Must you be updated just moments after the finale's aired? On every character page? Even minor Dalek characters?

Ugh, this is my fault, really...

Hm. I'm in the process of preparing myself for this afternoon, just watched the first Children in Need special, currently watching "New Earth," plan to re-watch at least "Doomsday" and "The Stolen Earth." Yes, I will be an emotional wreck the majority of the day. I've come to accept it. Thoughts are swirling around in my head and I wish I hadn't spent so much of my time already ranting and speculating to people who haven't even watched series four.

Anyway, I've just completed my first full week of work. I got a minimum wage job at Target, which is kind of sucky because I do so much backroom work, but it could be worse. There are so really nice people there, like Petra, who smokes every break and always smells nice, and Evelyn, a soon-to-be senior at Clackamas. My dad's already made jokes about me being like the Target lady played by Kristen Wiig on Saturday Night Live, but fortunately, I've yet to purchase anything from the store with my employee discount. There was a super-cute soft dress yesterday, but I decided my meager funds would be best spent on prescriptions and renting crazy Asian horror movies, not to mention saving some money for the Flight of the Conchords show next weekend.

Work is tedious sometimes. I hate all the lifting of super-heavy boxes, and especially the way we sweep and mop the back room every day even though there's construction workers tramping through there who will make it all dirty the next day. I also get really frightened of using the cardboard baler because someone at the store once cut off their fingers in it. I never realized there were so many ways to be maimed or killed at Target, but there are numerous ones. Cashiering is definitely my favorite thing to do. I like seeing a lot of different people, smiling and asking if they've got any giftcards, hearing the happy beep the scanner makes when you swipe an item over it, working fast, and seeing my scores as a checker on my computer screen. I know that sounds silly, but I really do enjoy it. I just wish I could do it more often.

I don't read as many books as I'd like to now. I feel like I have this basic schedule now: wake up, drink two cups of coffee and watch Gilmore Girls, work until five, come home and eat something quick, spend several hours writing and "larking about," watch Torchwood with Julia, and go to bed. It's kind of sad. I really, really need a social life. Maybe people from work. It's a possibility.

I saw Hancock on Tuesday night with Julia, and I really, really loved it. I thought the film would be good, but it turned out to be much more than I expected. It was suddenly so much more serious in the last third of the film, but it was still really great. I do think it's a bit weird though that so many people seem to have left that theater, thinking, "Jason Bateman and Will Smith should've hooked up." Including myself. There's already a Hancock fanfiction community on LiveJournal, and it so far consists only of Ray/Hancock fans. Doubt we'll get any Mary/Hancock stories, that's just too canon.

In October, the musical Spring Awakening is coming to Portland, and I'm incredibly excited to see it. I love going to see musicals and the music here is actually very good. I think I've become even more excited after taking part in this iTunes drabble challenge in which you put an mp3 player on random, write a story relating to the song, and only have the length of that song to write. The first song that came up was "The Word of Your Body" from Spring Awakening, and I think it's now my favorite song about sex and its complications:



It's a Veronica Mars fanvid, and I lost interest in the show a while ago, but any show seems great to me when there's a soundtrack penned by Duncan Sheik.

Only thirty-three minutes until it airs, and a couple hours til I can watch it. I am going to be the absolute biggest mess. I will probably be posting later and attempting to type while crying. We'll see.

This is my favorite video of the moment, and yes, it actually did make me tear up:



However, me saying that something has made me think I was going to cry should be taken with a grain of salt, as I teared up while watching the finale of A Shot at Love yesterday. It's like, I know Tila Tequila is kinda skanky, but I just felt so bad for her at the end. She seemed really sincere and actually wanted to make a relationship work, and then she just started crying and sobbing, and all I could think was that I wanted to give her a big hug.

In other news, Cory McAbee's new band American Astronaut have just released their new song and video. It's just as weird and wonderful as the Billy Nayer Show:

My mother, who is the most awesome mother ever, decided to buy me not just new clothes for work, not just a volume of C. S. Lewis religious writings, but series two of Doctor Who!

The list price is $100, which was way out of my price range, but I got a Borders 30% coupon in my e-mail...which still left it out of my price range. However, my mum decided to be just plain amazing, and she bought it. I'm paying her back for part of it, out of my $30 paycheck on Friday, but still, she's just lovely and amazing.

Julia and I had first watched "The Christmas Invasion" on a crappy Chinese YouTube type site, and it took about two hours to load, and then we watched "New Earth" on Veoh. But on Friday, after coming home at like 10:30, we plopped down and watched three episodes, I think we watched six episodes yesterday, and then the last disc today.

