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Does anyone have a repository or list or del.ici.ous or whatever for Supernatural Podcasts?  IPeople don't seem to comment or share them and I'm insanely in love with them and want to hear all of them I can.  Seems like people don't know that fans are out there, doing this amazing stuff!  Here's my little list.  They're great for surviving the hiatus and enjoying the sound of a fanboy/girl squeeing which...for some of us out in the fannish wilderness, it's a fast way to get happy. 

  • EMF Podcast - For me, this is the mack daddy.  The production quality, the humor, the care with spoilers, the joint Sam/Dean love, the little segment sounds, the in-jokes, if you listen to ONE podcast, treat yourself and download a couple of these.   None of these podcasts just spread their legs if an ep isn't good, but the Hahn sisters treat the show with a loving, but fair eye.  So good!  SO GOOD.
  • Winchester Radio  - A great staple, they've interviewed Jim Beaver at EyeCon and they've interviewed the 10 Inch Hero folks and they do a great job really dissecting and analysing the show.  They have a good panel that post on TWOP and are tapped into fandom.  They also have a call-in feature on the show when it airs live.
  • Supernatural Podcast  - Way back in the day, I helped out now and again on this podcast and it's just great.  Ellen is a great hostess and she puts together a neat program with atmopsheric music, breakdowns of the show's weekly People in Peril or urban legend and actually does some incisive discussion.
  • Crossroads Podcast  - A podcast done by boys.  Boys.  I know, it fucked with me, too.  For the sake of variety alone, to hear a guy fanboy over the show is worth the price of admission. Does seem that they're a bit removed from the roiling, gnashing, awesome LJ-centric SPN fandom, but hey!  They do a good recap and
  • CW Source - I think I love this one, despite it being so short, because it's so fun to relive the first season with two new watchers.  It's hard to come across fresh meat, victims, er...potential fans that haven't seen the show and are open-minded to watch it.   Their comments are great, enthusiastic, and they're currently up to "Home."   I stayed up way late last night and heard them all! Eeep. So scroll past the OTH podcasts - unless you're in to that sort of thing - and dive in!

      

Back in the Frying Pan We Call Home

  • Aug. 3rd, 2008 at 9:43 PM
Like a boy.  He's oblivious to me.  Oldest story I know.  I don't want to date him, really, I just want him to want to date me.  Which is one more example of why I'm evil and terrible and yet, sort of fun in an emotionally-retarded sort of way. We're working on it, with little to no expectation beyond drawing an Ace of Wands at his name.

Working out, SparkPeopling again since...2 hours ago.   It's a long story and I don't come off too good in it, but I'm working on become lithe and fit and powerful and kickass in a bodily sense.

Have a Wii and a WiiFit.   Trying to find time to use it.

Want to write movie reviews of ridiculously incongruent movies and see how they connect.  I started with The Illusionist (with Edward Norton and Jessica Biel) and Carolina (with Julia Stiles and Alessandro Nivola...and of course, Shirley MacLaine as the mouthy, white-trash grandmother) and I was bowled over with how they're practically the same movie.  This is why English majors need to be sedated before they're allowed into the real world.  I got so into thinking about it that the reviews are half-written and well, incongruent.  I also started talking about how shite an actress I find Julia Stiles. So, if I start this site and do these, I'll be sure and post the link.  But as with every thing I tell you I will do, please take it with a grain of salt.

So looking forward to WinCon.  I need to get out of Dodge, like stat.   

Drinking a lot of hard lemonade.  A lot = 2.

My sister has a job interview tomorrow! Please let her get it so we can pay our mortgage.

I really do heart you guys liek woah.  

Questions will be snarked on in the order they are received.  Carry on, my wayward sons and rock on, my ancient queens.  
Whatever, I've had 1 day off in 12 and I'm punchy.  
 

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Jul. 25th, 2008

  • 12:15 AM
 Happy Birthday to you, [Bad username: dubiously!  Hope it rocked! ]

ITunes Meme

  • Jul. 8th, 2008 at 8:40 PM
From[info]ohvibe and [info]jerseybelle77

How many songs total: 1787
How many hours or days of music: 4.9 days
Most recently played: Such Great Heights - The Postal Service
Most played:  unissasi laulelet - The Dø
Most recently added: Gymnastic (Fall Over) -  Scout Niblett

Sort by song title:
First Song: A) Cucanandy; B) The Jug Of Brown Ale - Clannad 
Last Song: 99% of Us is Failure - Matthew Good

Sort by time:
Shortest Song: My Gun Don't Jam - Dean Winchester
Longest Song: Merry Happy/Little Red - Kate Nash

Sort by album:
First album: Abbey Road - The Beatles
Last album: 9 - Damien Rice

First song that comes up on Shuffle:
Strange Without You - I Am Kloot

Search the following and state how many songs come up:
Death - 5
Life - 18
Love - 90
Hate - 3
You - 216
Sex - 3   

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One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

  • Jul. 6th, 2008 at 10:32 PM
 -My new Sunday TV boyfriend is Laurence Fox on Inspector Lewis of Masterpiece!Mystery! fame.  It's only three 1 hour and 1/2 episodes, but Hathaway is de-lightful.   I really do love PBS.   Lewis and Hathaway are very Dean and Sammish in a British, Policey, Oxfordish sort of way.  I have learned that he is married to Billie Piper.  However, I refuse to find myself embroiled in anything Dr. Who-ish simply on principle.

