Important changes in my life will cause me to stay away from fannish things even more than I am right now. Though, these last weeks, I feel like I've actually spent quite a lot of time here and I intend to keep that up. I just need to focus my fannish energies. In order to make more room for my life, I've stopped buying books (but I'm trying) cut down my TV watching schedule.

Here's what remains:

The Unit (SO EXCITED! YAY UNIT! BOB!)
NCIS (duh!)
Supernatural (what did you think?)
Numb3rs (so much love. I just wish they'd give an advance warning for the obligatory three boring eps every season)
Bones (OMG the Bones!love!)
Brothers&Sisters
CSI (for now, I may have to cut CSI later, but I feel rather loyal towards it. I've never missed an episode.)
Desperate Housewives (for now. I'm not at all fannish about the show, but I like watching it, and I think I will miss the people if I stop)
Doctor Who (which won't come back forever)
Eureka (very likely going to be cut later this year)
Torchwood (for now, will likely be cut due to exceedingly bad acting by John Barrowman and no more Tosh love)

I will only be adding one new show this fall season, Leverage, and it's only because there is always time for a dosis of Christian Kane on my screen. Except, if the how doesn't get better, I'd rather look at pictures or rewatch Angel.

It still looks like a lot, but with Torchwood and Doctor Who not coming back for a long time, it really isn't. Significant cuts were House, SGA and Burn Notice. Don't get me wrong, I love House, but I'm not interested enough in the actual content of the show to keep watching with the limited time that I now have. I'm actually trying to cut down to just NCIS, Numb3rs, Supernatural, Bones and The Unit, which would still give me almost one show every day that I don't have time for. DW would stay as an extra, as it is shown when the others are on hiatus anyway. However, I cannot really imagine living without Brothers&Sisters. We'll see how it works.


Most likely I will also be doing a massive flist cut. I haven't decided on anything yet, but if you always wanted to get rid of me but just felt that you couldn't unfriend me for some reason (why that would be escapes me), now would be a good time. I might still keep you friended though, because if I have friended you now, it's very likely that you are interesting and that I don't want to get rid of you. Which is the real problem - I don't want to unfriend anyone right now. I love my flist. But ti's too big, so it's either unfriending or rigorous filtering. I'll figure that out if I ever have the time.

It's kind of sad how reorganizing my real life means cutting down my tv watching. I guess that means that it was long overdue.



To those of you who were wondering: I did it.
*beams*

Today I shall talk about The Unit some more. Since, you know, nobody else is doing it.
*glares*

I love The Unit. I am completely in love with the show. Yes, in Season 2 I found myself fastforwarding through some of the housewives stories, but I wouldn't want to live without them. See, what I like so much about The Unit is that I love every single character.

( And I feel compelled to tell you more about my love for The Unit, with pictures (lots of them, you've been warned), behind a cut. Also, spoilers for season 3. )

So, that is The Unit.
Which I love. The whole show and all of its characters.

Oh, and before I forget:
Sometimes they undress and huddle up naked.



( Cut for possible nsfw-ness )

Just saying...


P.S.: If you are Unit fan, why don't you come and say hello? Or wave, or do something to let me know that I'm not alone in this world? (iamsab, jenab and me, that is. So, not totally alone. But there must be more of you! Surrender!)

I'm spending the evening stuffing myself with Doctor/Rose fic. And when I say stuffing, I mean that I'll read anything I can find until it comes pouring out of my eyes and ears. If you have recs, or even just places to find fic, please tell me?

Cause Doctor/Rose fic makes my life better.Yes it does.

(XF guy didn't show, btw. *sigh*)

I haven't had the chance to watch Doctor Who yet, so - in order to keep myself from reading all the spoilers available, because I have no self-control - I give you a list. Yay, list! Everyone likes lists!



This is Entertainment Weekly's Top 100 movies of the last 25 years list. (this isn't the correct list, btw, because Out of Africa didn't make #1. And Die Hard, for some unexplainable reason, made #9. I mean, I like Die Hard, but it has no right to be on that list at all! A Fish called Wanda should be on it, but hey, that's a British movie, maybe Entertainment Weekly didn't know it exists. And Dances with Wolves!I know, not everyone can every movie Kevin Costner movie (me? noooo, not me!), but you cannot deny that Dances with Wolves is one of the greatest movies ever made. And did you know how much self-restraint it took not to put Bodyguard somewhere in there? Like you'd have noticed if I had cheated.
See how much fun lists can be?


