I've been angry and I've been shaken
with_milk, emailitin, mrbuttmonkey, jainaj, jossno1fan, fallen_wiccan and scourgeoe are coming tomorrow (or, okay, later today) for my Wii party! Hooray!
I still have not done a 4400 finale post. I bet I don't get around to it until after I watch it with onmycrew as part of our marathon at Infinity. Because I'll just have to make another post after that ANYWAY because watching it with Shirley is totally going to give me three million more things to say, I just know it.
Also, I accidentally turned her into almost as much of an RK fangirl as me. It's awesome. :D
Okay, so, this meme! (Shirley knows me too well so she totally just picked things she wanted to hear me talk about. Be warned that I might do that with you, too - just pick things I'm interested in as much as I'll pick things I don't get. But I'll do those as well! Ahem, anyway...)
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 your this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.
1. Jonathan Woodward: I'm like the world's hugest Wes/Fred shipper, so the first time I met Jonathan I'd gone into the event going "Hmm... but he's Knox! I don't like him!" And now, he's... not. He's my absolute favourite convention guest, ever. I've now met him 7 times, and there's just something seriously awesome about him. He's the first guest ever to recognise me in a convention photo and write me a personal message when signing it, without me being present. He spotted me across the photo session room in Glasgow and called "Hey, darling!" to me. He stood behind me and kissed me all over my head. He sent me a drunk email about Jaffa Cakes. He sent me mail. And we totally had a "moment" because all the crazy shit that he does, he does to raise money for the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America, and despite me not being American, my Dad has Crohn's so we actually had a serious conversation amongst all the drunken mayhem. And randomly, even when he's hungover and stinky, wearing an orange shirt, an orange kilt and a Jayne hat - he's still hot.
2. Jed Garrity: Ahh, Garrity! Garrity is a character in The 4400. And this is totally my in-road to talking about Richard Kahan, even though you didn't pick him as an interest for me to talk about. :P Okay, so Shirley and I have always thought that Garrity is awesome. And like Kavan Smith (who plays Garrity)'s role in Stargate Atlantis, Garrity had no first name for the longest time. It was a whole big thing. And then, a week before season four started, Richard Kahan sent me a signed script of the season four premiere, and on the cast list, it listed him as being called Jed Garrity. Which clearly excited us SO MUCH, because we knew a SECRET! So I am proud to say that I was the very first person on LJ to list Jed Garrity as an interest :D
3. Michael Muhney: So most of the people who've been on my friends list for a long time will know this, but I hated Veronica Mars with a fiery fiery passion, for ... ages. I watched the pilot when it first started to air, because I'd heard all these great things, and I was just SO bored, I actually fell asleep every time I tried to watch it. So I refused to watch any further, and spent my life telling everybody who listened that VM was shit. Then I stopped being an idiot, and decided to at least try it. I was working nights on my own in the Travelodge on reception so I downloaded the first six episodes to give it a good go. I ended up watching all of the first two seasons on my night shifts over about two weeks. Then last December I flew to LA for the Firefly convention-that-wasn't, and Michael turned up at Clare Kramer's bar on the Saturday night to say hi to us. And he was just THE sweetest - I almost didn't see him because I didn't even know he was there until Tricia mentioned him. I went inside and said that I just wanted to say hi, and thanks for coming, and I'd see him in London, and shook his hand and he hugged me, which was so sweet (and so Michael!). I actually told him that I refused to watch VM for ages and that I'd ended up watching it all in one go, and he told me that was the best way to do it. And then I told him again he'd love doing a Starfury event and as he was leaving, he turned back, grinned and yelled "And at least it won't be cancelled like this shit!" Then after meeting him again at Breakout, I managed the honour of being the first person to wish him a happy birthday this year (after his sister, hee!) because he and I share a birthday. I'd told him this at Breakout and he got really interested, asked me what time and what year and then got depressed (for like two seconds, we ARE talking about Michael here) when he discovered he's a whole decade older than me. Hee!
4. Neighbours: Okay, lame Australian soap with crazy storylines or not, I love it. I've grown up with it, and I've probably only missed five or six episodes in the last five years. I literally cannot miss it unless it's totally unavoidable, I tape it when I'm out - I even downloaded the ones I missed when I was on holiday because I love it! When I was at Uni, I used to record the lunchtime showing so that I could come in from Uni at like 4pm, which was before the teatime showing, and watch it right away. Old School Neighbours is totally the best, and I'm SO looking forward to getting my hands on the DVDs that are coming out, with the Robinsons etc! If I have to pick a favourite family, I'll go with the Kennedys - back when Mal, Libby and Billy were all still around. <3 Jesse Spencer!
