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( mine has always been a combination of @mindykaling (most obvious, boring answer outside of @kanyewest, i know: but whatever, there is a reason everyone loves them), @stevemartintogo and I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY, it just turns out i find him really hysterical for no reason, and @boa_1105 because she is precious and ridiculous. but actually what i want to talk about is @bryanfuller, because his twitter is PRESH )

EYEHEARTING ASIDE THOUGH, isn't celebrity twitter culture weirdly interesting? It gives us all access into these lives in a way we have never had before, and it's interesting how many people you end up liking more, but how many people you end up liking less. The ones who are exactly like you would have pictured them (SEAN MAHER: super sweet but boring as hell) and then the ones that surprise you, idk. And then the ones who just make asses out of themselves all the time, which is always fun.

Also I've kind of been using tumblr again (I know, I hate myself, etc) and I'M SICK OF LEADING A DOUBLE LIFE, so yeah this is me. I had this elaborate fantasy about how before I mentioned this to my lj friends I would have a ~cool~ tumblr, not in the lame-o tumblr popularity sense but in that it would be like THIS GIRL'S TUMBLR, which I love so deeply it probably borders on creepy. I was going to think of a new username and take pictures of stuff but then I remembered that I am just... deeply uncool. Anyway I am lame and my usage is pretty sporadic soooo no pressure or anything, I'm here more anyway. But if you do want to be tumblr friends...... yeah. WHY IS THIS SO AWKWARD, GOD, I hate tumblr.

OOOH WHILE WE'RE AT IT THOUGH IS THERE ANYONE I'M NOT FRIENDS WITH ON LAST.FM??? Because if not friend me, that is the actual best place. Even though mine is embarrassing, whatever, I'M EMBARRASSING EVERYWHERE, let's face facts.

Also is there any Troy/Annie fic besides this and this? Because delicious said "not really". But enquiring minds would like to know for sure :(

It just occurred to me that none of Rachel Bilson's future employers are probably ever going to care enough to employ her range of ridiculous facial expressions to their fullest, greatest extent. Ugh.

( bonez )



I feeeeeeel like 97% of picspams that are produced are produced mostly for the reader: work goes into capping, picking out pictures, messing around in photoshop, and making sure it is the best thing it can be. THIS IS THE EXCEPTION THAT PROVES THE RULE, sorry guys I know you do not care about pretty korean girls, but see, I kind of just want to stare at Yuri's face all day, so uh. I am facilitating that, for myself. Oh god most intense girlcrush everrrrrrrrr, I don't think I've ever had this full on kind of I WANT TO GO TO THERE feeling with any other female. But THEN THERE SHE IS, ALL SUPERHOTTIE SEX BOMB ALL THE TIME, and, well. Well. IF THIS CAME OUT A LITTLE STRAIGHT-DUDE-GAZE FOR ANYONE'S TASTES, I.......... am not surprised but also kind of unrepetant. What NOW.

YURI IS IN A BAND WITH A LOT OF MEMBERS (9), so I thought perhaps this would be helpful:



( LOTS OF PICTURES OF MY KOREAN GIRLFRIEND )

( unpopular glee opinions! unpopular in the sense that no one will share them, not that they will negate anyone's happy feelings and/or your popular opinions. actually i'm mostly talking about the first thing, the rest is pretty much just straight up, everyday opinions. )

P.S. I don't know what it is about Glee but it brings out the worst in people's ability to use spoiler cuts, but EVERY SINGLE WEEK I have gotten a little bit spoiled by flisting in the hour before it airs here. Hey eastern and central time: not everyone gets to see things as soon as you! I know I can't police you and nothing major has been uncut, but just think about it before you post that one funny quote/your detailed emotional reaction to whatever in the middle of watching it! It's not that big a deal for me to avoid the internet the hour before tv starts, but then there are the west coasters and the non-north Americans for whom it takes even looooooonger so just, you know, think about it. It's considerate!

( canadian bones )


Anyway this has been sitting in semagic FOREVER, apparently I've forgotten how to post:
The meme goes as follows: Comment, and I will give you a person. Find a picture of that person for each category. Post the results in your journal.

goldenmelisande gave me ( BLAKE LIVELY, BONUS POINT FOR EVERY PICTURE THAT ALSO INCLUDES HER LESBIAN LOVER. )

Florence Welch has got to be Blake Lively's secret, long-lost, redheaded older sister.

Oh my GOD, THIS GIRL IS RADIANT*:



(I really really really need someone to talk me out of catching up on Gossip Girl again. I KNOW IT'S GOING TO BE SO BAD, and on top of that there's going to be a whole crapload of ~Blair and Chuck are mfeo~ stuff and I am going to HATE IT ALL, AND YES, MY TIME IS MUCH BETTER SPENT ON OTHER THINGS. But. But.)

*TODAY WE ARE DEFINING "RADIANT" as "totally dorky" + "totally beautiful" + "radiating joy".

Yo internerds! It has been a really long time since we have spent extended time remarking on how Gillian Anderson is not only the prettiest, but also basically the best person on the planet. BUT DO NOT FRET, friends, I have prepared a mini picspam (of ESQUIRE OUTTAKES!!!!! Jeeeeeesus, this may be my favorite photoshoot to date) to help correct our blasphemy.


( hard luck woman )

The photos (plus more) are in hi-res here, and given the source I would assume they originate from Haven. Now go make me icons.

