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. It's been a WEEK since I've posted. Whaaaaat. Where does the time go? Oh well, it just means less verbal diarrhoea for you guys to wade through... or it just means that it ALL COMES AT ONCE, like I expect it will in this Omnibus Post of Doom. Heh.

2. Work. Holy god, WORK. Last Wednesday was legit one of the worst days - WORST DAYS - I have ever spent in the office. I left work at 9pm the night before, dragged myself back in by about 5am, and WORKED and hammered my brain into submission and wrote something like 11-13 paragraphs, NONE OF WHICH WAS USED, and basically wound up in a stairwell crying. Yeah... really NOT a highlight of my career to date. And to just add insult to injury on that bad, bad day, I went in search of some Japanese food in this particular restaurant... only to discover the restaurant had closed (temporarily, for renovations, but REALLY, talk about shitty-assed karma, huh?). SIGH.

3. So HOW have I rewarded myself for that much fail? I think it's called an epic EPIC marathon of TV over the weekend. Basically, I watched over half of Season 5 of Desperate Housewives AND got caught up on the new season, and just finished watching House, Bones, Glee AND 30 Rock. A++++ me - bringing couch potato-dom to new heights of obsession every day. ( THOUGHTS )

4. WOW THAT WAS A LOT OF TV. Amidst all of that, I still managed to find time to meet friends on Sunday afternoon to FINALLY watch Julie & Julia - OH HAPPY DAY. I have such a craving for French food right now, and am about three million times more excited for It's Complicated. ( some disjointed thoughts on the movie )

5. Everyone needs some pretty damn awesome Bebe Neuwirth in their lives. No lie. All fact. Courtesy of illusory_thrill.

6. I really need to go to bed, though I'm not sleepy at all. Good thing I'm away from regular work for the next two weeks and can use that time to recover my sanity. Oh, and buy tickets for NYC. XD I'm so tempted to get tickets for A Little Night Music RIGHT NOW, guys, but the tickets are so expensive and Telecharge isn't offering up anything AWESOME. Are they holding blocks of seats in reserve and only releasing them later? Should I wait a bit? Will there be discounts? Because ticket prices for this show are LEGIT INSANE. Oof.

1. So it's ten minutes past midnight and I JUST got back into work. What a way to start a day, huh? It's not like yesterday wasn't a particularly bad one, it WAS - one of those when I felt tragically undervalued, underpaid, put upon, and just generally aggrieved with everything. (Yes, ESPECIALLY so, apparently I CAN feel even worse than I do on a regular basis at work.) I was in such a bad mood I actually told my boss when she tried to make a joke that "I'm sorry, I'm not inclined to find anything funny today." Oops. A+++ for me on maintaining interpersonal communication at the workplace. The really tragic thing is that I KNOW I need the extra quiet hours to work on this stupid paper, so instead of giving up, I'm back here and planning to spend the night - I figured it'd be easier to go home, shower, and come back fortified with food and not have to deal with the commute in the morning. In other words, I would SO not be averse to y'all SPAMMING ME WITH HAPPY. Please. Anything to get me through this night would be much appreciated.

2. Let me get things rolling. I was truly in the worst mood ever until momentsofbeing4 posted the newest trailer for It's Complicated. OMG YES YES YES. ♥ I cannot - absolutely cannot - wait for this movie. The new scene at the very end of the trailer PRETTY MUCH KILLED ME DEAD FROM THE LOL-ARITY. I'm so going to watch every interview and read every article featuring this cast. EVERY SINGLE ONE.



