The Remains of a Poet

So, House last night?

EPIC.


Re: House/Wilson: Good LORD, just make out already!


(Seriously, they're such a happy screwed up gay couple.  I just about died when Wilson muttered, "I'm not lost."  Once again confirming who wears the pants in that relationship.)

 Actually, while we're on the subject of adorable people, can we talk about how adorable David Walliams is?  And how fantastic it is that his parents called him Davinia when he was a kid?  And how brilliant it is that he wanted to be Wonder Woman when he grew up?  And also how much I adore the fact that he had a marriage pact with Denise van Outen?  Because I'm sorry, that is too adorable for words.  Because I adore her, and even though I hope she's very happy with Lee and whatnot, seeing as Gordon Ramsey is straight and taken, I would really like nothing better than for David and Denise to get married, and have lots of beautiful and talented babies with ambiguous sexualities.

For my birthday, my uncle gave me a gift certificate to Barnes and Noble, and this afternoon I pre-ordered the next three Torchwood books!!!  That will totally be the best package I get at school!  I mean, in one of them Ianto becomes a woman!  It doesn't get much better than that!

Also, I got paid on Friday, and I have to say, it is really nice to have an income for the first time in nearly two-and-a-half years.

 So I feel kind of awkward saying this but ...

My GOD, Simba is hot for an animated lion!

Words cannot express how happy I am that The Tales of Beedle the Bard is being published for the public!!!

That is all.

I just realized that the Caspian/Susan stuff in the Prince Caspian film is going to produce a ton of Caspian/Susan fanfiction from stupid people who haven't read the books and thus don't know that it's all about Caspian/Lucy.

I hate Disney so much!

So I just finished Part 1 of the Twilight audiobook.  I've been listening to it for almost six hours straight, which is ... kind of frightening, actually.  I just got inexplicably sucked in.  I thought the slightly annoying narrator would help with that, but it wasn't enough.  I'm not sure what chapter I'm on anymore because I didn't take notes today, but I will say that in the 7 1/2 hours of Part 1, nothing happens.  That is why me getting sucked in is so frightening.  I couldn't stop listening, and then it ended and I realised that nothing had happened at all.  I mean, obviously stuff happened: Edward "came out" as it were; Bella's blood smelled nice; Bella and Edward angsted.  But from a narrative point of view, nothing happened.  I am halfway through the book, and now that I've stopped listening, I know I could walk away now and never ever care what happens to any of them.  And I'm actually rather scared to listen to the second half, because I'm frightened that a book that is so stupid and should be so boring can suck me in so completely.

Also, Twilight wins the "Cheesiest Line Ever" award for this bit (about 90-95% accurate, as I'm transcribing from an audiobook):

“‘Aren’t you hungry?’
"'No.' I didn’t feel like mentioning that my stomach was already full … of butterflies.”

I laughed so much at that, I had to pause the audiobook because I couldn't hear it.  Also, I'm amazed that so many people can take seriously a book that actually uses the phrase "alabaster brow" in a serious sentence.  But mostly I'm frightened that it's slowly sucking my brain cells, and I'm powerless to stop it because it's so inexplicably addicting!  Seriously, if iTunes hadn't stopped it automatically, I think I would have just kept listening into the night because I couldn't stop it!  I'm scared, frankly.

So I keep going back and forth on whether or not I should bother reading Twilight.  I keep hearing people talk about it, and the thing is, if everyone either loved or hated it, I would be more likely to read it because I think really good things provoke more extreme emotions (as do really bad things; more on that later).  But the responses from people whose opinions I value are just sort of ... mediocre.  Like, I've heard the plot is good but the writing isn't that great.  And I've heard that Edward is supposed to be basically perfect (physically anyway), which already annoys me because that's so ... fanfic.  And not good fanfic.

