Oh. Holy. God. HOUSE IS BACK. BACK BACK BACK. I don't just mean after, like, two weeks. I mean the show is BACK. The characters I love, the crazy way everything just fits, thematically, from POTW through to the interactions between House and Wilson, and Chase and Cameron, and OMG THE HOUSE/CUDDY ASDL;AJDJASJFSDHFSDFLSDAS.

( she'll be red and delicious before she knows it )

I have actually watched this episode, like, three times tonight while typing this up. I love it. I've not felt so compelled to rewatch and rewatch and REWATCH in a very long time. LOVE LOVE LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE. ♥ ♥ ♥

OMG teevee hiiiiiigh. XD

1. I AM ALL CAUGHT UP WITH BONES. That's right - I watched something like... twenty episodes in the last two days and OMG I AM SO IN LOVE WITH THIS SHOW. Really I just want to hug it and everyone in it and KAFHJLADGFHDLSFKLADAS. ( lots of random happy Bones-related thoughts ) Hell yeah I love this show. OMG. Anyone who wants to flail with me is CLEARLY WELCOME TO DO SO.

2. I watched episode 4 of Glee - it's the best one so far, but still didn't feel QUITE right to me. There is something awkward about that show that just screams... artificial, and seriously, I've seen shows that are similarly hyper-real (like, say, POPULAR), but Glee is still not... hitting that proper groove just yet. That being said: I think they're warming up and possibly heading in the very right direction i.e., the one in which Sue Sylvester truly DOES become Bobbi Glass and TAKES OVER THE ENTIRE SHOW. Yes please, Jane Lynch is awesometimes. Sue mentioned "Singapore", you know, which I enjoyed. Heh.

3. And so... yeah, that's about how I spent my weekend. Watching a shit-ton of Bones, accompanied by junk food, the occasional book, too many cupcakes, NOT catching up on comments/email/my flist... and, right now, dreading the thought that the weekend is over and I'm heading back towards work when I next get up. Do not like. The one thing I DO wish I'd been at this weekend - it was so disgustingly hot here that I can feel it sweltering through the airconditioning, walking out to get dinner was AWFUL - is the Broadway flea market. So tell me, guys, what was your haul? Keep me entertained... I like living vicariously!

4. Wondering what my next huge tv catch-up should be. Yes yes, I know, BSG, which I swear is being shifted hastily up the queue. But I'm thinking I need to catch up on my Desperate Housewives before I get completely spoiled. I hate when I get so far behind that it becomes virtually impossible to avoid spoilers. Also, there's Dollhouse and United States Of Tara, and everything else is going to return and I SHOULD watch Flash Forward, right... ARGH. I need to quit my job so I can watch movies/tv/theatre 24/7, who's with me. Sigh.

1. SUPERBAND EP HAS BEEN RELEASED IN SINGAPORE ALSDHKFKHSDLHDSLFHSDKLFHALHSDSAAS. I wasn't expecting this - they talked it up for a late August release in their concert, and then the release date kept getting pushed back, until it was 7 September and I checked a Chinese forum and it apparently still was nowhere to be found, even in Taiwan stores. So I wasn't holding out much hope when I went to Vivocity for a movie today... I even briefly contemplated NOT walking over to the CD store (which are SO HARD TO FIND in Singapore these days, so many of them have shut down!) and just grabbing dinner before my movie instead. I'M SO FUCKING GLAD I DECIDED TO CHECK ANYWAY. Because, OMG SHINY AND NEW:


OBSESSED.

( so much flail and pics under the cut it's obscene, omg )

2. I SHOULD really talk about the important message movie I watched - The Cove - which was really good, although not quite as heart-stoppingly tense as the reviews would have it. I must admit that I came awfully close to wanting to disavow eating sashimi after watching it, because omg those dolphins, wtf. Those final blood-soaked scenes were BRUTAL. But I'm weak and selfish, with no self-control, and I need my regular doses of mercury poisoning, so.

3. Couldn't bring myself to work ALL of yesterday and after spam post, I attended a two-hour meeting (a lot of it completely pointless), which means I am SO EFFED next week... but argh, I am TAKING my weekend off, I don't bloody care. Especially since my boss informed me that I would have to keep working until I drop dead. I think this was said at least PARTLY in jest... one would hope, anyway :P I was going to go to the doctor tomorrow morning and get my ear cleaned out for good, but... I can't TELL if I'm just used to the tinnitus now and don't notice it anymore, or if the problem's cleared itself up. ARGH. I think it's kinda still there, but not as bad as it was earlier in the week? IDK. I'll probably go to the doctor anyway. IF I CAN HAUL MY ASS OUT OF BED.