Bold the ones you've seen. (32)
Put an asterisk after the movie title* if you really liked it. (13)
Cross it out if you saw a film and really didn't like it. (1)
Underline the ones you own. (3)

( List )

So that distracted me for maybe seven minutes.
*goes back to DW spoilers*

The story of Christian the Lion that has been linked all over makes me incredibly angry.

There is no such thing as a pet lion. Life is not a Disney movie. Animals have a RIGHT to be animals and not pets that, and I'm quoting from an article here, spent [their] days lounging in furniture shops.

Good for those two guys to rescue the lion cub, but keeping him with them, making him a PET just for a little wile, is cruel beyond believe. So they helped reintegrate him into the wild when they couldn't handle him anymore (and we'll get to that later), but they should have been the very first thing to do. Teach that lion cub to be a LION. A lion is not a fucking pet, for God's sake, and I need to repeat this , because it makes me MAD.

About the reintroducing into the wild - I don't believe one word of it. I do think it's possible that a lion who was reintroduced would recognize them, but I don't believe that the female lion would let herself be touched by them as well, unless she, too, was a deeply traumatized animal, as traumatized as this poor lion Christian was after growing up with humans. What makes me doubt the truth of this story is that the other man is with them, Adamson, I suppose, who supposedly helped them reintegrate. Yes, maybe they are living in the wild, but let's not kid ourselves - that lion is only able to survive their because it's a lion - any physically weaker animal wouldn't have survived the abuse it had suffered from the humans before.

Oh, and the fact that it's "on tv" isn't such a good argument for it being true either. Just saying.

But what really makes me mad is this: the story, the decisions of these boys to raise the cub, took place in the 70. The world was a different place back then. Our understanding for wild animals was different then. And that's why it makes me so incredibly angry that it is presented today as a sob story, oh, look at the cute lion, he hasn't forgotten his "owners", his "friends". IT'S A FUCKING WILD ANIMAL! GIVE IT THE RESPECT AND DIGNITY IT DESERVES!!!!

Today, this story should at least be told from a different perspective. I mean, after the Harry Potter books and movies, parents in the UK suddenly bought their kids owls, because the kids wanted the as a pet (owl=wild animal=no pet), and that was only a few years ago. I doubt they are going to buy their kids lions now, but the owl story shows that out countries still have a lot to learn when it comes to protecting the wild. And I say "our countries" because I don't want to point at any country in particular. Just saying that you wouldn't even be allowed to buy an owl, let alone a lion over here. Anyway, the story about Christian the lion teaches exactly the wrong thing in that regard. it teaches us that life is a Disney movie and that animals are worth our time and money if they are cute and give us a kiss in return. Oh, and that it's totally okay to keep a lion as a pet if your appartment were big enough, I guess.

It could have been a good story. It could have been a moving story. If they had at least made the effort to make people think a little, instead of just showing the Disney version.

Lots of love for poor Christian, no love for the humans,
Oceana

I'd just like to remind the internet that the world does not revolve around the United States of America.

As this is a fact, I'd like to remind the US- American part of the internet further that it should not presume to know everything about my country, any other European country, or Europe as a whole simply because they know things about the USA. Europe, as I believe should be obvious, is NOT the US.

And trust me, the frequent occurrence of bare, female breasts on TV and the lack of freely available guns are not the only differences between the US and Europe.

Thank you. I feel better now that we've cleared that up.

WetBob! WetBOB!!!

(and you say I never post anything fannish anymore...)

P.S.: this post any many others before it are so ugly because it's
been posted via email. I apologize.)

1) I'm procrastinating. Thus, the subject. Pro - crastination. I'm all
for defering the tasks I'm asupposed to do right now.
*g*

During my procrastination I looked up, surprisingly, procrastination
on wikipedia and found a link to a, hm, let's carefully call it
"group" of people who will help you over your workaholism with prayer
and God! Isn't it great! I wonder if God would write my memo for me if
I asked, so I can keep doing other things.

