Meme stolen from woolly_socks:

Put your itunes/media player/whatever on shuffle.
Upload the first ten songs that come up for your flist.

I admit I skipped a couple of songs that were by the same artist and also a couple of other songs. ;)

The Shins - Caring is Creepy
Solomon Burke - Don't Give Up On Me
Santogold - Creator
Green Day - When I Come Around
Jay-Z - DOA (Death of Auto-Tune)
Belle and Sebastian - Piazza, New York Catcher
The Perishers - Sway
Mike Doughty - I Hear the Bells (my iTunes was clearly feeling a little VMars-y)
X-Men the Animated Series: Opening Credits (yes, really. I loved that cartoon, it started my X-Men geekery)
Oasis - The Importance of Being Idle

I am a little amazed there are not Muse or Rollings Stones songs there.

I am sitting in bed because it's cold, but eating ice-cream. In my defense it's Hagen-Dazs Cookie Dough ice-cream, so I think that's understandable. ;)

Haircut was a success. There is far less hair on my head and it feels good.

Also, if you haven't seen the Charlie Brooker clip from this week's Newswipe that skewers news stories and how they're presented, you should. It is all sorts of awesome. I embed it below.

( I <3 Charlie Brooker )

My plans for the evening involve the internet ... and that's really about it. Happiness.

( Dollhouse 2x13 )

Now I should get up and have a quick shower. Need to go out for a hair appointment. So glad I'm finally getting it cut, it's been driving me crazy.

Edit: Dude, there is a dusting of snow outside. I saw an update on Simon Pegg's Twitter saying as much and I was like 'Wait, is he joking?' ... not so much. Blue cloudless skies, and a dusting of snow. Oh, you are a special sometimes, British weather.

I did stay up and watch the Golden Globes last night, for reasons passing understanding, but I bailed after the Best Series Drama because sleep was quickly becoming a more important need. I survived relatively well today considering

( Brief thoughts )

Note to self: Just, don't read the ASkars/Kate Bosworth threads, there lies the crazy comments.

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Sherlock Holmes: Not amazing, but a hell of a lot of fun to watch. RDJ and Jude were all sorts of awesome and I loved the soundtrack, but then it was Hans Zimmer, whose soundtracks I seem to be drawn to. It had some very similar notes to the PotC soundtracks actually.

( Dollhouse 2x12 )

Avenue Q: Some friends and I went to see the Saturday matinee and it was so, so good. I already knew some of the songs (and omg 'The Internet is For Porn' is so good live) but the rest was just as great. I would definitely recommend it.

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This meme amused me. Gacked most recently from musesfool

1. Bold the names of guys you'd definitely sex it up with.
2. Italicize the names of guys you might do after a little persuasion.
3. Leave the guys who don't do anything for you alone.
4. Put a question mark ? after the guys you've never heard of.
5. Strike the guys you wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole.
6. Add THREE more guys to the list.

( Um, there's a lot of bolded text under here ...  )

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I got offered a month extension on my temp contract, which is good, I guess, but I think I do need to look for something else. I really like the crazy people I work with, but it's not really what I'm interested in, and I keep watching my friends book holidays in Europe and with this current job, I'm just not going to be able to do that. I came here to live in London, but also to see Europe, so I'll have a look around and maybe talk to my recruiter. *sigh*


The episode I just watched of Law and Order: UK was actually pretty damn good, and there was Jamie and Freema. Very pretty.

Also, wow the ITV News reports from Haiti are just, yeah. Need to remember to donate when I get paid.

( Dollhouse 2x11 )

Right, out into the cold. So cold. But yay Robert Downey Jr. <3

I mainlined Dollhouse S2 (+113) last weekend (and yes, only getting around to posting now, I'm lazy).

( Some episode by episode thoughts, but in short, I enjoyed it, possibly more than I was expecting )

And now I have 2x11 to watch. But first a shower and I have all the ingredients for rancheros huevos in my fridge. Mmm.

Also seeing Sherlock Holmes this afternoon. Can't wait. :) Only downside is having to go outside. There is still snow on the ground that fell in the early hours of Wednesday morning and the temperature hasn't gotten much over 1 all week. Part of me wanted a 'proper' Winter, but I don't know if the worst cold spell the UK has had in 30 years and basically the whole country covered in snow was necessary.

( Doctor Who: The End of Time Part 2 )

Ed Byrne is on Celebrity Mastermind! And he's answering on Star Trek movies. OMG. <3

Oh, and Yuletide reveal.

I wrote We ain't gotta dream no more for nebula99. (The Wire, gen)
Before a murder, during a murder, after a murder.
Spoilers for the end of Season 3.

