achievements and meme-ishness, part deux
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bibliothekaraBroadcasting for once from *my* computer, Norman the iMac. I'm nearly done adding 131 new songs to the iPod, which was my big project for the morning. (Yes, I still buy CDs. Norman the iMac is not currently networked 24-7, so it's easier this way. ) (Also, I will seriously need a bigger iPod eventually.) The crown jewel of which, is all 5 "American" albums by the Man in Black. Because Awesome Musically Obsessed Coworker With A Massive CD Collection is Awesome and Generous.
Doctor Who is BACK tonight, and I will find (probably nefarious) ways to watch it tomorrow. *noises of joy* Can't wait to watch the Doctor and Servillia of the Junii. Even though the arrival of "Waters of Mars" means that the finale of Ten's song is starting. *snerf*
But for now, NEW 5 QUESTIONS MEME STUFF! This time from the lovely and talented![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
melliyna , who is also responsible for the WW/CM Monster Crossover Bunny. (Or translation, a prequel/missing scene/sequel to "Birds and Bourbon.") Which, yay, I've actually started, and is kind of turning epic against my will. Damn her. :p
1. Top five 'brain breakingly disturbing in a good way' CM episodes?
It tends to change day by day. And fortunately, they haven't done "swarms of insects" yet, which is what really sends me into hysterics. (Seriously. During that scene in the Peter Jackson King Kong with the giant millipedes, even watching in our tv room, I was screaming and cowering under an afghan, and had to be told to calm down and shut up.) But anyway...
5. The Eyes Have It- Recent, fresh in my mind. The creepy taxidermy figures stuck in my head.
4. Lucky- Watched/listened to this recently while cooking dinner. Bad, bad mistake.
3. Seven Seconds- Gut-wrenching. The aunt and uncle are not Foyet or Frank level sociopathic, but in a way they're almost worse. Embodiments of the banal reasons people do awful things to each other.
2. The Fox- The family obliterator, in concept and execution. And maybe this is because of the recent Ft. Hood awfulness, but the idea of a pyschiatrist gone dark side is especially and disturbingly plausible.
1. A Shade of Gray- Background: When I was 7, and we were at First-Day-School together, my 1-year-old brother wandered off a mile into the neighboring woods. He was found an hour later, at the next farm down the road, completely fine, . I was told repeatedly that I was not in charge of him, that it was not my fault. And intellectually, I know that, but emotionally? I've never gotten over it. I freaked out last year when we miscommunicated in a mall and were separated, even though a) he's 17, b) had bus fare and c) knows perfectly well how to get home from the mall.
So, anything involving older/younger siblings in any crime show tends to set me off. The older brother killing his little brother struck me very very deep.
Yeah, I guess my list tends to remind me of that Chekov line everybody quotes: "All happy families are the same, all unhappy families are unhappy in their own particular way."
2. Favorite guilty pleasure books/authors?
Hrmmmm. I know what they used to be, but I don't have too many at the moment. Mostly because after college, I've rediscovered "reading for fun", with a vengeance. When I was a kid, I used to love the R.L. Stine books, the Babysitter's Club, even those godforsaken Sweet Valley High things. They're trifles and manipulative at that, but they were awesome. Like slasher flicks or action movies. But most of my guilty-reading pleasure these days comes from reading shippy fic in fandoms where I would scream if they did it on the show.
3. President Bartlet meets the BAU. Discuss.
Oh heck. Do not get Jed and Reid together, or we're all going to be here until midnight, like that national parks conversation times ten. I have a feeling that the President and Rossi have met before, probably fought in that polite way you fight with the president, and though they have come to some sort of detente, don't really like each other. Because they're too alike. JJ would probably fit in very well around the Oval Office, but I think she would make Jed sad, because she would remind him of Mrs. Landingham. Morgan, he would respect greatly, but Garcia is way too Abbey-ish for his comfort. Prentiss would probably be intensely uncomfortable being in the White House, but she reminds me a lot of "these women", the awesome chicks that peopled the Bartlet White House. Back when Leo was alive, I bet Leo and Hotch got on very well, and probably might have ganged up on POTUS a time or two. Because the stuff Jed valued in Leo, I see in Hotch as well; loyalty, ethics, snark. And Gideon? I think Jed would have found him intensely irritating. Because while Jed had Uncle Fluffy to offset The Vicious Professor, Gideon, not so much. That's possibly why I see Jed liking Dave better.
All in all...I now want someone to write me a "BAU comes to the WH to get a commendation" ficlet- please?
4. Rossi and Josh? Do they get on or not?
Well, I think they get on, in the way that Josh and Toby get on; lots of yelling, intellectual pissing contests up the wazoo, Hotch and Sam heading for the sideline and cooking popcorn. But I think in both of them, there is a inherent altruism under all the ego. They believe that they are the best at what they do, and have the ego to match. But they have to be he best, because the world requires that they do something good with all that talent, or what's the use of them?
5. Favorite instances of Hotch as Mom? (I was going to put a White Collar question here, but that would be overboard. Just because I wonder about a CM as con-artists with a heart of gold AU....).
Damn it, woman, don't give me more ideas. But now, forever and always, the moment that sums up Hotch as Mom is him washing the blood off Elle's walls in Fisher King. No words, just the pain and committment on his face. Coming a close second is nearly all of Minimal Loss, from Morgan hollering "Hotch" at the beginning, to Hotch watching everybody amidst the smoke and chaos at the end.
