broadcast me a joyful noise

A good friend of mine's band has just released their first music video, and apparently it's being screened on Rage this week. WOO.


Hancock Basement - 'One In A Million Does' from Jordan Prosser on Vimeo.

(And because Canberra is weird and incestuous, the guy who produced & directed the video went to my primary school. As far as I recall, I played Peaseblossom and he played Puck in a musical version of Midsummer Night's Dream.)

ANYWAY, watch the video, it's very swish and involves both skinny suspenders and the throwing of food. SEXY.

I love being on holidays, I have time to pour into really pointless and entertaining things like shoving the current SHOW OF MY HEART down your throat.

Wait! Don't run! There will be pictures, and also I will talk about bondage.



( NOW THAT I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION )

But I couldn't not share this.

AUSSIES. LOOK.

UTEGATE. EXPRESSED VIA LOLCATS.

The one representing Peter Costello made me laugh so hard my chest hurt. ALSO, KERRY O'BRIEN IS A FOX KJJGAHGASYGLJKHAD.

For non-Aussies, Utegate is a scandal that's been occupying our political news for a while now. It's a big fucking mess involving fabricated emails and attempts at character-smearing and, um, I don't think I can sum it up any better than the lolcats, actually.

I've seen at least two posts on my flist recently discussing favourite musicals/favourite songs from musicals, and, well, nattering on about musicals is one of the things I enjoy the most!

I have been working on this post all day, in breaks. IT WAS A LOT OF FUN.

( careful the tale you tell )

1) Earth's News Feed. HEEEEE.

2) However, I can't believe I had to find out from the above link that Bernie Mac has died :( WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY SOMETHING, INTERNET? Frank! Ocean's Whateverthenumber wouldn't have been the same without you!

3) Aria has made an insta-cheer picspam of Ten hugging people (and companions hugging each other!).

4) FIC REC: Merc has been writing hilarious, crazy, creepy-as-fuck, awesomely characterised (and, um, incredibly hot) Scarecrow/Joker fic. Yeah. YEAH. This is the third chapter but it contains links to the first two, so make sure you read it in the proper order and then tell Merc how great she is.

5) Okay, enough procrastinating. TO THE LIBRARY! (Where's Sokka when you need him to say that in an impressive tone?)

Oh, Sydney. Much as I appreciate your efforts to welcome me back for second semester by providing me with the freezing winds of my hometown, I really could have done without the numb hands and rain-spattered clothes during the walk home from hospital today.

Respiratory medicine and I continue in our relationship of studied ambivalence. I think tonight's physiology session will have to be combined with some musculoskeletal revision so that I don't end up burning my steth in a fit of bored pique.

I'm not very amusing at the moment, I'm sorry: my life pretty much consists of uni, meals, revue stuff, and evenings spent in the library with my notes, while I swing between low-grade fatigue and coffee-fuelled enthusiasm.

Final note: if you're not reading Aria's latest project, dwseason5, you should be! In which Donna Noble rediscovers herself, Torchwood finds all sorts of useful technology, the Doctor and the Master just can't get rid of each other, the past doesn't stay where it should, and Time starts to heal.

NARNIANS: We’ll kill you, Telmarine!
CASPIAN: How about instead you make me your king?
CENTAURS: You have to admit the boy’s devilishly attractive.
TALKING SQUIRREL: His profile would look good on our money!
NARNIANS: All hail King Caspian!

I have always adored this format of movie-parody, and mistful does a fantastic Prince Caspian one over here -- Peter the Magnificent and Caspian the Super Fine.

~

All right, guys and dolls, I'm off to Melbourne for the weekend. Be good.

Why did nobody ever tell me about this song?? Antonio Banderas' voice couldn't be more sexy if it were made out of red satin and draped in dark chocolate. And High Flying, Adored is almost as good. (Moral: the Evita soundtrack can cure ALL ILLS.)

Speaking of things that are wonderful: villainny is hosting another Valentines Message Post, and you should all head over there and leave messages of love and random hugs and drive-by adoration for anyone on LJ that you feel like expressing your (totally manly) feelings for, and on Feb 14th they'll receive an email linking them to the post.

And in the continued spirit of pimpage: rawles wrote the most fucking awesome Mai fic ever, which is unsurprising because she is the ORIGINAL MAI FANGIRL and writes her gorgeously -- Reign Within, Mai/Ozai <--- YEAH, I KNOW, WTF, BUT TRUST ME. READ IT.

And now to sleep, because I have to make a million salads and clean half the house before noon tomorrow.

Sooo, continuing my fit of renewed enthusiasm for all of my beloved British shows, I've been rewatching Shakespeare Retold (I really need to buy the DVDs at some stage!) and making silly noises at the screen. Have some illustrative clips!

Much Ado About Nothing - Damien Lewis (<3!) and Sarah Parish (<3!!!!) as the bickering co-anchors of a local news station.

The Taming of the Shrew - Shirley Henderson and Rufus Sewell as a violently antisocial politician and the unbalanced aristocrat who decides to marry her.

( And also, because the sight of Rufus Sewell in fishnets and makeup really isn't something anyone should be deprived of... )

*cracks knuckles*

- First of all I want to throw huge amounts of love in the direction of liminalliz, twin of my heart, who made this excellent post on the nature of captivity as a plot device, or Why Kara/Leoben And Hannibal/Clarice Are Awesome But Certain Parts Of The Doctor Who Finale Are Not. I agree with every word she says. Read. Lizzen ALSO sent me an enormous parcel full of wonderful things including a beanie Texan cow and a gorgeous notebook and BOOKS. SO MANY BOOKS. BOOKS ABOUT YELLOW FEVER AND THE BLACK DEATH AND MEDIEVAL WHODUNNITS AND EEEEBOOKS.

- Having reconsidered and actually kind of made the suicidal skip=200 trek through my flist, I have a lot of things tagged as 'to read', so I'll be doing that tonight. Be not alarmed if comments come at you from the blue!

- My ds_shakespeare fic missed deadline, sigh, but thankfully it's a very loose-and-friendly kind of comm and I will attempt to kick the thing into shape this weekend. My problem is that it's not really a fic so much as a series of conversations that take place within the same timeframe, and I can't even cheat and eschew joining scenes like I normally would because that immediately undermines the premise of at least half of them. DAMMIT.

- Re: those Doctor Who S4 casting spoilers, um, I am so hugely and enthusiastically in favour of this development that I am surprising even myself. YAY.

- All right, all right, I cave. Please rec me good (and I mean good - I don't read a whole lot of fic, and I am about as picky as you would imagine given my blatant literary elitism) fic in the fandoms of Heroes and Supernatural. Don't feel shy about pimping your own stuff: I keep you people on my flist for a reason, you know? Any pairing. My mind is very open at this stage.