Seriously?
Dec. 11th, 2010 02:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakFirst of all, Fringe-wise, I'm reminded again how I dislike pairing nicknames that smash names together. "Polivia"? Seriously? And then FFN tells me there's also "Walstrid". HELP.
Lo and behold, there's a Thor trailer. Mind you, Thor has never been the Marvel character to interest me most, but the recent cartoons have made me sort of fond of the guy, plus I really am curious how Kenneth Branagh will pulll off directing a superhero film. In present day. With Norse gods. Also, Agent Coulson appears to be back in a major role, and the Iron Man films have made me fond of him.
In other news, I wish I had known about this when I wrote either collection of contradictory John Lennon quotes or my post on the gory musical bitchfest of 71 complete with 73 reconciliation, because it fits so well with either. So on John Lennon's 31st birthday in 1971, our hero parties with friends (Klaus Voorman, Ringo) and the local New York cultural scene (Ginsberg), and, as you'd expect at a birthday party with these participants, there are plenty of drinks, pot... and there's singing. Naturally. What, oh kind readers, do you think John sings just before and after everyone sings their "happy birthday, dear John" for him? Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey. Which happens to be a song from Ram, Paul McCartney's second solo album. You know, the very one that recently (i.e. the very same year) caused John to go ballistic (details on why in the above linked musical bitching of 1971 post) and put How Do You Sleep? on his second solo album, Imagine, with such lines like "the sound you make is muzak to my ears". After finishing with Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey, just to make it completely perfect, he starts with George's My Sweet Lord, recently mentioned by the birthday child in interviews thusly ("Int.: Do you have any regrets about not doing the Bangladesh concert?" John: I don't want to play "My Sweet Lord."). And then (no longer on the clip below, alas), just to show how utterly over everyone he really is, he sings... Yesterday.
You can't make this up, people. Reality always does it better.
Incidentally, if you're not familiar with the McCartney song the birthday party is chorusing, the full length version is here; "Admiral Halsey", aka the part John is singing between getting birthday-serenaded is here. The only thing even better would have been if he'd sung Too Many People (you know, the one with the "that was your first mistake/ you took your lucky break/ and broke it in two" and "too many people preaching practices/don't let them tell you what you want to be" lines). Oh, wait....
Lo and behold, there's a Thor trailer. Mind you, Thor has never been the Marvel character to interest me most, but the recent cartoons have made me sort of fond of the guy, plus I really am curious how Kenneth Branagh will pulll off directing a superhero film. In present day. With Norse gods. Also, Agent Coulson appears to be back in a major role, and the Iron Man films have made me fond of him.
In other news, I wish I had known about this when I wrote either collection of contradictory John Lennon quotes or my post on the gory musical bitchfest of 71 complete with 73 reconciliation, because it fits so well with either. So on John Lennon's 31st birthday in 1971, our hero parties with friends (Klaus Voorman, Ringo) and the local New York cultural scene (Ginsberg), and, as you'd expect at a birthday party with these participants, there are plenty of drinks, pot... and there's singing. Naturally. What, oh kind readers, do you think John sings just before and after everyone sings their "happy birthday, dear John" for him? Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey. Which happens to be a song from Ram, Paul McCartney's second solo album. You know, the very one that recently (i.e. the very same year) caused John to go ballistic (details on why in the above linked musical bitching of 1971 post) and put How Do You Sleep? on his second solo album, Imagine, with such lines like "the sound you make is muzak to my ears". After finishing with Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey, just to make it completely perfect, he starts with George's My Sweet Lord, recently mentioned by the birthday child in interviews thusly ("Int.: Do you have any regrets about not doing the Bangladesh concert?" John: I don't want to play "My Sweet Lord."). And then (no longer on the clip below, alas), just to show how utterly over everyone he really is, he sings... Yesterday.
You can't make this up, people. Reality always does it better.
Incidentally, if you're not familiar with the McCartney song the birthday party is chorusing, the full length version is here; "Admiral Halsey", aka the part John is singing between getting birthday-serenaded is here. The only thing even better would have been if he'd sung Too Many People (you know, the one with the "that was your first mistake/ you took your lucky break/ and broke it in two" and "too many people preaching practices/don't let them tell you what you want to be" lines). Oh, wait....
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Date: 2010-12-11 02:05 pm (UTC)*giggle snort*
I'm so happy I only read gen in this fandom!
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Date: 2010-12-11 02:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-11 02:31 pm (UTC)- Help Wanted by Rheanna is a lovely Astrid-centred gen piece.
Astrid didn't want to be Walter Bishop's lab assistant. Unfortunately, neither did anyone else.
- Not One Whit Explosive by sheafrotherdon is short and funny.
Walter makes a wonderful discovery.
- Plus ça change by Zinnith has some nice Walter & Peter moments.
Pattern - a series of steps, repeated.
I haven't really found another with Olivia in it that I like, more's the pity, most of it seems to be shippy. Have you found anything outside of AO3?
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Date: 2010-12-11 07:40 pm (UTC)And alas, I haven't found anything Olivia-centric I like, either. Not least because I'm just not interested in Olivia/Peter. (I like both characters. I just think every other relation they have is more interesting than the one they have with each other.)
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Date: 2010-12-11 08:24 pm (UTC)(I like both characters. I just think every other relation they have is more interesting than the one they have with each other.)
Completely agree with you on this.
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Date: 2010-12-11 02:52 pm (UTC)0_o
Those are indeed even worse than most squished pairing names.
Now I have morbid curiosity about what they call Walter Bishop/William Bell in squished pairing land. (It will doubtless not surprise you to hear that I totally 'ship those two.) They have the same initials! Which is doubtless deliberate on the part of the writers.
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Date: 2010-12-11 03:55 pm (UTC)I have no idea what they call the 'ship, but ghastly possibilities that come to mind are: Welly, Bellshop.
...are we lucky or what that nobody tackled Londo/G'Kar that way? Or went for "Daster"/ "Moctor"?
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Date: 2010-12-11 08:47 pm (UTC)(For the record, if either of those start being used, I am officially retiring from fandom.)
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Date: 2010-12-12 08:30 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-12-12 04:32 pm (UTC)I kinda wish I didn't know...
Also, I may watch this movie exclusively for Natalie Portman. Maybe. Agent Coulson, heee! there's something about the actor, I think, that makes him vaguely lovable.
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Date: 2010-12-12 08:36 pm (UTC)I confess I only read Thor in other people's comics, not his own, so I don't know how Sif and Jane Foster are characterized there. We'll see how much Natalie P. has to do, I suppose...