Woke Up Hyper...
Nov. 22nd, 2003 09:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sisabetI can't settle down. I think I'm gonna go walk the dog instead of drink more coffee.
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drdawn did the 10 Unpopular Opinion thingy and it cracked me up cause one of her "unpopular" opinions was that she finds Methos hotter than Duncan. Dawn's exposure to the Highlander fandom has pretty much been sockkpuppett, kamilaa, and elynross, and Dawn was trying to explain to me last night that part of Methos's allure was that she thought he was kind of ignored for Duncan. Now she is re-evaluating her stand on the Duncan/Methos hot-o-meter.
I watched "28 Days Later" with Dawn last night and I enjoyed it. I was expecting, based on the trailers, I Am Legend, and I was actually glad that it wasn't The Omega Man, cause that would have been much more boring. As it was, Dawn stayed awake for the entire movie - which is very rare, and at one point she had to get up and pace around the room during a particularly tense scene.
Earlier in the day I made some comment about something freaking me out and Dawn criticized me - said I freak out too easily. Which pissed me off, cause I don't think I freak out any more than the average person, I'm just honest about it. If I'm freaked - I'll tell ya. And Dawn was all "I haven't been freaked out since 2001...yada, yada, yada, bullshit, bullshit bullshit."
So she is pacing around the room and the movie is getting really good and:
Me: Oh!!! [points at Dawn] You are sooo freaked out right now!
Dawn: I am not! I just felt like moving around right now. [Something unexpected happens on the TV. Dawn screams and flops back into her chair]
I maintain that Dawn freaks out as much as I do. I am just more in touch with my inner freak. Hee, my inner freak touching, hee. I also crack my self up.
So I want to do this 10 opinion thingy memey thang, but I suck because I am easily influenced and swayed and I have no idea if my opinions are popular, or unpopular or whatever, cause I really don't leave LJ anymore. I have no barometer for the fandoms at large.
So I present Opinions I Have please note all opinions expressed wherein are subject to change without notice, and where I say "get the fuck over it" it is merely a gentle suggestion as you can choose to get the fuck over or not get the fuck over anything as you see fit. My opinion is that you should, in fact, get the fuck over it.
1. If a man is pretty, he becomes a better actor 10 fold in my eyes. Likewise if a man is a good actor, he becomes 10 times prettier in my eyes. If a woman is pretty, than I hate her until she proves that she is either cool or kicks ass in a way that appeals to me. Ways that appeal to me: Lilah. Ways that don't appeal to me: Sidney Bristow.
2. No other recording artist has emerged since 1999 with one half of the talent, creativity, and honesty of Eminem. And he is only getting better.
3. James Marsters can look very nice indeed, if well lit, but I don't find him attractive. He looks used to me and I like 'em a bit fresher.
4. I am so very glad that there is a show called Angel and not a show called Spike. I don't think there is anyway Spike could be a solid lead, I think his character would become even more caricaturist and the scenery would be chewed to death in the pilot alone. I think Angel is is much more fascinating and a lot of that is because of the subtlety of Angel's character. Also he is hot.
5. Violence is sexy. Violence is also horrific. If you make horrific violence sexy, I will be awake for a week. I will also be your bitch ( see also:astrolat's Uninvited).
6. In my head, Angel, Brian Kinney, and Dr Dre are all pretty much the same person. They are all imposing men who rarely smile, they are all driven, they are all passionate about something, and they all have young blond twinks that made them over into Batman. I have a kink for that.
7. Spike tried to rape Buffy and it was in character.
8. Marti Noxon is not the devil incarnate. She is a very talented woman who gave us the fucked up family values of the fanged-four and who was saddled with a huge responsibility and an impossible task season six. Yeah, there were anvils and clunky metaphors, but it was still the best thing on broadcast TV, so get the fuck over it already. Which brings me to # 9
9. David Fury is Spike's best friend. He actually believes that he is Spike - this can only mean good things for the character. If Spike was real, he would fuck with his fans' heads as well - it is too easy when people start freaking out over every. little. thing. Neither of these boys can resist. Take a step back, look at the history of the show and fucking chill.
