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It's slightly breezy here in Cumbria right now. As in, the trees are only bending almost to the ground and not actually touching, and we're still considering heading out to go shoe shopping. Hah Katia! Takes more than that to intimidate almost-local Cumbrians!

(Er, don't take that as a challenge. As ( this precision drawn met office graphic ) shows, Cumbria is 99% out of the amber alert area (and considering north west England starts from the top of Cumbria southwards, including the entire NW in the QUITE LIKELY TO DIE category instead of SLIGHTLY LESS POTENTIAL FOR DEATH yellow area seems harsh, but waving a red flag at winds left over from a hurricane is probably a bad life plan).

Outside my window, the other side of the estuary has disappeared into the grey mist and the tide's right up to the prom, with the wind stirring up white-caps that look tiny from up here. I'm wondering if it's worth stopping for a photo op before heading onto shops or if I'd be blown off the prom and into the sea. Hhmm.






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In wider news of my life, I'm getting closer to actually starting this new job that the HR guy's been delaying for weeks through sheer incompetence. I was heading into Lancaster on Friday to catch Fright Night again and the woman I'll be working for called me for a meeting, so I dropped in. She seems nice, and the job is all organising and hunting out files and appointments and absolutely minimal interaction with actual people, which is my sort of job. It's supposed to run for at least four months and probably longer so once I get started and settle in, that's the rest of this year sorted at least; I'm not sure about next year but I'm thinking maybe I should save seriously to do a Masters after all. I could go to Lancaster fom home but I've always wanted to do a Masters in Cardiff and oh, I don't know. I need to save the money first. I'm going back tomorrow again to meet the girl who's going to teach me how to do the job, so one thing at a time.


Re. Fright Night, I went to the cinema after the meeting expecting to find it showing at 1:15pm, only to find they'd changed the times the day before and now it's only showing at 22:00 (my last train back home leaves like 11ish, so anything after 9pm is useless to me).

I was surprised because it's only been out for a week. Sure, the cinema I saw it in wasn't anything like full but it wasn't just me in there either and it was the middle of the day on a Tuesday when the kids were back in school so it wasn't a terrible headcount. I'm pretty disappointed if it's not doing well enough to keep on at sensible times for more than a week but then, Lancaster's Vue has a habit of showing things very, very briefly (they have like seven screens split over two floors, so I have no clue why they do it). I'm waiting for the time changes this Thursday and hoping they show it at least once more that I can get to; otherwise Kendal arts centre cinema is showing the 3D version in a couple of weeks, so I'll try to get there. I really did want to see it again, argh.

I also checked out the posters in HMV in search of the Tennant-as-Peter Vincent one. They had a whole bunch of naked girls, a good choice of Captain Jacks, some funny cartoons and a couple of Harry Potters. Nothing else. -_- I have no idea where else I might pick up the Tennant poster, sigh. Even the internet is proving unhelpful.

So Fright Night is currently sponsoring SyFy's evening shows or something, which meant they aired the Fright Night trailer before tonight's episode of Eureka and mini-trails at the start and end of each ad break. I've been watching with half an eye for Colin Farrell (because hey, gratituous Colin-Farrell-being-a-hot-vampire is not to be taken for granted) but I was really looking out for Tennant.

There was a brief shot of him with A GIANT GUN OF AWESOME in the full trailer, then nothing through two ad breaks until MY SCREEN WAS GRACED WITH THIS JOY OF JOYS, THIS DELIGHT OF MY HEART, THIS THING FOR WHICH WORDS ARE NOT ADEQUATE:



( a bit bigger under the cut )


They also had giant-sized posters of him up in the cinema today when I went to see Cowboys & Aliens (another post for another time when I am not more than ninety percent incoherent with flail). Can I have this movie now please? Now? NOW?

Perhaps I should rephrase. I WANT THIS DAMN MOVIE RIGHT NOW. TWO MORE WEEKS IS TOO LONG. DAMN YOUS ALL.


I have to go back and concentrate on Eureka now, oh god. I was enjoying the episode before and everything. I have left semi-naked David Tennant in eyeliner on pause though; I better not leave him there until morning. A. he might be burned into the screen (please deity-of-your-choice, I'll be good forever I promise) and B. he might scare my mother in the morning.

