...because:

a: supernatural's last episode is this week SQUEE!
2: heroes last episodes is next week AAAIIE!
f: my heart is being eaten alive by my new fandom obsession.
98: i had to tell someone about how many layers of thermal underwear i was wearing in bed last night.

So, i am going to be posting this, checking back on a few pages of Flist to see how you all are, and answering old comments. Psych essay bedamned, tonight i... TAKE BACK THE INTERNET!! Rawr!

So, first things first, before my brain asplodes, i must tell you about the glorious love that is "Beauty & The Beast". Or as i know it, "Some Woman & OMG HIS SNOUT GSNARLG NNGSNRGF JFDSAUIH GAJ!"
The former may be catchier, but the latter is truest to my heart.

So yes, i have been spending the last month or so stuck to my television screen with drool, watching sweet heroic angstful Vincent battle the world above, prejudices against his look (what is going on there?? He's fucking gorgeous! The only thing he has to be worried about is being savaged by hoardes of fangirls on the streets of NY), and roars deliciously when he loses control. And inbetween i'm sure he sleeps sometimes, and washes (mmm), and probably eats but we've never seen him do it. Maybe the fangs make it messy. Anyway, for those that don't know this show it's an eighties modern reworking of the traditional fairy tale, played out in NY with Vincent as the Beast (Ron Perlman SQUEE!) living underneath the city in a secret network of tunnels where he is safe. Season one just got released on dvd, and i've just managed to order the rest of the seasons bootleg, so i don't have to wait for the officials to watch all the other eps. Whumping ahoy in season three, wheee!!

Iconnage:

Tags: batb, fandoms, icons
feeling: tired

I've just spent about an hour pissing around with various converters, and signing up to YouTube. I love how there are about five million alerts saying you can't upload copyright TV content, and i'm like "fra la la" click click click. "Upload copyrighted material illegally? Select 'yes'" ::clicks yes:: La la.
It's worth the criminality, you guys have to watch this clip from Simon&Simon, the first season dvd's of which i got last week. In case you don't know the show, they're brothers who own their own detective agency. One's hot and vulnerable (eee!), one's protective and battle-scarred (eee!), and they both ask each other "are you okay?" at least once an episode. AAAARGH! ::licks dvds::

In this snippet, AJ (the hot and vulnerable one) gets shot with a tranquiliser dart, and his brother Rick has to try and get both of them out of the zoo alive - basically meaning he manhandles AJ all over the place and tries desperately to keep him quiet. And there's leg entanglement at the beginning! I said leg entanglement!!



I think the "saywhat?" that AJ mutters when they're faced with the 'doggy' is so adorable, he sounds so confused and trusting, he's really trying to understand what's going on. And it's also worth noting to anyone who's not seen the show before that they're pretty tender with each other normally, and Rick really is pushed to extremes in this situation, even going to the extent of elbowing poor AJ in the stomach to get him to stay quiet.

And you know what, there are eight more seasons of this fantastic relationship. I hardly know where to put myself, really.

Tags: fandoms, simon&simon
feeling: ecstatic
hearing: aj's drugged-up laughter

HOLY SQUIRREL SHAT! (come to think of it, i don't think i've ever seen squirrel-shit. I'd not know a holy squirrel shit if it hit me on the head! Although i imagine it'd be solid gold or something, or with a halo, so it'd be hard to miss... what the hell am i going on about??)

I just watched the first two episodes of Heroes, and MY.GOD, i can't be expected to sleep after that, that was amazing!! I can however be expected to giggle insanely for two hours straight, run loops around my room, and chitter at LimeWire in a crazed attempt to encourage it to download faster, faster i say! Hiro is utterly fantastic, the Indian chap has the most relaxing voice ever, the druggy is yummy, the cheerleader is just sorta okay (which beats 'hateable' anyday), the blonde woman i've seen elsewhere and is the most beautiful vision of gorgeousness ever, the sensitive brother is such an amazingly wonderful representation of hope, and.. and... ::combusts::
I am in shock.
So let's move on.

