Morning Star

Hello, and welcome to my journal! If you are on my flist, or I'm on yours, please do take a minute to answer these questions. This is just so I can keep track of all you lovely people.

( Tell me about yourself! )

Thank you! ♥

Just to keep easy track of my stuff, and hopefully, to inspire me to do more!

( Picspams: The Master List )

Hi, flisties! I'm not back from hiatus yet, but I just got some time off my busy schedule (that consists entirely of bumming around with my friends) to watch the finale of Harper's Island. I'm glad I didn't have to wait until the 17th, because it was absolutely killing me to stay away from everything that could possibly give it away. I did manage to stay spoiler-free and watch it, which was great.

( Spoilers for the entire series. )

Anyway, that's done now. Back to hiatus, heh. See you all again on the 17th! :)

My friends are coming over for graduation (\o/\o/\o/), so I'm going to be busy celebrating and having fun with them. Plus, my closest friends are all going off abroad or back home, so I'm not going to see them much after this, except for the occasional holiday. Which is why I think they deserve my undivided attention, as much as it pains me to take a break from you lovely people right here (and to think about how my inbox would've filled up by the time I get back, but whatevs). Anyway, as usual, feel free to use this post to link to posts, articles and whatever it is you think I should read/see.

Alrighty, that's all I had to say. Take care of yourselves, flisties, and have an enjoyable 10 days! I'll see you on the flip side. :)

Posting these a couple of days early, because I won't be around on July 8th:

Dear tasabian,

( I think you already know what's coming. )

I've come full circle now, heh. Yours was the first birthday I made a birthday post for, and here we are once again. One year has passed quickly, huh? :) I hope you have a lovely day, dear! You're one of the nicest people I know on LJ and I do hope we stay friends for a long time to come! *hugs*

Dear sequinedfairy,

( Your knight in chain mail is here! )

FAIRY! WE BONDED OVER OUR SHARED LOVE FOR A SONG ABOUT UNDERWEAR. HOW AWESOME IS THAT? I HOPE OUR RELATIONSHIP STAYS AS CRAZY AND AS CAPSLOCK-Y FOREVER AND EVER. LOVE YA, BB! ♥

1) It's been pouring here for the past few days. I love it. I love sitting inside the house listening to the sound of the rain pitter-pattering against the windows. Not to mention the cool breeze that keeps blowing in. The downside is that when I went out just now to get myself some lunch, my pants got completely soaked, and my washed clothes will now much longer to dry. But that's okay. I still love the rain.

2) I've stopped the True Blood catching up for a while to get back to my other shows. Yesterday I watched the first two episodes of Merlin and I plan to catch up on a few more today. Since it doesn't make me look like a great fan if I say I forgot the tiny details, I'll say that's just an excuse for watching the totally adorable cast in action again. There, much better. :D

But man, I forgot how cute this show was. I didn't remember it being so damn cute the first time I saw it. Also, I was too focused on the hotness that was the younger cast to notice it, but Gaius is ADORABLE. He's so cheeky! And I think I'm gaining some Uther love too, this time around. Seriously, I can't wait for when we'll all be able to watch new episodes and discuss them as they air.

3) jlvsclrk made this totally awesome Smallville Crossword Puzzle that everyone should go check out and solve themselves. I'm proud to say that I got about 90% of it without using the "reveal letter" option (and even that I had to use only for the non-Smallville words :P). Between this and tariel22's Every Episode games, I have all I need of Smallville fun and games!

4) There are seriously SO MANY movies to look forward to these days. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the most obvious, but I also can't wait for Up, Ice Age 3 and Toy Story 3 (though this one is a year away, heh). I'm sure there are more that I'm blanking on at the moment. What movies are you guys looking forward to?

