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Eh, I should've done this a while ago, but so you know, this journal is kinda sorta friends only. If you're not friended, there'll still be plenty to read, since all things purely pop-culturey are not locked, but if you'd like to be reading anything the slightest bit personal about me, you gotsta be friended.

If you'd like to be my friend, you can comment on this post. You know, and tell me something about yourself that'll make me want to friend you. Also, let me know how you found me, as I'm always curious.

So yes, it's been quite a while since I've posted, and more horribly since I've kept up with any of you or anything and I feel terrible and I'm very sorry about it all, I'm just much too busy and important. Not true, I just haven't had the time and I apologise, but I hope you all have missed me just a little, because I did miss you.

And now I'm not going to talk about anything I've been doing in real life (which is really just work and Josh anyway), and instead I'm going to talk about the most recent episode of Doctor Who. Because it is what's prompted my return to lj. Unfortunately, even though I now work with people who watch the show, they all watch it on the SciFi Channel and none of them are as caught up and instead I had to ramble onto a disinterested Josh the other night (who, I don't know if I've mentioned, isn't a geek and watches sports).

So I bring you ( my reactions to (and rationalisations about) Doctor Who 4x12: The Stolen Earth (and in particular the last two minutes). )

ETA: ( Oh and I forgot... )

Hey kids, long time no see. Über-super crazy busy with work and Josh and my new French class, etc. Not too much other than that is new actually. And I've been watching a lot of Top Gear, which is so my new favourite show. Anyway, but you all should let me know what's going on with you, cause I haven't had the time to scroll through my eons of backfriendslist. So comment and tell me what's new, cause I miss you lot.

( Anyway, I just watched the Torchwood season finale. )

Well, Doctor Who is downloading. I'm pretty excited for this season– I think Donna's going to make a much better companion than Martha. And I'm real interested to see where it all goes.

<lj-cut text="Some general thoughts on Ashes to Ashes.</a>Okay, so I'm really enjoying this show, I like Alex, I love the repartee between her and the Guv and the general plotlines are interesting and good. But I'm really sick of all this bullshit with her parents already. I had the same issue with Life on Mars to some degree, but at least it wasn't every episode. Regardless, I was really glad when the second season rolled around and they were done with that shit. It just really ups the embarrassment factor of the show. You know, when you're so embarrassed on a character's behalf that you can barely watch? And my whole life I've had a serious issue with that. As a kid I used to walk out of the room and kind of meander in and out until it was over. Now I'll still bury my head in the covers and go, "Oh, Sam/Alex, what the fuck are you doing, man?" But also, particularly in this case, it's not as interesting a plotline to me, especially since Alex's mother is just SO loathsome. I mean, man does she suck. What a raging bitch. I like Evan, he can stick around, but Caroline just ruins the soup. Unnecessary. I hope they'll blow up soon.

randomdent

New layout! With snazzy Lost header cause YAY NEW LOST THIS WEEK!

Here is a list of the 455 movies that have officially been nominated for Best Picture Oscars since the first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929. Go through the list and bold all the ones you've seen. Then, if you aren't too lazy, count them and post your number. Once you've looked at my list, suggest three movies from the list I haven't seen that you think I should see (if you can think of three). I will also suggest one movie that I think everyone should see. Assuming they haven't.

( And I've seen 101 of them. )

That's like almost a quarter of them... not too shabby, I guess, but it made me realise all the ones I figured I had seen, but have really only seen parts of.

My rec, if you haven't seen it is The Philadelphia Story. One of my all-time favourites: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart. Really, enough said.

So I just watched the second ep of Torchwood, cause I haven't had the time in my busy busy schedule. Anyways, it fucking rocked. And seriously, I always like Ianto okay, but he's just been bumped up to my favourite character on this show... even more so than Jack, cause we all know that Doctor Who!Jack pwns Torchwood!Jack. But seriously, snarky Ianto for the win like woah.

And yeah, way better than the first episode, which I guess everyone was full of squee over, but I really felt like they were just trying to do Torchwood, you know. Like everyone was playing their part, like the fish said, almost like a pantomime of the show. Until the end, where it picked up. But this week was really a good hour of quality television, with all the Torchwood elements, but without making a mockery of itself. Seriously, I though, Torchwood at its best.

SO horrible.

We heard about it just before I left work. All I can think about is poor Michelle Williams and their two-yr-old.

And 10 Things I Hate About You. One of the guys at work, Sam, was saying how iconic he is, and we figured out that Sam's eighteen and Heath Ledger has been a mainstay in the business for ten years.

I've seriously had this problem ever since I was twelve and used to order things from the Delia's catalogue. And now I just found a pair of boots, and they're kinda cute, but now I want to buy them cause they're called Benton. Fail.

Okay, I need help. Seriously. So in my first graphic effort in about two months, I made a gorgeous Lost header that I'm kind of ridiculously pleased with. The problem? I can't flipping find a layout to go with it for the life of me. So if anyone could suggest one, I'd love them forever. Pretty much my only stipulation is I want two columns. Um, and it should look like it works with the image. Everything I've found doesn't fit the size of the header either. The one I've linked to is 700x415, but I also have it in 900px- and 500px-width resizes.

Please help?

In the meanwhile, I'm going to go quest for a good Lost moodtheme.

Snagged from wily_one24.

Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line(s)* from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly (No lyric hunting! That is cheating!)

So you know, I refused to use anything with the song title in the first lyric. And "867-5309" cause WAY too easy. So some of them are a little tough.

( Something witty. )

Cause I'm sheep.

1. Juno (2007) ~ Jan 2.
2. Walk Hard (2007) ~ Jan 4.
3. High Anxiety (1977) ~ Jan 12.
4. To Be Or Not To Be (1983) ~ Jan 20.
5. 3:10 to Yuma (2007) ~ Jan 24.
6. The Amazing Screw-On Head (2006) ~ Jan 24.
7. It Happened One Night (1934) ~ Feb 1.
8. Cloverfield (2008) ~ Feb 17.
9. There Will Be Blood (2007) ~ Feb 19.
10. Across the Universe (2007) ~ Feb 28.
11. Charlie Bartlett (2007) ~ Mar 2.
12. Run Fat Boy Run (2007) ~ Mar 29.
13. Fido (2006) ~ Apr 7.

And yet I also have the day off tomorrow. Don't know what I'm going to do with myself now.

( Anyway, I flipping loved it. LOADS OF SPOILERS. )

This calls for the return of my very favourite Lost icon. ;)

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first article title on the page is the name of your band.

2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.

3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4. Use your graphics program of choice to throw them together, then post the result.
( Under here. )

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate. And if you don't, I hope you had a nice day off from whatever you do. I had a pretty awesome day and I hope you all did too.

Waiting for Who to download. Am dead tired, but I think I'm gonna watch it before I go to bed (with my snazzy new headphones from my dad). Will detail my haul tomorrow. Would take too much thinking now.