some people see the revolution

I'm off! Be back Sunday.

Things I may or may not have done before I left - compiled a primer for myself on Major League Baseball rules, just to make sure I've got things right, and a list of all GK characters.

oh my god, you guys, and this is on top of the 2K of Edmund/Ianto sequel I've been poking at ever since I wrote the first one, and then Remix (which I should really get started on, obviously).

I'll have a lot of time in the car?

Disclaimers/Warnings: I do not own Generation Kill, etc. All screencaps are from Oxoniensis, found here. Quotations will likely include profanity and content that is either offensive, graphic, or both.

( This is really long, but the (really) short version is that you should watch this show. )

There are like twenty other .gifs and lots of quotes and pictures I could spam you with, but you should just watch the show now, and then head over to generation_kill and hang out there.

*falls over*

so today in English we finished watched Death of a Salesman, the one with Dustin Hoffman, a.k.a. the absurdly homoerotic one. I was pretty convinced that Biff was going to start making out with Happy any second now, and I was not the only one in my class to see it! others were kind of like '.... this family seems CLOSER than most.'

because I am just Like That, I naturally promptly wrote a snippet of fic while waiting to be picked up, and then a snippet of SPN fic, because ( tiny spoilers for SPN 4x16. must protect Meto and Winged! ).

(also I went shopping today, which was really fun. being girly can be quite nice!)

you were all I had
Death of a Salesman, 197 words, Biff/Happy. Title from this poem.

( They don't buy a ranch. )

another path to carry her burdens
Supernatural, 287 words, OFC. title from this poem.

( They bring your sister home with regretful faces and their caps in hands, a bullshit story of a car accident on their lips. )

Floridian weather! it baffles ALL of us. :D

for the record? it was in the 60's most of today and yesterday. However! Monday, Sunday and Saturday? 83 in the shade. in the evening.

Yeah, I don't get it either.

and oh hey, sgrio , you know that find-the-celebrity-lookalike game you play? well, there is a guy who works at my local meat market (about a mile away) who is a dead ringer for Jeremy Renner. no, seriously. voice too! he SOUNDS like him. when I go in and he's there I go "man, I wasn't just making it up!' every time. I don't think it makes sense that Jeremy Renner is moonlighting at a meat market in Smalltown, Florida, though.

I'm also finally getting around to watching Generation Kill, with Band of Brothers next on my list of shows to watch, though that'll probably have to wait until I get out of school. (OMG SO SOON.) Ray! Brad! Nate! Doc! Rudy, playing Rudy! Poke! also Trombley is kind of scarily psychotic, o.O

okay, now to bed. agh, have to speak in front of the class tomorrow. *flail*

(hey I get SPN in just a day-ish! and Doctor Who soon afterwards WOO!)

For various reasons, any fanvids I create will be posted solely at DreamWidth. And so, my first fanvid. 

None Of Us Were Angels
The Bourne Series. Jason, Marie, Nicky. 3:36 min.
Download and streaming at DW.

This is actually a rough draft, because odds are I'll find something I want to change every time I open it. It was loads of fun, and I think what I got in the end is very, very close to the original vision I had, and which I've been itching to vid every since I finished Ultimatum. I'm kind of proud of it - it's not amazing, but it's what I wanted. So yay!

Hey everyone! Head over here, where Sgrio is hosting a lovely multifandom commentfic party!

*wanders over to be inspired*

this weekend (and this week), I went on a Matt Damon kick, which means I watched all three Bourne movies and then Ocean's 11, 12 and 13. but it is The Bourne Trilogy that I want to squee about, because JASON and MARIE and all of them and eee! For spy movies, they're surprisingly character-oriented. It's all about Jason's journey to figure himself out. I went back to Identity yesterday to watch it with my sister, and it's a bit of a shock after Supremacy and Ultimatum to see him looking so innocent and young. Oh, Jason. (Not that he does not always look almost absurdly young. I swear, in that scene in Ocean's 11 where he's got his backpack and baseball hat, he looks like he is fourteen. Maybe.) anyways, I'm busily being ridiculously thrilled by how competent he is, and how wonderful, and how Landy is pretty much made of hard boiled awesome from the moment she steps on screen, and how Marie adjusts and learns and is fabulous, and how Nicky helps him even though looking at a man she may once have loved who doesn't even recognize her now must hurt like hell. (I was so pleased they didn't go the Nicky/Jason route, by the way. I think it would have been a cop-out, and I loved that paralleling of the disguise scene, when he looks at her and you know he's remembering Marie. oh Jason!)

