My internet was dead for the last two nights. Weather-dependent internet = so not funny. I hate snow even without it causing my internet to die.

Without internet, I was forced to entertain myself otherwise. I went to a gig Saturday night, which was alright - the most impressive part was really the guitar player of the first support group looking like Sam Rockwell. Which reminded me that I've always wanted to see more Sam Rockwell movies, which prompted me to go to the cinema Sunday night, when my internet was dead again, to see Frost/Nixon. Which was alright. Sam Rockwell was pretty. Notice the weird title of the movie. I was wondering about that. Why did they not call it Frost vs. Nixon? Why the /? What's going on, is fandom speak seeping into the real world?

Other than that, I spent my time watching Ed Norton movies. I've seen The Incredible Hulk (BAD MOVIE), the Illusionist (alright), Primal Fear (seen that already ages ago; it was ok), Fight Club (a first time for me; it was entertaining, although I disliked the ending) and American History X (um. It made me ~think~. I guess that's what it was trying to do.). Also, I watched two episodes of a trashy crime series about a gay private eye and his accountant boyfriend (Donald Strachey mysteries). They were kind of cute. :D

Uni is so. Goddamn. Boring. Lately. There's nothing going on; half the classes don't even happen because some brainless idiot failed to put together a correct time table, and either the times or the room numbers are wrong. The only thing that time table should be relied on for is to find out when classes are most likely not happening. My Writing for TV seminar started, though, and whee. I'm liking it so far.

I've not been reading the f-list. I'm sorry, folks, I fail. If there's anything you posted over the last week that you think I should see, please do link me in the comments.

And I've signed up for TARDIS big bang. 20,000 words. Which fic should I write, people?

[Poll #1342088]

I want to make sweet sweet love to Arthur Eddington.

And by sweet sweet love I of course mean having a long geeky discussion with him on science, the theory of relativity, religion and everything in between. Ajshgfs that movie was such a fangasm for me, on so many different levels.

( Spoilerish. But not very. )

Oh, I adored this movie so much. I think it was made for me specifically. *nods*

You guys all need to watch How To Rob A Bank. It's one of those really cheap movies with a cast of ten people that totally feel like really expensive movies with a cast of 500 people. It's a 'the way the anonymity of modern technology allows small people to fuck over the big sharks' movie, and it's really clever. And quite funny in places. :D

I just came back from the midnight show double feature Batman thing, so I have now officially seen The Dark Knight as well and won't have to dive under tables anymore when I come across potential spoilers.

About the movie: man, creepy. I don't think they would have even needed any of the others besides the Joker. He totally took control of this movie. Which is rather ironic in itself, if you think about it.

Not gonna say any more now, because it's late and the brain is sluggish. A question, though: I listened to the radio on my way home, and lol, what sort of DJ dorks do those 4.30am Sunday morning radio shows? If I were that guy's boss, and if I'd been listening, I'd've walked into that station Monday morning and fired that guy's ass. Seriously. Alles Aus Liebe is NOT an Ärzte song. Even I know that it's Die Toten Hosen, even though I hate Die Toten Hosen. *headdesk*

Remember how I tried to explain about German humor? Well, I'm giving it another go. ;)

This is mostly for lf2871. She asked me whether I like Spongebob, and I told her that I prefer my kids' show heroes to be misanthropic and bread-shaped. This thoroughly confused her, and I realized that she wouldn't know the show I was referring to, since it's a German phenomenon.

In Germany, we have a kids' show called Berd das Brot, which literally translates as Bernd the Bread. I'll just paraphrase the wiki article:

Bernd das Brot (Bernd the bread) is a puppet character on the German children's TV channel KIKA, a frustrated, depressive and disagreeable talking loaf of white bread. His favourite activities include staring at the south wall of his home and memorizing the pattern of his woodchip wallpaper, reading his favourite magazine "The Desert And You", and expanding his video collection of the world's most boring railway tracks.

( And here be an embedded YouTube clip, subtitled by yours truly. )

I don't think there's anyone in Germany who doesn't know Bernd das Brot. The show is hilariously funny, and made of awesome. What I love most about it is that Bernd, an introvert and misanthrope par excellence, gets harassed non-stop by his two extroverted 'friends' Briegel der Busch (Briegel the Bush) and Chili das Schaf (Chili the Sheep) into doing highly embarrassing, self-degrading things like getting on-stage and singing in front of groves of people, or dressing up and re-enacting the Dinner for One sketch. I feel I can relate. xD

That's some news to wake up to.

I'm always severly creeped out by watching movies that star an actor I know died a 'premature' death - anything with Heath Ledger, The Crow, the James Dean movies... and now this.

I have to admit, I don't remember who Marcus Belby was in HBP. Who was he?

So I went to see the Indiana Jones movie tonight...

( Spoilers )

Life on Mars made fandom_wank! *wipes tear from eye* It's like seeing your kid accepting their graduation diploma. And imagine that, the wank that did it was not about the American LoM version! Life on Mars is being haunted by a wanker/troll who's about as amusing as julia_boohoo, but not as frustrating. Go read the funny!

