breathe, breathe in the air

Big Bang

2011-09-25T06:54:28Z

BIG BANG FOR scifiland

This whole fanmix relies heavily on my head canon on these two. And that can all be explained in this fill, All the Pretty Lights, at the tronkinkmeme, which has a PG rating, by the way.

I Can't Hear You - The Dead Weather
I wanna teach you
Keep you for myself
Gonna take you by the hand
I'm gonna walk you to my house
So I can hear you

Civilization - Justice
Stand aside as they bow to the call of the east
Tantalized and seduced by the demon's relief
Dance to the ground by the whim of the merciless sky
Born to the fire that burns in the all seeing eye

Machine Gun - Portishead
Here in my reflecting, what more can I say?
For I am guilty for the voice that I obey
Too scared to sacrifice the choice chosen for me
If only I could see you return myself to me
And recognize the poison in my heart

Runaway - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Run, run, run away
Lost, lost, lost my mind
(I'd) like you to stay
Want you to be my prize

Swimming in the Flood - Passion Pit
Then I lie naked in a rampage
In the flesh, face to have with the onset
I forget everything that's ever made me
Rise again
Now slowly leave my memory

Still Life at High Speed - Telekaster
Instrumental

Creep (LoBounce Remix) - Radiohead
You float like a feather
In a beautiful world
And I wish I was special
You're so very special

Something I Can Never Have - Nine Inch Nails
You always were the one to show me how
Back then I couldn't do the things that I can do now.
This thing is slowly taking me apart.
Grey would be the color if I had a heart.

Guiding Light - Television
But all intent remains unknown
It's time to sit up, sit up in the throne
It's seen before but it's always new
So look close and see who's come through
Never again to face this nights

The Prettiest Star - David Bowie
One day though it might
as well be someday
You and I will rise up all the way
All because of what you are
The prettiest star

ZIP

Stimulating the Human Spirit and Stuff

2011-08-03T04:39:25Z

So I think I just ran into the most intriguing advertisement campaign I've seen in a while. I was just minding my own business, trying to watch a YouTube video of a Jesse Eisenberg and Aziz Ansari interview. Before the video, they show me an advertisement. I'm about to skip over it, but all of a sudden Terry O'Quinn is in a lab coat and talking to me about discovery and the senses and stuff. I have no idea what it's about, but I check out Survival Code. I click somewhere on the page because I still don't know what's going on. And it shows me this flash video that's basically an extension of the commercial, Terry O'Quinn in a lab coat talking to me the whole time. I'm, like, seconds away from submitting my information to make an account for this thing when I snap out of the daze and read, "By submitting this information, you will be receiving in-game communications including email, direct mail and phone messages." Woah there.

I looked through the YouTube comments for the commercial. Apparently this is for 5 Gum--the chewing gum product. Okay. You almost got me there. But I'll give them props for intrigue. More than a year after the show's over and Locke's still getting me into all sorts of trouble. Maybe I'll make myself an account for this thing anyway. I'm probably this close to unlocking the brainwashing video.

Mouse in the House

2011-07-15T19:23:26Z

There's this mouse infestation thing going on in my house. It pretty much started last month. My mom saw the first one, but I never saw him. At first, I thought my mom was going crazy or this was some kind of conspiracy, but then I kept hearing things. So, yeah, mouse. The mouse traps accumulated in my kitchen as my dad got more and more batshit crazy about killing the mice. And it's like every time we caught a mouse, we thought that was the last one. A couple of days after the last one, I'd end up seeing another one running around.

So we caught the last one yesterday. But not really. Because I saw one running under the couch just now.

Summer Television Shows

2011-07-12T07:05:47Z

I feel like a homeschooled kid on her first day of high school and in absolute awe over the novelty of turning the dial on her locker. I haven't watched actual TV in a while. Maybe it's been a year or so? Not since all my shows died in various fabulous fashions in May 2010? So, this week, all of a sudden, I'm watching these shows--some of them I know and some of them are airing for the first time. And it's crazy. Television. What a thing.

Torchwood. I never thought that the show would be accessible to me, you know? I idly started watching it in early 2010 by downloading it episode by episode wherever I could find it. I felt like I was so behind on the fandom and the show. And now it's on Starz. Which I'm not subscribed to, of course. But that's not the point. I don't think I've ever done this thing where I've caught up on a show in time to watch the new episodes as they come along. So this is cool. Even though I have no one to talk to about it. This is what happens when you basically disappear from the internet for a whole year.

