http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/soa/ (from the "Shield" people I believe),

and passed on the "Pretty - Handsome" pilot (which was about a trans-sexual and his family).

I would have never said this even 5 years ago, but basic cable channels like FX, USA, and AMC have really changed the American TV landscape for the better by offering some original dramas that would never make it on the big networks. And they offer summer programming and it's nice to have new programming year around.

And it can only be good for the big cheese nets to know that they are no longer the only game in town.

“That Old Gang of Mine” was really, incredibly, amazingly, astoundingly good. I was on edge during the final confrontation in the bar. Even knowing that Angel wasn’t going to get killed I still just couldn’t fathom how the stand-off would be resolved. For a moment I wondered if Gunn was going to be killed. It was quite simply some incredibly moving writing and acting all around. One of the things that really strikes me about this show is the urban setting. Sure, you get a bit of color-blind casting in your space operas like B5, DS9, and BSG, but you can’t play with the inner city element. And so far I’ve been very impressed with how race issues are handled, and yet not force fed. The allegory behind having the black gang members killing demons for fun equaling lynch mobs in the South during Reconstruction was certainly poignant but it also would have been lessened if they had taken the time to explain it to the viewer. They accepted that I was smart enough to get there on my own and it was wonderful. I can only imagine how painfully it would have been pointed out step by step if this was on TV now. *shudder* There was a recent article in Entertainment Weekly talking about how white TV is today. I kept calling that to mind while watching Gunn struggling with being pulled in two different directions, trying to honor obligations to himself and others. It was powerful stuff. And Wesley! Holy crap. His behavior during the hostage situation and then his dressing down of Gunn afterwards was chilling and beautiful. He has obviously not forgotten the lessons in warfare that he shared with Gunn in Pylea.

“Carpe Noctem” had a lot to live up to following that tour de force and while it wasn’t as earth-shattering, I still completely and utterly enjoyed myself. I mean, who doesn’t love a good body-snatching story? Obviously there were some similarities to The Tale of the Body Thief but that didn’t bother me one bit. They really had fun with mistaken identity, too, and it felt almost like Moliere at times! Looking down at his outfit, “Of course I am”. HEE! The same line being used on all three of the ladies. Lilah totally making out with him! HA! (I had wondered if some of her previous obvious fear was also titillation. *snicker*) Biting her, “It just seemed like the thing to do.” And something that I found interesting was that Horny Old Man!Angel was totally hot. I mean, I’m not really into Angel particularly. He’s good looking but DB is one of those people that is more attractive in motion than in a still so screenshots and whatever don’t really do anything for me. However. Watching him saunter into the club, strut over to the bar, cockily pick up that chick, and joyfully kick the shit out of those dudes? Yowza! Mama likes! Clearly I have issues. Heh. I was glad that they used this as a way to finally deal with Fred’s knight-on-a-white-horse crush on Angel. It had been cute and understandable but it had to go. And no Buffy? What?! What?! [/Doctor Ten] That phone call device was lame. On both shows.

I'll post a picture later cause I have to head off to work.

But does anyone know what Q-Tip's hairstyle in She hate me was called?

I need it for a new character I'm creating.

Gracias.

my broham is accusing me of luring him to lj, then ditching him, which i kind of did. i'm sure most of you have forgotten about me by now, but i guess i'll explain why i haven't been here for a few months.

( a bit of catharsis after the cut )

so this interview with david is amazing for a lot of reasons. they call him "he of the soaring voice, mercurial hair and indie attitude." he mentions that he's been listening to imogen heap. he says things like "To me, there's a very abrupt disconnect if I go on stage in bicycle shorts and a tank top to sing "One" by U2" and "But hey, I was on a TV show with Barack Obama! At the end of the day, that's all I have to say."

and most importantly, it has this:

Q: You're called "word nerd" because you like word puzzles. Do you read much?

A: As much as I can. I read a lot of poetry. ("Fight Club" author) Chuck Palahniuk — I'm really into his work. Autobiographies. "The Road to Dallas," about the JFK assassination, I'm thumbing through that.

david cook, you did not even just namedrop my favorite author. SHUT UP! gah. this pleases me, tho, not only because omghelikeschuckpalahniuk! but also because there's a book i want to give him and i'm now firmly convinced that he'll enjoy it as much as i was thinking he might. :D

I sit here in W. Mass writing letters for vet offices to hire me for the next year. Also, I'm reading Valley of the Horses, in order to get my novel and sex scene on. (I was promised lots of sex-prose when two people told me about the book at a dinner party, but so far I've only come across one encounter. Hopefully, the second half of the book contains a greater number of titillating passages.)

Anyhow, I need more pictures of chicken-duck hybrids.



This is the best picture I could find, and it is woefully inadequate.

