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healingmirth: Delahoy from the Unusuals, unimpressed (unusuals - delahoy)
still not dead.

I wish I had not performed so abysmally in my one and only programming class in college, because I could totally be making a living now as a third-rate website developer, if I'd bothered to learn.

I am amused by the import page at diigo which now says

"In case you are wondering why it is taking so long, basically, in the last day or so, tens of thousands of users have entrusted us with millions of precious bookmarks collected over the years, which means that we have to process 1000 times the amount of database write that we normally do! But rest assured it will be done.

We are re-writing codes and adding new servers to make sure it goes faster and smoother."

Robert Roldan was on DWTS tonight, with that chick from last season with the giant blond curly hair, some other woman I didn't recognize, and a guy whose face they never showed.

And a bunch of other people. I wish they'd credit the dancers.
healingmirth: Glitch from Tin Man: "o.O" (Glitch)
Chaz Bono is going to be on Dancing with the Stars next season. (Hooray? I hope. IDEK.) So is Nancy Grace. (What is the opposite of victory arms?)
In other news, Hurricane Irene passed directly over without so much as causing the clock on my microwave to reset, but towns a bit North and East of here were reporting 100% of CL&P customers without power, and last time I checked, a lot of places were still hovering around 50%. There are many random people staying with my neighbors, and my mother came over yesterday so that she could check her e-mail.
healingmirth: textual victory arms: "omgyay" (\o/)
Lil C just gave the best explanation ever of why the people who suck at hip hop do so. It almost makes up for having to listen to Mary say "in the pocket" yet again.
healingmirth: Neil Patrick Harris as Barney with a six-pack of beer (NPH)
I think this year's top ten is more consistently good than last season's, but last season had bigger personalities. Consistently good is not engaging enough, but thankfully the choreographers continue to make up for it with great routines. (Enabled by the skill level of the dancers, as I'm sure Nigel would point out.)

yeah, this got a little live-bloggy )
healingmirth: Delahoy from the Unusuals, unimpressed (unusuals - delahoy)
I feel like this might as well be my default icon now. I haven't used the Deadpool one on a while, because this keeps beating it out for mood-appropriateness.
So I'm catching up on White Collar, and apparently TPTB decided to address that thing they did that pissed off most of fandom, and anyone else paying attention. With the worst ADR ever, seriously. Way to unintentionally hang a lamp on the exposition. It made me sad for Mozzie.
I think I am slightly mad at the world today, to the extent that not even Jesse Tyler Ferguson on SYTYCD made up for it. I am not much of a critic of fanvids, mostly because people vid to songs that I am not cool enough to have known beforehand. It turns out that I have Feelings about how some songs should be vidded. Who knew?
But oh, man, did Jesse Tyler Ferguson try to make the world a happier, better place today. He is a more-than-acceptable substitute for Shankman. Opinions? I do enjoy the performance critiques from fellow viewers than the useful-to-dancers technique critiques. I don't really have Things worth saying about SYTYCD. I have decided that rather than blaming the stage, I am going to blame the director for my lack of engagement with the performances, because I hate the camera work more than anything else. Dear people who understand television - am I correct in blaming the director for choosing which shots make it to the broadcast? Also: I spent a lot of time laughing in incredulity or embarrassment at the TV tonight. Also: I like Jess about a hundred times better when he's dancing than when he's talking.
healingmirth: Chekov from ST:AOS: "Can do that" (can do)
So, top four on American Idol, and top five on America's Best Dance Crew. I think they sent the wrong people home, but if I'd really cared, I'd have voted. (The converse is not true, in case you're going to try to draw a conclusion from my DWTS voting patterns.)

I wouldn't say I'm really enjoying ABDC, but I am watching it in a timely manner, which is more than I can say about almost everything else I've recording this spring, and I'm not fast-forwarding through the routines like I am on DWTS.

I saw Rize when it was released on DVD, either five or six years ago. I think at that point, Dancing with the Stars had premiered, but maybe So You Think You Can Dance had not? This was definitely in the period before I had Opinions about dance, and my dance experience was limited to watching some friends' recitals, my own very short-lived dance class attendance, and watching Center Stage once. After a few seasons of Lil' C, (and Russel, and the chick from SYTYCD Canada who we will not discuss) I think I have a better appreciation for what Street Kings are doing this season on ABDC, and I'm vaguely curious to rewatch Rize and see what I get out of it now.


Unrelated, for Netflix peoples: The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Easy A, and Kick-Ass are all available for instant viewing now. Among other things, I'm sure, but those all popped up on my recommendations. Also Seasons 1 & 2 of Sons of Anarchy.

(also, five seasons of Rescue Me, which I mean to start watching every time I see a commercial, but never do)

Mostly, I need to return Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake, More than a Game, and Milk, because I am just never going to watch them, and I'd really like to move on to Deadwood.
healingmirth: Abby from NCIS looking skeptical (abby)
I have had a very posting-in-communities evening. For me, at least.

a poll about Yuletide at [livejournal.com profile] yuletide and a post anticipating Live to Dance at [community profile] dance_on_tv, which you should join, if you haven't yet.

I am really glad, though I feel guilty about this, that the wave of recs from yuletide are over with, because I could barely look at my LJ flist without my eyes glazing over, but didn't want to move yuletide off my default view in case something non-rec and interesting was posted. I feel like I missed some legit entries in there this week.
In an occurrence that I doubt will ever happen again, Frank Iero's tweets summed up my New Years Eve...

#1: Whoa new kids on the block, the back street boys, kesha and ryan seacrest all on one stage!? What a fuckin loser convention. Happy new year!

