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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 internet finally worked again on the desktop! Yay! Of course it'll only work until I have to turn the computer off again but it does mean I get to upload this icon and actually use the Keyboard of Awesome a little before I head off to London tomorrow.

This network adapter is ridiculous. Honestly. I didn't do anything that I haven't done a hundred times before, yet this time it mysteriously worked. Alas, the completely illogical intricacies of technology.

Like how difficult it is to type when you've changed keyboards. It's taken me twice as long as it should to type this because I'm not used to the keys being slightly further apart on the KoA.

...I love that my keyboard now has its own abbreviation. Mwahahahaobsessed.

And now I may go watch Human Traffic (Remixed), which was the reason I turned the computer on in the first place. Or maybe 24 Hour Party People. Neither of which I should watch because I'll probably be watching them again in the next few days but... I want to. Argh. Must resist John Simm. Finished State of Play last night by the way, and it was indeed full of awesome. One of those endings where I now have to watch it again (or make kindoftrouble watch it) to see it all again when I know where it's leading.

But you know, I really don't see how Hollywood will be able to remake it because I just don't think Hollywood is that smart. Case in point: their casting for it truly sucks. Russell Crowe as Cal? Um. Really? Which blind deaf idiot decided that? Also I expect the film will be reset in the US, because they do that with everything they make that's supposed to be set in Britain (and it's a pet peeve of mine and seriously pisses me off; if audiences around the world can identify with American characters, American audiences can identify with British characters who are not the comic relief or evil or have exaggeratedly stupid accents, goddamit) so all in all, I recommend y'all buy the excellent BBC series and skip the bastidised remake. I don't get why they feel the need to remake these things anyway. Yes the plot was excellent but honestly Hollywood, there are many excellent stories out there. Just admit that the BBC pwns you and try for something original.

...Oh wait, you are Hollywood.

The sheer amount of great British TV/films I've watched in the last month have in no way skewed my perspective on this. Ahem. But seriously, we have some bloody fantastic TV over here and it annoys me when Hollywoodland steals it all and ruins it in remakes. We don't remake American stuff, we watch the originals. Because they are original and we appreciate them in all their originality. I don't want to see a British remake of Grey's Anatomy because (a) we have a our own and it's called Casualty and (b) that show only works because it *is* American. Buffy only works because it is American, really. Red Dwarf only works because it is British, something Hollywoodland thankfully realised, though not for want of trying.

And State of Play works because it is British and it is excellent and John Simm is far better in the part than Maximilliantus will ever be. So there.

...I believe I was supposed to be considering which DVD to watch. About forty minutes ago. Um. Yes.

I just watched the first episode of State of Play and it's kinda making me wonder what one would do to be a high-powered journalist and where would I have to start. Which is shocking when I've spent around fifteen years of the sixteen or so that I've known what a journalist is, calling them rude names and finding different ways to rhyme 'journalist' with 'scum'. It is entirely possible that this new inclination is John Simm based, except the things that are making me go "Mmmm" are nothing to do with him. Hm.

Also, I approve of suprise!Glenister and snarky!Nighy. I wish I didn't have to be up early so I could watch the next episode but the Pit of Tedium beckons.

Probably for the best after I was up all last night watching the second series of The Lakes. After a dragging first three episodes, it really took off in the fourth and I hit 'Just One More' syndrome until 5am. It still tries to meander around too many people and drags the series out about four episodes too far but I couldn't stop watching - until the last episode, which didn't tie up anything. Okay, a couple of things but Lucy, who had the most interesting character arc of the two series, didn't get proper resolution and poor Danny and god, his wife was just awful. With some justification admittedly, but she didn't even try and- poor Danny. The end kind of spoiled the rest of the mostly-excellent series but when it was good, it was very good. It made me buy Danny/Lucy - it made me like Danny/Lucy - and I would've sworn that was crazy talk after the first series. Mmmm. I was going to leave series two as not worth the time when I went to London but maybe we should just skip the first three episodes and I can bug kindoftrouble over Danny/Lucy and whether it's just me who would like it so much.