And I bawled like a little girl at the end of the series. I first started crying during the open narration of "Army of Ghosts," but then I was alright until about the last twenty minutes of "Doomsday." And then it just degenerating into flat-out hysterical sobbing.

And yes, I realize that I am, in fact, crying over a cheesy British sci-fi show. But I think there's really so much more to it than that. Billie Piper, Christopher Eccleston, and David Tennant made it into something beyond just a silly program about time travel. Catherine Tate is doing it right now, and yes, I suppose Freema Agyeman did the same last season. It's not that I don't think she's a good actress. It's more that I want to throw a toaster at Martha's head sometimes.

Anyway, I think it's pretty clear the Who team are behind the idea that the story of Rose and the Doctor is, in fact, a romance. It's not the focal point, but it's a joy to see two people reveling in each other and sharing the pure pleasure of walking hand in hand, rolling around in the grass, and making fun of silly rich people. Tennant himself has described the relationship between Rose and the Doctor as being "a love story without the shagging." Russell T. Davies has referred to Rose as the love of the Doctor's life, and he's made it pretty clear, especially in recent interviews, how much he does in fact love these two characters who have found one another. That doesn't mean things will end happily for the Doctor and Rose- what great romances do end happily?- but I hope and hope and hope that things will end properly and rightly for them. And that, perhaps, the Doctor will finish that sentence: "And, I suppose, if I've got one last chance to say it, Rose Tyler..."

Also, if we could just make River Song disappear, that would make the viewers infinitely happy. Me, anyway.

( Thoughts )

Ah, and I'm crying again. Awesome.

EDIT- Seriously, RTD? Two weeks now that I've started writing less than twenty minutes after seeing the episode. Basic drill, time_and_chips if you'd like to see me being a super-nerd.

Dear Anonymous Movie Madness Patron,

Why?

Why, why, why can you not return series two of Doctor Who on time? You are obviously aware of the store's rental policies. You did check out a set that had one of those giant '$5 for Five Days' stickers on it. When you signed up for a membership with the store, you had to sign a contract that specified when movies were due. And yet, you have not fulfilled your end of the bargain.

We had a deal. I didn't get pissed at you for checking out season one and forcing my family to gather around my laptop to watch Veoh-quality episodes. I made do, I was flexible. And, of course, if you get there before me, it is your god-given right to rent that movie first. However, I thought you understood that in exchange for me recognizing your superior, supposedly quicker-watching skills, you would return the items in the time specified. This goes doubly for when a person cannot find even a Veoh link for "The Christmas Invasion." And yes, I have already seen that episode, but I refuse to allow my sister to watch the series out of order.

Probably unlike you, we have to drive half an hour to rent the show. We live in Clackamas, which is quite a distance from southeast Portland. Yes, I could just download the show, but I am actually choosing to watch the program legally. See? I am following the rules, unlike you. Because a society without rules or regulation cannot function. Didn't you see "Utopia" and "The Doctor's Daughter"?

Oh, wait. Probably not.

It is because of uncool people like you that we have called for three days in a row to find out if the season is finally on the shelf. The Movie Madness employees have become irritated with us, and that's not so awesome because we love the store and we believe in an independent movie rental place that plays Shaun of the Dead on a big high-def TV by the counter. And because we love Movie Madness, we respect its rules.

My sincere hope is that when you return the DVDs, you will not simply push it into the drop slot and sheepishly walk away, but that you will approach the counter and inform the bushy-haired clerk that you owe them some money and perhaps even apologize for keeping it out late. Because, my fellow Who watcher, that is what respect is all about.

Sincerely,

Christy Valentine

P. S. If you do the same thing to Torchwood and season three, I may have to kick your ass. Seriously.

Just re-watched it.

Someone needs to write a fic about the goings-on of Rose's mind after realizing the Doctor's trapped in France. Preferably an angsty one, with her attempting to process the fact that he's fallen in love with someone else the episode after she's just explained to Sarah Jane Smith how deep her devotion to the Doctor is. I can totally picture a stream-of-consciousness story that features her repeating over and over again, "'M never gonna leave you" inside her head, even after feeling a bit betrayed. I just am under the impression that her comment, "why her?" at the end of the episode isn't simply about why the robots wanted Madame de Pompadour, but why the Doctor fell in love with her as well. Kind of like Martha's comment in season three: "You went and fell in love with a human...and it wasn't me."

Oh, lord. I think I may have something else to do during my first week back at home. I am a tremendous geek, aren't I?

I was tagged by Carmen on MySpace, but I thought I'd just list these here.

