| 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 | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Kanye West | ] |
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| | good | ] |
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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| Some short TV thoughts |
[Apr. 24th, 2008|05:37 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | brian/justin, doctor who, eli stone, gossip girl, how i met your mother, lost, oz, queer as folk, svu, the office, tv, victor garber, vidding | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | irritated | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | "Ordinary" by Paula Cole | ] |
Happy Office Day everyone! I am reeeally looking forward to tonight's episode as it sounds really, really good. And the promo was absolutely delightful. Michael/Ryan, yay! Plus ALL my shows are coming back for the best night on TV. Ugly Betty, Grey's and Supernatural are all back making me very, very happy along with The Office, Scrubs and 30 Rock. I am annoyed at the Scrubs and 30 Rock shift because it messes up my perfect comedy night of Ugly Betty, The Office and Scrubs that all fit so well with being all about the character love. But whatever, downloading solves all problems. Now all I need is for House to come back and all my favorite shows will be back (not counting the ones returning in the fall).
Lost and me are broken up now. I'm going to marathon the show once it's over but I barely get any pleasure from it anymore and feel like a puppet being dragged in crazy directions. I just don't see the brilliance no matter what people say. Hating Jack and most of the characters is probably the biggest reason. It's going to stop being abusive boyfriend now.
Random TV snippets: Absolutely loved How I Met Your Mother (which reminded me why I ship and watch TV with the euphoria) and The Office last week but don't really have much to say about them right now. Enjoyed the latest Doctor Who eps but the episodic nature of it bores me to death. Still miss Martha. OMG NEXT WEEK though. Caught up on Gossip Girl and am enjoying Chuck/Blair, Chuck/Nate and the cuteness of Eric. Also finished watching Eli Stone and Victor Garber continues to make me squee along with the yummy slashiness that is Eli/Jordan. I LOVE all the singing and musical numbers. Having sworn off Law and Order, Christopher Meloni made me change my mind with SVU because he is SO DAMN HOT and I just can't resist his insane amounts of charisma. I swear I don't usually watch actor's work just because I like their character but Victor Garber and Chris Meloni act in a way that reminds of their past characters and it's just nice seeing them again. I wish Lena would do more TV because I want to see her as well! Oz and Beecher/Keller have managed to get under my skin so I can't help but love and think about them so I'm slowly rewatching the first season. B/K kind of traumatized me by hurting me so much though so sometimes it's hard to watch.
I'm posting more of my Queer as Folk and Brian/Justin thoughts at IJ since some of the fandom is over there so if you want to read about that my journal's here. I'm also posting pretty regular updates at Twitter here if anyone is actually interested. I do better with short updates so I can override my perfectionist tendencies and I'm hoping this will be useful in the future if I want to see what I was up to back in the day.
I may have finally settled on my Premiere video after three tries. With some audio editing, I think it's manageable. I really hate vidding to deadlines though, the pressure can be so paralyzing. Hopefully someday I'll learn to start early.
Next up on my TV catching list: The OC S4, Flight of the Conchords, Prison Break S3, Psych, Sports Night and Carnivale. |
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| The Oz ending |
[Apr. 13th, 2008|03:41 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | beecher/keller, oz | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | "Pretty When You Cry" by Vast | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | devastated | ] |
( Spoilers for Oz up to the final episode, 608 )
Well it definitely made me against the death penalty although I was mostly against it anyways. And I've had about enough of tragic love stories for the time being.
Okay now I need some happy and Doctor Who is a perfect way to do that, yay! |
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| Take these lies and make them true |
[Apr. 7th, 2008|11:52 pm] |
So was not having a great day today although most of it was in my head. Going to try some honest personal sharing here.
( Personal Stuff )
On a happier note, sometimes I love to ship. So I'm getting addicted to Oz which somehow manages to suck me into all the storylines and yet most of all I ship a fucked up prison love story against all odds and I choose to believe and hope and damn. Sometimes, sometimes, it pays off. And just proves that a couple can start with lies and end up having the love being the truth (see Jack/Irina for more proof) if only for a moment.
( Spoilers for Oz up to 308 )
This show really interests me because I've always found redemption interesting which is one of the reasons I loved Angel so much. Moral ambiguity is one of my favorite things to explore in narratives as well as well life and it gets explored greatly on the show. Plus there is Bodie and Carver from The Wire! I've also seen Ryan in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Laguerta from Dexter and Carla from Scrubs. Oh and I saw Law and Order: SVU randomly one day and recognized Kellar as the main lead character in it, Elliot I think. And McManus reminds me sooo much of McNulty.
Was reading some Jack/Irina fic last night which never fails to overwhelm me with love and happiness. Man, I can never get enough of them. I fail at having the words when it comes to them but I will try:
( Jack/Irina rambling )
I'm rewatching Pushing Daisies with lianri and Ned and Chuck are omgsocute. If you want to do pure romance that completely charms me that is how you do it. This is a big reason why PD is one of my favorite shows. Plus Ned is sooo yummy and dreamy (his smile! *romantic sigh*). People are all so gaga over Jim Halpert but if I'm going for a nice guy type, Ned is definitely my first choice for the perfect boyfriend category.
Three more days til The Office! Must not read spoilers must not read any more spoilers. I caved and read some but it's only because I'm so desperate for more of my favorite show! It just completes something inside me and I really need new material for my love. The new episodes all sound great so I'm getting super excited.
In conclusion, shipping makes everything so much better :) |
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| TV Thoughts |
[Jan. 24th, 2008|06:44 pm] |
Here are are some thoughts in varying length on the TV I've been watching as I wait to watch more Alias:
( Spoilers for Alias up to 304 )
( Spoilers for Stargate Atlantis 413: Quarentine )
( Spoilers for Torchwood 201: Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang and 202: Sleeper )
( Spoilers for The Wire 504-507. Major SPOILER ALERT )
I decided to check out Oz because it sounded like The Wire and to see Beecher/Keller. I do like it overall but it somehow manages to be even more depressing and hopeless than The Wire but hey, it is a prison. I really like some of the narration and theme stuff they do and I really loved Beecher's arc in the first season. I just have one spoilerly thing to say under the cut:
( Spoilers for Oz up to 204, Losing Your Appeal )
I have to add that I'm so sad Heath Ledger died :( It's a horrible tragedy for such a young talent to die so early and I always loved him in his movies. Brokeback Mountain is still my second favorite movie and his portrayal of Ennis gets to me so much. But I also love 10 Things I Hate About you especially the singing scene which is one of the most romantic I've ever seen (at least in movies) and he's even really cute in A Knight's Tale. I haven't lived through many, if any celebrity deaths that have really affected me but this one definitely goes on that list. He will always be remembered in his art and the change it brought to the world. |
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