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.

1. 3.44am for the epic win lose! BUT BUT. WHO NEEDS SLEEP. Tomorrow is our management retreat, so we're... apparently going to eat ourselves silly on a remote island and make sandcastles. OKAY. Anything is better than doing what I usually do on a day-to-day basis, y/y? And surely I don't need to be all THAT alert if we're going to be making sandcastles? Who cares if there's serious discussion slated for the morning! I just... won't contribute, is all. ;)

2. Another good lazy day toyesterday! I need to store these up while I can, OMG. It sucks that I actually feel GUILTY for having had these days off. REALLY sucks. But today - got up to meet a couple of my oldest, best friends for tea (apple smoothie), and then I also went to see Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Which was... proof that Woody Allen has turned his penchant for neuroses from Manhattan to Europe. I am kind of meh about Scarlett Johansson as his new muse - who is ever going to measure up to Diane Keaton? The answer is NO ONE. However: Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz were really good (Bardem is insanely hot for someone who isn't really all that good-looking and actually makes a very convincing creepy psycho killer). And hey, any movie with Patricia Clarkson in it can't be all bad.

3. I realise with some horror that I might not be able to make my 100-movies-a-year target this year. I was doing SO well earlier this year, but this past three weeks has been SHIT in terms of movie releases - I'm famously undiscerning when it comes to these things, and even I couldn't bring myself to see things like Babylon AD. Good thing I spent all my time watching Mamma Mia instead. :P I think it'll pick up over the next few weeks though - Tropic Thunder is due. Oh, and Burn After Reading! Excited. :D

4. Fandom was also AWESOME to me today. HAI NEW SNL VIDEO OF INCREDIBLE KICKASSERY. The last five seconds were just BEGGING to be iconed, but the whole thing is just genius. I really hope Tina films a guest spot on SNL every week until the elections. That would be hilarious. XD

5. Also! I've been so caught up in musical theatre flail that I've drifted far from Chinese pop. I was worried that I would miss the album releases of my favourite singers - ha ha, shouldn't have worried. Turns out that Jay Chou releasing an album means that my communities just EXPLODE with flail, which is awesome - I've now downloaded the leaked copy of the album, two weeks before it's supposed to hit the stores! Predictably I heart it already. OMG, I just hope this ISN'T a fake copy - it doesn't SOUND like it. But who knows if one or two tracks are by scammers. :\ And then there's Lee Hom's new single! EEEEK. It's a dorky rock song, with such a great Oriental influence. But ZOMG, it's so cheeeeeesy. Hee.

6. Finally, before I take myself to bed at 4am - I was getting caught up on last week's episodes of The Colbert Report, and ARGH. Apparently you can download the Rock Band version of Charlene (I'm Right Behind You) for free?! (OMG, you CAN!) LMAO. THAT IS FRIGGIN' HILARIOUS. Guys. I love this song in an INSANE WAY. It's so funny. Stephen singing a song to the object of his creepy-stalkerness affection. Best music video EVER. WATCH. THIS. RIGHT NOW.

1. Argh, my curiosity got the better of me, and I promised mirime that I would do this mysterious meme she did that somehow included me as one of her answers - but I can't for the life of me answer some of the questions. FAIL. I APOLOGISE. I'll scout down another meme tomorrow and do it in repentance. ;)

2. Hai, Alice Ripley kicks epic amounts of ass. This is a Fact Of Life. Her entire performance at The After Party last week is up on Youtube, so go hunting. This one's my favourite - Alice belting the crap out of Rainbow High from Evita, yay! (And no, I don't listen to Alice and Julia singing the same song on a loop. I DON'T. Well, not yet, anyway...)



3. Ace is such a fun show. I loved the demo when I finally put it on a CD and listened to it in my car a few months back - and whee, the production in DC sounds great! I'd love to be able to see this live. Emily Skinner is excellent, of course, and Jill Paice does a good job as Elizabeth. Plus, bonus: I'd totally forgotten that Julia sang on Missing Pieces in the demo - I love rediscovering old songs!

4. Okay so this is pretty much an entry centred around music flail - medland asked for recommendations and for once I actually didn't pounce and force Julia down someone else's throat. Who's up for some awesome Chinese pop music? JAY CHOU = FTW. ( Follow the cut! )

1. OMG OMG OMG TWO. DAYS. TO. GO. All flaily now. All flaily.

2. And there are so many things to do still! I really have to figure out my camera, for one thing, and pick up my new glasses, and go shopping - but these are all GOOD THINGS. In two days I'll be on the plane to London! FLAIL. :D At least today I managed to get my money changed.

