we got all night

More things:

- Diggnation is ending in December. I know most don't care, but I posted most of my thoughts via Twitter yesterday. I'm behind by almost a year, but I'm glad there were more episodes. It was supposed to end last December and when it didn't, I was glad. They probably won't come back to NYC, but I'm glad they at least made it here--they always talked about doing tours, college or otherwise, around the US/world and never did. I'm much more okay with it ending now than I was when they announced last year that they were going to stop soon. And with that chapter of their lives closing, so does mine. It's time for me to move on and maybe be more of a producer of entertainment and not so much a consumer.

- To that end, my fall schedule isn't much. Right now I'm just downloading all the aired episodes of new stuff to see if I like them but I'm not keeping up with a lot of my old shows. It's weird, but the only ones I'm keeping are It's Always Sunny, Archer, and Modern Family. Well, I'm keeping others that don't really adhere to summer/fall seasons too, like Leverage and my USA shows (not Psych, though, I've finally given up on that one). But I'm testing out 2 Broke Girls, Whitney, Person of Interest, Revenge, Suburgatory and Once Upon A Time. I was going to watch Playboy's Club but it's already canceled so TROLOLOL MAKE MY LIFE EASIER. Hopefully I'll have time to watch them all on Friday!

- Alex Goot is my herrooooo. I don't think I knew he covered this song, but STARS IN MY EYES FOREVER, GOOT. <33333 (Youtube is being weird, so you only get a link. :/ )

Because I haven't seen a DL of Friday's Late Night yet.

( How I Met Your Mother )

( Melrose Place )

( Accidentally On Purpose )

( In Plain Sight )

( Supernatural )

I'm really disappointed Lost keeps getting forgotten when I do these posts. I come home on Tuesday and it's already on so I have to wait a while before I get to see the episode, and right after that I'm doing homework so I never get the time to write anything down to comment on. Then again, a lot of this season has been answers to things I've sort of figured out or theorized enough to understand to my own satisfaction, so it's not the "WTF WTF" that it seems to be for most people. I don't really feel like I need to write things down and/or discuss it. But the last episode was a Hurley one, so I did enjoy that one. And the guest stars. ;)

YOU GUYS. BEST NIGHT EVER. CAN ONLY BE EXPRESSED IN PICTURES.

( If you have dial-up, you should go visit your cooler friend who has fast internet, maybe even sleep over, before thinking about opening this. )

THAT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE ENOUGH PICTURES.

HAVE AN EXTRA "OMG REMEMBER WHEN THEY WERE ON JIMMY FALLON?!?!" PICSPAM

Okay, now I'm gonna go watch In Plain Sight, Burn Notice, The Unusuals and Royal Pains from this week.

Lia

So I'm finally getting around to reading fic I've saved in my "to-read" folders and tags from the last two years. At ten fics a day (with the way my family runs) it'll take about a week. Excuse the years-late comments. The good thing is I'll be reading all the fic y'all post from now on, like I used to. So there's that.

Anyway. The whole Diggnation in NYC in June thing is part of the Digg.com Meetup schedule (haven't kept up with Digg in the last year either, whoops) apparently, but they're coming to Webster Hall which is amazing, because I've always wanted to have an excuse to go there that wasn't for some random rave or whatever they usually do there. So next week! Just as excited as last year. Maybe this time I'll get decent pics of Prager and Hippie. I still want the TRS boys to come along, though.

In movies that I have watched recently, Night at the Museum 2 was entertaining and I totally didn't know all the cameos that were going to happen, nor did I know John Schwartzman was the DP. And he's not officially a Coppola, but he works a lot with Nic Cage and he's an alright cinematographer. When the inevitable two-movie pack comes out, I may buy that. I'm also finishing up on the Star Trek movies prior to the 2009 reboot and I'll talk about them as a whole when that's done (if all goes according to plan, First Contact, Nemesis and Insurrection will happen tomorrow). But at this moment in time, Voyage Home is easily my favorite. "I think he had too much LDS." XD Unintentionally insinuating Spock likes Mormons equals AMAZING.

