( NCISexy... )

Highlights?

Michael Weatherly would prefer it if Gibbs was a bit "bi-curous" :p

And a TV Guide Magazine editor actually types the words "incest is best"!

I was cleaning out some old TV Guide magazines I had and figured I'd share some of the fandom-related articles within.

I may or may not have mentioned this one before...



( TV's Top 10 Sexiest Undead Creatures )

The highlights?

#1 - Angel

#3 - Dean Winchester

The weirdest shit is happening with my avi files... I saved a bunch of old vids to a flash drive way back when. They played just fine on my old computer. But I tried to watch them again just recently and only the audio associated with the files will play. What's that about? :* Is there something wrong with my computer or something wrong with my files? I thought all my software was up-to-date, but maybe I was wrong.

Anyone who can help me figure it out gets a virtual hug and cookie :p

In discussion of the pic I posted the other day, chlare made me aware of a particularly fabulous development that I had been in the dark about.

Alexis Denisof joins the cast of Dollhouse.

I am almost faint with squee ;D

For those who might be interested, a pic of Alexis Denisof and Allyson Hannigan recently popped up in an issue of TV Guide (the one featuring an article on NCIS: Los Angeles).

I scanned it and put it beneath the cut :)

( Here here. )

To be honest? Two pikachus hauling a big ass bomb which is probably the harbinger of our doom.

But that could be the twelve consecutive hours of exposure to six children under the age of ten talking.

Babysitting was invented to torment the sitters. You know it's true.

Continuing on in my renewed obsession with all things Potter, and having heard that Tom Felton makes music, I did a little looking around iTunes. I bought TF's album and I really like it! I would definitely recommend it to anyone who enjoys the music you hear on Chuck. He has a really fun, quirky sound - much like the music featured on that show.

I also downloaded a few songs by some of those bands that make only Potter-themed music :p I was surprised there are so many! The Draco Malfoys, The Harry Potters, The Moaning Myrtles... I downloaded Foil, 99 Death Eaters, and Tom Felton's Kinda Hot ;p

Just got back from seeing the new HP movie - has anyone else been? What did you think of it? For the most part, I really enjoyed - particularly the extended screentime for TF...

( BUT )

I did really enjoy a few things...

( SUCH AS )

And has anyone else heard that there's been talk of Tom Felton joining the Eclipse cast? :p It's just fan chatter right now, I think, but I'd love to see him somewhere new (besides 13Hrs - I can't wait to see that.)

One: This is Draco Malfoy, children:



Why are we not all Death Eaters at this moment?

AND

Two: In this interview TF says:

Q: What do you have that you're looking forward to filming that you've not already done?

Felton: Young Daniel and I have a nice battle in the toilets which I'm looking forward to. That sounds a bit dodgy doesn't it, but I assure you it's all above board.

What I'm wondering is...

How can a battle in a bathroom be above board? And what did Tom mean by "dodgy"? I know what kind of dodgy I think of when I think of Harry and Draco in a bathroom, but I would be shocked and thrilled if TF were thinking the same :p

How to Win Friends and Influence Vulcans (link takes you to DreamWidth) - Kirk/Spock friendship.

Lightly toasted awesome with an extra side of awe, drizzled in awesome sauce. Kirk just as I picture him and Spock as his wonderfully understated Vulcan self. Kirk likes the idea of this best friends forever business. Spock must deal.

When It Is With Your Body - Kirk/Spock, NC-17

Kirk thinks Spock talking dirty would be funny. Until he gets a demonstration.

I'm a born again trekkie.

No. I'm a totally new thing. As much as TOS has going for it, the crew of the old school Enterprise never held the allure for me that it does now that I've seen Star Trek XI.

In fact, nothing Trek has excited me so much in... Wow. Since Voyager kinda became the Jerri Ryan show.

This movie is awesome. It's awesome in ways that have nothing to do with it's relationship to Trek. J. J. Abrams is a genius and there had better be, like, a dozen more of these from him.

How much do I love Michael Weatherly in interviews :p He's so totally irreverant. Right after Dark Angel I wouldn't have believed it, but I think Michael actually is Tony minus the gun and federal agent status.

Plus, he's so slash-friendly. His commentary on the season 6 dvds? All that talk about Sean Murray's hair? And the recent TV Guide article (squee!) Did he, or did he not, say he'd rather have a bi-curious fling with Gibbs than get it on with Ziva :D

Speaking of the Tiva, it was so cute in that article. Not so much in Semper Fidelis, though there were other elements of the ep that I enjoyed.

