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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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| Destiny and chicken. |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|08:54 pm] |
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| |  bouncy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Kings of Leon, 'Closer' | ] |
Merlin, 'Sweet Dreams': Georgia Moffett, Bradley James and Colin Morgan need to get themselves into a production of Wilde or Shaw or Coward. Given how well and thoroughly they own Merlin-level comic writing, I think they would rock the fuck out of Wilde/Shaw/Coward-level witty British drawing-room comedy. Not to mention witty British drawing-room farce!
...oh. Oh! OR! Restoration comedies! Ohhhhh, James as Horner in The Country Wife. Moffett as Margery! Morgan as Sparkish!
Imagining that is going to keep me happy all day. :D [/nerd]
The other thing keeping me happy all day: oh my goodness, Gwen and Arthur.
...so pretty. ♥_♥
*happysigh* |
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| Weekend mishmash. |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|05:55 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  satisfied | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Florence & the Machines, 'Howl' | ] |
My apartment has achieved Christmas! (Yes, Castiel is back atop my tree. Traditions are important. [/Arthur Mitchell])
*~*~*
Dear Neal & Peter,
God, would you just make out, already???
Exasperatedly,
Jayne
*~*~*
I am...let's say deeply philosophically opposed...to the entire [Nationality] Idol oeuvre. (Sorry, Sebastian Pigott! If it's any consolation, I'm really enjoying your fledgling acting career! *thumbs up*) Nevertheless, my flist has been positively alight with commentary on the Adam Lambert-at-the-AMAs-but-not-on-Good Morning America thing of this past week, which made me curious enough to check out some of the clips people've posted--and I have to say that I really, truly appreciate Mr Lambert's showmanship (...yes, "showmanship") in his live performance. And I actually enjoy the album version of that song! (His live singing kind of makes me want him to stop with the pop stuff and go rock Broadway as his pipes were clearly made to do.)
Applause, sir! Canadian applause. (ABC is run by homophobic idiots.)
*~*~*
...um.
*HOWL*
From the Canuck perspective--being used to a national broadcaster that can barely afford the tiny, amputee's-handful of fictional dramas it can squeeze into its seasonal budget, never-even-mind tie-in historical galavants across the country--this is just. Frigging. HILARIOUS.
Oh, BBC. Oh. :D |
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| Because I know you've all been waiting on the edges of your seats: |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|04:34 am] |
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Well, it's taken me an extra hour and a half to get through all my usual paperwork, and I'm quite tired, but neither of those things can be attributed to my flu shots: they're more due to people being arrogant and entitled and annoying. I was so young and hopeful when I came to work here...
My right arm, which had the seasonal jab, is hunky-dory. My left arm, which had the H1N1 stick, is OWIE, and therefore as relaxed and motionless as I can keep it. Other than that, though, I haven't experienced any unpleasant side effects. (I don't tend to, after getting vaccinated for stuff, so I wasn't really expecting anything. But, well, NEW VACCINE HOMG WHAT WILL IT DOOOOOOOOO??!?!?)
I'm hoping this trend will continue, as I plan to put up my Christmas decorations this weekend, and I'd really like to, you know, enjoy doing that.
All that's left is to wait out the clock. *stares at clock*
*STARES AT IT* |
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| Ahaha. Ha. |
[Nov. 26th, 2009|09:04 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  optimistic | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Matthew Good, 'Vancouver' | ] |
Potential side effects: headache, pain at the injection site(s), tiredness, fever.
Let's see whether I come to regret getting both my flu shots before a full worknight.
*sg* |
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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.
ETA: Well, okay, he didn't mention it by name. He just said that Riley'd starred in another show, which might actually have been a reference to Chasing Rainbows. (Or This Is Wonderland, but that was more an ensemble deal.) EITHER WAY, clearly, this man either worked on those shows (and he's way too young to have done CR), or can be counted among the few, the proud, the Canadians-who-watch-Canadian-TV. *starry-eyes* |
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| ...unf. |
[Nov. 21st, 2009|02:35 am] |
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| |  dirty | ] |
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. :(
*~*~*
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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| | hyper | ] |
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. )
*~*~*
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.
*~*~*
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] |
| [ | mood |
| | chipper | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Muse, 'Guiding Light' | ] |
Smallville, 'Idol': ( *big, dorky smile* )
*a-flutter*
*~*~*
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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| |  rushed | ] |
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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