Would that this hoodie were a time hoodie!

The Five Questions Meme
How this meme works:
1 - Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed.
2 - I will respond; I'll ask you five questions.
3 - You'll update your journal with my five questions, and your five answers.
4 - You'll include this explanation.
5 - You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.

zombie_boogie asked me:

( The questions )

Meme #2!

The 30 Day TV Meme (yeah, yeah, I know, I gave up on that other 30 day meme halfway through, but this one is about TV! So I am more likely to follow through with it)

( The days )

The 30 Day TV Meme
Day 01 - A show that should have never been canceled







And lastly, the link to my favorite fanvid of all time, which sadly is not on YouTube nor is it embeddable, so, you have to go directly to it (and this one actually gives the best feel for the show).

Augh, I miss this show so damn much. It was beautiful, and exciting, and hilarious, and awesome, and tragic, and wonderful. I am the first to admit that season 2 was inconsistent and quite lousy as a whole, but I blame that mostly on network tinkering (plus, the show would have worked better as a half season show rather than a whole one, which stretched out storylines that didn't need stretching). The network messed up a really good thing, when all they really had to do was advertise it better. They had no clue how to market such a unique show, therefore they tried to make it more like your typical procedural and sexed it up a bit, and that just... didn't fit in with this show. At all. There was nothing typical about it, nor was it ever about sex, so... eff you, NBC. But the characters were still delightful and the relationships were still complex and beautifully subtle (well, the relationships between the original characters, not the added ones). And, when the network decided to cancel the show and stopped interfering, guess what? The show got back to its awesome self and delivered a spectacular ending, possibly the greatest finale of anything ever. This was once the greatest show on television, and it will always have a special place in my heart. Everyone should at least experience season 1 of Life, because that's what it was, an experience. Oh how I miss this show. God, now I am all nostalgic and will probably pull out my DVDs and marathon my favorite eps (or else I will just watch the season 1 finale a billion and one times, and then the season 2 finale even more than that).

Fact: The more I replay The Hangover in my head, the more I fall in love with the movie. I think I need to see it again and re-evaluate my original judgment of the film.

Anyway, 7 interests meme! Again! Because I am insane. And I feel sluggish from lady pains, so naturally a meme is the only course of action here. Instead of, you know, going walking/jogging or something. Because I have lady pains. IT'S A VALID REASON FOR BEING LAZY, OKAY?

Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so others can play along.

_kataomoi_ gave me:

1. ade edmondson
2. quarterlife
3. kandy
4. rik mayall
5. sam seaborn
6. the comic strip presents
7. the young ones, tony/pepper

Okay, not sure if you meant to put Tony/Pepper on that last one there, but I'll talk about them anyway and just combine The Young Ones with Rik and Ade.

( I so love talking about 80s alternative British comedy. Oh, how I would have loved being a British teenager in the 80s! )

Whew! That's all, folks.

Part 1 here.



Whew.  I had no idea I've had so many ships.  Damn.  And now for the meme that grimorie and adlervan tagged me for:

1. List your top seven character ships
2. Put all of them in order of your love for them; 7 to 1, 1 being your main fixation.
3. Name the movie/show that they're in.
4. Supply photos for said people.
5. Tag seven people.

Refer to all the babbling above (and in previous post) for the pics/reasons why.  Keep in mind that my ranking changes with wherever my obsession takes me.

So, you know how I am desperately hoping for some Pepper/Coulson action in the sequel to Iron Man that would result in a snarkingly jealous Tony?  I FOUND A FIC THAT ANSWERED MY PRAYERS!  Downside is that they got Coulson's first name wrong, but that can easily be overlooked.  If you all find more fics with Pepper/Coulson, please leave me a link, because I find myself desperately wanting to read fic for this pairing (especially if Tony's involved, because, well... I can't resist the Tony/Pepper banter).  I tried looking for a Pepper/Coulson community, but I fear that jesshelga and I are the only ones who were intrigued by them. *weary sigh*  There have to be more people who saw the potential for sweet/hot/awkward lovemaking between these two, right?  And they could be annoyingly happy together and drive Tony insane.

1. I saw the Alec Baldwin interview on 60 Minutes (I had to stop washing the dishes and rush over to the TV when I heard that sexy, gravely voice of his).  He was ridiculously hilarious, yet completely serious.  And now I am in love with Alec Baldwin the man and not just Jack Donaghy.  He makes no apologies for who he is, he's got a fiery temper (which used to scare the crap out of me but now I find it irresistibly sexy), and he's a damn fine actor (with gorgeous blue eyes and salt and pepper hair and dimples and DID I MENTION THE GRAVELY VOICE?!!).  michellek, I think I should inform you that I'm about to have a very sweaty affair with your TV boyfriend.  But don't worry, my heart belongs to Damian Lewis.  Of course, that's what I said about Ed Helms when I decided to have an affair with Damian...

2. I watched Iron Man again today (this time with my parents and brother.  I transferred the bootleg download onto a DVD).  I enjoyed it even more than I did on the first watch.  Tony/Pepper is starting to own my soul.  But as I mentioned to jesshelga earlier, I wouldn't mind if Pepper got it on with Agent Coulson first (which would lead to much snarktastic jealousy from Tony).  Oh my god, I love Tony Stark!!!

