| "Are you calling me a ho?" |
[May. 1st, 2008|06:31 pm] |
Happy Office Day! To celebrate I watched a hilarious video of Steve Carell interviewing Phyllis here and it's absolutely wonderful! Steve's always a safe bet but Phyllis just comes alive (I like it). I absolutely adore her character on the show and the similarity with her character means here it's no exception.
Of course they ask the dreaded how were you cast question that she has been asked a zillion times along with which actor is most like and unlike their character (yes we know Mindy is alike and Angela and Brian aren't). To their credit, they edited out the answer to the first one. Another question that I hate because it's asked ALL the time is have you ever worked in an office job? So Office fans, what questions are you sick of hearing the cast answer?
A couple of thoughts on The Chairmodel under the cut:
( One about Michael/Jan one about Jim/Pam and one about the end )
I loved this episode for all the small things and small victories which is a big reason I love the show. Everything doesn't need to be super dramatic or big explosions all the time and The Office is about finding humor in the little things. And you still have Michael and Dwight trying to make things larger than life in their wonderful hero narratives that I can't help but love myself. I love reading ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif) vonnie_k's episode thoughts and her post on The Chairmodel here is pretty much my reaction to the episode (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif) danceswithwords also has lots of brilliant thoughts).
More reasons why I love Mindy and The Wire loving writers:
Q. Did the comment about “The Wire” come from your love of “The Wire”/ to annoy BJ who has not started watching “The Wire” yet even though everybody is telling him how good it is? | kim s [note: I think B.J did finish watching the show]
A. “The Wire” is arguably the most popular show amongst our writing staff. Our two shows could not be more different, but it has made a huge impact on many of our writers, including me. Because it’s such a densely plotted Greek tragedy, I doubt Michael would really be able to understand that much of it, but I like picturing him wanting to enrich his life by buying The Wire DVD and sitting in his condo watching Season 1, and then compulsively rewinding and trying to understand what D’Angelo Barksdale is saying. Michael wants to be exposed to good things, that’s a quality in him I really like.
I was surprised to see Mindy loving it so much but yay that's awesome! I would say the shows are alike in that they both are funny (The Office more so obviously), they both love their characters a lot making them real in small little ways and they both love their locations, giving lots of shout outs but at the same time the location represents cities everywhere.I also seem to always want to call Oscar Omar (and vice versa) which makes very little sense besides the fact that they're both gay. Very, very true about Michael, she so gets him.
Christian and Nina Garcia on Ugly Betty tonight, yay! On the Project Runway front, I am meh about the show moving to Lifetime. I really hope they don't mess up the show. Already they're moving to LA and although usually I'm YAY LA, here NYC is the fashion capitol so I'm not sure it's the best decision. Maybe it'll spice up the show a bit though and it'll definitely be easier for me to meet them. As long as Nina Garcia doesn't leave, she's my favorite judge and it would suck if she left. But I'll see her tonight so at least there's that :)
Things that need to be in every Office episode: an annoyed Stanley and Angela look. Never fails to make me laugh. |
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| Update Pt. 1 |
[Feb. 21st, 2008|09:43 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | alias, arrested development, brian/justin, buffy the vampire slayer, california, eli stone, house, house/wilson, jack/irina, lex luthor, meme, michael/jan, politics, project runway, queer as folk, rl, ryan/colin, stargate atlantis, strike, supernatural, the office, victor garber, vidding | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | "Angel With An Attitude" by The Ditty Bops | ] |
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I have a lot of stuff to catch up on so bear with me.
So I have made it back to Syracuse, NY but not before the Travel Curse struck again! I had my first late night flight a week and a half ago and it was awesome to have Dan in Real Life being the movie they played for us. I had a one stop flight so I landed in Philly where I had to go from the D gate to the F gate. I carry my heavy laptop bag and backpack and walk to get to the F gate when I see a metaphoric fork in the road so to speak saying one way to the ABCD gates and another sign to E and F and another with a warning about how if you go this way you have to rescreen. They mention a shuttle but I don't see a sign for it so I go towards the E and F gate. When I see a security guard I ask him where I can catch the shuttle to the F gate. Surprise! I missed it and I was told I couldn't go back and had to keep walking. And of course I had to rescreen at 7 am EST with a huge line and 50 minutes til my flight left it. I kept getting closer and closer and hoping I'd make it, pissed off because I never wanted to be in a situation where I would miss my flight (I always try to get there 2 hours early) and of course with 10 minutes to my flight leaves I get through airport security where they take five minutes taking out ALL my hard drives and cords and putting them through the baggage checker even when I told them I needed to hurry. And of course my gate was the farthest away so even though I ran I missed my flight. Thankfully another one left in two hours so it wasn't too bad a wait but then when I get back to Syracuse they lose my check in luggage. The good news is they returned it a day later but it was still extra frustration.