One of my coworkers told me that her neighbors had a few of these walking around back in the day. The coworker had pictures, but she didn't like me very much, and also I never asked her to bring any in before I resigned. At any rate, I don't think the coworker was the type of girl to waste hours looking at photoshopped images. I take her story at face value. I've tried to google down other references to these creatures, but with little success. Maybe I should re-contact Mr. Excellent Internet Date who dissed me, but, before he dissed me, also said he could google down anything, even if I am over e-dating. I mean, the man was totally sure he could find an image of that woman with the tumor coming out of her chest that contained a rudimentary mouth-looking structure. (I have been looking for this image for a decade, and my friend even saw it on tv, and when I offered to make out with Mr. Excellent Internet Date if he found the image, he promptly got out his laptop. I suggested we save the image searching  --> making out for after we had gotten to know each other better, because I was pretty sure we'd hang out again. Alas. I am glad that I stuck to my guns, which held up my pants, on the not making out issue, but goddamn, I want a picture of that woman's chest tumor that she had to lay on top of.)

If you are Mr. Internet Date and you are reading this, you took my one hitter in your jacket pocket on accident. You can't exactly send that shit through the mail, and I've not wanted to bother you by asking for it. But could you give me back the one-hitter, in person, and google down this image, and I will make you platonic dinner out of puppies, and then we will not make out, and I will not contact you the next day to let you know that I really really really think you are snazzy? Me and that one hitter have had times together, ya know?

If you are anybody and you find me more pictures and information about chicken-duck crossbreeding, I will, like, lurve you forever and we will probably not make out.

Also, I am trying to find that indie song from like 2006 or 2007 about Britney Spears and how she thinks back to when she was with Justin and the refrain of the song is

Justin Timberlake
Justin Timberlake
Justin Timberla-a-ake

Justin Timberlake
Justin Timberlake
Justin Timberla-a-ake

If you find that, I will also be your friend and we can hang out, even if I never left my one hitter in your cute leather jacket.

Your result for The Are You Truly Erudite? Test...

True English Nerd

You scored 84 erudition!

Take The Are You Truly Erudite? Test at HelloQuizzy

good to know that some of the mostly useless info floating around in my head is handy for some things.

(Inspired by sf_drama ...)

My parents get disappointed of me a lot. Some of the time, I agree with their reaction because I'm disappointed with myself. I do dumbass things. I think I may have a form of ADHD, which includes poor impulse control, but some things I do I have no excuse for, and I'd much rather be called on my dumbassery than continue with it.

On the other hand, my parents are often disappointed in me for what I think are stupid reasons.

• The doctor said I might have PCOS and prescribed birth control pills. My mother is disappointed in me. Even though, as I pointed out, they were legally prescribed medications to improve my health! She said they "weren't natural."
• My mother and father are also disappointed in me for taking anti-depressants.
• My mother is disappointed in me for not keeping my room and the house clean enough for her, although, as she said herself, I do more chores than anyone else and she, in general, has no complaints about that.
• My mom was disappointed in me when I didn't have a job. Now that I have a job, she is still disappointed in me.
• My mom is disappointed in me for going to therapy every week.
• My mom is disappointed in me for ... being honest, I guess, because she doesn't like it that I tell the doctor about the side effects I experience. I don't know. She says I'm a hypochondriac or something.
• My father was disappointed in me for not being a boy.
• My father is disappointed that I don't enjoy music or concerts.
• Both my parents were disappointed that I didn't want to continue playing French horn throughout high school. In fact, I think they never forgave me for quitting. What the hell.
• I went to a state school on a full-tuition scholarship and almost graduated in three and a half years when the average is fast creeping up to five years. My mom is disappointed in me for spending too much money on college. Hey, tuition is a wee bit higher than when you went to school for $200 a quarter.
• My father is disappointed in me for not having a Southern accent.
• My dad is also disappointed in me for liking movies and television, because he doesn't enjoy them.
• My mother is disappointed that I spend so much time on the computer and I kind of agree with her.
• Both my parents are disappointed that I occasionally drink.
• My grandmother (let's throw her in here) was disappointed that I hadn't dated anyone until I went out on one lousy date with a stupid guy. Then she was forever okay with the situation.
• I had a nervous breakdown wherein I couldn't log onto my online class without fearing a panic attack and subsequently I failed it. All the time, while opposing me taking medication or seeing my therapist, my mother insisted that I was just being lazy and a liar and failing on purpose. Help.
• My mom was disappointed in me that I gained fifteen pounds. Whatever, lady.
• My mom was also disappointed in me for cooking a lot of yummy desserts. My dad was disappointed that I stopped cooking yummy desserts.
• My mom haaaaaates it when I dye my hair.
• My dad is disappointed that I don't like our boring old church and its lack-of-a-sunday-school-program-for-kids-my-age. Mom's on my side on this one.
• My dad is disappointed in me when I sleep in.
• My mother is disappointed in me when I get up early.
• Both my parents are disappointed in me when I stay up late but they're always in bed so they don't know.
• My dad is disappointed that I don't exercise.
• My mom got very disappointed in me when I got lost on the way to the pizza place and on the way to Isaac's school.
• I once wrote an email to my brother that included the exclamation "Jesus Christ!" My dad was disappointed in me for using bad language. I was just being religious.
• My dad gets disappointed in me when I overdraw my bank account.
• My mother gets really pissed off at me when I put my laundry in the machine and then forget to put it in the dryer (I always forget that!), when I forget to put my dishes in the dishwasher (always), when I leave stuff in the living room (always), when I don't hang my coat up (actually I'm pretty good at remembering this one), when I don't make my bed (almost always), when I go four or five days without showering (often), when I leave stuff on the bathroom counters (often), and when I listen to music (rare).
• Conversely, I get really mad at mom when she dumps out my drinks and puts them in the dishwasher before I'm done with them, which is always. She does it when there's like an inch of tea left in the cup! She tries, though, and she's getting better at not dumping them out.