This has probably been covered a hundreds times, but... This season is a whole new thing and it feels so weird. It's definitely not the Torchwood I've come to know and love. I know, that's kind of a hasty judgment, but if you push the returning characters back to what seems like supporting roles, shift the overarching tone and premise, and put the show on an entirely new continent, then what do we have left? There's no Torchwood in my Torchwood. And the occasional nods to the previous seasons only feel like they're dangling a cookie above our heads.

Right, right. Cry moar. Moving on. Gwen and Rhys and babyyyy. Their presence in the show is what holds things together, as it should be. Gwen and Rhys still bicker. Then Jack comes in and Rhys is still pissed off. :D I am indeed interested in where this goes. Judging by how old Anwen is, they haven't been off the grid for too long. But everyone looks so much older. It's amazing.

Now, them Americans. Bill Pullman is an interesting addition. Mostly because he's Bill Pullman. I am curious about the role that his character will play in the show though. He's like this looming, menacing character that hasn't quite gotten to the looming part. This Esther character. I don't know what to say about her, but it looks like she's taken over Gwen's job. She's done an excellent job with the "investigate, meet Jack, drink retcon water" routine so far. Now, Rex. The whole time he hobbled out the hospital all the way to Wales, he was making me very nervous. Hopefully they figure out a way to make him less in pain or else I won't be able to focus on his scenes.

Maybe it was a bad idea writing down my thoughts about Torchwood so far. Oops?

Warehouse 13. Good, light fun. I was mildly surprised when I read that Aaron Ashmore was joining the cast this season. I became aware of his existence a couple weeks ago during my Veronica Mars marathon. There was some slight confusion regarding him and his twin brother Shawn Ashmore who I know from the X-Men trilogy. So now the former is here in another show I watch, but he's neither Veronica's ex-boyfriend nor a surprise drug dealer. Oftentimes a plus.

Alphas. Oh my god, I enjoyed it. A new show for me to watch! I wasn't planning on watching the show because I hadn't heard of it until I caught glimpses of the commercial during Warehouse 13. After dinner, I just plopped down in front of the TV, watching whatever was on. So, for the first ten minutes, I'm like "What's going on? What's going on? What's gonna happen? What am I watching?" Then I realize I'm watching Alphas and I see that Jack Bender directed the episode.

This reminded me of that TV show idea I had to put together for scifiland a while back: Landslide. But Alphas is ten times better. With Alphas, the characters and abilities are much more creative than what I thought up. Except, you know, I still kind of wish they threw a stoic, muscular Korean-speaking family man in there instead of this outspoken, muscular English-speaking family man Bill Harken. But that's just me.

I like the idea of Gary's character. First, his powers impressed me. Seeing electromagnetic waves. Sure beats pyrokinesis. Then I started to learn about his role with his people. He's sort of out of place and yet he's important to the group. That's what interests me. He's this autistic teenage boy in a group of moderately serious 25-years-old-and-up instruments of the government. This can either go very wrong or very right.

In other news, holy god, it's a Tintin trailer, from director Steven Spielberg, producer Peter Jackson, and writers Steven Moffatt, Edgar Wright, and Joe Cornish. Be still my inappropriately reactive heart.

The Wrath of Con

2011-07-02T06:18:37Z

So, I went to this new anime convention today. It's on its first year and it coincides with Anime Expo. It's called AM², which is "anime, manga, and music." Get it? Uh. Yeah, the turnout was pretty okay since it was free admission, but the panel attendance was a little dead. I wasn't even planning on going to any conventions this summer since I had no idea what kind of schedule roadblock would jump into my path. My friend invited me to this one. No idea how she heard about this.

The crowd didn't start to form until a little before noon. The first panel we went to was a Q&A session with this J-rock band called Sadie. I've sort of been out of the loop when it comes to today's popular music in Japan. Or today's popular anime. Or all anime in general. So, I had no idea who Sadie was. It's a band made up of five different guys. Five guys, five bottles of hair gel.

It's a different experience seeing famous people who you've never heard of, as opposed to what happened last year with me at Comic-Con. These guys just seemed like the kind of bros I met in Japan when I was at the high school last year. Goofy guys who are enthused to talk to you and practice their English. Someone asked what their favorite English word was. They went down the line and it was kiss, fuck, sex, 69, and... I don't remember. Quality band. Someday, I'll hear their music. Or maybe I won't. I'm not so into the Visual-K J-rock.

We were dragged into an empty panel by a lonely panel host. No, seriously. The room was completely empty until we ended up in there along with two other guys. My friends and I did not enjoy the panel at all, but all we know now is that we would not like to turn out favorite anime into a LARP. Nor would we like to hear the acronym LARP used in a sentence ever again.