4. OMG why am I so hungry now even though I had a Carl's Jr burger and fries for dinner. I guess it IS seven hours later. Maybe THAT'S why... OKAY, BEDTIME.

WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT THE WHAT.

HERE ARE SOME TOTALLY INCOHERENT THOUGHTS, WRITTEN ENTIRELY IN CAPSLOCK. FEEL FREE TO IGNORE, I KNOW I'M THREE MONTHS LATE ON THE FLAIL.

( HOLY CRAP MY BRAIN IS FRIED SIX WAYS 'TIL SUNDAY )

In other news, I was completely useless as work. One of my colleagues had her last day today and we went out for Japanese to celebrate and wish her well. I wished it was MY last day.

And that is all, really.

ALSKFHALFHSDLFHSDLFHLSDFHLDS.

Now that we have that out of the way: I have been stoning at home, watching many episodes of Bones and marvelling at how adorable Booth and Brennan are. A+++ way of entertaining myself? I'D SAY SO.

Then I came across possibly the cutest thing in the history of my Wonderettes fandom ever. Basically, it turns out the wonderful Bets Malone has been regularly updating a blog on her NYC adventures after she booked the Marvellous Wonderettes - THAT'S RIGHT. *gasp* A regularly-updated blog on Wonderettes! It's AMAZING. My new favourite thing EVER in the WORLD. It's so darn cute how HAPPY and EXCITED Bets is about the entire adventure, from meeting the new Wonderettes girls (that would be Farah and Victoria) through to recording the cast album and getting her hands on the vocal selections for the first time ever. It's kind of TOO CUTE TO BE BELIEVED. ♥


♥ SEE. ♥

( my FAVOURITES under the cut! )

ICONS HAVE ALREADY BEEN MADE.
xitian will probably be updated soon, once the batch expands further. XD

GO EXPLORE. But if you want quick flail, these are my favourite posts: cast recording (Beth recorded video of Bets from her booth, so you can hear Bets singing and Beth's harmony!) and Wonderettes field trip in NYC (cutest. thing. in. universe.) - I am only upset that the second post does not have enormous photos like the other posts do, because I would KILL for a photo of Cindy Lou vamping it up.

IT'S 5.51AM ON A WORK NIGHT. I HAVEN'T SLEPT YET. OR REALLY PACKED FOR MY TRIP. I HAVE, ON THE OTHER HAND, WATCHED 13 EPISODES OF HOUSE IN THE SPACE OF ONE DAY AND AM ALL CAUGHT UP. 5X23 WAS LEGENDARY, GUYS. LEGENDARY. TO THE POINT THAT I MADE A SHIT-TON OF ICONS RATHER THAN SLEEP, BECAUSE I. HAD. TO.

( MORE RANDOM FLAIL - SPOILERS AHOY )

ALSO NOW I HAVE TO PACK FOR NEW YORK WHEN I GET HOME TOMORROW. I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT'S ACTUALLY HAPPENING, BTW, WHAT EVEN IS MY LIFE.

I'M SOOOO LATE TO THE HOUSE FLAIL PARTY, GUYS. I FAIL. HOW DID I LET THIS SHOW GO FOR SO LONG? BUT I'M BACK NOW. So, you know, flail with me if you like? :D

p/s I am sooo behind on comments and checking the flist because I've been busy watching House. Will deal with that when I can, promise!

OKAY SO I SHOULD BE WORKING. AND FOCUSING. BUT HOW CAN I FOCUS WHEN THERE IS THIS:


THE MARVELLOUS WONDERETTES SING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM (16 APR 09)

OMG OMG OMG. Every time I think my obsession with their talent and their voices and FOUR-PART HARMONIES might be just a tad excessive, I am reminded that no, it really REALLY isn't. My life is kind of made right now.

My completely incoherent very brilliant analysis of the video:

EPIC AMOUNTS OF LOSE: the damn plane flying overhead.

EPIC AMOUNTS OF WIN: EVERYTHING ELSE. Especially:
- 0:01: the adorkability that opens the video, with the girls hamming it up for the camera ♥ ♥ ♥
- 0:16: I KNEW the harmonisation would get me. And OMIGOD just listen to them go, OMG!!! Also, I looove it when Victoria leads off. How gorgeous is her voice!
- 0:34: EEK. Victoria and Beth steal a look at each other. FUCK. I THINK MY HEART STOPPED FROM THE CUTE.
- 0:54: WTF WTF MISTY WTF IS THAT. HOW THE HELL WHA ASLDDHLDLADA. Dude. She sounds SO. GOOD. when she takes leading harmony. Fuckity.
- 1:11: Again, Misty, WTF SERIOUSLY.