5) I'll be going on hiatus soon (I'll be putting up the message soon), and there's only one thing I want to ask of my flist: please, please don't spoil me for the Harper's Island finale. There aren't that many people on my flist who're watching anyway, but I'd appreciate it if you cut put anything that might count as a spoiler behind a cut. I really want to be able to watch the finale unspoiled, and since I'll only be able to do that post-17th, I need to make sure I stay clear until then. On my part, I'll do my best to stay away from LJ/Twitter/other forms of media. Bah, what rotten timing, eh?

6) The people who've agreed to help me out with my picspam - I'll contact you guys once I'm back from my hiatus. There's too little time now to do anything major, so I'm just going to wait until I have some more time on my hands before I can take it up again. Thanks for the offer, guys! You really rock. *hugs*

1) So, True Blood. I'm upto 1x06 now, and this show truly is awesome. ( Moar. )

2) I'm sure everyone's seen this already, but I just wanted to squee about a little, so don't mind me. I loved the director documentary thing with Allison, and I loved seeing all the BTS stuff. My favourite part, of course, was when she had a scene with Tom, and we actually got to see her climbing a box. ♥ ♥ I don't think I'll ever get over the height difference! And then "I'm too tall?" with that incredulous look on her face. HEE. (But poor thing, it really looked like it took a lot of effort from her part.)

And the Chloe-in-Lois/Jimmy thing. Aw man, I wish they'd left that in. Why do they cut all the good scenes out? I thought ED played it perfect, and it really would've given us Chimmy-haters a little more to appreciate about that relationship. I thought Chloe came off really badly in "Turbulence", but see, something like this would've made me understand her actions so much better. Also, AA and ED have really nice chemistry. I wish we'd gotten to see more of that. *sigh*

3) My fascination for Twitter seems to have vanished as quickly as it appeared. It might have something to do with how I'm half a day ahead of the rest of the world, so the timing is never right. Oh, well. Sorry Twitter folks! At least we still have LJ. *loves you all*

4) Random event: my Dad mailed me a few days ago asking me to check if he'd left his blue pants here in my brother's place (he had come on holiday a few months ago), and I sent him back a mail telling him that I checked and that it wasn't there. He replied back saying, "Thanks. I will look for my pants in other places." That just totally cracked me up. HEE. "I will look for my pants ELSEWHERE", Dad. Not "other places". *shakes head*

5) Happy 4th of July to all the Americans on my flist! Party hard and enjoy your weekend, folks! *group hug* I'm off to the beach now to spend some quality time with myself! :)

I don't know if I'm late to the party or what, but they're doing a 7th season of One Tree Hill WITHOUT Chad Michael Murray or Hilarie Burton? Um, WHAT?! Granted, I've not watched OTH in years, and Peyton was one of the characters I liked the least, but they're seriously doing the show without their two leads?

Okay, okay, SV bumped off two of its leads in one season, but seriously? This is like continuing the show without Tom Welling. How do you bump off your LEAD character and still do the show? :/

Whatever, it's not like I'm going to watch anyway. I was just momentarily blown away by the WTFness of it all and had to post about it here.

1) I finally, finally updated the Chlark Hugs picspam. It now contains all the Chlark hugs from Season 1 to Season 8. I swear, looking at that picspam never fails to put a smile on my face. (Well, except for that very last hug, but whatever.) I'm such a hug ho.

2) I'm actually thinking of picspamming ALL the hugs on Smallville, EVER. I know, I know. I really, really want to do it, though. It will be a gigantic task to take on, one that will require you guys to help me out because I'm sure I can't remember every single one, but together we can do it. And we can just keep updating it as the seasons go by. What say? Who's with me? *is crazy*

3) I have a Smallville picspam that's been sitting on my computer for a while now that I haven't been able to complete because I need some help with the research. I know everyone on my flist could help if I asked for it, but it's one of those picspams that are fun when they are sprung on the flist, ya know? I don't want to ruin the surprise. I don't know what to do.

4) Random thought that just occured to me randomly: Glee had better have opening credits. I'm 90% sure it won't, but I'm 10% hopeful. I hate the "we're too fancy for opening credit sequences" stance most shows seem to be taking these days.

