Televisions in their stomachs, now that's evolution.*

I don't have a TV, and haven't since 2001. (Oh, Buddha, that's a long while ago.) Apart from the occasional TV session when over at my folks', I've been using the internet to keep in touch with TV shows. It's been working out well, especially back in Barcelona - where I did have a TV, but never watched it, except for ages old House - where Victor or Kyra would lend me DVDs (Lost, Heroes and Queer as Folk, plus a smatering of Bones).

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But people! Why didn't anyone tell me Summer Glau was in an ep of CSI?!?

I need to do so much tracking-down-of-episodes, it's ridiculous.

Also? Preliminary search failed - utterly failed - to bring up anything resembling SonoTORIous. Why?!?

I'm also curious as to what John Simm's been busying himself with these days. Oi, lanky! Get back on-screen! Forget about theatre! Have a talking-to with David Tennant while you're at it! Keep him away from theatre too! ETA: *phew* He's back in cinema, Tuesday, and a TV show out in 2012 (the mind boggles, it really does).

And now I'm going to bed. 1:30 am. *sigh*

ETA: The Time Traveler's Wife movie coming out in June! *squee*


* The Master in Dr Who, quoted in JSimm Org

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.*

Today seemed to be an exercise in masochistic tourism. I did go to Noordwijk - whci takes ages, what with the walking to the train, the actual train, and a 40-plus minute bus ride.

It was 4 degrees C and extremely windy. Like, "pushing you backwards" windy. Walking in this weather was wonderfully exhilerating - even though I looked like a crazy woman - and I really did enjoy it. Until I had to turn back and it began to rain. Freezing cold raind pelted at you at high speeds whilst you struggle agaisnt the wind is a different kind of exhilerating.

Also? The beach was closed (wtf?!) as was the awesome pancake house I'd been aiming for. The result was me, wet and cold, wandering around a near-empty town, having a disapointing pancake in another place, and then waiting half an hour in the pouring rain and wind and wee degrees for the bus back to Leiden.

I took all my entertainment books too (notebook, diary and novel), but since there's no place to just sit - and the beach was closed, did I mention? - I only managed to scribble down "Pancakes!" in my diary and giggle as the mispeling vyrus took hold of Thursday's world.

Suckety suck suck.

Tomorrow's February, so I'm officially starting my internship - though I really don't want to 'cause it's Friday an' all and my superviser hasn't emailed regarding the forms. I might get my ass down to a cinema here in Den Haag, now that I've finally discovered one. I'd like to watch Lust Caution, but my Mandarin isn't up to par (unless the entire movie dialogue is a string of imaginative insults) and I frown on reading Dutch subtitles.

I might try to track down The Princess Bride Diaries... That's that funny one, with the narrator-commentary book one, yeah?


Links of the Day:
phdcomic's latest, "Why? Why??" is something I think we can all relate to ;)
Bioshock sounds bloody awesome. (Review at Zero Punctuation. The player takes the role of Jack, who aims to fight his way through Rapture, using weapons and plasmids that give him special powers such as telekinesis or the ability to electrify foes.
nowhack's Fanvid: Mary (Sylar, slight Mylar) features a fantastic song by Scissor Sisters


* Roger Miller