I'm back now and although it's cold, I'm all layered up and at the moment it's not too bad so I don't even need my winter coat :) I can deal with it for a few months. I am SO happy to see my cats again, I missed them so much and now I have many hugs and cuddle sessions to catch up on. Am currently looking for a job which I should hopefully get soon as I need some money. The bad news is TWO of my hard drives have stopped working, the ones with all my DVDs (thankfully I have some on my last remaining hard drive for my current vid projects), music (I have some on my laptop so I'm not totally screwed there) and TV shows. But I do have fast internet back so it doesn't take very long to download stuff. I had forgotten how nice it is to download an episode in 10 minutes or so :D I'm disappointed that a short trip to NYC I was going to do today didn't happen but thankfully NYC is only 5 hours or so away and hopefully I can visit soon! I really want to see Bryant Park and hopefully Tim Gunn if I can plan a trip right. I just miss the city even if LA will always own my heart.
I spent my time after my trip catching up on some shows, marathoning Lost and reorganizing my vid files and a few other things. Up til now, My Videos has been organized by having many folders named by fandom and I'd put a vid I downloaded into the fandom folder it belonged too. But to make it easier to open up a lot of vids all at once, I decided to rename ALL my vid files by adding the fandom to the beginning of the video even if it was just "Anime", "Movies" or "Multifandom". I also made a New Vids folder for the vids I download that I'm too lazy to rename and to make it easier to watch new vids I download. It took awhile and I had to reconstruct my vids playlist but it's been worth it has everything is much more organized and easier to get at and with my 40+ GB of vids, I need that. How does everyone else organize their vids? In order to catch up with my Flist I also made some filters to put every single member of my Flist on a smaller reading list to make it less overwhelming to reply to posts. So far that's worked pretty well although hopefully I won't need to use it too much.
The Writer's strike is over! YAY :D I find it wonderfully coincidental that I leave for CA when the strike began and left right when it ended. I am so happy to at least get a salvaged season with some news episodes of some of my favorite shows. Namely The Office in which we get 6 more episodes and possibly an hour finale! I'm am just SO EXCITED to see the next episode on April 10th which is supposed to be amazing and funny and intense and unique. So I'm really looking forward to that. Not so excited about them skipping ahead in time because I like to see how things progress and for vidding purposes. The good news is almost all my shows are renewed and I'm hoping desperately that Friday Night Lights will be renewed. I cannot wait til April! Should be awesome to have new TV on almost every night.
In hopefully what will be the last time I talk politics before November, a quick word. I am for (and will vote for) whatever Democrat wins the primary. I'd be okay with either of them although I prefer Obama but as long as Bush is gone and there is not another Republican in the White House then I'm happy. Should be fun to live with a super conservative and Ron Paul supporter politics people until November though (NOT). I will find refuge in my politics free zone or mostly liberal Flist happy place though.
Okay, meme time! ( 5 question and 5 OTP memes )
[written yesterday] Yay Project Runway tonight! I love Wednesday's because it's the start of new episodes with PR and Torchwood. And tonight is a reunion episode and I LOVE reunion episodes. The video montages are always awesome and there is lots more Tim Gunn and it's fun seeing all the contestants again. I don't think they can ever beat the S2 one though but here's hoping. I'm SURE we're going to see a Ricky crying video and a Christian one with all the time he says fierce or similar funny statements. And this time I can actually watch it live and not have to wait five days for the torrent!
( Spoilers up to the latest Project Runway episode (not the reunion) )
( Spoilers for Stargate Atlantis up to Midway )
Contrary to most of my Flist, I'm just not feeling the Supernatural love these days. I don't know if it's overexposure or S3 in general but I just can't get emotional about the boys and show anymore :( I cried at the S2 finale and now just nothing. And I'm not really intellectually interested anymore. I have really liked the last few episodes and Dean and Sam have been really cute so at least there's that. I'm glad everyone else is loving and investing in the show though.
So I'm watching Eli Stone primary for Victor Garber and thankfully it is pretty funny enough to keep me entertained. The biggest GLEE moment is definitely getting to see Victor sing. Here's a youtube clip of it. I love his voice. It's such a disconnect seeing him so NOT!Jack Bristow but his line at the scene reminds me strongly of him so at least there's that. But he SMILES! I will never get enough of that; it makes me smile in turn. The other thing about the show I love is Tom Amandes is in it! I loved him in Everwood and just seeing him onscreen makes me happy.