-Boss is on vacation 4 out of 5 days this week.  I am de-lighted about that as well.

-My SparkPeople attempt is still going well.  I'm learning and doing more and more everyday.  Walked 10,000+ steps today

-Apparently, I have breasts! A shock to the world.

-Vacation is on its way!  Finally!

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All I gots my spiderweb, keepin' me alive

  • Jun. 28th, 2008 at 10:48 PM
Sometimes,  when you're not sure about things in your life, the best thing to do is put on a CD, Joan Osborne's Relish, par exemple, and just lip sync the hell out of it.  You can dance, too, if you've got the initiative.

I am so the grasshopper in the ant farm.    And really, summer's just begun.

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True Confessions of Real Idiots

  • Jun. 9th, 2008 at 7:37 PM

I totally wrenched my neck doing Paula Abdul's Get Up and Dance Exercise video.

I wish I could be joking about that.



I am a twat in heels.  Seriously, I am sorry for the universe for having to put up with me.

Bullets:
-Watching the Paper.  Having a crush on this Alex person, even though he's a high school boy, two-faced, and totally reminds me of someone from oh so long ago who was pretty much the same lame guy.
-SparkPeople would go much better if there weren't such things as frozen custard between the heres and theres of the world.  But I am exercising like a mad fool, drinking more water, eating carrots, and trying not to get swept up into the stress of life = eating like a crazy woman.
-Farmers Market! EEEH.  I am waiting for the giant fuckup.
-I am totally dressed up like a teenage goth chick - which I have said time and again is such a bad look for me, and for the world at large - but it's kinda cute.  Black gothy, hearts and thorns t-shirt, tweedy short skirt, black knee-hi boots, thick black glasses.   Cuteness!
-Listening to Keith and the Girl because I heart Patrice.
-Not doing what I aim to do.  I HAVE to get up on time tomorrow.  Gah.

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LJ VOTING

  • May. 25th, 2008 at 8:31 AM
I'm sharing this in case anyone is not following the LJ Advisory Board Elections (and I guess, reading more about it now myself, I strongly advise you do) - it's a breakdown of the fandom supporters amongst the candidates.  I'm on LJ for primarily fannish reasons and I think having someone on the board who would lend support to the various issues that people who live, create, and enjoy fandom face is important to sustaining not just the communities I visit, but LJ as a whole. 

I'm sure there are other reasons and people who would do a satisfactory job, fwiw, I voted for [info]vichan.  

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Cyborg Cowgirl Ethics

  • May. 24th, 2008 at 9:34 PM

Lifelike Artificial Individual Viable for Infiltration and Nocturnal Exploration

Get Your Cyborg Name

That's pretty much dead-on, actually.  Especially if you take it the dirty way, which I totally did.  Totallee.  ganked from [info]gigglingkat
If I had my druthers, I'd totally post about The Wings of the Dove (Linus Roache, be still my heart) and Moonstruck (SNAP OUTTA IT) and compare and contrast Kate and Loretta and their perspectives on life, but mainly, I'm doing my 50 other bits of writing, walking my feet off, cooking foods, watching Jensen break down in the name of Dean, (Though don't worry, my friends, Dean's fine, it was all a Jennifer Lynch psycho, surreal, sex parable drama-thing) giving up soda (it's bad for you, did you know?) and keeping my head down.   I think I'm trying to learn that if you spend your time making yourself happy, it's hard to find time to do the opposite. 

Though, I think I will report that I got some shampoo in my eye and it rather hurts, lest anyone think my life is all lollipops and candy canes.
 

Burnished

  • May. 14th, 2008 at 9:35 PM

Every year (well, for the past two years), I like to kind of take a fannish breath.  We're about to be witness to Sam and Dean Winchester's fate.  I feel like I'm looking into the abyss, like there's a rocks in my stomach, like there's test results to be read, like there's a natural tension in everything I can see and it's building and tightening.  This constriction is a uncomfortably keen pleasure.  It's finale time.

It's amazing to me that a show I accidentally flipped to while doing my homework and trying to get through a lonely last year of college could be this...important.  It's like a friend, really, albeit a friend that likes nothing more than to gross me out and feel me up at inopportune moments.  And now, here's that friend...on the precipice with me and I'm so nervous.  I care.  That's the big deal to me, that as monogamous as my fandoms usually are, this both feels still fresh and new and just wracked with the anguish of having grown into something - a relationship of sorts - where everyone is having a really hard time and there's a way of leaning on one another...absorbing one another's pain that exists in real life friendship.  I'm astonished that there's no boredom, no re-prioritization, no desire to watch anything else, meet anyone else, there's just the clock ticking off the last minutes of our shared life until something, good, bad, unbelievably painful, is going to happen.

