecting Dexter vid.
Martina (Veronica Mars) by keewick: I was so excited to see a VM vid and this one did not disappoint at all. Also, I totally guessed this one was by Keely and I suck at guessing but the distinctive song choice and quick cutting with emotional impact gave it away for me. It explores the rape arcs on Veronica Mars with frightening images as well as the way Veronica stays strong throughout it. The clicks of shoes walking and the internal motion in this particularly win me over.
Beethoven's Fifth of Gold Digger (Gone With The Wind) by absolutedestiny: You would not expect Kanye West's Goldigger to work with the movie but it does somehow. I love the cutting and the great clip-lyric matches especially. The underlying gender and race issues are interesting as well which absolutedestiny talks about in his LJ.
Filthy Mind (Multifandom) by sol_se: So many amazing parallels between shows in this vid. If you vid three rains of bloods, I am almost guarenteed to love the vid. Not to mention Faith and Sam (from Life on Mars) dancing. The cutting is great either quickly pulling you into all the great associations or lingering on the best ones as well as the motions all moving right into one another. Very, very cool.
Nothing New (Firefly) by heresluck: Oh, MAL. A beautiful, heartbreaking look at the Mal/Inara relationship with perfect song choice (as usual) and such pretty motion. If the last clip doesn't break your heart, there's nothing I can do to help you.

( More vid recs under the cut )

Speaking of Baltar, when I first watch Battlestar Galactica, I hated him. I thought he was scum of the earth who deserved to die horribly. But then I stopped taking him seriously. Now I see him as funny and enjoy him from a distance. I even have a bit of a fondness for him. It definitely helps me enjoy the show more.

I have all the VVC discs burned on my computer now so I have a great playlist with all of them plus the auction vids. It's lots of fun to listen to and go back and watch. I collected a bunch of vid discs from Vividcon including 2004 Premieres (which I'm SO happy to have), heresluck's vids (she's currently taking orders for them here), greensilver and cherryice's vids, morgandawn and friends' vids, gwyn_r and friends' vids and absolutedestiny's vids. And melina123's vid DVD should be coming soon. Not a bad collection along with my VVC2005, VVC2006, Bascon and Escapade discs. I love seeing vids on TV and high quality on my computer.

I finished Stargate Atlantis! I enjoyed it except for ( Spoiler for 3x17 Sunday ) Still in love with Rodney and excited for next season. I hope they continue to make more character focused episodes and 3-D villians.

I cannot wait for The Office DVDs come out! I probably won't finish my vids for the show until after they do so I can have shiny DVD vids. My plan to begin trying to vid everyday is stalled at the moment as I try to finish VVC stuff but I really hope I can start soon. My New Year's resolution was to "Vid More. Vid Better." so I'm hoping actively trying to make vidding a habit will help with the first part. I have 10 vids I'd like to finish by the end of the year or at least by January so we'll see how that goes.

So I have both the worst luck in the world and the best luck. Mostly good though. Last Saturday I accidentally spilled lemoñade on my laptop *cringe* I turned it off quickly and got most of it off but I was terrified I had broken my laptop completely. The fact that it cost a *lot* of money to buy and I don't have money to spare now was one of the bad parts not to mention my laptop is my most important possession with all the internet and vidding stuff I do. It's my baby, like Dean and his Impala. And the worst thing was I had just gotten back into vidding again and ripped all of my Office DVDs in preparation of the four vid projects I have for the show (1 ensemble, 1 Michael/Jan, 1 Michael and 1 Jim/Pam, Pam centric). So yeah, I had a mini freakout/cry but I let it sit for the night and today was able to take it to a computer place. There I get the best news in the world: my laptop still works!!! :D I had to clean it but most of it got on the DVD drive which with some cleaning is now fine. So I got lucky as the computer guy said, it had only happened to one other person. He even helped me more because my laptop is a *special* Asus laptop *adores* Thankfully I still have my external hard drives with backups with most of my stuff (although not the music and some vids) but it could have been a distaster without it. Let this be a lesson to everyone to ALWAYS back up your laptop/computer and never put any kind of drink near it.

