Two more links related to the Polanski case and then I think I'm done talking about it for a bit because the whole thing is so upsetting that finding words to put to it is exhausting.

A short but encouraging list of entertainers who do not support Polanski.

An article from Jezebel that points out the wrongness behind what those who are supporting Polanski are saying.

Now, happy stuff! Because I demand it. I had to go to school AGAIN today because I got a call confirming my course selections and it was WRONG and I had to put on my ANGRY VOICE and it was all not cool. Afterward I stopped by the mall to get some Starbucks and ended up at the store for much longer then I planned because both of my managers were in chatty moods. I have a revised rough draft due tomorrow, laundry to finish and emails to write but all I want to do is enjoy the cool weather by curling up under a blanket and watching TV.

My List of Happy:

- The Where The Wild Things Are soundtrack. Karen O + other awesome musicians + a children's choir = So awesome that every song makes me want to cry. Shelby and I have very exciting plans to see this movie opening night.

- I'm seeing Echo and the Bunnymen in November. I've wanted to see them forever and they're coming to DC. It was one of those things where I purchased tickets without even caring if anyone can come with me.

- I And Love And You by The Avett Brothers</a> is my current selection for Best Song Ever.

-SYTYCD, Glee (with Kristen Chenoweth!) and Top Chef are all on tonight. Wednesday TV is my favorite.


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I hate to make this one of my "just before bed" posts especially since the next few days will be busy ones and I don't know when I'll get around to posting on LJ again.

I hate making this post at all.

But all last week I kept my angry, hurt, sad, heartbroken mouth shut over how horrified I was by the way the media covered the Mackenzie Phillips story. I sat in front of my computer and/or TV physically ill over how eager people were to believe Michelle Phillips not realizing how many incest/abuse victims aren't believed by those closest to them or how Mackenzie was just another junkie who deserved no sympathy or benefit of the doubt or that we shouldn't care anyway and she should never have gone public ignoring how her confession has helped others. I said nothing because I was too tired to find the words and because I love the Mamas & The Papas and I wanted this to not be true because it does change how I listen to them.

But I will not sit here and say nothing over how disgusted I am by anyone who believes Roman Polanski is being unfairly treated. I don't care how good his movies are. I think what happened to Sharon Tate was horrible and would mess up anyone left behind but that's not an excuse. I'm sorry what he went through during WWII but that's not an excuse. The simple, sad, maddening fact is that he drugged and raped a thirteen year old girl. Period. That there are petitions out there signed by prominent members of the entertainment community I respect makes me sick. That government officials from countries I respect are trying to stop this makes me sicker. He drugged and raped a thirteen year old girl and admitted to it. This isn't a gray area.

I spend every day of my life trying to feel like I live in a world that isn't trying to hold me back because of my gender and too many news stories lately have left me feeling defeated in this.

The one and only good thing I can say is that LiveJournal, a collection of journals and communities often full of a quiet misogyny that keeps me from being much more than a bystander in fandom, has been full of posts much angrier than mine. It doesn't negate the support he's receiving or make me feel less angry but I feel better knowing that I'm part of a community that on average seems as upset as I am.

[ETA]: A list of people who have signed the petition supporting Polanski. Seeing Wes Anderson's and Tom Tykwer's names hurts my soul.

[ETA II]: THIS IS WHY I LOVE YOU KEVIN SMITH.

TWO AWESOME THINGS ABOUT THE EMMYS:

- the one and only mention of BSG tonight was a Sam/Kara scene.

- MICHAEL EMERSON WON. This almost makes up for no one else I wanted to win actually winning. Because Ben>>>>>>>>>>>>>>everyone else anyway.

Usually it freaks me out when actors talk about fanfiction but my desire to marry Eli Roth may have just tripled. OMG.

I think the greatest thing about almost never reading fanfic at all anymore is that the once or twice a year I do see something that catches my eye and sit down and read it I don't regret it.

Case in point is this BSG fic. It's gen, it's about TORY, it's sympathetic to her, I don't think Starbuck is mentioned at all and I LOVED IT. Tory is that particular type of female character that fandom always hates and I usually love so that I hated Tory so very much is not something I've ever been proud of. I still don't love her but this story explains her in a way that makes me understand her. If only the show had done that.

I may have also stayed up until 3am reading a Penny/Sheldon BBT fic. Shut up.

Best Alexander Skarsgard macro ever. (If four letter words could get you in trouble at work it's NSFW but the image itself is very SFW. Or as safe as any ASkars image could ever be.)

