- As I have suspected, I didn’t place at all in Week 72 of the Viggo Icontest. **frowns**. But that shouldn’t discourage me from submitting future entries…week 73 is coming up…
- Has anyone seen the premier of “Celebrity Duets”? Believe me I tried, but I got embarrased for both the professionals (i.e Smokey Robinson who I believe should be above all this) and the aspiring crooners (Lea Thompson and Lucy Lawless…yes, Xena the fucking warrior princess is in this one!). That one latino hottie gets my vote…it makes perfect sense that the one contestant who IS the perfect package is also gay…and OMGoodness, James Ingram has come out of the woodwork to grace us with his bald presence.
- I just realized I haven’t been going to class as much as I hoped I would…for over a month now. I’ve been really hoping I’d be able to wrap my foot behind my head with nary a struggle by my 1st year anniversay. BTW, thanks Tom for the anniversary greetings. I wouldn’t be the apt student I am today if I weren’t under your tutelage.
- I’ve “almost” convinced Mattie that I was truly in love with the Gondorian King, Aragorn (Neil has coerced him to watch the extended version of ROTK…that’s what he gets for letting Mattie watch a PG movie). Mattie has been referring to Viggo as the “Cool King” ever since.
- Yay! Bones Season 2 Premier is tonight! **does a jig**
- If you hover to your right, you will see that I’ve added a link to my cafepress store, Minimyte Desings. Thanks largely in part to Ron who inspired me with the name. I didn’t know you’ve been calling me “little dynamite” behind my back. For all it’s worth, I am truly flattered.
- Where in the world did Carmen Sandiego Stacy Mengel run off to?
- I miss Anahatha…haven’t seen her in awhile too.
- I have been refraining from bagging on Tom Cruise lately…I’m starting to feel bad for the guy. All it took was for me to re-watch Jerry Maguire again…and omgoodness, Rene and Jonathan Lipnicki were just too frickin’ adorable…
- I have a feeling I may be a closet anorexic…one look at Lucy Lawless made me think about my shapeless body. I won’t be able to achieve anything if Neil won’t let me go to yoga class damnit!!!
Current Mood: giddy
Music: Hear Me by Jazzyfatnastees
Mon dieu! What a hottie Monsieur Laurie is! And that voice **swoons**…God help us all. Not since I’ve heard Senor Mortensen speak in Elvish have I heard such a sexy voice…hypnotic…soothing…what is it with men and European accents?
I’d also like to give a Happy Birthday holler to Laura “Curly/Kettle/Lenscap” Dugan. Hope all your b-day wishes come true.
I have yet to wait for mine to become a reality **g**.
Current Mood: am a busy bee today
Music: Endangered Love by Larry the Cucumber of Veggie Tales **g**
Hugh was just deee-lsih last night…I’m so glad Conan gave him props and plugged the show during the opening sequence. He has always towered over everyone else (him being 6′2″) and it was weird for me to see him next to Conan the walking albino stick. But I do love Conan…I luffs me O’ Brians, Colberts and Stewarts!
I’d like to thank my fellow Housians for posting the clip I’m about to show you. If only someone out there would post him presenting with Helen Mirren. He was positively scrumptious in that tux…him speaking in French was an added bonus… which was enough to make me run and take a cold shower. Hubba…hubba…hubba
Current Mood: cynical
Music: Caring is Creepy by the Shins
It’s that time again!
I sort of rushed the two icons I made (less than 20 minutes), so I doubt I’ll be placing this time. But who knows, I never thought my last 3 icons would make it and I got 1st AND 3rd place on the same post!
For those who are already LJ users, help vote for me by clicking on the screencap. The theme for this contest was to incorporate Viggo’s artwork/photographs with the assigned pics. My entries are 1 and 8. I had to indicate the name of the artwork so as to proove I didn’t just use some random texture/pattern for my icon.
Here’s to hoping!
Whoopdie-frickin’-doo! It’s 4:42 am and guess what I’m doing?…No wonder I’m beginning to look like my life has been sucked away…but I like the zombie look. It scares would be foes…
But anyhoodle, I just had to post this article my fellow Housian posted in the yahoo discussion groups (yes, there is indeed a growing coterie devoted to everything "House"). I’m just hyping myself up for Season 3. It sucks major gas that Hugh got Emmy snubbed but what can you really trust the credibility of an association that dissed Galdolfini, McShane, and the entire cast of Six Feet Under?!! Spader won. TWICE people!!!
Diagnosis: Riveting
Great cast led by Hugh Laurie helps turn medical drama into the best on TV
By Rob Lowman
LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
If you had heard Hugh Laurie deliver a line like, "I don’t know much about pornography — but I know what I like," you might think it’s one of those zingers that his cranky character delivers on House.