When I was on the train back home from the movie theater, there was this mom with two kids sitting across from me. The kids, two girls, were both maybe 13 or 14, and were recounting anecdotes about their time in kindergarden. One story was about how one of the girls had enough pumpkin soup to almost puke and then ran full-tilt into a door, all because one of the kindergarden teachers told her that eating pumpkin soup gave you the ability to walk through walls. I had to hold my breath so as not to burst out laughing right there on the train.

I've been watching the first two episodes of Taking over the Asylum, and wow. I am already deeply in love with this show. For all the tear-jerking that went on in Recovery and all the more-or-less funny jokes from Learners, I think this show has already touched and made me laugh more than either. It's this quiet desperation covered up with almost manic cheer and cynicism, this whole asylum feeling. Works for me every time.

I have a new laptop!

( Tech data for those of you who are interested. )

I bought it without an operating system, which means it cost me a little less than 500E - that's about 780 dollar/390 pounds. It's amazing how much they make you pay extra for a shitty program like Vista that only gives you headaches anyway (this laptop would have been about twice as expensive with an operating system). Installing XP was a bit of a hassle, but I managed in the end, and now it's all shiny and new.

Unfortunately, laptop screws are strange, and none of my screwdrivers fit. So I couldn't get my old hard drive out of my old laptop to save the data yet. I will have to see if I can find a cheap screwdriver in the right size somewhere. Seriously, I never had this problem before. I own two normal screwdrivers plus a tiny one, and they work for everything - except laptop screws, as it seems. The tiny screwdriver was too tiny, and the big ones were too big.

THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN A LITTLE MORE SONIC!

Speaking of which, apparently the people at my work place get British TV on their telly. I think I'll have to move in there. The guy I work for was like, 'right, I wanted to tell you, since you're so interested in British TV - we get their stations here on our set.' Then he handed me two issues of a British TV magazine. The first one had Phil Glenister on the cover and a feature story on Ashes to Ashes, and the other one had Martha and Jack Harkness on the cover and a feature story on Torchwood. I barely managed to refrain from hugging him.

Lol, those guys make me lol so much. They have this website, and they're completely clueless about how to set one up and and run it. It's supposed to be an interactive site, and it doesn't have an emailer, or a guestbook, or a link list, or proper navigation. The guy who still has at least a vague idea of what he's doing doesn't know how to html-code a link - just to give you an idea ;). I rewrote a couple of their sites today, and they loved it. That's the nice thing, they know they're completely clueless. Getting paid for setting up a website - it's like getting paid for picking your nose. Awesome.

The other nice thing about working for a movie production company is that I get to read all the scripts for the movies they are going to make/are shooting at the moment/have produced in the past. In their first, second, third etc draft. This company produced one movie that I saw about five times back in 2002 when it was playing at the cinemas - and today I was looking at the first draft of the script. Quite surreal.

Right. I should go to bed. Holiday on Thursday! Maybe I'll get around to doing some writing. That'd be awesome.

So... I'll be quitting the internship and will be taking a job with a different TV production company who are into making comedy. German comedy is the bit of German television that I can actually get excited about. Der Wixxer, Der Schuh des Manitu, (T)raumschiff, Erkan & Stefan, those are all awesome hilarious German movies starring great German comedians.

Don't sneer. Germans do have a sense of humor.

( Proof of the existence of German humor. )

Right, so I'll be working for people who do this comedy thing. The job will actually be a lot more than what an intern would usually be doing, but the company is quite small and only semi-professional, and they don't have a lot of money. The guy I talked to seemed quite awesome. We set up a meeting at a local café for the job interview, and I asked him if I should bring anything with me - I was referring to stuff like certificates and diplomas - and he went: "Yeah! Cookies!" xD

Going to go to a stand-up comedian live show the company is organizing tomorrow. I'm really hoping this job will work out.

I've been watching the Spaced documentary, and what is it with British TV people that they all seem so awesome? I want to write them all fan mail telling them how fucking awesome they all are and that they should never ever stop doing what they do, because they're fucking brilliant at it. I never got this with American actors or directors. The only one I ever got this with aside from David Tennant and Simon Pegg was Stephen King.

I can see myself ending up writing fan letters. Wow, fangirlism, here I come.

I don't seem to have a lot to say to my LJ at the moment. Yes, that surprises me, too. Well, I'm posting anyway, to picspam about my new notebook. Because the old one (which a year ago was the new one - yes, I posted when I bought it) has run out of empty pages.

( Pictures of my old and my new notebook. )

I'm back home from visiting wihluta over the weekend. That's why I was quiet and unspammy the last couple of days. I bet you all missed me! (or not ;)).

Weekend was fun; we watched a lot of shows and movies and cheated the people at the Cuban place we had dinner at Sunday night out of a salad. I made wihluta watch some X-Files, but she can't appreciate the finer points of that show. She made me watch MacGyver, which I can't really appreciate the finer points of. Lots of fun was had by all.

Oh, and I finally saw the Kill Bill movies. I always wanted to, but I never did until now.