#2: Jeez nivea is all over this holiday like stink on farts.


I was home with TV rather than in Times Square, but I could have been in Times Square if I'd really wanted to be.

Carson Daly, looking eerily like Dick Clarke, definitely won the evening in terms of quality of show on the broadcast networks, but I recorded Kathy Griffin and Anderson Cooper, and it was the funniest thing I've seen on TV in a looong time. It was a solid hour of Kathy being inappropriate and Anderson saying "no, no, that's not true," and chuckling nervously. So awesome.

I know I've been living under a rock re: MCR, but I was very surprised to see them show up on my network television, and really need to buy that album before a few years pass by, as is my habit.
Also, as I don't think I've mentioned, I fixed my old computer like a total grownup and with significant input from google, and suddenly I have bookmarks and saved vids and whatnot from like three years ago. My love for Counting Crows pretty much knows no bounds, and there was a time when [personal profile] synecdochic's Recovering the Satellites Sam/Cam stories were my favorite thing in the world (they're still way up there, but my fannish world is so bewilderingly large now...) and anyway, I found her Satellites vid, and it made me happy to remember that she had created it.
And now off to keep up with day two of New Year's resolutions, which were to do the push-ups and sit-ups which are well within my physical ability but not my will-power, and to Write Something OMG.
healingmirth: Jon stewart as an old-timey radio broadcaster (jon stewart)
I have a coworker who is a comic fanboy, to levels that ought to be entirely inappropriate for his job in our workplace, except for the fact that there are so many dysfunctional things about our workplace that this doesn't even register.

This isn't relevant to anything, except for that we've bonded over the fact that neither of us understand why they're making a Thor movie, and that was a conversation I never expected to have at work.
This Weekend in TV, I caught up on a month of The Daily Show (and watched the rally) and then watched the second half of SYTYCD Canada Season Three.

SYTYCD Canada ended more or less how I expected it to. There was some good stuff there, and everyone whose dancing irritated me was gone before top ten, for which I was thankful.

this cut tag mostly hides links to videos from this season )
I'm not sure how tagging on Hulu works, but mousing over the episodes of Chase gives me the "awful writing" tag, as well as "actually good" and "great cast"
I carved a cat jack-o-lantern, cheating from a stencil, and on the wrong shape pumpkin, really, but whatever, it was awesome. Doorbell rang twice, but the good news is, didn't run out of candy. Happy Halloween!
healingmirth: Abby from NCIS looking skeptical (abby)
Travis Wall's choreography for DWTS was tonight. Nick Lazzarini was one of the dancers. Other than being pleased that people continue to pay them to work, nothing else noteworthy there.

Oh hooold on a second. Is that Mark dancing with Kylie Minogue? Haha, and breathing with, uh, intensity, in the space behind/between Tom Bergeron and Kylie in the closeup interview afterward.

I like Bristol Palin much more than I like Audrina Patridge, not that this should be surprising.

Commercials inform me that Skating with the Stars premieres in November. I can't remember what the British show was/is called, but I bet our version is worse.
In light of all the hubbub this week about the GQ pictures of Lea Michele and the Glee cast, her Dove commercial duet with Julie Andrews' Sound of Music footage is sort of frightening. Might just be frightening on its own merit. At least it's not Barbra.
I have a meeting in the morning which will be a new and exciting circumstance in which to disappoint my boss. I don't know if I'm somehow genetically predisposed to work better at night than during the day, but whatever tendencies I had were set in concrete by grad school. I look forward to the day that I will be able to write grant narrative or pitch documents in the office during the day, but that might have to wait for a day where my office isn't upstairs from a nursery school.
healingmirth: Glitch from Tin Man: "o.O" (Glitch)
There's a Top Gear marathon of every episode ever starting tonight at midnight. I don't actually need to watch every episode ever, particularly not the chopped-up versions that air in the US, but I think I'm going to have a hard time keeping away from it. However, starting this season they're actually airing the entire episodes, which is awesome. This should be very exciting for people like me who are too lazy to shake the internet until the unabridged versions all out.
I don't usually watch Top Chef. Top Chef Masters and Chopped are more my type of cooking competition, because they are relatively free of drama llamas. If someone who regularly watches Top Chef would like to comment on the WTFery that is Seth on Top Chef: Just Desserts, with respect to whether Top Chef usually casts for stuff like that, I would be interested to know. I'm not sure whether I can tune in to watch him again. Also, Yigit reminds me of someone, I think, but it could just be that he reminds me of every J. Crew model and CW star from the 90s.
I am continuing to watch SYTYCD Canada. Mostly I am perplexed by this Blake McGrath/Mia Michaels situation/rumor/whatever. I have to imagine that it started with a drunken mistake following a taping of the show and that it will end in tears, probably on both their parts, but perhaps I am wrong.

I think at this point last season, I had people who I looked forward to watching, and this season, I sort of don't. I don't know if that's casting or audition pool, or what, but I think after this season is over I'm not going to remember any of the contemporary dancers, with the possible exceptions of Danielle and Sebastian. Also, I like Amanda a lot better now that someone else is doing her makeup. Right, they're all lovely dancers and appear to be very nice people, but it's just not working for me.

And, because I started typing this up days ago... this season on Dancing With the Stars: Unexpected nostalgia for <i>Oz</i>, the return of father-son competition, Bristol Palin has an identity crisis, and I cheer for yet another Disney star. Also two - TWO! - MTV reality stars take the floor. Why? )

So, that's posted. On to less-rambly things!