Or, right, procrastination can be a symptom of workaholsim. Figures.
The way I see it, it's not a symptom, it's a cause. If I wouldn't
procrastinate so much, I wouldn't be in the office so long and I
wouldn't work so much.

Okay, most of the time I'm not procrastinating, I'm actually working.
Today is difficult though. I keep getting distracted by plans to
travel to South America (I'm thinking Chile and Argentinia, has anyone
ever been there?), plans to buy a horse, plans to stop buying more
books like before I've read all the unread ones at home (*fail*),
plans to write more GoodReads reviews (www.goodreads.com), because I'm
down from #1 Best Reviewer in Germany to #4 in just two weeks! and
plans to cook when I get home, but hopefully eat something before.

Yes, I think hunger is the real issue here. I am hungry, therefore I
can't concentrate, therefore I do other things. (like, did you know
how many pretty Risotto pics you can find via google?)

2) In fannish news:

Uhm.

Watched Doctor Who. Loved it, but have no words.

3) Watched more of The Unit Season 2. Bob! BOB! It's strange how a
show with so many sexy men who are all kinda my type (cause I have no
type, to make life more fun), do not inspire any slashy thoughts in
me. I don't know if that is due to the fact that they are all (most of
them anyway) married and that their wives play such a big role on the
show, or because I want them all for myself.

4) Am indulging in fannish daydreams when I don't procrastinate
online. No, they are not dirty, get those thoughts out of your head.
Well, most of them aren't.

5) I want to write Numb3rs fic. (this entry is so random. I'm sorry.
I'm going to add numbers, to give you the impression that I had
planned this through). Would anyone want to read Edgerton/Colby?
Because that's what I'm going to write if I do. I have the bunny all
worked out in my head. There'll be sex included. At least it's easy to
say that now, before the story has taken over, which always happens
when I try to write something.

Okay, enough with the procrastination for now. I shall try to find food.

Charlie Jade, The Complete First Season, at Amazon.co.uk, for a
ridiculous 11.97 (!!!) Pounds.

That's 15 Euro, or USD 23 (okay, so the dollar isn't worth anything
anymore, we all know that. But we still love you! And shopping at
amazon.com is so much cheaper now! *smooches random US people from
flist*)

It's a very good price in any currency. Just saying.
*pets shiny new DVD set that has just arrived*

Charlie
Jade Season 1

(If you don't know Charlie Jade, you have one more reason to buy it:
because then you know it! It's pretty. And different. And people wear
leather a lot, if I remember correctly. It's Cameron Mitchell's
younger brother dressing up as John Crichton, who is stuck in a Mad
Max/Dark Angel kind of world as a dubious private detective who
travels to other universes for reasons that don't need exploring at
this juncture. Add some heat, dust, intelligent writing and a very
omnisexual counterpart. Stir. Enjoy, hot or on ice, or as a
bittersweet dessert.

Just buy the damn thing.

Recs that have been posted on oceanas_recs since yesterday's poll:

Vid: (BSG, FF + TW)
SG: 3
Other: 2 (Xover and BBM)
HL: 3
NCIS: 2
DW: 1
SGA: 1
N3: 1

Please feel free to vote and request more, if you haven't done so already.

Oh, and for those of you who care: there are now 678 recs in 46 fandoms at oceanas_recs, most of them (248) Stargate, followed by 108 SGA recs, an - given the quality of NCIS fic - astonishing 83 NCIS recs and 82 music vid recommendations in many fandoms.

Just in case you are bored.

We interrupt the football celebrations for a quick service announcement

I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that for the past three days I've been reccing music vids over at oceanas_recs. Yep, that's right, back from the dead. I get up at 6 a.m. to have half an hour to watch and rec vids for you (and me). Don't say I never do anything for you!

I've also finally dared to take a look into my recs folder, and look, I have 114 fourteen unposted recs saved, some of them dating back to 2006! Where to start?

Tell me, from my list of old recs, which fandom would you like to see most?

Poll #1211111 Recs!
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Which fandom should I rec next?

ETA: Looks at poll results so far: let me remind you: these are old recs, you might already know the stories. Not even I can conjur good new NCIS fiction out of thin air. I wish I could, though.)