Instructions: Once you have been tagged you have to write a blog with 10 weird, random things, or facts or habits about yourself. At the end you choose 10 new people to be tagged and list their names and why you chose them to be tagged.*Don't forget to leave a comment that says "you are tagged" on their profile and to read your latest blog.*

1. Nothing is better than an in-character smut fic to me.

2. When I don't eat meat, I have a secret craving for KFC extra-crispy breading.

3. I talk to God. He's quite nice, mostly.

4. Nothing entertains me more than a good dirty joke, preferably written by Steven Moffat.

5. After last week, I think Russell T. Davies may be a kinder individual than Moffat.

6. The majority of underwear in my drawer at any given moment is thongs.

7. I say the Velvet Underground is one of my favorite bands ever, but I've really only heard maybe one and half of their albums.

8. James lent me his copy of MirrorMask months ago, and I'm just now watching it. I don't like it.

9. I firmly believe David Tennant is the most beautiful man alive, and Sarah Shahi is the world's most gorgeous woman.

10. I bite my cheek. All the time.

Not tagging anyone, but just in case you wanted to know, all of the above are very, very true.

It’s as if every molecule and atom is moving about. Rushing, happy, pumping blood in this profoundly lovely way. Everything is as it should be. I can feel my cells leaping, shifting within every fiber of my being. I feel completely outside of myself and yet completely centered at the same time. My clothes feel less constricting, and I’m no longer worrying about what my hair looks like, how dirty my glasses might be, how sleep-deprived I look. It’s as if the pressure of the dark bags under my eyes has been entirely alleviated and I feel alive and dead at the same time. It’s a wonderful sensation to feel so utterly at peace and sated. And to think it takes maybe about fifteen lovely minutes to bring this about. I don’t understand why human beings don’t just sit and do this all day. It’s just plain wonderful.

Thoughts:

Best part of season three is John Simms, most definitely.



I love the use of music in relation to the Master. "Voodoo Child" and "I Can't Decide" used diagetically were probably the highlights of the finale. Otherwise, I was not a fan of those last three episodes.

Love the Adipose. They're so adorable. And Miss Foster as their supernanny was kind of amazing.

I could take or leave "Pompeii." Not so exciting.

But...

Rose!

In response to diepunyhuman's entry:

Geeky. Otaku. Frustrating.

Slutty. Trying.

Creative.

I realize this will make no sense to anyone who isn't one her friends list, but essentially, you think of words to describe yourself, her, and your best friend. I won't tell you what order they're in. People who know me should be able to figure it out. I just chose the words that came to mind right away-- these haven't been cleaned up. If you'd like to participate in this, replace "her" with me, as I'm very interested to see what words describe me to you.

Ugh, I've had this awful cold/flu bug since late last week and it doesn't seem to be getting any better. I'm stuffed up, coughing, have a sore throat, and feel like I'm going to be sick whenever I eat. It's kind of the opposite of fun.

I was supposed to go hang out with Melissa tonight, but I feel like sick Julia in Coupling when she tells Jeff, "don't mind me. I'm dead." I think I am going to curl up in the blankets and pass out while watching David Tennant and John Barrowman.

Speaking of Who, I am in the middle of the two-parter episode about the Family of Blood, and it's quite interesting. I like Martha a lot more in this one, even though I'm still sick of how in every single episode she has to talk about how she loves the Doctor and he doesn't love her. Seriously, at least Rose didn't blab how she felt for him to every person they encountered. I also discovered that the episode of Torchwood I am currently watching was written by Noel Clarke, who played Mickey on Doctor Who. That makes me super-happy. It really does.

Now, time to pass out in a Nyquil-induced haze.

Okay, so after being all depressed about "Doomsday," doing some drinking and Coupling-watching with Justin, I downloaded the first episode of the Who spin-off, Torchwood, and I think if the pilot is any indicator, I love it.

It's just super-dark and creepy, and I kind of get this weird Dexter-esque vibe from it, if Dexter Morgan lived in Cardiff and had a pterodactyl flying around his office. Plus, how can you not love a show that features a man stealing alien cologne to make himself instantly sexy and then having a threeway with a woman he meets in a bar and her boyfriend?

And, you know, Jack Harkness is just so beautiful. It's like I can't look away.

I was reading this review of the show on Entertainment Weekly's website here:
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20180998,00.html

And I was kind of shocked by one of the comments someone made on the review:

Liked the stories and cast and it is entertaining. Sorry to see captain jack go brokeback thought. Perhaps many writers today are promoting their own agendas. Hope Dr Who stays on the straight and narrow if not barrow.