Including this - Director Vance. Maybe I'm the only one, but I really like him. Is that so wrong?

Meanwhile, my Leverage-watching exploits continue. Still digging the show so much. I was totally wrong about Aldis Hodge - I don't kinda love him. I adore the guy :D Or, at least, his Alec Hardison incarnation, but there's a fine line. I've enjoyed every ep I've watched so far (I'm up to Snow Job) but I have to say that The Wedding Job struck a few sour chords with me. I just don't see the necessity of any kind of UST-ness between the characters. Some shows? I'd say bring it on. But Leverage is interesting and clever enough without it and the characters are too new to me for me to care. Plus? In Wedding Job Sophie's angst and Nate's issues felt contrived. And Sophie is so much more interesting as a self-assured grifter with no codependencies.

But I digress.

For anyone interested, the TV Guide articles I was talking about is here. A Behind-the-Scenes vid can be viewed here. And there is more Weatherly-related awesomeness here.

I've only watched two episodes but I have to ask.

WHEN DOES THE AWESOME STOP?

If it doesn't soon I may strain something over-squeeing. Love.

So much love.

Title: Get Your Head In The Game
Author: nevcolleil
Fandom(s), Pairing(s): Supernatural/Chuck, Sam/Chuck pre-slash
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 500
Disclaimer: None of the characters from either show belong to me.
Author's Note: For slashthedrabble. As much as I love the Chuck who actually appeared in The Monster At The End of This Book, I couldn't help but wonder: What would happen if those prophecies had been sent to a different Chuck.

( 'This is wrong on so many levels,' Dean said as Wii!Dean was torn to shreds by computer-generated hellhounds inside of Chuck's television screen. )

List 15 books that will always stay with you. Don't think about it too much - just the first fifteen books that pop into your head.

Without googling to check spelling/authors, and in no particular order...

1. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
2. Q-Squared by Peter David
3. Carry on Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
4. Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
5. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
6. The Aenid
7. The Portrait of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
8. Paradise Lost by Milton
9. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
10. Flowers for Algernon
11. Invitation to the Game
12. The Pigman
13. That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton
14. The Dollhouse Murders
15. The Merchant of Death by D.J. MacHale

I'll probably get home and glance at my bookshelves and want to edit this :p There's one by Flannery O'Connor that should go on here, but I'm honestly glad I can't think of its name. It stays with me in an undesirable way, much like #4 on this list. Barbwire-wrapped priests do not for pleasant memories make.

Nothing to see here...

Just making a list of links for myself to sites where the music featured on my favorite shows can be found.

Chuck

Smallville

How I Met Your Mother

Swine Flu Masks

On some tv show (or maybe movie - but I think it was Quantum Leap) I saw that back in the World War II days people were telling one another to 'stop, drop, & roll' in the case of a nuclear attack - or to hide under desks and the like. Because the Iconic Mushroom Cloud of Death is apparently thwarted in much the same way that small clothing fires are put out.

This is that ploy all over again. No paper face mask is going to give you an air-tight protection against epidemic, children. Though it may help your chances of avoiding infection by cutting back on how often you touch your face and stuff like that. Someone on my f-list posted a bunch of info about the swine flu and debunked some common myths (that hoarding up the Tamiflu now is a good preventative measure, that mass quarantine will nip the entire problem in the bud, etc.) I thought I'd saved the link, but I hadn't or I would share it with you now.

I'm just as worried about this as anyone else - and I appreciate the usefulness of the occasional false sense of security - but I really wish that there wasn't always someone trying to cash in on other people's fears in times like these.

I hope any of you similarly worried about the outbreak will take some safety measures and hopefully not get taken for $50 a box while doing it :/ Wash hands often. Make the hand-washing thorough (hum a few bars of a favorite tune or say a prayer or something while you wash to slow you down and help you gauge how much time you spend.) If you're going to use a paper face mask, know that any one will work as well as the other and remind your kids/students to do these simple things:

♥ Don't share drinks or lipstick, et.
♥ Don't chew on pencils, etc.
♥ Cough into your elbow, not your hand.
♥ Stay home if you or a member of your family experience flu symptoms.
♥ Don't put your fingers in your mouth or chew on your fingernails.
♥ Don't touch someone else's used tissues with your hands, and throw your own trash away.
♥ Ignore the three-second-rule if you actually believe in it. (Or five-second-rule or...) It's always false, but now is a particularly bad time to pretend that you don't know that. Let MythBusters be your friend! Throw away food that's fallen on the floor or any surface in a public place.