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GUYS. GUYS.

THE MOST RECENT EPISODE OF DOCTOR WHO.

I CAN'T BELIEVE I WAS RIGHT ABOUT MISSY.

I REALLY DIDN'T THINK THEY'D ACTUALLY GO THERE.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER.

So drownedcities directed me to this: I Am the Doctor dubstep remix. IT IS SO AWESOME YOU GUYS. I CAN'T STOP LISTENING TO IT. ALL DAY LISTENING TO IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

Also I'm fairly sure that this track proves conclusively that the TARDIS invented dubstep. AWH YEAH DJ TARDIS, DROPPING MAD BEATS ALL ACROSS THE KNOWN UNIVERSE.

Hope all the Americans on my Flist had a nice Thanksgiving weekend (and for everyone else, hope you had nice weekends, too, and lots of wonderful things to be thankful for).

So, let's think about things we're thankful for. For instance, I am thankful for the Internet. The Internet is a wonderful fucking place, and I for one am not pleased by the U.S. Congress trying to ruin my Internet. Y'all have heard about SOPA/PIPA by now, right? No?

( Allow me to 'splain (mostly with copypasta from my friends because it's more efficient than trying to reword everything ^_^;;). )

We need to kill these noxious bills. So do what you can. Spread the word. Contact your member of Congress or Senator. And/or join Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) in his epic plan to stop it. In signing this petition, not only are you saying you want it stopped, but Wyden will read off every name on this list in one of the greatest filibusters ever, should SOPA come up to a vote. So if you have, like, five seconds (I know you do, if you're reading this!) go sign your name on the link above. If you have slightly more than five seconds, please edit the text in the blue box to come up with your own unique statement as to why you want SOPA blocked. This is important as in government petitions, names that post the same exact copypasta statement are all counted as a single comment, while unique comments are counted separately. While posting with the copypasta will get your name on the filibuster, including a unique statement will do even more good than that.

( ...Right, so that's your PSA for the day. Under the cut: all of the food, climbing 2200 foot cliffs for fun, a very Doctory holiday season, and the I'm A Time Lord! meme. )

Okay, so we just had an entire episode of Matt Smith kissing a baby, and now, if I'm not mistaken, we get an entire episode of Matt Smith wearing a Stetson. Were we all really really really really excellent in our past lives or something, to deserve this?

So, Super 8? Super GREAT! *rimshot!*

No seriously this movie was awesome. Speaking of fucking charming. The scary parts were the right kind of scary, and the funny parts had the whole audience laughing helplessly. Good script, good directing, good acting, ADORABLE KIDS. No seriously where did they get these kids, they should give them all Oscars. Did I mention the good acting?

The movie was a fun mystery; I had a great time trying to piece things together as it went along. As a period piece it was charming; there were all of these little nods to the time period that were like, "LOL GUYS CHECK IT OUT IT'S 1979, ISN'T IT HILARIOUS?!" Although I am seriously starting to think "My Sharona" is stalking me today. Can we make "My Sharona" today's official theme song? Okay? Yes. It's official.

Favorite moment:
"He's too stoned!"
"DRUGS ARE SO BAD!"

Do stay for the credits, oh my god.

...You know, this movie is kind of exactly what I should have expected, considering ( SPOILERS. Mild and very brief spoilers, but stay out if you'd rather go into the movie with nothing more than the trailer gave you. )

Tell you what, though, if I see people slashing Charles and Martin I am going to stab my eyes out.

...So anyway. That happened. And then I got home and put on a pair of pink polka-dot pants and ate an organic vegetable-pie pocket sandwich and blue jello, and watched Doctor Who. So that was fabulous. And I mean, like, really fabulous. THAT EPISODE. SO AMAZING. And I was starting to worry, too, with the second half of the season starting off with two thoroughly mediocre episodes. And next week: "The God Complex"! I am excite! (Everyone saw the trailer for "The God Complex" back in July, right?) I hope it's as good as I want it to be. I can't stop thinking of it as the House. I mean– minotaur! Dude raving in decidedly Johnny Truant manner! As I have commented before, I will be disappointed if the episode doesn't start playing upside-down or sideways or backwards or in Braïlle, even if I have no idea how that would work.

The brother and his sort-of-fiancée, sort-of-already-wife have arrived, meaning this is the official start of the mass chaos festivities! Today everyone who's already on the island is having a potluck bbq at Hapuna (widely considered to be the best beach on the island). Ohmigod beeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaccchhh~!! :DD ...Would you believe, I've been home two months, I live ten minutes away from the ocean, and I've not actually been to the beach? I mean, technically I've been to the shore several times, but I've not actually put on a swimsuit and got into the water yet. I know, right, what is wrong with me? What is wrong with me is I am very busy and I don't have anyone to hang out with aside from my mother.

In other news, I've been getting my mom all caught up in Doctor Who, which has been very useful... doing a proper rewatch of this and last season is helping me remember everything and get all of my facts and clues in orderly, well-labeled brain boxes. For instance, I was reminded that ( Spoilers through 'Day of the Moon' and my own theories. )

Moving on to the next fandom. NEW THEORY! Could it be possible that Danny finds Steve so attractive because he looks a little like Bruce Springsteen used to?

( Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I present to you Exhibits A and B. )

P.S. THIS MUSIC VIDEO, OMG. I think The Black Keys are my new favorite people. I love me a band that makes awesome music and doesn't take themselves too seriously. By which I mean not seriously at all, in any way. ♥

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Regarding events in "The Almost People" and the rest of this season of Doctor Who: this never happens and I feel extremely proud of myself... I HAVE A THEORY, and IT'S ONE I CAME UP WITH ENTIRELY BY MYSELF. ...Well, okay, TWO theories, but ONE of them I came up with entirely by myself. Furthermore, I've not seen anyone else postulate this second theory anywhere else... granted, I don't really travel in the main Who circles.

I... I think it's rather a good theory, actually; I'm really quite excited about it.

( DOCTOR WHO SPOILERY SPOILERS OF SPOILERDOM. FOR THE LOVE OF PIE, ONLY CLICK ON THIS LINK IF YOU ARE ENTIRELY CAUGHT UP WITH DOCTOR WHO AND WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MY THEORIES ABOUT THIS SEASON'S PLOT. OR IF YOU REALLY REALLY REALLY DON'T CARE ABOUT SPOILERS. )

OH GOD WHAT EVEN IS THIS. EVERY TIME I WATCH THE DOCTOR'S WIFE, I WANT TO WATCH IT AGAIN IMMEDIATELY.

GO TO SLEEP, ANGELA.

ETA: Spoilers in the comments, in case some of us haven't seen this yet, *COUGH*sirona_gs*COUGH*. ...Seriously, stay far, far away, spoilers are baaaaaaaad.

Good gods but I love air travel. Give me some wings and a clear day over crumpled topography and I am happy as a clam.

By all rights I should be unconscious... I had a night of four hours of sleep followed by a night of no sleep and an eternity of hauling heavy boxes down flights of stairs. When I got to the airport for my flight to Los Angeles I was more living dead than lively. But it seems a fifteen minute nap at the gate–serenaded by Pachelbel's Canon in D picked out on a red Gibson, accompanied by a chorus of ululating adolescent murmurings in Thai and dreams of an American Disneyland vacation–was enough to revive me, at least for a few hours.

I got a left window seat, which was brilliant; my favorite Oregon places were laid out like a map before my eyes. As the plane climbed the air layers I was given a sweeping view of the entirety of Portland in all its cheerful glory, towers and bridges and hills, forested parks and two great rivers. I caught the very edge of Sauvie Island as the airplane completed its spiral and swept southwards.

( Cut for excessive use of purple prose. )

The flight to Honolulu was uneventful. I slept through all of it. And Uncle Gary picked me up and I hung out with him and Auntie Susan and Cousin Darian, and we played old rock songs with an electric guitar and ‘ukuleles, and then, because my timing is BEAUTIFUL and I've arrived in Hawaii in the middle of the Merrie Monarch Festival, we sat and watched the Merrie Monarch hula competition on the television LIKE I HAVEN'T DONE IN YEARS, and I ate fried noodles and ohmigaaaaawd. T_T And then my friend Adam came to pick me up.

GUYS. GUYS. YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE THE STORY HE TOLD ME. He works for this audio-visual company that operates out of a local hotel, and a couple of Hawaii Five-0 episodes have been filmed there. And so, after the P. Diddy episode, the cast were hanging out in the hotel club getting trashed, and Adam was up in the booth doing sound, and P. Diddy came up into the booth and started DJing, and then P. DIDDY AND GRACE PARK STARTED MAKING OUT, LIKE, PRACTICALLY ON TOP OF MY FRIEND, like seriously, he had to try to edge away, it was really awkward.

...XDDDDDDDDDDDD BEST TRUE STORY YOU'VE EVER HEARD, RIGHT?!

And now I've seen my Doctor Who, so I can FINALLY GO TO SLEEP, OH MY GOD.

Okay, so, I can't take credit for any of this at all (my one contribution to Who conspiracy-theory is the flash of the blue sphere in The Eleventh Hour, and I'm starting to think that's not going anywhere), but I did some stalkery lurking in the journal of a friend of a friend and I'm really excited by it now. I feel kind of stupid too because most of the scenes that have been picked out, I noticed something odd but didn't think to go beyond that, to picking them apart and thinking why they were odd and whether they might be significant... and seriously, I've watched each episode at least twice! I'm just no good at this analytical stuff. But I'm convinced now. There's a lot more going on in between the lines. :DD

( Not spoilers, really, just conjecture... pointing out a lot of probably significant stuff that you may have missed. Don't click if you'd prefer to wait for Moffat to spell it all out for you later in the season. Do click if you'd like to join me in excited bouncing. )

...*bouncy bounce bounce bounce* :DDD

In other news, speaking of complex plots I would like to unravel, why White Collar season finale horrible cliffhanger WHY. July cannot come fast enough. *fidget flail foam-at-the-mouth*