I want this movie. I don't care if it's the worst thing to splatter itself across screens since Kevin and Perry Go Large. I need a movie of The Tennant looking like that in my life right now.

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eta: Er, I will say that Rotten Tomatoes actually rates this Fright Night as 74% fresh and the reviews mostly all seem to say it's a lot of fun, so go and see it even if you're not one for gratituous Tennant eyeliner. There are vampires! And Tennant in eyeliner! Oh wait.

No really, I think we should all go and see. EVERYONE. Then they'll have no excuse not to hire him for every movie requiring him to wear eyeliner and be a ridiculous-yet-hot vampire hunter EVER AGAIN.

To acknowledge the sudden flood of activity on my flist this morning, thought I'd join in the yay-LJ-used-to-be-this-busy-for-me joy with the fact that I saw David Tennant/Catherine Tate in Much Ado About Nothing last night and they were brilliant and funny and fabulous, and this morning I feel like I have a sad Tennant hangover with the sheer mournfulness of the knowledge that I won't get to see it again. If I could request a Groundhog Day scenario to happen over about three hours of last night, that'd be perfect thanks.


( Some joyful rambling that may contain mild spoilers (nothing really production-related huge, mostly just YAY TENNANT/TATE and a few spoilers if you haven't read the play (heathens! READ THE PLAY! ;) No really, it's funny I swear. Anyway: )) )

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In other news of my life, I'm currently (obviously) in London. On Thursday I was in Cumbria and on Tuesday I was in Edinburgh. This coming Tuesday I will be in Cardiff and on Wednesday, back in London. It's reached the point where I'm confused when I wake up in the mornings. It's nice to have Wimbledon and Cardiff and more Wimbledon to look forward to, especially knowing that after this week I go back to work for a week and then I'm back to being poor and unemployed which sucks but at least this week is Epic. And I have certainly enough to catch up writing-wise and books-and-DVDs-I've-bought-wise (Psych season five arrived before I left Cumbria WITH NO CUSTOMS CHARGES \o/) that July and August should still be made of fun and hopefully sooner rather than later I'll decide what I actually want to do with my life and someone will give me a job doing it.

Hah.


In conclusion, go and read this delightful Erik/Charles fic that rionaleonhart linked to the other day. It's done so well and is kind of heartbreaking and also kind of wonderful and made me smile. Mmmmm.

Things that amuse me abut fandom: I go searching for John Simm/David Tennant RPS and open various Google links in tabs to peruse. Having found a good archive (Human Nature), I forget I even had other tabs. So an hour later when I click on one by accident, I find myself staring at a page titled 'Porn Battle' and going "What? Why am I on this page? Did I Google this page? I should hit- ooo hey look, Labyrinth fic!"

Fandom. If not the greatest invention in the world, then it is at least my favourite. <3

(By the way, Exposure by versaphile is amazing Simm/Tennant and hotter than chilli powder. Mmmm. Internets, you and your rule 34 are made of win.)

edit: Other Things I Love Also: Neil Gaiman putting Tim Minchin youtube vids in his blogs and when they mention each other on Twitter. <3 I like it when two completely unrelated people that I like surprisingly know about and like each other. I guess it's kind of validating, in a way. But mostly it's sweet and makes me want to snuggle all of them.

The Sun (you know, that oh-so-reliable source of world news) reports on the potential Doctor Who movie and David Tennant's involvement; "TV Biz has already told how BBC bosses are wooing the 37-year-old with a £1.5million contract.

And we can now reveal that the star has agreed to make a full fifth series in 2010 if the big screen role can be tagged on to the deal."

Intriguing. Of course, it also says "Yesterday, Davies told us he would love Catherine Zeta Jones to be the Doctor’s companion on the big screen." which not only makes me yell with incoherent outrage at my computer (as a Welsh person you know I am totally unbiased when I say I really despise CZJ) but also makes me roll my eyes and go yeah, whatevers Sun. Still. Even the cross-eyed monkeys they call sources can sometimes be on to something.

Anyway, read all the crazy here. Worth it for the terrible quality manip of The Tennant and TARDIS in front of the Hollywood sign.