So I have my internet back as I was only able to get on intermittently and at times barely at all due to my stupid, selfish, jerk brother (have I mentioned he's the only one in the world who I truly hate?) not letting me on the family computer. I will try to comment on some of the things I missed since I'm back now :) I used the time away to catch up on rereading the Harry Potter books and I have now finished the first five in time for the fifth movie which I'm seeing tomorrow afternoon :) I had forgotten how much I loved them for the characters, plots, platonic relationships and world building not to mention all the emotion inspired by them. SO GOOD. I am starting to get back into Potter mania just in time even though the fandom still is too big and scary for me to venture much inside. I will write up some of my thoughts on the books once I finish the sixth one.

Another thing I am deeply in love with at the moment are VIDS. Thank god my iPod still worked so I could watch them but I hated being away from some of the great vidding related posts I saw. I can't believe Vividcon is here in one month OMG! Vividcon is one of the best experiences I have ever lived through and I am psyched to go again and enjoy it once more. It's going to be fun hanging out with vid lovers and vidders and watching vids and talking about them and just GUH it sounds like heaven already. I really am truly grateful to have vidding, I need that creative outlet and making vids gives me more reason to feel excited about life and what I can do with it. And of course, watching everyone's vids and reading about them makes me incredibly happy. Yay vid fandom!

I have also been getting my parents to finally watch The Office! It's hard with S1 but I've been able to get them to keep watching so all is good. And it's good to see S1 again and get more familiar with it. The funny parts are more spaced apart but there are some moments that had me LMAO that are made more funny by knowing the characters so I still enjoyed them. I do love how they capture the characters so well but I'm glad they took away some of the distance towards Michael they had in S1 and gave him more plots in S2/S3 to make him more lovable. My favorite episode is still Basketball as it makes me laugh the most and the plot moves along well with all the characters involved but I always enjoy Healthcare and The Alliance with their great Dwight/Jim/Pam plots. After The Job, I love Dwight and Pam even more so if anyone has any fic recs with them (platonic but I'm okay with anything more), I'd love to read them.

Also, I'm seeing Randy Harrison and other QAF friends in Stockbridge/Boston in 3 days! I can't wait. Things are definitely starting to look up for me :)

ETA: Could Gilmore Girls could have ended more perfectly? I think not. It ended *exactly* the way I wanted it to *happy sigh*

The main reason for this post is to give a big Happy Birthday to keewick and dualbunny! Not only are you two amazing vidders but also super cool and kind people that I have the pleasure of knowing :) Also a Happy Belated Birthday to messyjessie58 and mizzmeow! I hope you both had a wonderful and special day.

I have been in a House/Wilson loving mood lately after rewatching the H/W parts of Sex Kills to House vs. God (LOVE that episode) not to mention Babies & Bathwater. I had forgotten how freaking hilarious this show is especially when you remove the boring medical crap. And also, so very, very slashy. Oh and I finally got a chance to see Inside the Actor's Studio with Huge Laurie and I almost died with love for him. Not to mention the House/Wilson "I'm game" squeeage, my problems with the question aside (she should have only asked the first question and left it at that). At the moment, I think the show should stick with subtext for the three main couples (how awesome is it that H/W is actually a main couple) or go out and do all three. Less with the dating and more with crazy affairs to see how House handles relationships. I would even be okay with House/Cameron if they gave House/Wilson the same treatment although I know that would never happen. I just love how the show looks into character issues, that's a big reason why I'm watching it.

I've actually been reading some amazing fic for them and loving it especially Gentle Implosions by elynross that completely blows me away and reminds me why I read fanfic again. I highly recommend it. If you have any House/Wilson amazing fic recs for me, now's the time to let me know. And also I found a House vid I enjoyed by kuwdora here that has some great internal motion matching the music and a great song choice because House is definitely a universal cynic.

Still working on the Premieres vid and I keep getting work done it and then hitting a brick wall. I had forgotten how hard vidding can be when you're not sure how best to communicate something to the audience and whether its any good or not. Vidding is hard. </ whine>

ETA: But then I do it again and everything falls into place and it's SO MUCH FUN. Vidding <3

Steve was so awesome and hilarious on The Daily Show. And Captain Jack was there! Hee. I watched Sexual Harassment last night and surprised myself at how much I laughed throughout it. The Office is a show that never gets old no matter how many times you watch it.

Sorry to end on a negative note but this news story about a sickening hate crime makes me so sad. The depressing fact is that there's barely any press about it. Sometimes I really don't understand the world.

