(in the dark) the shine of small things

Evidence exam in the morning. My brain is mush. Remember sometime ago when it was all the rage to sort your favorite characters from different fandoms into Hogwarts Houses? And everywhere you went icons like:

and
were showing up?*

I remember also seeing BTVS characters and Trek characters sorted. Anyway, I am, as ever, easily distracted. With my brain cells slowly dying one by one, and my eyes about to wither and fall from their sockets, I find myself wondering...

( Yes, there's a heavy East Coast and AL bias. What can I say? )

If I had listed A-Rod, is there anyone who wouldn't have automatically slotted him in Slytherin? I'm genuinely curious. I figured it was a waste of a poll option. **laughs** And now that I think about it - someone on my f-list had a friend with an icon marking A-Rod a Slytherin. It was an image of him slapping at Arroyo's glove, of course. **digs around** Ah --> [Bad username or site: aloha_moira / @ livejournal.com]'s the one.

*Both of these by [Bad username or site: foxglove_icons / @ livejournal.com].

Had quite possibly the most unproductive break ever, aside from the fact that I think I have two shiny new fandoms to tide me over until baseball (btw, yes, Toronto IS on crack) and Deadwood return. Namely, Supernatural and Prison Break.

( Supernatural - general reaction, vague spoilage for up to 1x09, spoiler for 1x10 )

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( Prison Break - lots of fangirling, spoilers for 1x07 and 1x08, minor spoilage for the rest of the series up to those eps )

The more I watch of Prison Break, the more I want to see a Pitch Black prequel that features Vin Diesel's Riddick and a Wentworth Miller III character who's essentially a pre-Jack/Keira mini-Riddick, on the run together, dodging Johns and the law. Because that would be totally, totally badass. I mean, except for the part where Riddick was a total loner and it would be inconsisent with what we knew of him before the first film. But those are just details ^_~ Really, someone, anyone, needs to see their way to casting some action project that features both Vin Diesel and Wentworth Miller doing that scowly, intense growl thing they do so well. Because that would be hotness. Because they are hotness. Miscegenation, yay!

Speaking of, has anyone seen a picture of WM3's parents? I know, I'm completely classless, but I'm just so intrigued. His father either has to have the weakest dominant genes known to man, or Wentworth Miller II is also mixed. And inquiring minds want to know! Okay, fine, I want to know.

scornedsaint, if you have any Prison Break fic recs, I'd love to hear them. I think in this fandom, I'd be more inclined towards short pieces rather than long, gen more so than het (and I have pretty much no interest in slash in this fandom), and stuff set during or near the timeline of the show, and not so much backstory stuff. So if you can think of anything that would be cool ^_~

Also, a gold star to the person who tells me why the other inmates call Michael "Fish". I'm usually okay at puzzling out slang, I mean it's not rocket science, or Cockney or anything, but I can't quite figure it. I mean, assuming the reason isn't anything so simple as the fact that he's been freshly "netted", the catch of the day, as it were? Anyway, I refuse to google that shit.

Oh, and speaking of the talk, spent quite a while with my brother on the road, which means he controlled the radio, which means...I have a question.

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I suppose I should get ready to hit the road. **yawns** I totally managed to not see RENT this weekend. I'm such a bad fan.

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So this will be the first of the HP films I'll see having read the book first. Should be fun.

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The Lab has re-introduced Three Witches, which completely blows me away. I can pretty much sell off the rest of my BPAL now, because I've always felt that if Three Witches came back, that's all I'd ever wear. So, so awesome.

Oh, phantom_hpuff and scornedsaint: I finally sent out your postcards! And I bought stamps while I was at the PO - the Bailamos collection? I love them, they're so...happy and colorful. (As Ash would say, We're happy and we're singing and we're colored!) I want to send people random mail, for the express purpose of using these stamps :-P

Stressed, stressed, and stressed some more. But have a good day, everyone!

Listening to the Walk The Line soundtrack and Joaquin doesn't sound half bad. I'm finding Reese's voice/accent a little grating, but I have no idea what June Carter Cash sounded like IRL, so she might be spot on with that for all I know.

Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire

Joaquin Phoenix - Ring of Fire (WTL soundtrack)

So, I realize this movie doesn't quite have the Gay Cowboy quotient of others we're anticipating this fall, but who else is planning to see Walk The Line? I'm not a huge Cash fan, but trailers have looked pretty good. And by "looked pretty good" I mean "contained a lot of shots of Joaquin being all Brown Eyes McBroodsalot."

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1. This image of Zito like, amuses the hell out of me. I think it's the expression on his face.

2. It rained all day today and I got wet, and now I have this low, throbbing headache. And I haven't changed my clothes so I'm still wet. And for some reason, TPTB decided they'd given us heat too early, and put the AC back on. Wtf.

3. I hear tell Moose slash has been written. I'm being SO good. **taps fingers on desk top** Is it November yet?

4. I got to try the pumpkin patch with sandalwood and orris and omg, wow. Yumtastic. Quite eager for that order to arrive now ^_^ Also, Antique Lace is back, and I don't know how I feel about that. I mean, I guess I'm excited to try it, since a lot of people said Buck Moon reminded them of it, and I love Buck Moon. But I had gotten used to the idea of Antique Lace as that one unattainable bpal oil, you know? It had reached, like, mythic proportions. What if I try it now and I think it sucks?

5. I just realized the guy in the video for We Belong Together and the guy from Prison Break (as seen in the commercials that have been running every 4 minutes during the baseball playoffs)? Same dude. Now I know why he looked so damn familiar. That was bugging the everloving shit out of me.

6. There's no baseball on tv tonight. I am sorely tempted to pull my 2003 ALDS tapes out of my closet and watch the Zito/Martinez game now that, you know, the Oakland A's have become something other than That Team Whose Job It Is To Lose To Boston Or New York In The ALDS. I'm all nostalgic and shit for the early '00 A's. If I'd ended up in Palo Alto for undergrad, they could have been my team. How weird is that? I'd be all into the A's/Angels and I'd probably be one of those people who rolls their eyes when the media get going about Red Sox/Yankees, instead of a loser who plots out the pitching matchups and tapes all of the games and knows all the time cues on every time Jeter's been HBP at Fenway :-P It'd be so weird. I'd know stuff about like, Eric Chavez instead. I'd probably be able to name guys in the A's bullpen, even. Like pre-Huston Street. Weird.

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Poured a bowl of Cocoa Puffs for breakfast, and then bitched about how there was something off about it, doubled checked the expiration date, and since it's not April of 2006 (HA), I declared it needed more sugar. My dad: "Awww. Is your cereal not sweet enough for you? Everything's gonna taste wrong today. 'cause your Yankees lost. Good thing they left Mussina in California, just in case."

And then I stabbed my father in the face. (Okay, not really. And it wasn't because of the Yankees. I suspect I got a mispackaged label of Cocoa Puffs, cause I know they make that other, crappy kind, that has 75% less sugar or something ridiculous like that.)

As for last night, you know, I had a feeling. All the talking heads had been picking Mussina over Colon all day. When Colon went down on the mound, grimacing, and Erstad put his arm on his shoulder, and they called for the rookie, I had a feeling. Baseball is such a sport for stories, and how could you not see the story developing? Colon tries to gut it out, he wanted so badly to be able to do this for his team, and he cannot. So they call on the kid on short notice, and Santana holds off the Yankees and the Angels advance. For such an unpredictable sport, sometimes these games feel damn near scripted :-P

I am, as I always get this time of year, a little torn. Part of me feels badly for Moose, five years into a six year contract, and not a ring to his name, and damn it, wasn't that why he left us?

And then there's the other part of me, who finds that hilarious, and really, that's exactly what you get, abandoning a city that worships you, for New York, a team we agreed we hated, and the Bronx, and remember, you always said the only thing good about the Bronx is that Bugs Bunny cartoon they show before each game, remember that? You will never win a ring there, and they haven't won since you signed with them, and you know what the kids call that, Michael Cole? It's called KARMA.