I AM SO OBSESSED WITH THESE GIRLS. AND THIS VIDEO. AND THE BELTING, WHAT EVEN.

p/s I am behind on comments, I know, I'm sorry - I crashed and fell dead asleep last night, eek. Will get caught up!

WATCH THESE VIDEOS. YOUR LIVES WILL BE BETTER FOR IT, I PROMISE.

Epiphany: Holy HELL, Alice is FIERCE.


I am legit obsessed with this. Especially when Alice cackles at one point, and then at the very end, when she just eases into a gentle, sweet smile. INSANITY. Best female Sweeney EVER, y/y??

( more amazingly sassy belting under the cut )

Thanks SO much to the filmer for sharing!

1. I am EPIC late for work - as in, I'm supposed to BE in the office by now - but since I spent a while lounging around in bed and am already late... whatever. ;) I fell dead asleep yesterday early this morning before posting... this, I realise, is the upshot of having a laptop which can be used in a semi-horizontal position, rather than my usual desktop computer which keeps me upright... for better or worse.

2. Anyways. A couple of quick things. I was tagged by irnbruise and alex_kingston for a handwriting meme:

a. Write your LJ username
b. Write your two favorite bands/groups at the moment (not overall, just currently)
c. Write either I ♥ k-pop ; I ♥ j-pop ; I ♥ c-pop (this isn't really for anything, just to see how you draw hearts xD)
d. Write the name of your favorite person of all time (e.g. Yamada Ryosuke)
e. Write down your recently favored person (e.g. G-Dragon)
f. Tag 5 people to do this meme

( pardon the illegibility )

3. Quick fly-by flail: I'm done tracking my audio of the awesome Superband concert. ♥ SO MUCH LOVE. Can't get over its amazing. ( audio and some pro-shot video! )

4. ALSO, JULIA @ BROADWAY JUKEBOX. OMIGOD YOU GUYS. She sang soooo many things, like Unusual Way and LOSING MY MIND (THE LOW NOTES IN THIS ARE SEX, YOU HEAR ME? SEX!!!) but but BUT my favourite? The fact that we finally have a FULL VERSION of her singing I Dreamed A Dream from Les Miz. AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. Guys, do you know how obsessed I - and a legion of fangirls, thanks to Mr Rudetsky - am with having her sing that? THIS OBSESSED <-- literally I had spliced together two fifteen-second clips of her singing different parts of the song during interviews so I could pretend to myself I had a full version. AHAHAHAHA NOW I DO. And it is unbelievable. She acts the craaaap out of this. I want to flail more and will probably do so in comments but now I must run. Although I have to add: Julia is doing a show on May 18! XD Possibly not a solo performance, but whatever: this more than ever confirms to me that I need to be back in NY in May, y/y?! OMG. Why is everything falling into place for crazy epic amounts of flail AGAIN?

5. And now I am INSANELY late for work and really REALLY need to get going, ackity ack. OFF I GO.

[ETA: Posting this old entry from a teahouse in Xi Men Ding, after a huge plate of beef fried rice which only confirmed to me that Singapore - with its fanatical health tendencies - has bred the ability to eat copious amounts of MSG out of me. Dude, I CANNOT eat MSG-laden food anymore. Sad. Due to head to the airport in a little under an hour...]

1. It's 2.40am on Sunday morning in Taiwan. This post - clearly - is going to appear somewhat later than that because I am made of so much epic fail that I tried to buy myself wireless internet, SUCCEEDED... and then proceeded to forget to take down the password and info I needed to LOG IN. Of course, this info was pointlessly forwarded to my email account, which I can't access because I'M NOT ONLINE, AM I. Honestly I could easily buy myself another day's worth of internet - it's not expensive at $4 a pop - but I'M PUNISHING MYSELF FOR BEING STUPID. No internet for you, IDIOT.

2. Doesn't mean I can't write an epic long, FLAILY entry to be posted when I finally get back online, though. HAI, CONCERT OF ENORMOUS AMOUNTS OF EPIC AWESOME, OMIGOD. LIKE, I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT I GOT TO SEE THIS LIVE. But we did it. We were TWO ROWS from the front, and honestly so close to the stage that the performers were real-people-sized. We were SO CLOSE we couldn't even see the huge television screens that the REST of the stadium were watching. ( To remind myself on Monday that life IS worth living... ) One thing I MUST say is that I am super super excited to be seeing them when they eventually make a tour stop in Singapore as well. Because hopefully by then, they'd have figured more things out, written more songs just for Superband, and gelled better as a band. Because that would basically rule my life/universe/everything.