So here's my list of shows to watch and/or catch up on this summer with strikes through the ones I've done already:

Veronica Mars, Friday Night Lights, 30 Rock, Scrubs, Battlestar Galactica, Dexter, Gilmore Girls, The Office UK, Torchwood, Life on Mars, Farscape, The X-Files, Stargate Atlantis and Doctor Who before Vividcon. Possibly How I Met Your Mother. Does it get any better? Because I watched the first episode and found it very unfunny although I did like Barney. Maybe Frasier, Wonderfalls, Ugly Betty, Dead Like Me and Smallville if I can handle it. Are there any shows I should add if I don't want to be very spoiled at Vividcon this year? I usually watch shows based on whether they're high quality (the higher the better), the number of vids to it (extra points for really good ones) that I need context for, general fandom interest (so I don't have to skip as many episode posts) and personal interest (procedurals are mostly out ie CSI, Law and Order, Bones as are reality shows ie American Idol). Any other TV recs?

I'm also planning to marathon some shows with a friend to get her to watch some high quality television. So I may be rewatching Firefly, Buffy, Angel, Arrested Development, Heroes and possibly Veronica Mars S1 if I can. Yeah that's a lot of TV but I doubt we'll make it through all of it. The trinity of Whedon shows plus AD is a necessary in quality TV IMO. And there's always fun rewatchings of The Office :)

I always like to hold a vid over my head to reward myself for finishing a show. I finished Dexter tonight which was amazing and I encourage everyone to watch. Not only are the visuals absolutely stunning but the narrative is interesting and it makes you care about the characters even if they are serial killers. Sounds crazy but true. So I finally got to watch sockkpuppett's vid Blood Fugue which is just as amazing as usual and a definite rec. I also finished Gilmore Girls S5 so I got to see obsessive24's Maybe Tomorrow here which is Christopher/Lorelai but even if you're a Luke/Lorelai shipper (I'm both) you should still watch it. It makes a static show *move* and is full of heart, cool parallels and great building with the music.

I saw Steve Carell on The Tonight Show tonight *squee* How is it possible for one man to be so funny, cute and smart? I usually just catch actors appearances on youtube but it was definitely worth it to watch him. I really can't wait til Evan Almighty. I still can't believe I met him, it's like a dream. Which speaking of, I had a dream where I finally met John Krasinski since he's the only one I haven't seen yet. I got to have a conversation with Creed and Melora too. I will definitely be at the Office convention in October and at Melora's show in LA in January. I can't wait! I went to my cousin's house this weekend and survived my first 24 hours without internet in a looong time but the best part is we went past Scranton twice and the second time we stopped in the city. My parents and I went to the Mall at Steamtown and I saw Victoria's Secret, ate a Auntie Anne's Pretzel (like Kelly) and got a bunch of pictures in front of the Welcome to Scranton sign. The only bad part is I couldn't find Poor Richard's Pub. Yeah, I'm a total Office fangirl and proud of it :)

Happy Birthday paddies and claireweasley! Claire, thank you so much for all your wonderful fic, great picspams and most of all, you're great personality. I hope you have a great year!

Happy Belated Birthday to jarrow272 and hafital!

Let it be known that at this moment, I am INSANELY jealous at all you East Coast people watching The Office finale right now. In the meantime, here's my episode thoughts on Beach Games.

( The Office: Beach Games spoilers )

In other news, I have gotten hooked onto Scrubs. It's so good! I needed a new comedy to watch and no laugh track + high quality + funny and charming= a great show for me to watch. I'm on S2 right now. I love all the characters not to mention the funny fantasy sequences. But my definite favorite part is Dr. Cox. He's like House! I definitely have a type. He's so funny though and handles JD so well with his hilarious speeches. And yet he really does care about his patients and even makes heroic moves for them sometimes. I have completely fallen for him. I'm not much for shipping for this show but I'm especially open to any Dr. Cox ships, at the moment Cox/JD, Cox/Jordan and even a little Cox/Carla. I do love JD with all his funny fantasies and because he's such a dork and it's too cute. And lines like this: "Sometimes I miss you so much I can hardly stand it" are not only incredibly slashy but adorable. JD/Turk's best friendship is so enjoyable to watch. I really like Eliot too with all her insecurities and funny inappropiate comments and Carla is great too. And Jordan is too funny and awesome at throwing down comebacks. The end of the last episode of S1 KILLED me in its awesomeness. The only thing I'm not so much of a fan of is the Turk/Carla relationship which bores me. Oh well. I'm on His Story now which was wonderful in diverting from the standard JD POV. Looking forward to watching more!