I knew I was screwed when the panelist said that he'd ask everyone in the room what their favorite anime is. I took a total headturn toward the door, but I thought it would be rude to use my power to make a seven-person panel into a six-person one. Hey, guys. Guys, hey. I don't watch anime. My answer was that I don't have a favorite anime and the guy moved onto to the next person. So, crisis averted.

Basically, we stayed in there so we could get good seats for the next panel. Little did we know that we didn't exactly have to fight for the good seats. There might've been less than 15 people in there. 22 minutes after 4 PM, in came voice actor David Vincent. Known for his work in Blazblue, Bleach, Fate/Stay Night, and Code Geass. I mean, not known by me, really. Like I said about the whole not being familiar with a guy that you should supposedly be nervous around, it was like listening to some pretty cool bro talk about his work. It was interesting though. He gave tips on going into the business and mentioned that he proposed to his wife through redubbing one of his scenes.

The exhibit hall can be considered underwhelming after you've gotten used to the massive Anime Expo hall. Okay, so I'm not so familiar with anime, but I can still get around to recognize and name a lot of characters by sight. Video game characters, on the other hand, I've got that down pretty well. (I really need to post about my Assassin's Creed antics someday.) So the stuff you can buy still excites me like the normal convention-goer. But in a practical sense, I was able to steer myself away from temptation. And I bought a new bag. It has nothing to do with anime. It's just a canvas shoulder bag that reminds me of the one that Veronica Mars uses.

Disneyland was right next door to the convention center, so we went to Downtown Disney for dinner. Those burritos. They are so delicious. The crowd over there wasn't as bad as I was expecting, considering the fact that it's summer, a Friday night, and the new rides just opened up. My friend who was dressed up as a Gothic Lolita felt so paranoid walking through Downtown Disney in her outfit. When she explained it to the first person who asked and we all saw the blank look on his face, I think my friends and I all simultaneously remembered that not all people know what anime is. Awkward.

Not even gonna lie, when I stepped out onto my porch, I was expecting myself to be back by noon. And then I end up staying at the convention until seven-ish and end up at Disneyland for the evening. Hah.

I Return

2011-06-23T02:29:24Z

Okay, so now that I see that I haven't updated since March, let's drag this thing out of the ground and bring it to life. Hey guys. I don't even know who I'm addressing this to. So, I'd like to find out by using these questions that I ganked from thegingerninja.

1. Name:
2. Birthday:
3. Where do you live:
4: What are you studying/What are you working as:
5. What makes you happy:
6. What are you listening to now/have listened to last:
7. What is particularly good/bad about my LJ:
8. An interesting fact about you:
9. Are you in love/have a crush at the moment:
10. Favorite place to be:
11. Favorite lyric:
12. Best time of the year:
13. Weirdest food you like:
14. Contact info/twitter:

RECOMMEND
1. A film:
2. A book:
3. A song:
4: A band:

FANDOM
1. Favorite Fandom:
2. OTP/OT3:
3. Icon/Fic Journal:

PLUS
1. One thing you like about me:
2. Two things you like about yourself:
3. Put this in your lj so I can tell you what I think of you?

In other news, I've had an exciting week last week. Other than beasting my way through a flu, I watched two movies within the span of 24 hours. I went to the midnight showing of The Green Lantern. And I would say that I'm disappointed, but I was never expecting anything mind-shattering. Then after dinner on Friday, I watched Super 8. Now that's what I call a movie. I was blinded by the combination of lens flares and me crying from how beautiful the movie was. JJ Abrams and Steven Spielberg, I can't even. To sum it all up, I pose a question for the general public to answer: how is it a good idea to read your Kindle with the backlight on at full power during a movie? Mothers!

Losing It

2011-03-08T07:18:44Z

You know what's terrible? The option to tweet your progress on the Lose It! app. I know, I know. Twitter is creepy and scummy and awful on its own. But, you know, I actually like using Twitter, so moving on then. What I don't care for on Twitter is the tweets that say that Friend Person burned 34 calories by walking for five minutes or whatever. If you think the "Drinking coffee in the kitchen" tweets are weird, then you're probably having a seizure over the Lose It! tweets. I actually find a lot of what people say on Twitter entertaining. Simon Pegg works the 140 character limit like the fierce GQMF he is, man. But other people have to find some middle ground in what they write about. Like take me dor example. I'm ranting about Twitter for all to see. Who does that? Honestly.

Ahaha. Sorry about that, guys. I'm laying in bed, trying to fall sleep to the sounds of the wind viciously throwing things around my backyard. I felt the need to go on a pointless tangent about something. Mission accomplished.

