if the rest of the special is as good (and creepy) as this new clip, it will be one of the most awesome episodes EVER.



:O <----- my face as i watched it, trufax!

reporter from front row referring to antony gormley's new artwork one and other:

"The crowd -- it's a tough crowd in this square, I've got to tell you -- but the crowd do like a bit of panda."

omg i cannot get bell biv devoe out of my head. WTF IT IS NOT 1991, BRAIN.

O HAI GUYS O HAI RUSSELL T DAVIES JUST SAID IN AN INTERVIEW WITH MARK LAWSON TODAY THAT HE'S JUST STARTED WORKING ON SERIES FOUR OF SARAH JANE ADVENTURES.

"I'm moving on from Doctor Who now, but I'm not from the Sarah Jane Adventures and from Torchwood. It's like, we just started work on series four of Sarah Jane yesterday, actually."

go here if you'd like to hear the interview: front row 29/06/2009. the bit in question is at about 3:45.


:D :D :D

accidentally took a nap and had the weirdest dreams ever. I went to taraljc's house and then was like, "o shit i think i forgot to actually ask tara if it was okay to stay with her!" because apparently i had keys to her apartment. which had a pizza/sub shop in the same building. an order of french fries was $2.95. i reflected they must make more money on the pizza than the subs, then tara got home and i kept fainting. then i was driving with my sister and her boyfriend (who was some random guy i've never met, as opposed to her actual boyfriend), we drove into a building -- not through the side, like actually through the corridors. i was looking outside for a place to par, then i got inside and boyfriend was buying something and the cashier was like, "you need to sign this" and he was like, "man, could you do it? i'm too drunk." while a cop was standing next to him. then he was arrested. then i was wandering around the building looking for my sister while a bunch of people in renaissance costume were setting up a banquet, and i recognised like a third of them from chicago TARDIS.

then somehow my dream turned into a doctor/jack story. wtf, self? at least make it doctor/river.

only semi-relatedly, someone PLEASE tell me this if i am hallucinating or if that is really sophie aldred at a michael jackson concert in 1988 (the BAD tour). the bit with the audience member in question is at 8:13, during a performance of "liberian girl".

screencap!:


there was also a young backup singer named "sheryl crow" talking to the interviewer during another part. that was really her, though, cos i checked and she was indeed a backup singer for jackson during the bad tour. also there are not likely to be many singers named sheryl crow who actually look like sheryl crow even though giant 80's hair was masking some of her features.

has anyone else noticed that the volume control on the bbc iPlayer goes up to eleven? ilu, bbc. ^___^

eta: posting this caused a judas priest song to become stuck in my head. lols.

a boatload of thanks to the kindly anonymous person who gifted me with a paid account! i haven't had one for yeeeeeears.

i can only assume the gift was given out of a desire to allow me to edit comments so that they can stop seeing my many terrible typos. i'll do my best to catch them, anonymous benefactor!


ETA: kindly anon, feel free to leave a prompt and i'll write you a ficlet for it. unless you're not fannish and then, um... i'll make you cookies sometime.

my kitty is floppy. i think this is because wisconsin suddenly noticed that it's the middle of june and decided to start having some summer weather. yah i was wearing a sweater a few days ago.

good times were had last weekend at pridefest. i volunteered on saturday with FORGE and ended up offering free gay hugs to people who were upset/annoyed with the anti-gay protesters. i actually got to see their entire activity for the day -- they rolled up about quarter after 3 with a bunch of signs and leaflets and such. oh by the way i fucking love anyone and everyone involved in PFLAG. when i went to pride for the first time last year i was standing in line and a PFLAG counter-protester greeted me and i totally teared up a bit, cos she was there because she had a gay son and she wanted everyone to feel welcome and loved, and it was a really wonderful thing to feel that, especially cos of how rough things were for me at the time. if my mom was still alive i know she'd be one of those people. although she might have had a hard time not getting into a fight with the anti-gay protesters.

