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Normally I'd post some New Year's Resolutions, but I did that last year and pretty successfully completed most of them so I'm good on that. Plus, I've got a lot going on right now so I really don't need a to-do list. Instead, just in the spirit of feeling good, or trying to (fucking colds) I'm going to talk about what I loved about 2007, or at least, what I can remember.
Newsworthy things that made me happeeee -
Stephen Colbert: Well I *still* love him. Now I just love him more. Buy his book,"I am America and So Can You" or at least read it. Truly funny.
Larry Craig: Republican dipshit asshole asking for gay sex in a mens room? What's not to love? Bastard.
Michael Vick going to jail.
Drunk-driving celebrities going to jail. If only it had been real.
No more Karl Rove or Alberto Gonzalez.
Music some new, some old resdiscovered. Oh the joy!
Amy Winehouse (my kind of crazy bitch). Kay Starr and Peggy Lee. Regina Spektor (I have no problem with all the Brit girl singers invading) Watch her video for "Fidelity" it's adorable. Donovan used to creepy effect in the movie "Zodiac". David Bowie. Kat Deluna work-out music of the gods, if they needed to work out. The new Scissor Sisters CD and the new single "Nuthin' Better to Do" by Leann Rimes. Oh, forgot, girl groups like the Crystals and the Shangri-Las
A few of these inspired fic, as you might notice.
Movies OH GOODNESS (Clive Owen)-
I'm counting Casino Royale (technically '06 but on DVD '07). Bon Cop, Bad Cop Canadian silliness. Wilby Wonderful. Night Watch/Day Watch. Shoot 'Em Up! 3:10 to Yuma (the gayest gay since gay came to gay town). The Departed leaves me fucking spellbound and I hate crime movies. Waitress. Stranger Than Fiction. Infamous. Hot Fuzz.
Books (that aren't fanfiction, sadly, and usually not as good as the stuff online)-
The Great Mortality by John Kelly. A history of the Black Death, oh yeah. Lois Mc Master Bujold's Curse of Chalion series, though I miss the Vorkosigans. (Purchased but not yet read, His Dark Materials Trilogy. Not a lot of other books this year pleased me. I am picky.
What about TV you ask? Heh.
Due South love reignited with Season 3/4 given as a gift last Christmas. Dexter always and forever. Weirdly, NCIS any season after the first one. (I think it's because it is a show with actual character development, despite it's other flaws).
Greg/Nick on CSI the rest of that show this season has been a lot of WTF? Slings and Arrows just fucking brilliant writing. (Heroes, you sucked balls, if it weren't for Nathan/Peter I wouldn't even watch you). House, for making me feel sorry for Cutthroat Bitch and for House telling Wilson he loves him, even if it was for pain meds.
Miscellaneous--
Grown-up AUs for Harry Potter with Harry/Draco as feuding sexy sexy lovers. Snotty, aristocratic Draco really cheered me up this year. Though honestly, I have such a prep-school fic kink that I'm surprised I haven't read more stories of them in school.
Stanley Ray Kowalski. Nuff said.
That crazy footage of Elizabeth Taylor going "noooooooo"
Caramel Frappacinos
That friends and family now bring me slashy tidbits from movies they've watched
Champagne in a can, so not joking
Limo Secks
Leslie Hall and all the Kelly videos on Youtube
I'm sure there's more, but I think that's good for now. :)
Yay for coffee!!!! Now I'll leave you with this bit of silly--I'm gonna buy you a draaank
Newsworthy things that made me happeeee -
Stephen Colbert: Well I *still* love him. Now I just love him more. Buy his book,"I am America and So Can You" or at least read it. Truly funny.
Larry Craig: Republican dipshit asshole asking for gay sex in a mens room? What's not to love? Bastard.
Michael Vick going to jail.
Drunk-driving celebrities going to jail. If only it had been real.
No more Karl Rove or Alberto Gonzalez.
Music some new, some old resdiscovered. Oh the joy!
Amy Winehouse (my kind of crazy bitch). Kay Starr and Peggy Lee. Regina Spektor (I have no problem with all the Brit girl singers invading) Watch her video for "Fidelity" it's adorable. Donovan used to creepy effect in the movie "Zodiac". David Bowie. Kat Deluna work-out music of the gods, if they needed to work out. The new Scissor Sisters CD and the new single "Nuthin' Better to Do" by Leann Rimes. Oh, forgot, girl groups like the Crystals and the Shangri-Las
A few of these inspired fic, as you might notice.
Movies OH GOODNESS (Clive Owen)-
I'm counting Casino Royale (technically '06 but on DVD '07). Bon Cop, Bad Cop Canadian silliness. Wilby Wonderful. Night Watch/Day Watch. Shoot 'Em Up! 3:10 to Yuma (the gayest gay since gay came to gay town). The Departed leaves me fucking spellbound and I hate crime movies. Waitress. Stranger Than Fiction. Infamous. Hot Fuzz.
Books (that aren't fanfiction, sadly, and usually not as good as the stuff online)-
The Great Mortality by John Kelly. A history of the Black Death, oh yeah. Lois Mc Master Bujold's Curse of Chalion series, though I miss the Vorkosigans. (Purchased but not yet read, His Dark Materials Trilogy. Not a lot of other books this year pleased me. I am picky.
What about TV you ask? Heh.
Due South love reignited with Season 3/4 given as a gift last Christmas. Dexter always and forever. Weirdly, NCIS any season after the first one. (I think it's because it is a show with actual character development, despite it's other flaws).
Greg/Nick on CSI the rest of that show this season has been a lot of WTF? Slings and Arrows just fucking brilliant writing. (Heroes, you sucked balls, if it weren't for Nathan/Peter I wouldn't even watch you). House, for making me feel sorry for Cutthroat Bitch and for House telling Wilson he loves him, even if it was for pain meds.
Miscellaneous--
Grown-up AUs for Harry Potter with Harry/Draco as feuding sexy sexy lovers. Snotty, aristocratic Draco really cheered me up this year. Though honestly, I have such a prep-school fic kink that I'm surprised I haven't read more stories of them in school.
Stanley Ray Kowalski. Nuff said.
That crazy footage of Elizabeth Taylor going "noooooooo"
Caramel Frappacinos
That friends and family now bring me slashy tidbits from movies they've watched
Champagne in a can, so not joking
Limo Secks
Leslie Hall and all the Kelly videos on Youtube
I'm sure there's more, but I think that's good for now. :)
Yay for coffee!!!! Now I'll leave you with this bit of silly--I'm gonna buy you a draaank