Anyway, one of my RL!friends has started reading the series, and she loves it, and was like, "OMG, you totally need to read it, it's fantastic!"  Of course, I wanted to be like, "What do you know?  You've never read Pride and Prejudice.  You've never even read Harry Potter!"  Not like P&P is the end all, be all, or even like I've read a ton of Jane Austen myself.  Okay, so I've only read P&P and Emma.  Whatever.  I still know more about literature than this girl.  More importantly, she's never read HP, which is the same genre (that's right, isn't it?), so I don't really trust her judgment about Fantasy, to be honest.

My main concern with Twilight is that it all sounds too much to me like the new Eragon.  Remember how a few years back everyone was calling Eragon "The New Harry Potter", and Christopher Paolini was going around doing a ton of book signings, and everyone was squeeing over the film coming out and stuff?  Yeah, that's what Twilight is like now.  It's like Twilight is Eragon for girls.  And that's really why I can't decide whether or not to read it.  Because I read Eragon because everyone was into it, and it turned out to be crap.  Utter crap.  And granted, Stephenie Meyer isn't sixteen, which is definitely hugely in her favor, but I don't want to waste my time reading her books if they're crap.

Plus, I've heard Twilight is more a romance series, and I don't really care about romance that much.  I mean, I'm a shipper as much as the next fan, but I prefer shipping on the side.  One of the reasons I love Harry Potter so much is because it managed to be interesting for three books without romance.  And then it managed to be interesting for four books more without romance ever playing the central role.  In fact, the most romance-centric HP book (HBP) is my least favourite, and a huge reason it's my least favourite is because it's so romance-centric.  I don't read Harry Potter for the romance.  I don't read anything for the romance.  That's why I haven't read a lot of Jane Austen.  That's why my favourite book by L. M. Montgomery is A Tangled Web.  That's why I read mostly Fantasy and Sci-Fi and Mystery, because those genres generally don't center on romance.  I enjoy romance subplots, but if the romance is what makes the story interesting, then I don't care about the story very much.  So I don't think I'll care very much about Twilight if it's mostly romance.

*sigh* I guess I should just suck it up and read the first book and decide for myself.  That's what I had to do with Eragon in the end, and more importantly, that's what I had to do with Harry Potter, and obviously Harry Potter completely changed my life.  Not that expect Twilight to change my life like that, because I think HP is the kind of thing that really only comes once a generation, if that.  But you know what I mean.

Oh, BBC, you do have a brain! I freaking love you right now!

"BBC Wales and BBC Drama has announced that Bafta and Hugo Award winning writer Steven Moffat will succeed Russell T Davies as Lead Writer and Executive Producer of the fifth series of Doctor Who, which will broadcast on BBC One in 2010."

I COULD NOT BE MORE EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!



Note to Moffat: Book Tennant and Barrowman for your series right now. And ring up Gareth David-Lloyd and talk him into it. And try to get Chris Chibnall on board. Oh, what does it matter, your series will be brilliant anyway!

But seriously, book Tennant. 

So my friend Liz is coming to visit me in Scotland this weekend. She's staying until Wednesday. She was supposed to come tonight, but her flight was cancelled, so she's coming tomorrow night instead. Is it bad that I'm happy? Probably.

Also, on Monday I went to the mall and there was a 3 for 2 sale on Torchwood books, so I bought all three from Series 2. I just finished the last one, 'Twilight Streets'. It was the best one, so I'm glad I read it last. It was full of Jack/Ianto goodness! I think at some parts I totally forgot how to breathe! *sigh* I miss Torchwood. Like, a lot. I miss Jack/Ianto. Can Ianto please, please be in the Doctor Who finale? Everyone else is!

Also, yesterday I was reading 'Something in the Water', which is another Torchwood book, and in it all these people got a weird alien disease that started out as a sore throat, and this morning I woke up with a sore throat, and now I'm paranoid. I took some airborne, though, and it seems to be going away. Maybe it was just because I left my window open all night. But if it is an alien disease, can Jack and Ianto come save me? And bring the Doctor and Donna with them? Because even if they didn't have a cure, it would still make my entire life.