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01. Crazy things that actually happened in Cambridge this past fortnight: a dog was juggling outside M&S; the electronica spaceman was back. Man, this city. I don't know.

02. I watched a lot of TV which is terribly unsurprising. I have skipped through all the things that I find annoying in Glee (which is unfortunately quite a bit) but I do love the musical numbers, and I do like the guy playing Will. Like. A lot.

03. I also watched - and enjoyed - Supernatural, and I hope we see Those Guest Stars again. I have a deep, deep fondness for Jim Weaver and for Titus Welliver, and I wish they'd had a scene together (Deadwood reunion!) Also: apparently the casting directors at Lost and Supernatural know the same agents (lols, Mark Pellegrino. Awesome). But, yeah, whilst the premiere was touch&go for me, I enjoyed this one a lot.

04. The Bones season premiere was completely delightful, and my love for Cam is so immense at this point that I don't really need to talk about it. My love for Caroline has apparently never been expressed before, so: I really love Caroline omg.

04b. Speaking of Bones, have a fic rec:

If you actually mapped out all the morsels of advice that Angela has doled out to Brennan over the years, analyzed them the way you would an author's canon of work, a few recurring themes might emerge: namely, in this order, [1] you (Brennan) want to have sex with Booth; [2] Booth wants to have sex with you; [3] you two are ridiculously perfect for each other in so many ways, whether you realize it or not; [4] you're not actually as failed of a human being as you think you are.

The above is from

daygloparker's fic The Forgotten Dialects of the Heart. She labelled it as "Ten untold stories about love that also have the benefit of being true". I labelled it as "the other side of canon". Which is to say: this isn't just a fic about Brennan and Booth and the whole friction of their relationship. It's a fic about every character that we know and love, and is equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking. There is a section explicitly about Hodgins that is so perfect and a whole section about Cam that will feel like a slap to the face. AMAZING. Go forth and read, and then tell

daygloparker how much you loved it. Because you will.

( so, this post was supposed to be quite short? Yeah, I don't know what happened. Other things M talks about: Defying Gravity, Fringe, The Lives of Others, Leverage, shows that are airing next week &c. &c. There are also links to FAB photos so skip this cut AT YOUR PERIL or whatever. )

This post was long. There are less trivial things to talk about but I am terrible at those things currently so we'll leave it be for now. It was supposed to be short wtf.

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Current Music: Glee: Don't Stop Believing.

On the train! It's been a wee of a while. Would have totally made the Cambridge train today. Except I'm not going there.

But seriously: why does the early bus only run during the summer months?

Watched the Weeds finale last night and was spectacularly unmoved until the very very end. This season has had some truly great character moments but the last couple of episodes have been lacking. It's a shame because Nancy is all about evolving from periods of devolution and I want her to go back to being the woman who swung the baseball bat.

I also watched True Blood which had only two good things: a) Pam! And her hatred of 'miniature people'; b) Sophie-Anne's love of yahtzee. Other than that, Jason has unfortunately gone back to being a douche; Bill is useless; and Lafayette and Tara's respective stories are so insulting I can't even watch them. Sadface.

It was SO DARK this morning. How depressing.

My disappointment with this season's True Blood is well known but if any of you have fic recs which feature a lot of Pam, throw 'em at me. Pam is my faaaaavourite. I love her and miss her and any scene is immediately better when she is in it. Okay. So. Go at it.

Now for some reading \o/

An interview with Joseph Gordon-Levitt at AV Club (28-Mar-07)

AVC: Was Brick just difficult because the dialogue was tough to articulate?
JGL: It was difficult for that, and it took a lot of technical rehearsal and practice just to get the dialogue the way it was, but also, the character was just… The character in Mysterious Skin is mostly very easygoing. He mostly feels great about himself. He feels attractive, and people are attracted to him. But the character in Brick is constantly thinking really hard, constantly getting hit in the face, constantly in pain over a dead lover. He sees the one love of his life dead at the beginning, so he's in a lot of pain the whole time. So that was a lot harder. Then The Lookout was by far the hardest thing I've ever done. Partially because both Brick and Mysterious Skin were four- to five-week shoots, and The Lookout was nine or 10. So there's the marathon aspect, as well as the fact that Chris Pratt is having a harder go of it than either of the other two characters ever did.

