totally forgot i was still doing a meme, lol
Day 1: a song
Day 2: a picture
Day 3: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day 4: a site
Day 5: a youtube clip
Day 6: a quote
Day 7: whatever tickles your fancy
Hotlink ahoy!
Why so gorgeous, Alessandro Juliani? Alternately: Why does your life suck so frakking hard, Gaeta? Poor thing. *pets*
Okay, so I saw Alessandro Juliani IRL at DragonCon, right? And I'd always thought Gaeta was a pretty, pretty man, but his hair on the show bothered me a little bit - always looked too light-suckingly black and slightly gelled up. But when I saw him in the Walk of Fame my eyes pretty much did the wolf-cartoon-character goggly thing. Not only is he GORGEOUS (esp. without loads of HD filming makeup and crazy lighting - his lashes really are that dark, like Nestor Carbonell), his hair is normally soft-looking and wavy and there's a little streaking of gray at the temples. A:LSKFHngaksdgjpoeirulAKdfL:KJ:A. Do want. Do want.
Also, in the same vein, I think I nearly passed out when I met and talked to Ben Browder. I went into some state of shock, maybe. But I had a coherent conversation with him! And when I walked up I must have looked as mortified as I felt, because he grinned and said, "Deep breaths." And I will love that man for the rest of my life, no joke. But same thing applies: IRL, ten years post Farscape and lacking makeup, he was even hotter than he was on TV. It's just the fact that he was real. He had laugh lines and rough hands and HIS VOICE OMG, it was Crichton-voice, it had Carolina drawl, and that was the point at which I went to my happy place.
For some reason this semester I have been bombarded by "He's so hot!" conversations, mostly about guys I don't give a rat's ass about because I know NOTHING about them. It's not that I need to know a lot about an actor to think they're hot. I just need to know something. Not even the actor - just one of their characters. Crichton officially made Ben Browder hot to me. Gaeta, A. Juliani: ditto. A lot of characters are this way. When everyone kept drooling over Lee Pace, I just couldn't bring myself to have an opinion of him until I saw The Fall. Now I think Roy from The Fall is hot - although Lee Pace is still not someone I would swoon over every time I see him.
Or you get shows like Fringe, where the guy playing Peter Bishop really ought to be my type, objectively speaking, but I can't bring myself beyond a "meh" reaction to him. It's because Peter as a character is only "meh." Walter, on the other hand, is the best thing ever. :D
I struggle with James Callis, who plays Gaius Baltar, because while he is, for the most part, drop-dead gorgeous, on BSG he does occasionally look like something the cat dragged in, and also Baltar is such an utterly spineless dick that I don't know whether to laugh or cry about everything he ever does on the show. :/
If you couldn't tell, I just broke down and bought the third season of BSG. Slowly but surely, I am getting around to watching all of that show. (And from what I gather, it's pretty much never happy again from this point on. And everyone dies horribly. So... that's fun.)
Must... write... NaNo.
-rave
PS - random minor actors from BSG keep popping into my NaNo novel and declaring that they are playing my characters. So my field surgeon looks surprisingly like Gaeta, and my secretary's assistant is a bit Dualla-ish. Can't bring myself to make the redshirt who's about to die in the next chapter look like Billy, though. That would just be mean.
Day 2: a picture
Day 3: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day 4: a site
Day 5: a youtube clip
Day 6: a quote
Day 7: whatever tickles your fancy
Hotlink ahoy!
Why so gorgeous, Alessandro Juliani? Alternately: Why does your life suck so frakking hard, Gaeta? Poor thing. *pets*
Okay, so I saw Alessandro Juliani IRL at DragonCon, right? And I'd always thought Gaeta was a pretty, pretty man, but his hair on the show bothered me a little bit - always looked too light-suckingly black and slightly gelled up. But when I saw him in the Walk of Fame my eyes pretty much did the wolf-cartoon-character goggly thing. Not only is he GORGEOUS (esp. without loads of HD filming makeup and crazy lighting - his lashes really are that dark, like Nestor Carbonell), his hair is normally soft-looking and wavy and there's a little streaking of gray at the temples. A:LSKFHngaksdgjpoeirulAKdfL:KJ:A. Do want. Do want.
Also, in the same vein, I think I nearly passed out when I met and talked to Ben Browder. I went into some state of shock, maybe. But I had a coherent conversation with him! And when I walked up I must have looked as mortified as I felt, because he grinned and said, "Deep breaths." And I will love that man for the rest of my life, no joke. But same thing applies: IRL, ten years post Farscape and lacking makeup, he was even hotter than he was on TV. It's just the fact that he was real. He had laugh lines and rough hands and HIS VOICE OMG, it was Crichton-voice, it had Carolina drawl, and that was the point at which I went to my happy place.
For some reason this semester I have been bombarded by "He's so hot!" conversations, mostly about guys I don't give a rat's ass about because I know NOTHING about them. It's not that I need to know a lot about an actor to think they're hot. I just need to know something. Not even the actor - just one of their characters. Crichton officially made Ben Browder hot to me. Gaeta, A. Juliani: ditto. A lot of characters are this way. When everyone kept drooling over Lee Pace, I just couldn't bring myself to have an opinion of him until I saw The Fall. Now I think Roy from The Fall is hot - although Lee Pace is still not someone I would swoon over every time I see him.
Or you get shows like Fringe, where the guy playing Peter Bishop really ought to be my type, objectively speaking, but I can't bring myself beyond a "meh" reaction to him. It's because Peter as a character is only "meh." Walter, on the other hand, is the best thing ever. :D
I struggle with James Callis, who plays Gaius Baltar, because while he is, for the most part, drop-dead gorgeous, on BSG he does occasionally look like something the cat dragged in, and also Baltar is such an utterly spineless dick that I don't know whether to laugh or cry about everything he ever does on the show. :/
If you couldn't tell, I just broke down and bought the third season of BSG. Slowly but surely, I am getting around to watching all of that show. (And from what I gather, it's pretty much never happy again from this point on. And everyone dies horribly. So... that's fun.)
Must... write... NaNo.
-rave
PS - random minor actors from BSG keep popping into my NaNo novel and declaring that they are playing my characters. So my field surgeon looks surprisingly like Gaeta, and my secretary's assistant is a bit Dualla-ish. Can't bring myself to make the redshirt who's about to die in the next chapter look like Billy, though. That would just be mean.