10. Brian Kinney should never have to tell anyone that he loves them. Some people just can't say it and you know what? They are still able to lead happy, productive lives and give and receive love. They just can't say it. It's not that unusual. Get the fuck over it as well.
So
drdawn did the 10 Unpopular Opinion thingy and it cracked me up cause one of her "unpopular" opinions was that she finds Methos hotter than Duncan. Dawn's exposure to the Highlander fandom has pretty much been sockkpuppett, kamilaa, and elynross, and Dawn was trying to explain to me last night that part of Methos's allure was that she thought he was kind of ignored for Duncan. Now she is re-evaluating her stand on the Duncan/Methos hot-o-meter. I watched "28 Days Later" with Dawn last night and I enjoyed it. I was expecting, based on the trailers, I Am Legend, and I was actually glad that it wasn't The Omega Man, cause that would have been much more boring. As it was, Dawn stayed awake for the entire movie - which is very rare, and at one point she had to get up and pace around the room during a particularly tense scene.
Earlier in the day I made some comment about something freaking me out and Dawn criticized me - said I freak out too easily. Which pissed me off, cause I don't think I freak out any more than the average person, I'm just honest about it. If I'm freaked - I'll tell ya. And Dawn was all "I haven't been freaked out since 2001...yada, yada, yada, bullshit, bullshit bullshit."
So she is pacing around the room and the movie is getting really good and:
Me: Oh!!! [points at Dawn] You are sooo freaked out right now!
Dawn: I am not! I just felt like moving around right now. [Something unexpected happens on the TV. Dawn screams and flops back into her chair]
I maintain that Dawn freaks out as much as I do. I am just more in touch with my inner freak. Hee, my inner freak touching, hee. I also crack my self up.
So I want to do this 10 opinion thingy memey thang, but I suck because I am easily influenced and swayed and I have no idea if my opinions are popular, or unpopular or whatever, cause I really don't leave LJ anymore. I have no barometer for the fandoms at large.
So I present Opinions I Have please note all opinions expressed wherein are subject to change without notice, and where I say "get the fuck over it" it is merely a gentle suggestion as you can choose to get the fuck over or not get the fuck over anything as you see fit. My opinion is that you should, in fact, get the fuck over it.
1. If a man is pretty, he becomes a better actor 10 fold in my eyes. Likewise if a man is a good actor, he becomes 10 times prettier in my eyes. If a woman is pretty, than I hate her until she proves that she is either cool or kicks ass in a way that appeals to me. Ways that appeal to me: Lilah. Ways that don't appeal to me: Sidney Bristow.
2. No other recording artist has emerged since 1999 with one half of the talent, creativity, and honesty of Eminem. And he is only getting better.
3. James Marsters can look very nice indeed, if well lit, but I don't find him attractive. He looks used to me and I like 'em a bit fresher.
4. I am so very glad that there is a show called Angel and not a show called Spike. I don't think there is anyway Spike could be a solid lead, I think his character would become even more caricaturist and the scenery would be chewed to death in the pilot alone. I think Angel is is much more fascinating and a lot of that is because of the subtlety of Angel's character. Also he is hot.
5. Violence is sexy. Violence is also horrific. If you make horrific violence sexy, I will be awake for a week. I will also be your bitch ( see also:
astrolat's Uninvited). 6. In my head, Angel, Brian Kinney, and Dr Dre are all pretty much the same person. They are all imposing men who rarely smile, they are all driven, they are all passionate about something, and they all have young blond twinks that made them over into Batman. I have a kink for that.
7. Spike tried to rape Buffy and it was in character.
8. Marti Noxon is not the devil incarnate. She is a very talented woman who gave us the fucked up family values of the fanged-four and who was saddled with a huge responsibility and an impossible task season six. Yeah, there were anvils and clunky metaphors, but it was still the best thing on broadcast TV, so get the fuck over it already. Which brings me to # 9
9. David Fury is Spike's best friend. He actually believes that he is Spike - this can only mean good things for the character. If Spike was real, he would fuck with his fans' heads as well - it is too easy when people start freaking out over every. little. thing. Neither of these boys can resist. Take a step back, look at the history of the show and fucking chill.