( Spoilers for Eli Stone up to 103 )
In more Victor Garber singing clips of LOVE, here's him singing and then singing and dancing in Anne with my favorite song from the musical. I pretty much die with glee everytime I see it. He's SO CUTE! It is a little too much for me to handle. Oh and him being gay only makes me love him even more. I sure do know how to pick them :)
Next post: DIY, more TV and Jack/Irina gushing (OMG I LOVE THEM SO MUCH). |
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| The Office: My One Year Anniversary |
[Jan. 16th, 2008|07:49 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | michael/jan, the office | ] |
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So today marks my one year anniversary of watching The Office. Technically speaking, I watched the first two episodes the summer before last January but since I didn't get into it then it doesn't count. What happened is this: I heard The Office was smart and funny like Arrested Development so I decided to give it a try. I watched the Pilot and Diversity Day and enjoyed both. And yes, I liked Michael even then (I remember snoopypez talked about him). But it didn't blow me away so I stopped watching it since sadly no one told me it got SO MUCH better in S2, that the tone changes a lot and it stops imitating the original (which didn't work for me anyways). But on January 16, 2007 I decided to give it another try. My interest had been piqued by a few Flist entries I saw with the episode title of "Gay Witch Hunt" and me loving the gay like I do, I was curious to what it was about. I started from Health Care and from there it just got better and better. As I said then:
I am loving The Office with Michael just being hilarious with his horrible social skills and bad jokes. Best comedy I've seen since Arrested Development and I love the camera work.
That day was also the first time I saw The Dundies which is still my favorite Office episode. I got up to 203 on the 16th and the next day finished the entire S2 and 301 falling madly in love with it. Here I begin my obsession and mad love for the show. I fell for Michael Scott, thought Jim/Pam was super cute and was "strangely attracted" to Michael/Jan. I specifically remember really loving them in The Client against all odds. One of my distinct memories from that day was walking to lunch with my iPod watching Valentine's Day and cracking up so much on the way there especially with Michael's video. I also remember watching Gay Witch Hunt (finally!) and cracking up hilariously.
The thing I love about this show is it knows how to be LOL funny especially on the first run through but after that you can rewatch it and still crack up or think things are funny/smart from the character humor and brilliant lines. I love comedy that comes from the characters and this show with it's wonderfully quirky characters has it in spades. I also fell completely in love with all the characters, relating in different ways to all of them and caring about their lives. What I love is they have aspects of real life to them, even Michael and Dwight and yet they still have tints of larger than life characters. The show has one of the greatest TV romances of all time in Jim and Pam, S2 truly is a dream and they truly make me smile and charm me away ever so much. However it was my falling for Michael/Jan after Back From Vacation that got me shipping and obsessing over a couple like nothing else. After that episode, I went back and watched their old scenes together over and over again, joined a community, read all the fic I could and watched some vids. It's always nice having a couple to watch and they definitely heightened my want to see the next episode.
( More of my history with The Office. No real spoilers besides episode titles and emotional reactions )
So that's my Office story although I'm leaving out a lot. As I see it, we fell in love in January, broke up in April, had a long distance relationship in the summer and steadily dated throughout the fall. And now we finally have our first year anniversary. I have decided I will rewatch every episode while I take vid notes and give commentary in this LJ like I did for episodes after they first came out although with a more holistic bent. One thing is for sure, I'll never forget this show or ever not be in love with it in some way. Thank you, show for everything you've given me.
The Office: You complete me. |
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| Wishing it was Thursday |
[Oct. 30th, 2007|10:05 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | house, michael/jan, the office | ] |
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| | "Falling for the first Time" by the Barenaked Ladies | ] |
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I really, really wish it was Thursday. Like almost every fangirl out there, I know, but this week especially. I am just looking forward to the next Office episode SO MUCH. I mean, Mindy Kaling + Joss Whedon? PERFECTION. That reminds me that in the Writer's Q and A period, they were all singing the praises of Joss Whedon. And although I saw some of the episode all it's done is want to make me see it again and I didn't catch some of the lines so I want to actually hear everything. The storylines truly are amazing. And I miss my characters. It really is an Office family and they're mine and I relate to all of them so much. I am so in love with this show it's not even funny (except the show is). I want to be immersed in it always.
No other show comes close for me. Pushing Daisies is the closest one airing right now and The Wire is amazing too...but I don't completely relate and love the characters with all my being and enjoy the plotlines wholeheartedly and become super fannish about it. There's just something special about The Office. I wonder what would have happened if I never watched it and I shudder at the thought. I wish I could pinpoint the exact moment I fell in love with the show but all I know was it was somewhere in the S2. And now it's just such a big part of my life.
I was thinking and really if I could combine The Office and House, Wilson and Cuddy together, I'd have my perfect show. Because then I'd have a huge OTC character and super squeeful OTP ship (I still love Michael/Jan but the current dynamic is not so much my OTP thing) along with all the rest of my show. But yet my modes of enjoying both shows are different with House being much more cynical and it would be hard to combine the shows so in reality it wouldn't really work. And in the end, The Office is almost perfect as it is so it doesn't need much.
