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June 25th, 2009

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Went to orientation at Stonybrook ... this is my fall schedule

MONDAY
10:40- 11:35 ... Topics in Ancient and Medieval Europe (the topic is late Renaissance Italy)
2:20- 3:40 ... Topics in American History (the topic is "global Hollywoods")

TUESDAY
9:50- 11:10 ... Topics in Asian History (the topic is post-WW2 Japan)
12:50- 2:10 ... Introduction to the Solar System (I still needed another science course)

WEDNESDAY
same as Monday

THURSDAY
same as Tuesday, plus
2:20 - 3:50 ... bullshit "intro to Stonybrook" class that I'm probably going to drop

FRIDAY
10:40- 11:35 ... the Italian Renaissance class

So if any of y'all bitches be Stonybrook students, I have many gaps in my schedule that I can fill with irritating you.

June 24th, 2009

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... que? I know it's from a movie called "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", and that it's Steve Martin singing "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", but someone please explain it in a broader sense. Any of it.

June 14th, 2009

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Lolll "The Mighty Boosh". I can totally see why it wouldn't work for some people, but I really like the surrealness and the weird animated bits and all the random singing and the stream-of-consciousness arguing.

some clips on youtube

I'm a gay! I'm a massive gayist! Woo!

June 11th, 2009

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Oh, right. Livejournal.

I completed my glorious one semester at Binghamton University and moved back to my parents' house, mainly for financial reasons. 3.5 GPA, which is not bad for a semester where 500% more of my time was spent getting high and watching Dr Who than doing anything school-related. My unspeakably slow crawl to a bachelor's in history will continue at Stonybrook in the fall. Right now I'm trying to find a job for the summer and some kind of projects to do to fend off boredom. I started a Dr Who blog ([info]time_rammed) that maybe I won't totally abandon like all my other internet projects. I wanna do something, but I can't think of what. I don't know, I'm pretty useless right now.

May 28th, 2009

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hobsonphile's version of the 10 Pairings meme ...

List ten of your favorite fannish relationships (can be romantic or platonic), and ask your friends list to comment on what patterns they see in those relationships. Try to include a variety of fandoms.

1) Doctor/Master (Doctor Who)
2) Holmes/Watson (Sherlock Holmes)
3) Spock/McCoy (Star Trek Original Series)
4) Jack Aubery/Stephen Maturin (Master and Commander)
5) Lister/Rimmer (Red Dwarf)
6) Mulder/Scully (X-Files, even though the show did it badly in the end)
7) The Monarch/Dr Girlfriend (Venture Brothers)
8) Bertie/Jeeves (Jeeves and Wooster)
9) House/Wilson (House)
10) Q/Picard (Star Trek: Next Gen)

May 21st, 2009

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I haven't vidded (or updated) in forever, so what better way to restart than with a video that maybe 2 other people will get?

For that undoubtedly HUGE selection of the population that watches both "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" and 70s-era Dr Who .... a lulzy Third Doctor tribute set to "Dayman" from the "Nightman Cometh" musical episode



for a less cracked-out Dr Who vid, watch this one that Glenn just did (Doctor/Master, set to the Dandy Warhols' "We Used to Be Friends"). he should also post his Prisoner-Degrassi video, which is if possible an even less likely combination of shows

April 23rd, 2009

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here, have a bunch of barely coherent Dr Who icons ...

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I can't imagine that many people who aren't Glenn wanting any of these (and he already has like half), but if for some reason you do, knock yourself out.

April 15th, 2009

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a couple Dr Who doodles I did in my Irish history lecture ...

aw, Three and Delgado-Master )

I should finish and scan the other Who stuff in my sketchbook. and finish some videos.

April 7th, 2009

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went to Icon ... there was a bit less going on this year, I guess because of the move to the community college and various hotels, but it was still fun. saw a few interesting (mainly sciencey) panels, saw a bunch of goobers in costumes, was a partially-costumed goober my own self (I can haz Fourth Doctor scarf), and hung out with Glenn and Jess. good times.

a few pictures, courtesy of Jess )

March 5th, 2009

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lol, it's Mr Pookins. (the blind guy)

February 24th, 2009

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My Long, Rambling List of Thoughts on Doctor Who Characters in the old series )

I just kind of wanted to write anything, to kind of get myself in the mood for writing a bunch of papers in the upcoming weeks. so, Doctor Who. At length.
I set my bangs aflame.

That probably means I should cut them.

um, what else ...

