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Hey, so I know I was absent and internet-challenged for the past week. So in case you missed it:

SOUTHLAND WAS RENEWED FOR A THIRD SEASON!

Ten new episodes come January 2011, hells yeah! I had only the tiniest of tiny hopes that this show would be renewed, and I am THRILLED that TNT exceeded my expectations.

*twirls happily*

I am in a very cranky mood. Entertain me?

Post 15 10 of your favourite shows/books/movies/plays/whatevers.
Have your friends list guess your favourite character from each.
When guessed, strike out the fandom, mark in your favourite character and who guessed it.

1. Due South - Benton Fraser, guessed by maribouquet
2. Life - Charlie Crews, guessed by thespatz
3. Southland - John Cooper, guessed by thespatz
4. Avatar: The Last Airbender - Toph Bei Fong, guessed by thespatz
5. Generation Kill - Nate Fick, guessed (eventually) by thespatz
6. Doctor Who - The Ninth Doctor, guessed by maribouquet
7. Sports Night - Dan Rydell, guessed by thespatz
8. Fringe - Olivia Dunham, guessed by thespatz
9. The West Wing - CJ Cregg, guessed by maribouquet
10. Sherlock Holmes - Dr. John Watson, guessed by maribouquet

Katie...let the other kids play a little before you chip in, k? ;)

Wow, that was some damn good television.

( spoilers )

In conclusion: SOUTHLAND YAY! ♥

- Okay, so. I may never take a roadtrip again. D:

- Every time I try to eject my external hard drive and get that "Device Whatever cannot be stopped right now" message, I think of the Eyes Only monologue from Dark Angel: "Do not attempt to adjust your set. This is a Streaming Freedom video bulletin. The cable hack will last exactly sixty seconds. It cannot be traced, it cannot be stopped, and it is the only free voice left in this city."

- This is a nice post about why Southland is awesome and you should all be watching it. In summation: Lydia Adams, Ben Sherman, John Cooper; but she is much more eloquent about it. :)

So, I'm not the hugest proponent of Twitter -- I have an account and use it occasionally, but for the most part I think it's a huge time-sink with superficial qualities, and that's not something to which I want to devote my time.

However, one very cool thing (which can also be a drawback) is the accessibility that let me ask Michael Cudlitz a question about Southland (he plays John Cooper, for those who haven't seen him be awesome on it) and get an answer. ♥

In other news today, I discovered we have magically unpaid-for HBO! I was flicking channels grumpily, to avoid yet more news about the guy who flew a plane into a building in my hometown, and stumbled across HBO's new movie Temple Grandin, about the eponymous high-functioning autistic woman who has done some really brilliant work on animal behavior in the livestock industry. I knew it had to be HBO because I'd caught an interview with Temple Grandin on NPR where they talked about the movie, and even played a bit of audio (which helped spark my interest in the film, because Clare Danes sounded exactly like the real Temple Grandin did on the air), so I recognized it. Anyway, it was already a good hour in, but I watched the rest anyway -- something I never do -- because it was just that good. Now I have to wait until Saturday to watch the rest...

(On a totally shallow note, I was really tickled to see that TG was a fan of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. in college. It's a scene where she's describing the action to her blind roommate while they watch MFU [loudly, and oblivious to the annoyance of the other people watching], which was great for other reasons but kicked my "I'm fond of people who are fond of things I love" button.)

Aaaand then I got into an utterly pointless argument with my dad about autism (that was really an argument about the way he argues and, IMO, issues he's having with his best friend who was recently diagnosed with Asperger's). So that was fun.

Hey guys, you want to know how much of a nerd I am? When ( spoilery things that happened on White Collar )

I remember doing thesis research and reading about the props people for Thunderball getting a call from like, the CIA, asking "So how long does it really work for?" And the props department's all "Uh, as long as you can hold your breath?" CIA: "So...how long?" Props: "*headdesk*"

Man, that was a fun paper.

( and some more White Collar spoilers )

And then we watched the Southland episode (taped on a real-life VCR, because we're old school like that). And then Katie and I decided that we should watch all the rest of the seven aired episodes, so we did. I think this makes this my third full rewatch? Not counting the good-parts rewatches. I really really love this show. *hands*

In other news, I kinda signed on with a bartending/event waitstaff temp agency today! Orientation is tomorrow. YAY MONEYMAKING OPPORTUNITIES. \o/

Hi guys! For those of you who maybe saw me gleeking out about Southland the other day but thought "Oh noes, but I don't get TNT," you'll be happy to know that they've put the full episode up streaming on their website:

Southland 1.01 "Unknown Trouble"

:D!

Hi guys! I'm here to tell you that you should all watch Southland tonight! *uses magical powers to make it so, Number One*

IDK if you missed my ridiculous amounts of love for it when I watched it over the summer, but I love it A LOT -- which is a quite a feat, considering that it was a mid-season replacement with only 7 episodes at that point.

The saddest thing to happen during fall premiere season was when NBC (in their infinite retarded version of wisdom that led to The Jay Leno Debacle) canceled the show without even airing the six episodes ordered and produced for the second season. MORONS.

