MY HUSBAND HAS JUST, BY INDEPENDENT METHODS, DISCOVERED THE MUMFORD SONS AND PROCLAIMS HIMSELF TO BE IN LOVE WITH THEM. HE HASN'T EVEN HEARD LITTLE LION MAN YET. I AM EXCITED FOR HIS REACTION.

I realize it's sappy and obnoxious and SO TYPICAL but really, I kind of love him a lot. A LOT. BACK OF LADIEZ HE'S ALL MINE.

I think I might introduce him to The Avett Brothers next. 

 A conundrum, I has it. Because, see, the thing is, I watch Hawaii Five-0, right, and this AMAZING THING HAPPENED OK. AMAZING. 



(THIS THING)

And I only have a crappy gif, but for all the GLORIOUS HEART SHENANIGANS go see iam_space , she's got all the hookups.

So that happened, and it is, just, this joyful thing, and I am waiting with bated breath for all the SPECTACULAR fic that will come of it....

But I'm still all about the Doctor.



THIS MAN OWNS MY HEART. Until the fucking 23rd (WTF TOO LONG), I appear to be completely obsessed. I have to know who River Song is. I have theories but none of them are quite right (CURRENT FRONT RUNNER: She is somehow a manifestation/embodiment of the TARDIS itself? Because we know it has some sort of sentience, and we know that it is the only constant in the Doctor's life, and who else could he TRULY LOVE besides the TARDIS or another Time Lord? And we already know she isn't, because she died way back in the library. Plus there's the diary, which LOOKS like the tardis... anyways, it's just a theory.) THIS THEORY, I HAVE IT. But I have to KNOW. I want to see Amy again, who is my favorite companion (they are all my favorite when I'm watching them.). I want to see RORY again, that doof, and I desperately, desperately want to see the Doctor being awesome once more on my screen.

So basically I'm like a junkie, I am JONESING, and there are still ten days to go. Ten long days. You might understand why I'm distracted.

YOU DON'T GET TO KNOW. He'll just keep stringing you along with his awesome, and his hair, and his witty witty remarks, and even when he has no hair or awesome or witty remarks he'll still keep SUCKING YOU IN just because that's The Doctor. He's a motherfucking force of nature, and he stands still for nobody, so if you're along for the ride you better be prepared to RUN.

I'm so excited for new season of Doctor Who. I both love and hate the longer period between seasons of British shows because it gives me all this time to be NOSTALGIC about it, and time to recover from the DRAMA (BECAUSE THERE IS ALWAYS DRAMA) and by the time the new shows start up again I am always just DYING for it because it has been so long. 

So, kind of like foreplay really. Which might be disturbing if I were a less disturbed individual. TV as sex? WHY NOT.

 In the interest of expanding my active involvement in fandom (assonance woo!)  I had a thought as to whether I could write a poem as a fan work and have it not come off totally self indulgently. I'm not sure I succeeded but I'm vague with pronouns and no names are mentioned so if I hate it later I can totally pretend it was never about Steve and Danny;


Breakwater

When he enters a room he seems
to not just suddenly be in the room
there is a bow wave of sound
rippling eddies of words that lap
and receed in volume, filling up
the space before his body ever enters there.

When he has a thought, any quick
decision or opinion, a bloom
opens up across his face, a filling pool
that reflects his words
before they're ever spoken.

When he feels a touch, his body curves,
slops beyond its edges,
a split second splash against the pads of fingers,
the pressing ridge
of shoulder, and it seems
as if his form acts before he consciously decides
to move. He seems surprised by every brush
of tongue against his thighs.

There is no doubt when you are loved
if he loves you; he has no breakwater
no line of stone against the storm
and yet
his whole self becomes a harbor
to enter and rest, a place to shelter
when weariness comes.

 SO HERE'S THE THING.

I'm getting involved in fandom, sort of, now, and so I find myself reading a lot of little bits of fiction on people's journals that I may not have really been exposed to previously. I love seeing these bits, and hearing how people are shaping their own personal canon for the show, and I find myself a bit jealous of their clear vision and ability to put words together.