I started going to Binghamton University, finally. It's going ok so far - the classes are a little bit harder than at the community college, but not by a lot. And most of them are ok - I'm taking "Disease, Medicine and Empire", "Cinema and Violence", "Irish History, 1600-1998", and "Fantastic* Spaces in Film and Lit" which is about half a lit class, half a philosophy class on the concept of "space". The Irish history lectures are kind of dry, but the lecture class is good. We're doing a unit on Irish history in "Cinema and Violence", too, so I get plenty of that cheerful subject. Reading a bunch of different things - James Joyce is interesting (but OMG what a freak). We're supposed to read a few magical realism novels in the "Spaces" class, looking forward to that. I dragged my ass on reading "Year of the French" by Thomas Flanagan, but it's actually pretty good (it's about the rebellion in 1798, from about a bazillion points of view on it).

*which I can't not hear in the Ninth Doctor voice. fantastic!

In theory I'm going to have a job back at BCC as a tutor ... in statistics. Also possibly a history class or two (or basically anything I got an A in), but I was specifically recommended to teach statistics by my professor, which is ... cool, but very strange. I did pretty well in that class, but I'm not sure how - I feel like I only got every other thing we learned. But, especially since nowhere else I've applied to has called me, I'm totally willing to give tutoring a shot. I just realllly don't want to fuck someone up with bad tuting. And I guess this will be a good start towards eventually becoming a history teacher, which seems like the most likely thing I'll do with a history degree. I wonder how you get into TAing here. I want to maybe teach a "history and film" class - it'll combine two things I like, and also I'll get to show movies all day.

Or possibly a "Doctor Who" class, since I'm watching so damn much of it. Look at that shit. There's just something about it that's very appealing to me, even when it's bad. And man, it is bad a lot. Like, it has about the same ratio of bad episodes to good that Original Series Star Trek has which is bad cause, a) Star Trek had a lot of bad episodes, and b) Doctor Who has like, nearly 50 years of that ratio of bad episodes. Which isn't to say I don't completely love this show, cause I do, it's just - yikes, sometimes.

I've seen every Doctor except Eight at least once so far, and I read a Doctor Who novel featuring him - that I got way before I watched this, for some reason - so I kind of have an idea of his character. I've only seen Two in multiple Doctor escapades and I've only seen one serial of Six's, so those two I don't have as clear an impression of, but I've seen quite a bit of Three, Four and Five and a little of One and Seven, and I like them all. Nine is "my Doctor", maybe because he was my first, but I think I would have liked him whenever I came across him. <3 Nine. Oh, Christopher Eccleston, you bastard, do some kind of "Multiple Doctors Get into Exponentially Crazier Hijinks" special with David Tennant and maybe the next guy. And go back to Heroes while you're at it.

giant fuck-all post of Thoughts on Dr Who Characters next, it's getting too long

February 14th, 2009

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ongoing list of what Doctor Who I've consumed so far ...

First Doctor
An Unearthly Child
10,000 BC
The Daleks
The Aztecs
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
The Romans
Space Museum
The Chase

Second Doctor
Tomb of the Cybermen
The Mind Robber
The Invasion
The Krotons
The War Games

Third Doctor
Spearhead From Space
The Silurians
Inferno
Terror of the Autons
The Mind of Evil
The Claws of Axos
Colony in Space
The Daemons
Day of the Daleks
The Sea Devils
The Time Monster
The Three Doctors
Carnival of Monsters
Frontier in Space
Planet of the Daleks
The Green Death
The Time Warrior
Invasion of the Dinosaurs
Death to the Daleks
The Monsters of Peladon
Planet of the Spiders

Fourth Doctor
Robot
Ark in Space
The Sontaran Experiment
Genesis of the Daleks
Terror of the Zygons
Pyramids of Mars
The Deadly Assasin
The Invisible Enemy
The Ribos Operation
The Pirate Planet
The Stones of Blood
The Androids of Tara
The Power of Kroll
The Armageddon Factor
Destiny of the Daleks
City of Death
The Creature from the Pit
Horns of Nimon
Meglos
Full Circle
Warrior's Gate
The Keeper of Traken
Logopolis

Fifth Doctor
Castrovalva
The Visitation
Black Orchid
Earthshock
Time Flight
Arc of Infinity
Mawdryn Undead
The King's Demons
The Five Doctors
Warriors of the Deep
The Awakening
Frontios
Resurrection of the Daleks
Planet of Fire
Caves of Androzani

Sixth Doctor
Vengeance on Varos
Mark of the Rani
The Two Doctors
Revelation of the Daleks
Trial of a Time Lord
- The Mysterious Planet
- Mindwarp
- Terror of the Vervoids
- The Ultimate Foe

Seventh Doctor
all

Eighth Doctor
The Enemy Within: The TV Movie (ie, all)