Why isn't it Thursday???? |
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| Beach Games |
[May. 17th, 2007|04:05 pm] |
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* |
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| When a fandom fails you, move onto the next one ie Due South Love |
[May. 5th, 2007|11:40 pm] |
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 |
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| My show is back!!! |
[Apr. 5th, 2007|10:17 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | michael/jan, the office | ] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Minnesota | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | The Office | ] |
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After years and years and years (/Jim) of waiting, The Office finally returned tonight with a new episode :D I have never gone through a hiatus this bad before but I officially survived the Hiatus of Hell. I finally got to seee the episode and now I am just unbelievably happy because my show is completely perfect in every way. Hilarious and I love all the characters more than I ever thought I would. And brilliant as usual. It completes me, it really does. I'm too tired to write coherent thoughts on it today but WOW. Never leave me show, never leave me!
Also I got to see the show at the same time as the East Coasters for once! That was cool. And Heroes reference! Now we have Lost, Smallville, Grey's Anatomy, Battlestar Galactica, Alias, (ETA) Entourage, The L Word, Queer as Fuck Folk...any more TV shows I'm forgetting?
To top it off, you have Steve Carell looking deliciously hot all buff:
And Melora looking unbelievably gorgeous:
And Michael and Jan being hotter than all that is hot here. Beautiful, amazing fic.
I think I'm in cat heaven the last week and now I am dying to have a cat. I am so full of love for them. The overwhelming kind that comes close to my Office love (which is saying a LOT). Also Vividcon season has begun and it's so exciting! I can't wait til August.
I LOVE The Office! |
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| Basically everything that is awesome |
[Mar. 22nd, 2007|06:05 pm] |
First off, Happy Belated Birthday to fadsy!
Things that are awesome in the world of me:
1) It is a beautiful, sunny and warm day outside. After some grey, cooler days in the beginning of the week I only appreciate it more.
2) I recovered all the files on my hard drive! Including all my vids in progress and all my music, vids and documents. The tech people at my school rock. SO happy about that. Even if I still have to do without my laptop for a few weeks or so. Thank god for external hard drives. Now if only I can find some way to vid...
3) I got an A- on a big test that I wasn't expecting :)
4) Spring Break is in a week!! I can't wait to spend time with l13vi11e finally.
5) I received Melora's cd in the mail (finally) and it's awesome! She has such a great voice. And she autographed my cd with my name and everything *squee* Also I got my Escapade DVD and it made me happy to rewatch some vids.
6) House RULES all. I enjoyed the first season but the second season has been making me overflow with love for the show especially House who continues to get better and better. So many hilarious moments or times when he just takes down everyone in sight. Before I could just watch one episode a day or so but now I can't help but watch episode after episode and so I am now at 213. It's addicting! Who knew? At the moment I continue to ship House/Wilson and enjoy House/Stacy and House/Cuddy. ( Some spoilers for S1-2 ) This quote pretty much sums up my perspective on the relationships on the show: "I've moved past threesomes. I'm now into foursomes. If someone backs out then you've still got a threesome. If two people back out, you're still having sex. You'd be amazed." Oh House, how I love you. You had the beginning threesome of Cuddy/House/Wilson and then you add in Stacy to get your foursome. I've promoted House to an OTC because he is just that good.
Best two OMG Office moments would be from 118 Vogler's "Gregory House is a symbol of everything wrong with the healthcare industry." just like Michael's "Toby Flenderson is everything that is wrong with the paper industry." And then House going "What? Mommy and Daddy are having a little fight, it doesn’t mean we’ve stopped loving you," pinged me for the Pam's deleted scene Initiation TH about Michael and Jan: "It's like Mommy and Daddy are fighting. Except Mommy outranks Daddy. And Mommy is way scarier." LOVE that quote. Plus I love that House refers to them as his children like Michael. Which just further shows why I don't like House/Cameron because they're not really equals to me. Or interesting. I have also found the perfect song for House which is just so him for me. I am undecided about vidding it but its definitely fun to vid it in my head.
7) Two more weeks before new Office episodes! I am in love with this video because it brings me overwhelming love for my show and the characters and everything about it. And puts a huge smile on my face. If I don't watch an episode (at least) per day, it just makes me sad and miss them so much. I really am afraid of how much I love this show. I LOVE YOU THE OFFICE! *hearts*
8) New Grey's and SPN tonight! At least that helps me get through this hiatus hell. How awesome would it be to see House and Cristina working together? That'd be my ideal doctor show.
Would anybody be super super nice and upload Always Tonight by Catherine Feeny or Love Today by Mika for me? *wishes I had my laptop back* |
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| Computer woes |
[Mar. 18th, 2007|07:07 pm] |
So now my laptop has stopped working. According to the tech guys at my school, the hard drive is shot. Probably randomly. Great, just great. Not only do I have a ton to do this week, I don't have all my vids, vidding stuff, music and personal computer for internet usage. Already I can't even get Lum's vid to play :( I'm hoping I can recover the information because I stupidly don't have it backed up. The place where I bought it from is in NY so it'll probably take forever me to get it back. So I guess I'll be using the school library a lot. *sigh* This just sucks.