Onto the Upfronts. I'm happy that The Office got more episodes but after all the talk of more episodes, it was a little disappointing. I just don't want to deal with any more horrible hiatuses. The move to 9:00 scares me even though I know being the highest/second highest show on Thursday, it makes sense. And I do know that NBC loves the show so its not going to cancel it if the ratings go down. But it makes it harder to get people to watch it if they're watching other things. I'm happy Friday Night Lights is renewed even if Fridays does not seem like the best time to put it but I'm hoping NBC will move the show to a different day (maybe for a low rated new series) if it does bad. I'm hoping to catch up on How I Met Your Mother this summer so I'm glad that's renewed as well. I don't usually look forward to new shows until I hear critical and fannish review of them but at the moment I may be checking out Pushing Daises, Private Practice, Gossip Girls and Viva Laughlin because I am a sucker for musicals. We'll see. I'm not heartbroken over the Veronica Mars cancellation because I've been so disappointed with the show lately and it looks like Rob Thomas has not found a way to get the quality back to S1. Oh well, I'll always have my season one DVDs.

It's been kind of a crazy week for me in traveling. I had kind of sucky trip north but in the midst of all of that, I got to go see Hollywood Blvd and see all the stars in beautiful California weather and that made it all worth it. No matter how bad it gets for me, walking outside and knowing I'm in the best place on earth makes me so happy. It's just so great to see people appreciating entertainment including the great impersonators including a Jack Sparrow and Michael Jackson. I went to Six Flags Magic Mountain yesterday which was fun. X, a four dimensional rollercoaster was mindblowing fantastic and gave me great an emotional rush. Definitely my favorite, defying gravity indeed. I went on 6 rollercoasters but unfortunatly, for the first time ever, I got nausous and threw up which kind of ruined the mood for me. I went on one more but eventually decided I couldn't take anymore and saw a bird show. That was fun and I got to be a volunteer and have a parrot land on me and then got a free picture after. It was cool.

Traveling gave me the oppurtunity to watch a lot of Office episodes so I went back and watch a lot of S3 episodes and others to see Pam's character arc. I saw the Pilot, The Dundies, Boys and Girls, Casino Night, Gay Witch Hunt, The Convention, The Coup, Initiation, Business School, Cocktails and of course, Beach Games. It's been a long journey for her. I'll never get tired of seeing these episodes. I'm excited to see the finale even though I know there'll be no new episodes, I just want to know what happens and have some closure for the season. I already have a full summer planned with lots of Office related things to do plus many more Office rewatchings. It's nice to have a show to love with all my heart. 2 more hours until the finale!!! *avoids recent LJ posts*

I am SO excited for tonight's episode. Should be awesome!

From Watch with Kristin: I've just heard from multiple insiders that it's looking very likely that NBC will double the amount of The Office we'll get next season. I'm told it's looking like each episode will expand to be an hourlong; however, if that plan falls through for some reason, I'm hearing that, at the very least, NBC wants to pick up something like 37 episodes of the show in its current half-hour format

Yay! More Office in either case scenario which is a win-win-win situation for me. I'd be happy with either. Now I can't wait til Monday to find out.

Probably too late for tonight's episode but if anyone in the SoCal area wants to watch The Office with me, I'm inviting everyone over for an Office fan meetup. Details:

Date: May 10
Time: 8:30-9:30 (feel free to come early to be safe and stay later to discuss/squee :))
Location: Chapman University
One University Dr
Orange, CA 92866
General Directions
Mapquest

It's in the Henley Hall basement in the media room which is the second residence hall on the left when you enter at the intersection of Walnut Avenue and Center Street.

Date: May 17
Time: 8:00-9:00 (again, coming early/staying late is encouraged)
Same place

And good news to hear about the Friday Night Lights and Supernatural renewals!

So it seems like me and The Office are having a breakup. I've still watched Women's Appreciation only once, not because it was all that bad but I have a bad feeling about it. I'm pissed off at the characters and the writers and the fact that I have to defend characters who I love even when I'm angry at them but also hurting with them. Yeah obviously I'm talking Michael and Jan here and it's ruining my enjoyment of the show as a whole and I hate that. This is why I don't like to invest myself into a ship too much, especially het ones where the writers can fuck it up. Now I'm hating the show for breaking my heart :( The whole Pam/Jim/Karen triangle is annoying me too although its more of a reaction to being frustrated with the characters.