3. WOW GUYS I'VE BEEN TYPING THAT RECAP FOR OVER AN HOUR, WTF. I really should sleep.

4. It's kind of sad that this was our last day in Taiwan though. I have to cop to being super pathetic this trip in the sense that I didn't... go OUT and see more of Taiwan as I should have? Really I dawdled in bed, stayed within a certain small geographic zone and just ate a lot. I've seen a LOT of Taiwan in the culinary sense, and I loved what I saw, but I was a really bad tourist. But... I'm kind of okay with that. What I needed out of this trip, other than Emil!flail, was a BREAK, and I got just that. I got to sleep in and just REST, and... get my brain right again, you know? And be reminded why there really is a lot in this world to love. Besides, this only means I need to come BACK to Taiwan. Next time Emil holds a concert here, maybe... ;)

5. Okay okay. About the rest of the day: the food finally caught up to me and J. *weeps* My stomach protested MIGHTILY once I woke up, and I had to be really careful the rest of the day because I didn't want to spend most of the concert in the bathroom. So... I think I ate... not very much, compared to the day before anyway. A rice roll for breakfast, some sesame mua chee (SESAME, guys, SESAME), and I shared J's lunch of deep-fried pork steak and sesame-boiled chicken (SO heaty). I had a green tea latte at Starbucks while we stoned at the stadium, since I was freaked out that we might get lost and we wound up spending... way too much time there waiting rather than out shopping. And after that we went back to Shilin and ate teppanyaki as the healthiest option we could find, because even J couldn't bear the thought of oily pork anymore. Buttered/salted/MSG-ed cod, buttered mushrooms and beansprouts... everything with butter, and yet probably healthier than pretty much anything else we'd eaten to date. At least it was fish and vegetables, right? Though... what does that say about us (and Taiwan) that we considered this healthy?

6. Of course, this entry is now hopelessly out-of-date. BUT IT WASN'T WHEN I TYPED IT.

7. Right. It's 4am. No more flailing. Bedtime. Guys... I kind of really DO NOT WANT to go back to Singapore/work. :(

♥. BEST. FUCKING. CONCERT. IN THE UNIVERSE. Yesterday night (I haven't slept yet and it's 6.12 in the morning), my love, my heart, my MAN - EMIL CHAU - came to town as part of his world tour. I have stalked worshipped this guy and his voice for FIFTEEN YEARS, guys. FIFTEEN YEARS OF FANDOM AND FLAIL. I've seen him probably about ten times live, if not more, and HE KILLS ME EVERY TIME. But today, today: he got onstage, and barely got off for FOUR GLORIOUS HOURS. Literally it was him, singing, bantering, rocking OUT and being generally AMAZING for a full three hours and fifty-five minutes. CAN WE SAY STAMINA? ASLDHKASLDHALSHDASDLASDA.


♥ ♥ ♥
( SO MUCH FLAIL OMG OMG OMG!!! )

2. Oh god. I'm SO GLAD J and I get to see him again in exactly just under a month, in Taiwan this time, playing alongside a bunch of other incredibly talented people. I'm not sure anything could top this experience for sheer vocal awesomeness and amazing. But YAY for seeing him live again. How could I NOT see him every chance I can get? And how did I survive without seeing him live for the three years I was in university? WHO NEEDS A COLLEGE DEGREE ANYWAY. (Oh wait, I do...)

3. Man I am WIPED. Such an emotional day - other than Concert Of Epic Win, I also watched The Reader. Which I KNOW wasn't really much as a film: the script wasn't brilliant, the directing not especially outstanding... but I was pretty shattered by it nonetheless. I was weeping big-time at the end (why am I such a wimp?) - I think because Kate Winslet freakin' ROCKED her role and I just identify with people who like reading. Or something. *cries* I have learnt two things from this movie though: Kate = AWESOME; and there is NO UNIVERSE in which her role is a supporting one.

4. FOOD. Met SC and J for a quick dinner before concert, which was rushed through because literally we hit every traffic light on the way over. I had... a yummy French onion soup laden down with bread and cheese, and a vegetable casserole (I really DON'T like baked beans, fyi). Oh, and then because concert drained us and we were hungry and thirsty, J and I stopped for Taiwanese porridge on the way home. ♥

5. Oh goodness I just turned around and looked out and the SUN IS UP. It's 8.07am. I've been typing and tracking for very close to four hours now. *weeps* I'm going to finish up and set the 24,563MB audio to upload while I sleep.

