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Reality Is Almost Always Wrong
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| Stickypost: Where To Find Stuff In This LJ |
[Jan. 1st, 2019|06:31 pm] |
My fanfic is in the process of being transferred from my now-defunct website to my DreamWidth journal. Eventually, everything will be available through DW Tags. My warning policy is here.
My vids can be found here.
My episode reviews and commentary are all Memoried by show.
Enjoy! |
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| *chinhands* |
[Nov. 22nd, 2009|01:04 am] |
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| |  dorky | ] |
I am half an hour into the special features on the Being Erica s1 DVDs. Thus far, Exec Producer Ivan Schneeberg has mentioned Power Play, ExecProd Aaron Martin referenced Star Trek, Creator/ExecProd Jana Sinyor called In Treatment "that awesome show that is fabulous", and when Michael Riley showed up onscreen, the first words out of Sinyor's mouth were, "We love him!"
I HAVE FOUND MY PEOPLE. |
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| ...unf. |
[Nov. 21st, 2009|02:35 am] |
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If Sean Maher ever guest stars on White Collar, I'm pretty sure my brain will short-circuit from Dark-Haired-Blue-Eyed-Finely-Chiseled-Slender-Men-In-Waistcoats-Hotassery*, and I will die.
With a smile on my face, but still: dead. So dead.
Neal Caffery: GUH. *nonverbal*
...like, I cannot come up with WORDS right now. *dazed*
*Do not even MENTION Misha Collins and his Chicago-convention SUIT to me right now. I AM ALREADY HAVING SYNAPSE ISSUES. *breathe* |
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| Following-up on posts from the past week: |
[Nov. 20th, 2009|06:40 am] |
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| |  lazy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | The Dears, 'No Cities Left' | ] |
Copypasta'd from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) obsessive24's comments, so I don't forget that I actually had thinky-thoughts about Doctor Who's 'The Waters of Mars' (as opposed to the spaztastic flailing that comprised my actual entry): ( Here be spoilers. )
*~*~*
The scene in which Brent cruises Doctor Tom is in s1's 'The Secret of Now'! (Just before he asks Erica out, and asserts his proclivity to play as broad a field as possible. *g*) It does exist, which gives me no end of relief, because I was not entirely comfortable with the notion that my brain had taken it upon itself to create memories of canonical slashy scenes out of whole cloth. (We're going to ignore, for the moment, the fact that I have yet to find any scenes featuring the dialogue I remember having occured between Erica and Brent about his chances with Doctor Tom. Because see above re: not entirely comfortable. o.O When it's fic, it's okay. When it's fake memories of non-canon that I think are canon, IT'S NOT OKAY. IT'S NOT. :(
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Dear Rob Salem of the Toronto Star,
Actually, I'd say the biggest problem with this year's Gemini Awards broadcast was that it could, very easily, have been mistaken for an American awards show. Especially in its unwatchability. (Seriously, Salem, did you see the past few years' Oscars and Emmys?)
For instance, while it's true that a Ron James-equivalent American comedian would never get to host the Emmys (although Jeff Foxworthy did host Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?, which, frankly, might as well count), I must question your assertion that American awards shows hold any acceptance speech "sacrosanct and inviolable". Had Erin Karpluk been up on the Emmys' stage, there totally would've been obtrusive music cutting her off at the thirty-second mark, and you know it.
You're absolutely right to say that, in theory, making an entertainment-awards show that looks nothing like American-style ballyhooing pomposity is, indeed, a very fine goal. In execution, though, I think this year's Geminis were trying way too hard to fall in line with the efforts of our southern neighbours. The show might have been cheaper, less glitzy, and more desperate than even the Emmys have been recently, but otherwise...there were no appreciable differences. Which, I suspect, is what Global wanted.
Which is a shame, because when there is an appreciable difference between the Geminis and the Emmys--that's when we end up with a broadcast worth watching.
