idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.

Today I am working on my yuletide story. Finally. I have 500 words 716!. Only 284 to go. Or something.

You all seemed real keen on last week's Friday Five of Awesome, so in honor of me slogging through my story I'm presenting the Thursday Five of Awesome and Yuletide Power!, you know, for motivational purposes.

1. Tricky 'Black Steel' -- In the mid-90's there was this AWESOME music movement in the UK called trip-hop. Featuring groups like Massive Attack (Protection or Blue Lines depending on who you ask) and Portishead (Dummy), trip-hop was the sort of music that God would produce if he was making a soundtrack for sex. That's a little blasphemous innit? And yet, it's true. Ask anybody hanging around London, Bristol, Brighton or any of the US scene and they'd agree. Tricky's Maxinquaye is seen as the third album of the Massive, Portishead trinity and with good reason. This particular song is a cover of Public Enemy's 'Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos' and uh, just yeah.

2. Midlake 'Roscoe' -- I've had this song for about a year now, and everytime I play it I have to replay four or five times. A song about fixing houses and being born in another time, I defy you not to listen to it twice in a row. The video is very fitting for the song.

3. Elbow 'Something in the Air' -- I was informed this week that Elbow will have a new album out sometime in the new year. There are no fucking words for how happy this makes me. I really hope this song will be on there. A beautiful song about hoping for something better and getting yourself together because the revolution is coming dammit! And it's not on your TV.

4. Guillemots 'Sao Paolo' -- An eleven minute song about love lost, love hated and wanting a lawyer so you can sue the ass off of somebody. Anybody. I can't do it justice by talking about it, you just have to listen.

5. Run DMC 'My Adidas' -- This is classic rap. This is classic old skool. It's fucking RUN DMC! And they're talking about their trainers. Who doesn't talk about their trainers? Really?

Five songs (plus some extras)

1. romanticalgirl wrote me Burn Notice for advent, because she loves me and is made of win. I know you're all jealous. Read it and be really jealous.

2. Speaking of jealousy, ethrosdemon wrote me a story for my birthday. Yes, it was last week, but better late than never when it comes to brilliance. Especially when that brilliance is a Gossip Girl/Harry Potter X-over. Read I'm Pretty Much a Big Deal before you kick the bucket in envy.

And for the second time this week, I bring you music. Here is my Friday Five of Awesome because music should be shared and loved by all.

1. Radiohead 'Killer Cars' – A B-Side (presumably from The Bends era, because of how hard it rocks out) about the dangers of driving. I make no secret of my Radiohead love, but I have come to accept that there will never be a The Bends Part 2, which is very sad b/c that's hands-down my favorite Radiohead album. Although Hail to the Thief is kind of awesome.

2. Rachel Stevens 'Some Girls' (remix) – A song about not getting what you want that was very big in the UK about two, almost three, years ago. I heard it in the dressing room of a store about six months ago and was transported back to some serious clubbing days.

3. Kanye West 'Homecoming f/ Chris Martin' – Okay, look, I know seeing the name Chris Martin has either enthralled some people or driven them off to get pitchforks, and you know, I understand that. I was a big Coldplay fan before fame came along, but Chris just does the chorus here. 'Homecoming' is really Kanye's love letter to the city where he grew up (Chicago). I played it 12 times yesterday.

4. Joe Purdy 'Blue in the Sky' – I love Joe Purdy madly. He's not famous, he's not pretty, but damnit he'll write you a gorgeous song on his guitar and have you sobbing in your beer in a heartbeat. This song is beautiful and uplifting and will make you smile and you won't know why, but I'll tell you, why, it's b/c it's Joe and that's what he does.

5. Ella Fitzgerald 'Black Coffee' – Jazz fans tend to love Ella and Billie Holiday, but I don’t tend to do things like other people. I'm not into Billie at all, but I can listen to Ella all fucking day. Especially when she's talking about coffee and cigarettes and waiting for her lover to come back.

Zip file (plus extras here)

I wasn't going to watch Heroes tonight. I'm just, this whole season has been painful to watch. I was done. Plus, the Tin Man was on, and it looked, well, interesting. And then I come on line to check something and find myself reading my flist, and every other fucking post is about Heroes, and I'm like 'What's that all about? People haven't been this excited since the finale. Damn you curiosity, you fuck me over again.'

( I broke my cardinal rule: I looked. I never look. )

Song of the Day: Dans Le Sac v. Scroobius Pup 'Thou Shall Always Kill'. *Provided courtesy of slodwick

The below started off as a comment for sparky77 in response to slodwick's concern for Shia after the Milo/Paris incident, because as anybody who's read Make Sure They See My Face will tell you, you can get into a lot of trouble just by standing next to someone on a press line. And I swear I thought this was all done, but how can I let it be when they keep doing crazy shit like this?!