6. BEST. CONCERT. EVER. JUST HAD TO SAY THAT AGAIN. ASDKLHALHDLAHDLASHDLHLFHLASDHLASDAS.

1. Oh goodness, I'm sleepy. I was sleepy at 10pm, wtf. It's my version of jetlag, I guess - though not quite. If I had had adequate amounts of sleep over the last couple of nights after getting home, I'd be fine. But I keep... lingering online, predictably, which means I've spent the last two days functioning on four and seven hours of sleep respectively. Fail. I'm gonna crash after this (for serious), since it's back to work in a matter of hours. BLERGH DO NOT WANT.

2. And that's CNY over for another year - well, the festivities go on for a couple of weeks yet, but the main part of it, with the food and money and visiting relatives, is over now. There was a massive party at my house tonight, and I spent most of it bonding with my computer. Honestly? People annoy me so much sometimes. Also, my brother took back the laptop he 'gave' me as his new one is, for some reason, worse than this one. Urgh. I was looking forward to multi-tasking by using it while watching TV. I GUESS NOT, NOW. Sigh.

3. Since on occasion most of the time I'd much rather spend time flailing than with people, I plunged straight back into icon-making (visual representations of my fandoms ftw!), and that's what I've been doing all afternoon. Made a ton of Meryl ones, catching up on the stuff I missed while on vacation. I decided to post all my Falling In Love icons because I don't think anicons are gonna happen as I originally intended. I'm too lazy. (Aren't Meryl and Robert De Niro ridiculously hot together though?) I'm also saving up icons for a bigger Broadway batch - I've quite a few (slashy) Wonderettes icons, and I made ten Gypsy icons because hai, photo diary of closing night! Awesome. Also, it makes me a tiny bit less terrified of Patti to see her just waking up, or to see her sprawled on her dressing room floor (presumably stretching, though for a moment I thought she had fainted and was horrified that the photographer was busy taking pictures instead of HELPING her).

4. BTW, this POSSIBLE guest star for 30 Rock? FUCKING ROCKS MY UNIVERSE. YES PLZ. If this happens, I think my brain might very possibly break into a million teeny tiny pieces, and each piece would melt from the awesome. I'M PRETTY SURE I'M NOT EXAGGERATING THERE.

5. If any of you guys happen to be bored, I've some music to flail over. ( videos under the cut )

6. OMIGOD I NEED TO WATCH A MOVIE, GUYS. I haven't watched one in two weeks, I think. Can we say withdrawal?! I didn't watch anything on the flight(s) back since I was addicted to Tetris (yes, I fail hardcore). But! There'll be Doubt this weekend (CAN WE SAY MEGA ULTRA EXCITED?!), and a bunch of other Oscar movies to catch up on. I have a feeling I'll be watching three shows a day on the weekend. Oddly enough, I'm totally fine with that. :D

7. Is Photobucket being a mega-bitch for anyone else? I managed to upload my Meryl icons before the site stopped functioning normally, but man, is it ever being a pain right now. Grrr.

8. The prospect of being at work in seven hours or so makes my heart very very sad indeed. :(

1. And so ends my weekend of EPIC FLAIL. Soon to be followed by a FORTNIGHT of EPIC FLAIL in NYC. Heh.

2. Mayday concert tonight was AMAZING. SERIOUSLY. Every time I see these guys live, I fall in love with them all over again - even if they made me work REALLY HARD for that. As mentioned here, when I went for a full-fledged concert in April last year, attending a concert by these guys is like a CARDIO WORKOUT. Even if you have assigned seating, it doesn't matter - you're on your feet for pretty much three hours, jumping and flailing even through the tender, sweet ballads. So the concert organisers for Sunday's event clearly decided - why bother with SEATS. Everyone who had tickets was just herded into Stadium Green, which is a large expanse of grass right next to the Singapore River. And so tonight, probably a few thousand people rocked out to Mayday (oh, 阿信, how I LOVE YOUR VOICE), beneath a cloudless, moon-lit sky, yelling like crazy people so everyone for miles around could hear. EPIC. ♥

3. Am tracking my audio now - SO amusing, OMG. The quality is actually really good, considering that the concert was outdoors and EVERYONE was singing along like it was a communal karaoke session (that's probably the most FUN part of c-pop concerts, how much PARTICIPATION is expected from the audience... though it makes for less-than-ideal boots). But you can actually HEAR the parts at which I just gave up on a consistently good audio and started jumping around like a mad thing. Hee.

4. Now that I'm planning to see SO many shows and concerts and read and watch movies, I decided to expand my yearly list to include live performances. It's only four days into the new year and I'm off to a pretty good start already! :D This is gonna be an EPIC year for flail. EPIC.

