Who will probably soon be drowning in Origami crabs.*

[bending_sickle]

I sollemnly swear the entry below is acceptably spoiler-free. Actors are mentioned, as are their character's ethnic origin. Tha's all.

If I actually had any remainig will-power or energy - I feels sick as a dog, boyo - I'd squee about Heroes. I've been meaning to for a while, despite having only watched two eps. (But man, sexy spoiler is damn sexy.)

What cannot wait - and only because I've got a couple tags open for it - is the major, supersonic squee that I squeed when I recognized Holt McCallany. I honestly had to pause the video and squee into my pillow for a while.

The squee-factor is mainly due to my having seen him ages ago, back in 2000, on Freedom (what a headache googleing that was, especially with the Bush-rise back then). I grew fond of the show, though it only had 8 episodes - don't know why. Btw, I really liked Bodhi Elfman in that show too. McCollany was also in Fight Club (trust me). He was Not-Jack's right-hand man (and you get to see him an uniformed-up in the last scene).

So yeah, I squeed like a little teenage girl. Until he spoke, 'cause the steaming entrails and hacked remains of what had been the Irish accent is nothing to squee about. And McCollany went to a bloody Irish school. Does he sound Irish? No, he sounds like an American with a thin, rather washed-out, veneer of Irish.

His lackeies are worse. Much worse. Gods, when the two of them are bickering with the door, it hurts to listen. One wee night in first year, Josie and I got through the madness that was Kappa (Physics assignments) by doing it all in a ridiculous Irish accent. We were loads better than them. Giggling, exhausted, physics-calculating university girls were better than paid (and somewhat accent-trained) actors. *sigh*

Speaking of recognizing folk, I can't shake the nagging suspicion that Adrian Pasdar (Nathan Petrelli) was the main character in [insert TV show name], about a guy who got the next-day's newspaper (apparently from a magical orange cat) and spent the day saving people listed as dead. Like Tru Calling with Eliza Dukshu, but without the morque. What's annoying is that I'm pretty sure he isn't - and I can't find any listing saying he is. But damn if Nathan hasn't always looked familiar. (My other option is that he played the wacky professor who investigated miracles with his trusty goth student, but again, lack of names.)

Meme via 45eugenia, methinks.

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
bending_sickle goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as midieval wench.
45eugenia tricks you! You get a scratched CD.
active_apathy tricks you! You get a rock.
evadne_noel gives you 3 dark green grape-flavoured jawbreakers.
fallen_iceangel gives you 14 light blue lime-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
katarinagram gives you 4 brown passionfruit-flavoured nuggets.
meaningofliff gives you 8 mauve cinnamon-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
moonie071 tricks you! You get a used tissue.
poisoned_sleep gives you 3 mauve licorice-flavoured jawbreakers.
bending_sickle ends up with 32 pieces of candy, a scratched CD, a rock, and a used tissue.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

Links of the Day:
There are none because bloody Firefox is fucking me over with the URL box, keeping it all empty or out-of-synch. You have no idea how annoying it's been just getting the above click URLs. *argh*
Except projectdownload. Click! Download! Help save the life of a very considerate person! Or just click for the hell of it! But click!
world_tourist
Article on future childhood-story staples, like Neil's The Wolves in the Walls
How to Iron Your Clothes, or "Men, and why there's no excuse anymore."
Listen to The Whistling Ghost, read by Dale Jarvis - "The story of a whistling ghost from the community of Cartwright, Labrador, Canada", North America, Earth, the Solar System.
What is "Heroes: Origins"

* Neil Gaiman, on Dave McKean's recent and urgent request for his film. Check out the crab.

Comments

[blizzardcake.livejournal.com]

omgomgomgomgomgomgomgomg!! The mental image of doing Kappa assignments with an Irish accent = WIN! And here I was thinking there was never a way to make it intersting xD (and wow, memories are now flooding back of that danged countdown of how many tries we had left :p)

lol, btw I hope you enjoyed the 8 mauve cinnamon-flavoured pieces of bubblegum I sent ;)

And here is something to make you feel a little less sick:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/tzej5u
(let me know if it doesn't work)

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

The link worked wonderfully: I feel less sick already! Thanks so much :)