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read. (I made them blue, instead, because colors are more fun. Then I made the ones that I already own but haven't read yet pink, because I like pink.)
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Do something to the books you don't intend to read ever (well, never say never, I'll read anything if it's the only thing available. But the books you'll avoid reading if you can.) I made them purpur, because I don't like purpur. ;-)

( Long list of books, now with colors! )

For those who don't know, I'm on GoodReads and I review books quite regularly (or rather, I try) , so if you want to read my book reviews (or let me read yours), come on over and friend me. My profile is here.

*looks at poor, blistered feet*

It's not the high heels that'll kill me, oh no, it's those innocent, one-inch heel almost-slippers that are ruining my feet. I knew there was a reason I didn't wear them for year, but oh, there they were, all pretty and black and (unsurprisingly) almost new, saying "wear me! it's summer! You've abandoned me! Pick me up and put me on your feet!"

Shoes can be so treacherous.

I'm back in Europe and instead of watching Cowboy movies (more about
that later), I just watched An Officer and a Gentleman. I've seen that
movie before and I never really understood the 'love' part. But damn,
am I ever in love with young Richard Gere. I'm just irrationally
attracted to him and his uniform and just everything about him.

...before I leave:

Is there a Harry/Snape story where Snape starts something with Harry not because he likes him, but to corrupt him, to make the famous Harry Potter fall in love with him and have him disappoint everyone else (Dumbledore, Weasleys, rest of magic world), in other words, and then when his plan works, he finds he has fallen in love with Harry himself? Bonus points if their relationship is finally revealed and everyone reacts exactly they way Snape wanted them to react, by being disappointed in Harry, by not understanding and by blaming Snape for corrupting poor Harry.

Help?

OMG I cannot stop listening to Guns N'Roses! I've listened to "Estranged" about 20 times today. I can NOT stop. What's wrong with me? The last time I listened to GNR on purpose was when I was fourteen, and that was 15 16 years ago! Am I becoming a teenager again? Oh no, is this because I tried on my plaid flannel shirt last weekened to see if I could take it on my cowboy vacation? What have I done????

Here, share my pain with me:

hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=K3SV0XCV

Other things I cannot stop:
- Thinking "Oh! Pretty!" whenever I see Dean.
- Work (not by choice)
- drinking green tea
- posting random things to lj at inappropriate times and then not find the time to answer comments

Could it be that I have a problem stopping things? Wait, I'm sure there's a terminus technicus for that, *googles*, *can't stop googling*, yep, it's lack of self-control.
*laughs*
Then again, it might just be lack of sleep.


*listens to Estranged again*
It's that one part about 1min 13 sec into the song that keeps me coming back and back and back. Last time this happened with a song was Led Zeppelin "When the Levee Breaks", which - just like Estranged - really isn't one of the greatest songs in the history of songwriting, but at min 2:34 ... Something about Chicago, I think.

And then there was that remarkable weekend in London where I spent every waking moment listening to Led Zeppelin's Ramble On. At least that's not a reason to be ashamed.

Unlike the time I listened to George Strait's "The Big One" about fifteen times on my way home to work, trying not to DANCE on the street.

I wonder why the EU hasn't made it obligatory to put warning stickers on iPods yet."Careful, this device might ruin your reputation by making a fool out of you in public. Unless you have no reputation anymore, because you lost your last bit of dignity the night you spent sitting on the cold bedroom floor in your parents' home listening to Take That's "Never Again" again and again and again. Which, no sir, wasn't me, nuh noh.

Tell me about the songs you have been listening to without pause in a fit of insanity?

Before I get into deep thoughts about the season finale (which - given my limited time - I might never do), I have just one comment on that very last scene.

( Spoiler for last scene of season finale - you've been warned )

It's 10.15 p.m. and I'm home! And I did not bring any work! (well, okay, I did bring work, but I don't really intend to do it, it's just in case I wake up at night and am really bored...)
Let's celebrate!

*ponders*

I think I shall have pasta and Bones. A girl's gotta eat and a girl's gotta spend time with happy-making tv shows, don't you agree?

Sekrit message to margueritem: Strange bank guy hasn't contacted me yet. Here I am WHORING engaging myself out for business all night and he doesn't even invite me for lunch!
Men are evil!