Who else here reckons that for most people outside the US the answer to that second question is "I don't"?

BTW: Sorry I haven't written anything in ages, I've been all backwards in my sleeping patterns and I've had uni stuff on and I've been getting horrible headaches and it's all been of the bad. At least I've been having fun with the very loosely run Tea Society (it's mostly just a bunch of guys from my block going to cafes and chatting) and I'm going home this weekend for a proper rest. I also plan to show my Mum all the episodes of Glee I've got on my iTunes, because when I fall for something I fall hard, and I've already sent her an email with what amounted to an illustrated essay on why Kurt Hummel is the best thing ever (she showed it to my Dad too - he's just glad I'm into someone within my own age bracket for once). I've seen a few people do picspams about him and I'm inches away from doing one myself.

That said I kind of want to stay away from the fandom outside of LJ - I joined a forum and Goddamn those people are crazy. I've somehow managed to avoid shipwars and character bashing in all my other fandoms (yes, even Harry Potter and Doctor Who), I don't want to start having to deal with it now, especially as I really don't mind who Rachel/Puck/Quinn/Finn end up with (well, Finn and Kurt are my favourite pairing but knowing that won't happen I don't mind which of the girls Finn ends up with) so most of the fighting doesn't even affect me.

I'm dead of English. I've been awake all night, all I've eaten since Wednesday has been six sub-par custard creams, some Fanta and a can of Red Bull. Every time I look at my DW poster I think Ten is ashamed of me about something. On the plus side it's not actually the last day of term, so when I get back from handing in the papers I can actually just fall asleep till dinner time. Also the guys on my hall have been super nice lately, which is of the good.

Everything seems to be working again, at the moment. I still need to see the IT guys about something but still, phew!

In unrelated news, I've kind of got into Glee recently (I know, I know, but hey it could be worse - I still have no desire to see High School Musical). I want to be a fictional teenage boy so I could be Kurt Hummel's boyfriend. Seriously you guys, he reminds me of my gay ex-boyfriend in so many good ways that I want to cry *is lame*

My regular laptop has just gone nuts on me, a lot of stuff about viruses and paying to activate software and I know it's a scam to get money out of me and I'm pissed right off because I can't use it until I can get it fixed. I tried fixing it myself, obviously, but I couldn't access my controll panel properly or find the programme to delete it. *fumes*

I'm currently using an old laptop my Mum gave me because the other one tends to overheat and I planned to use this one for work. It's so old it still has a floppy disk drive, and it won't let me install flash so I can't watch anything.

If I'm not around much for a while, that's why.

ETA: I also can't access my e-mail anymore because loading hotmail is too much for this sad little old computer *pets it* Doesn't appear to have any species of DVD player either, which is annoying as I just bought the Doctor Who Specials Boxset yesterday and now I can't watch them or make screencaps or anything.

On the plus side I've had it turned on for hours now and it hasn't overheated on me.

The odd thing about me is that even though I listen to a lot of music, and my music collection is pretty big by the standards of the average man in the street, I don't actually care that much about it. Not in the way that it seems a lot of people who've answered this question do anyway.
I tend to just listen to whatever I think sounds good, or things I've come to associate with certain things (songs from fanvids etc.), or stuff that I find amusing - I honestly could not care less about the musicians themselves, or what absurdly specific sub genre the music belongs to, or who their influences are, or whether they've "sold out". I have no desire to see anybody live or to go to a festival (which may also have something to do with the mud and the crowds and the portaloos but I digress), and generally, I just don't take the whole thing particularly seriously at all.
Therefore, I could definitely live with someone who had different musical tastes than me. What I couldn't live with, is someone who's a snob about their musical tastes. Sometimes I want to listen to My Chemical Romance, sometimes I want to listen to Britney Spears, sometimes I want to listen to Muse, sometimes I want to listen to Pink Floyd, sometimes I want to listen to Andy Williams, sometimes I want to listen to David Bowie, and fuck it sometimes I want to listen to the Kirby Falcon Punch Remix, and I could not live with anyone who's going to give me shit about any of that.


 

( Spoilers for The End of Time Part Two, and the Preview of Matt Smith's first series )

eta: I'm glad it snowed today. It's like it snowed for Ten.

Just something about the end of "The End of Time Part One"

( Spoilers, obviously )
p.s. The icon? I got full attendance at Sunday school seven years running when I was a kid you know

I was actually offended by "The Greatest TV Shows of the Noughties" up until the very last moments. I was terrified that it was going to be Big fucking Brother. Life on Mars was the best show of the decade, with Doctor Who as a very close second, and I will not be argued with on this, but FUCK YES TOP GEAR! Especially after I just watched the Bolivia special, wherein James was too bloody sexy cutting down stuff with a machete wearing a head band (need icons, now).

Currently watching season 7 of 24, and Bill Buchanan's hair is doing my head in given yesterday's Who.

The parents are drunk, and I'm going nuts and need to get out of the house soon. I've seen 4 different versions of A Christmas Carol in as many days, that's an unsafe amount of Dickens, especially as Oliver! was also on. I did make this icon quickly though, because I have a soft spot for the puffy-sleeved nightshirt (and the skinny guy in said nightshirt but that rather goes without saying).

WHAT THE UNHOLY FUCK WAS THAT

( Spoilers for End Of Time )
I have a life sized Master cardboard cut-out in my living room. My Dad says he won't be able to sleep with it in the house.

Just got back from a  carol service, wherein they had some strange remix version of While Shepherds Watched their Flocks By Night with a tune I in no way recognised, a whole bunch of songs I didn't know, and I had difficulty not laughing during Hark the Herald Angels Sing *gestures at icon*.

