bending_sickle | Still going O

'Ello world. Remember all that stuff I was definately going to do? Ha! I left 3 hours later than I'd been planning, so the Popcatepetl was full, meaning I wandered about and eventually just sucked it up and had a coke at Burger King. I didn't read more than half of one article for my seminar, understanding next to nothing of it (which sucks because I have to teach this). So after writing in my diary at frickin' Burger King on a Saturday night - could I be more lame? - I scurried off home before the waterworks really started.

Taking a page from

45eugenia, let me list the happy shiny things I have to look forward to for tonight:

1) Friday Night Project with David Tennant.

2) ...supper? (I swear there was more happy shiny.)

One other thing which isn't so much Happy Shiny as "Holy shit can this boy act and oh my god that's horrible oh no I'm going to cry" is that I just might - gods of the internet willing - get to watch Locksmith 1x04, wherein John Simm plays Paul. (See previous post for linky-link.) Just so's you can get an idea of the situation, Paul's a homeless 19 (called it!) year-old who's a) homeless, b) hooked on heroin, and c) in debt. So he takes to ~~breaking~~ lock-jimmying and entering. Only in one "mission" he knocks a women so badly she ends up with loss of motor control in her left arm (and possibly other stuff). The husband is less than pleased, and when Paul goes back to the crime-scene/house, he gets a nasty surprise. Basically, torture, mental and physical. *eep* So yeah. That'll put a smile on my face. (Sarcasm! Sarcasm!)

I would've watched this earlier, except the download kept taking 2-3 hours and then up and dying at at most 30%. I did manage to watch some 20 minutes of the episode, which left me cringing and desperately needing more. Being of an obsessive nature (i.e. stubborn liek woah), I tried again and again to no avail. So I finally commented about it and

snowgrouse was an absolute doll - have I mentioned she's wonderful? - and spliced the episode into three bits. I've got Part 1 down, and Part 2 in some 20 minutes, Part 3 in round about an hour, if all goes well.

So while David Tennant makes me love people again, and John Barrowman makes me be happy again, and Zachary Quinto makes me feel like I have a vocabulary of a two-year old (a better dressed 2 year-old, though), John Simm just makes me go 0.0 Again and again, just *jaw drop* (Yeah, okay, David can act wonderfully too.) And in Locksmith he's all tied up on the floor and still, the acting is just exploding all over the place. Oh, Simm.

ETA: Part 2 just died. Why, internet gods, why?!?
ETA2: Part 3 just died. Whyyyyyy?!? "Could not read source file" my arse!

Links of the Day:
David Tennant: The good doctor - The most powerful actor in television is also, by all accounts, the nicest bloke in showbiz - by Tim Walker on The Independent - See what I mean?
Empire Presents: The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, with Doctor Who at #16, with it's best episode listed as Blink. Oh yeah! (The Simpsons is #1, BtVS is #2, Lost is #5, Friends is #7, X Files is #9, Spaced is #10 (Whoot!), Seinfield is #11, The Family Guy is #12, BSG is #13, Firefly is #14 (Double-whoot!), Heroes is #15 (Ignore the "James Lee can't speak Japanese" bit - he's totally learning it.) and you're going to have to puruse the rest yourself.)

marsh_lancaster Children In Need: LoM/A2A cast screencaps.

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snowgrouse on Locksmith 1x04 which I'm not watching right now because the universe it eeeeeevil! *frustrated*