a) SO. Back the other week when I was falling around my house making everything sticky with the sweet touch of margaritas, I watched
Touch of Pink, which is an adorable gay romcom that
beckaandzac let me borrow. IT WAS AMAZING. First of all, Tracker from the new Degrassi (Sean's older brother) was in it as the adorable gayface love interest. OMFG he was lovely. *_*! It was just really awesome all-around, and was quite good compared to most gay romcoms, writing-wise. For some reason they tend to pretty much all sort of suck? For some sad reason? But this one was genuinely funny and had a good heart. :D! ALTHOUGH I WAS SHITFACED AT THE TIME SO I COULD BE TOTALLY WRONG. And I am sucker for anything set in London these days, as it makes me all warm and nostalgic. So yeah. This movie totally gets a rec from me, though. <3! Anything with Cary Grant as a dashing but flawed Fairy Godmother = mad props forever.
b) I am weirdly obsessed with Dead and Gone, by TI, featuring Justin Timberlake. I had never really listened to hip hop/rap/urban contemporary at ALL before starting my job with the DC kids, and I don't know anything about anything related to it. I really love Chamillionaire and have one of his albums, and of course I've heard lots of Kanye because that's sort of crossover at this point. I knew of 50 Cent because he and Kanye like to buttfuck with their eyes. And that was about the extent of it. ANYWAY, so all my kids listen to hip hop and rap and R&B and urban contemporary and go-go and stuff ALL THE TIME, either online or on the radio, and normally I cannot tell one song from another and have no idea who any of the artists are. I, for example, had to be explicitly taught how to do the "stanky leg" and what, in fact, a "stanky leg" is. THE POINT OF THIS STORY is that I heard some kids playing this really catchy song one Saturday, and I was like HUH that's a nice beat and I like the sound of it! But I didn't really pay attention. Then I was riding in the car with our fitness contractor guy and he was listening to the radio and it came on and I was like sodignsofindfh WOW THIS SONG when I got to hear it all the way through. And I shamefully envisioned how it could be a KICKASS SPN VID. The lyrics were perfect and it would make a great quick-edit emotional The Road So Far type vid, especially contrasting the urban music style with the usual classic rock style of the show. So when I got home I looked up the song on YouTube because I wanted to hear it again. They had the official music video uploaded there, and I was like GREAT. PERFECT. And then I watched it.
IT BASICALLY ALREADY IS A SPN VID. IT COULD BE SHOT-FOR-SHOT REPLICATED USING SPN CLIPS. IT IS RIDICULOUS. THE ROADS, THE CAR, TI AND JUSTIN, THE FIRE, THE OSIGNDOGIN RELIGIOUS IMAGERY AND PRISON AND FIREARMS AND BROKE-DOWN TOWNS AND THE CROSSROADS. IDEK. IT WOULD BE THE BEST/MOST HILARIOUS/MOST APPROPRIATE THING EVER. Here, look:
Awesome. Even the nanosecond of music studio stuff could be approximated, or something of equivalent symbolism could be substituted. IDK I KNOW I'M LAME WHATEVER IT WOULD BE AMAZING. Plus, I dare you listen to it and not get it stuck in your head forever.
c) May 12th is going to be my eighth LJ-versary! I really wanna do a whole LJ overhaul/revamp, but I've had my current layout for a billion years. I'd really like to do something subtle and mostly light colours so I can feel less obtrusive reading it in public places. I also really want a special artsy layout, but I am not that great at html, so I will have to do some digging.
Does anyone know of some good comms for customizable/steal-able layouts? I know there's that mintyapple one or whatever. Others?
d) I was on the metro on the way home from work the other day, and there was a guy sitting in front of me who was playing POKEMON. OH MY GOD IT MADE ME SO NOSTALGIC. I came home and dug through everything I own looking for my Pokemon Blue game cartridge for my translucent purple Game Boy Color (SO. CLASSY.) but I couldn't find it. TRAGEDY. So I bought one for $3 on Ebay. I KNOW I KNOW. I AM GOING FOR GOLD IN THE LAME OLYMPICS TODAY. But it came and I have been playing it like a fiend on the metro and when I am bored at work and no one's on chat. BEST IMPULSE BUY EVER. Also I found my Link's Awakening cartridge and have been powering my way through that, too. What is it about video games, man!! I just get started and I CANNOT STOP.