3. I had a yearning to read a romance novel this weekend, so I think I'm getting back into my romance novel stage.  I'm reading The Duchess by Jude Deveraux.  Now, I didn't much care for her other books that I got a long time ago, but this one I am loving quite a bit.  She's no Johanna Lindsey, but she'll have to do, since I've read my JH novels too many times to count and wanted something new, and these Jude Deveraux books have been lying around since two Christmases ago.  Also, it helps that I'm picturing Damian as the sexy, snarky male hero (even though the dude is supposed to have piercingly dark eyes, and Damian's are as pale as pale blue can get).  But there you have it.  I've already told you that no matter what I'm reading, I always picture the male hero (or my favorite male character) as the dude that I'm currently obsessed with.  It makes reading SO much fun, especially when it's a porntastic romance novel.

4. I heard that my 3-year-old nephew (who is now 40 inches tall) rode on a regular rollercoaster at Disney World.  But he was deathly afraid of all the theatre shows.  What???  That kid is so weird.  I miss him.  He's in Maryland visiting with my sis-in-law's family at the moment, so I didn't even get to see him after he came home from Disney World.  So it's been 2 weeks since I've seen him.  And it has been a very peaceful 2 weeks.  But I miss him!!!  I desperately want to hear his little laugh, and hear him scream "NOOOOOOO!" at me when I try to hug him. *missing nephew sigh*

5. I ate like a pig all weekend.  This is why I am at a standstill with the weight issue.  At least I haven't gained anything though.

6. My shoulder still hurts.

7. grimorie has convinced me to watch The West Wing, so I put it on the top of my netflix list.  So I may end up having a new obsession!  Or not.  I don't know.  But ever since Brothers & Sisters, I have an insane love for Rob Lowe.  OMG, HE'S SO BEAUTIFUL!  Not as beautiful as Damian though.

8. Yikes, Desperate Housewives is starting!  Gotta go.

ETA:

9. My mom just called me to see if her lecture CDs would work in our DVD player, right when my show started of course, and she ended up accidentally smashing my fingers in the entertainment center as she pulled out the TV.  OUCH!!!! *sigh*  Only my mother.  She's lucky I love her so much.  And no, the CDs didn't work, so I got my fingers smashed for nothing.

House was so incredibly good tonight!  The House/Cameron scenes made me squee in a way that I haven't done since I watched the season 2 eps.  I miss their dynamic SO MUCH!  The cutting down of each other, the begrudging respect, the subtle sexual tension, the way he was wounded when she said that she didn't miss him... OH MY GOD!!!!  So damn good.  I love Strong Cameron.  She was still her sweet, eager to be important self, but she's definitely grown out of thinking that the world revolves around House, but you can still feel the adoration there (between both of them).  But even though I think that Cameron has grown, I really do feel that she's just trying to make herself believe that it's not about House.  Maybe I'm wrong, but... no, she misses him.  I don't care what she says.  But poor House believes anything disparaging that she ever says to him. :'(  I loved his face there.  This proves that he still cares about what Cameron thinks of him.  He misses being the center of her world, and he misses knowing that she'll always be there when no one else will.  I miss that too. :'(  Anyway, their scenes were awesome, and it made me remember why I fell so deeply in love with the show in the first place.  Well, that and the fact that House had a meaningful conversation with his patient (right after the blow from Cameron where she said she didn't miss him), and this definitely harkened back to the good old days when the plots on House were actually interesting.

I admit, when I read the summary for this ep, I thought, "Oh god, that's gonna suck."  I am so happy that I was proven wrong.  In fact, I think this is by far the greatest ep of season 4.  Everyone was so on their game tonight, the plot was interesting rather than over the top, and House was forced to analyze himself.  I loved it!!!  And Wilson was freaking adorable tonight.  I think Amber/Wilson just won my heart a little bit with the whole mattress dilemma.  And I even enjoyed Cuddy tonight, even though she once again caved to House's every whim.

Anyway, House was awesome.  YAY!!!!  Next week's looks terrible though, but I shouldn't prejudge it.

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Also, everyone and their mother has been raving about Ironman, so I downloaded it (shhhh!) and OMG, THIS MOVIE IS SO FULL OF AWESOME!!!!  You all weren't kidding when you said it was possibly the greatest superhero movie ever made.  Also... my Robert Downey Jr. crush from my Ally McBeal years was totally reawakened.  GUH!  SO SEXY!  And the Stark/Pepper relationship?  Perfection.  It was adorable and full of witty banter and unresolved, and best of all, it stayed in the background and let all the action take prominence.  I actually think they could be a movie ship of mine, and it's been so long since I've had a movie ship.  But OMG, THE IRONMAN SUIT!!!  So sexy.  Oh yeah, that hunk of metal was wicked sexy (the one that he made all of the modifications on).  And the robotic arm that was kind of dumb?  I think that was my favorite character.  Which is ridiculous.  How they managed to put so much character into that thing is beyond me.  I think Stark's reactions to it helped, too, though.  But... yeah, this movie was awesome.