Fannish stuff, plus MUSACK!

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1. I owe nifra_idril an apology for saying that her boy, Ioan Gruffudd, wasn't attractive. I mean, he's a bit too much with the big eyes for me, but after having watched five of the six seven of the eight Horatio Hornblower films*, I can say that he's certainly not hard on the eyes. He's no Jamie Bamber, who is just fucking adorable as hell, and he's no Paul McGann with the Grumbling Voice of Sexual Doom, but yeah, I reckon I'd vote for him in the Really Nice Arse Awards.**

*I need fic recs for HH if you please.

** Of course he couldn't hold a coin to Jamie Bamber on BSG last week, but who could? I would like to thank the costuming department of BSG and whomever decides the dimensions of regulation military towels for being really stingy fuckers. Yay!


2. Today is 13th September, which means that Elbow's new album, Leaders of the Free World is out and I cannot stress enough how much I think everyone should go and pick up a copy. Here's a small taste of their brilliance: Forget Myself (the first single from the album), An Imagined Affair, Great Expectations


3. Hugh Laurie is fabulous:

"I can't think of any other human activity that doesn't get easier with repetition," he continued, calming himself with a Marlboro Light. "Making omelets, playing violin, sex, anything - the more you do it, the better you get at it, supposedly - but for this, it doesn't apply. I find that every day is as painful as the last day, which is painful as the first day I did it."*gacked from corinna_5


4. obsessedmuch has a poll about fannish evolution from Jossverse


5. I know there's been a deplorable lack of writing in this space recently. I've not written anything in well over a month, and while there's a part of me that feels very sad about this, the truth of the matter is I'm just not inspired right now. If I don’t have kattiya waving things in my face and circe_tigana slyly insinuating bits about Blaise and Theodore I'll focus on other things. They're off, so I'm focussing on other things. My RL is benefiting at the very least.


6. Thank you ravurian and parthenia14 on behalf of myself and ethrosdemon for introducing me to James Blunt. He's not pretty, but boy can he sing up a storm. Listen to 'You're Beautiful' and 'No Bravery'.

I hope to write something for 'You're Beautiful' very soon. Of course I'd be happy to just write something full stop at this point.

Comments

[ravurian]

Also, I meant to add that nothing, and I mean nothing, can be as sexy as hearing Ioan Gruffudd speak Welsh. If S4C isn't one of the best things about living on Anglesey, it's right up there.

[parthenia14.livejournal.com]

Oh, you should so look at the video when on broadband.

I like Rhys Ifans' accent, myself (out of Enduring Love and Notting Hill). He has an ineffably dangerous and frankly unwashed air about him, that speaks of..don't know, but probably waking up in a Welsh ditch three days later, with no memory and your clothes on back to front.

[ravurian]

Yeah, that happens a lot up here. The bugger of it is when you wake up in a ditch in a place that you can't pronounce. You phone a cab and they laugh.

CAB PEOPLE: You're where?
YOU: Llanfairpwyllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
CAB PEOPLE: We're in Bexley.

That happens quite a bit, too.

[parthenia14.livejournal.com]

JB's 'biography' (http://www.jamesblunt.com/profile_biog.html) on the website is hilarious.

Of his landlady: “She was a frequenter of mental hospitals and in general, a freak - but pleasant”.

I'm not even understood saying my own name, let alone place names I can't pronounce:

RECEPTION: What did you say your last name was?
ME: (repeats clearly and spells it)
RECEPTION: (reads the letters back, doubtfully) Are you sure?
ME: Of course I'm *&*£% sure! It's my name!
RECEPTION: Because it really doesn't look right (reads it out wrong)
ME: Look. Just say Bob called.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

LMFAO.

Carry on! This is just too priceless.