Now watching Oz Clarke's Christmas Drink thing. Is it me, or does it really seem as though Oz is being extra flirty with Hugh Dennis to make James jealous? Also, they seem to have met Papa Lazarou.

Yesterday I discovered that my Gran has had a copy of the 1984 George C. Scott version of A Christmas Carol, the one with Stricko as young Scrooge, on DVD for about two years without me knowing about it. After I was done hugging her for saving me the couple of quid I was planning on spending buying it, I decided I had to take screen-caps, and here are the results

( 47 Pictures which will chew up your dial up and spit it back out )

Currently writing a Modern Scottish Fiction essay, and am having a suspicious amount of fun with it. I'm supposed to be discussing the effectiveness of film adaptations of one of the novels, and the upshot of this is I get to write about Danny Boyle's Trainspotting, which I love.

I'm not used to uni assignments being enjoyable, nothing has been since I stopped doing Film and Theatre a year and a half ago. Also, I keep wondering how far is too far with this essay - would I be justified in taking the piss out of Robert Carlyle's moustache as it could be seen as detracting from Begbie's sinister image? With a sideline on how as his hardman image is largely an illusion anyway it's probably quite appropriate really as his "mates" may very well take the piss out of him for it as well? If I can find an academic sounding way of saying take the piss? Even if I can't do that I'm definitely putting in something about how Jonny Lee Miller play's a character who's obsessed with Sean Connery, famous for never doing any accent other than his own, whilst Jonny himself is putting on a fake Scottish accent. Again with a sideline about how it might have been an interesting post modern statement to have had Jonny do the whole thing in his own accent.

In other news, it's my last day of uni tomorrow, and we had a party in my block on Tuesday. It got very...messy, as practically everything we did in terms of party games involved flour, water, whipped cream (because someone was allergic to shaving foam) or all three. There were also a great many jelly babies watsed (tragic) and we had a Christmas tree theme for the fancy dress. One guy had actual twigs stuck all over his camo gear, as well as tinsel and a headscarf with a star on it - he looked like the worlds most festive terrorist. I had a headband with a christmas tree on it, snowflake earrings and a green shirt with brown trousers (it was short notice and that was the best I could do), all of which got splattered with various gunk during the last challenge.

See, the games were competitive, boys v girls, and although I'd been volunteering for things all night, I'd somehow got the least messy of everyone on my team, so when it came to the last round, which involved popping balloons suspended overhead filled with water, flour and cream with a drawing pin taped to your head while blindfolded, I had to step into the breach. Twas all a lot of fun though, and I'm awaiting the photos and videos on facebook.

Was quite impressed with some of the stuff one of my team mates had come up with for the night. For one she made cinamon vodka, and got eveyone to drink it by telling them how leathal it was (it was, I had chapped lips when I drank it and the burning, oh the burning), and made paper chains by printing out onto red an green paper an e-mail we'd recieved telling us we couldn't hang paper chains. The rebellious student spirit lives on and all that.

Also, I have found a club mix of Sosban Fach. It is full of nonsense.

Well, according to iTunes, my current top ten most listened to songs are:

1. Disturbia: The Cab
2. Still Alive: GLaDOS and Jonathan Coulton
3. Another Girl Another Planet: Blink-182
4. Spaceman: The Killers
5. Know Your Enemy: Green Day
6. Uprising: Muse
7. Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor): Robert Palmer
8. 21 Guns: Green Day
9. Secret Agent Man (Main Theme): Knightsbridge
10. Undisclosed Desires: Muse

...It's slightly embarassing how many of those songs I either first heard on Doctor Who fanvids, or have listened to so often because I planned to use them in Doctor Who fanvids.

Of course as you go further down the list into the teens and twenties things get worse and things like Andy Williams and Mega start showing up, so...


The hell lj spellchecker, I make a post with British spellings and you freak, but you recognise GLaDOS as a word?

Just so we're clear.



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I am apparently getting this for Christmas from my mother. I know this for certain because after I sent her the link, in a move which was at least 60% a joke because I'd already been angling for the All Creatures Great and Small boxset, she then proceeded to call me when she was having problems with the online checkout system, as I'm the only person she knows who she could call to talk her through an internet related problem. The slight element of suspense being lost is made up for by the fact that I'm going to have a life size John Simm in my bedroom. Dude.

Also, although I downloaded the mp3s a few days ago, my CD of Ringpullworld arrived yesterday, and physically having it in my hands is making me go slightly more fangirly than usual. It came with a magazine as well, which I'm guessing is standard issue but I didn't know about it so that was an extra bonus.

( Spoilers ahead )

( Spoilers for 'The End of Time' Children in Need Preview )

In other news, I've started some more vids that I hope to finish...eventually. I hate being here with most of my DVDs at home, I keep thinking of footage I need that's in Wales.
One's another big fucker like the Spaceman thing I've had in the works forever (I just need some season 1 stuff for that, shouldn't take me long once I get home), that requires some of my Old School DVDs.
The other is a Turlough/Tegan vid, because I feel they're under represented as a pairing. Also in collecting the footage I've come to realise that they just can't keep their hands off each other in Terminus. Every time they go anywhere, whoever is leading feels the need to take hold of the other's arm and pull them along, like saying "come on" wouldn't do the job. It's like the "we-respect-the-seriousness-of-our-situation" version of wandering around holding hands.

I also got Ringpullworld the other day. Will review that properly sooner or later.

Spoilers for Waters of Mars and also the preview
( Buggery fuck that was creepy. )
Can't wait for Christmas *fidgets*

Also I'm now watching Top Gear, and James's hovercraft seems to be full of eels.

( Okay, I've had a minute to calm down now )