Seriously? Like the fact that all of the characters have had encounters with someone of the same sex has any real bearing on the quality of a show. It kind of annoys me that people will still judge a show based off the orientation of its characters.

I am currently sitting in the PUB computer lab, avoiding doing my Annie Hall essay for EMAF 214. And because I need background noise besides typing, I have made a quicklist of fanvids and some Flight of the Conchords stuff and Annie Hall clips on YouTube. So here are some random thoughts for today.

First, this is really well-written fanfiction that isn't really smut, more like a sex vignette. It's interesting, and it's Ten/Rose and I think John would have an amusing reaction to it:
http://community.livejournal.com/teadis/44930.html

Second, I found this absolutely adorable fan video to the tune of "Buddy Holly," using various (yes) Ten/Rose moments. Seriously, David Tennant and Billie Piper, ilu.


Third, I am going to a presentation on UFOs tonight with Brittany Byerly. It is in the PUB at seven, so I encourage anyone who wants to be amused to attend. I doubt it will be as informative as the one I went to last night regarding transgender issues.

Just for you, aquidis!

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Well, that was pretty much awesome. Definitely one of my favorites, up there with "The Empty Child," so far. I also feel like I need to re-watch Goblet of Fire now, just for David Tennant.

Amazing first official Conchords video. Yay!

Here's a question for all my dorky friends: do you have a favorite fanvid? I've been seeing them a lot recently, like one from Psych that used one of my favorite Magnetic Fields song, "If There's Such a Thing As Love," and a very sad Ten/Rose video to the tune of Emma Bunton's cover of "Life in Mono." And then I liked one I saw for the Terminator show that featured Sarah/Cameron moments with My Chemical Romance's "The Sharpest Lives."

Although, my all-time favorite is HRG from Heroes with the latest James Bond song.

First, Aliens in America was renewed for a second season! Originally it did not appear on the CW's fall schedule, which was released Friday, but they had also left open Sunday nights. Then, yesterday, Entertainment Weekly and Hollywood Reporter both reported that it had been renewed, along with Reaper, which was also not on the original schedule. I've been doing my ultra-fannish part and sending the CW letters, so I think it's time they get a thank you note.

Second, just finished watching season one of Doctor Who and holy crap, I am addicted to watching Christoper Eccleston and Billie Piper being the cutest non-couple ever. I don't know what I will do now with this David Tennant fellow. And yes, I am aware that I am several years late to the party. I only hope that the tenth doctor can equal the squeeness that is Nine/Rose. Like, even though I want the Doctor and Rose to be together, I know that if the show actually had them do anything beyond the dancing, life-saving kisses, and almost declarations of love, I would not love it so much. In fact, I might actually kind of hate it. But it does not, and I do not, and thus, I am free to act like an absolute dork over the OTP that is the Doctor and Rose.

Now, after seeing the trailer, I kind of want to see the new animated movie.

It sounds like Frank Oz, Samuel L. Jackson, Ian McDiarmid, and Anthony Daniels at least are reprising their roles for the movie. It's hard to tell if that's really Hayden Christensen shouting, "fall back!" and I kind of doubt that Natalie Portman's going to be on-board for an animated film people are complaining has video game graphics. Honestly, I think the art is interesting. I like it. It's very stylized, which is good.

I think I'm going to end up seeing three animated films this summer: Wall-E (which is Pixar and will be amazing, especially since I've read there's very little dialogue in the film), Space Chimps (which looks really retarded but I adore chimpanzees and they look cute in the movie, plus maybe it will lead people to find out more about the instances when chimpanzees were actually sent into space), and now Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Hm. There are so many big movies coming out that I want to see, I think there are going to be a lot of visits to the Clackamas Town Center theater.

And now I think it's time for me to take a shower and then go hole up in the PUB lounge and read Twilight.

Expect more fandom-related posts this weekend, as I'm going through Billie Piper withdrawal and finally decided to start watching season one of the new Doctor Who while I wait for new episodes of Secret Diary of a Callgirl.

I think that fits, probably more than any of the other characters on the show. I'm not bitchy enough to be Amanda, Marc, or Wilhemina, nor am I quite nice enough to be Betty. And I don't really see myself as Daniel. I'd like to think I'm a little smarter.

I am sitting in my pajamas in Portland, sniffling and coughing and about to go get some tea and toast before I watch a bad movie and then work on my essay proposal. But it's all good because tonight, I am going to see Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova from Once! I seriously am so excited! My mom got orchestra seats, so we will actually be able to see them.

Also, I'm happy because my tax refund came, so now I have money to put in my savings account and pay for extra clay!