5) Damn you for being addictive, True Blood. It's not like I have a million other shows to catch up or anything. *facepalm* Brb, off to watch episode 5 now.

So this came about because of a couple of things. I was looking through TWoP's True Blood forum, and I found a discussion on the different ways of pronouncing the word "pecan" (since the show takes place down South). Now, I have no idea what the right way to pronounce "pecan" is (if there is even a right way), nor do I have much of a need, because we don't get pecans in my part of the world. I was, however, very curious to see people on the boards claiming to pronounce it in so many different ways. I've always had a fascination for accents, and how people from two different parts of the world (or even two close regions, as the TWoP discussion demonstrates) can speak so differently from one another. Also, shardsofblu commented in my "IKEA" post about how she was interested in the ways people pronounce "Carrefour", and well, I decided I should just poll about it, because where else am I going to find as diverse an audience as here on LJ? I've discussed differences in spelling with some of the flisties (and I'm sure you've all noticed by now that I write "favourite" and "colour"), but I don't think I've had a pronunciation discussion before.

( You say ee-kea, I say eye-kea. )

I just realized that this poll also has a Friends connection. I didn't know "Ikea" could be pronounced "eye-kea" until that line in one of the earlier seasons when Chandler sits down on Pete the billionaire's couch and goes, "Eye-KEA, this is soft!" And when Phoebe's lying upside down in her chair waiting to get pregnant and singing a song to her unborn fetus, and she says something about how she'll buy it some Adidas ... and I had no idea what the hell she was saying until much later, because I'd never heard "Adidas" pronounced that way before.

Oh, the things you learn from television.

This is me justifying spending a whole day doing nothing but watching clips of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" on YouTube. And since sharing is caring, I want to share some of my favourite clips with you guys. Now, there are MANY, MANY, MANY clips I could link to because OMG, funniest show EVER, but I'll limit myself to the episode that Whoopi Goldberg guest-starred in. Seriously, you can't go wrong with Whoopi.

( Some favourites! )

Oh, my. My stomach hurts from all the laughing. Seriously, I could watch this shit ALL. DAY.

Poll #1424096 Pronunciation Guide
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

How do you pronouce "IKEA"?

I HATE YOU SO MUCH RIGHT NOW, ELJAY. Stupid, stupid ... *kicks things*

Continued from Part One.

( Episodes 10 - 17. )

And that's it. Phew, that took some effort! I hope you enjoyed! Comments are much appreciated. ♥

Doing so many wardrobe picspams has definitely had its effect, because the first thing I noticed when I started watching The Big Bang Theory was Sheldon's fantastic collection of T-shirts. I love that he almost always wears layers and that so many of his T-shirts have comic book characters on them. (I happen to own some myself. \o/) And how the only other things he seems to wear are night robes.

So, here's a picspam chronicling the wardrobe of Dr Sheldon Cooper in S1 of TBBT. I made my own screencaps, so please forgive their terrible-ness. I didn't realize how bad they were until I actually put them in here, and now it's too late to do anything about it. Sorry! D:

1) I sat and deleted 700+ messages from my inbox yesterday. I really don't know why I do this every single time - I keep accumulating messages because I'm too sentimental to delete them, and then it goes up to some ridiculous number which takes me an equally ridiculous amount of time to sort through and delete. Why isn't there a "delete all" button for inbox messages? *sigh* Sorry for not really "catching up" on anything, flisties. I ended up scrolling past a LOT of Clark pictures, though, so thank you for that!

2) I found this through a beautiful picspam that was posted on fandom_picspams: unused Supernatural title sequences. I understand this is on the S1 DVDs. I have just one question: why, oh why didn't Kripke actually make use of these? They're GORGEOUS, and they're barely 10 seconds long, so it wouldn't have been much different from the ones we get now. Oh, Kripke. Seriously, man. Bad move.