Even the fact that the show producer is awesome and tried to get fanvids onto the S3 DVDs and even when that failed, still support US the fans, all of this still doesn't erase my negative feelings. And that is bad and wrong. I can't even get myself to watch my favorite episodes. I just have this bad feeling in my gut about it.

So I am distracting myself with some great episodes of Due South. I'm up to Mountie on the Bounty and it was awesome! The love story of Fraser and RayK makes me so happy. The fun part is I see so many images I've seen in vids. Specifically Out Here because I've watched that vid way too many times but I've seen Goodie Two Shoes, Wonder of Birds, In the Mirror and Flying Home clips as well and it's so cool to recognize them and see the context. I have banned myself from watching the vids while I'm watching the show which just makes me want to finish the series even more. And I want to read some good DS fic, read and unread. I love Fraser so much, he is a true hero.

( Get out of the closet, Fraser! Spoilers for Due South S2-3 )

So yeah, Due South=Love. I'm hoping to finish the series in the next week or so. I saw Supernatural and loved it for once. Not much to say but oh, Dean. How I love you so even when you tear my heart out. Grey's was pretty boring but made up for it with all the beautiful LA shots. God, I love my city so much. The waves, the landscapes, the city shots, all of it was looking good. Next weekend is my big trip up to Six Flags Magic Mountain where I'm going to spend all day riding some of the biggest, fastest and most thrilling roller coasters out there. Being a HUGE roller coaster fan, I'm super excited. I'm in it for that emotional high and that flying feeling I love so much. I'm also going to this big cats conservation center since they're my favorite animals. It'll be good to see some animals again. Now I only have to survive my last week of classes to get there. At least Monday I get my laptop back! :D

It's May now so I can pretty much say that I have lived through one year without a real winter :D Minus the three week vacation time, I have seen no snow or freezing cold at all. And I am still not tired of the beautiful sunshine and warmth on my face each day. It still makes me happy and puts a smile on my face. Today we had Spring Sizzle, kind of a fun day with groups performing and groups setting up game booths. There was also a bouncy castle like on The Office! I jumped around on it like Michael would. Never lose that childlike wonder as he would say.

( The Office: Product Recall )

I was reading Entertainment Weekly and in an article about how much TV stars are paid, I read a quote by Steve Carell on how they don't want to ask for too much or the public think they're being ridiculous. But at the same time, the studios are making a lot off the show. Usually I'm skeptical of stars threatening to leave shows and the like because of salary but in The Office casts case? They deserve all the money in the world. Steve makes 175,000 an episode it said but if they wanted to give him and everyone else a couple million, I'd be happy. The whole cast is so awesome that I would love to see them rewarded. They're generous people anyways.

So apparently, there's a chance The Office may become a 1 hour show next season. If it happens, WOW. Talk about all my dreams coming true. I can't get enough of the show and more would be heaven. As long as it doesn't decrease in quality, I'm good with it. Casino Night was 30 minutes long and it was brilliant, add in some supporting character screentime and flesh out the main plot a bit more and The Office would be even better. I think they should give it a chance and see if it works.

I also love Angela Kinsey. Her article here is great. I love her point about Michael coming between Dwight and Angela and would love to see a storyline like that play out on the show. I love how it shows that the whole cast is like a family with her and Oscar going way back not to mention her being super cute with Jenna and the guys hanging out playing Madden football. One of the things I'm disappointed about in leaving California is I think I'm not going to get to meet any more Office people. Which yeah I know I'm lucky to meet a bunch and I will DEFINITELY be at The Office convention in the fall and I'm going to go to the Premiere of Dan in Real Life (really early) but I was hoping to see Melora's film (again) or see her live performance or see Kate this weekend and it doesn't look like that's going to happen *sigh* At least it looks like I scored another RL friend convert to marathon Office episodes with. I feel like Kevin in A Benihana Christmas...California or college? No College or NY? In the end, like him I have to go with my less than favorite but I will come back. Ashley/California will be reunited again.

On that circular note, I'm done as I don't have the energy to write about anything else. Two more days til a new Office episode!

