You had plenty money 1922

Looked at cast list for Percy Jackson. Most of the gods are played by unknowns, some of which are actually Greek (OMGWTFHOLLYWOOD?) and though I saw the trailer, I missed that Sean Bean was playing Zeus. Er, what? Ares, Hephaestus, even Hermes... But Zeus? cidercupcakes, back me up on this. Raising eyebrow at Steve Coogan as Hades.

Radio 1 has this 'introing music to callers' thing where they go through their current likes, then pick some new stuff or some old stuff. They picked old stuff today, and ... oh god. This bloke had never heard of Leftfield. Either I'm getting old or he's clueless. The fact that he gave Afrika Shox 6/10 leads me to believe he's lacking in taste, too.

Rightio, who's celebrating Lupercalia on sunday? Hrrm. I know that Xmas period and August Bank Holiday are recent major conception times, but does anyone know if Feb 14th still is? Considering that's the one that's the *actual* fertility fest. (fairly simple logic : mum get preggers early feb, baby born at harvest time, plenty of food for mum to produce breast milk)

Catching up on Chuck. Oh my. with 3x06, the show's got to the point of examining what the ficcers have been speculating for ages - the effects on Chuck having to deal with spy reality, in this case handling an asset. I do like it when canon gets to this point. Though will someone tell me why there's so little Chuck/Daniel Shaw? Brandon Routh is a) ridiculously pretty (and has gotten prettier post-Superman), b) touchy-feely with Chuck (and cares about/believes in him, HELLO SLASHERS) and c) resemblance to Bryce. aka Chuck's type.

Poking the new Sarah (Chuck) outfit (see chucktv.net for photos). According to boy who sits next to me, her shoes are converse. I considered getting cheap lookalikes and painting them, but it turns out ebay has orange converse for about £15 (which is cheaper than buying the fakes + paint cost). The fun thing will be looking for white cropped jeans. I can probs get the vest printed up no trouble, and will have to badger the printing shop about how much they'd charge for just the printing on your own item for the apron.

The important question now is whether I suit orange.

(I have vague dread of it being like Princess Bride, where I got the 'eurgh, that shade of red and cut *really* doesn't suit you' and I replied 'yeah, well, it didn't suit the original actress either.')

:facepalm: self, you really should be looking at costumes for the bloody BSG con in December, not the con next year.

I really shouldn't idly surf bedlamsbard's narnia fic late at night. I re-read Ere Yet We let Loose the Legions (Golden age narnia/LOTR) where Eomer's bunch end up in Narnia whilst fleeing the Uruk-Hai and Peter decides 'fuck it, let's join the fight' and now? Now I want to see Peter meeting Aragorn. All those who think they'd have to be kept at different ends of the hall by Legolas and Edmund, raise your hands... AUGH. Fuck *off*, bunnies.

Listening to the Sunset Boulevard tracks from ALW's birthday. :wails: WHY THE FUCK WAS I NOT INTO MUSICALS IN MY TEENS/EARLY TWENTIES? :pokes ALW: re-stage it, you know you want to. and hire Maria Friedman. (if the woman reduced people to tears with her rendition of 'As If We Never Said Goodbye' at a concert, I'm all for trying her for the role. And just checked the youtube vs. the radio2 record - the radio's completely flattened it out. Note to self : track down all the youtube bits of the concert, rip them, then figure out how to rip the mp3s because they're far better quality) The Barrowman could probably be convinced if he stops doing the rather more...stupid tv shows. Ruthie, consider yourself ear-marked for Norma when you're a couple of decades older. And will you two stop having so much chemistry? The 'awwwww's are very, very audible on the youtubes.

...Have decided I hate buttons more than I hate pintucking and pinning in general. Possibly the fact that my machine's instructions gave no fucking indication that you had to turn the damn thing round once it had done one side, so I spent a very frustrating half hour attempting to master it.

However, aside from sewing the (now pintucked) sleeve edges, the Swiss Miss Wienerlicious outfit from Chuck is now done, aside from the neatening up of threadsnipping. And oh god. You know how it looks humiliating and the character is clearly gritting her teeth the entire time of wearing it at first (then just becomes resigned). This is not faked. At all. You feel so bloody stupid wearing it. Individually, or just, say, the top half, or the skirt on its own with a vest or bikini, not so bad. Together? AUGH. 'Hi, I'm cute and milkmaid-ish and some sort of fantasy, fly me!' This was confirmed when I was lacing the waist cincher-thingy over my t-shirt on the doorstep (because basking in the sun as a break from sewing and the near constant rain and wind is necessary), with the skirt on to test, the wind caught the door and slammed it. Front doorstep. No keys due to them being in my jeans pocket just inside the door. Had to go over to the next door neighbours' across the street to beg for spare key. She burst out laughing. And then laughed some more when the wind decided to catch at my skirt so I had to hold it down.

IDA : Keisha, WTF happened? Completely the wrong take on 'Get the Party Started'. You should have taken notes from Dame Bassey who we've been comparing you to, *and* Pink. It is not to be performed bouncy and giggly, it is to be performed like a diva.

Samantha, we love you even more - proven you can do poignant as well as balls out raunchy. Rachel, you stopped shouting and I love you. Especially when you manage to make 'Beautiful' an acted song that would work really well in a musical. Jessie, whee! you learnt about posture and went all cute and innocent. Jodie, you are utterly fabulous and need a recording career of some sort. Cleo, getting better every week. Ashley? Go. Go now. Bugger off.

Oh yeah, and Torchwood broke me.