| They have a plan? |
[Mar. 20th, 2009|11:29 pm] |
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So. Battlestar Galactica finale. I still can't believe it's over.
( Spoilers for the BSG series finale )
So glad this week is over as it was hell week for me with two tests and lots of things to do. I am ready for a nice long weekend of TV catchup and clipping. Sound good to me. |
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| California |
[Feb. 1st, 2009|09:17 am] |
I am now in California. It is GLORIOUS. I'm all settled in my new room. The good news is apparently my roommate is never around so I'm going to have the bedroom mostly to myself \o/ Just what I wanted. Know what I'm wearing right now? Pants and a t-shirt...and I'm HOT. It is amazing and wonderful. I had to take off my long sleeve t-shirt last night and it made me so happy. I walked around campus with only a light coat! I'm NOT shivering or all bundled up trapped in the whip of cold. These are beautiful pleasures I have missed so much.
The bad news is I missed my flight by five minutes due to a variety of factors (like say two baggage checks, bad snowy weather - gotta love that travel curse) so I didn't get to go to the California Museum of Photography after all :( At least I had my laptop and free wireless internet to keep me company. Number of times I almost started crying/cried during the flights over? Too many to count. It's just...I made it back to my favorite place in the world! I'm home and I love my city so, so much. I see palm trees out my window! Taking the shuttle back, I kept looking out the window in wonder. Nothing can ruin my glee at being here, nothing. By chance, I met the RA right when I got to the apartments and so I was checked in, no problem. The two roommates I've met have both seen nice too. I walked around Chapman today and it was just as beautiful as usual. They did add these beautiful colored lights at this fountain thing AND a new swimming pool which I can't wait to try out (brief pause to consider swimming outside in February). I really love it here.
Today I am heading out to Venice Beach as I miss it desperately and want to again walk around like I did my first time here. Full circle and all that. Plus I need to do some shopping for footwear (and a new cellphone, again). It'll just be great to see all the creativity and the beautiful beaches. I will have to miss most of the Superbowl but I'll be back in time to see the end of it and The Office (*SQUEE*) so I don't mind.
( Brief BSG Spoilers for The Oath ) |
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| Happy 2009! |
[Jan. 12th, 2009|12:14 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | battlestar galatica, beautiful people, doctor who, fic rec, football, music, oz, ryan/colin, stargate atlantis, tv, vidding, vividcon, whose line | ] |
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Happy New Year everyone! Kinda late, yes but I hope the first month of everyone's year is going well. Just a reminder that January 15th is More Joy Day basically where you spread some joy around by doing something nice anyway you can. For example, while getting drinks for New Years, I forgot my money and some kind stranger paid it for me. I was really touched and it brightened my night not to mention sticking with me even now. People can just be so wonderful. So now it's time to spread it through fandom!
It's Vividcon season YAY! Go here for details but the most important is that registration is at midnight Eastern US time, between Saturday February 28 and Sunday March 1. There's a poll there too to vote for the date. I so cannot wait.
I have a new show! I am massively in love with Beautiful People, a UK show about the life of Simon Doonan (Barneys Creative Director) who I fell for when watching Top Design. It's hilarious, full of joy and fashion and musical theatre and family love and craziness. I just adore it to death. And the older Simon is SO hot and has he and his boyfriend (in the prologue/epilogues) are so cute. Simon and Kylie are my absolute favorites, their friendship is so wonderful. Only six episodes but I savored every episode and love it completely. Definitely worth a try!
Speaking of British TV- Re: Doctor Who Casting Spoilers ( Under the Cut reaction just in case-also spoilers from the special )
Yay Philly winning! What an awesome football game. I always stood by my Donovan and I just *knew* they'd win this game. Love the Giants but they had their glory last year and now I just reeally want the Eagles to win the Superbowl, let alone be in it.
Does anyone know if the BSG webepisodes are worth watching? I haven't seen them yet and usually them up but I do want to know more about what happened in the finale last year so anything about that?
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif) deathisyourart writes about Beecher/Kellar here and talks about some of the reasons why I love them SO MUCH OMG. B/K is one of those couples that never leave you and just rest in your soul until you think about them and spontaneously burst into love for them.
clayangel did this AMAZING comic of the story of how Ryan and Colin met here. As someone who loves fic but loves a visual even more, this is everything I've always wanted to see and makes me SO HAPPY and it's just utterly adorable and romantic. God, they are so meant to be *sighs happily* Everyone should check it out!