Some new Michael/Jan fic cheered me up and probably watching The Office will do the same but I can tell it'll be a long two weeks before the glorious month of April begins. |
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[Mar. 16th, 2007|03:46 pm] |
Happy Belated Birthdays to fan_eunice, hannahrorlove and gossipcom! Hope you all had fantastic days :)
Gah, I'm so behind. At least it's felt like that since February 22nd since I went to Escapade and Cocktails came on and then I met The Office cast and Melora and Julian McMahon. Crazy. I don't know how caught up I'll get but we'll see.
I don't have a lot to say about Escapade except that I had a wonderful time. It was AWESOME to see familiar fans again as well as new ones. I had a lot of fun talking to people and listening to panels and watching the amazing vid show. I really needed the break. There's nothing like talking about fandom and vids with people who get it. I left the con feeling really fulfilled and happy with myself which I've been feeling a lot these days. It's definitely nice having a good boost to my self-esteem :)
Good news is its been absolutely beautiful out lately. There is nothing, NOTHING like walking out into 80 degree weather with the bright sun shining down on my face. It just puts a smile on my face no matter how crappy my mood is or what early time in the morning it is. Paradise. Every day I feel blessed and lucky and am so glad I made the best decision of my life to come here.
I finished catching up on Heroes and I've been enjoying it a lot without feeling fannish about it. My problem primarily there is I haven't really connected too much to the characters and relationships beyond caring about them. The plot is what gets me in this show, its so much fun to see what happens next. I love Hiro (of course) and Nathan is my hot guy who I can't help but like because I looooove flying. That scene in 105 was the coolest thing ever. And I like Claire and her father as well.
Currently watching S1 of House and loving it. I really could care less about most of the medical plots but I LOVE House. I got pimped into the show when I met one of the writers, Matt Witton and they showed episodes of it and I couldn't believe how hilarious and smart and awesome House was. At the moment, I'm most enjoying him with Wilson and Cuddy and can definitely see where the slash is coming from. I find Foreman, Cameron and Chase all really boring though but thankfully House has good enough interactions with them that I don't mind. I can't wait to watch Bukowski (ie astolat's amazing vid) with context!
Still all about The Office these days. I was feeling pretty bummed the last week about not having episodes for another three weeks but then thankfully some new Michael/Jan spoilers came up and now I feel SO much better and excited for what's to come. I have officially turned into a total spoiler whore for this show. I just can't get enough! It's nice to finally have a fandom to call my own that I can love with all my being. It feels like people feel that way for Supernatural or QaF or whatever other show and I've never really had that. Not since Smallville and that was back in 2002. It's nice to be able to read all the news, spoilers, discussion, fic for my ship (hopefully more in the future), vids, etc and not get tired of it. Not to mention watching episodes as many times as I can. I've watched almost all the episodes 3 times now and my favorites a lot more than that. I can just listen to the show and just be entertained. It definitely helps with vidding. And good news is newpeats on tonight! I can't wait to see some of the new scenes added in.
I'm off to San Diego this weekend so I have no idea how much I'll be around. |
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| Meeting Melora *squee* |
[Mar. 6th, 2007|07:13 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | michael/jan, the office | ] |
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It's been a day and I am still filled with OMG I MET MELORA *squee*. For the second time in 3 days! It all started when Melora posted on her Myspace that she was doing a screening of the film she directed and acted in, YOU on Monday. She needed 20-30 people to watch it and fill out a questionaire. Thankfully it fit perfectly into my schedule so I headed off to LA. Thank god I had that excitement after a particularly sad spoiler made me sad Monday morning. So thankfully I get there perfectly at 4 and head into the studios which is always a bit movie surrealish. So I approach a group of people, not sure if it's the right place but as I get close I see her! *cue OMG moment* As I get close, she sees me and goes up to me, greets me, shakes my head (EEE) and smiles :D She said thanks so much for coming and I said, thanks for inviting me. And then the thing that made me SO happy:
SHE REMEMBERED ME!!! From the Paley Festival! *feels special* I was so psyched. She said they had a great time there and it was great to be with other people watching the episode and hearing the laughs. I said I loved it too as I had never watched The Office with other people except one time with people who weren't really fans and didn't get it (I'm talking about you Escapade people I kind of watched Cocktails with). Then she asked me what my name was again and I was like Ashley and it seemed like she remembered me from Myspace. She asked me where I was from and I said that I went to college in Orange. And then she asked me what my major was and I said Psychology. Have I mentioned the part where I'm having a personal conversation with Melora Hardin where she's actually asking about ME?? I will never get over that. She was just so nice and interested and caring and just *happy sigh*
So then I reiterated that I love Michael and Jan and that they were my Jim and Pam. And I said that there were a lot of people who loved them too (yay fellow M/J fans!). You could tell she was really happy to hear that, she was so thankful to me about The Office love. I told her that I was trying to convert all my friends to watch it and already had gotten two of them even though they were more Jim/Pam fans. But yeah, have I mentioned that she looked just as absolutely beautiful as ever?? She was wearing jeans (Casino Nightesque), a white with blue stripes shirt and a black vest with her hair up looking similar to how it was in Cocktails. She looked professional but casual which fit the setting. She invited me to have some drinks and sit down and was just so nice to me. You could tell she was the director of it all and she was definitely a great host of it. After I just had the biggest holy shit! moment that I actually talked to Melora. So surreal. And then I hung around awhile and mostly watched her a lot in total amazement that I was in her presence. Yeah, sometimes I'm just the biggest fangirl. But she sounded like Jan! So freaking weird to hear her and actually be there.