3. Also, I DID watch House when I got home earlier, just to make myself feel happier about coming into work. ( A few thoughts on House 6x04 The Tyrant )

4. AND yesterday I watched Bones. ( Bones 5x03 The Prodigy In The Plain )

5. WHY. WHY in god's name are all the awesome stars and shows going to OKLAHOMA to put on shows?! SERIOUSLY!?!?! I would kill to be able to watch this production of Sweeney Todd, at the same theatre that hosted Ms Murney in Tommy (if I'm not mistaken?) earlier this year. Because holy FUCK, Jeff McCarthy as Sweeney Todd would be the most. epic. match of voice to role in a looong long time. (I know whereof I speak, I've heard him sing Epiphany live, UNPLUGGED, and it was EPIC TIMES.) And then to add Emily Skinner as Mrs Lovett?!?! FUCK ME. That 'A Little Priest' would actually be an eargasm waiting to happen. I WANT. FOREVER.

6. And NOW I am going to stop procrastinating and go do what I'm here to do: work. Bah.

1. Wow, I totes failed at writing up my recap of the House season premiere yesterday - I was GOING to, and had gone and trawled through pages of TWOP fanwank in preparation (just to see if I was alone in thinking what I did about the episode), and then I FELL DEAD ASLEEP. Nice. So I'm a little less impassioned about it right now, which would make for less bitchery - yay for you if you click on the cut! ( apparently I'm in the minority here? )

2. I really really REALLY would freakin' kill to be at the Signature Theatre at any point over the next few days. The Kander & Ebb concert going on down there featuring Ms Murney is actual five million kinds of awesome and it hurts me to think I can't see it for myself. God. That said, another interview with Julia popped up, and I have this to say to what she has to say:

My favorite show is probably Chicago because I did it at camp as a kid (very appropriate for kids), and then again in college, and I harbor a secret desire to try to tackle Velma in NYC.

OH HOLY GOD YES PLZ. SDFLJLFHLASDFLAHDASDA. I have said, FOREVER, that Julia is my dream Velma; if only I could ever see that happen I would die happy, probably. It was really nice to know it's on HER radar too. ;)

3. And really I should sleep. Apparently this was just an explosion of ranty words. Sigh.

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.

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 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. This is the Elphaba cold from HELL is what it is. Again, no fever or cough or sore throat - thank goodness for that - but apparently the meds have not helped any. Not so far anyway: I got up at 8 in the morning and again now (about 2pm) and I'm still all gunked-up with green stuff. Yuck. If you haven't figured it out yet, I skipped out on work AGAIN. This time taking my own time off, because I can't be bothered to go back to the doctor and tell him that he could just as easily have given me TWO days off as one. Idiot. I mean, he stuck SOMETHING up my nose yesterday and marvelled at how gross and blocked-up it was. Didn't he think it'd take a little longer than a day to rest AND unblock it?! Twit.

2. So I have just TEARED like crazy from the cold and I think I'm going to... well, I'd go get lunch because my grandma made this vile thing with melon that I don't WANT to eat, except I'm not hungry so maybe I'll just lie in bed and watch more tv.

3. Which is basically what I did YESTERDAY, since my computer stopped working for a while. (It also died on me early this morning just after I tracked stuff, piece of junk, except Firefox retained the entry I was working on - what's the POINT, Firefox!?) Oh, so I can ramble on about catching up on Season 4 of Desperate Housewives and also Pushing Daisies... (basically whatever was in my external HD that was NOT Last Resort *grumps*): ( some rambling ) Oh, and also House - that boring episode before Last Resort that was about, IDK, Foreman. And Kutner. And their issues. BORING.

4. I also spent a lot of last night tracking my 3-hour concert audio of awesome. And I still cannot GET OVER how freakity frakkity AMAZING it was. Like, WHAT THE CRAP IS THIS. Seriously. It's the most amazing thing EVER, with so many talented people, and my audio!! ♥ SO GOOD. Aside from the fact that it picks up people TALKING REALLY LOUDLY, which is still totally bearable. Otherwise, it's crystal clear and FABULOUS. I love it. ARGH.

5. Okay, I'm snuffling up a storm and crying a little bit. Sucky. Off to pop some more pills and lie in bed watching tv. I really wish the doctor had been kind enough to give me TWO days off, especially since I actually feel worse today than I did yesterday, but I guess he thinks the meds will take care of whatever ails me. Boo.