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I need pretty distractions like this today, because cramps are determined to kill me before lunchtime. I even brought a hot water bottle to work, currently wrapped in a towel behind me. This is ridiculous. I know I'm a temp but jesus, we still deserve sick pay for the days when we can't actually stand up straight. Ack.

I spent two hours of my night sleeping because I literally had no energy to do anything else - and now that I need to go to bed, I'm properly awake. Sigh. Not that I'll have trouble sleeping because I sometimes wonder if I couldn't sleep through the Apocalypse but why couldn't I be awake earlier? I was too tired to even watch a DVD. Hmpf.

I knew there was a reason I'd been putting off buying Clerks and I guess this was it. Not that I have any money to buy that either - was a little floored by the price of postage today. If I had a first-born I would've sold them by now - but I'll stick it on the list. I've just caught the last ten minutes of Clerks II, finally, and it was actually funny. Even with Kevin Smith I was dubious about a sequel but no, I eat my words. So that's something else. I just wish I'd splashed out on that pretty, pretty special edition of Dogma which it doesn't look like I can get anymore. Dammit. I should pick up the pretty special edition Dark Crystal before my procrastinating makes it too late for that too.

Oh right, no money. But sometime I will buy all these things.

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kindoftrouble, did you know they have loads of the fun ducks on Amazon? I'm particularly fond of this one but this smiley faced one is also full of lulz.

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I was so busy being useless over the weekend that I forgot to shout about David Tennant on Trick or Treat. It was really really really awesome and as for the girl who had David Tennant bouncing up to her on the street going "Can I read your mind?", so much envy. David Tennant and Derren Brown all at once! I would be flailing incoherently on the floor, which is why it's a good thing I am not on television. I can't see how flinging myself at Derren and clinging to his knees while whimpering over how awesome he is (while also, no doubt, fighting off Security) could make a good first impression. It's probably for the best that I stick with this side of the TV screen.

Still. The Tennant and Derren. I couldn't speak for fifteen minutes after The Barrowman; it'd be a week with those two together.

But anyway; DAVID TENNANT ON TRICK OR TREAT = EXCELLENT. It's bound to be repeated or be on Four On Demand (teh interweb informs me that it's repeated on Channel 4 at 11pm this Thursday) I command you to watch it, even if you've never heard of Derren Brown in your life, or only from me ranting on about him with slightly creepy levels of enthusiasm. Awesome awesome awesome.

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I think it was fair that Niamh went off I'd Do Anything this week. I winced through her singing Don't Speak, which I love. That said, Samantha irritates me more every Saturday; she always seems a little outside on the group hugs, as if everyone else is a bit dubious about her too, and I've seen her smiling more than once when singing people off the show. Also her and Rachel seem to have something going on; every week when they ask them who isn't Nancy, they say each other. I still find Rachel a little dull but I'm with her all the way over Samantha. She at least comes across as a nice person; Sam, I'm not so sure. No one who smiles that much is natural.


Is it on next week around Eurovision? (don't get me started on Doctor Who being moved back a week to make room for freaking Eurovision of all things; the only reason it's worth watching these days is for Wogan's sarcastic commentary and they replaced Doctor Who with it, bah). I can't see them skipping it for a week.

'Who was better this week though. Apart from GIANT FREAKING WASP I enjoyed it (though WHY A WASP? I already have a complex about them, honestly). I got quite excited about the trailer for the next episode because it looks like it could be really fantastic if done well. All the more annoying that we have to wait an extra week but I guess I'll be coming back from Hay Saturday anyway so there were worse weekends for it.

Have to go to bed now. -_- I only came up to check song lyrics and that was an hour ago. I wanted to watch TV for a while but no, I don't have time to watch TV or read or even think so much, anymore. I would love to introduce whoever invented the five day working week to a blunt object, preferably at some speed. No one can have a life around this. It's ridiculous.

Sigh. Bed then.

I recorded Trick or Treat last night because I was too tired to focus (we went shoe shopping after work. I bought three pairs. I was either tired or in shock.) Started to watch it this morning and at the point where Derren's saying all these people applied, blah blah, these are the ones I chose, I went "...Wow that man looks like David Tennant." *rewind* "...That man is David Tennant." "...IS DAVID TENNANT GOING TO GET MIND-FUTZED BY DERREN BROWN?!!"