With amiable dissention,
Jayne |
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| Um. :D |
[Nov. 17th, 2009|10:29 pm] |
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Being Erica, 'A River Runs Through It...It Being Egypt': ( Four things: ) |
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| In retrospect, waiting was a GOOD THING. |
[Nov. 16th, 2009|09:09 am] |
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Okay, so long story short, I seem to suffer under this curse whereby if I have Doctor Who on the brain while at work, work goes INSANE and leaves me a bitter husk of a human being by the time I go home. So even though I had 'The Waters of Mars' on my netbook, which was at work with me--and even though I could very easily have watched it in the dead hours after I finished everything--I chose to wait 'til I got home this morning. (Because if work goes INSANE when I'm only thinking about DW, I'd really hate to see what'd happen if I tried to actually watch it there.)
So I just finished watching, and ( Spoilery. *cough* )
*flails about* |
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| So, I'm doing Yuletide again. *nod* Yup. |
[Nov. 16th, 2009|05:22 am] |
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Dear Yuletide Author-Type,
I am easy. Really. ( I have but three guidelines for you. )
Upshot: write something that makes you happy to have written it, and I will be more than happy to read it.
Thank you, and I hope you have as much fun with your prompt as I plan to have with mine. (Because a vague comparison is nobody's friend: I plan to have lots of fun with my prompt. LOTS.
...yeeeees. *fingersteeple* ;)
Getting into the spirit of the ficcing season,
Jayne |
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| My first sentence kind of expresses my response in general, I think. |
[Nov. 15th, 2009|12:34 am] |
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Oh, bite me, CanWest. No red carpet this year, despite the show airing on both Global and Showcase; instead, Global's airing Project Runway: Canada, and Showcase has got some crappy movie. Sure, PR:C's bound to get more eyeballs than a Gemini red carpet would've; sure, Global's red carpet 'dos for the Geminis tend to try waaaaaay too hard for Hollywood-style glamour, only to end up as either unintentional comedy gold or squirm-inducing mortification. (These are Canadian TV awards, after all: we have no star system, and pretending we do only embarrasses everyone involved.)
But still. (I wanted to mock the Entertainment Tonight: Canada hosts' delusions of relevance! That's reliably the best part of having these things on Global. *sniffle*)
Sideline: an interesting article from The Globe and Mail: Buddy, can you spare a tux? (Please note that I'm linking to a G&M article because I couldn't find anything about the Geminis from the National Post, which is the national newspaper that's actually affiliated, parent-corporation-wise, with Global/Showcase.)
Anyway. On to the awards! (Did I mention that it's an hour and a half long, like, they couldn't even spare a full two hours? On friggin' SHOWCASE? *sigh*) ( I maintain that these things just should not be allowed to be done by CanWest. )
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Dear CBC,
You lost the Olympics to CTV. You lost the Geminis to Global (again). You lost the freaking Hockey Night In Canada theme song, which...I didn't know what a tradition-cognizant Canadian could say about that at the time, and I still don't.
I know times are tough, and your funding is always a bad morning on Parliament Hill away from disappearing completely, but dammit, pull up your socks. Your motto is, "Canada lives here," but if you keep this up, pretty soon there'll be nobody home.
And I'm not just talking about your audience.
Pulling for ya, 'cause we're all in this together,
Jayne |
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| Canadian TV fangirl, right here. |
[Nov. 14th, 2009|01:29 am] |
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You know all those stories I've told over the years, of hilarity and wonder on the annual Gemini Awards broadcast?
Well, YouTube--being the gift to humanity it so obviously is--provides, and now you can see what I've been blathering on about. NO WAIT COME BACK I DIDN'T MEAN IT I SWEAR!
...no, I totally meant it. WATCH MY COUNTRY'S FAUX-EMMYS, DAMN YOU!
*beam*
If you watch nothing else, WATCH THIS ONE. It's from the broadcast that made me a Geminis Fangirl, back in the mid-90s; I am really not kidding when I say that I shrieked and flailed when I saw it was online. From 1996, when Albert Schultz hosted (and I'm so sad there aren't more clips from this broadcast, because he was awesome--like, he opened with a musical number, and did a skit in which he played a grown-up Casey from Mr. Dressup), and was up against Paul Gross in the Best Actor category: Paul Gross fears for his life, and a reference to a recent political event brings the house down. (Everything pre-winner-announcement was scripted; everything afterward...not so much, I'm thinking. :D)
From 2003: Wendy Crewson does what every straight, red-blooded Canadian woman would, given the opportunity: she molests Ian Hanomansing. HANOMANSING. ♥
From 2007: George Stroumboulopoulos is careless with his words about the prairies.