On the plus side, it has totally gotten me pumped for a Supernatural rewatch. Season 4, here I come!

3) shardsofblu almost disowned me yesterday for saying I'd consider switching ship from Arthur/Morgana to Merlin/Morgana. See, people? That's what friends are for, to make sure you stick to your guns, don't succumb to peer pressure and go down with your ship. ♥ ♥ ♥

And speaking of Merlin, how many episodes have been shown on NBC so far? 4? I need to start keeping up.

4) Cory Monteith tweeted a few days ago (can't remember when exactly) saying something to the effect of how he can't wait for all of us to watch Glee because it's going to be so much fun. Yeah, thanks Cory. It's not like some of us are DYING with impatience already, what with your stupid network forcing us to wait three months. *sticks tongue out* (But really, I love that kid. Er, man. Geez, I still can't get used to the fact that he's 5 years older than me!)

5) A small Smallville S9 spoiler from the latest "Watch with Kristin":

( Very tiny spoiler, but cutting just in case. )

6) How many people on the flist are watching True Blood? I stumbled upon it recently (as I seem to with all shows), and it seemed part-entertaining, part-creepy and part-really-really-(unintentionally?)-funny. I don't know what it is with vampire shows recently, but I've heard a lot of good things about this one in particular. Anyone willing to back that up?

ETA: Ha, I just came across an interview with Stephen Moyer saying, "It truly is not a vampire show". :D

Um, sorry about the spamming. I'm going to stop, soon.

Saw this meme over at burningqueen's and aw, I love the shipping meme! I like talking about my ships, heh. I did this once before, so I made sure to avoid the same numbers for any ship I repeated. :)

Six ships you're into right now.

1. Will/Emma (Glee)
2. Merlin/Morgana (Merlin)
3. Oliver/Chloe (Smallville)
4. Arthur/Morgana (Merlin)
5. Clark/Lois (Smallville)
6. Henry/Trish (Harper's Island)

Three ships you liked, but don't anymore.

7. Clark/Chloe (Smallville)
8. Sam/Ruby (Supernatural)
9. Harry/Hermione (Harry Potter)

Three ships you never liked.

10. Sawyer/Kate (Lost)
11. Ron/Hermione (Harry Potter)
12. Clark/Lana (Smallville)

Two ships you're curious about but don't ship.

13. Barney/Lily (HIMYM)
14. Finn/Rachel (Glee)

( Questions! )

I was thinking about songs and covers and what not, and this poll resulted from such deep thought.

( Random poll is random. )

1) I don't know what's going on with me lately. Suddenly I feel like posting a lot, suddenly I just want to shut off communication with everyone. I'm sorry, you guys. I'm just all over the place these days.

2) As you all know, I've been catching up on tons of shows lately. Here's how things are progressing.

( So much teevee! )

3) My stupid video rental store only had Grease 2, so I still haven't watched Grease yet. I might have to resort to watching this one online if I ever want to see it.

Also, I like musicals. A lot. I've watched and loved Chicago, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, the High School Musical series (shut up!), Hairspray and I can't remember any more at the moment. A lot of people were shocked that I hadn't watched Grease yet, so I want you guys to recommend me all the good musicals you can think of that I've been missing out on. I'm positive I'll love them just by virtue of them being musicals.

4) I'm sort of in love with this cap from Glee.

( Obligatory Glee squee for the day. )

5) My brother has a friend's acoustic guitar lying around in the house that he never plays and that his friend apparently doesn't want, so he's offered to let me have it full-time. I'm so darn excited. I taught myself a little during my holidays last year, but I never did anything about it after that. I really, really want to take it up again.

Watching on TV, woo! This is so much fun!

( Water, water, everywhere ... )

( Updated character list. )

( Previews. )

I won't be able to watch the finale along with others because I'll have friends over that week, but I'm going to try my best to stay away from LJ/Twitter/the internet until I can watch it. I so do not want to be spoiled for this, OMG.