So then I went to see the movie which I loved. Melora was amazing with the acting and it was great to see Brenda Strong who I loved in Everwood/Desperate Housewives and Allison Mack who I love in Smallville. I really liked some of the visuals and editing in the movie as well. It's definitely a very emotional, touching movie with some great scenes of comedy and a very loving, family feel. It's basically about a man whose wife dies but he still sees visions of her while he tries to raise his daughter. ( Some minor spoilers for the movie with a distinct Michael/Jan focus ) So when the movie comes out, everyone should go see it! Support Melora, she's awesome.
So then I filled out the questionaire which took forever because I am such a perfectionist and wanted to make sure to give Melora good feedback (very similar to my fannish feedback habits of course). I was the last one to finish which wasn't the best thing to do since I still had to ask her about future episodes. I heard her talking on her cell phone to her daughter at one point and it was just sooo cute. She said "I love you" to her! I saw her father and mother there too and her mother was actually there when I went down to talk to her before I left. I went up to her and she thanked me so much for coming and I said I was really glad to come and that I had really loved the movie and that she was awesome in it. Melora thanked me and smiled and was just really grateful. So then I mustered up the courage to ask what all of us Michael/Jan fans are dying to know, "I was wondering if you could tell me anything about Michael and Jan in the upcoming episodes." She laughed a little and said it was cute but that she really didn't know much. But she did tell me ( Spoilers for The Office under the cut ) She thanked me again for coming and I said that I had a wonderful time and thanks for inviting me.
So yeah, that was my experience. I wish I had gotten more from her in the way of spoilers but my mind was going blank at the time from meeting her and I didn't want to pressure her too much or hold her up from going to dinner. I was just BURSTING with love after meeting her though. It's so great to actually be able to talk to a celebrity in a relaxed setting. I like one on one talk the best so this was just the coolest experience. Melora is officially my favorite actress and an absolutely amazing person. And I LOVE LA for providing me with this oppurtunity. I'm fastly growing addicted to it and now can't wait to meet The Office cast again and especially her (and Steve if I get the chance). It's nice that she's not a HUGE name so it's easier to get to meet her. I've been listening to some of Melora's music the past few days (still waiting for her cd) and I just love it. She's so multitalented. Here's my favorite of the ones I've listened to:
Melora Hardin - All Messed Up So sexy, catchy and great.
I'm still reeling from meeting her. *channels Michael* I LOVE THIS WOMAN!!!! |
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| The Office Paley Festival Report |
[Mar. 4th, 2007|12:18 am] |
So I'm going to start right from the beginning. I see the DGA and am all excited and nervous about finally getting to see the cast of The Office in real life. Immediately outside, I see a guy in a suit and I'm like, OMG is that Darryl? Which it is! So I'm speechless and just look at him as I pass and then finally I say, "I love the show and I love your character and how you play him!" as he walks past me and he looks at me and smiles. So already I was off to a great start and SO excited about getting to see the cast. I walk in the DGA and there's a long line of people hoping to get a ticket to the left and right ahead of them is the MTR signs with all the cast with lots of photographers standing in my line of view. I go up to the box office they have there to get my ticket (problem with my membership number, long story, dont ask) and as I wait through all the people I see MELORA. And she looked gorgeous and I was just all excited that I was in the same room with her. Such a fangirl OMG moment. I had a bunch more of those as I saw Kate, Paul, Brian and Phyllis. Later on Ed and Rashida came out and had a bunch of pictures taken of them. Much easier to see them. So finally I get into my seat and the cast comes out with Melora coming out first and then she goes to sit 10 rows ahead of me! So surreal to actually be able to see her hair lol. All of the cast sat up front to watch Cocktails (SO happy they showed that!), the next episode and then the blooper reel which I was so excited to see. They really are so nice to fans. It was so fun to see Cocktails with a group, everyone was laughing at all the funny parts including the Michael/Jan scenes which made me happy to see. And there was lots of awws for Toby and Pam which was cute.