Hey, You Guys

2011-02-27T05:50:11Z

So, dinner with my parents today and my server asks me if I need a kids menu. That tends to happen every now and then. I never know what to say, so I just play it cool and reply with, This is fine -poker face forever-. I'm beginning to wonder if I should just start taking them up on the offer so I can see what the kids menus are like nowadays. And if there's a chance that I can get ice cream, I say go for it. XD

I haven't updated in a while. Man, I don't even know what I used to write about in here. Oh, hey, maybe I can do a meme. Let's try to find one. Ah. Post a link to your entries on this day two years ago, last year, nine months ago, six months ago, three months ago and one month ago. If there was no entry on that day, link the closest date.

Two Years Ago - Ah, adventures with two hours of sleep and Mexican food cravings. And what a coincidence--I went a day with two hours of sleep and had fajitas for dinner last week. Some things never change, eh?

One Year Ago - dks;ldsk Oh man. Awkward moments with waiters and celebratory pie. That's exactly what went on today too. What is this?

Nine Months Ago - Oh my god. What was I even doing nine months ago and what is going on with this post? I showed off a newspaper article about breeding beauty chickens and ended the post with a shoop that I made of giraffe!Kevin Bacon and Mark Wahlberg.

Six Months Ago - That Walgreen's blackout was six months ago? That day was so weird.

Three Months Ago - I was crying tears of joy all over my beautiful Christmas presents. Excellent Christmas. Still haven't gotten rid of those Snuggies.

One Month Ago - This was my latest post. And I had just found out that I won the essay contest. I got a $100 savings bond out of that, but the district-wide contest hasn't started yet. Exciting.

A Winrar is Me

2011-01-15T07:07:13Z

Sweet mother of all that is holy. I've won an essay contest. And now they want me to read my speech at a dinner and award me with a medallion and serve me French food at a French restaurant and send my essay off to be judged district-wide. I wrote that in the last four hours before it was due. What did I even write? What have I gotten myself into?

Actually, I know what I've gotten myself into. $2,500 scholarship. That's what. With the promise of that much money, bring it on. That does mean that I have to buy another dress though. Oh man.

This has been a post.

FRIGGIN' LOVE CHRISTMAS

2010-12-25T20:42:35Z

CRYING A MILLION NERDY TEARS OF JOY

And somebody got my whole family a Snuggie... My sister and I got a pink one and my parents got green ones. What's funny is that we regifted a Snuggie to the people who gave us a Snuggie this year. Give one away, get four back. Mmhmm.

And I hope every is having an awesome holiday, no matter what you're celebrating.

He fights for the users.

2010-12-23T06:47:19Z

I haven't chilled out in Hollywood in four years, so today was pretty epic. I went to see TRON at El Capitan Theatre. This is my second time watching it. First time around, I was hyped up on Red Bull and I had never had one of those energy drinks before. I thought that the movie was pretty awesome then, but this time around was much better. Definitely worth the extra cost. They had this laser show before the movie and it was beautiful. I nearly cried. Epic Daft Punk music was epic.

The movie was cool too. My mom is a huge TRON fan since she and my aunt worked on some of the visual effects for the original movie back. And I've been excited about the movie too, ever since I went to the panel at Comic Con. I was pretty much jumping up and down in my seat whenever they used the crowd audio. 'Cause I do believe that I'm somewhere in the crowd. Did I tell you that they recorded that at Comic Con? But yeah, my family is in agreement that TRON Legacy pretty much fails as a sequel. And we all shook our heads at the confused people who left the theatre asking each other where Tron was in the movie. His part in the movie was sort of lacking. Spoiler: Didn't stop me from buying a Rinzler figurine for my Christmas present though. Can't wait to open it. Once the movie comes out on DVD, I've gotta do some kind of Star Trek XI vs. TRON Legacy comparison. Srsly.

a;kfndalkfn And you know what? It was raining once we got out of the theatre and there were two rainbows over the Hollywood sign. Today was beautiful. So bright. So vivid. Double rainbow.

Come Back to Me, Internet!

2010-11-30T00:44:36Z

Oh my god. My internet's been gone since Friday. It left all of a sudden and it is never happening again. NEVER. Ah, well. Despite the lack of internet, my Thanksgiving break was fun. While I wasn't forming conspiracy theories that involved a spiteful internet connection wanting me to finish my essays before I let other things distract me, I watched some movies. If you haven't gone out to see Megamind yet, you totally should. I loved it so much. I wasn't expecting it to be so well thought out and clever. Also, I think Will Ferrel is hilarious, so I think that contributed to me liking it that much.

I think it's become some kind of Thanksgiving tradition where I watch inappropriate movies with my elderly grandparents. Last year, I think it was Forgetting Sarah Marshall. This year, I get to my grandpa's house and they're watching Not Another Teen Movie. My sister tells them to change it. Somehow, we end up watching The Expendables instead. Good times.