3. I snagged a music meme from vertical_chaos, so this entry won't seem quite so bare.


4. Oh, other random thing! I'm not even done with this upcoming June trip, and have already booked another impromptu weekend trip up to Malaysia in July. WTF WHERE IS THE MONEY COMING FROM? (Oh yes, the EPIC JOB OF FAIL. At least it's good for SOMETHING.) But, YES. THE WEEKEND THE XF2 IS SUPPOSED TO OPEN WORLDWIDE. I sure hope it opens on July 25, because I'd watch it before taking off for Malaysia - but I have to go for the concert! It's only one of my favourite female Chinese pop singers (Winnie Hsin)! And she'll NEVER have a concert here, EVER, because she doesn't have a following at all in this stupid country. (More's the pity.) So I managed to find another friend as crazy as me, and we've since booked plane tickets and a hotel room and everything. The lengths I will go to be a fangirl, OMG. O_O At least we'll get to go up there and stuff our faces with the awesome char siew pork in Bukit Bintang - mmm, laden with fat and caramelised within an inch of its life - and... erm, buy illegal DVDs. *looks around furtively*

5. Edited to add: very simple album artwork I made for all my random Julia songs beneath the cut. :D Using, of course, new favourite photo.

Taken from the lovely angiescully:

Comment on this entry, and I will:
1. Tell you why I friended you.
2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, a word etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
7. In return, you must post this in your LJ.

Have at it, guys!
(Edited to add: I'll definitely get around to doing it for everyone who comments, no fear! It's just that I DO occasionally have to sleep and work, though why I can honestly say I don't really know...)

In the meantime, I have a little video-pimping to do! The music pimpage will come a little later, 'kay? :)

YOU WANT PROOF OF HOW TXF2 PROMO PICS HAVE MELTED MY BRAIN? CHECK OUT MY FAIL > HERE <.

BUT SERIOUSLY. HOUSE/CUDDY/MULDER/SCULLY OT4. YOU KNOW YOU ALL WANTS IT.

Tagged for a meme, in a manner of speaking, by athenaraven:

The rules are easy, just post 10 things that recently made you happy! Then tag 10 people everyone (;D) and force them to post this meme on their LJs. Because it is good. Everyone needs a little happiness once in a while.

1. You guys. For serious. To all the folks, old and new, ILU! :)
2. The new XF promos. Dude. They couldn't be any hotter.
3. ALL ATTENDANT FLAILING: my concentration at work is shot to pieces and I no longer sleep, apparently. But I've never been happier.
4. A shiny new paid account and 100++ icons! *tackle hugsalexia88 for our matchy indulgences*
5. JAY CHOU SONGS - no sign of video from our concert yet, but I found a short one of Jay playing the gu zheng for Fa Ru Xue from his US concert. WIN WIN WIN. I LOVE THAT INSTRUMENT. I LOVE JAY.
6. Idina Menzel's new album and all the live concerts I've been d/l-ing
7. Movies of win are going to be released over the next few weeks - like Juno, and SWEENEY TODD, and OMG, CJ7 with Stephen Chow LOL.
8. WICKED!
9. Getting wired back into AIM again. Anyone else on it? :)
And of course, 10: Just being a fangirl again. I've missed communal!flailing!

Sigh. There will be music pimpage a little later tonight - I owe people lots of stuff! And I'd rather stay home and flail, but I have tickets for a show and have to leave in, like, five minutes.

SPAM ME WHILE I'M AWAY, LOL. KEEP MY INBOX COMPANY.

HAI IT IS 7.45 AM AND I HAVE YET TO GO TO BED. I BLAME IT ON FLAILING, I DO. BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT I'VE DONE TODAY:

1. Watched The Savages, which was excellent, because Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman are ALWAYS made of excellent.

2. Went to Jay Chou's concert for the second night in a row. It was awesome, of course - asjfasjfdalskjalsdjal! My sister made a video of him playing the gu zheng but Youtube is being evil and not letting her upload it. I WILL SPAM WITH IT LATER. He was incredible though. And even brought his grandma out onstage for her to dance the tango, LOL. Cuteness.

3. Returned home for EPIC FLAILING with alexia88 - I have missed you SO, hon, even though we got to meet up just last month! But it was all good, because we both went bonkers with flail and now we have paid accounts and a hundred++ icons for our flailing purposes. WIN. I have spent hours adding icons and I haven't hit the limit yet. HEAVEN. [shameless hint ahead] Anyone on my flist wanna make me an icon to celebrate? HIT ME. ;)

4. Spent way too long re-customising LJ layout BECAUSE IF YOU HAVEN'T GONE MAD FOR THE XF2 PROMO PICS, WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU??

In that spirit of open-mindedness, therefore, check out the new layout:


And 5. Guys! Go contribute to the pic-fic at my_vicodin! Go on, it's FUN!

MAN. I'm, like, totally functioning on three hours of sleep (not just yesterday but every day this week, thanks to the massive amounts of flail I've been engaging in), and I'm so sleepy right now. But I HAVE TO FLAIL. Even if 90% of my flist doesn't understand the object of the flailage! ;)

First things first, welcome also to hazz23, scullybabe626, wildcatlizzie, teh_maskmaid and so_vieh! COME FLAIL OFTEN. I PROMISE I WON'T BITE AND WILL HAPPILY FLAIL BACK - ALL IN CAPSLOCK TOO. ;)

Second things next: nitsa_maro pointed out that I am made of EPIC FAIL - I totally forgot to mention in my last flaily post ANOTHER reason for massive amounts of flailing this year - which is, obviously, that LISA EDELSTEIN SIGNED TO DO A MOVIE WITH LIFETIME WHICH IS DUE OUT IN DECEMBER, NEWS WHICH TOTALLY MADE MY LIFE HAI. The only thing that could make me happier at this point if we were told that either Hugh or Lisa had a cameo role in TXF2, LOL.