It makes going through my iTunes library and rating everything SO worth it when I can listen to my four star playlist and love everything in it. Mmmm music. I will say my biggest disappointment so far has been Kanye West's new album. I only liked one or two of the songs and I feel like he took all the *soul* out of the songs that I loved on his previous albums. I mean, nothing ever compared to The College Dropout which is still on my top five album list but there was always a few songs I LOVED and most songs I enjoyed. I was giving songs ones and twos! I almost never do that so it was sad. Couldn't get into Fleet Foxes either and I don't get why they're so loved but I care much more about my favorite rather than the best in music so I don't mind. I am however loving Bitter:Sweet's The Mating Game, Artic Monkey's Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, Amanda Jenssen's Killing My Darlings, Aimee Mann's Lost in Space, Flobot's Fight With Tools, The Kill's Midnight Boom, Matt Pond PA's Several Arrows Later and Last Light, OK Go's self-titled and Oh No and Spoon's Kill The Moonlight.
If Youtube takes down your youtube vids: Fight it!. Check the comments for more. Also, how to beat the audio finding system here.
TV's back! I loved the new Brothers & Sisters (x2), Gossip Girl, Scrubs, Ugly Betty (the best imo, loved it soo much) and Greys. Also caught up on SGA and saw the finale which was alright but the best part was that it and Vegas convinced me to read some John/Rodney fic and it was gooood. My favorite was A Place On The Corner which is the cutest thing ever and is just my Rodney perfectly and why I love him. I laughed so many times and it's all just a perfect love story. I still can't believe it's over...thank god for fandom. |
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| Read less, more TV. |
[May. 15th, 2008|11:14 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | 30 rock, alias, battlestar galatica, doctor who, gossip girl, grey's anatomy, how i met your mother, lena olin, project runway, queer as folk, the office, ugly betty, victor garber | ] |
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I watched The Office up to The Client last night and it was so much fun! Michael/Jan were so perfect back then, it makes my heart happy. Everything was perfect in my eyes. Oh, my show.
Gossip Girls is reminding me of Veronica Mars (and not because of Kristin Bell's voiceover) in terms of relationships which can only be a good thing. ( Spoilers for Gossip Girl up to Woman on the Verge )
There's a new interview up with Silvio Horta's thoughts on this season of Ugly Betty and the next. It reminds me of Tim Kring's interview where he acknowledges the mistakes of S2 (although UB's weren't as bad IMO) and promises to fix them next season. Plus UB is moving to NYC next season! Personally I love it because shooting on location brings more of a realistic touch to the show. The sad thing is that Marco Pennette's leaving the show :( He wrote the Thanksgiving episode (Dreamgirls dancing!), Don't Ask, Don't Tell (favorite episode still), East Side Story and the Wedding episode (one of my absolute favorites). ( Spoilers for Ugly Betty up to Betty's Baby Bump )
Nothing much to say about BSG except that the last episode was awesome and got me excited about the show again so yay BSG!
( Spoilers for Doctor Who up to the latest episode )
If you've ever considered watching How I Met Your Mother (or haven't!), I'd check out spectralbovine's pimping post for it here. He sums up a lot of the reasons I love it so much from it's lovable, pretty, relatable ensemble of characters to the nonlinear narrative timelines and flashbacks. It really is a smart, great show and after the first 8 episodes or so gets immeasurably more awesome. ( Spoilers for How I Met Your Mother up to Everything Must Go )
( Spoilers for Grey's Anatomy up to The Becoming )
The thing that bugs me about 30 Rock which I also had an issue with on Veronica Mars and Alias is how it seems like since they have the main character be a woman, they have zero or one other woman regular and that's it. The biggest thing about 30 Rock is where are the women writers? We have Tina Fey and that's it. Personally I only like Twofer and think the other writers are pretty lame. I wish Amy Poehler would star as a new writer although I doubt that's likely now. Anyways, I will keep enjoying the hell out of Liz and Kenneth like I always do. ( Spoilers for 30 Rock up to the finale )
Taken from celli: Cast your dream TV series of all time. Three to five actors, must include at least one male and one female. Tell me why they'd be so awesome together.
(Bonus points for show premise/location.)
Here's my answer and yes, I have thought of this a lot:
Lena Olin, Victor Garber, Gale Harold, Randy Harrison with special guest starring by Jennifer Garner. Insane amounts of chemistry all over the place and lots and lots of pretty.