OMIGOD. I'M SUPPOSED TO SLEEP BECAUSE I'M NARCOLEPTIC. AND I STILL KEEP FALLING ASLEEP AT WORK. BUT WHATEVER. OMIGOD. THE ITCH, GUYS. WTF WAS THAT AWESOME. I DIDN'T THINK IT COULD BEAT JOY, BUT GUESS WHAT. I FREAKIN' LOVED IT. ASLDJALFALHLHLGHLDDASDASDA.

( YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!! )

Oh, show. I love you long time.

WTF. WTF. I HATE BEING LATE TO THE PARTY. I AM ALSO NOT REALLY COHERENT RIGHT NOW. BUT BUT BUT HAD TO FLAIL. WHO CARES THAT IT'S 4.16 IN THE MORNING AND I HAVE TO BE AT WORK IN FOUR HOURS.

*AVOIDS SPOILERY ICON* because everyone else has been so good to me! ;)

( IMMENSE AMOUNTS OF FLAILAGE OVER HOUSE )

I AM SO GOING TO DIE AT WORK TOMORROW. LATER TODAY, WHATEVER. BUT IT WAS WORTH IT. ASLDJASLDJALDJLA.

Comments tomorrow. I need to SLEEP. But eeeeeeeeeeeeek.

Oh. God.
This episode was... I can't even capslock flail about it. I mean, everything I feel and say you can probably assume is in the equivalent of capslock? But this was such a... smart, heartbreakingly well-written and acted episode, exploring so many themes and relationships and just everything that... capslock doesn't do it justice, somehow. Capslock is for FLAIL. This episode deserves some serious respect.

To wit:

So. I loved that. Even if there was no capslock. The lack of capslock should be an indication of how much I enjoyed it, really, and how much it was just an experience. I love this show, and the writers, and the cast. I hate that it's the end of the season, but at least it's going out with a real bang. Lots to look forward to over a looong summer hiatus. Sigh!

Non House-related dorkiness:
Anyway. The reason I got to the recap so late? I was messing around, predictably, with my new iPod. OH GOD. You know what? iPods are EVIL for people who have anal-retentive, obsessive-compulsive tendencies. I am supremely ANNOYED by the way my music looks at points, so I must reorganise and re-tag songs and albums and EVERYTHING. This is going to be a HUGE PROJECT, OMG. FAIL FAIL. Not to mention the fact that I've discovered the joy of having pretty album art. I will emphatically NOT allow myself to make art for every single bootleg I have. WILL NOT. But I sense cover arts are in the future for Julia's concerts at least. *ahem* Also? I NOW HAVE THE WILD PARTY ON MY IPOD. I CAN WATCH JULIA SINGING HER LUNGS OUT AT ME PRETTY MUCH ANYTIME I WANT, KTHX. This is awesome.

What's not so awesome? Going to bed at 4.30am on a weekday. FECK. I'm going to be even more retarded at work than usual...

WTF. WTF WAS THAT. WTF KIND OF AWESOME WAS THAT.

ASDLJALKDJLASJDLASDJLASDJLSAJLAD. I DO NOT THINK I CAN PROCESS THIS IN WORDS THAT ARE COHERENT OR THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, WORDS. OMFG. LIKE. OMFG.

Seriously. Aside from the OBVIOUS House/Cuddy awesomeness of AWESOME, this was just - gah. One of the best episodes of this show EVER. I cannot. Literally CANNOT. wait for next week. *sobs from the anticipation*

I NEED TO SAY THAT AGAIN. ONE OF THE BEST EPISODES EVER. EVAR. EVAR. YES, IT NEEDS TO BE MIS-SPELT, IN ITALICS AND IN CAPS. GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.


So, as I go to bed gayer than I have ever ever been, SPAM ME WITH HOUSE/CUDDY LOVE. YOU KNOW YOU GUYS HAVEN'T FLAILED ENOUGH YET.