Actually, it’s not. It’s from A Bit of Fry and Laurie, a British sketch-comedy series he did in the late ’80s. The show itself will bring to mind the absurdist humor of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, without the Terry Gilliam graphics. Watching Laurie perform with the witty Stephen Fry is revealing in light of his Fox series.
When you watch Laurie in Fry and Laurie, you see the actor using some similar facial mannerisms and double takes that have become familiar on the Fox show. But, in the medical drama, Laurie cleverly mines them for dramatic effect. While he might have come across as a ninny in a comedy sketch, as Gregory House he comes across as a sarcastic SOB but also a human being, albeit very flawed. (How was Laurie overlooked for an Emmy nomination?)
The second season of House established it as network TV’s best drama. Produced by Bryan Singer (X-Men, Superman Returns), the show is less about medicine and soap-opera interpersonal relations than about the moral and ethical choices the characters make, which take on heightened drama because of the life-and-death situations.
House is a wounded character, both emotionally and physically. He uses a cane after an operation that removed muscle from his leg, and he is addicted to painkillers. Having been unconscious during the procedure, he blames his girlfriend at the time (Sela Ward), whom he still longs for. Ward’s character appears for part of season two, only married to another man, making House’s life more tortuous.
The doctor is the brilliant diagnostician who prefers to take the patient out of the equation. (They all lie, after all.) And he is condescending to his staff (Jesse Spencer, Jennifer Morrison and Omar Epps), his boss (Lisa Edelstein) and fellow doctor and only friend (Robert Sean Leonard.)
This last season found House acting childish, foolish and heroic, despite his better instincts. It’s impossible not to be riveted by Laurie’s performance, but it would only go so far without the interesting conundrums House and his colleagues deal with.
It’s a small world of characters in House, which works to the show’s advantage. Changes are subtle but dynamic. The cast — especially Epps — is superb, the writing razor sharp.
The new season starts Sept. 5. With last season ending with a cliffhanger, I suggest you get started watching.
OMGSqueeeeeeeeeeee!!! **screams so loud, television screens from a 5 mile radius shatter**
Just received good news from the spoiler whores at LJ. TV guide’s Michael Ausiello boldly shares with us what I have been hoping for since Season 1:
Question: What scoops do you have on the House premiere? — Denise
Ausiello: House asks Cam out on a date! It’s true! I watched the first episode (airing Sept. 5) over the weekend and I had to rewind that particular scene to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating, and, well, I wasn’t. He definitely offers to take her out for dinner and drinks. (Of course, there’s a twist. There always is with those two.) Speaking of Cam, it looks like the flirty little minx sprouted bangs over the hiatus, not to mention a new, sexier wardrobe and a few extra layers of makeup. Oh, and in the opening seconds, we’re going to see House do something he’s never done before. Well, at least we’ve never seen him do it before.
Further more, it was pointed out to me that the 2nd Season DVDs contained commentaries for the "flirtiest" scenes between House and Cam. Basically, they (Emmy winners David Shore and Katie Jacobs) have written in the characters of Cam and House to continue bearing unspoken mutual attraction towards one another.
I’m not even a part of this, and I feel I’m part of the sexual tension…like I’m inventing my own ménage à trois **floats**. These characters aren’t even real people!!! I’ve been House-oozled!
Transcript is as follows:
Hallway scene:
(House tells Cameron to stop him… blah, blah, blah)
Shore: Larry Kaplow co-wrote the story with me and a lot of the medical stuff comes from him. The whole trash theme that happens throughout this was his [idea?] and works very nicely.
(Cameron: Everything that lives eats…)
Jacobs: There’s always going to be some sexual tension, chemistry between the two of them.
Shore: And that just works nicely, doesn’t it?
Jacobs: Yep.
Shore: Every time he touches her or she touches him, there seems to be somethin’ going on which is really cool. And I love the fact that she makes this discussion of trash kind of hot.
Jacobs: There is an attraction between the two of them.
Robot scene: *Note: David Shore wanted to cut this scene due to time. Shooting took nine days on this episode.
Shore: Our prop people did a great job (unintelligible).
(House tells tongue guy to stop him if something he does doesn’t make sense)
(Robot arm strokes Cameron’s face)
Jacobs: So… he’s going to… seduce her with the robot.
Shore: (this part speaking over Jacobs: I really wanted this nice…) Yeah. Exactly. What this is, is closest House is going to come to making love to Cameron…this season.