THE THING, HERE IT IS; I am actually a writer, I'm just not a PROSE writer. I am a poet. I write poetry. I do it pretty well, I think, and while I'll probably never get together the will or volume of work to publish, I'm ok with it, because I enjoy what I write. This is why, for all my many, many years being around prose writers and reading prose writing and LOVING LONG SENTENCES, I've never really forayed into the medium myself. 

But friending these people on their journals and reading the little short stuff, I realize that maybe this is something I CAN do, maybe I can write something little, something that's almost a poem, with no plot or point or goal, just images illustrated beautifully. That's what poets do after all, and aren't I a poet?

AND SO; I give you A Snippet, untitled, and possibly the first of more to come.( HERE BE WORDS )

 So I've been semi-seriously considering getting my hands on the original Hawaii Five-O series run and watching it. It seems to have been pretty popular in its time, and I'm a fan of Man From U.N.C.L.E and other such older dramas, so this is probably right up my alley.

Fortunately there's this thing called the internet, and more specifically YOUTUBE FOREVER where I can find little clips of the show to let me know if I really WILL like it before I devote all the time, energy and possibly money to getting the series. 

I ran into this clip in particular;



In it, Steve and Danny are discussing some sort of sting operation and Steve puts forward a female police officer as the bait. Danny comes across all shocked and brings up her two kids, telling Steve that its too dangerous and other sorts of paternalistic hand-wringing. 

The interesting part is when Steve completely gets in this woman's corner. Its not just some throw-away thing for the sake of having a female up on the screen that they can dress pretty and put in distress (Although of course it is A LITTLE BIT about that.). They've written Steve as a character who seems to genuinely not get why Danny has a problem with the suggestion.

It all makes me wonder how much of the 2010 version's awesome has its roots in the writing of the original series.

I THINK I MUST GET THIS SHOW TO WATCH, PRONTO.

ALSO, This version of Danno is SO YOUNG. YOUNG AND CUTE. 

Seriously, totally different age dynamic than the new show, wherein Danny has the broken up marriage and the kid and Steve is basically still an emotional adolescent. IT IS ALL VERY INTERESTING TO ME.

 Exchange with my HB concerning my mother-in-law;

HB: (comes home from an errand, takes off coat, walks into bedroom) So I got a call from my mother today... she asked me if I had heard about Japan?

me: (IMMEDIATELY FLAILS) Oh my god what did she say tell me!!!

HB: She said that Greg ( BF of the MIL) was reading in the newspaper about how they're evacuating the island (!!) and she just wanted to let me know...(HB pauses for dramatic effect)

me: STOP IT TELL ME OH GOD. (hands over mouth, squirming with delight)

HB: That of course my brothers and I (and by extension me, though the offer WASN'T EXPLICIT) could come and live with her if the radiation got too bad here. (We live in Western Canada)

me: (DOES VICTORY ARMS, CACKLES A LOT) YES! Oh god I love your mother so much.

So, the thing is that I have this weird relationship with my MIL, in that she's a fine person and we chat on the phone and are all, like, amiable and shit, but I actually do bear a deep and abiding affection for her because she is seriously BATSHIT INSANE. She thinks EVERYTHING GIVES YOU CANCER and does not scruple to tell you about it, AT LENGTH. She takes things she reads on the internet AND SEES ON DAYTIME DOCTOR SHOWS AS GOSPEL. SHE THINKS GARLIC WILL CURE CANCER IF YOU TAKE ENOUGH OF IT. SHE BELIEVES THAT PROCESSED MEATS WILL CAUSE YOUR LIVER TO FALL OUT.

Seriously, we do not have the kind of relationship that I can tease her about it to her face (YET) but I do get such a kick out of her. 

Kono doesn't need saving, actually.

Well, I know my life is desperately boring, and in the interest of having something up here of substance (hah) and also because I said that gyzym  reminded me of titties and beer (not really, and also perhaps a bit... rude) as a consequence of the post title she had to use from this meme, I present... the iTunes meme! Or whatever version of it was just on her journal this evening. AND SO WE BEGIN...

( Magical Cut of Equal Opportunity Dorkitude! )

 Only taking three days or so, I've produced a fanvid!



It is about leaving things behind, and finding something to move towards.