The fact that I never seen even part of an episode of Torchwood is making me feel very out of touch with fandom right now. I hear there were things that happened! My entire flist is all abuzz! I have no idea who these people are! My life, so hard.

Would anyone like to talk about how hilariously amazing Man from U.N.C.L.E. is? Or maybe how Pete Wentz is awesome? Or, um. That Harry Potter, he sure has some issues, doesn't he? Possibly we could talk about how boring Warehouse 13 was last night! I couldn't even make it through the whole pilot, and I that's saying something given my tv tastes. Or how about how I'm vaguely pissed at Panic at the Disco for bringing the damn ! back because it will mess up all my tags again? Damn you, Panic! Think about the anal retentive people with large mp3 collections! (Relatedly, I'm not sure about my thoughts on the demo - I don't dislike it, but I'm not twirling around going "omg, awesome!" either. I think I need to wait for a full song, really.)

So, yeah, um. How about those crazy Republican sex scandals, huh?

I feel really weird about how I'm mostly just "...huh." about Panic breaking up. I'm very glad I saw them in concert as many times as I did, because they were massively fun, and I'm very glad to have met the people I met through them, but they've never really been my bandom band - that's always been and always will be Fall Out Boy. (And honestly, if FOB broke up at this point, well. They had a good run.) This won't be ending my involvement in bandom because that's honestly been ebbing for awhile, as bandom itself moved on from FOB.

But I feel I need to say something, and I wish I could give everyone who is reeling a massive hug, and just. Man, it was nice while it lasted. And I look forward to seeing what both new groups come up with.

Reinvent love, bbs. ♥

Fuck, I always forget how awesome a TV show Hikaru no Go is until I watch a few episodes. I really have nothing else to say, but damn, HnG is a good show. A show about a board game does not deserve to be this awesome.

I registered to graduate today. Which, given that I'm 26 and getting an AA, is not precisely a major accomplishment, but, dude. Soon I will actually have something. Which is good.

I am still all about Star Trek. I am massively all about Star Trek. Except that, well. Yes, rewatching TOS, I can massively see the Kirk/Spock - but I don't want to read it. And most of the reboot Kirk/McCoy fic is, um. Not quite up to my quality standards, to put it delicately - though I open most fic I come across anyway, because I'm eternally hopeful. But so what have I been doing instead, since Trek hasn't really been satisfying me?

Yeah, I've been marathoning Man from U.N.C.L.E. I don't even know. It's so amazingly ridiculous. And oh god, the 60s race/genderfail. But it's so amusing! And did I mention ridiculous? Though, I admit, it's kind of odd watching a show knowing that your mother had a crush on one of the main characters when she was young. And that one of your aunts apparently wrote genfic in notebooks about it. But there are lulzy spies!

I also appear to be downloading The Professionals and the seasons of Starsky & Hutch I didn't already have. Uh. ...slash fandom history marathon, anyone?

I'm half-tempted to make a new Kirk/McCoy comm with a giant "This is not a Karl Ubran or Chris Pine fan community. Posts about them rather than the characters they played in Star Trek XI will be deleted without warning." note in the userinfo. And possibly about something about how changing the font color in your entry is a bannable offense.

Seriously, this is getting ridiculous. I know that it's getting more and more common for people who like a fictional pairing to also like the respective RPF pairing, but they are NOT THE SAME FUCKING THING. Also, characters an actor has portrayed in another movie? Not relative to a pairing community!

GAH.

Warnings are good, people. Not only will you be potentially preventing some people from being in a lot of pain, other people will use them as advertisements to read a fic they might not have otherwise. WHY IS THIS SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND? And why are people normally so sane being failing so amazingly on this one? I hate people.

Bah. Anyway.

So, I have to be in Indianapolis for a wedding the weekend of August 1st. I also have to be in Wisconsin for a wedding the weekend of August 15th (which is why I'm not going to Vividcon this year). I've been debating just driving it, since flying into Indianapolis, flying home, and then two weeks later flying into Minneapolis seems kind of ridiculous since I don't have to be anywhere in between them. And for the amount the flights will cost I might as well just buy gas and drive around visiting friends and family in the upper midwest for a few weeks. Providing I don't fail the statistics class I'm in the middle of, I'll have just graduated with my AA (finally), so it could be like my present to me, or something.

Except that, man. What the hell would I do with the cat? I haven't gone on a vacation longer than four days since I got her 7 years ago. She's never been boarded, and I don't know any local kids or have any local friends who could come in and look after her a few times a day. I'd really like to do the road trip, because I like road trips and I could visit with the girls in Chicago and spend some time with my sister in the Cities and things. But I would feel so guilty leaving my baby girl at a boarding place.

This is just sad.