( I INTERRUPT YOUR NORMAL, TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY FLISTING TO BRING YOU THE FOLLOWING FORAY INTO ~*THE GOLDEN AGE OF HOLLYWOOD*~ REAL PEOPLE SHIPPING. )

And because I know it is unlikely I'll post before the 16th (and hey! It's already the 15th in London!), happy happy birthday to my old friend tashternal! And while I'm at it, happy belated, silverstars! FACT: October babies > all the other ones. I use both of you as proof of this.

Also, dear new friends, I'm sorry this incredibly random exercise in nostalgia is your introduction to me. I will commence polling and this-is-my-last.fm-ing at some to-be-determined date in the future. :D?

SO CYD CHARISSE DIED YESTERDAY?

Her trademark was always the classy sexy vampy saxophony dances (like the Cafe scene from this same film, and her breakout role in Singing in the Rain) but but but. She was always a ballet dancer. And I've always loved this one (from The Band Wagon, with Fred Astaire) best. It's the very pinnacle of old school falling-in-love-while-dancing movie scenes, and she's all grace and legs and style, and it's just the prettiest thing. I'M SO SAD SHE'S GONE, these people -- these old school dancing, singing, onscreen miracles of people -- made up a good 95% of my film exposure from the ages of 2-8, and now with Cyd, there's only really Debbie Reynolds and Mickey Rooney left. What a generation they all were. AND THEY'RE ALL MOSTLY DEAD.

I don't know. When famous people die the lj tributes always pop up and it's sad but I still don't really bother, but these MGM musical kids -- they're my people.

IN OTHER NEWS, I've been rewatching Alias (apparently when I sit myself down and say, "okaaaaaaay, ALEX. I know it feels like you don't have a lot of TV because none of it's on in the summer, but YOU DO. HAVE A LOT. And you don't need to watch more things to keep up with come fall!", I end up compulsively rewatching old things I loved once but haven't seen in awhile? This is an addiction/withdrawal thing, ISN'T IT? Should I be more worried about myself and my television watching habits?). Anyway, daaaaaaang, but I always seem to forget how much I love the Spyrents. They're the perfect foil to Syd and Vaughn, who are all young and shy and pretty and sweet and charming and OTPish (what later seasons?); and then Jack and Irina -- I mean, she actually broke him. There aren't really any words for that.

I do think Jack/Irina win, HANDS DOWN, over EVERYONE EVER*, for SHEER CHEMISTRY, because the tension between them is so thick and exquisite it actually kind of gets hard to pay attention to their dialogue.

*Exceptexceptexcept I haven't watched one of those kinds of MulderandScully scenes in like, three or four months so maybe I am not the most fair judge. The grand power of MULDER AND SCULLY might beat the Spyrents, but it also might not. I also think the Spyrents might beat them simply because Mulder and Scully kind of have to tone down their sexual tension to a mere hum so they can sort of concentrate on their paranormal crud whereas with Jack and Irina it is always. right. there. Buuuuuuuut M&S might beat them for MOST INTENSE MOMENT. I don't even know my own criteria! Oh god, I'm way way way overthinking this.

Todayyyy is kind of still jenaben's birthday!!! (Here it still is! And in California! And Vancouver! And Alaska! And... some pacific islands! SO YOU KNOW.) I have a super cheesy saying from a list of birthday quotes my aunt forwarded to me awhile ago: "Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul." ...so do you feel properly birthdayishly inspired yet???? BUT SERIOUSLY: your boundless articulate enthusiasm is one of the things that makes you the very best sort of LJ friend to haaaaave, and I'm super grateful to have you around. You're still too young for silly colloquialisms and any kind of wrinkles, though, I don't know why I try.

SOME YULETIDE RECS BEFORE WE FIND OUT WHO WROTE THEM ALL:

( but you're going to have to click the cut first :( )

I would like this moment to lament the fact that all the Chuck entries appeared to me Casey-centric slash. What a missed opportunity for Chuck/Sarah :'( And what a missed opportunity for Californication! I would read stories about David Duchovny uttering witticisms in his underwear any day.

There are also like, 19 Pushing Daisies stories! But I can't bring myself to read them? I am weirdly against reading Pushing Daisies fanfiction. Someone needs to fix that.

Yuletide is great, you guys. There is fic for everything. There is fic for Bringing Up Baby, for goodness' sakes (which... was kind of weird. I wasn't sure I liked that)! I am sad I was disinterested in it earlier this year. Next year I think I might actually participate!


Anyway, boring real life things:

I just met Megan at Pearl Street mall for coffee and shopping things because the University of Michigan has a ridiculously short winter break and she's going back the second (the second!! What is that?) I bought SO MUCH STUFF, you guys. Seriously, I am such a sucker for after Christmas sales. Show me a bucket of girly bath stuff at half price and I go so much crazier than I probably should. I have two more bars of soap, and it takes me fooooorever to go through soap :( Why can't I stop buying it!

Anyway, it just occured to me that I probably... should have gone to the post office to check on the packages? But I rarely have that presence of mind!

Tomorrow is New Year's Eve and it is going to be GREAT. My two best friends and I are driving up to Steamboat Springs for a nice dinner, hot springs, aaaaaaand some champagne. A+ combination for an evening! There were going to be more of us, buuuuut I vetoed boys so we wouldn't have to deal with Meredith's annoying boyfriend Daniel and we don't... really like girls, I guess? ANYWAY. I am excited.