I wanted to put something here about Katee Sackhoff's new official website and all the awesomeness on it but I'm the desktop instead of the laptop so that's going to have to wait until later.

Thanks to the two glasses of water I drank only a couple of hours before bed I woke up at 5am with a very full bladder and not much brain power beyond what was needed to empty that bladder. My bedroom and bathroom share a wall and as I sat there in my bathroom I start to hear loud, distinct noises coming from my bedroom. The weather was beautiful last night and for the first time in well over a month we slept with the windows open. "It's just the wind" was my obvious first thought but these noises were loud and it wasn't that windy. Since overactive imaginations don't always dull with age I leap right over pet/family member/human intruder and decide that clearly a zombie/ghost/monster from under the bed is in my room. Never mind how silly that is or that if a zombie/ghost/monster from under the bed was in my room they might be smart enough to not make so much noise and alert me that they're in there ready to eat me. Maybe not the zombie but I expect more from the other two.

Deciding to brave my inevitable doom I creep out of the bathroom and into the hallway where the noises are louder and more clearly coming from my bedroom. My safe, cozy haven has now with all certainty been invaded. I reach my hand into the door to flick on the light and then step inside to meet my maker. A blur of white races from one end of the room to another and then stops when it sees me. We stare at each other for a long pause and then swallowing a shriek as my heart pounds and my head swims I choke out "Nicky" as I clutch my chest. For his part my dog just stares back with the greatest "Duh" expression any dog has ever shown. As I slowly start to assimilate to the fact that I get to live he continues to express quite clearly that I'm a total dumbass for staring at him like that and never mind the time of night he's found his way up there from where he usually sleeps in my brother's room and it's time to play. On this point we are forced to disagree and I escort him out of my room so that I can lay back down and recover from my minor heart attack.

This whole event was actually the sequel to The Spider Who Wouldn't Die saga which also occurred last evening but I'm not ready to talk about that yet. It's too soon.

Julie and I have had a very productive Sunday morning just by using our phones and to prove it I give you the most important Top 5 List You'll See Today:

Top 5 Greatest Epic Bromances Of All Time

5)Jay and Silent Bob
4)John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
3)Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo
2)Bill Adama and Saul Tigh

and the obvious Number One:

1) John Lennon and Paul McCartney


I have a whole lot more to say on music and movies but I'm off to a day at the movies (Time Traveler's Wife AND Taking Woodstock, oh my) so it'll have to wait until later.

Last year I had been unemployed a few weeks, very depressed about the whole thing and wanted my birthday to pass unnoticed. The strangest thing was it mostly did. It was low key to the point that several family members/close friends forgot it for the first time.

This year I thought I wanted the same until I woke up this morning, still mostly unemployed and only one mere year away from 30, a prospect so frightening it's been freaking me for weeks now. Except I woke up in the mood to celebrate. And without telling anyone this the world responded. I drowned in Facebook messages,LJ posts, text messages and phone calls today from a wide and beautiful range of people who kept a smile on my face all day.

To everyone reading this who sent me a message here, on Facebook or over the phone THANK YOU. I wanted you to ignore it until you didn't and thanks to no one listening to me I feel happier than I have in a very long time.

29 is scary, strange and doesn't feel so great yet but knowing that all of you are out there and happy for me no matter what makes things easier to handle. I'm overflowing with love right now and it's all for you guys. &hearts

My hours at work this week were cut by more than half so I've had to resort to finding interesting ways to occupy my time. Like accepting a bet from my brother that I could find 50 DVDs in my collection I wouldn't mind getting rid of.

I found 85. And 7 TV show box sets. 13 went to my brother, 5 to my mother and the rest I'm hoping to sell at the pawn shop near the mall that has a huge DVD section. If I get a $1 for each I'll be happy. And closer to being able to afford the Complete DVD Set for BSG. Plus I now have a book shelf that doesn't look like it's about to break in half from the weight of what it's holding.

cidercupcake's Home Team 2009:Round One is now open for voting. I ended up about half and half with the people I'm voting for winning or losing their match up. VOTE.

I think I might have to buy an issue of People magazine.

HOME TEAM: The 2009 Matches

It's an all Female Character Contest being run by cidercupcakes. Nominate and vote for all of your favorite female and ONLY your favorite Female Characters. As most of my favorite characters are females you can imagine I'm all over this with much joy and love in my heart. I was going to link to everyone I had voted for but it got way too long.

I am contractually obligated as a crazy fangirl to say that if Kara "Starbuck" Thrace doesn't win the whole thing I will burn down nations in protest. So vote if you like your nations unburnt.