And, third things last: went for one of possibly the best concerts I've ever been to in my life, EVER. (And yes, there are two 'ever's in that sentence. IT WAS THAT GOOD.) I don't think I could adequately express the amount of sheer squee that exploded out of me during Jay Chou's concert here tonight. It was just... made of so much WIN.


In other news, the not-quite-sore-throat I've been nursing for the last couple of days looks set to become something considerably worse, very soon. Sigh. Not fun. Also, watched Cloverfield (not bad), and will be watching The Savages tomorrow. NOT TO MENTION GOING FOR JAY CHOU'S SECOND SHOW HERE. I AM SO OBSESSED = FTW!!

And now it's 5.20am, OMG. I NEED TO BE GOING TO BED, YES?!

THERE WILL BE SO. MUCH. FLAIL. IN THIS POST. COME FLAIL WITH ME, LOL. PERMANENT CAPSLOCK IS WELCOME. ;)

1. X-FILES 2:

OMIGOD. I think my fandom brain just exploded. Which is fine by me, but seriously - I dropped out of the fandom almost five years ago now, and all it took was the explosion of the most gorgeous promo pics from the upcoming movie across the interweb for that burning passion and love I had for all things Mulder and Scully to be unleashed again. I've spent, like, the last THREE HOURS flailing and making new friends and just generally going off my head with XF witterings again. Reading quotes and episode titles and remembering episodes and funny moments and Gillian and David and asdflsjhlksdfhsdhdfalsk! (Edited to add: just LOOK at the pretty!!!)

If you're an X-Phile, go check out the >> XF FRIENDING MEME << over at lissie_pissie's journal. It's made of win and the BEST way to reconnect with the fandom.

In the meantime, welcome to book232, chaty1, katernater, lissie_pissie, medland, sapphs, scullybabe626, splodge04, sunspawn and wanderlonely! I can't wait to flail with each and every one of you! =)

I NEED TO WATCH ALL MY FAVOURITE EPISODES AGAIN. OH WAIT, THAT MEANS WATCHING THE WHOLE SHOW AGAIN, LOL. I need to start planning for the movie premiere too now. *excitement*

2. IDINA MENZEL:

So, like, I am also insanely addicted to teh Idina, if you didn't know this. (YOU CANNOT BE ON MY FLIST AND NOT KNOW, LOL.) Her album is coming out in 11 days, asfjasfljasklfjsdlfjsdlfhsldghs!! I doubt it'll be available in stores here on the same day, if ever, but still. It's just nice to know she's finally releasing it, and there'll be publicity and signing tours and live concerts, I hope! And gah, she's going to be signing copies of her record in Times Square on Jan 29! *ENORMOUS SADFACE* I want to go to NYC!!!!

3. HOUSE: is coming back soon. On Jan 29 as well, yes? BEST DAY EVER THIS MONTH.

4. JAY CHOU: OMG, I was supposed to go to bed BEFORE 3am for once so I'd be all rested for his concert tomorrow tonight (AND the night after - going for both nights, ftw!!). But here I've been FLAILING instead. I'm going to be SO DEAD tomorrow. But so full of flail as well - he's only one of my favourite singers EVER.

Oh GAH. All this fandom love and happiness is just so so fantastic and happy-making - not where my work ethic is concerned (I found the XF promo pics at work and spent an HOUR freaking out online when I should have been hard at work!!!!), but for my sanity. (Theoretically.)

*sobs a little with the amount of flail I have experienced in the last nine hours*
This is actually the least amount of capslock I've used in the last nine hours. I admire my own restraint, heh. ;)

I've never made LJ friends so quickly before, but whee, my_vicodin for some proof, hee.)

11. What's something weird you enjoy that gets you odd looks from other people? Singing to myself. Seriously - I sing when I'm walking on the streets, sometimes when I'm out skating or running. I'm sure I look like a total spazz.

12. Your religious beliefs. None. Well, I'm an agnostic more than anything. But no organised religion, thanks very much.

13. Your favourite foods! JAPANESE. Sushi, sashimi, hand-rolls are all LOVE in my book.

14. Tell me the story behind your LJ username. I don't even remember how it came about - but I did use it for the XF fandom way way way back when, so when I was casting about for another nick for House flailage, I remembered it and here we are!

15. Your favourite moment in House. Moment? SINGULAR? *cries* I mean, I love so much of the smart stuff, like in Three Stories or No Reason, but well, if I had to CHOOSE: I think I'll have to go with the injection scene in Who's Your Daddy. MICROBES FTW. So. Much. Sex = LOVE.