Another interview with JGL; discussing Brick (30-Mar-06)

"People don't write movies like this anymore. People try to create movies through digital effects and camera tricks – and not that there aren't really cool camera tricks in Brick, but none of them are digital. Rian Johnston, the writer-director, he created the world of Brick with his words … and no one tries to use words anymore; it's like a dying art, the wordsmith. And the language that he came up with for Brick is so fun to say that when I was done reading it, I turned over the last page and went to the front again and started reading it again, just because I liked saying it. Things like 'Who's she eating lunch with?'"

the writing studio: Brick

RJ: [...] At its essence, we set out to make an American detective movie. When I'm saying it very quickly, it's "Oh, it's a strange little detective movie." The reason it's set in high school is, we did that to get away from the imagery of men in hats and what we typically think of for detectives. That's all been done so well so many times over the years that the instant you see the imagery, it becomes pastiche when you're doing a detective movie. I love film noir, but the thought of imitating it was not appealing. Brick is not set in high school for any postmodern twist or to make a comment on the genre; it was meant to free us up to take a more straightforward approach to the genre. We wrestled with the question of "How do you 'do' the genre today?" This was the weird approach that we decided on. [Laughs]

the writing studio: Flashbacks of a Fool - Life, Death, Decay and Re-Birth

When Joe comes home to his mother twenty-five years later, he finds her in a new, grander version of his childhood home. Yet the same love is still there and the picture is largely unchanged. When he knocks at the door, Peggy is watering her new larger garden and planting seeds Grace, ever the nurturing mother, immediately offers up tea and cakes. In this house, which Grace affectionately refers to as her 'Graceland', Joe finds the contents of his childhood bedroom neatly arranged in a room that is, startlingly, like a shrine to his teenage years. For Grace, memories are sacred. Memories are life. Throwing away her son's memories would be murderous. "I knew you'd be back one day and it's not for me to throw away your memories. That's for you to do," remarks Grace. Yet the reality is that not even Joe can throw away his memories. Memories cannot be sent away to die. The ocean keeps Joe's memories alive and the ocean gives him his memories back. It is Joe's memories that pump life back into his soul, re-igniting his will to live. The powerful memory of a childhood lived in a nurturing family environment has stayed with him.

Two very different films, of which Brick is definitely the better, but Flashbacks is - in ways that, unfortunately, are not expanded on in the film - the more compelling. I still wish there was more written on Flashbacks but that's a pipe dream. And I always want more Brick. I can never ever get enough.

Current Music: Steve Tannen - Sick to the Bone | Powered by Last.fm

So, it's my week off! Yay! I've spent most of my time split between home and the community centre. It's kind of nice being back there but also stressful because the team's ability to get things done has diminished further since I left - especially now that EBL is no longer there. It's just a group of people with no clue what they're doing, making shit up. I know that this sounds like every bureaucracy ever but the difference here is that everyone at the centre is AWARE that no-one knows what they're doing so there's a general atmosphere of mild panic floating around. Anyway, I made some leaflets, scrabbled together date cards (the kind you get at the optician, you know, your class is at this time on this date), fixed the printer, picked up some clip art discs that one of the team had left at their house, taught the new admin how to use publisher and then ran far, far away.

Earlier in the week I tried to get Andrew to say for certain which courses are going to be running. That didn't go so well, but we managed to work it out. I have just this very second realised that there is an error in the leaflet. Shit. I hope David hasn't printed those off yet.

The early part of this week was spent beta-ing an excellent fic and watching Brick over and over again. With regards to the beta: it's been a while since I'd done one so thoroughly and as I was doing it, I was wondering about the merits of the method that I was using. So, wee open forum for those that know and/or care: what do you look for in a good beta? What do you do when you beta for other people? When you hand/get back a fic, what do you judge as a successful beta? Questions, questions.

A couple of things that came up whilst I was working earlier this week (and which come up frequently) is how 'ruthless' to be. I know that with a couple of you out there I can put my notes/highlights down and we've been doing thsi long enough that you know what all the annotations means; with others of you, if I were to offer beta services, I would be worried about how many notes constitute too many i.e. what would scare you off as a writer? Betas should be helpful, but I think that often involves a mixture of positive feedback and detailed sense-checking. Sometimes I have to weigh up what needs saying against what doesn't. It's a strange process.

Tuesday night I went out with some secondary/high school friends to see a local production of Rent. The sound production could have done with some work, and the guy playing Roger was fucking awful, but other than that it was a great time. I realised yesterday that I won't be able to meet up with this lot on Saturday because I'll be in London for the wedding, so that's frustrating, but now I'm doubly glad I didn't back out of the trip. Good times, all round.

Bad times: my skin really hurts :((((((

So, yes, have been watching Brick and a week or so ago I was also looking for interviews with the guy who directed Flashbacks of a Fool re: the women in his film. On the latter score: wtf, all the interviews talk about anything BUT the women which is ridiculous because other than Joe Scott, all the male characters in that story are peripheral. The woman drive that goddamn film! Grace Scott! Peggy Tickell! Ruth Davies and Evelyn Adams! WHAT THE FUCK.