It's also amazing to me that so many of you, while going through your own hells, heavens, and the wastes of Limbo to get to this point, are here with me.   You're here.  You've made it, and I hope collectively we have the strength to spit in the Devil's Eye and say: Bring It On.

The Apartment

  • May. 4th, 2008 at 12:34 AM

So about a lot of things I am an idiot and about a lot of things I'm a very callous bitch and Apparently!!, my sarcasm doesn't translate well via the internet), but one thing that I know for sure and one thing that I can't get over is Dean's one-handed gun discharge and toss at the end of the last episode.    Jee-sus, lohrd.  

I don't know what it says about me that the new dealbreaker is not if a potential date is a murderer or if he keeps a clean house, but does he have a facility with hand-to-hand combat and a nimble wrist for flicking firearms about?   Supernatural: worse than a swift kick to the head for re-ordering one's priorities.

Our Fandom Does Rock

  • Apr. 29th, 2008 at 11:19 PM
In case you all aren't members of the Fandom Rocks community (and I think I'd urge you to join) - here's a very, very awesome thing.

Link has small casting spoiler, FYI, for Supernatural.

Last Known Photograph

  • Apr. 27th, 2008 at 12:04 AM
 I'll keep you all posted on the date thing.  I appreciate the comments.

Beyond that, tonight's weird thought is that one reason I really liked Ghostfacers (adored, actually) was how much parts of it reminded me of Manos: The Hands of Fate and in the MST3K version which is the one I watch when I'm only feeling masochistic - Joel riffs that every frame looks like someone's last known photograph.   That scary 60's bomb shelter totally looked like that creepy, creepy film.    

I'm wondering about the last known photo of Dean Winchester - if it's the all-you-can eat prize winner photo, or his mugshot, or some machine strip of images he takes somewhere in these last few months and plans to tear off one by one and throw them out the window of his car - saving one, of course, for Sam.  It's not the one he plans to give him, not the tongue-out, rawk hands up, Awesome picture that he leaves somewhere in the Santa Ana winds.  It's the one with where the camera went off too quick for him to figure out what to do next, and he's just a blur. 

Have to work tomorrow for our art festival.  It's feeling like a drag this year.  Hmm.   I need to be sleeping right now, but I'm just not all that damn tired.

The Eleventh Hour

  • Apr. 13th, 2008 at 10:38 PM
 So-ho-ho:

Sunday Night Thoughts:

1.  Vidding is hard.  I have seriously, like SERIOUSLY, so much respect for people that vid.  I have all these ideas and this little bitty 1:30 song and a tight focus but it's quickly spiraling out of control and my cuts are funky and I'm not hitting the beats and parts are too fast and parts are too slow and I worry if it's making a mishmash or would even be good to watch and maybe my computer can't handle it and I HATE the fact that everything's branded with Pussycat Dolls and I wonder if I have enough eps to draw from or if I'm missing this perfect scene with a clock and then I go watch vids I love (Two-Step, What it Feels Like to be a Ghost, Ghost Boy, etc...etc...) and despair from their awesomeness.  Making it look effortless all the while encapsulating the power of the show is a skill and talent.  

2. SparkPeople health kick (not kealth hick, thank you Mme. Spoonerism) is going okay.  I've been walking and exercising consistently on the weekends, flailing through the weekdays.    I'm working on eating more vegetables and fruit, drinking 6-8 glasses of water, getting a sane amount of sleep, and following the exercise plan.  I'm letting any restrictions on the diet fall by the wayside until I feel super dug in to the general health plan.   To me, right now, that's a great place to be.  Trying to act like I'll fall into line 100% is never going to be realistic.  Besides, when you're getting all taut and kicky, I think the desire to eat alfalfa sprouts and lima beans increases.  We're working on it.  I've walked 7 miles this weekend and I feel like I could knock over a brick wall with my calves of steel.  Whee.  Maybe that's hyperbole, but you can get pretty damn far on hyperbole, to be quite honest.

3. Watched Annie Hall today.  Huh is all I have to say about that.

4. I am not, currently, in love with anybody.  I do think that Jensen Ackles' fellow is swell, despite his insistence on not being the next Paul Newman.  Or something.  I swear, I'm going to pay 10 bucks to go sit in the back of the theatre and watch him through the holes between my fingers.  

5. It CANNOT be 11:00pm already.  I FORBID IT. 

ETA:  Wanted to rec the EMF Podcast (a great, great Supernatural podcast that deserves to be more popular).  Get it on ITunes or at http://danakristi.podbean.com/
Repeat to yourself:  It's just fandom, it's just fandom, it's just fandom.  

In RL news, I have a half day tomorrow.  I could just expire from joy.   Hope y'all are making your way across the universe.

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Apr. 9th, 2008

  • 8:01 PM
 If anyone's up for a free, delightful tarot reading, we're enjoying the awesome setup at  http://lupaloo.net/streaming.html.

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A Near-Miss

  • Apr. 7th, 2008 at 4:49 PM
I almost killed somebody today when a van that read Ackles Fire Protection pulled up next to me.

Swear to god. 

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