5. Nintendo DS: I had no interest in getting a DS. But then with all the working nights in the Travelodge, I needed something to keep me occupied over the summer - I couldn't always take my laptop because when the weather was nice, I used to cycle to work and couldn't carry my laptop when I did that. And I was hearing all about Animal Crossing from Ryan and Hilary, so the DS became my first console since my Sega Master System, and now I don't go on any lengthy journeys without my DS! We've had Mark Sheppard join in our Mario Kart tournament (which I won), we've been mocked for being the geeks at a convention because we were Mario Karting in the disco (we were so the coolest ones in the room!) and I was the reigning Mario Kart Champion until a couple of weeks ago when Ryan beat me outside LFCC. So I'm looking to get that title back!
6. Robin Sparkles: Let's go to the mall, everybody! I can't believe how obsessed I got with this song, but its awesomeness is legendary and totally knows no bounds. It's crazy! Robin Sparkles is the name that HIMYM character Robin Scherbatsky went by when she was a teenage popstar in Canada, and her song was called Let's Go to the Mall. That episode, along with Swarley, is EASILY the funniest thing to have been on TV in a long time, and it was all down to that song and the music video they made to go with it. Because it was so ridiculous and so SERIOUS at the same time. Cobie Smulders is made of win.
7. Sunderland AFC: My one big love outside of fandom. There invariably ends up being a home game on the weekend of conventions which gives me a length bout of guilt for having paid nearly £400 for a season ticket that consists of 20 games, and then missing 3 or 4 of them. Suddenly each game is costing more because I'm missing out on some! It also means that for things like Collectormania, when I can choose which day to go, I often have to miss out on going with my friends because they like to go on Saturday and I end up going to the match on Saturday and the convention on Sunday. I've been a Sunderland supporter for as long as I can remember - I've been going to matches since I was six, and I'm 22 now. I've had a season ticket for 9 years, almost - since Christmas 1998. It's influenced so many decisions in my life, I ended up going to University in Sunderland because I didn't want to travel south away from the football, so I instead went to Uni in the city of my club, which I adored. I could go to the pub when our games were on TV and watch it among people who actually CARED, which I don't get here! I love going to the pub before the game and hanging out with our little group of people who always end up mocking me for one reason or another, but I love the banter almost as much as I love the games themselves. I'm not even going to pretend I think Sunderland are good - we're not. But the good thing is we have great seasons and terrible seasons. I think that personally, this is way better than supporting a club who are consistently average and never have anything big to celebrate. At least if we keep getting relegated, we end up getting the thrills of promotion again!
Wow. I talked a lot! :D So go ahead and request interests from me! :D
I still have not done a 4400 finale post. I bet I don't get around to it until after I watch it with onmycrew as part of our marathon at Infinity. Because I'll just have to make another post after that ANYWAY because watching it with Shirley is totally going to give me three million more things to say, I just know it.
Also, I accidentally turned her into almost as much of an RK fangirl as me. It's awesome. :D
Okay, so, this meme! (Shirley knows me too well so she totally just picked things she wanted to hear me talk about. Be warned that I might do that with you, too - just pick things I'm interested in as much as I'll pick things I don't get. But I'll do those as well! Ahem, anyway...)
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 your this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.
1. Jonathan Woodward: I'm like the world's hugest Wes/Fred shipper, so the first time I met Jonathan I'd gone into the event going "Hmm... but he's Knox! I don't like him!" And now, he's... not. He's my absolute favourite convention guest, ever. I've now met him 7 times, and there's just something seriously awesome about him. He's the first guest ever to recognise me in a convention photo and write me a personal message when signing it, without me being present. He spotted me across the photo session room in Glasgow and called "Hey, darling!" to me. He stood behind me and kissed me all over my head. He sent me a drunk email about Jaffa Cakes. He sent me mail. And we totally had a "moment" because all the crazy shit that he does, he does to raise money for the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America, and despite me not being American, my Dad has Crohn's so we actually had a serious conversation amongst all the drunken mayhem. And randomly, even when he's hungover and stinky, wearing an orange shirt, an orange kilt and a Jayne hat - he's still hot.
