this might have well been a numbered list
in_the_beginning prompts are up and ready for claiming :D I will really try not to suck and actually write something this year. Somewhere inside me is a brilliant Bandom/Bible crossover dying to get out; I just need to find out where it is.
Sign ups are open for
pod_together, which looks awesome and is something I've wanted to experiment with for a while. It's a collaboration challenge for authors and podficcers, where together they produce a story that is written specifically to be podficced. I've signed up as an author, and I hope some podficcer offers that as a fandom because I'm not sure I'm up to writing any other fandom at the moment. Sign ups are open until May 27.
Via
jae,
ruuger has written a short and cute quick intro to the glory that is the Eurovision Song Contest. The Eurovision may have passed, but I am keeping the link for posterity.
Yesterday the House cast returned to the US. Omar Epps tweeted that he had an amazing time and met some warm and hospitable people. Unfortunately, none of them were me D: It's okay though. I'm sure Jesse Spencer will return here OH WAIT, NEVER.
I did get to see the Joel and Ethan Coen today, who are, really, only a few steps removed. They were here to receive the Dan David award from the university, so the uni had a symposium in their honor, and I was reminded how much I hate Israelis sometimes (okay, lojavascript:void(0);ts of times), in particular the "one of ours" attitude, which was so thickly prevalent today in the questions they were asked and the rector's opening remarks; as an audience member, I found it tasteless and embarrassing. (By "one of ours", I mean that if someone in the world is Jewish and minorly successful, he is one of ours and we deserve credit for their success and we love them always and forever. Barf.)
Regardless of the stupid questions they were asked, the Coen brothers were not very interesting conversationalists... like many other creators (specifically filmmakers) I've met, they're much better at doing something than talking about it, making movies than explaining them. But it was a fun experience and I was glad to see friends there, even though I had no real time to talk and was kind of stressing about the hours at work I was missing because I am dumb.
This is a Panic clip that I have never seen and makes me just happy. Having missed the first three or four years of the fandom, there's a lot I obviously haven't seen, and idk, this is just them singing "Valerie" at a radio station and yay :D Spencer looks extremely hot and is all drummery and happy, Brendon and Ryan are terrible at interviews as always, Ryan is excited about his shaker that's bigger than his--HEAD, his head, minds out of the gutter, Brendon is literally bouncing in his seat and on his hands, and Jon takes his piano playing very seriously. I love finding old clips like this :-) It is not very special but very cute.
comments on Dreamwidth.