And then I found an interview/essay that discussed the female characters and felt much better. So now you get to have some links, hurrah! Next post, though, because this one is already tl;dr enough.

True Blood was legit hilarious in parts this week. In other parts it was just stupid. Man, I'm so disappointed by this season. That last shot was GREAT though. Stupid show; sucking me in. Oh. No pun intended.

I also watched Mad Men which, although it couldn't settle on any semblance of narrative this week, looked like it was setting up a few things. I love any scene where Don and Peggy are trying to be real people with each other, and Betty continues to be equal parts tragic and hilarious. (How can you talk to me like that in this condition? Way to milk it, girl.) I just want more, more, more of everything.

re:Weeds, oh man. I don't know how to talk about this show at all any more. I actually think the Celia story is hilarious, not because she's scared of black!Dean (which: what the fuck) but because that is how she sees Nancy and her vision of Nancy is all surface and ignores everything that Nancy tries not to be. In the meantime, you have Nancy and Shane talking about doing things over and not going down the suburban-weed-dealer route, and Nancy and Andy still being mean and heratbreaking and unkind and always there for each other in the way that family can be, and DAMN IT. This show used to be legit hilarious. Now it is something else that is quasi-horrific. But in a good way. I still really enjoy every episode, even though it's not what anyone signed up for way back in season 1.

Speaking of season 1, I recently rewatched the episode where Shane shoots the mountain lion or whatever that thing was and it's so weird to see Nancy as Nancy, not Nancy as Lacy LaPlante. It's so weird to see her asking Doug if eventually her front business can be her real business. Once upon a time she had choices, wtf. AND THIS IS WHAT SHE CHOSE INSTEAD. Love it.

Yeah, I need breakfast. You should all listen to the Niyaz station, too.

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I'm trying to keep these fairly short because rambling doesn't make for an easy read, and because otherwise I will be here altogether too long. Some quick round-ups for episodes that I don't have much to say about: Bones was really rather FABULOUS and I don't know that I can say much more than that; CSI: NY was also very good, and I don't know about other people, but the Flack storyline is breaking my heart (and also the other thing made me Super Happy because I'm all about Flack-love); and I've yet to watch The Unit but it's a double, so I'll watch them together. Also, Life was very funny, but I confess to not having anything to say about it, and also not having any clue whatsoever about that last Dani and Tidwell scene. No, seriously, I was watching it and I just didn't understand what the fuck was going on.

Okay. Next!

( Merlin, 1x06-1x09 )

( Californication, 2x07, In a Lonely Place )

( True Blood, 1x10, I Don't Wanna Know )

( Sarah Connor Chronicles, 2x08, Mr Ferguson is Ill Today )

( NCIS, 6x07, Collateral Damage )

( Criminal Minds, 4x07, Memoriam )

( Grey's Anatomy, 5x08, These Ties That Bind )

( Supernatural, 4x09, I Know What You Did Last Summer )

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Current Music: David Gray - This Year's Love | Powered by Last.fm

( True Blood, 1x09, Plaisir D'Amour )

Long reaction post is long.

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Current Music: The Staple Singers - I'll Take You There | Powered by Last.fm

( Californication, 2x05, Vaginatown )

( Californication, 2x06, Coke Dick and the First Kick )

( True Blood, 1x08, The Fourth Man in the Fire )

More when I get back from the bank.

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Current Music: Aimee Mann - Great Beyond | Powered by Last.fm

I don't remember the order in which I watched these, so I'm going by air date. Likely y'all don't care but it matters to meeee.

Also, I watched a lot of them with The Sister this week which I think changes the way I see things. Mostly because she finds a lot of things funny, and it makes me more sympathetic to the kinds of joke that I would usually stomp all over.

re: Numb3rs. I didn't even finish last week's episode (5x03, Blowback), even though the first act looked good. I just. I think I'll wait for it to air on TV some time next year. Maybe time will make me more sympathetic to it? I don't know. It's a bad sign when you can't even watch the scenes with characters you don't actively dislike. And whilst Nikki Betancourt is fierce, I just don't care about her if she's been set up to be the fall guy, instead of a foil to Don & co. which is what she was originally described as being.

Farewell, show. Farewell, Don's Awful Hair.

