It's a school in Boston
I am a procrastination machine at the moment. So instead of turning off my computer like I should, I'm going to blather on for a bit about various and sundry topics.
Supernatural:
I watched "In My Time of Dying" a few days ago and practically collapsed out of sheer love and ache. Today I finally tore myself out of fic long enough to watch "Everybody Loves a Clown" and "Bloodlust." Can I just say that if I hadn't already been completely head over heels in love with Dean before this, I would be now? Holy hell. What with the beating the trunk to shit and the not hitting on Jo and the saving Lenore and the admitting to Gordon that he has to keep his game face on for Sam and the lusting after Ash's computer and the crying at John's pyre and the fucking up Gordon and the admitting doubts to Sam and the revelling in the resurrected Impala's purr and the talking with Tessa and god, just everything.
I'm also terribly pleased about having gotten to meet Ash and the rest of the Roadhouse crew, finally, after hearing so much about them. Prior to this, the only Season 2 eps I had seen were "Nightshifter" through "Heart" -- so I had met Jo in "Born Under a Bad Sign," but no one else. But I would read things that would occasionally mention or include the others, and well, I got Ash on the "Which Supernatural character are you?" quiz. And then la_folle_allure's secret postcards got me obsessed with the idea of Dean at MIT, and if you scroll down through the comments you'll notice that she suggests a Dean/Ash MIT team up... (I should note here that I went to MIT as an undergrad, which is why all of this excites me so much.) Now that I've met him, I'm totally not sure I'd be able to get his voice right, but I do think he's awesome. Soon I'll get to see the other eps that he's in, and then I'll have a better idea of the feasibility of this... Which is crazy, because all my creativity is supposed to be going into writing for school! And I've never written fic before! At least, not since, like, middle school, before I had any inkling someday there would be fandom like this.* But maybe over the summer...
*God, I hadn't thought of that in years! I wonder if I still have those printouts or files somewhere. I'm almost ashamed to admit this. But well, there was this series of books called Girl Talk. It was set in Minnesota and had ridiculously pink covers and had the classic girl-series formula of 4 very different main protagonists who become best friends, each book concentrating on the story of one of the girls. I devoured them, read them over and over. (Yes, I read the Baby-Sitters Club too, and all sorts of other cheesy series, Sweet Valley Twins, Sleepover Club, too many to name. Really I just read everything.) And eventually, I pulled a complete Mary Sue and inserted myself into the Girl Talk novels, effectively adding scenes to the existing stories and such. I don't think I got very far, but it was great fun while it lasted. My favorite of those books involved the good smart girl falling for a troubled bad boy, what a shock. I did also like the one about the hockey player girl too, though. Anyway. Now that I've embarrassed myself enough.
Ellen and Jo also seem pretty terrific. Or at the very least have some good potential. Someday I might write up all my stray thoughts about women in Supernatural and how much better Supernatural does with female characters than Heroes seems to, in general, despite the fact that Supernatural's only 2 central characters are both male, while Heroes has a number of major recurring female characters in the ensemble. But not now.
Only other last thing to say -- augh! Clowns! One of my very earliest memories is of running past a clown poster that was hanging at toddler-eye level to the right of the door in the nursery school I attended when I was 2-3 years old, sobbing and shrieking with fear. To this day, I still find clowns pretty damn creepy. That episode? Did not help. *shudder* "And apparently clowns kill," indeed. Heh.
House:
Oh, Chase. I knew it was going this way as soon as she propositioned you! Because I could've sworn that right before she did that, you were gonna ask her out for real. Or at least talk towards that end. You should've known. But you're terribly blond and accented and adorable, so I forgive you. I loved mini-Chase on the plane, too! Figures the kid would be the most useful of all the passengers. Especially given House's style. The Cuddy-House tension rises. And Wilson! You're doing what? She was admittedly sweet, and darn hot, but...
Christian Kane:
So I had always liked Lindsey McDonald on Angel. And as I noted in RPS Batch 1 of recs, the Jensen/Chris pairing really appeals to me. I've been indulging this some, though it's not easy as it gets so overshadowed by Jared/Jensen in the CW RPS fandom. Don't get me wrong, I love J2 ( obviously), but I like variety. And like I said, I'd always thought he was hot. So finally I get around to checking out the website for Kane, the country/rock group he has with Steve Carlson. Listening to some clips, I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it. Country's not really my style, though country-rock sometimes is, and same for country-influenced alternative. But then, I found a live clip of "Drift Away" in the A/V index, a song that I've adored ever since I was a wee little thing, 'cause my mom mostly played the oldies station in the car while driving. And I kind of love him singing on it. And did I mention my known weakness for musicians? Whoops. I'm never going to get over my insane celebrity crush on him now.
Oh. Oh wow. I just noticed in Wikipedia that he has my birthday.