So, while I kinda want to mock him with my monkeypants, he's still my boy enough that I don't dare check the NY sports pages today, which are no doubt filled with copy about Mussina not showing up when they needed him. Though they should be filled with copy on BUBBA CROSBY AND HOW MUCH HE BLOWS, and really, my boy wouldn't have even been in this situation if a certain "gold glove third baseman" knew how to field routine pop-ups, because this series wouldn't have had to go to 5. So, suck, suck, suck. And in conclusion, step off Moose, NY writers, that whole team failed to get it done, and he's been fighting that elbow since last year.

But I digress:

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Back to the 'burg later today. Joy. On the plus side, someone just PM'd me about a bottle of Hamadryad. Yay!

ETA: [Bad username or site: sensefille / @ livejournal.com], I know you guys expect better, but really, you've got to be proud of how they battled this year, no? There was a point there were you guys were literally pulling rabbits out of hats to plug into your rotation, and there were holes all over your field, and to just now be calling your season over is a bit remarkable, I think. Steinbrenner's gloom and doom pronouncements to the contrary aside.

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Oh, and if you're gonna rec me someone above, let's try for people who don't friends lock? I always feel guilty about asking someone to add me, only for me to lose interest and drop them a week later.

I just saw the first reference to NaNoWriMo on my friends page. Oy. I think it's safe to predict I'll be wimping out on it yet again.

The jackhammering outside the basement lab is driving me insane.

Edited to add: ( The LJ Interests Meme because pre-emption checking is boring )

In the comments to a recent post, cruzalicious wrote: Meme returned, because that message you left me was highly amusing. I hope posting this thing here isn't one of those things that will secretly annoy the shit out of you that I'll never know about.

And I was amused, I don't know why. But yeah, I have a handful of LJ peeves that I seethe about silently. Unless I happen to be on IM at the time, at which point I bitch about them to cruzalicious or johnnybvo.

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Alternate title to this poll: Tell Me I'm Not Petty and Anal or At Least Not The Only One Who's Petty and Anal.

Other news:

+ The most emailed story on the Baltimore Sun's website right now is the fluff piece on Brad and Angie's visit to the Aquarium on Sunday. I find it adorable beyond measure that the Aquarium director referred to Maddox as Brad's son.

+ Julio blows our sweep, I crack my laptop screen, the Dean emails out our Fall exam codes, and other unpleasant things continue to happen this week.

+ But the GOF trailer is out today. It looks amazing.

+ I am way too invested in Lacey/Nolan for someone who just found out about it like...yesterday.

+ Blind item posted to ohnotheydidnt the other day, lifted from On The DL:

You Have Been Disconnected
This 'religious' AL Easter prefers to hook up with girls through...different means than his teammates. A source tells us that he isn't even responsive to girls he once felt attracted to -- never answering
their messages, never calling back... could it be CHRISTIAN GUILT kicking in?

Curt Schilling seems to be the popular vote-getter, but seriously people, it's Brian Michael 'If I Could Meet Any Person Living Or Dead It Would Be Jesus' Roberts. Because that would be awesome. See how just the suggestion adds about ten more shades to his otherwise boring as white bread personality? :-P

+ "It is good to have friends, is it not, Mr. Garibaldi? Even if, maybe, only for a little while?"
"Even if only for a little while."

Last but certainly not least...a huge and heartfelt happy birthday to sensefille. I was gonna write this whole thing about how she rules beyond measure and rocks beyond my telling of it, but I suck at that kind of stuff. Suffice it to say that when Chelsea withdrew last year I was Very Sad and resigned to the fact that I had picked the wrong school for me and that I would never be really happy here because I had yet to find that pal I Truly Clicked With and really, I'm just thankful I didn't flake out the night my roomie invited me to watch a couple Hornblower movies at sensefille's place. Your dastardly and creepingly successful plan to make me kinda sorta root for the Yankees aside, I think you're the best and I wish you nothing but good things and better friends. (You know, as long as you keep me around for karma's sake. Or you know, just 'cause.)

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