First a disclaimer: I may have remembered something wrong or misread something in my notes and wrote something down wrong.
( SPOILER ALERT: Detailed (with quotes) spoilers for the upcoming episode )
( Q&A )
( Meeting and Autographs ) |
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[Mar. 3rd, 2007|03:02 am] |
Have I mentioned that The Office has the BEST CAST EVER recently? Cause it totally does. And I met them!! I went to The Paley Festival tonight and had one of the best experiences ever. First things first, I MET MELORA AND STEVE!!! Yes, Steve was there to my complete shock and delight. I got an autograph and a picture with each of them and told them how much I loved Michael and Jan not to mention their acting. And I also got a picture and autograph from Rainn (LOVE) and a picture with Angela and an autograph from Jenna and pictures of a bunch of other cast members. And I talked with Greg Daniels! Who is very cool.
Biggest news on the Michael/Jan front? We saw about 10-15 minutes of the next (? wasnt clear on that) episode and Jan is there!! With Michael and OMG it is hilarious. I may just love this ship times infinity. Michael is just so awesome in this episode, there are no words. And there was a blooper reel that made me LMAO and they showed Cocktails which made me happy. And Steve kissed Oscar! For real this time. Oh Steve, how I love you. I have notes on everything but the blooper reel so I'll share that tomorrow. I just can't believe I met them!! Totally worth all the money. Oh and they all look just as gorgeous in person. What an amazing, wonderful, squeeful night *happy sigh*
ETA: Okay I have no strength to resist Michael/Jan so I typed up some of their stuff in the part of the episode that was shown. Beware, LOTS of spoilers under the cut including quotes, plot details and jokes:
( Read more... )
Okay, really going to bed now. |
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| The Office obsession |
[Feb. 13th, 2007|09:53 pm] |
I don't know if I've ever been this obsessed with a television show before. It's so crazy but I can't help it. Somehow this show gets to me from my intense LOVE of all the characters to it making me laugh all the time to all its brillance to the amazing way they use the camera to plots that are so perfect to the awesome cast who are great with fans. I'm being bad with catching up with other shows but it's hard when my mind is on The Office all the time. I need a new episode like NOW. I've seen all the episode previews for the next episode (which are way too funny) and I still can't get enough. Not to mention I'm dying to see the February 22nd episode. So here is my obsessed list for The Office...
( You know you're obsessed with The Office when... )
( You know you're obsessed with Michael/Jan when... ) |
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| Thursday TV Roundup |
[Feb. 5th, 2007|07:46 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | arrested development, california, college, due south, gilmore girls, grey's anatomy, mark/addison, michael/jan, rl, supernatural, the office | ] |
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Happy Birthday sisabet and coffeeandink! It was great to meet both of you at Vividcon :) Also Happy Belated Birthdays to yhlee, almostcanon and clayangel! Hope you all had great days.
Nothing makes me happier than walking outside into 80 degree, sunshine filled days. It puts a smile on my face whenever I do it, knowing that I'm living the dream when I would have been freezing only a year ago. Second semester has begun and my days are pretty packed from 8-5. The good news is I'm making a lot of money and taking two awesome classes I'm loving, Social Psychology and Cognitive Psychology. So interesting and the professors seem great so far.
I'm still obsessed with The Office and have now rewatched all the episodes twice. I'm planning a third rewatching as well. It's just SO GOOD and I am completely in love with all the characters (except Andy). The show makes me so happy with Michael always making me smile. I've been watching a bunch of vids for it and found two that were well edited and wonderful here: http://4am-insomniac.com/?cat=3 with Love Machine being fast paced and fun and Lovin' Each Day being super cute, funny Jim/Pam goodness. Since I've been in a comedy mood, I've been rewatching Arrested Development and I think although both shows are about equal in quality, The Office has been more successful because of its ability to fully love and relate to the characters as well as having a big ship that people can get behind. I tried 30 Rock but didn't find it that funny and I'm beginning Scrubs now which I have yet to form an opinion on yet. And I'm still continuing to watch Gilmore Girls and Due South, both which I still enjoy very much.
Thursday night is definitely the best night of the week with The Office, Supernatural and Grey's Anatomy.
( The Office - Ben Franklin )
( Supernatural: Playthings through Houses of the Holy )
( Grey's Anatomy - Wishin and Hopin )
Is it Thursday yet? |
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| Michael/Jan thoughts |
[Jan. 24th, 2007|01:13 pm] |
So it's official: I completely and utterly ship Michael/Jan together on The Office. After seeing Back From Vacation, I'm all in. Since last Thursday I've been crazy about them and it hasn't died down much. I enjoy Jim and Pam but they don't interest me like Michael and Jan do.