Edited to add: I know I'm repeating myself here, but ... Jesus Christ!

This was supposed to be comedy. There was a post on sf_drama about "how you've disappointed your parents" that I would have linked to but it's only visible to community members, and I thought it and the responses were pretty humorous. sf_drama is a mocking comm, after all. Instead this post when horribly, horribly wrong DON'T YOU GUYS I DON'T HAVE MEDICATION FOR BREAKTHROUGH ANXIETY! If you must fight do it where I can't see it! It's a huge trigger for me. Now what am I supposed to do? Take muscle relaxers?! Stupid fucking meds and stupid fucking doctors.

CNN had to jump into the A-Rod/C-Ro divorce fray. Makes since cuz we ALL know what special importatnt news THAT we just NEED to know. So that isn't the reason they score one.

No...they get it for playing Madonna's "This Used to Be My Playground" w/ a montage of A-Rod & Madonna footage. IDK why but I started lmao...THAT shit was HILARIOUS!!!

I love sly humor & random connections...

so, david cook told fans to go ahead and pirate the hell out of his pre-idol solo album. and if you haven't caught on by now, i'm kind of his bitch, so i figured i'd go ahead and do my part.

i'm admittedly biased, but i honestly love it. if you're at all interested in him, i highly suggest giving it a download. it's really catchy, very honest rock music.


>> download <<

tracklist:
01. straight ahead
02. don't say a word
03. fall back into me
04. the truth
05. searchlights
06. porcelain
07. stitches
08. let go
09. makeover
10. silver

http://io9.com/5022250/why-steven-moffat-isnt-all-that

So, I am assuming all of this feminist rage against Moffat stems from his remarks that women can be more needy than men, etc.

Well, he's not picking his notions up out of thin air. I have known women who are that needy when it comes to men, who are always looking for validation through getting a man or keeping a man. My mother's generation was taught they had to find a husband to be "complete". That thinking and belief is not in the distant past.

But he is putting a bulls eye on his chest when he says stuff like that because he is a man and no woman is going to thank him for extrapolating on this subject.

I am craving h/c like whoah right now, it's insanely strong. I think it has a lot to do with the fact that I slept for 3 hours last night and have procesesed a lot of emotional type stuff in the last week. I kinda feel like a good cry might do me good, but am not going to get there on my own, I guess?

Hmm. Or a Star Wars AU. Man, Spencer as Luke? Gahhhhh. Nom nom. I mean, Ryan might fit better, and I really can't think of a way to make Spencer Han (what with his childhood ties to Ryan), even though I'd looooooove to see him in Han's trousers. Ooh, Firefly au!

Ok, Spencer generally rates a nom nom whatever he does. Spencerrrrr, show me your tiny v-neck suntan again.

So, um, yeah, if anyone wants to rec me some h/c? That'd be awesome. I'm saving the wonderful sounding harem/slave AU until it's all posted.

i posted really huge, really pretty david cook picspam the other day, in case anyone missed it.

have you guys heard that starbucks is closing 600 locations? :( i heard it on CNN at the gym the other day, and today i found out my usual place is one of the ones that'll be closing. woe.

speaking of the gym - when i first started, my trainer wanted me to do bench dips and i literally couldn't do it. i kind of half-ass managed about three. the other day i did thirty. it felt fucking rad.

i'm going down to florida on thursday, and seeing jovi and adrienne and dar and jen (and, uh, idk, probably other people) at warped on saturday!! also, y'know, cobras and such. and jack's mannequin, omfg, am i the only one who cares about that? i will stand there by myself if i have to. is there a schedule somewhere? i'm probably the only one who wants to see mayday parade, too, aren't i?

i bought red lipstick today and i think i like it. i'm pretty sure that i could be a girl who wears red lipstick.

eta: also, i always forget how much i love things like the velvet underground and david bowie until i listen to them and wish i could crawl inside the songs and just live there, covered in glitter.

so. google has found a way to make me waste time and do poorly (or more poorly) in school.

google image labeler
it's like a game where you come up with labels for an image at the same time as your anonymousey partner, and you have 2 minutes. when you get a match, you get points (i think more points for how much earlier you come up with a match? i'm not entirely clear on the points system.) the goal (for you) is to get as many points as possible so you can be amongst their top 5. the goal (for them) is apparently to get more labels for their images, so they can then have better hits image search, or something. idk.

whatever, all that matters is that this game/psych expermient/putting customers to work for them is ridiculously addictive.