( True Blood, 1x07, Burning House of Love )

( The Unit, 4x04, The Conduit )

( Mad Men, 2x12, The Mountain King )

( Californication, 2x04, The Raw and the Cooked )

( Sarah Connor Chronicles, 2x06, The Tower is Tall, But the Fall is Short )

( My Own Worst Enemy, 1x02, Hummingbird )

( NCIS, 6x05, Nine Lives )

( Pushing Daisies, 2x04, Frescorts )

( Criminal Minds, 4x04, Paradise )

( CSI: NY, 5x04, Sex, Lies and Silicone )

( Private Practice, 2x03, Nothing to Talk About )

( Grey's Anatomy, 5x05, There's No 'I' In Team )

( Supernatural, 4x06, Yellow Fever )

( Life, 2x06, Did You Feel That? (In which I talk in circles) )

I still haven't seen this week's Merlin (worked during the repeat on Sunday, and now I'm waiting for The Mother). Speaking of, it took The Mother a year to get into Northern Lights. A YEAR. Then, last week, she picked it up, finished it, finished The Subtle Knife and started The Amber Spyglass which she's quickly making a dent in. I am a little bit eye-roll-y about the whole thing, but also a little bit triumphant. I KNEW she'd like that damn series.

Current Mood: dorky
Current Music: The Cure: Just Like Heaven.

( The Unit, 4x03, Sex Trade )

( Mad Men, 2x11, The Jet Set )

( True Blood, 1x06, Cold Ground )

Tomorrow: Californication, My Own Worst Enemy, and hopefully new NCIS (whoop whoop)!

Current Mood: okay
Current Music: Chris Pureka - Come Back Home | Powered by Last.fm

( Merlin, 1x03, The Mark of Nimueh )

( True Blood, 1x05, Sparks Fly Out )

( Mad Men, 2x10, The Inheritance )

( The Unit, 4x02, Sudden Flight )

( Californication, 2x02, The Great Ashby )

The Sister is really busy right now which sucks for her, but also for me because I kind of want to marathon Life with her and she (natch) won't let me. That said, The Rents and I watched Criminal Minds, 3x01 last night (the college campus killings; Gideon's dumbass letter voiceover) which was marvellous. And Emily said: When you move around a lot, you get used to being what people want you to be and I thought, oh, Emily.

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Current Music: Tyrone Wells - Until you are here | Scrobbled by Last.fm

Dear Mad Men, way to be entirely depressing! Which is not to say that I didn't love it, because, well, OBVIOUSLY I did. Jane is entirely boring to me, though; I think it was the casting choice. It was nice to see Hildy, though, whom I adore. Please, show, continue to wreck me. I don't mind at all.

( True Blood, 1x04, Escape from Dragon House )

( Life, 2x01, Find Your Happy Place )

( Sarah Connor Chronicles, 2x04, Allison from Palmdale )

( Californication, 2x01, Slip of the Tongue )

( The Unit, 4x01, Sacrifice )

I've yet to see Dexter; am feeling pretty blahface about it, actually. I may have to store up a few episodes and watch them in one go. Even though I liked it last year, I only watched it on time because I was watching with T. And, well, not there any more.

I have new music, eee! Some unreleased Patty Griffin and Seth Lakeman's albums, whoop whoop. Folk at its best. And now: NCIS and Criminal Minds. It is a Good Day.

Current Mood: wtf last.fm, scrobble damn you
Current Music: Patty Griffin: Top of the World.

Thanks to every one who replied to the Job Stories post; I'll reply to y'all individually later. If any one else wants to add anything, please feel free.

( True Blood 1x01-1x03. )

THANDIE NEWTON: STILL MORE AWESOME THAN THOU. Yes, yes, and thank you.

( Sarah Connor Chronicles, season 2. )

I'm writing this Spooks fic~~let~~ and it keeps turning into something ridiculous, and I keep having to cross out everything but the first paragraph. The problem is that I only have a vague idea of what I want to do with it. I wanted it to be a NCIS crossover but with the new season of that starting tonight (oh. my. fucking. god.) I'm reluctant on that front, too. So. I don't know. I've been writing this since the beginning of August almost, so I'm feeling ridic, and if I don't finish it before S7 then it'll never get written. But, whatev, right?

I finally finished last week's Bones (the dogs) and fuck, yes, okay, I bawled like a child. Man alive, this show is pretty depressing! What's with that?

DID I MENTION NEW NCIS. I'm so fucking nervous. First-date syndrome, what?

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Current Music: Editors - Someone Says | Scrobbled by Last.fm

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Entries tagged with you look like vampire bait.

{ I have a lot of the Glee tracks on rotate in my MIND. }

{ find us a trapdoor. }

{ I'm still stuck to my guns, drinking alone, sick to the bone. }

{ I'm listening to the Niyaz radio on last.fm. SO GREAT. }

{ maybe she's just pieces of me you've never seen. }

{ True Blood, 1x09, Plaisir D'Amour. }

{ doubling up. }

{ spinning on that dizzy edge. }

{ how quickly we've forgotten just how we ended up here. }

{ "who wants to fly a Boeing?" }

{ a lot of things changed, but then, a lot of things didn't. }

{ neighbour, you've fallen in with the wrong crowd. }

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