5. OH. I also got my hair cut. And coloured, and styled. FOR FOUR AND A HALF HOURS. Omigod. FAIL. I look like... a China doll or something. I now have a fringe, it's bright red (AGAIN), and... it's CURLED? *weeps* I'm sure at SOME point I should have stopped taking my hairdresser's advice - just as her assistant was about to dump all the brown (it's SUPPOSED to be brown) dye on my head, I had a moment of going... errr, the permed hair is QUITE enough of a difference, thanks. (What even possessed me to say yes to THAT, in the first place?!) And then I chickened out because the dye had already been prepared. And then I just had to suffer through it, because omigod it took AGES to get it all into my hair and then it HURT and made me feel sick. Yuck. And now it's RED. *weeps some more* I'm sure the colour will even out after I wash it a couple more times. BUT. Remind me - next time I get my hair cut, I'm going to stay away from colouring for a while.

6. Finished reading City of Stars. SO OBSESSED with this series, omigod. It's EPIC. From a parallel Venice to a parallel Siena, with winged horses, horse races, and just an AMAZING expansion of the universe from the first book. LOVE.

7. And I think I'm... falling sick again? As in, back into the illness I had all of December? Maybe it's just the lack of sleep from today coupled with the crazy cardio workout. But I'm snuffly, my throat is scratchy and ARGH. NO WAY. Not before NYC. How incredibly SUCKY would that be, seriously.

8. I should SLEEP, obviously, to try and avoid illness. But but but. I'm almost done with audio! Except I just screwed up and have to reload the entire file to fix it. ARGH. Why do I fail SO HARD.

1. I realise that I need to stop abusing my headphones. Because even though ONE set is cheap enough at $25, the fact that I bought my third one for the year today? Means I've spent $75 so far! WTF. I never MEAN to break my headphones, obviously. But I just... do? And it sucks, because these are the nice clip-on kind, which produce AMAZING-quality sound and don't annoy my ears. So they're worth the money... but three times over? Faily of me, I know.

2. Also, since Jeremy Piven had to go off and pursue his new career as a thermometer, Norbert Leo Butz and William H Macy are filling in for him in Speed The Plow. Frak. I mean, FRAK. I wasn't going to see this, and my schedule as it currently stands really doesn't allow for it, but OMG - to see William H Macy live? (Also, Raul Esparza and Elisabeth Moss, but mainly for one half of Filliam H Muffman.) AUGH. Yeah, I know. The only way to REALLY resolve this dilemma is, clearly, just to move to NYC. Sigh.

3. MERYL. I need need need to stop watching her promotional interviews and stuff for Doubt, because, argh. Do not need to be spoiled, or have my expectations raised any further. As things stand, I think I got spoilt in a pretty major way for a key plot point when I watched a kind of town-hall-type press conference the cast did for the movie. BUMMER. ( Nevertheless, I MUST share my favourite parts of the interview... )

4. And I also bought Dark Matter when I spotted it in the DVD store - I was looking to see if Mamma Mia was on the shelves, but I suspect it was sold out. Serendipitously, however, I spotted this DVD, and it's one of the few Meryl movies released in the past few years that I HAVEN'T seen, so. :D

5. As I check IMDB to see which ones I HAVEN'T seen - House of the Spirits, wth. I didn't even KNOW this movie existed. Okay, I did, but I didn't know what it was ABOUT. What a weird (albeit awesome) group of actors to have playing... a bunch of Chilean characters. Jeremy Irons? Winona? Glenn Close? I have this book somewhere, waiting to be read. I should get to that.

6. Finally: a meme snagged from in48frames - I'd love it if you guys could spam me with some music! XD It'll be fun!

Friends List Soundtrack Meme I want to have a complete soundtrack with one song from each of my friends. It can be your favourite song in the whole world, a recent favourite or just a song that you think really identifies you. Upload the song and leave the link in a comment. If you can't upload your song, just post the artist and name, and I'll (try to) download it myself. I'll put a fanmix together with (hopefully) pretty art and post it on my journal for everyone to download.

1. OMIGOD. As noldoparma and I were discussing, we are returning to our Chinese pop roots and fandom at EXACTLY the right time. EXACTLY. Emil Chau. EMIL CHAU. ♥ Has a couple of new singles, both kind of out TODAY, and they made my brain explode. There's this gorgeous, wu xia-tinged new song, 大城之光 Da Cheng Zhi Guang, and it makes me RIDICULOUSLY HAPPY. Then also, his new band, the one he formed with three other INCREDIBLY talented singer-songwriters, released their first trippy single today. EMIL RAPS. Like, RAPS. *weeps* And he wrote the harmonisation for the entire song and I'm IN LOVE WITH IT. Also, Superband might be staging a concert in Taiwan in March. YEAH, GUESS I'M GOING TO TAIWAN IN MARCH.