*cue crazy flailing and immediate running to Wikipedia*

To find "Tennant will be appearing in Derren Brown's Trick or Treat... In the 26th April - 2nd May issue of TV & Satellite Week Brown is quoted as saying "One of the appeals of Doctor Who for David is time travel, so I wanted to give him that experience. He was open and up for it, and I got a good reaction. He's a real screamer!" .

I'm torn between watching the episode immediately and putting it off until tonight to build the anticipation. Oh my god. Simon Pegg, David Tennant. John Simm or Dylan Moran next please Derren. I can't promise to love you more than I already do for it, because it's not possible but I'll add cookies on top.

In the midst of my excitement, it did occur to me that perhaps one of the reasons I like Derren Brown so much is that he reminds me of a real life Crowley. In fact if I was asked for my list of fantasy dinner guests, you know where you say who you'd invite to a dinner party if time, reality and death were no object, I'd sit Derren and Crowley next to each other. I suspect they'd get on like a house on fire.

And possibly leave with it actually crackling gently behind them. But still. Totally worth it.

eta: So Wikipedia lied and it was not last night's episode. *sadness* I did think it was a bit odd to show it first and not save it until the end. But that does mean it's still to come and I can look forward to it for weeks yet. :D On a side note about last night's episode, I wish I'd seen that before I wrote my dissertation. I definitely would've tried that technique to see if I could pull a few more factoids out when I needed them.

eta: I also just noticed something else. Go here. And then here.

...I picked the colours of my LJ because I love the teal and black was just the make the photograph blend. Okay so it's not identical but it's- similar. Enough to be a little weird

I just liked the colours. o_O

Day three, current word count: 0

Number of times squeed over David Tennant with the kittens on Confidential: 3 4 (I want kitty icons. But. Must. Focus.)

Number of wasps to invade my room this summer so far: 1

edit: Oh and reading the reviews from people who really, really, really hated 'Who last night is making me uncomfortable, because they're calling up things I think are totally plausible and make sense or can make sense if thought out logically... and calling them plot holes. And Dire Things.

Which I think is pretty much what I did with Girl in the Fireplace, which I seemed to be in the tiny minority of haters for. So I'm now wondering if I genuinely hated that episode or if I simply disliked it and obstinately skewed everything else in it to make it Utterly Terrible in my mind.

Hm.

Because if celebrities go on these shows, they should be prepared for the embarrassing results to be iconised. ^_^ Ah David Tennant. You are certifiably awesome.

I have new daffodils. It's surprising how happy this makes me after staring at a bunch of dead ones for days (my mother is never allowed to touch flowers for my room again. "Oh I didn't bother cutting the stems, they'll be fine." Yeah, right). I also have pork pie. Mmmm. Pie. And a whole new bottle of iced tea which I had to ask a nice, *tall* guy to get for me from the back of the top shelf. I AM SO SMALL DAMMIT. People should not be deprived of iced tea soley because of their height. It's abuse. Though, it was a Sainsburys so they do have the excuse of being utterly useless on their side.

Coming back on the bus, I noticed for the first time that there's a house called Halcyon just a few doors down from L's, which made me giggle. The sign's built into the house and I must've passed it a zillion times without noticing. Sigh.

Unfortunately the emergency food trip to town happened later than planned because I started listening to the Doctor Who commentary for 'New Earth' while eating breakfast and then couldn't bear to turn David Tennant off until I'd heard the whole thing. Which meant I kind of left two hours later than I meant to and at this point I should've been working for about an hour and a half already. But! Daffodils. Happiness. And I bribed gave S chocolate as a thank you for letting me use her room for the second week running to watch Doctor Who so flatmate relations are good. All in all, as long as I now spend the rest of the day eyeball deep in Lolita analysis, I'll be feeling very accomplished.

Which is why the internet is getting unplugged again now and I may call wolves8 to see if she's in for me to give her the cables. Try not to break the internet without me? *woes*

This song owns me. So very, very much.