Jayne L. ([info]serrico) wrote,
@ 2009-11-28 05:55:00
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Current mood: satisfied
Current music:Florence & the Machines, 'Howl'

Weekend mishmash.
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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[info]no_detective
2009-11-28 11:26 am UTC (link)
Yay, angel on top! I have a figurine of Batman that I use for this decorative purpose. The cape kinda looks like wings, and he's got... headgear, and... yeah, that's about as far as I can stretch the comparison.

"Deeply philosophically opposed" is the best description of my stance on the entire (A)I matter as well. AND YET. *sigh* He is too glam to resist, Jayne.

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[info]serrico
2009-11-28 11:35 am UTC (link)
I think fandom needs to be polled on the topic of Christmas tree toppers. (As it were. *ahem*) Something tells me fangirls can be very very creative in that arena. *g*

He is too glam to resist, Jayne.

He really kinda is. I *approve* of this. *APPROVAL*

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[info]akamarykate
2009-11-28 07:17 pm UTC (link)
"We did some odd things in the dark."

UMMMMMMMM. BOYS!

Yay, Christmas!

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[info]serrico
2009-11-28 11:00 pm UTC (link)
I *so* want to know about these "odd things"! I NEED TO KNOW. :)

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[info]naturelf
2009-11-30 04:28 am UTC (link)
I will admit to ranting - to my students in a class on American film and television - about how awesome the BBC is because they can scoop impressive sums of money from the taxpayers to make interesting television. It's hard to convince them that a public broadcaster can be something other than a punchline.

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[info]serrico
2009-11-30 09:49 am UTC (link)
Well, they're York film students who've probably had to take at least one of those courses that involves watching stuff on TVO.* ;) Throw in pledge drives and, as you said, the inevitable CBC/PBS-as-punchlines thing, and getting people to understand the BBC really *is* a bit of an uphill battle.

*Personally, I *love* Film 101, and wish there were more of it. I could watch a 24-hour marathon of that series and not get bored.

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[info]naturelf
2009-11-30 01:48 pm UTC (link)
Ah, they're non-majors. There's a kine major in there somewhere, but lots of people from the social sciences who wouldn't know the difference between a long shot and a wide angle if it swam up in their coffee. One of the questions I got in that particular class was why would the British people let their government charge them the licensing fee. ...sigh.

Preach it: I grew up watching Saturday Night at the Movies with my dad.

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[info]serrico
2009-12-01 03:24 am UTC (link)
Ahhhh, gotcha. Philistines, then. *nods sagely*

SNATM used to be so *good*! And now they're mired in the 70s, which in my own opinion is perhaps not the *nadir* decade of filmic achievement, but...close.

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