2. I guess I'm never quitting my job of fail. Not at the rate my fandoms are forcing me to rack up miles on, like, a million different airlines. :P (Don't even remind me of the possibly insane plan to return to NYC, AGAIN, in May so I can see all the new shows if Broadway hasn't imploded into itself by then.)

3. Fuck I should sleep.

4. One last thing - girlie_girl_23 was incredibly amazing, and gave me access to some Mamma Mia CRACK that isn't on the DVD. (FAIL, DVD.) At least, not on the non-Walmart version of the DVD. I haven't watched/downloaded everything, but AIEEEE. Dailies footage of Meryl singing Mamma Mia!! Her HAIR. DIFFERENT. (It's not tucked more securely behind her ear. And yes... I KNOW it's sad that I know that.) ANYWAY. PRETTY. ♥


( more under the cut )

5. Bedtime for real. I had the equivalent of six hours of useless meetings at work today. I don't ever want to go back, not that I'm doing real work anymore these days. But I have to. Bah.

6. OH. One last thing: thank you for the card, tamoshan! XD

1. GUYS. IT'S, LIKE, SO CLOSE TO CHRISTMAS. And it hasn't really FELT Christmassy for me yet, this year... not so far, anyway. Not that I'm religious or really participate in gift-buying and card-giving or anything of that sort (I am SUCH a Scrooge), but well. The most I've done is put Santa hats on icons, and that's about it. BUT GUESS WHAT, IT'S OFFICIALLY CHRISTMAS-TIME IN MY BRAIN. YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY? BECAUSE, ZOMG, IT'S JULIA FRICKIN' MURNEY SINGING MY FAVOURITE CHRISTMAS SONG, LIKE, EVER. And singing it mightily AWESOMELY, I might add.

2. I was planning to upload a Christmas mix of, you know, amazing, like with Frankie and Bing and Karen (Carpenter) and Cheno, but well. All I have do now is direct you over here, where the awesome pdt_bear has uploaded some frakkin' awesome CRACK, so you can keep up with the flail that will ensue... ( COME JOIN ME IN MY FLAIL )

3. Also. Let's talk about a completely random fandom collision. (Ahahaha, random fandom! Mommy, I made a rhyme!) I was watching this Emil interview when he was hilariously describing what he got up to when he was done working on his album and could just tool around at home. So what he basically does is make a nuisance of himself, because his face was all swollen up from when he tried to dust something, and then he cut himself when doing the dishes. There was this ADORABLE moment of when he held up his hand as he recounted the story, of how he went crying to his wife over his fail. And it SO reminded me of, well, a very similar Julia moment. To wit:


AHAHAHA. I have waaaaay too much free time on my hands.

4. And then. You know what's adorable? You know what's adorable at the age of 59? With a horrible cold and cough and plans to return home to quietly die once she's done with the interview? Meryl on Letterman, that's who. ( I wish I could go home, but I caaaaaaaaaaan't!! )

5. Okay, I'm actually going to go to bed now, because it's back to work tomorrow. I hate my illness, btw. It's SO ANNOYING. I feel terrible at times - usually when I wake up - but better than okay at others, but I'm still stuffed-up, and my cough gets pretty bad. Sometimes. Like when I was flailing over Meryl. I think it was a sympathy cough, but man. Not fun, and kind of painful. Isn't it stupid to give me cough meds to keep the symptoms away for the day - except that they cause drowsiness? As if I don't have enough problems staying awake at work as is. Boo.

6. ETA: O_O WTF. All the lights just... went out. I think the electricity just blew. I like how my computer seems to be running on a different electrical system than my lights and air-conditioning though, mwahahaha. I don't think anyone else in the house is going to notice, since they're asleep and I'm... not. Faily house of fail. Our front gate is still broken, so I had to climb into the house yesterday. Would have had to do it today too, except I got my grandma to manually unlock the gate and leave it for me. Bah.

( I JUST POSTED BUT EMIL SINGING 至少還有你 FUCK FUCK FUCK )

noldoparma, I don't think my heart can take this much awesome. *cries*

Everyone else should... feel free to ignore me while I try to scrape my brain and heart back into place.