Milo/Shia
Make Sure They See My Face-verse (or as sparky77 likes to call it Hotass Bitch Household-verse)
Rated NC-17

( Do Not Stand Next to Paris Hilton. Ever. )

Thank you to everyone who has wished me a happy birthday, with special thanks to heidi8 for the awesome Nathan-vid she made me and to romanticalgirl because she wrote me Burn Notice fic!

It's my birthday, so I can do whatever the hell I want. Except apparently get enough time to write Chuck/Bryce sexxor. Here, have a MSTSMF cookie based on this conversation instead.

Shia LaBeouf/Milo Ventimiglia, Adrian Pasdar
Rated PG-13
Make Sure They See My Face-verse

( Tuesday, November 27th )

This is –- yeah, okay, it just is. The idea came from fryadvocate and my comments in this post.

Heroes/Torchwood
Spoilers for 2.08 'Four Months Ago'
Peter/Nathan/Adam/Jack Harkness (PG-13)

The Definition of a Hero is Someone Who Gets Other People Killed

( Everything changes in the 21st Century )

HAHAHAHAHA! Bitches!: Modesty is for people who didn't call Matt Damon being People's Hottest Man Alive last fucking year. Yeah, Ari and George and I so covered that shit last year.

a. I wrote Chuck/Bryce on Friday night, I've Got a Banana in My Pocket, because I heart Chuck/Bryce. I think the next story will involve kidnappings and lake houses and shiny Wii's as bribery. I hateses you sparky77. Where are the Bryce/Chuck icons, people? Also, yay, Monday = new Chuck!


b. Lush has their new holiday products in. FLEE! Run! Buy! If you get the Holiday bubble bar, be prepared not to leave the bathtub for like an hour. Or six. Also, you might need a nap afterwards. Or you might just sniff yourself in public. Don't worry, the glitter doesn't make you look like a Cher backing dancer. Also, beware the Gold, Frankincense and Beer shower jelly. It is not beer. Do not attempt to eat it or drink it.


c. While playing like a seal at the zoo lolling in the bathtub, you'll need music. Like the melodious DJing styles of KCRW's Mathieu Schreyer's On the Corner, which is this awesome ass two hour program of world electronica/ambient/trip-hop music that I list in my iPod as Sunday Morning Hangover. Yes, I have a whole genre called Sunday Morning Hangover. You just wish you'd thought of it first. I so love On the Corner that I make a point of being near a radio just so I can hear it. It's Spanish and French and Brazilian and Reggae and English and just beautiful. I don't know why they don't podcast it; I have to complain to KCRW.


d. Sometimes people in fandom are a little batshit crazy. I think everybody's come across one of those people, but then you have people like Luminosity, who complete Q&A's for New York Magazine magazine, that make you say: Dear God of Fandom –- thank you for articulate, thoughtful people, who make everyone sound semi-sane. If articles got grades, this one would get an A+ (Link from serialkarma)


e. Everyone's talking about the WGA strike and what it means and who's doing what, and damn the man etc., but Damon Lindelof wrote a brilliant Op-Ed piece about the nuts and bolts of the issues for the NYT, which I thought was stellarly done. And if you want something else to chew on, know that SAG (Screen Actors Guild) will be renegotiating their contract in six months (which is why you'll see a lot of actors on the line -- because if one falls, everybody's going down). You think life is bad when you have no writers on your shows, try not having any actors. (Link from antheia)


f. Shia didn't get arrested (again) this past weekend (thank Moses) but he was hanging out with my favorite running buddy (no, not Ari) Billy Bob Thornton. I know people give BBT a lot of shit, but that man cracks me up and damned if I wouldn't drink myself into a state of being supported by a big ass bouncer if I had the chance too. (Link from antheia)

RPF/RPS/Entourage/CRACK!

hackthis Productions Present:

Make Sure They See My Face (The Making of a Movie in Five Acts – and one World Premiere)

featuring Ari Gold
George Clooney
Shia LaBeouf
and Milo Ventimiglia

With Viggo Mortensen. And some other folks.

Act I: Ari
Act II: Milo
Act III: Shia
Act IV: Viggo
Act V: George
Interlude (Love and Peace or Else, NC-17)


( Act VI: Lloyd )

RPF/RPS/Entourage/CRACK!

hackthis Productions Present:

Make Sure They See My Face (The Making of a Movie in Five Acts)

featuring Ari Gold
George Clooney
Shia LaBeouf
and Milo Ventimiglia

With Viggo Mortensen. And some other folks.

Act I: Ari
Act II: Milo
Act III: Shia
Act IV: Viggo


( Act V: George )

RPF/RPS/Entourage/CRACK!

hackthis Productions Present:

Make Sure They See My Face (The Making of a Movie in Five Acts)

featuring Ari Gold
George Clooney
Shia LaBeouf
and Milo Ventimiglia

With Viggo Mortensen. And some other folks.

Act I: Ari
Act II: Milo
( Act III: Shia )