10. Brian Kinney should never have to tell anyone that he loves them. Some people just can't say it and you know what? They are still able to lead happy, productive lives and give and receive love. They just can't say it. It's not that unusual. Get the fuck over it as well.
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Date: 2003-11-22 09:13 am (UTC)I don't know about the Eminem thing, my friend. I think you might needs to listen to more Gillian Welch.
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Date: 2003-11-22 09:27 am (UTC)1. Pretty. I like pretty men and pretty women, but they don't necessarily have to act. They just have to stand there or lie there or pose or whatever. If they *can* act, so much the better. OTOH, I think some ugly people can act their asses off as well, and they don't get prettier, which is a plus, really.
2. Eminem. He's this generation's Ezra Pound. I think he's a poetic, rhythmic genius. He's also an asshole, but hey, ya gotta take the bad with the good, and who cares.
3. James Marsters. He's cute, has good cheekbones, chews scenery, and way too shrimpy to turn me on. I like 'em big. Take that any way you want. But he's still cute.
4. Mmmmm... Angel.
5. Violence turns me on, too. I won't be anyone's bitch though. I want them to be *my* bitch. Is that so wrong? That I'm an ironclad alpha underneath all this sweetness and light?
6. Angel, Brian Kinney and Dr. Dre. I don't have the insight into the three of them, since I'm not exposed to the latter two as much as you are; however, I'd go along with Angel being Batman, and the blond twink thing. Sure.
7. Amen, and it was so cool because it was... horrific! and in character.
8. Marti Noxon isn't evil enough to be the Devil Incarnate, and she still pays taxes, so I can't hate her that much. I agree with the get the fuck over it sentiment, and would like to add my congratulations to her for a job *done*.
9. Not only is David Fury really Spike? He's ballsy as hell, and if I were to ever forget the pain of childbirth, I'd consider bearing his--and Joss Whedon's, but! since I won't ever forget the pain of childbirth, this is idle talk.
10. And if they do say that they love you? It's usually because they want to fuck you and they don't really mean it anyway.
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Date: 2003-11-22 10:45 am (UTC)Hear, hear. I couldn't agree more. Well, actually, I could, if I knew what OTOH meant.
I'm not a good judge of actors because a good handful of them are pretty, and my critical gene automatically shuts off when they're on screen. But the less-than-pretty actors get my full attention, for better or worse. The good ones catch my notice and become more appealing, though not necessarily prettier. Case in point: Paul Giamatti.
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Date: 2003-11-22 01:16 pm (UTC)BTW, FWIW, AFAIK, JMGLO, YMMV.
By the way, for what it's worth, as far as I know, just my goddess-like opinion, your mileage may vary.
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Date: 2003-11-22 01:08 pm (UTC)That makes so. much. sense. And explains a *lot* about my reaction to him. "Lose Yourself": it's the new "In a Station of the Metro." Except with, um, a lot more words.
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Date: 2003-11-22 01:14 pm (UTC)LOL
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Date: 2003-11-24 01:32 pm (UTC)Dawn protests her innocence - how was she to know that Duncan was not the overwhelming favorite, given the company that she keeps?
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Date: 2003-11-29 09:58 pm (UTC)Okay, I have to admit that I really, really wanted and expected Brian to say it to Justin at the end of season 3...
That said, you've just put this into perspective for me. I understand it -- because I'm one of those people. I just never realized how much I identify this Brian in this way until now. I still want him to say it... but I remember all the times I've forced myself to say it to various people just because I didn't want to hurt their feelings, and it seemed so stupid, meaningless, and forced. I imagine that's what Brian would feel like if he made himself say it.
Wow.. I wish I wrote fanfic, because I think I could do a pretty good Brian POV for a "Brian says 'I Love You'" fic. I've never read one that quite captured all of this.