Happy New Year! Hope everyone had a great night whatever you did. :)

Mine was pretty low-key. I went bowling out in NE London where my friend lives with some friends of hers. My bowling is uh, inconsistent as best, and sadly not helped by beer. :( It was a cool night though. Crashed out there, as the thought of getting across to the other side of the city at 2am didn't really appeal (and it snowed on the walk back, not a lot admittedly, but still, snooow), and got home about an hour and a half ago after being made to watch last night's episode of Eastenders ... and it has a slashy subplot which is intriguing ... *facepalm*

I've seen the usual year end memes around, but didn't really feel like doing a primarily RL one (it hasn't been all awesome, but I moved to another country and so far so good), but this year-in-fandom one I saw pocky_slash do intrigued me.

( Fandom year-in-review )


I also finally got around to finishing Dollhouse S1 (minus 1x13). Overall, I liked it, but the character of Paul Ballard need to be thrown out a high window.

( Brief thoughts )

Now, ten minutes to Dr Who. Eep. Will be interesting to see where this goes.

I have the house to myself for 5 days (2 flatmates in Malta, 1 in Northern Ireland) and while that is awesome, I've been incredibly lazy. Yesterday, I got out of bed at 2pm, wandered down to the supermarket, cooked dinner (vegetarian chili ftw) and then spent untold hours lost in this ONTD post on the 50 Greatest Music Videos of the Decade and spamming my Tumblr with them.

Today, I was meant to be seeing Sherlock Holmes but my friend cancelled as she wasn't feeling well. Was almost tempted to go by myself, but my friend suggested seeing it next week and seems keen to see it, so next week it shall be. So, to get myself out of the house at some point today I went to the library this afternoon and picked up some books, because despite my best efforts, I've still be slack about reading books this year, and there's so many good ones out there I want to read. This was of course after getting out of bed at 1pm after watching The Hangover (not too bad, pretty funny, characters not as big a douches as I was expecting). See? Lazy.

I have also been reading Yuletide fics. Recs are at my delicious. (Is that the correct preposition for delicious? Delicious page? Anyway).

Christmas television has been kind of blah, but I did watch the RSC's latest take on Hamlet starring David Tennant (part of David Tennant Fortnight on the BBC, because seriously, the dude is everywhere). Overall, I liked it, but then it was David Tennant and Patrick Stewart in Hamlet (my favourite Shakespeare play) and at one point David was doing soliloques in jeans, bare feet and messy Doctor-like hair ... I, was never ever going to have a problem with that. *chinhands*

There also might be a small Gossip Girl thing. Clearly I was missing a slightly trashy teen drama in my life. But they're all just so pretty! And Chuck/Nate is awfully intriguing ... and for my sins, so is Serena/Nate, and Chuck/Blair. Yeah, I don't even know.

Tomorrow I shall be spending my New Years Eve bowling in Essex. ;) New Year's Eve's I either do nothing or are totally surreal, this promises to be the latter.

I hope everyone had/is having an awesome Christmas/Friday, I definitely did.

The family of my friend (who I live with) came over and there was soup (which I cooked, and which everyone thought was great, yay) and a full-on roast meal, and awesome trifle, and fruit salad and oh so much chocolate. It was a very pleasant day. There was even sunshine! Okay, it was also 4 degrees outside but still, sunshine. NZ got 25 or something. *sigh*

Haven't talked to my family back in NZ yet, but I think I'm doing that tomorrow, I think. No one has said anything to me yet, and my brother hasn't said anything about his present. Hmm.

As for Yuletide, I've only read my story, but it was awesome! Someone wrote me a Mad Men fic with Roger and Joan, and lots of great banter which was so them. It captured exactly what I find so interesting about them. Mixing the Bitter With the Sweet. <3

Also, my recipient liked her story! Yay!

And then well, there was also this on today:

( Doctor Who: The End of Time Part 1 )

I am finished work for the year! \o/ And my Yuletide fic was uploaded on time! \o/

I must admit, in total me fashion, now, a day and a bit before Christmas I am feeling a little Christmas-y. I had a choice to take tomorrow off and I'm so glad I did in the end, because I have to cook soup for Christmas Day and I thought it might also be a good time to try the chocolate and raspberry brownie recipe china_shop posted. Things will be achieved, I may have time for Yuletide Madness, and I'll get to sleep in a little. ;)


( Merlin: The Last Dragonlord )


I have to give props to BBC Two for their line-up tonight: Top of the Pops 2 Christmas Special, a Grumpy Guide to Christmas, Never Mind The Buzzcocks Christmas special, Russell Howard live (<3), QI and then Mock the Week Christmas special. I need to see a Russell Howard show at some point, he was so good.

I keep thinking there's something else I want to mention in this post, but I can't remember right now.

Random yay: I will have a broadband connection when I read Yuletide this year. *is impatient*

Edit: I was going to go to bed, and then along comes the episode of Have I Got News for You that I meant to catch up on. Life, so hard. Also, is David Tennant on QI tomorrow as well as having been on Buzzcokcs a week ago?! I mean, yay, but that is a lot of David Tennant on TV right now. I wonder why. ;)