And finally, I've started researching Castiel more for this fic I'm writing and I keep coming across video interviews of Misha Collins and I'm really starting to like the guy. I still get super-protective when someone doesn't understand fandom or reacts to fans like we're aliens, but it feels like he's trying his darnedest, so that's a plus. And he's amusing on Twitter.

Lia

Well, this was supposed to be a picspam entry, but Barney needs your votes at the Fandom Steel Cage March Madness, and I couldn't find last night's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon anywhere in a format where I could make caps for a picspam.

Have a LOL at Prager's craziness being posted all over the net (and subsequently questioned) instead.
Intruder confronted live on Twitter
Intruder confrontation a stunt?

If he or the story pops up on Good Morning America tomorrow, someone tell me! And this Telegraph, it's not much more than a tabloid newspaper, right? Because most of the random stories on Digg seem to come from that site/paper. And let's be honest, half of this stuff (especially random things like this) would never fly as journalism at NYTimes.com.

And go vote for Barney. He's awesome squared.

Lia

Last night I was out of my mind with boredom. I think my instant gratification disease is attacking again. There's so many things I want to do but all of them take more time than I'm willing to spend on a single thing. I want entertainment right here, right now. Eventually I gave up just wasting time and ended up-- at 4am, mind you-- making a background for Twitter, re-doing my LJ layout and staring at my Twitter pic wondering whether I should change it, too. I had a few dreams but they're all jumbled right now since everyone kept waking me up about every five minutes and I don't know which dream was which.

Something is wrong with the world when Downey and Hugh Jackman receive stars on the Walk of Fame in the same year. I don't know what the criteria is, but is Hugh Jackman really that deserving so soon? As far as I can tell he's only been around since 2000. I awww'd about Macy and Huffman getting stars the same year. And lol @ Tinkerbell and the Village People.

I don't know why I was so late to the party but this (seemingly) dead fic-a-thon is pretty interesting to go through. I feel odd with films like Zodiac, Good Night, Good Luck and Fur which are about real people. You'd think it'd be like RPF and that it wouldn't be weird to me because I don't mind RPF, but just the idea of there being fics about these movies is weirding me out. Especially Fur since that in itself was an AU fanfic on celluloid. I wonder how Arbus's family feels about that movie. My views on fan fiction have changed lately, anyway. I'm more interested in anything that's not slash. And my flist being what it is, that is very hard to find! Not that I'm frustrated by it, it's just an amusing fact.

Now that I'm reminded of other creepy subject matter, I was having a conversation with my dad the other day about the CGI in The Incredible Hulk and I mentioned the uncanny valley and had to explain the theory to him. We started talking about how it's creepy when animals show signs of intelligence like when you go to the zoo and the gorillas wave or wink at you or when you're trying to squash a roach and it plays dead so you leave it alone. And I figure that the reason humans find humanoid robots and animals so creepy is because we have a superiority complex. Dad mentioned this Nat Geo program we watched in March about how gorillas have faster memory than humans and I said that that's not creepy because we assume it's a necessary skill for whatever they do in the wild. Kind of how squirrels always remember where they put their nuts but I can't remember my password for GMail when my notifier conks out on me. It's the same way we are amazed and not scared by birds or platypi. But when animals show signs of genius at human levels-- like the roach that tried hiding under a glass container so I wouldn't send him to his maker-- it's weird because we think, "Wait, we're supposed to be the ultimate beings here, not you. How does a mouse, a simple rodent outsmart me, a human!" And I think that's part of the reason why that beach scene in Planet of the Apes is so scary because it's like evolution denied us what we're supposed to be. Does that make sense?

Anyway, My Boys is about to start, I need to load up The Sims 2 and I'm looking into other simulation/strategy games. I'm thinking about getting Black & White or the latest Civilization since I loved the demo so much on my old computer. There also needs to be a new bar-tending simulator. I missed my chance to own Last Call back then as well. Anyone play any of these god games? I really want Spore as well, but that's not shocking news.