It'd be an Alias spin off where Irina and Jack start their own spy agency in NYC (solving the Lena Olin problem) and eventually get Gale and Randy (characters TBD)to join them who fall in love and are the gay spy team. Sydney shows up a lot to go on missions with her parents. Jack is still never sure if Irina is using the resources and plans for her own motives...but that's what makes it fun. Flashbacks to earlier times in their relationship abound, Irina gets to spend lots more time with her sisters and family (Isabelle Rossalini guest stars) and there is an elaborate plan they work against that is completely serial starting from the beginning and ending with a huge bang that was all worth it. Lots of kissing and sex for all members of the cast as well as lots of Office like humor.
I'd probably spontaneously burst into flames because of the awesome, hotness and perfectness of this show every week but it'd be worth it.
So what are yours? |
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| Sci-Fi Sunday! |
[Apr. 6th, 2008|10:31 am] |
My username is ______ because ______.
anoel. When I was in 9th grade I was looking for a special internet username for myself and since I loved lions and felt I was one in a way, I wanted one to represent that. So I played around with the Spanish word for lion, leona and when I spelled it backwards it came out to anoel which I liked. Plus it was an A name and I like those for myself.
If I add 43 to it, that's because it's my favorite number. I got it when I was 9ish and I was in love with a book in the Sweet Valley Twins series, Elizabeth's First Kiss because it was really romantic and I had a crush on the guy in the book/on the cover. It was series number 43 and so that became my favorite number and it's never changed ever since. Mostly I just like that it's unique to myself.
My name is _____ because ______.
Ashley because my parents liked it and thought it wasn't popular. Which it was. If I had a choice I would have picked Amy but it's too much a part of me now.
My journal is titled ____ because ______.
Defying Gravity because I've always wanted to fly and gravity is what holds me down. I love how metaphorically gravity is the concrete world while I want to be in a world of possibilities, of imagination, of things which are not describable not to mention the amazing feeling of flying. I thought of it because I loved the name of a group, Mad at Gravity but thought Defying sounded better. I later found out it was the name of a Wicked song.
My journal is subtitled ___ because ____.
Ridiculously Romantic because I AM ridiculously romantic. Plus it's my favorite saying from my favorite scene of my favorite ship and the one I would most like to have someday in a similar sense. Plus ridiculous is my favorite word and I'm a complete romantic.
My friends page is called ____ because ______.
Friends because I've never bothered to change it.
My default userpic is ____ because ______.
it changes but now it's  because I'm in a Doctor Who mood and am loving the Doctor, Donna and Martha at the moment. So much better with all three of them! My lioness one ( ) is because my favorite childhood movie was The Lion King and was my first real fannish experience and I love the picture of Nala looking up curiously in the water. The heart is just because I love romance and love so much.
My first time watching Doctor Who live! Just need to avoid the crazy shippers and I'm good.
( Spoilers for Doctor Who 401: Partners in Crime )
( Spoilers through Torchwood 413: Exit Wounds )
( Spoilers for Battlestar Galactica 401 )
( Spoilers up to the last Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles )
Speaking of Andre Royo, I had this dream with him! Well first it started with Victor Garber who I saw outside of this Paley center type event in LA. I was nervous about whether to approach him and in my hesitation I missed him and he walked away and I was so angry at myself and even tried to call his name. But then inside the auditorium place he was singing so I was in heaven there. But then Andre Royo came up to the stage and I was SO excited. As was everyone else because the room was filled with WGA type people who recognized the brilliance of The Wire and the whole crowd went even more crazy when Wood Harris went up there too. It was just so awesome to be with so many people who loved The Wire. So that was a very good dream.
I've also had two Victor Garber dreams where he was Jack. One in which I was Sydney (or at least Sydney-like) and I had to comfort him when he was all torn up about Irina. Because Irina was with this other guy (because of the events in Search and Rescue I think) and he saw them together and it was all very sad. Although they did have this very purple colored filtered scene that was pretty. But in my second dream I was Irina and her and Jack were at this concert but wanted to leave. And then me (as Irina) starts kissing Jack! It was very hot. Definitely my favorite dream so far ;)
Very sad about Charles Heston dying. I just know him as Ben-Hur who was very slashy in the movie without knowing it.
