I haven't seen this on my flist yet, so here it goes: Stark Sands is going to be in the new Coen brothers' movie, Inside Llewyn Davis. And he's going to play a musician!

Stark singing on my screen. It doesn't get much better than that, except maybe watching him do musical theater live again.

LJ's being difficult and it won't let me put the link up. I'll try again later.

Originally posted by electricdruid at The fiasco continues

* The happymaking thing of the day:

yagkyas has posted and it just made my day. So many GK kill stories from so many wonderful authors. I don't have time to read any of them yet, but I'm sure (it's been true every year of this challenge) that pretty much all of them are be awesome.


* Other things I want to do/see and haven't had the time to, due to an incredibly busy time at work:
Watch Mission Impossible: Ghost protocol, catch up with Homeland and The Vampire diaries, rec some of the great xmenbigbang fics I've read. Any Christmas shopping at all.

warbigbang started posting yesterday and it's like Christmas came early this year. I've been starving for new GK fic and now there's all this wonderful fic. Work is killing me right now, but at least this gives me something to look forward to: Hours and hours of awesome stories. I'll try to be back with recs, but in the meantime go read everything. If last year is any indication, pretty much everything will be top notch.

Originally posted by asimplechord at Mississippi Personhood Amendment

Originally posted by darkspirited1 at SIGNAL BOOST: SAY YES TO GAY YA

* I just finished watching the latest episode of True Blood and among the many, many, many things that are annoying me this season did they really have to add on the freaking spanish?. I mean, this is a problem in pretty much every show and movie, but if you're going to have mexican and spanish characters, you should at least get more than one actress (Paola Turbay) that can speak the language competently.

* I've been having issues with White collar as well which is sad, because that show is usually a happy place. But between how they're handling Sarah's character and the treasure storyline they're really trying my patience.

* Something that I enjoyed was Easy A. A bit late to the party, as usual, but it was a fun, light movie and Patricia Clarkson and Stanley Tucci are the greatest ever.

* Two recs: I'm reading two WIPs at the X-Men:first class meme that are the most wonderful stories I've read lately. They're so good they made me break my rule about not getting into WIPs from kinkmemes anymore. Boden's Mate is an Inception AU totally made of win, with spot on characterizations even without any of the characters being mutants. And even more awesome is Limited release, a kind of White collar AU, but really so much more. The plot is fantastic, the characterization are a pleasure to read and the pacing is pitch perfect. Both are several thousand words long and nowhere near done.

* I'm leaving for San Francisco tomorrow on my vacation (finally). I'm so looking forward to seeing the city. I've wanted to visit since forever and never got to it till now. I'm soo happy and I so needed this vacation.

* I figured out part of the reason I liked X-Men: First class so much is because it made me want all the Erik/Charles fic in the all the land, especially fix it fic. And I always have extra love for the things that pull my fandom heart. One of the most wonderful I've read so far is Our hearts won't rust by liketheroad. It's an amazing AU of how and when Charles and Erik met and it captures their voices perfectly.

* I haven't done recs in a long time, so I have another two. These are wonderful Inception crossovers. Both original, unexpected and so much fun. Skybird with White Collar. And Secretly a reef rat, with Hawaii 5-0, which I don't watch or like but was still made awesome by templemarker. Just go read both.

* I'm looking forward to checking out Suits, Alphas and the new season of True blood. It's the first time in years I've had so many shows to watch this time of year and I have zero time to watch them. My vacation starts in a little over a month though, so that should give me the chance to catch up.

* Askars on my TV every week again. Can't wait. (yes, this gets its own bullet point).

I really should start posting more often. I can't believe it's been almost six months (more?) since my last entry. Anyway, I've been really sad and stressed out lately, so this clearly calls for a list of all the things that are making me happy.

* X-Men: first class. A friend invited me to a premiere and we went to see it yesterday. IT WAS MADE OF AWESOME. Really. I had zero expectations so it was a nice surprise. I had so much fun and it pushed absolutely all of my buttons in terms of the kinds of stories I like. Michael Fassbender was great as Magneto. I don't know, it's been ages since I had this much fun in a movie. It had its issues, like the whole superhero genre has, especially with female characters, but it wasn't so much that it killed my utter glee at the whole thing.

* Planning my vacation. This year I'm finally traveling to San Francisco. It's been on my to do list for a couple of years now and I hadn't gotten to it, but I'm finally decided. I don't have that much set yet, except that I'm going at the beginning of august and that I'm swinging by A's new apartment in DC along the way. It's not exactly practical, but she already told me I couldn't visit the states without going to see her. I figure is as good excuse as any.

* Season three of White collar and the new season of SYTYCD. Summers used to be pretty barren of TV for me, but now I have shiny shiny new seasons and shows to entertain myself. Season four of True blood should be fun as well. I have mixed feelings toward the show and I think it's pretty terrible in a lot of ways but Eric and Pam make all of the suckiness worth it.

* The bonus tracks of Vices and Virtues and Brendon and Spencer's antics on their current tour. They're so ridiculous and endearing, they never fail to make me smile. The bonus tracks were a nice surprise. I didn't think I'd like them this much, but I've been hearing them non stop for the last week.

* gk_remix and all the fic that's been posted and the ones still to come.

* And this fic: their love laughs at locksmiths by eudaimon, from her outlaw bikers AU, with Nate/Brad being perfect, a wonderful atmosphere and the ethereal feel her style lends to her writing. Just lovely.

* Last week was my five year LJ anniversary. It made me feel so old. I can't believe it's been that long since I got here, or that I was in fandom way before I came to LJ. Also I was reading my older posts, way back at the beginning, and it was so weird because I didn't sound (or read?) like myself. I don't know if it's because I've changed that much or because my english was worse then. It's a strange disconnect. I always get it to some degree when I write in english, because I can never express myself exactly the way I want to or in a sufficiently articulate way for my taste, but these first few entries really brought it home. It's part of the reason I'm such a lurker I guess.

* I'm going to LA in a couple of weeks for work and I'm pretty happy about it. I don't really like the city much, because I can't get over the fact no one walks there, but I think I'm getting myself the Generation Kill DVDs as an early Christmas present so that's exciting. It's so funny because I've been so obsessed with it lately and just in time HBO is going to rerun it here, one episode a day, from dec 2.

* I wanted to do recs from warbigbang, which has been amazing, but I really don't know where to start, pretty much every story I read has been enjoyable. So just go there and start anywhere. There's everything, from totally AU to more canon based stories, but all of them pretty awesome. There are so many great fics in this fandom, especially because for such a small fandom.

* I went to see The social network the other day and not surprisingly (I love David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin's work) I loved it. I was surprised that I found it so funny and that I liked Armie Hammer so much. He was absolutely fantastic as the twins. Andrew Garfield I adored, but I knew I would because he's made of awesome. Also, there's fic, which I didn't expect to like or felt there was a need, but it goes to show I know nothing because this was wonderful and everything I didn't know I wanted after the movie. It's Mark and Eduardo slowly finding their way back to each other, done flawlessly.