Mrph. Yup, so screwed.
Oh, give me the beat, boys, and free my soul, I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
Supernatural:
I watched "In My Time of Dying" a few days ago and practically collapsed out of sheer love and ache. Today I finally tore myself out of fic long enough to watch "Everybody Loves a Clown" and "Bloodlust." Can I just say that if I hadn't already been completely head over heels in love with Dean before this, I would be now? Holy hell. What with the beating the trunk to shit and the not hitting on Jo and the saving Lenore and the admitting to Gordon that he has to keep his game face on for Sam and the lusting after Ash's computer and the crying at John's pyre and the fucking up Gordon and the admitting doubts to Sam and the revelling in the resurrected Impala's purr and the talking with Tessa and god, just everything.
I'm also terribly pleased about having gotten to meet Ash and the rest of the Roadhouse crew, finally, after hearing so much about them. Prior to this, the only Season 2 eps I had seen were "Nightshifter" through "Heart" -- so I had met Jo in "Born Under a Bad Sign," but no one else. But I would read things that would occasionally mention or include the others, and well, I got Ash on the "Which Supernatural character are you?" quiz. And then la_folle_allure's secret postcards got me obsessed with the idea of Dean at MIT, and if you scroll down through the comments you'll notice that she suggests a Dean/Ash MIT team up... (I should note here that I went to MIT as an undergrad, which is why all of this excites me so much.) Now that I've met him, I'm totally not sure I'd be able to get his voice right, but I do think he's awesome. Soon I'll get to see the other eps that he's in, and then I'll have a better idea of the feasibility of this... Which is crazy, because all my creativity is supposed to be going into writing for school! And I've never written fic before! At least, not since, like, middle school, before I had any inkling someday there would be fandom like this.* But maybe over the summer...
*God, I hadn't thought of that in years! I wonder if I still have those printouts or files somewhere. I'm almost ashamed to admit this. But well, there was this series of books called Girl Talk. It was set in Minnesota and had ridiculously pink covers and had the classic girl-series formula of 4 very different main protagonists who become best friends, each book concentrating on the story of one of the girls. I devoured them, read them over and over. (Yes, I read the Baby-Sitters Club too, and all sorts of other cheesy series, Sweet Valley Twins, Sleepover Club, too many to name. Really I just read everything.) And eventually, I pulled a complete Mary Sue and inserted myself into the Girl Talk novels, effectively adding scenes to the existing stories and such. I don't think I got very far, but it was great fun while it lasted. My favorite of those books involved the good smart girl falling for a troubled bad boy, what a shock. I did also like the one about the hockey player girl too, though. Anyway. Now that I've embarrassed myself enough.
Ellen and Jo also seem pretty terrific. Or at the very least have some good potential. Someday I might write up all my stray thoughts about women in Supernatural and how much better Supernatural does with female characters than Heroes seems to, in general, despite the fact that Supernatural's only 2 central characters are both male, while Heroes has a number of major recurring female characters in the ensemble. But not now.
Only other last thing to say -- augh! Clowns! One of my very earliest memories is of running past a clown poster that was hanging at toddler-eye level to the right of the door in the nursery school I attended when I was 2-3 years old, sobbing and shrieking with fear. To this day, I still find clowns pretty damn creepy. That episode? Did not help. *shudder* "And apparently clowns kill," indeed. Heh.
House:
Oh, Chase. I knew it was going this way as soon as she propositioned you! Because I could've sworn that right before she did that, you were gonna ask her out for real. Or at least talk towards that end. You should've known. But you're terribly blond and accented and adorable, so I forgive you. I loved mini-Chase on the plane, too! Figures the kid would be the most useful of all the passengers. Especially given House's style. The Cuddy-House tension rises. And Wilson! You're doing what? She was admittedly sweet, and darn hot, but...
Christian Kane:
So I had always liked Lindsey McDonald on Angel. And as I noted in RPS Batch 1 of recs, the Jensen/Chris pairing really appeals to me. I've been indulging this some, though it's not easy as it gets so overshadowed by Jared/Jensen in the CW RPS fandom. Don't get me wrong, I love J2 ( obviously), but I like variety. And like I said, I'd always thought he was hot. So finally I get around to checking out the website for Kane, the country/rock group he has with Steve Carlson. Listening to some clips, I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it. Country's not really my style, though country-rock sometimes is, and same for country-influenced alternative. But then, I found a live clip of "Drift Away" in the A/V index, a song that I've adored ever since I was a wee little thing, 'cause my mom mostly played the oldies station in the car while driving. And I kind of love him singing on it. And did I mention my known weakness for musicians? Whoops. I'm never going to get over my insane celebrity crush on him now.
Oh. Oh wow. I just noticed in Wikipedia that he has my birthday.
Mrph. Yup, so screwed.
Oh, give me the beat, boys, and free my soul, I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away