e) Related to my total lame nerditude: I RANDOMLY RECEIVED AN ISSUE OF THE
SMALLVILLE MAGAZINE IN THE MAIL. What the fuck? WHY ON EARTH. I was given a subscription to the SPN magazine as a gift, and it hadn't been coming, so I figured the company fucked up and I was going to call them and demand backissues angrily already anyway. AND THEN THEY HIT ME WITH SURPRISE TOM WELLING?! He was STARING AT ME balefully (lolz) right there on the cover. I DID NOT INVITE HIM. Sigh. I hate making fussy phonecalls, but I totally will. Anyway.
If anyone wants the most recent issue of the SV magazine, I will give it away free to a good home. :D! Just drop me a comment or email or something.
f) I did not make a post on Sam Winchester's birthday because I was having a DEAN FORESTER MARATHON with
sadcypress, but obviously I love poor Sammy more than I could ever possibly say, probably more than any other fictional character ever, and I am very sad that he had to spend the day of his illustrious birth [REDACTED BECAUSE IT IS PROBS STILL TOO SOON FOR 4.20 STUFF]. :( Poor bb. I did a drabble meme last year in celebration, and never actually finished writing like HALF the prompts. I AM STILL GOING TO, SOMEDAY! I promise!
g) Vaguely relatedly.
( How did I only just now realize this? )h) Totally unrelatedly, I have lots of schmoopy J-squared thoughts about
this text. Too bad that's a Maryland area code. I just fucking LOVE textsfromlastnight in general, firstly because I have sent some truly staggeringly horrifying texts in my time, and also because I want CWRPS FIC ABOUT 90% OF THEM.
i) I'm glad everyone is happily plugging away with their Dreamwidth stuff, but guys. :( WHY DO THE OBESE LITTLE GREY MEN FROM DREAMWIDTH REPLACE THE THE CUTE LITTLE BLUE MEN FROM LJ WHEN YOU IMPORT YOUR POSTS. :( I want that to stop. I do not like those icons at ALL and they are all over the place, now. Also, I snagged "balefully" over there because I didn't want someone else to get it first, but I do not plan on ever using it unless the apocalypse occurs. I won't be friending/following/subscribing/whatever anyone over there, and will mostly just kind of ignore its existence as much as possible. I HAVE BEEN ON LJ FOR EIGHT YEARS. I WILL CLING TO IT UNTIL ITS DYING BREATH.
j) I AM SO GLAD I GOT MY ROUGH DRAFT OF
spn_j2_bigbang DONE ON TIME! Also, my fic got claimed by
cathybites. OH MY GOD. :D! I SCREAMED FOR REAL. I may possibly explode from too much excitement sodignsdhfhj. Here's my summary as posted:
Author:
balefullyArtist:
cathybitesTitle: We Flow Together (Once and Forever)
Pairing and Rating: Jared/Jensen, NC-17
Summary: As a child, Jensen Ackles was saved from drowning by a mysterious boy who appeared from the depths off the coast of Cape Cod. Now a grown man, Jensen is a stage actor in New York City, living off a trust fund from his parents, and convinced he's incapable of true love. One fateful night finds him back in Cape Cod after a raucous party gone wrong, fighting for his life as he sinks beneath the waves. Yet again, he's saved from a watery grave—this time by a naked man, seemingly mute and more beautiful than anyone Jensen's ever seen. The stranger decides to call himself Jared, and as he and Jensen spend time together, learning each other body and soul, Jensen finds that his own capacity for love is as boundless as the ocean.
Jensen's world comes crashing down around him when he discovers the origin of Jared's strange naivety and lack of inhibitions—he's a
mermaid, fins and all. After Jared is abducted by researchers who subject him to cruel tests, Jensen must make a crucial decision: will he risk everything to finally find true love—with a
fish—or will Jared be the one that got away?
sdipgndfhnodfgionh I MAY POSSIBLY HAVE CRACKED MYSELF UP TO AN EXTREME DEGREE WHILST WRITING IT. I don't even know anymore.
k) I KNOW there were more things I wanted to say. I will stop now, though, because I think getting to K in an alphabetical list of points is QUITE ENOUGH for one evening. I have Personal Life Issues I will maybe make a whiny mopey post about at some point, but not now.