( Random Diggnation-related videos )

Lia

YOU GUYS. YOU GUYS, YOU GUYS, YOU GUYS, YOU GUYS. LOOK.

IT'S TUESDAY. THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE FLAIL ABOUT TOTALLY RAD COMING OUT AT 7PM, NOT KEVIN ROSE BEING AWESOME DAY. STEALING ALEX'S THUNDER IS NOT COOL. BUT YOU GUYS, JUNE. I DON'T EVEN CARE ANYMORE IF KEVIN ROSE NEVER COMES HERE. JUST ANYONE FROM DIGG WOULD SUFFICE.

I'M ALSO DOING adayinmylife TODAY, SO IF YOU GUYS WANT TO SEE ANYTHING FROM MY SCHOOL, LET ME KNOW. I'M GOING TO BE HERE UNTIL 9:30PM, ANYWAY.

ALSO, IF ANYONE WANTS TO BUDDY UP WITH ME NEXT MONDAY FOR THE MEETUP.COM'S DIGGNATION SCREENING, LET ME KNOW. JUST THROWING THAT OUT THERE SINCE IT'S RELEVANT TO THIS POST.

flimbugg, LAST NIGHT WAS AWESOME, THANK YOU FOR THE HOOKUP. MY CAMERA IS HORRIBLE WITH CONCERT SHOTS, APPARENTLY. BUT I DID GET SOME GOOD VIDEO THOUGH, SO I'LL SEND YOU THE STUFF TONIGHT. AND I KINDA LOST CHRISTINA'S BOSS HALF WAY THROUGH THE NIGHT? SO UH, I HOPE THEY'RE NOT MAD AT ME.

LIA

( What guys find hot )

( Geek or normal? )

Lia

I am finally up to date with all my podcasts after a huge 3-day marathon. I gave up on Mugglecast and Pottercast because those two are insanely updated and I'm in a bitter state right now. I can't be listening to all this talk about Terminus all the time. But Diggnation, TAI TV, WebbAlert... all caught up! WOOOOO

So, uh, bandom. I don't know how many of you are into it, but it reminds me of the pop slash days so I feel nostalgic and old reading all these things. I'm not obsessive about it, but I've dabbled. I'm mostly amused at how there's at least one member of each band that I think is insanely pretty or hysterical. The exception is Cobra Starship, which is the only band (besides MCR and TAI..., but I've listened to MCR since the beginning so I've never considered them a part of all this and I don't have any real CDs from TAI... yet) to whose albums I actually listen.

( Why is this relevant? Why, my dream of course! )

Oh, and tourfilter.com is pretty awesome.

lol, I was going to ask what fandom of mine do you guys not know about, but that's a stupid question. So go to my profile and pick something off there you don't know about. I want to do a fandom spam type thing on something no one really knows about. All the bigger fandoms are represented here, and that sort of gave me the idea. So... vamoose.

Lia

P.S. Does anyone have that new Alicia Keys song? The one where she just says "no one" fifty million times? I kinda like it...

I may be the only person who has broken her knee (not really but it's not functioning correctly) by sitting at a computer all day. I usually sit with one leg tucked under me for hours on end. So today I went to stand and just fell immediately because it wouldn't bend. It was hi-larious.

Enough about me. Supernatural starts tomorrow! 24 then is this Sunday and next week is Psych. I am shaking! Not because I'm cold, which I am, but I'm excited too.


splits_thesky, I may say "dude" a lot, but these two fuel the fire much more than just Shawn from Psych. Diggnation DUDE.


Also, how does one go about creating a feed for a site? There's a few sites I need to track on my LJ and I have no idea how to do it. *is lost*

Lia

P.S. I LOVE MY PHOTOBUCKET.

P.S.S. Whoa, synchronicity? Look at the time of this update. O_o

ETA: LJ, YOU JUST ATE HALF MY ENTRY, mainly my fcking TO DO LIST! >:-|