Lost fanmix - Leaders

2010-11-23T08:40:31Z

This is an appreciation post for the leaders of the island. Well, appreciation in a sort of ironic sense. You'll see what I mean.

Goodbye Babylon - The Black Keys (General)
Now, our boys... they're fallin'
Our leaders are all appalling
And you can bet by God,
Goodwill is gone,
Goodbye Babylon

Going Home - Dr. Dog (Esau)
Everybody wants to kill their brother
Put the blame on another
Wake up, wake up this house is on fire
and we're down to the wire,
Yes, we're down to it

Big Boat - M. Ward (Widmore)
Says he’s got a big boat
A wide load
Enough to bring the party down
Oh yeah, a big boat
It ain’t no Carnival Cruise
Says he’s got a big boat
But it’s just a ferry boat [...]
And that makes for a short, short ride

The Warning - Nine Inch Nails (Ben)
We've been watching you with all of our eyes
And what you seem to value most
"So much potential" or so we used to say
Your greed, self-importance and your arrogance
You piss it all away

Blindness - Metric (Jack)
Find us a trap door, find us a plane
Tell the survivors help is on the way
I was a blindfold never complained
All the survivors singing in the rain
I was the one with the world at my feet
Got us a battle, leave it up to me

Colours Fade - Blood Red Shoes (Locke)
In blind ambition, in blind faith
You wait for things to change
Hungry for something that I can't say
and the colours fade to grey
Too close for convert but too far to feel
It spins the wheel

Harold T. Wilkins, or How to Wait For a Very Long Time - Fanfarlo (Ben)
In a tunnel, everyone will kick and scream,
And come to the same conclusion every time.
Time to realize you were never on the team,
That was always the question hanging over you.
In our hearts are balloons with a rusty nail.
Looking over your shoulder, and setting your sail.

Little Lion Man - Mumford & Sons (Jack)
Weep for yourself, my man,
You'll never be what is in your heart
Weep Little Lion Man,
You're not as brave as you were at the start
Rate yourself and rake yourself,
Take all the courage you have left
Wasted on fixing all the problems
That you made in your own head

ZIP

Bonus: Captain Gault wallpaper. Nothing ironic about this.

Size: 1440x900

TROOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

2010-11-07T04:48:30Z

So, I'm watching the first Harry Potter movie. I see this scene and I lawl so hard that I'm on the brink of an asthmatic fit. If someone reacted this way to a troll every time, I wouldn't even be annoyed with whoever the hell is trolling me. I'd welcome it.

Hallows? They're... Deathly?

2010-11-03T05:02:20Z

So, I'm going to go to the midnight showing of the new Harry Potter movie that's coming out at some point in the month... This does indeed mean that I need to watch the previous movies. There are six of them that come before this? What day does the movie come out? Ah, November 19th. I have about two weeks to watch them. Whaaat am I going to do? Do you guys have any new watcher tips for me before I dive into this? Believe me when I tell you that I am intimidated like woah right now.

THAT'S HOW A DESSERT SHOULD BE

2010-10-27T03:47:54Z

FFUUU-- I am so hyper right now. I don't even know what my brain is doing. I went out with my parents to eat dinner with them for their anniversary. Very good food. Except, my dad had trouble seeing in the restaurant since my dad can't see in the dark. I think BJ's only hires attractive people. I mean, really now. That waiter, man. That waiter. But anyway, the commercial for Unstoppable came on and I saw Chris Pine on the TV and I made this OGH! sound right in the middle of dinner. Real profesh, self. Yeah, what made me all hyped up was the dessert though. For two years, I've been hearing about those freaking pizookies. Cookie with ice cream. My teacher would rave about them during class. I don't know. But I finally had one today. Triple. Chocolate. Hell yeah. LOOK AT IT. THIS THING IS NOT MEANT TO BE EATEN BY ONE SINGLE PERSON.

Brought to You by Livejournal

2010-10-24T18:22:24Z

Can I just say that this will probably haunt my dreams for the next few weeks?

Stare into the goat's round, yellow eye for ten seconds and tell me that it's not terrifying.

This has been a post.

Sci-Fi ABCs Picspam

2010-10-19T05:12:05Z

Fandoms: Dollhouse, Lost, Torchwood, Star Wars, Heroes, Star Trek XI, Firefly, FlashForward, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Warehouse 13

Lost - A Jacob/Man in Black Fanmix

2010-10-18T00:36:11Z

And here's another Lost fanmix. For scifiland, of course.