(House lifts Cameron’s shirt tail and touches her navel)
Shore: When we shot this scene, actually… You obviously need to get a shot of Hugh doing this stuff and a shot of Jennifer reacting to it. And the shots on her face were extremely sexy… her reactions to all this. And then in order to get corresponding reactions from Hugh, we had Jennifer read the actions to it… and, I swear, he was blushing by the end, several members of our camera crew were blushing by the end of it.
There you have it folks. I have now the biggest grin plastered all over this pale and pasty mug of mine…I look like a zombie who just got laid…
I’ve never really discussed how I came about obsessing over my favorite ship: the Gregory House - Allison Cameron ship, that is. Sure, Neela and Ray, Kate and Sawyer shippy goodness was born months after that but it always started with House and Cam.
As much as I am ashamed to admit, it was American Idol that introduced me to House MD. With the incessant plugging House got from Fox, I have to say it wouldn’t have attracted a strong following without AI (now House can stand on its own without any help).
I started at the middle of the first season, and my first episode was “Mob Rules”… the episode where House inadvertantly invited Cameron (as a last resort) to watch a Monster Truck rally with him…I thought, “hey, I can sense something here”…and I started “squeeing” for the first time since Remington Steele and Laura Holt exchanged playful, flirtatious banter (and I was only 9 at the time). But this was different…this was between a young ingenue doctor harboring a minor crush over an introverted curmudgeon who also happens to be an emotionally and physically handicapped genius of a diagnostician. He’s much older than her, yes…and maintains his scruffy look…hates personally seeing his patients so he constantly barks orders at her and her fellow “ducklings”…so why would I wish a relationship destined for doom between them? As I had said before, “I felt something there..”. And so do throngs of other fans…it worked for Scully and Mulder…it could work for Greg and Allie. The tension is always palpable (except when the ex-girlfriend was introduced in the series for a 5-7 episode arc)…so thick it is, you can cut it with a knife. So strong it is, it can solve the energy crisis….it could generate as much power as a nuclear warhead. Yeah…exactly.
Why do I baby this fandom of mine? It’s because it led me to a few important people who are now part of my life. I met the stooges, Curly (aka Laura Dugan…aka Dugie…aka Kettle…) and Pip (aka Veronica Byers…aka Moe) AND I’ve gained so many friends…read so many fanfics…downloaded a heck load of icons, headers, wallpapers…and even mood themes… from that, I started this blog…and got inspired enough to start playing with Photoshop. I know it’s not much of a life, but it makes me happy. It sure is a lot cheaper than seeing a therapist. And the best alternative to self-medicating, don’t you think?
I’d really like to thank the brilliance of the fan who made the video I’m about to show you (set to the actual theme song of the show, “Teardrop” by Massive Attack). It chronicles the growth of House and Cam’s relationship…and it’s only gonna grow, because “there is something there”…I can feel it.
OH SNAP! SEASON 2 DVD SET IS BEING RELEASED TODAY!!! Run, Forrest Run!!!…run to your local retailers and buy me yourself a copy!!!
The major dilemma I face with hyperactive emotional sensitivity is that during those dark lonely nights, I think of the most morose of situations. Mostly reflecting on things I had done or experienced…8, 10 even 15 years ago. Have I sought professional help for this you may ask? Unfortunately not…because apart from being uber sensitive, I am the reigning queen of procrastinators.
Have you poured your heart and soul to someone you thought cared for you only to be shut down with the silent treatment?…more like they-can’t-look-at-you-straight-in-the-eye-and-things-between-you-are-never-the-same-ever-again outcome.
People say, be true to oneself and speak what’s truly in your heart…but that only gets me in a bigger heap of trouble…digging 6 feet under isn’t enough to cover the embarrassment you have to carry on your shoulders…that is until senility takes a hold of you and replaces some of your memories to vivid ridamndiculous ones.
Damn you TSH…damn you to hell!
I’m tempted to post this into the friendster discussion thread I started…but I have a sinking feeling the lurkers would just hot link (and since I can’t impose bodily harm on anyone) I’ll just post them here. Besides, I’m sorta proud of these.
OMGSquee! Is it September yet? I don’t know how much more of this I can take! I miss House/Cam…life has been dreary without them. GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.
Giuseppe and I tried to start an icon/header/wallpaper thread but I think I’m losing faith in all the other Friendsketeers. They’d rather bitch about who stole whose profile (and in fact I highly doubt the scripts were made from scratch…nigga please), or post their own pictures to flog their own profiles. **scoffs**. Teenfuckingagers.
So I got a little inspired…I’ve been lurking around my favorite LJ community, “House/Cameron Dysfunction Junction”, found some House Season 3 promos…and have given birth to not one but quadruplet icons (and a new banner doohickie of my favorite 3some)…Hurry up Fox, my shipper ass can’t wait for more House/Cam, Cam/Wilson fluff!!!
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