But strangerface wins my Favorite Person of the Night award for nominating Sophia Petrillo. Just cause I've been watching a lot of Golden Girls lately. Shut up, you all know you love that show.

Finally, Atia needs 20 times more votes than this. So does Nicki. And Callisto.

After a mopey, tired day it just made me so happy to browse through all 20 pages and smile at how many different women people came up with to nominate and why.

I'm stuck inside on this gorgeous day because I have massive amounts of homework to do and uniforms to clean so I don't get in trouble at school tomorrow. Tonight is drinks and UP! with the gang from work so it's all gotta get done NOW.

Which is why I'm asking all of you to distract me. :D

Meme taken from summersdream

Give me a fandom and I will tell you:

Favorite character:
Least favorite character:
Character with the best hair:
Character with the best eyes:
Character I'd most want to kiss:
Character I'd most likely shag:
Character I'd make lunch for:
Character I'd go singing in the rain with:
Character I'd go shopping with:
Character I'd go dancing with:
Character I'd take over the world with:
Character I most want to see more of:
Favorite het pairing:
Favorite slash pairing:


Some of my fandoms: BSG, Lost, Alias, Rome, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Hercules/Xena, Star Trek (TNG, DS9 and Reboot), Star Wars, Disney/Pixar, X-Files, Doctor Who, ASOIAF, How I Met Your Mother, Mad Men, True Blood, The L Word, Chuck, Grey's Anatomy, POTC, Big Love, Gilmore Girls

Ummmmmmm....you guys?

So I think I mentioned how I accidentally watched American Idol last week for pretty much the first time all season. And I became an instant Kris Allen fan.

What I didn't mention is that I "accidentally" downloaded all of his performances from the season and have been listening to them. And I "accidentally" watched the show last night...and defended him in class today (turns out I go to school with some hardcore AI fans).

And I watched tonight.

( Spoilers Ahead )

1) Comment to this and I will give you 3 people.
2) Post this meme with your answers.
3) Provide pictures and the names of 3 people.
4) Label which you would marry, shag, and throw off a cliff.

The lovely thunderemerald gave me Viggo Mortensen, Katee Sackhoff and Jamie Bamber. Bet no one can guess who I'm cliffing. ;)

( And the answers are... )

Halfway through BSG and I hold these truths to be self evident:

1)Julie is awesome.

2)Wine is awesome.

3)Depeche Mode is the answer to everything.

RIP Natasha Richardson

Man that makes me sad. I listened to my Cabaret recording for the first time in years the other week after catching Natasha and Vanessa Redgrave in this very awful movie they did together called Evening. They were both fantastic in it, as always, and while I'm not going to sit here and say I followed her career with a great deal of interest when I saw her in something I always enjoyed her performance. Not to mention how awesome she was on the episode of Top Chef she appeared on.

However I really wish people would stop bringing up Vanessa Redgrave's performance in A Year of Magical Thinking or Liam Neeson's performance in Love Actually. It's confusing two very different kinds of sadness when if you want to feel sad about something right now feel sad about the husband, sons, mother and sister who just unexpectedly lost someone.

Start school tomorrow.

Am slightly nervous.

Have gathered everything I need into one bag already and even laid out my clothes so I don't have to think much tomorrow morning.

Am having strange and deeply introspective thoughts about the periods in your life that you can draw a specific line where they end and begin and the ones you can't. Feel very overwhelmed that I can look at this day as the last day of something and tomorrow as the first day of something.

Need good culinary school tag and am drawing a blank.

Still thankfully feel like I have made the right choice.

Will likely be worst LJ friend in the world for the next week or two while I adjust but I LOVE YOU ALL. <3

So if Christian Bale and Kermit are the same person does that mean there's a lost tape out there of Kermit screaming at The Swedish Chef for being an effing amateur and asking Jim Henson if he wants to say something to him. Because as awesome as the James Lipton parody was THAT might become my new favorite.

And yeah since it's 2:45 in the morning I'm loopy enough to admit publicly that I've been cackling over that audio all week (Favorite part? "Ah da da dah like this in the background"). Oh, Christian Bale. You're a miserable SOB but at least you make me laugh.

And thanks to The Soup I've added that YouTube vid of that poor kid coming home from the dentist to things I feel REALLY BAD for laughing over (Favorite part? "I have two fingers. No four fingers."). But honestly I do feel REALLY REALLY bad for laughing over that because if my parents did that to me they'd be paying for 100 years of therapy. Hang in there, kid, because this is real life.