I've had an okay Christmas. My parents surprised me with an LG Lightscribe DVD Writer, which i adore. My boss at work surprised me with a lack of raise, meaning i am now officially the lowest paid worker in THE WORLD EVER. Which i do not adore. My most fantastic friend silverhammerism surprised me with a kick-ass cowboy hat, and a little compass pendant with the motto "Hazard yet forward!" inscribed on it. I shall never take it off. And siluria made me this utterly edible Hugh Jackman icon i'm using, with which i am in love.
The fandom mayhem maintains, and recently knights_13 did her pimping duty and got me well and truly hooked on Kung Fu: The Legend Continues. Sweet crack. knights_13, i am at your mercy. May i present to you all the most manhandling i have seen in a show so far, in just one episode:

S1, Ep8, 'Challenge'

I've also been watching lots of The Champions, Highway To Heaven, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, and am eagerly anticipating the arrival of the first season of Simon & Simon in the post. Brothers! Brothers caring for each other! wistful_fever, break out the incest fic! Woohoo!! Which brings us to Supernatural, which is also arriving shortly in the post from amerikay. Although, for 2007, i would quite like the slash thoughts to not be deluding my brain night and day. When you start slashing father/son relationships (don't look at me like that knights_13, it's not my fault, they keep touching each other!!), that's when you start to worry.

I've been making websites, one of which was for myrebelcat, and you can see it here. You really should check out her fiction, she writes excellently. Putting her fics on the site has been quite a distraction!
Oh, and i dare say it's worth mentioning that i got my results for my first (9-month long) Psych course a few weeks ago, Exploring Psychology. I got a Distinction. Oh how i rock. :D I haven't been that wound-up about an exam score since my GCSE's! Next course starts Febuary.

So, happy New Year all. I'm going to settle down to watch LimeWire download eps 3-6 of Heroes, and play Diddy Kong Racing on the Nintendo64 i bought myself for Christmas. Whale Bay is a killer, i swear i get more overexcited at this game than any of those newfangled consoles they have these days. :P
Let's finish with two rather random icons. The one who can identify the fandom for the right-hand icon wins an emotionally truamatised superhero with a strategically ripped nylon suit. Mmm.

Tags: fandoms, heroes, kf:tlc, psychology degree
feeling: awake
hearing: Diddy Kong Racing track

Yes, this is my mum in a huge plastic bag. i was in bed today, watching Red Dwarf and keeping warm, and she walked in to ask me if i needed it for anything before she threw it away. i said no. she sat down, and proceeded to climb into the bag, roll around on the floor proclaiming "its very noisy in here!!", then struggle onto her front and crawl around like some kind of giant plastic mollusc.

In less 'parents in plastic bags' related news: i am teetering perilously close to becoming involved in Deadwood, I Spy, Muncle, Numb3rs and NCIS. Any more fandoms out there i will be helpless to resist? Because hey, i'm already obsessing to the point of wanting to blatter my head into the nearest wall, so why not join the fun? i shall write a book someday: 'Fandoms: the tragedy and the triumph - how my obsessions led to the enforced surgical removal of a television set from my face'. Woe.

Oh, in respect to my OU Psychology Degree, there's been a slightly change of plan. I've been given permission (after a slightly scary phonecall that morphed into an interview before i knew what was going on) to skip the first years course and go on to a Level2 course, Exploring Pschology, which i am looking forward to faaaar more! It starts February, and in the meantime i'm studying a short course called Life In The Oceans: Exploring Our Blue Planet. It's great, and would be even better if distractions wouldn't keep getting in the way of study. ::glares accusingly at shiny new huge dilectible CRT flat-screen monitor:: aw. i can't hate you. you're gorgeous.

Tags: family, fandoms, psychology degree
feeling: little bit weeeey little bit wuurgh
hearing: david mead - new mexico (oh the cheese!)