New House tonight! I am so jealous of the East Coast people at the moment because I can finally watch House live and yet I have to wait. I can't wait to get some more House/Wilson/Cuddy action. Also, Foreman! If you had told me when I first started to watch House that I would end up loving the ducklings, I would have said you were nuts. But now I have a fondness for all of them with Foreman rising above to be my favorite. He's just so awesome sometimes. S3 wasn't as bad as I heard mostly because I could care less about how realistic the medical plots are, enjoy House being an asshole and addict (and don't mind him staying that way) and at least the Tritter arc hooked me into continuing to watch. And a request. Does anyone know where to find any House/Wilson and/or House/Wilson/Cuddy OTP/OT3 icons?

( Spoilers for S3 of House up to Act Your Age )

I've been looking into House fandom a bit and it's nice to see House/Wilson have such a strong following and actually dominating in some cases. I mean, it is practically canon (at least to me) and I do love the slash happy writers but it's just nice to have some equal ground in terms of canon with het couples. I find it interesting how fandoms are structured according to shows. House has all the competing ships for his love interest and then you have a show like The Office where there's a bunch of different non competing ships. The latter definitely helps with less fights. Not to mention, I watch The Office in a much more optimistic fashion while House is perfect for my inner cynic.

( Heroes Spoilers for .7% )

In The Office news, the show is taking over my icons. It's already got at least half and I wish I could add so many more. I really can't wait til this Thursday. Watching two episodes per day can only do so much. I need new episodes NOW. Also, I need to stop reading the TwoP spoiler thread. I have never been so amazed at how much time people can spend talking about JKras's hair and Jim/Pam/Karen when I could care less. But the lure of spoilers gets me everytime. Come back, Office, I neeed you.

It's been a great few days and so much had happened that I don't know where to begin. First off yesterday I went to Universal Studios with clayangel, indybaggins and blackstray and had an awesome time. Since Universal produces The Office, I counted all the Office stuff I could find.

1) I was greeted by a speaker doing a promo about the true love that is Dwight/Angela with awesome soundbites like the "my animal deserves a lot of loving" TH. So my Office squee started in full gear.
2) An Office poster on the way to the Citywalk! Steve, Rainn, John, Jenna and BJ look so hot in their suits.
3) On the big screen TV in the amusement park, they played an Office promo! With lots of good moments including Pam falling off her chair in the Dundies and some funny Michael quotes.
4) On the Studio Tour they mentioned that The Office films some stuff here although obviously not the main office building. They also said Steve had shot some Evan Almighty scenes there.
5) There was a huge Office poster on one of the studio buildings. It looked great!

How I love my show. Although I couldn't see it live last night, I made it my mission to watch it and managed to download it after 3 tries that took 3 hours. But it was so worth it! I had low expectations for the episode but the episode made me love my show SO MUCH in that it can be amazing in any scenario. It knows what the show is all about whether it be Michael (can I possibly love him anymore?) or the whole office having fun together. Also I laughed a lot, it had great lines and a little bit of M/Jness. Although I still hate that there's a rerun next week (UGH), I'm really looking for all of the future episodes especially the finale which should be amazing.

In Whose Line news, I met Ryan Stiles!!! And Jeff, Chip and Greg but still RYAN. I saw him when he first got out of the bus at Cal Poly and then I saw the show which was hilarious and sooo slashy. They're all just the best. But after I got to meet Ryan and I got a picture with him and Greg :D He was so nice to me and everyone and yes, so tall. We also got to talk to Ryan's manager so I asked her if Ryan was going to do a show with Colin anytime soon. The exact quotes are fuzzy in my mind but she said that Colin and Ryan are genius together and that they don't have anything scheduled but it was possible. This should all be transcribed later because I'm drawing a blank. But it definitely sounded positive that it would happen sometime. Later I got to talk to Ryan again and told him I loved Whose Line and it always made me laugh and then asked him the same Colin question. He said Colin was doing his own thing with Brad so it was hard for them to do anything together. I'm forgetting what else right now, sorry the squee has overwhelmed my brain. But he did say that him and Colin meet up once every year so at least there's that. It was just so awesome to be able to meet him and talk to him and I'm still in a state of WOW.

Oh and I told Chip I loved him on The Office (as Josh aka King of the Stupid Universe/Poor Man's Michael Scott). I love it when two fandoms collide.

Also, I LOVE California. No matter where I go, it's always beautiful. Drivin up north, the scenery is gorgeous all over the place. Plus the temperature is perfect with sunshine and 70s/high 60s. Still puts a smile on my face :)