Comment to this post with a subject for a top 5 (ships, songs, non-canon ships, etc...whatever) you would like to see me post about (with pictures), and I will post it |
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| Computers and TV= Love |
[Apr. 2nd, 2008|01:33 pm] |
I got my computer back! There are no words for how happy this makes me :D Computers and the internet and fandom and watching TV on my computer is a big part of my life and I make no apologies. I've been dyyying (that's right, dying!) to vid lately and now I finally can! I have my Sweet Charity vid all planned out and I'm so excited to do it not to mention my Premieres vid. Plus I really want to watch Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles so I'm glad to finally be able to do that not to mention finishing Farscape. Next on my list for long shows are X-Files (the movie is really encouraging me!) and SG-1 although I *have* to get through the first by Vividcon and I'd just like to do SG-1 by then. But besides that it's nice to be able to download music, put music on my iPod, comment and write posts at my house, download vids and access all my files. I say this a lot but I mean it this time, I will NEVER take my computer granted again nor vidding or writing because it's so wonderful to have the means to do it.
The Organization for Transformative Works is now accepting memberships and it only costs $10. I believe in this very strongly to have an archive for all fandoms with so many cool features (check out the roadmap on the site) and to protect all fannish works so I encourage everyone to join.
I usually don't read TV best of lists because the omissions or low ranked series piss me off but Empire's list is the greatest I've seen with a lot of high quality shows including many fannish ones. I have some problems with the numbering (Heroes is way too high in my opinion and The Wire should be #1) and a few of the best episodes (Not Pictured for Veronica Mars?! Many of the S1 episodes were better) but they have most of the ones that deserve to be on there. It seems some older classics may have been ignored but since I haven't seen most of them, I don't know. I do think The Office US should have it's own number because it's different enough and significantly changed the characters but they do mention it with the UK so I'll give them one. It's hard to rank TV anyway since episodes and seasons can vary in quality and the difference in network and HBO isn't an equal playing field not to mention some TV shows get a longer time to prove themselves versus others (see Firefly). I love the descriptions they gave of the shows though, nonspoilery and great at pimping me into shows since the list makers obviously have good taste.
Also? Flist you FAIL for not telling me Babylon 5 was all planned out for five seasons. I firmly believe that all TV shows should have a five year plan (or seven or ten, they can choose) and plan out as much as they can just like someone would do for a novel or movie in order to put as much foreshadowing and narrative unity as possible. This also avoids the classic not knowing what to do after the first or second season scenario. Now Babylon 5 has moved up greatly in my To Watch list. Any other shows I should know about that are very planned out (and good)?
Here's the list meme to go along with it:
1. Bold the shows you've watched every episode of
2. Italic the shows you've seen at least one episode of
3. Post your answers
( The List )
Office wise, the new promos are making me SO HAPPY. God, I love that cast. Also, Kelly is awesome. I love her beyond words. 8 more days!! Plus new BSG in three YAY! Speaking of, I randomly saw an episode on TV with the Baltar gets "framed" and goes crazy episode and it was hilarious how many of the clips were in Let's Go Crazy.
It's definitely vidding season and I am loving all the vidding talk around my Flist. I'm so excited for Vividcon in four and a half months OMG. I've been reading lots of vid meta and watching my vids on DVD to try to study vids more in order to get better that way so that's been fun. Vidding has moved to be my primary fandom right now.
Tagged so vidding meme:
( Answers under the cut )
I tag (if you want to do it): buffyann, counteragent, kitkatbyte, sdwolfpup and anyone else who wants to do it.
I'd always like to chat with people on my Flist so if you're comfortable with it, here's a poll (only viewable to me) where you can leave your AIM, Yahoo, MSN or other (please specify) screenname. I use Trillian and all my infos on my profile.
[Poll #1164729]
More later as I have lots of posts to catch up on. I should be posting more now! |
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| Memeage |
[Dec. 13th, 2006|08:18 pm] |
On the twelfth day of Christmas,  anoel sent to me... Twelve fangirls drumming Eleven cats piping Ten books a-leaping Nine animals dancing Eight lions a-milking Seven methos a-vidding Six computers a-reading Five ma-a-a-al reynolds Four veronica mars Three latter days Two rob thomas ...and a temeraire in a veronica/lily.
I love how completely that describes me. They got lions and books and Mal! And vidding!
Which Spuffy kiss are you?
How happy am I that I got this kiss? *love*
( my xmas stocking )
I finally am caught up and am going to the BSG mid-season finale tomorrow in LA :) I am also back to the my California loving ways and don't want to go back to NY (and cold) nearly so much. There's nothing like the warm sun shining down each day. And these vid ideas need to get out of my head cause they're driving me crazy. |
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| Vidding Thoughts |
[Sep. 18th, 2006|08:06 pm] |
I have been in vidding mode the last two days, watching and listening to vids and reading all the vid meta I can. Vidding is so my primary fandom because although I have a lot of shows I watch and fandoms I pay attention to and read fic to, most of the time I just read fic for ships and am not interested in gen or daily happenings of shows. But I love gen for vidding, in fact I'd love to see it more and do more of it myself. I love to find out everything I can about vidding, I'll read almost anything about it and still be interested. And I still miss Vividcon, it feels like a dream that I went there, met so many awesome people and had such a wonderful time. Is it Vividcon 2007 yet?
