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| I don't know if you all have seen this icon by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) letsey_x, but I adore it and had to share it...  ... | |
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| I saw the first episode of Heroes season 3 yesterday at Comic Con, and...I’m cautiously optimistic. There was promise and there was also heart-sinking unpleasantness. I’ll explain why below the cut, but I will say one non-spoilery thing: smooth, calculating, unstoppable S1 Sylar is back. And right at this moment, that’s all I needed. So...I don’t know. There’s an awful lot of “WTF???” in this episode, particularly with Mohinder, and there wasn’t enough gut-grabbing awesomeness for me to forget about season 2. However, Sylar’s intensely creepy scenes rocked, and the other spoilery character awesomeness made me actually bounce up and down in my seat. In the end, “cautious optimisim” is the best description of how I feel. It certainly looks like it’s improving, but I’m going to have to see several episodes of increasing coolness before I’ll be completely back on board. | |
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| So I was just going to check my flist quickly before I settled in to write a bit, but in Neil Gaiman's latest post, he'd added some widgets for his Last.fm account. And I've never bothered to pay attention to that site before, but the fact that one of his most frequently-listened-to songs right now was by Brenda Kahn made me check it out. And I ended up signing up for an account. And...man, talk about something that could completely suck away hours of my life. I've been testing it, playing really obscure bands in Winamp to see if it can identify them. Jetenderpaul, a Kansas City band that hasn't made a record since 2002? Check. Jale, a Canadian group that I think broke up before the turn of the century? Check. The ultimate test: Gone Daddy Finch, a Toledo band that we loved in college 15 years ago? CHECK. I'm freakin' impressed. (And in a weird moment, one of the top listeners for GDF is a guy who lived in my dorm who used to write and perform his own songs. I need to get a tape deck that will connect to a computer to allow me to make MP3s of the stuff he did. The politically active part of my flist would enjoy "New World Order Limosine" in particular - but I digress.) My flist is so filled with Moonlight posts right now that I feel like I need to post SOMETHING related to Heroes fandom. So...here is something. | |
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| The head of our company, who is originally from New York City, is on the phone with a medical researcher who is multiple time zones away. The man is apparently unhappy about something, and my boss is trying to calm him down. He keeps saying the man's name over and over. I swear to God, his name is Nirand.
My mind is now busily creating real-life crack in which Nirand is calling my boss and begging him to fly back home this weekend and talk some sense into Mohinder. | |
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| So resol37 tagged me to do this meme: List ten fictional characters you would have sex with (in no particular order) and tag five people to do the same. Don't blame me if you need brain bleach or a bunk after seeing this. (OK, technically, I suppose that since I'm the one who bared my soul, and searched for all these pictures, and put them in my PhotoBucket account, and inserted them in this post, I'm the one to blame. But I've decided that I am actually totally blameless in this. Besides, my bunk is soundproofed, so I can't hear anyone's complaining.) Oh, man. I swear, everyone on my flist is either traveling right now or has already been tagged (or, I suspect, isn't interested in memes). But I will tag aelora , nothingtosay , barhaven , invderlava , sinemoras , and ghagiel . (Yes, I realize that is 6 people. See my previous sentence re: travel/already tagged/not interested. I figure picking a sixth person increases the chance that someone will do it by 20%.) | |
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| So I was explaining to my best friend, via text message because she doesn't have internet access, the things that were said by people connected with "Heroes" early last summer to the effect that the cockroaches seen around Sylar might turn out to be a physical manifestation of someone giving him help (an idea which I hope and pray fell by the wayside before they started filming season 2). She then went on this monologuing rampage:
Her: They remind me of Madagascar hissing cockroaches, which just makes the idea of them giving him help even funnier to me.
Hiss...Sylar, you are special.
Hiss...I know you are in the sewer but you aren't a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
Hiss...that giant rat isn't your friend!
Hiss...Mohinder is your soulmate. Don't kill him just hang him from the ceiling. Hissssss
Me: Oh my God. What the hell???
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| You know, I had been enjoying this season of Heroes until this week's episode, which...actually, I didn't even hate it, because that would imply it had aroused some sort of emotion in me. So I thought, well, if you didn't like anything about it, what would you have done differently? But for the most part, my brain cared so little that I couldn't come up with anything. So then I thought, well, if you could have rewritten any scenes from this season, what would they be? And thus, this piece of crack was born... Okay...so it's only mild Hoyay...but at least there's Mr. Muggles! | |
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| Anyone have any recommendations for where I can get some nice Mohinder icons? I'm feeling the need to expand my icon selection a bit . I might not have to go to the work meeing in Las Vegas. Whee! (I'm not a gambler, I can't afford any shows right now, and this means that instead of running from 7:30 am to 9:00 pm for 3 days, I can spend those days in the office in almost complete quiet and sleep in my own bed.)
Also, I mentioned the new pictures of Zachary Quinto bowling to my best friend (who allegedly finds slash disturbing). It resulted in this conversation: | |
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| Just because...I thought I would post some of the Heroes-related motivators I've done at Television Without Pity. I enjoy them, so hopefully someone else out there will too. I'm trying out the Scrapbook function of LJ because it makes thumbnails automatically--not sure I like it, though.
If you aren't familiar with this forum at TWoP, it's where people create "motivational posters" that are TV-related, and funny. I tend to do all Heroes-related ones, partly because my love for the show exploded with the last 3 episodes and partly because I've found an excellent source of Heroes screencaps.
I did these particular motivators after thinking, "What kind of regrets would the characters have about their actions this season?" Warning: there is Hoyay of the Syhindlar and Petrellibro variety in the last three, so proceed at your own risk. :0)
Psycho-taunting = bad idea jeans.
Honestly, what the f*ck was he thinking?
I've just never liked Parkman.
When he stabbed Sylar in the spine, what he was really trying to say was "I love you."
He looks so little and helpless in this picture, I almost feel sorry for him. Yeah, I have a thing for Sylar. Shut up.
This picture just gets more disturbing every time I look at it.
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