( Weight stuff. )

Also, I... seem to be working on a Star Trek reboot vid. I make no guarantees of finishing it, especially since Cinelerra is pretty much undocumented in the vidding world (vidding on Linux: not very common), but it feels really good to actually be producing something fannishly. I haven't done that in fucking forever. (And if you know anything about Cinelerra, uh. Help is appreciated!)

I haven't posted in over two weeks, which is just plain weird. Since one you get out of the habit of posting it's awfully difficult to get back into, have that desktop meme that's been going around.

( The Desktop Meme )

Pete Wentz. I think I almost entirely out of bandom, and then you go and do something like this. PETE WENTZ. WHY ARE YOU ON MY LAWN, PETE WENTZ?

Also, FYI - the Firey Furnace walk at Arches National Park is fucking awesome. You should totally do it if you have the chance. Even though my quads really hurt now.

I feel like I'm 10 again. I'm flailing about Star Trek and rewatching movies and whole series and going "OMG! How did I forget how awesome this is?" Which, okay, objectively I know it's really not that amazing, but dude. Star Trek was my first fandom, and it's been dormant for a long, long while. And I am reveling in nostalgia. I even have vague urges to write reboot fic. I never have urges to write fic.

Star Trek. It's fucking awesome, okay?

( That pairing meme that's floating around. )

Okay, I don't think people need to catch up on decades of canon to write reboot fic, and I don't even really have much TOS cred to throw around anyway, but can I just say something here?

Starfleet is one word. One word, people. One. It is not Star Fleet. Can we all make a little note of that? Because if I see Star Fleet again, I'm going to scream.

Thank you.

Apparently my reaction to Kirk/Spock in original TOS fic (well, yes, I can see it, yes, it's the original slash pairing, aw, aren't they sweet.... does that come in a Spock/McCoy?), carries over pretty strongly to reboot TOS. I can see the Kirk/Spock! Really, I can. And it's not that I dislike it, really, but. Does that come in a Spock/Uhura? Or maybe Kirk/McCoy? Or how about a gen? I hear gen is a great color for spring.

Bah. I'd rather hoped the new film would actually make me vaguely interested in Kirk/Spock for once. I think the failing is in me.

In other news, ( spoilers )

I need an Uhura icon. And maybe a McCoy one. Anyone know where I can find some high quality screencaps?

The best part about last night's third viewing of Star Trek was the guy about ten rows in front of me who very loudly said "Oh! Oh! Yes!" when ( spoiler ) came onscreen.

I feel a need to revisit my Star Trek roots. I've already watched Star Trek 2, 4, and 8 twice (since those are the only ones I own), and feel an urge to go buy 6 and possibly 3. And I have an urge to download whole series, but I can't decide if I want to start with TNG or DS9. Or maybe do TOS, since I admit I've only actually seen about 10 episodes of that in full total.

My life, so hard.

( Star Trek, take 2 )

In unrelated news, I'm very sad that none of the contests to win one of those FOB octopus flash drives have been "show how much you love octopuses!" yet. Because I would have that one in the bag.

In a final presentation in one of my classes, I learned that looking at or reading porn even once will eventually make you rape and murder little boys.

...so, where are you guys hiding the bodies?

(Seriously, most alarmist presentation ever. "Porn is evil and bad! And addictive! Let me tell you why using this example of a dude who raped and murdered little boys and then cited porn for the reason he was a pedophile during his trial! ...that's all I've got.")

( Health Whining )

First, a quick note. If you're already feeling kind of sick and have been vaguely nauseated all day and then choose to go see a film on IMAX and end up in the first few rows because you were late, take a dramamine before the film starts so that you're not closing your eyes and rooting through your purse to find your pill bottle ten minutes in so that you don't throw up. Just, you know, FYI.

...actually, with this film, if you end up in the first few rows, you might want to take a dramamine anyway.

( Star Trek! Spoiler Heavy. )

So, I have a dreamwidth.

...now I just need to go through the last month of everybody on my flist so I can actually friend people because I didn't note them down anywhere before.

Oops.

I'll probably try crossposting (by which I mean to Dreamwidth, not to LJ), but I... can't guarantee I'll keep it up. If you want to follow me, it's probably best to read me on LJ. For now, anyway.

I've been tagging and transferring music from my download temp folder to permanent folder homes all afternoon, and now I'm in the mood to share.

So, give me 1-10 numbers between 1 and 14,066 and I will give you music!

Oh man, Warner hit Lawrence Lessig with a DMCA takedown notice for one of his presentations on youtube? Really? Oh, Warner. That was not the best idea you've ever had.

Say what you like about Lessig, but this is going to be fun.

(If you don't know who Lawrence Lessig is, he's the guy originally behind Creative Commons. And a huge, vocal advocate for copyright reform.)