( More vid thoughts under the cut )
I've realized that I don't give enough long feedback to vidders. There are a lot of vids that I love so much and I watch a LOT but my extent of my feedback is nothing at all, "I love it" to a paragraph or so. I'd like to apoligize for this as I feel bad about it. I understand how much long feedback is appreciated and I LOVE vids and want to let vidders know how much I enjoy and think about their work. But I really want to try to give more detailed feedback and have made it my new mission to try to send it out as much as I can from now on. What's held me back from it in the past is my usual perfectionistic tendencies. I feel if I send a long feedback email for a vid, it'll have to have ALL my thoughts and reactions to it and I know that will take a long time. To add to that, I feel I have to write something brilliant and if I don't then I shouldn't write anything at all until later when I can come up with something smarter. This comes with the knowledge that I admire a lot of the vidders out there and think they are OMG, so smart, and so I feel kind of hyperaware of them and what they'll think of me. I've realized I just need to work with what I have for right now and if I think of something else in the future, I can always send that later. So hopefully, you vidders (and maybe fic writers if I can manage it) will see some long feedback from me in your inbox soon.
In other fandom news, I am still loving Prison Break and thought the new episode tonight was awesome. I am addicted to the suspense and I continue to love all the characters, getting swept up in their storylines. I wholeheartedly rec f1renze's vid to the show, Ragged Ass Road which captures everything I've wanted to see vidded in the first season from the master plan to the brothers love for each other to the cool motion. Just a gorgeous vid that has continued with my great pleasure to recruit more people into watching the show. I'm also enjoying Nip/Tuck in all its craziness and am impressed that finally the slash between Sean/Christian is actually getting explored. If only more shows were on cable and weren't afraid of the gay. There really needs to be more vids to the show, its very pretty visually and has great editing especially during the medical scenes, making them worth watching. Also finished Battlestar Galactica season 1 yesterday and it was amazing. Just about every episode has an interesting, suspenseful plot and a great ending. The characters are great, I loove Starbuck and I like all the rest of the characters and their relationships. Can't wait to finish the second season so I can watch the third with everyone. |
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| Supernatural Ramblings |
[Aug. 8th, 2006|06:58 am] |
I cannot believe I'm writing a post at 7 AM in the morning (I can assure you that I did not wake up at this ungodly hour) but since its Supernatural that's keeping me up, I figured I'd talk about it.
( Supernatural Commentary with slight spoilers under the cut )
In other news, I bought an external hard drive as I am severely lacking in space and I need lots of episodes in order to vid. I got a good price on a 320 GB one and it works wonderfully so far. I've transferred all my Whose Line episodes onto there freeing a ton of laptop space and am in the process of transferring all my Buffy and Angel episodes onto it as well. Then I'll rip all my DVDs to keep them on there. Also, Doctor Who won in my latest poll so I'm watching that currently and loving it. The Doctor is really great, I love how he's so enthusiastic and fun and crazy while still caring so much about Rose and his past, those little emotion peaks are great to watch. The whole time traveling aspect is very fun to watch as well and its a very visually cool show. Jack also just showed up and he is already very captivating and good eye candy. Watched a bit of SGA and BSG as well and enjoyed those too, Rodney is the cuteness and Starbook and Apollo (HOT!) are soo awesome. I have to say, the BSG miniseries did a great job of sucking me into the whole Humans vs. Cylons story.
Anyways I've got to go to bed now and try to stop going to bed so late in the next few days. It's hard to stop, I just get so into things (especially vids) and can't pull myself away and since I can sleep all day, there's not much to stop me. But I do need to go to bed earlier so I can get some sleep at Vividcon which OMG 3 days! *squee* Will post about that later. |
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| Quick Poll |
[Aug. 5th, 2006|01:53 am] |
Just about done with Supernatural and so I'm trying to decide what show to watch next. I've heard great things about Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who and Stargate Atlantis (and I want to see the vids to them) so those are the three I'm trying to decide on now. Take your pick:
[Poll #786200]
If you have specific reasons, leave a comment. |
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