Doctor Who is BACK tonight, and I will find (probably nefarious) ways to watch it tomorrow. *noises of joy* Can't wait to watch the Doctor and Servillia of the Junii. Even though the arrival of "Waters of Mars" means that the finale of Ten's song is starting. *snerf*
But for now, NEW 5 QUESTIONS MEME STUFF! This time from the lovely and talented
melliyna , who is also responsible for the WW/CM Monster Crossover Bunny. (Or translation, a prequel/missing scene/sequel to "Birds and Bourbon.") Which, yay, I've actually started, and is kind of turning epic against my will. Damn her. :p1. Top five 'brain breakingly disturbing in a good way' CM episodes?
It tends to change day by day. And fortunately, they haven't done "swarms of insects" yet, which is what really sends me into hysterics. (Seriously. During that scene in the Peter Jackson King Kong with the giant millipedes, even watching in our tv room, I was screaming and cowering under an afghan, and had to be told to calm down and shut up.) But anyway...
5. The Eyes Have It- Recent, fresh in my mind. The creepy taxidermy figures stuck in my head.
4. Lucky- Watched/listened to this recently while cooking dinner. Bad, bad mistake.
3. Seven Seconds- Gut-wrenching. The aunt and uncle are not Foyet or Frank level sociopathic, but in a way they're almost worse. Embodiments of the banal reasons people do awful things to each other.
2. The Fox- The family obliterator, in concept and execution. And maybe this is because of the recent Ft. Hood awfulness, but the idea of a pyschiatrist gone dark side is especially and disturbingly plausible.
1. A Shade of Gray- Background: When I was 7, and we were at First-Day-School together, my 1-year-old brother wandered off a mile into the neighboring woods. He was found an hour later, at the next farm down the road, completely fine, . I was told repeatedly that I was not in charge of him, that it was not my fault. And intellectually, I know that, but emotionally? I've never gotten over it. I freaked out last year when we miscommunicated in a mall and were separated, even though a) he's 17, b) had bus fare and c) knows perfectly well how to get home from the mall.
So, anything involving older/younger siblings in any crime show tends to set me off. The older brother killing his little brother struck me very very deep.
Yeah, I guess my list tends to remind me of that Chekov line everybody quotes: "All happy families are the same, all unhappy families are unhappy in their own particular way."
2. Favorite guilty pleasure books/authors?
Hrmmmm. I know what they used to be, but I don't have too many at the moment. Mostly because after college, I've rediscovered "reading for fun", with a vengeance. When I was a kid, I used to love the R.L. Stine books, the Babysitter's Club, even those godforsaken Sweet Valley High things. They're trifles and manipulative at that, but they were awesome. Like slasher flicks or action movies. But most of my guilty-reading pleasure these days comes from reading shippy fic in fandoms where I would scream if they did it on the show.
3. President Bartlet meets the BAU. Discuss.
Oh heck. Do not get Jed and Reid together, or we're all going to be here until midnight, like that national parks conversation times ten. I have a feeling that the President and Rossi have met before, probably fought in that polite way you fight with the president, and though they have come to some sort of detente, don't really like each other. Because they're too alike. JJ would probably fit in very well around the Oval Office, but I think she would make Jed sad, because she would remind him of Mrs. Landingham. Morgan, he would respect greatly, but Garcia is way too Abbey-ish for his comfort. Prentiss would probably be intensely uncomfortable being in the White House, but she reminds me a lot of "these women", the awesome chicks that peopled the Bartlet White House. Back when Leo was alive, I bet Leo and Hotch got on very well, and probably might have ganged up on POTUS a time or two. Because the stuff Jed valued in Leo, I see in Hotch as well; loyalty, ethics, snark. And Gideon? I think Jed would have found him intensely irritating. Because while Jed had Uncle Fluffy to offset The Vicious Professor, Gideon, not so much. That's possibly why I see Jed liking Dave better.
All in all...I now want someone to write me a "BAU comes to the WH to get a commendation" ficlet- please?
4. Rossi and Josh? Do they get on or not?
Well, I think they get on, in the way that Josh and Toby get on; lots of yelling, intellectual pissing contests up the wazoo, Hotch and Sam heading for the sideline and cooking popcorn. But I think in both of them, there is a inherent altruism under all the ego. They believe that they are the best at what they do, and have the ego to match. But they have to be he best, because the world requires that they do something good with all that talent, or what's the use of them?
5. Favorite instances of Hotch as Mom? (I was going to put a White Collar question here, but that would be overboard. Just because I wonder about a CM as con-artists with a heart of gold AU....).
Damn it, woman, don't give me more ideas. But now, forever and always, the moment that sums up Hotch as Mom is him washing the blood off Elle's walls in Fisher King. No words, just the pain and committment on his face. Coming a close second is nearly all of Minimal Loss, from Morgan hollering "Hotch" at the beginning, to Hotch watching everybody amidst the smoke and chaos at the end.
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Date: 2009-11-15 10:43 pm (UTC)*tries not to encourage con-artist AU. Tries really hard ;)*
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Date: 2009-11-16 04:54 am (UTC)