Also from 2007: a look inside the retirement home for TV puppets, Felt With Feelings.
From 2007, again, some more: Kristin Kreuk and Sarah Chalke get acting lessons from Shaun Majumder.
From 2008: Yannick Bisson cannot keep a straight face when making raunchy jokes.
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This year's broadcast is a) on Global and b) hosted by Ron James, so I'm not expecting, you know, brilliance. But since it's on Global, there will most likely be a red carpet, which is always good for finding out who gets drunk before showing up.
:) |
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| La la la ICONIC YAY. |
[Nov. 13th, 2009|10:29 pm] |
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| | Muse, 'Guiding Light' | ] |
Smallville, 'Idol': ( *big, dorky smile* )
*a-flutter*
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This weekend: NEW DOCTOR WHO. \o/
Also? GEMINI AWARDS. \o/
I honestly cannot tell you which one has me more excited. IT WOULD BE LIKE CHOOSING A FAVOURITE CHILD. |
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| HELP I CAN'T FIND THE FOURTH WALL. |
[Nov. 12th, 2009|10:30 pm] |
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Supernatural, 'The Real Ghostbusters': I say this in the spirit of the dialogue I feel the SPN PTB have encouraged with the fannish types in its audience:
Dear Kripke,
Have you met your fanbase?
Just wondering,
Jayne
( Quick points: )
I reserve the right to expound upon any/all of this later.
*dashes to work* |
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| Clever, title people. Clever, clever. |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|10:15 pm] |
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Being Erica, 'Under My Thumb': ahahahaha. You Yanks with SoapNet will have to tell me whether they make any significant cuts to this episode. Something tells me there might be one or two. *g* ( Brief! But spoilery! )
Hee. |
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| What can I say? I like it when my existence is acknowledged. |
[Nov. 8th, 2009|07:04 am] |
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I've been thinking about this whole "interactive storytelling" thing TV's trying these days, and the difference, for some shows, between what it says on the label and what's actually in the can. ( Behind the cut-tag: Heroes, Castle, and Supernatural, discussed in a context that's only tangentially related to Marshall McLuhan. (NO WAIT DON'T--okay, I probably shouldn't have mentioned him, I see that now.) No spoilers for unaired episodes. )
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It has been...many years since last I wrote an essay.
I have been staring at this thing for hours.
I hope it makes at least a little bit of sense to somebody, somewhere. Somehow.
It's bedtime.
*faceplant* |
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| I can't be the only one who keeps an outtakes file. |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|06:29 am] |
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In lieu of doing the paragraph-DVD-commentary meme that's going around ('cause I still don't have all my fic up on DW yet, 'cause, uh, I've written kind of a lot of fic over the years and my patience for coding and back-posting is finite), here's a deleted scene from Primogeniture. (Well, "deleted" in the sense that it so didn't fit the story at all, but I'd already gone to the trouble of writing it, and I liked it, so I stuck it into my outtakes file in case I could find a use for it elsewhere. And this is apparently that use!)
( In which grown-up Claire Novak meets the Prophet Chuck. ) |
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| TV Catchup |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|01:54 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  indulging in a bevvie | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Patrick Wolf, 'Damaris' | ] |
A Thought re: next week's SPN: this probably falls into the same "the mere thought makes me grin for hours on end, but it's never going to actually happen" category as my wish for 'The End', but ( I feel that if I put this out into the universe, who knows what may happen? )
I am just saying.
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Vampire Diaries, '162 Candles': ( Damon has a cunning plan! )
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Smallville, 'Kandor', aka ( I can give you that, I really can. )
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And then there was Flashpoint, 'You Think You Know Someone', which featured ( a very similar precis to SV, entertainingly enough, only with a distinct lack of hair. ) |
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