I cannot eveeeen. when he smiles! kahglsdhskhhsld

oh! for those of you who are Narnia fans, this is revisionist fake history for Narnia at it's collaborative best. it is HILARIOUS. Jadis; a victim of British Imperialism? Lucy the Bloody Crusader? Jadis' Always-Winter-Never-Christmas Policy explained? READ.

and now a short poem, and bed! I do not want to wake up early tomorrow. I am feeling lazy and unmotivated and I haven't done anything I was supposed to today. I shouldn't go to that baseball game tomorrow. I probably won't. argh.

Delayed Reactions by Sherman Pearl

After the hammer slams down on your thumb
or the hurtful word penetrates,
a stunned moment follows.

You're like a soldier who feels no pain until he sees the wound.

Happiness, too, is sometimes slow to register.

It was years after the rain had sent
me and the girl huddled close to me dashing for cover
that I suddenly felt the drops.

let us talk about my day, in which one of three random guys who were playing hooky while I was at Park told me to "keep running, whore!" ... on second thought, no, let us not. I am still unsure of whether my non-response was the best one. (the rest of the day was fine, though!)

we shall, however, talk about how I got my mind completely blown by Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles over the past three days, and am now flailing about how there are only TWO SEASONS and I want moooore and they can't do that not after the end of Season 2 they just can't omg NOT FAIR. I just. D: DEREK. and Cameron! and the MUSIC. "Donald, Where's Your Trousers" my heaaaart. JOHN AND SARAH <333. I cannot believe that cliffhanger they ended on, that's just mean. D: I was pretty much in shell shock after I finished the season finale, unable to get out a single coherent sentence about it. I'm still having trouble with that. you guys, John Henry and Savannah were so adorable, and Weaver was just askdhfls I looooved her and CHARLEEEEY. and John was really starting to come into his own those last six episodes.

this means, however, that I am all shell-shocked out and probably won't watch SPN until sometime tomorrow, because I have to save some for Doctor Who today (<3333).

we can also talk poetry!

Belfast Tune by Joseph Brodsky

( Here's a girl from a dangerous town. )

We can also talk about how I wrote this up very, very late at night and got my internet connection cut off before I could post it. :P

Hey hey marycontraire , I think you will be interested to know that today I finally fully watched the first two episodes of The Sarah Connor Chronicles. :D I am watching the third and about to go to bed now. :P

And oh yes, I've been meaning to mention in here how much I loved last week's Doctor Who. Now, I do want to have down on record that I have some issues with the issue of forgetting as relates to women's agency, but I haven't yet decided if it warranted concern in this episode or if it was just a knee jerk reaction on my part due to what happened to Donna. (D:) But any which way you parse it, Liz Ten was fabulous, and Amy was fabulous, and even more fabulous was "Gotcha," which gave me warm fuzzy feelings of joy and sibling-hood and love.

ETA: This explains why I love Haley Hotchner SO MUCH very very well. (Criminal Minds Season 5 spoilers at link.) She was amazing, and is totally on my list of ladies who rocked their world. <333

Wound by Corinne Wohlford Taft

 
( If I have loved, it is mostly / because that is what I have / called it. )

oh, internets, I am tired and weary, for I have spent over a week worrying about whether my dad will freak out today or not, and being in charge of the house, and trying to make Kat and Sam do what they are supposed to do, but they will never listen. And today was not really that good, because there were People and my dad dragged us to his church at the last minute, and though I wore heels (in point of fact, my most fabulous purple shiny heels) to intimidate People, the music still shook my bones. And Papa was very irritable, and my sister got married yesterday in New Zealand and she was beautiful and I love her and I am very, very tired. Also there were People.

religion wearies me right now, especially after I was accidentally linked to the Narnia forums on ff.net. Internets, I was horrified. Together with Unsavory Business in the newspapers, my faith in humanity has been dealt a serious blow, though Doctor Who yesterday did much to help restore it. <333 ("There is an escaped fish in the area." also, "Gotcha.")

have poetry! it makes me happy.

Manifesto by Margot Schilpp

( To love something / you must have considered what it means / to do without. )