But then, miracle of miracles! You know how when a show is wrongfully canceled, everyone secretly hopes another network will pick it up? And you also know how this never ever happens, except when you're Buffy? Well, TNT (in their actual wisdom, which leads to shows like Leverage and The Closer) picked up the show! I was so happy, I can't even tell you. I posted in ginormous letters of happiness, if that tells you anything. Also, I am more excited about this show coming back than I am about any of the other shows coming off hiatus this month (which incudes Leverage, Burn Notice, White Collar, Chuck, Psych, and many other shows I adore)

Anyway, it's re-premiering on TNT tonight and will run through all the aired AND unaired episodes. I've also been told they're including all the material that couldn't be aired on a broadcast network (which I hope includes all the cursing :D), so even if you saw it before, it's well worth watching again.

And then TNT might pick it up for reals if it does well! So please, do me and you a favor and watch, okay? It makes me really happy.

(Actualfax pimp post to follow, with pictorial evidence of hotness and character details and all kinds of stuff about how even the producers are awesome, but that will take time and I wanted to get this out now. :D But you can be assured that I have a lot of supporting evidence! I was a film major, okay? It's What I Do.)

Southland might have a new home at TNT

*crosses fingers SO HARD*

The TNT execs will be my new favorite people if this is true. (They already have my love and affection for Leverage, but I'm talking devotion, here.)

Ugh, I should be doing reading for class tomorrow. Unfortunately, this means either a) reading dense film criticism or b) reading James Joyce. So instead I am fucking around on the internet and watching Psych and moaning in pain from my pilates class earlier. Owwwwwww. (please don't tell me that senioritis is setting in already...)

A List of Random Things That Have Crossed My Mind Recently:

- I saw a guy with a "Consent is Sexy" shirt the other day. I really think this would make an interesting fic challenge. *waves magic wand*

- There really should be more Southland fic in the world to tide me over until the premiere in October. But I've been made happy by two pieces recently: the first We Are The Same, a fusion with Homicide: Life on the Street, which is pretty cool. But what really made me clap my hands and twirl around like River Tam a crazy person? copperbadge wrote a Southland fic! He is one of my favorite fandom writers, and has that annoying ability to walk into a fandom and nail it perfectly first time out. I'm not going to complain, though, because Protective Custody gives some amazingly good Cooper POV, along with being a damn nice partnership piece. Maybe I'll go read it again now...

- I saw a bit of this Elizabeth Bishop poem tacked up on some cheesy bulletin board on campus, but I loved the line "have we room / for one more folded sunset, still quite warm?" so I looked up the full thing. It's much more biting than that image led me to expect.

- This video of a group of people pulling off a con (the "Good Samaritan") makes me want to write Leverage fic. Or at least finish that post I'm working on about David Maurer's The Big Con and Leverage and con men throughout the ages.

- I finally watched the Middleman lost episode table read from ComicCon. OMG I'd forgotten how much I love them.

- In the course of my weird project last weekend (don't ask), I may have kinda developed a tiny crush on this YouTube channel host. She's this adorable Asian girl with an Australian accent, and she occasionally makes entire videos about winking. Or maybe I was sleep-deprived, who knows.

- I was super-excited about Tim Burton's upcoming Alice In Wonderland live-action movie just on the basis of Tim Burton being the perfect heir to Lewis Carroll's particular brand of weirdness, but -- dude, I didn't realize he'd cast Mia Wasikowska as Alice! The casting of Alice can make or break this particular story, and having seen Miss Wasikowska (gosh, her name is fun to say) knock the role of Sophie on In Treatment out of the park, well, color me thrilled. She's gonna ROCK. Plus, there's Johnny Depp, Alan Rickman, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Christopher Lee, Crispin Glover, Michael Sheen, and Stephen Fry as the Cheshire Cat (OMG perfect). Their casting director must've had an orgasm from the sheer cinematic serendipity of that lineup.

- Speaking of Stephen Fry, he tweeted this gorgeous link the other day. I think I have to agree with him that #11 is my favorite.

- In the pursuit of happiness procrastination an old LJ exchange I had regarding Sam and Dean dressed in that leg-baring armor the Greeks wore (which is all the fault of this story, which is not really a good AU, but still manages to be a fun story -- the characters are OOC and oddly changed to Roman names. But they're not necessarily badly characterized. Which means it's basically a historical Roman gay romance with two main characters pre-cast as Jensen Ackles and Misha Collins, featuring Jensen Ackles wearing Thracian armor and fighting as a gladiator and the both of them arguing classical philosophy and pining, so I'm not complaining). Anyway, it got me poking around my old journal entries, which is loads of fun. For instance, I found the previously mentioned exchange, which happened to include a rather prescient discussion of Sam and Dean's relationship with their father in light of something my Classical Myth prof said; the time I got to see the total solar eclipse in Turkey because I was up at 5am; an alarmingly thinky response to Pirates of the Caribbean 3; the definition of petrichor, which is the smell of rain falling on dry ground (there are scientific reasons for it!); that post I made trying to figure out Benton Fraser's birthday which is also alarmingly in-depth but was terribly fun; one of copperbadge's old House fics, which made me want to start watching again (worth it, y/n?); and aww, my first impressions of SPN, all the way back when Sarah Shahi was still "Will's girlfriend Jenny from Alias" instead of "completely awesome Det. Dani Reese from Life." :D I have to say, the latter did make me start missing the more grounded elements of S1; they've lost more than a bit of Sam and Dean's connection to the people they're saving. The "saving people" part of Dean's oft-repeated "saving people, hunting things" has become awfully abstract.

Probably should cut-tag, but waaaaay too lazy. :(