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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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| Canadian TV fangirl, right here. |
[Nov. 14th, 2009|01:29 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  pleased | ] |
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] |
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| | 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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| Clever, title people. Clever, clever. |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|10:15 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  amused | ] |
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] |
| [ | mood |
| |  exanimate | ] |
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. )
*~*~*
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] |
| [ | mood |
| |  relaxed | ] |
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] |
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| |  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.
*~*~*
Vampire Diaries, '162 Candles': ( Damon has a cunning plan! )
*~*~*
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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| meta meta meta meta meta |
[Nov. 5th, 2009|10:20 pm] |
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| | giggly | ] |
Supernatural, 'Changing Channels':
AAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
...hee. *g*
And then! NEXT WEEK. I...oh. Oh.
Oh. *battens hatches*
(When does the last ep before winter hiatus air? I find myself in need of knowing this.) |
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| Alien like... |
[Nov. 4th, 2009|05:03 am] |
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| | chipper | ] |
| [ | music |
| | 'Mississippi Queen'. On a loop in my head. | ] |
Being Erica, 'The Unkindest Cut': ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) monimala, I think you will approve of this episode. *g* ( Yes, they did indeed rhyme 'bitches' with 'itches'. )
In general, this episode made me go \o/.
*~*~*
V: as with Battlestar Galactica, I am too young to have caught the original, or even to have been aware of the original before a somewhat recent marathon on Space, so I have no idea what it was like or how good it was. As for the new version (which, like Flash Forward, is packed to the rafters with actors I like): ( Hmm. )
I'll give it its first four episodes, 'cause--again, as with Flash Forward--I like most of the cast from other things, and the pilot didn't suck. Beyond that, though...well, as much as I love Gabrielle Union and Jack Davenport and John Cho et al, I've fallen asleep during the last two episodes of FF, so clearly, Actor Appreciation can only take me so far. *g* |
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| A post about defying stuff. |
[Nov. 3rd, 2009|04:43 am] |
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| | calm | ] |
James Parriot tells us all what would've happened had Defying Gravity not been cancelled. He also makes a revealing (and unsurprising) comment or two about ABC's treatment of the show.
Some interesting stuff in there, especially about Nadia, Eve, and Mars. It would've been nice to see how everything unfolded.
*~*~*
I flirted with doing NaNo this year, but ultimately, the sheer, gut-wrenching, two-year-old-tantrum-ish levels of "I don't WANNA!" that spiked every time I seriously anticipated having to wring 50,000 words of original story out of my brain in a single month convinced me not to.
Is my inner tantruming two-year-old something I should probably make myself get over at some point? Yes. Yes, it is.
But not this month.
*~*~*
I heard a radio ad the other night in which a man with a Very Serious Voice posed various questions about the nature of the human soul, what happens after death, whether true evil truly exists, whether there's a force for good to provide counterbalance, and if so, what happens when those opposing forces come into contact--and conflict--with humanity?
And now I'm desperate to hear it again. Because it turned out to be an ad for this.
*g* |
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| I would have revealed the recasts to have been evil robots. |
[Oct. 31st, 2009|04:18 am] |
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This week ended my dream of Jonathan Jackson's return to General Hospital retconning every damn thing that's happened with the character of Lucky Spencer since 1999. ( The Spencer family as a whole could use a reset button, at this point. )
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White Collar: I have a problem with this show. In expository scenes where necessary information is being relayed, they keep cutting to Neal, and when they do that, everything goes out of my head except my awareness that Matt Bomer is freakishly gorgeous. So when they cut away from him again, I'm left thinking about his eyes or his cheekbones or the way he wears a jaunty hat or whatever, and have no clue what's happening plot-wise.
...it is totally a problem, okay? THOSE EYES, OMG. He was not this pretty on Traveller! I remember! He wasn't! What happened?? |
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| *inner wail* |
[Oct. 30th, 2009|04:44 am] |
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| |  aggravated | ] |
...no, seriously, Work, why do you hate me and want me to suffer???
(You wouldn't think I'd be so desperate to know with only two and a quarter hours left before WEEKEND, and yet.
And. Yet.) |
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| Normally, I'd've been done everything by 2:00. I STILL HAVE THINGS LEFT TO DO. |
[Oct. 29th, 2009|04:39 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | busy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | something by AFI | ] |
Dear Work,
Why do you hate me and want me to suffer? What did I ever do to you???
Eyes fixed resolutely on the weekend,
Jayne
*~*~*
I have yet to see Jonathan Jackson's return to the role of Lucky on General Hospital, mostly because I've been so worn out from work this week I haven't been able to drag myself out of bed in time to watch. But that's what YouTube and this coming Friday evening are for! (This coming Friday evening is also for costume prep/dry run, as I am actually going out for Halloween this year! If I manage to look halfway decent, I shall take pictures.)
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Just over two hours 'til I can go to bed. And then just one more shift 'til my weekend. ONNNNNE MORRRRRRRE. |
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| "I *like* it!" |
[Oct. 28th, 2009|04:29 am] |
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| |  blah | ] |
Castle, 'Vampire Weekend': oh my god, ♥ ♥ ♥. ( I can really get behind this trend, you know. )
*~*~*
Being Erica, 'Shh...Don't Tell': I like the Jenny-centric episodes we've had this season, I do. ('Cultural Revolution' did a whole lot of things very, very right, and was an entertaining episode of TV, to boot!) I just...find I don't really feel much of a need to comment on them. *shrug* Sorry, Jenny! *g*
Oh, one nonspoilery thing, though: Brent. Brent, Brent, Brent. (I am amused by Brent. He is...amusing. :)
Next week, according to the promo, we're going to get at least one absolutely atrocious wig. So, there's that to look forward to. |
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| My vague germophobia also contributes to my o.O reaction. |
[Oct. 27th, 2009|04:27 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  tired | ] |
Driving home yesterday, I heard one of the morning radio hosts talking about an invitation she'd received to a party being held for moms and their kids aged 5+, where the attendees will hug and kiss and play and share cups and spoons while they drink gingerale and eat chicken noodle soup in the hopes of contracting a mild case of H1N1.
In other words: people are organising swine flu pox parties. Which said people apparently thought was a good idea because, apparently, said people have also participated in chicken pox parties (which I would've thought would be utterly, pointlessly redundant and a waste of effort on the host's part, what with the way kids of chicken-poxing age spend most of their time sharing their belongings and breathing recirculated air and eating each others' lunches and otherwise effectively licking each other in this place known as "school").
Maybe this is because I do not have kids and will never have kids and became utterly divorced from the world of kids pretty much as soon as I myself stopped being one, but it is my general opinion that pox parties for any illness are A Bad Idea. Perhaps less so nowadays, with the first world's basic level and availability of medical care, than they were back in the days of Octavian Nothing--but then again, given the essential nature of contagion, perhaps as much as ever.
...pox parties. No.
*~*~*
This week's Dexter, 'Dirty Harry', ( did some spoilery stuff. ) |
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