It Started with a Journal

Happy birthday to my dearest ropo today!

I finished ep 14 of Glee S3 last night. I'm just going to avoid talking about the "plot" shenanigans, as it is too crazy, incoherent, and frankly stupid to discuss. Instead, I am going to share with you my favorite cover songs from the season so far. Sadly some of the actual performances on the show aren't available on YouTube, but the songs themselves are. ( Yay fun music! )

I found this great Logan/Veronica video yesterday, and watching it reminded me of how much I'd loved that ship (the ship acronym was actually LoVe!) once upon a time... which made me pissed off all over again wrt what they did to it. F*ck you, Rob Thomas. The first season of Veronica Mars was amazing. It was so good that Joss Whedon was gaga over it (which was what made me interested in watching it), which he says himself he rarely gets over anything that isn't his own project.

The problem was, it was conceived of as a one-season show, and after that one season, things started falling apart. By the third (and last) season, it no longer resembled the great show it'd once been. One of the hugest mistakes they made was what they did with Logan and Veronica. (And maybe Logan specifically. But Veronica too. And the two together.) Logan was the Damon/Spike of the series. He wasn't intended to be the male lead or Veronica's primary love interest, or play such a big role, but he ended up doing so because the fans loved him, and loved them together. It got so that they let the other actor (the one who played her actual boyfriend) go, because, according to Rob Thomas, "it became clear that one suitor won out."

So they KNEW what the fans liked. And yet instead of nurturing that interest, they basically blew up the LoVe relationship, and not in the typical little bullshit ways to keep the viewers interested and wanting them to be together. Instead, they drove huge, gaping chasms between them in ways that were irreparable, or nearly so. I've never understood their reasoning for doing this. Were they resentful of the fact that people enjoyed Logan more than they were supposed to? Were they trying to kill the ship, which was cutting off their noses to spite their faces, since, as is the case with many shows I love, VM was a critical but not ratings darling? I just don't know if they did what they did out of ignorance, stupidity, or some misguided attempt to try and either kill the ship or keep people interested (???). In any case, what they did was destroy it, and since the show itself was faltering anyway, there was really nothing left to watch for, by the end.

Wow. I had no idea I still felt so strongly about it after all this time. LOL. Anyway, if you were ever a LoVe fan, it's a good vid that will make you nostalgic (and maybe mad when you remember the rest of it).

I haven't forgotten that I owe you guys pictures. I just want to get them all taken before I post, that's all. So it's not too late if you want to make a request! I can't believe no one has requested to see Logan's car, which I (used to) see all the time.

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( So, I've been watching S1 Gilmore Girls. )

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( I've also finally seen the first few episodes of Alias S5. Spoilers galore! )

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Wow. Who knew Forbes could be this creative/insane? It's their "top 15 richest fictional characters" list (pointed out by rainpuddle13). I must say, I take issue with some of their choices (especially the ordering). However, I am vastly amused that Lucius Malfoy made the list, and am tickled by the profile they did on him. Heehee!

( Here's the top 15. )

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And now, for the best quiz ever, gacked from heinous_bitca, ( My RL WoW Race/Class! )

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For those of you who have been around that long, you might remember that waaaay back in December 2004, I posted a rant about T-Mobile, and that, I quote: At the end of my required period with them, I am leaving no matter the incentive. I have never been treated so appallingly; I've never experienced such tactics at the hand of a large, thriving business that has nothing to lose and everything to gain by exhibiting even one iota of understanding toward its customers. And as someone who has a very long memory, and who can bear a grudge, particularly when I have been as grievously wronged as T-Mobile wronged me, I canceled my account today and went with Cingular. :D Really, everyone should switch mobile service providers every couple of years anyway, because in today's culture it's only new customers, not loyal customers, who get all the perks. So now not only have I ditched the HORRIBLE AND REPULSIVE T-MOBILE, I have also: a) got a new, free camera phone; b) enrolled in a service plan that has free mobile-to-mobile minutes (unlike some companies that charge monthly for such a service); and c) enrolled in a service plan that has *rollover* minutes, which is just the best thing ever -- it means that if I don't use up all my allotted minutes in a month, they get rolled over to the next month. Do I even need to say that at T-Mobile, those minutes simply disappear? All good selling points. But I have to admit that the biggest selling point really is FUCK YOU, T-MOBILE.

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We had lots of snow yesterday. I love snow. And walking in it. I love the crunchy squeakiness of it. But I hate the days after it snows, when it starts to melt and turn into gray slush and makes roads slippery and what not. So really, the solution is to live somewhere where it snows one day, then is 90 degrees the next day so it all melts away cleanly.

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Forgot to say: Meeting with Julie tomorrow to go to a bar and watch the UCLA-USC game. I actually didn't want to be anywhere in public, because odds are we're gonna get creamed, but she insisted. I just hope we give them a run for their money. I want to play a good game; I hope that's not too much to ask. :-S