Sweet Cloud - The Kills
She upset the weather
She upset my sweet cloud
Growing black, thick and heavy
Strike me, now gonna put me down
She upset my brother
She upset his sweetheart

Die By the Drop - The Dead Weather
Let's dig a hole in the sand, brother
Starve off the land for worse or better
Get right down to the bottom
If one goes I'll do the other

Skull - Screaming Females
I am forced to guard the mile
You are not my mother's child
History is at the door
They tell secrets in their sleep

My Pet Snakes - Jenny and Johnny
Well, every time you come around I have to run and hide
(And your eyes, are they bleeding?)
I get claustrophobic even when I am outside
(Are you trying to put a hex on me?)
I thought we were brothers, man I thought that we were tight
(But your bite is so evil)
Sucking out the venom of your bite
(As you poison me)

The Tower - Nicole Atkins
Between the rock and stone
Faces became our home
Arguments echoing
Built it so high

The Season - The Dodos
But you're away in Eden
And I'm still here the heathen
This times for real, we're even
We do this for the season

Used to Be - Beach House
Turn the wheel to each way we feel
Till I'm lost and I cannot find you are there
Don't forget the nights when it all felt right
Are you not the same as you used to be?

The Tallest Man On Earth - The Gardner
I sense a spy up in the chimney
From all the evidence I've burned
I guess he'll read it in the smoke now
And soon to ashes I'll return

ZIP

phacelia @ 2010-10-02T19:59:00

2010-10-03T02:59:08Z

For scifiland's Big Bang challenge.

BIG BANG

I conveniently put it all on a table. The links on here are all over the place. Most of the stuff is posted on Livejournal, but there is a smattering of Tumblr posts here and there. Do not be alarmed. Just go with it.

Link	Fandom	Type	Points
Worth Dying For	Star Trek	Wallpaper	5
Oceanic Six	Lost	Wallpaper	5
Top 5 Moments of Rejection	Lost	Picspam	30
The Crew	Star Trek	Picspam	21
Let's Dig a Hole in the Sand, Brother	Lost	Fanmix	20
Sci-Fi ABCs	Multi	Picspam	26

Magic Trackpad

2010-09-29T22:07:55Z

My new mouse has arrived. Hell yes.

I'm trying to figure out how this works, but I'm having some trouble adjusting to this. That's alright. I'll make it work.

Edit: I also have a new computer to go with the new mouse. Worst part of getting a new computer is that all the software isn't installed yet. I just freaked out a little bit, realizing that there's no Photoshop on this computer yet. ksdl'skdgkl OH GOD NO. DDDD:

Just Another Average Day

2010-09-27T03:22:17Z

I think I have a cold. This is pretty terrible. People around me have been dying from their illnesses lately, so I promised myself that I wouldn't get sick like them. Well then. Since I was out of cold medicine, I had to go to Walgreens. On my way, I see this little white dog running around the street, barking at cars. God, I hope that dog got picked up by someone brave enough to pick him up in the middle of all that traffic. I get to Walgreens and find the medicine aisle. Of course, at that very moment the lights go out. Have you ever been in a big drug store during a black out? You can hear the electricity powering down. All the customers are guided outside and we look around to find that the entire block has lost electricity. The streetlights, the Taco Bell, err'ythang. What I found hilarious was that all fifteen or so of us got into our cars to drive down the street to get to the next Walgreens. At least that side wasn't affected by the black-out.

It's Pilot Season!

2010-09-26T04:15:10Z

Went to the beach this morning. I sat there, pensively looking out into the ocean while listening to the Lost season one soundtrack. Best ever. I was supposed to be picking up trash, because I was at this coastal clean-up event, but I couldn't resist.

And my DVR exploded this week. Pilot week is so awesome. Then again, it's very depressing. You know how I was saying that all my shows ended last year, except for Chuck? I've been scrambling around, looking for new shows to watch. For some reason, all my shows ended up bunched into threes on Mondays and Wednesdays, so I kind of hoped that a few of them failed. On Monday, there was Chuck, The Event, and Hawaii 5-O. Then on Wednesday, there was Undercovers, Modern Family, and... probably something else that I forgot to watch. D:

Chuck
I'm pretty glad that Chuck hasn't been canceled, but what I'm happiest about is the fact that it hasn't completely jumped the shark. It's been around for a while now and it's still the same Chuck that I've gotten to know and love. I mean, I could have totally gone without the Olivia Munn cameo, but... Actually, I'm thinking about writing an angry letter about that one.