( Thoughts on Back From Vacation (Spoilers) )
From the start, Jan ie Melora Hardin reminded me of someone I had seen before but I couldn't place her. I checked the IMDB but she hadn't been in anything I had seen. Then I realised it was her voice that was reminding me of something. Finally I figured it out: she reminds me of Claire Allen aka Paula Marsha from Cupid. And wow, does Trevor/Claire parallel Michael/Jan. Michael and Trevor both have that childish innocence to them, the enthusiasm and boundless confidence not to mention suffer (slightly) from delusions. Not to mention they both believe so strongly in romance (you complete me!!) and sex. Jan and Claire are so alike in their professional attitudes and hardened exterior and belief more in compatibility. And they both try to keep their relationship purely professional but thank god, in this show Michael and Jan actually get to kiss. Hopefully this will make me slightly less bitter about never getting to see what happened with Trevor and Claire.
Now I'm just nervous where the show is going to go with their relationship. I've been dying the last two episodes to see them with sadly (almost) nothing and I can't believe I have to wait another week to see a new episode. I am obsessing on The Office at the moment. It's just SO GOOD and the actors are all a class act. Which speaking of, I'm going to get to meet almost all of them March 2nd! Hopefully I'll be able to go to the Paley Festival where everyone besides Steve Carell is going to be there including Melora Hardin *squee* I really, really can't wait.
I'm kind of dying to vid Michael and Jan. They have the best facial expressions. I have been listening to a bunch of ridiculously romantic songs that express my love for them but it's not really their relationship. And I really should vid existing vid projects. But I need to express my obsessive love for them so I found a song I think will work. I went out to buy the DVDs on Saturday so I've got those all set up. And they also have some great deleted scenes and commentaries with some great mentions including one of my favorite quotes right here:
"Any single-cell organism has to have a spine. And that's me. But the spine is always controlled by a brain and that is Jan. But the brain needs a heart and that is me again. So ironic. You know what? The heart is smarter than the brain. But...the brain is so effin' hot." -Michael Scott |
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| The Office *squee* |
[Jan. 17th, 2007|10:11 pm] |
OMG I love The Office! I was merely enjoying it yesterday and now it has blown into fullblown, addicted completely must watch every episode, love every character and relationship and makes me LMAO ALL the time, full fannish glee. I am so amazed by it, the acting, writing and cinematography (the camera is a character!) is all so well done. It's almost equal to Arrested Development in its brilliance. Maybe it is, I have to go back and watch AD to compare. But anyway, wow. I have never laughed so hard in my life for some of these moments and it does it in such a unique way. I love how the show mixes both the outrageous and normal, the cruel and the kind, the happy and the heartbreaking.
And yeah, I love Michael. I know he's horrible and can be such an idiot and say the worst things...but I can't help but adore him. He tries so hard, it's so obvious how desperate he is for others to like him, to be his friend and yet he has no idea how to go about it which further isolates him. It kills me, it really does. But then he does the cutest things with kids or with trying to defend his office family, I love it. Steve Carell is made of awesome; I saw him in Little Miss Sunshine again today (LOVE!) and he was amazing. But anyways, his relationship with Dwight is particularly hilarious (they both have that neediness to them that so works with them) and I have grown to love Dwight more than I ever thought I would. His geekiness is too cute. Speaking of cute, Jim and Pam are made of it and too adorable. I wouldn't say I ship them but I certainly like them together. I love them both, but Roy and Katie were the worst choices of boyfriend/girlfriend that I have ever seen. Especially Roy, I can't understand sticking with a guy who would treat you like that. But anyway, I adore all the secondary characters too and I absolutely love the family moments between them even with all their issues with each other. And I have this strange attraction to Michael/Jan but more in a push/pull "I can't believe I'm doing this" kind of way.
Seriously, so much LOVE for this show. I've marathoned the entire S2 from 204 today and just saw 301 which was made of awesome and OMG so funny. I am dying to see more but sadly reached my sendspace limit and bittorrent is not working. Argh. I totally rec this show to everyone though and if by chance you know of any good vids to it, link me up.
In other news, I'm officially going to see Greg Proops and Wayne Brady in Largo (in LA- *loves CA*) on January 24th. Can't wait! Now I will have seen all of the main Whose Line members in a span of three months. Niice. Which btw, Whose Line was mentioned on The Office! Michael said he learned all his improv skills from the best, "Drew Carey and Ryan Stiles". Now the first, while wrong, works for Michael but I was all happy with the Ryan mention. And as an added bonus, Chip Esten was in two episodes. That was awesome. Oh and there was even a Queer as Folk mention..."Queer as Fuck". Hahaha., |
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