2. Jed Garrity: Ahh, Garrity! Garrity is a character in The 4400. And this is totally my in-road to talking about Richard Kahan, even though you didn't pick him as an interest for me to talk about. :P Okay, so Shirley and I have always thought that Garrity is awesome. And like Kavan Smith (who plays Garrity)'s role in Stargate Atlantis, Garrity had no first name for the longest time. It was a whole big thing. And then, a week before season four started, Richard Kahan sent me a signed script of the season four premiere, and on the cast list, it listed him as being called Jed Garrity. Which clearly excited us SO MUCH, because we knew a SECRET! So I am proud to say that I was the very first person on LJ to list Jed Garrity as an interest :D
3. Michael Muhney: So most of the people who've been on my friends list for a long time will know this, but I hated Veronica Mars with a fiery fiery passion, for ... ages. I watched the pilot when it first started to air, because I'd heard all these great things, and I was just SO bored, I actually fell asleep every time I tried to watch it. So I refused to watch any further, and spent my life telling everybody who listened that VM was shit. Then I stopped being an idiot, and decided to at least try it. I was working nights on my own in the Travelodge on reception so I downloaded the first six episodes to give it a good go. I ended up watching all of the first two seasons on my night shifts over about two weeks. Then last December I flew to LA for the Firefly convention-that-wasn't, and Michael turned up at Clare Kramer's bar on the Saturday night to say hi to us. And he was just THE sweetest - I almost didn't see him because I didn't even know he was there until Tricia mentioned him. I went inside and said that I just wanted to say hi, and thanks for coming, and I'd see him in London, and shook his hand and he hugged me, which was so sweet (and so Michael!). I actually told him that I refused to watch VM for ages and that I'd ended up watching it all in one go, and he told me that was the best way to do it. And then I told him again he'd love doing a Starfury event and as he was leaving, he turned back, grinned and yelled "And at least it won't be cancelled like this shit!" Then after meeting him again at Breakout, I managed the honour of being the first person to wish him a happy birthday this year (after his sister, hee!) because he and I share a birthday. I'd told him this at Breakout and he got really interested, asked me what time and what year and then got depressed (for like two seconds, we ARE talking about Michael here) when he discovered he's a whole decade older than me. Hee!
4. Neighbours: Okay, lame Australian soap with crazy storylines or not, I love it. I've grown up with it, and I've probably only missed five or six episodes in the last five years. I literally cannot miss it unless it's totally unavoidable, I tape it when I'm out - I even downloaded the ones I missed when I was on holiday because I love it! When I was at Uni, I used to record the lunchtime showing so that I could come in from Uni at like 4pm, which was before the teatime showing, and watch it right away. Old School Neighbours is totally the best, and I'm SO looking forward to getting my hands on the DVDs that are coming out, with the Robinsons etc! If I have to pick a favourite family, I'll go with the Kennedys - back when Mal, Libby and Billy were all still around. <3 Jesse Spencer!
5. Nintendo DS: I had no interest in getting a DS. But then with all the working nights in the Travelodge, I needed something to keep me occupied over the summer - I couldn't always take my laptop because when the weather was nice, I used to cycle to work and couldn't carry my laptop when I did that. And I was hearing all about Animal Crossing from Ryan and Hilary, so the DS became my first console since my Sega Master System, and now I don't go on any lengthy journeys without my DS! We've had Mark Sheppard join in our Mario Kart tournament (which I won), we've been mocked for being the geeks at a convention because we were Mario Karting in the disco (we were so the coolest ones in the room!) and I was the reigning Mario Kart Champion until a couple of weeks ago when Ryan beat me outside LFCC. So I'm looking to get that title back!
6. Robin Sparkles: Let's go to the mall, everybody! I can't believe how obsessed I got with this song, but its awesomeness is legendary and totally knows no bounds. It's crazy! Robin Sparkles is the name that HIMYM character Robin Scherbatsky went by when she was a teenage popstar in Canada, and her song was called Let's Go to the Mall. That episode, along with Swarley, is EASILY the funniest thing to have been on TV in a long time, and it was all down to that song and the music video they made to go with it. Because it was so ridiculous and so SERIOUS at the same time. Cobie Smulders is made of win.
7. Sunderland AFC: My one big love outside of fandom. There invariably ends up being a home game on the weekend of conventions which gives me a length bout of guilt for having paid nearly £400 for a season ticket that consists of 20 games, and then missing 3 or 4 of them. Suddenly each game is costing more because I'm missing out on some! It also means that for things like Collectormania, when I can choose which day to go, I often have to miss out on going with my friends because they like to go on Saturday and I end up going to the match on Saturday and the convention on Sunday. I've been a Sunderland supporter for as long as I can remember - I've been going to matches since I was six, and I'm 22 now. I've had a season ticket for 9 years, almost - since Christmas 1998. It's influenced so many decisions in my life, I ended up going to University in Sunderland because I didn't want to travel south away from the football, so I instead went to Uni in the city of my club, which I adored. I could go to the pub when our games were on TV and watch it among people who actually CARED, which I don't get here! I love going to the pub before the game and hanging out with our little group of people who always end up mocking me for one reason or another, but I love the banter almost as much as I love the games themselves. I'm not even going to pretend I think Sunderland are good - we're not. But the good thing is we have great seasons and terrible seasons. I think that personally, this is way better than supporting a club who are consistently average and never have anything big to celebrate. At least if we keep getting relegated, we end up getting the thrills of promotion again!
Wow. I talked a lot! :D So go ahead and request interests from me! :D