RIGHT. SO ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE BEEN WONDERING - WTF HAPPENED TO ellixian AND WHEN IS SHE GOING TO STOP TALKING ABOUT JULIA MURNEY? (WELL, NEVER, BUT LOL. TODAY I WILL.) I JUST WATCHED HOUSE. HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE. OH GOD. SHOW. IS. BACK, GUYS.

AND BACK IN A WAY THAT MAKES ME ENTIRELY CAPSLOCK-FLAILY AND TOTALLY INCAPABLE OF COHERENT SPEECH. I SHALL ATTEMPT A SANE REVIEW. I PROMISE. BUT ASKDJLDKJALDJSLDJASLDJASLDJASLDJLASDJAS. <-- HOUSE/CUDDY SCENES DO THAT TO ME. YOU KNOW THEY DO IT TO YOU TOO.


OMG, I didn't even realise I had that much to say about 4x13. BECAUSE 4X14 IS MADE OF TEN MILLION KINDS OF AWESOME OH GOD. SWEETSAUCE. I NOW KNOW WHAT IT MEANS. SDKLFJSDLFJSDLFJSDLFS.


I FRICKIN' LOVE MY SHIP RIGHT NOW. LOVE IT.

ESPECIALLY BECAUSE NEXT WEEK'S PROMO IS TOTALLY LOL-ARIOUS. NO SPOILAGE EXCEPT TO SAY: THE BIT AT ABOUT 0:19? IT'S NOT JUST YOUR FANTASY, HOUSE.

OH GOD. SO GAY FOR LISA AGAIN. LOL.

And I guess the House dorkage is back for good, huh? *looks around* My it's good to be back.

I know I'm late to the party, guys. BUT COME FLAIL WITH ME ANYWAY?? :)

Good thing it's a public holiday tomorrow and all I have to do is go visiting and eat a lot of crap - if I can do that and still breathe, that is. I've been coughing non-stop for the last five hours, which is awful and kind of painful and really annoying. I THOUGHT I WAS ON THE WAY TO BEING FIXED ALREADY, WTF.

Anyway. Pardon the digression. HOUSE EPISODE FLAILAGE TIME. I can just imagine the amount of squee and flailage that must be occurring in the House/Wilson fandom right about now...


And finally, to bed. It's almost 6.30am. Good thing I don't have to work, though I DO have to go out and be semi-sociable tomorrow and be nice to people. I get money in return for doing so, though. Guess things could be worse then. ;)

At the rate I am going I am never ever ever ever going to bed. But for an episode of House this kickass amazing?! I'd give up sleep and sanity ANYDAY. I have since done my pic-spam duty at my_vicodin and can now flail about this episode as it deserves. *happyface*


And before I go to bed: I TOTALLY NEED TO GO TO CALIFORNIA IN OCTOBER 2008 FOR THE HOUSE CONVENTION. IT WILL BE THE BEST CRACK EVER. I WOULD DIE FROM FLAIL. HUGH LAURIE IS SUPPOSED TO ATTEND. I MIGHT DIE. DIE. IF LISA ALSO ATTENDS, I AM GOING. GOING, I TELL YOU. EVEN IF I HAVE NO TIME, NO MONEY, NO NOTHING. I WILL GET THERE. WHO WILL JOIN ME IN MY INSANITY?

IT'S 5AM. I AM OFFICIALLY CLINICALLY INSANE.

Curses to LJ and Firefox for killing my original draft, WTF happened!

Anyway. NEW HOUSE YES? NEW HOUSE, YES. WE HAVE WAITED TOO LONG. I HAVE MISSED YOU, LISA.

Not as awesome an episode as I'd been hoping for, but some really excellent, cute moments all the same...

Having been maddeningly frustrating in the last few weeks/months, dropping hints (mostly not-so-subtle ones like this and this) about nefarious plans by jukebox_grad and myself for a huge H/C project, we've FINALLY officially launched a brand new community dedicated to the art of H/C pic-spamming!