DEAR OLIVIA MUNN,

The Event
If Lost and 24 had a baby... I would question the hell out of the science of that outcome and wonder why it's on NBC of all places. I got a little antsy watching the show. I had a hard time sitting still, but that might've been because I had things to do and I'm not used to having a three-hour TV show schedule. Also, what was going on didn't really hook me. It didn't keep me on the edge of my seat. Until the last three minutes. The fucking plane went through a tear in the time-space continuum, y'all. I sort of want answers as to why and how that happened. Good job, cliffhanger.

Hawaii 5-O
Now this is what I was waiting for. The panel at Comic-Con got me so excited. And I wear the shirt that I got from the panel. And I started following Daniel Dae Kim on Twitter. And I kept seeing the ads on the sides of buses. I was counting down the days. Then we get this thing. James Marsters is killing the guy's father. Awesome! They're... focusing on these two white guys. Alright. Oh, hey, there's Daniel Dae Kim. Oh, he's gone. There's Grace Par-- Oh, she's taking off her dress. :\ Fine, fine, I'll give them props for depicting the elements of racism in Hawaii, like they said they would. And there's some actual feel-good heart to the show. I'll probably be back for the next episode, but I'm not sure if it's worth watching at 10 PM on Monday nights or using my DVR space on this one.

Undercovers
Yeah, I forgot to record and/or watch this show when it aired. I wasn't too excited about the show, so it wasn't much of a loss. I watched it online yesterday. It's a spy show. It's... very ordinary. I'm not gonna knock the writing or acting, because all that was fine. It's just that I don't know why I'd watch it. From what I can get from the pilot episode, it's just a clean-cut, through-and-through spy show. I don't even like spy shows. Probably not gonna watch the next episode, unless I hear that it's gotten a little interesting.

Modern Family
I... didn't really watch TV on Wednesday. I'll probably watch all the episodes that've aired with my sister once she's in town. She loves this show and has showed me the first season. I can see why it won all those Emmys.

Forgotten Show #1
Oh, lawl. That's right. The Office. That... We've had a rocky relationship for a few years. Will I break it off with The Office soon? Most likely. I've skipped out on dozens of my dates with this show already. :(

All in all, what I've learned from this week is that my standards and my daily living has been impacted by Lost far too much. And yet I regret nothing. Booyah.

Scifiland - Original Show Challenge

2010-09-19T07:24:47Z

For scifiland. Go Team Sidekick! I don't even know if most of this makes sense. Brace yo'self.

Synopsis
Trenchrod & Jones Company is one of the top medical suppliers in the world, known for their innovation with the future in mind. What the world is unaware of is, within the 45 floors of their Los Angeles company building, the business employs more than just businessmen and janitors.

Trenchrod & Jones houses people who they have biologically altered. Among the hidden is Coda Barrone, a living, breathing rookie flamethrower. Unable to remember the life that led to today, she's led by an ageless goon who introduces himself as Mead. She soon learns that her job is not a pleasant one. Within a few days, Jae-Su who has also lost his memory joins the team. The three of them carry out the company's dirty work.

In a medical room, Coda meets Trudy McLeod, the scientist behind the experiment. The scientist comes from a harrowing future where outsiders occupy Earth and use its inhabitants as their workers. These outsiders happen to be in close alliances with one another... for now. Only time will tell whether this future can be avoided.

Coda Barrone
Played by Clemency Burton-Hill
Name: Coda Barrone
Age: 27
Skills/Abilities: Pyrokinesis
Personality: For quite a while, she has a bit of a struggle with ethics: thievery, then arson. She's very lost, easily impressed on by other people. She takes orders and conforms to what the people around her are doing. However, as the story progresses, she slowly becomes more of her own person.
Background: Throughout her life, she has very bad luck. The streets of San Francisco were her home, Coda relying on her many acquaintances who lived under similar circumstances. Having dropped out of college, she was left homeless and poor. Three years out on the streets, she took to stealing what she needed. After choosing the wrong man to steal from, she was shoved into a van and taken to Los Angeles.

At the start of the series, Coda is struggling to find out more about herself and the world that she seemed to have stumbled into. When she gets of glimpse of who she really is, she can't help but wonder if the injections really can give them all a new start.

Alexander "Mead" Lawson
Played by Neil Hopkins
Name: Alexander Lawson
Age: 53
Skills/Abilities: Berserker, immortality
Personality: Disillusioned by everything that he's seen, Mead goes about his days just stumbling. In the past thirty years, he has formed an easy philosophy, allowing him to feel no weight behind his actions. At the surface, he may seem reckless, but his impulsiveness bears an element of subtle deliberation. Very rarely does he venture out of the company building when not on the job.
Background: Starting as a janitor for the company in 1971, Alexander Lawson saw something that he shouldn't have. Working in an empty hall, a flash of light and a blast of wind caught his attention. When he approached the fading light, a girl in a lab coat named Trudy McLeod appeared. The company rushed in immediately, Alex seeing the girl again a few weeks later. He was ultimately used as a guinea pig, the company using McLeod's expertise to their advantage. He was shaped and molded until he became who he is today: Mead, self-acclaimed ex-human in charge. He spends his years doing the dirty work for the company, his abilities mostly under control.

