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( Heroes season finale thoughts )

A bit of fun from lay_of_luthien: Sylar vs. Peter, the musical!

Okay, some of you might need to temper all this Heroes squee with some seriousness. Tons of TV stuff (including the Fox/CW upfront thoughts, finally to come next post. And now, the depressing world of reality.
New immigration deal in the US, people in Mexico not happy
Sniper rampage in Idaho leaves three dead
If you haven’t read it via your f-list already: Good Joss Whedon article on violence towards women
The Plague found in Denver squirrels. The site also has feature on “suicide” squirrels.
Japanese boy severs mother’s head. Oh my shoot. There are no words.
Toddler dies after mouth taped shut at day care
Southern ocean loaded with carbon

Okay, need some cheering up now.
Rare new hummingbird species found! They have pufflegs!
New deep sea creatures found
Far from home, neighbor saves man at sea
Mercury’s core is molten iron!
Via cleolinda: Irish dolphins have brogue; Study says French workers are biggest whiners, while Irish are happiest.

That reminds me: we went to San Francisco on Saturday to visit the De Young Museum. Afterward we spent some time in the Sunset District. In the Sunset, for every two blocks, you are guaranteed: a handful of Chinese restaurants, tiny discount stores packed tight with tons of goods, one grocery, one bank, one Vietnamese or Russian food shop, one Thai restaurant, and in between it all, an Irish pub. It’s true. We drove around a lot. We saw like 10 or 15 pubs in all. Oh, and we saw a car commercial being filmed in an alley near downtown. It was awesome.

R.I.P., M.L.K. Jr.

Oh, and there are still lots of characters unguessed in my fave chara meme. Come on down!

So I was online last night, about 12:30 AM-ish, when something distracted me from the computer. SOMETHING actually distracted ME from ONLINE TIME? So much that I gave up trying to surf and just watched until it ended at 2?
It wasn’t soccer.
It wasn’t any current fandom.
It was Spy.
It’s a BBC reality show about people training to become spies. I don’t think they’ll become official spies, because showing them on TV would be counterproductive. But watching the people attempt to succeed in missions is just fascinating. The film grade is movie-quality, a lot better than the grainy stuff used in shooting most reality shows and documentaries. In fact, the way the show is shot is a mix of reality show and documentary. It’s a bit annoying when the three experts summarize everything that’s happened, while standing in a tacky power-triangle setup. But otherwise, their insight is intriguing, and watching the contestants achieve their goals -or fail miserably- made me clutch my face in nervous anticipation.
The thing I like best about watching reality TV is thinking of what I would do and what they should do. With spying, it’s basically how well you act. Can you come up with a good cover, stick to it, and get the job done? Can you exploit situations and emotions to your advantage? It’s so tense.

After watching, I came up with an idea of making a TV show about the filming of the US version of Spy. Crazy, yeah, but I’ve been thinking it through and it could work.

Okay, as promised:
( Smallville rapid-fire thoughts )

( lots of thoughts on Supernatural, including the great music (Muse! Jefferson Airplane!) and Ava! )

Heavy linkload today:
Chiller, a new network devoted to horror
interview with the Great Cate Blanchett
New stills from Grindhouse, the Tarantino/Rodriguez tribute to exploitation movies. Robert Rodriguez’s half, Planet Terror, has Naveen Andrews (Sayid on Lost) as one of four gun-packing, motorcycle-riding zombie killers.

“Heroes” stars Milo Ventimiglia and Adrian Pasdar are real life superheroes And thus, a million RPS stories are born.
See the Simpsons as anime characters!
interview with Ricky Gervais, creator of The Office and Extras
Interview with Tina Fey and Jenna Fischer

Response to Cal Asian article

Via cleolinda:
Science reveals the cause of sibling rivalries
The top five movie posters of 2006
Posters for 300, the movie

Okay, another meme, via never_evil:
Comment here and I'll tell you one thing that I like about you. Then go post it in your LJ and return the sentiment. You know the drill.

And finally, since tonight is Golden Globe night…
The Golden Tomatoes!
I liked this response the best:
“Michel Gondry, writer and director of the Golden Tomato winner for Romance, "The Science of Sleep," demonstrated that he can sling barbs as well as any critic when he said, "I am thrilled by this Rotten recognition of the critics. Although, one of them said I should not be allowed to hold a pen, so I wanted to know if I could be offered a Rotten Tomato pen as a trophy that I would gladly present to this critic to place in a not so romantic location.””

Oh, and grr Fabio Capello.

That is all. -phew-
Now I need to finish reviewing Japanese, because I go back to school tomorrow…

Sorry I haven’t posted in a while. Studying for AP Literature test and all. Hope my essays were okay.

First, the important stuff.

I respect the people who chose to honor the May 1 immigration rights day in the way that they felt was best: either by staying home from work or school, or by going to work or school but still wearing white and respecting the economic boycott. My friends and I did the latter. Anyone who also remembered the labor origins of May Day deserves a cookie as well.

Here’s a good article on Sudan by Paul Rubeasagina (spelling?). You may know him as the guy Don Cheadle portrayed in Hotel Rwanda.
The world fails to act on another slaughter.

Now, on to lighter topics.

May 4 was Star Wars day.

May 6- this Saturday- is Free Comic Book Day. Click on the link to find a participating store near you.

( The promised Batman post )

In other news, there’s a Neil Gaiman tribute album coming out, featuring Tori Amos, Rasputina, and others. Should be interesting.

Oh, and vote for the good people in the MTV Movie Awards. The java-packed voting ballots take a few seconds to load, though. But we cannot let certain nominees win. So, even if you don’t like MTV, please vote!
( And the nominees are… )

I had fun at the Manga Expo here in Fremont last Saturday. We didn’t have a lot of time, but I talked to some of the artists, checked the booths and merchandise, and BOUGHT AN ADVENT CHILDREN PILLOW! There were more cosplayers this year too.

So…it was Bloody Wednesday on TV. Two deaths due to sharp objects on Alias, two deaths by bullet on Lost, and one guy smashed into a trash receptacle on Invasion. Whew.

The TV Thursday that followed was the day of Daddy Disguises. (Smallville, Supernatural.)

Oh, and the Spring issue of Youth Today just came out in Fremont. The editors squished my article a bit, and added the word "slated." They also identified my female teacher as a "he." Otherwise it’s what I wrote. Some of the other articles are cool too- my favorite ones are about Wizard rock and Fremont's very own pirate store.

Well, see y’all someday.