I bought 24 Hour Party People today after seeing a screencap of John Simm playing guitar. I love actors playing guitar. It's why Ewan McGregor hits all my buttons. Mmmmmmmmm.

I really have to go to bed now. -_- This work lark sucks muchly. Though mostly because I hate what I'm doing and I'm getting paid peanuts for it; I have a feeling even high-powered scum journalist would be better. A lot better.

Teehee, the guy who plays Chris in Life on Mars is in The Lakes. Small world. Also, the second series has shorter episodes. I'm trying to tell myself that this does not mean I should watch two a night instead of the planned one.

Work today was still dull but I had my MP3 player on with my headphones under my hair. (I used to do it in high school in particularly boring classes. I have just enough hair left to do it now. Just.) However tomorrow I get to sit directly across from the boss' office all day. The jury is out until tomorrow as to how bad a thing this will be.

Some of my scribbled notes from today include "Grr argh", "maybe computers only speak whale", "ONE OF THOSE FREAKING DAYS", "maybe *I* only speak whale" and a doodle of Sam Tyler with tentacles standing on a round squiggle that could be Mars if introduced to some red crayon and looked at from a distance. Yeah. Welcome to my intellectual stimulation!

This Story Of Clo's Boring Life is short because my internet is being really seriously crap tonight and I'm fitting posting this into the short gaps in between it disconnecting. It's a pain in the ass, which is why I'm going to go read my new Hawk & Fisher omnibus some more (hurrah for mindless trashy fantasy novels!)

Five more days in work. Count them on one hand. Can totally do this.

Human Traffic. Most batshit film ever, Y/Y?

I'm six episodes into the first series of Life on Mars (I felt like crap yesterday, thank you very damn much for being a girl, so I curled up on the sofa and watched back-to-back episodes all afternoon) and oh my god, WHY DID I WAIT SO LONG TO WATCH THIS? Why didn't y'all hold me down and *make me watch it*? It's freaking awesome. For some reason I wasn't expecting it to be so much of a 'cop' show - I mean, the episodes are like fifteen percent Sam talking to the little future voices, fifteen percent Gene Hunt kicking in a nonce (occasionally more like twenty percent) and the rest is actual police show stuff, which makes perfect sense and I don't know why it surprised me. I guess I thought it would be the other way 'round, with the police stuff taking a backseat to the little future voices. I like this way better.

Only, I don't have the second series (I'm trying to uh, obtain it free of charge but my internet sucks monkey balls with these things) and I'm staring with growing desperation at play.com and reflecting that I did work my ass off stuffing those envelopes, I deserve a damn present. I'm fairly sure Futurama was my latest 'present' around then but that was for the dentist stuff and totally unrelated. Totally. Plus the second series of LoM is only £18. I said I'd buy BSG series 3 when it was under £20 and I was going to buy Stardust for £13 *anyway*, so...

Jesus. Getting stuck in the 70s would be the best thing that could happen to my bank account - no internet shopping. And no Buffy, Stargate, Farscape, Futurama. International tennis coverage. Though there would be Doctor Who (Sam saying he 'saw Doctor Who and he gave me some pills' cracked me up in light of the last series of 'Who and fics like these which I will rec and memory properly when I've watched it all and can go on a proper fic hunt without fear of spoilers. Genius. That was a hint to rec me lots of good LoM fic. Preferably first series spoilers only but just warn me for anything with second series' and I'll wait the few days it'll take me to get hold of and watch it).

Oh and John Simm? I get it. I do. I loved him in 'Who mainly because he was delightfully crazy and flirted liek whoa with The Tennant but now I get it. The Simm is much with the awesome. What else has he done?

I can't believe you all didn't make me watch this sooner. Honestly flist. Fail. ;-)