Jae-Su Bae
Played by Lee Byung Hun
Name: Jae-Su Bae
Age: 33
Skills: Superstrength, cooking
Personality: Instinctively, Jae-Su is a father: caring and loyal. With his recently acquired strength, he tends to loom intimidatingly. Nonetheless, he still manages to stay hidden on the sidelines when he needs to. Jae-Su is constantly plagued by an inexplicable feeling of remorse. The injections left him hollow; he feels that something is missing, but he doesn't know what.
Background: Jae pursued a job in accounting at the company despite his own reluctance. He knew that the company had something to hide, but he decided that his skepticism couldn't keep him from supporting his family. His job was high-paying and he was good at what he did. However, his curiosity got the best of him as he tried harder and harder to uncover what the company had to hide. He soon was found out and, in turn, they threatened his family. One wrong move set off a catastrophic event, leading to the end of three lives and the beginning of one. Jae-Su tried desperately to save his wife and son from a fire, displaying incredible strength in his attempt. But that strength wasn't enough. His family was gone and he was at the brink of death.

He is "recruited" by the company's science division without his consent. He is saved by the injections, giving him superstrength, but taking away his memories and intellect. As his strength developed, his brain power dwindles. However, as the series progresses, more of his past self comes back to him, showing promise that the injections do not strip the people of who they are.

Trudy "Mack" McLeod
Played by Kerry Washington
Name: Trudy McLeod
Age: 41
Skills/Abilities: Technological and scientific knowledge, immortality
Personality: She is accustom to taking orders, having not known any other way. Her work is the only thing she knows, no matter where or when she is. In her earlier years, in a world decimated and occupied by outsiders, she was deprived of most human interaction, used for nothing but her mind.
Background: Born into a demanding world, Trudy McLeod started her work as a scientist at the age of ten, like most humans in the world. In the year 2045, 12 years after the commencement of her studies, McLeod somehow found herself in 1991. She was met by a startled man with a mop named Alex, then by a group of men who took her in, getting her to work immediately. She was ordered to experiment on Alex, successfully forcing him to cease aging, but altering his physical appearance in the process. After perfecting her concoction, the company uses her injections on McLeod, stopping her from aging, but not changing her appearance.

For decades, she was used to work on many individuals, engineering their abilities, making them superhuman with the technology. But she can't help but wonder how these materials came from. She soon finds out that the company is working closely with a group of beings that she knows, bartering goods with them secretly. McLeod recognizes the group from the future: The earth is owned by them. She realizes that she is being used to make an army; the company has plans of their own.

Leonard Jones III
Played by Aaron Johnson
Name: Leonard Jones III
Age: 24
Skills/Abilities: None
Personality: Despite his youth and inexperience, Leonard Jones is a merciless entrepreneur, filling in for his father to a T. Behind his father's desk, he keeps a straight face and a steady hand. But under the surface, he is far from the confident young man that he tries to be. He relies on his reputation and money when his abilities are questioned.
Background: Born into the business, Jones naturally became the heir of Trenchrod & Jones when his father fell ill. Having been immersed in the company's affairs for so long, he seamlessly assumes the role of his father. Like the past two generations of Joneses, he is feared by his employees. He is introduced as a tyrant of a young man, but as the series goes on, his vulnerability is revealed more and more. He can only play boss for so long. With his power and position, he may be the only one who can stop the world from drawing closer to calamity.

This Girl Needs a Burger! ASAP!

2010-09-05T08:28:51Z

Still haven't entirely recovered from the whole oral surgery thing. But I'm doing a lot better now. I've only needed one dosage of Motrin today. Here's the thing, though: My appetite has come back, but my ability to chew hasn't. So, I've been jonesing for some meat for the past few days. I don't know how vegetarians do it. I really want some steak right now. I've been managing off of various kinds of fish, but... it's fish.

Also, the house has been crowded now that my sister is back. We never used to have disagreement around the house, but that was then. All she wants to watch nowadays are cooking shows and romantic comedies. And all I want to watch are science fiction shows and superhero movies. :/ At least she enjoyed Psych, guest starring Nestor Carbonell. She and I seem to have simila tastes when it comes to this ~subject matter~. I'd be unnerved by this fact in any other situation, but I'm going to take this as a win and go about my day. Plus, it's Nestor Carbonell.