And as I already informed you in my last post, I bought Life on Mars! This is exciting and out of character, because the only boxsets I own are X-Files s1, House s1 and s2, The Crow, and now Life on Mars s1. That might seem not like nothing at all, but I've only started buying these in September. Before then, I had none at all, and considering all the shows I've watched/am watching, it's not really a lot. My point is that I don't usually buy DVDs or boxsets. I've always considered them too expensive.

But I just had to buy the LoM box. A German store had the series one Life on Mars boxset. They had no Doctor Who, they had no Torchwood, they didn't even have Heroes. But they did have Life on Mars. For only 20E ($31/15GPB). So I bought it :D.

And ooohhh, it is such a shiny shiny show. I already checked Amazon for the series 2 boxsets, but I think I'll have to put one of my UK contacts up to buying it for me, because the cheap British sellers don't ship to Germany, and German Amazon wants three times what I paid for series 1.

THIS SHOW HAS MEN IN FLARED PANTS. IT CANNOT GET ANY MORE AWESOME THAN THAT.

Gratuitous post before I go to bed.

( Heath Ledger, David Tennant, silly AIMfic and unanswered commentfic memes )

I just saw four posts go up on my f-list, so this is probably old news to some of you, but I thought I'd post it anyway...

Heath Ledger is dead.

I watched A Dog's Breakfast yesterday night, and omg lol, you should all watch it, too. For those of you who are not in the SGA fandom, it's a movie written and directed by David Hewlett, one of the funniest actors I've ever seen (he was in Cube and Scanners and several shows - SGA, of course, and a couple of episodes of SG-1).

In the movie, he plays this slightly crazy, OCD-afflicted loner who lives somewhere in the Canadian wilderness together with his dog and some spiders. One day, his sister comes by for a visit and brings her fiance, whom Patrick (David Hewlett's character) naturally deems unworthy of his sister. Things go from there.

( Spoilers underneath )

Anyway. You should all watch that movie! It's brilliant xD.

So I'm back home now. Yay 24/7 intarwebz! xD

I deleted my journal at Greatest Journal, because I've heard that they're closing down. My backup journal is now at JournalFen, here. I'll be updating it from time to time, I won't be keeping track of the f-list, though, because the people I know there have accounts at LJ as well. If you are on my LJ f-list and have a JF account, please tell me so I can friend you! :)

In other news... no news, lol ;). I've updated my movie list, and as I said, if you want anything, just drop me a line :).

ETA: My backup journal now has tags. And I reorganized the tags on this journal. LJ needs some feature that makes reorganizing tags less of a time-consuming activity...

I went to see the Beowulf movie with my sister.

( Amusing details under the cut (spoilers) )

And I had an idea for a Ten/Jack fic. It's a nightmare to fit into the time line though. I think I've figured out a way, but I'm not sure if I'm not overlooking something completely obvious. Help me out?

( Plot under the cut (Spoilers for all of Torchwood and New Who) )

So I spent this evening watching Mountie on the Bounty with tli. Then I went online and told ignazwisdom about it, who told me that she was just watching that same episode in a fangirl chat. So I sent tli to bed (nah, she went volutarily. REALLY!) and joined in and watched the episode all over again. Lots of fun. I got a blooper reel out of it, and those bloopers are really fucking funny. After that, I wanted to go to bed but ended up reading ignazwisdom's Ray K/Fraser fics instead. And now I wanted to let you all know that I am officially in two fandoms at the same time, which, as neery would be able to tell you, is about as untypical for me as it would be for Fraser to steal his best friend's food or for House not to do it.

( More Blah Blah )

( Also, I have a question for all UK guys out there )

Yes, I'm here. I had to wait 10 minutes until the site loaded. LJ, get the frigging bug fixed NOW!

You know what I just realized? I realized I want RSL in a role like Johnny Depp was in in the movie from Stephen King's novella Secret Window, Secret Garden (the movie was called Secret Window). If you haven't seen it, you HAVE to watch it, because Johnny Depp is in it it's just so good. It really is. It's one of SK's coolest novellas, and Johnny Depp does such a wonderful job of playing the deranged writer. RSL would have made a very cool deranged writer, too. He could even have worn his glasses during the movie *drools*. Eeep. I need to rewatch Secret Window and imagine Teh Prettie whenever Johnny Depp comes into focus. Well, not that JD isn't very very pretty, too. Ah, decisions.

And elicia8's reference to that movie with RSL in Nazi uniform got me thinking... he does make a cool evil villain. Is it strange that from there, I went to wanting him to have gotten the role as Young Hannibal in Hannibal Rising? That movie was SO INTENSE, and the actor who played Hannibal was good, but RSL in his place? Adgfprtnspftnghtg.

And I also realized that I've never seen a movie with RSL in it. He doesn't really play in the kinds of movies that I like to watch. That probably says something negative about my taste, because DPS is such a high-class movie and stuff... ah well. I've seen all episodes of House, most of them twice or even three times.

Is there any movie, besides DPS where he kills himself, where RSL's character gets hurt? And wasn't it predictable that I'd ask that? *gg*

I went to see 300 tonight.

( No fear, this is not another wank... )