anyway! protesters rolled up, PFLAG peeps made sure to stand near them. i and my co-volunteer offered free gay hugs and it was good times. around an hour after the protesters showed up hand-painted signs started appearing in their midst, saying things like "SKORTS - SKIRTS OR SHORTS - DECIDE!", "RHUBARB - VEGETABLE OR FRUIT?" "SOCKS THEN SHOES!!", "EAT CHEERIOS - GOOD FOR CHOLESTEROL" "FISH SANDWICH - GIVE ME YOUR FISH!" after only about a half an hour of the ever-multiplying signs and slogans (everyone with the nonsense signs was VERY vociferous in yelling out their very important messages about breakfast cereal and socks and such) the anti-gay protesters finally just gave up and sort of confusedly retreated. i offered gay hugs to the protesters as they departed but only one person took me up on my awesome offer! she said i was funny. then she tried to tell me how jesus really loved me, to which i replied, "thanks, i know he does, that's why i'm here."

the other highlight was my friend jesse telling the mayor about how i'd been beat up earlier in the week. heh.

speaking of, my face is much better! bruising seems to be gone, and the swelling. still hurts a little when i open my mouth wide but that's it. don't seem to be getting the pain-induced headaches anymore either. hurrah! i got the compensationform from crime victim services a couple days ago as well. now i just need to actually, er, fill it out. yes.

btw, who is no one watching In Treatment? IT IS AMAZIN

*back to writing stuffs*

had a dream about the BEST VIDEO GAME EVER. it was for the game gear and it was a new sonic game. the first two levels were awesome sonic goodness, and then the third level started and it was like a crazy war in the jungle and you had to do regular sonic stuff but also shoot sucker darts onto these specific flying robots with arms. it was super abrupt too, like the first level of raptor rampage for the genesis, where you're suddenly in the middle of everything and you have to immediately start jumping around and getting away from corporate military contractors who were trying to killl you. in my dream it was very confusing because it was the first time i'd ever played this particular sonic game so i wasn't familiar with the layouts and the enemies and i kept almost dying and having to grab that one ring so it wouldn't happen.

and did i mention the point of this game was to RESCUE DONNA NOBLE? eventualy i think the game turned into a book. yes, i tried to read ahead so i'd know what the end was before i woke up, but it didn't work. drat.

anyway i really want to play this new sonic game now. woe, for it does not really exist.

so, for quite a while i've been thinking that doctor who fandom is in need of an awesome place for doctor who meta and discussion -- there have been some really good discussions on the anonmeme amongst all the wank, but they invariably disappear within a day or so into the depths of the comment pages. it is the way of the meme, which is as flighty and ephemeral as the internet, except... more so. and the meme shows that there is a hunger for a place in which to engage in this discussion. so i finally decided to do what i've been wanting to do for a while and create a meta comm.

i've got a co-mod (feel free to reveal yourself if you're ready to take on the mantle!), some ideas for basic guidelines and such, and a few ideas for essays. but i am missing the integral ingredient which is AN AWESOME NAME. so far all i can think of is meta_who, which is informative but a bit boring. if someone can think of something more awesome then i will give you internet cookies. or real cookies, if i ever meet you. (ask my roomies from last chiTARDIS. i brought home-made chocolate chip cookies, oh yes). otherwise i will make meta_who tonight! (won't be open for business quite yet, but it will exist).


in completely unrelated news, face is doing better still. also called up victim compensation today -- they said they don't usually recompense anyone for private property, but glasses might come under medical, so they'll send me a form which should come by sometime next week. then i'll fill it out, and wait three to four months for everything to be processed and find out if they'll help me out. semi-hurrah!

i'm volunteering at milwaukee pridefest tomorrow. come by if you enjoy gayness! and are in milwaukee, obvs.

sometimes i forget i live in wisconsin and am surprised when i type it out. hmmm. WISCONSIN.


ETA: the_metadel now exists! no content yet, but that will be coming forthwith, along with guidelines and maybe a fancy header image and stuffs.