It's a place for shipping, squeeing, and most importantly, FLAILING.

Come join us at my_vicodin!!

I'll eventually repost all my S4 recaps over there, and when the new episodes hit us, will be uploading recaps there as well. In the meantime, go flail at the exclusive spam for 4x01 Alone, and all that awesome classic H/C love in 1x01 Pilot! :)

*FLAILS EVERYWHERE*
Um. I have serious things to say. I do. BUT. *FLAILS SOME MORE* I'm bummed that this is the last new episode 'til January, but man. We got four House/Cuddy scenes of win. I AM GOOD. I AM HAPPY. Flailage ensues, in epic amounts.

THIS IS IN NO WAY AT ALL DIAL-UP FRIENDLY, NO-SIREE. I went... um, rather crazy with the capping, yes I did. LE WAS SO CUTE. How could I resist?! Enter at your own risk! ;)

Let's talk House/Cuddy. Good. GOD. SO MUCH LOVE THIS EPISODE. 

And clearly there are FOUR photo stories this week, but you should be able to tell by now that they're not in chronological order, since I just had to put the next two scenes together, because, OMG, SO MUCH FLAILY LOVE. The TRUST. The FLIRTING. The EYESEX. And, also, the CUTENESS:

MAN OH MAN. I think I went a LITTLE over the top there with the pic-spamming. *ahem* But how could I resist?!?!? Seriously?!?!
Anyway. I noticed a few other things in the episode that I'll probably pic-spam in a separate post, just because it's pretty random. For now though, I MUST go to bed. Pat yourself on the back if you made it all the way to the end!! ;)

HEE. So many gigglesome moments in this episode, for serious. Review first, as usual, then ridiculously obsessive pic-spam to follow. (MMMM, House/Cuddy scene of GORGEOUS and much hilarity...


Behold - the thong of LISA CUDDY. Use its power wisely, my friends.


So. There was totally NOT ENOUGH CUDDY in the episode. We needed a final scene to resolve the whole panty-napping thing. I think this requires FIC. Still, less Cuddy screentime doesn't mean I couldn't spam the hell out of the one scene between her and House though, because, OMG, look at this - PROOF OF WIN.

 
Eyes up, House! It's like they're maaaagneeeetiiiiicaaaaaaally drawn to her butt. Hee.

And thanks to crumpled_up for pointing this out to me:


Click for the ridiculously detailed photo story and the ZOOM ON CUDDY'S ASS.

Um. I clearly got ALL KINDS of carried away with that scene. It lasted like, thirty seconds or something. My pic spam makes it look like it lasted for weeks. Heh. Think of all the hot table sexings House and Cuddy could carry out in weeks!

Bring on next week. 

Edited to add: O. M. G. The new episode clip starring House/Cuddy for 4x09 is up at the Fox.com/house site. *keyboards* aosafjwoetjwlsaerwqpkdlkngs! They. Are. Adorable. And Bantery. AND SO MUCH LOVE. Aww. I like this blushing theme between the two of them. Can't wait for new episode ALREADY! ;)

How could they call an episode Ugly when it features so much pretty, especially of the Lisa Edelstein variety? I mean, LE was rocking some serious black-and-white, my friends. I have random caps of her from the episode just because she made me go all slack-jawed in wonder at her Unbelievable Gorgeousness.

Bear in mind before embarking upon this review/pic-spam, people: This is SO not dial-up friendly because the H/C scenes this week rocked SO HARD.

I don't even know why I pretend to have intelligent thoughts anymore. Me, I just want to get to the pretty.

Two absolutely massive H/C photo-stories this time. Because I'm so pleased with the amount of Cuddy and H/C screentime we got this episode. Yup yup. And that last scene?! Talk. About. SQUEEAGE.


And I'm done. Kudos to you if you stuck it out this far. Gah. SO MUCH HAPPY from this episode.