1. Merde. And if my French accent wasn't good enough: SHIT. WTFUCKERY IS THIS. I am sick again, indeed and for certain. Fail fail fail. A cough is... on the brink of happening. It WILL happen properly, I suspect, the next time I wake up. Stupid illness of stupid FAIL. And I can't go to the doctor tomorrow, probably - since my boss is busy all day and I need to... sit at my desk and pretend to take charge of things in her absence. Yuck.

2. That being said, I am not entirely unhappy today. I am kind of gross because I eschewed showering in favour of watching videos (WHAT - I got stuck on a loop and then it was too late and I figured I should shower before work so I could stay awake). GOOD THING I HAD AWESOME VIDEO CRACK TO ENTERTAIN ME.

3. Meryl was just on Good Morning America promoting Doubt! :D



( Yes I was - but now everything's CHANGED )


4. And then I stumbled across someone's tudou playlist of incredibly INSANELY AWESOME, HAPPY-MAKING EMIL VIDEOS. ( SERIOUSLY. )

5. And so my life is shiny and complete, even if I haven't showered and I have to go to work and I'm sick. Doesn't take much, does it, it really REALLY doesn't.

6. It's a good day. We put a paper out at work, there's new House for me to download when I get home, and I have video crack. ♥ Fun times.

OKAY SO GUYS. lanafromoz tagged me for a meme:

1. Post about something that made you happy today even if it's just a small thing.
2. Do this everyday for a week without fail.
3. Tag 8 of your friends to do the same. - I'm not tagging but EVERYONE should do this, because it's a nice way to, you know, remember your day in the run-up to Christmas. :D

Anyway. WHAT BETTER WAY TO START THIS OFF THEN BY SAYING: YOU KNOW WHAT MADE ME HAPPY? THIS WEEK'S HOUSE EPISODE MADE ME HAPPY.

( pronoun confusion at its sexiest: 'you can use our outer office...' )

Wow I wrote a thesis. O_O I'm so sorry this turned out so long. *weeps* Can you tell this episode made me really super ultra extra happy? :D I can't believe there's only one more episode until winter hiatus. *cries*

I love my show. *hugs it*

Anyways. Tomorrow I'm going out for lunch - to my favourite restaurant - and out for dinner and a movie, so I think it'll be good times then too. YAY. XD I could really get used to this not-really-doing-work-while-at-work thing.

1. Happy birthday, dividingday! Hope you have a marvellous day. :D

2. Dude, LJ, why are you so fucked up? What is with the seriously fugly and stripped-down posting/commenting options these days?

3. Omigod SO ILL. It's one of those maddeningly slow illnesses - the annoying creeper version rather than the kind that just explode all over you - so I woke up on Saturday (at 5pm, go me!) with a slightly worse cold and cough, my voice a little bit gone. Thankfully I didn't sniffle at all throughout the show (so my audio should be clean). And I get up this afternoon (surprisingly, at 1.30pm!) and I'm done: the snot is green, I'm sneezing, and ARGH.

4. I'm supposed to be meeting a friend of mine from uni (who's now based in Taiwan and brought his wife over here for her birthday weekend), but I'm soooo lazy about it. I can't even pretend to be ill as my plan for today is to go out and catch up on movies since I can't do anything much else.

5. Though, then again, my back aches from the being ill. Yuck. I guess that doesn't matter though, as long as I don't fall asleep during the shows?

6. I got a full tank of petrol for under $70 yesterday. WTF. That's, like, almost a 20% drop in what I USED to pay. \o/

7. I was SO remiss yesterday in posting about the concert I went for. I was catching up on some internet flailing (mainly of the Mamma Mia variety), and then I fell dead asleep. Anyways: I haven't seen Emil Chau live since I started this LJ, so you guys have NO IDEA how scary my flail over him can get. Ahem. In other words, consider this fair warning that what follows is INCREDIBLY self-indulgent and flaily, and so is best kept under a cut: ( WTF IS THAT AMAZING. ONE OF THE BEST CONCERTS I'VE EVER BEEN TO EVER )

8. Anyways, audio will be tracked. Once I get around to tracking Act II of Wicked and STOP listening to this one song over and over again, argh.

9. And then I caught up on everything I've not been reading over at Simply Streep, and AIEEE. Meryl is on the cover of Entertainment Weekly! I HOPE that they're selling both covers and she isn't just on the subscriber's copy or something, because I do NOT want cover with Twilight boy. DO NOT WANT. Must haunt bookstores over the next week. Also, these pretty much made my life: Meryl on Obama and on religion. Can I be this smart and together when I grow up, plz?

10. Man. That took me almost 1.5 hours. O_O I'm going to stop now. :P