Princess Sparklefists

lunamystic introduced me to two amazing fanvids this weekend!



I can identify the episodes of most of the scenes. I have clearly seen The West Wing too many times!



In which we discovered that costume dramas have lots of rain. And that Richard Armitage is really swoonworthy.

Today feels like the "old days"—that is, a time when I wasn't busy all the time with stupid grad school. I'm just chilling in my living room, listening to music on my laptop and reading, with diversions to throw a tennis ball around for the dog or to clean up my iTunes metadata.

I've had this song stuck in my head all day and California on the brain thanks to my job hunt, so have a San Francisco themed video:

It's a tribute to this Brooklyn version which is in turn a tribute to this Brat pack movie mashup, all featuring Phoenix's single Lisztomania which is, I guess, a tribute of sorts to Franz Liszt.

Don't you just love the internet?

I LOVE THIS SONG! d4ni, you will too. There's banjo!




You know how sometimes you keep hearing a song on the radio and think "This is awesome--why do I not know what it is?" This was one of those. So now I'm passing it on to all of you: listen to Mumford & Sons. They are awesome. Unfortunately, there album hasn't been release in the US. Why does this keep happening to me this week? Apparently if I ever make it to the UK again, all I'm going to do there is buy CDs.

For good measure, here's the video of their first single:

( Little Lion Man )

So today is Star Wars Day. May the Fourth be with you. GEDDIT? In honor, I bring you classic wisdom from the leaders of the rebel alliance. (Not sure why these are both from Return of the Jedi. Maybe it's just the most unintentionally funny of the bunch? Although Luke girly screams in the garbage smasher scene are pretty hilarious. Threepio, oh where could he be?! SHUT DOWN ALL THE GARBAGE SMASHERS ON THE DETENTION LEVEL! But it's not like I'm a big dork who knows half the dialogue or anything. Shutting up now.)





I could not find a video of Princess Leia's I am NOT a committee scene, which is a shame. I kinda wanna watch Star Wars now, but alas, I have no VCR. One of these days I will buy the DVDs.

When you see this, quote Leo McGarry....

"We've got separation of powers, checks and balances, and Margaret, vetoing things and sending them back to the Hill!"

Thankfully, my absentee ballot was not made by Diebold. (Nor does it involve chads, hanging or otherwise.)

Even Terry Wogan tries t' talk like a pirate. Arrrr!

Couldn't have said it better myself...


Seriously, here's hoping that the women of America educate themselves about the candidates and vote for the ones that support issues they believe in. On the issues, Sarah Palin is nothing like Hillary Clinton, and I'm certainly not going to vote for a ticket just because they added a woman to it.

Also, Gail Collins and Frank Rich both had good columns this weekend. Collins addresses Palin's nomination, and Rich goes broader to discuss how the media consistently gets the campaign narratives wrong. (Just when you thought I was done trying to make you all read the newspaper!)

Next week, the Republican National Convention... *shudder*

I was going to post about "Turn Left", but then I got kind of sidetracked making screencaps, so that'll have to wait 'til tomorrow. (I do like to be spectacularly late, but I guess at least I can be more coherent than ASD;FLKAJSD;FKJ ZOMG! DONNA! BADWOLF! SQUEE!) So in lieu of that, have a random video!


The Second Doctor is bring sexy back, ya'll.

Why doesn't the Johnson County Library have Fiction Plane? Grrrr. Last.fm won't let me stream them anymore. :( However, they do have Ministry of Magic. That's, of course, completely unrelated, but I do find wizard rock pretty amusing.

d4ni's opinion of the Ting-Ting's made me laugh. "The drums! The fucking drums!" I happen to like songs that repeat stuff a lot. It makes the lyrics easy to remember.

The radio station's here are all awful, but one of them sort of made up for it by playing Weezer for an entire hour yesterday. Remember the Keep Fishin' video? With the Muppets? ( Weezer + Muppets = WIN! :D )

Song of the week is Duffy's "Hanging on to Long." It's pretty awesome.

ETA: This week's free download on iTune is "Let's Dance to Joy Division." iTunes is being really great recently about giving me those great moments of "I already knew about The Wombats!" music snobbery. :D In reality, I think the iTunes people are just getting all their alt-rock and indie ideas from BBC radio.