Ninth Doctor
all

Tenth Doctor
all so far

Etc
Scream of the Shalka
Curse of Fatal Death

Audiobooks
Freedom
Master
Sympathy for the Devil
Deadline

January 25th, 2009

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Origin of Doctor Who villians ... TRU FAX

lonegunfreak: I wonder if most Time Lords go through their regenerations as quickly as the Doctor and the Master, or if they're just the Time Lords that need to wear helmets
[info]lostitforever: they rode the short bus to time school
lonegunfreak: hahaha
lostitforever: That's how they met, the Master kept stealing the Doctor's lunch money
lostitforever: but then throwing it away into the time vortex, because he hates the world
lostitforever: also, he was a goth
lonegunfreak: he's just mad that the Doctor didn't ask him to the timeprom
lostitforever: lol!
lonegunfreak: he was going to wear his best Dracula cape and everything! he already bought the Doctor a celery for a corsage

lostitforever: Daaaaaleks have no concept of scene music
lonegunfreak: Daleks would listen to the most annoying music in the world. Skaro's whole music scene would revolve around techno
lostitforever): hahaha
lostitforever: that idea amuses teh crap out of me
lostitforever: I'm picturing a rave scene
lostitforever: with Daleks spinning
lostitforever: not unlike that youtube thing
lonegunfreak: and they replaced their whisks with glowsticks
lostitforever: heh
lostitforever: and started taking ecstacy
lostitforever: but then found out they couldn't sex each other in their metal containers
lostitforever: and so they reverted to their usual "exterminate" objective
lonegunfreak: so, the origin (or, genesis, if you will) of the Daleks is ecstasy-related sexual frustration?
lostitforever: yes
lonegunfreak: .... that makes as much sense as anything else
lonegunfreak: Davros' little chair dealy was like his little DJ stand ... pumping out dance mixes for the Daleks to get their spin on

also, I've started watching bits of the Third Doctor - Glenn and I are doing themed watchings focusing on our favorite villians (Daleks for him, the Master for me) - and it's pretty good, but this post of Glenn's illustrates one of the main issues I'm having with it. otherwise, pretty sweet

January 23rd, 2009

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ok, so my Dr Who viewing now includes

all of New Who (except the latest Christmas special, which is being incredibly obstinate about being downloaded)

1st Doctor
- that goddamn caveman thing, the first serial. jesus, that just went on and on and on. "An Unearthly Child". the first episode was kinda cool, in a Twilight Zoney way.
- the second serial, the one with the Daleks, which was a bit more lively. old-school Daleks look even more ridiculous than the new ones (though much less ambulatory. New Who is sooo into Daleks flying now, they throw it in every time they come up. I guess it's to make up for the years of Daleks being confined to the first floors of buildings and places with wheelchair access)

4th Doctor
- Genesis of the Daleks
- The Ribos Operation
- The Pirate Planet

"The Five Doctors".

plz rec more, if any of you watch Old School Who, cause I want to see more, but it's like, 700+ episodes and that's goddamn ridiculous. what are some of the highlights?

am downloading a bunch of episodes featuring The Master, because OMG lol the Master. the Doctor/Master pairing makes me think of a mix of things about some other pairings I've liked - Picard/Q, Giles/Ethan, Xavier/Magneto, Sylar/Mohinder - and accept no other explanation for the Master's tomfoolery other than misguided attempts to get the Doctor's attention (and maybe some buttsecks)

December 9th, 2008

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Heroes this week ...

cut for length and disorganization )

December 2nd, 2008

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Heroes notes later (I like rewatching the show so it's all fresh in my head, but the computers in this lab won't play the episode). but I just finished watching the 2005 reboot season of Dr who, and daaaamn. why why why was it just one season?

cut for length and spoilers )

I totally reccommend the hell out of this series. it's only 13 episodes, and it works pretty well as it's own self-contained thing - I'd never seen an episode of Doctor Who before, and I loved it. I'm going to try and find the older seasons and torrent them - does anyone have any recommendations, or should I just start from the beginning?

I need a Dr Who icon now

November 20th, 2008

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Heroes )

November 11th, 2008

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Heroes )

damn, that was long

October 30th, 2008

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so, there's 2 movies coming out in the near future that in theory I should be thrilled about, but are in one way or another bumming me out ... one is the Robert Downey Jr/Jude Law "Sherlock Holmes" and the other is a new version of "I, Claudius".

Sherlock Holmes )

*Jude Law has already done a bit of work in the Holmes universe ... in an episode of the fantabulous Jeremy Brett series, he plays a stableboy who dresses in drag to fake the continued-existance of a dead duchess. I'll take screencaps later

I, Clavdivs )
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