Previous 20

Jun. 30th, 2008

Another episode of me thinking too hard about stuff

This is a meta post about Canon That Never Happened. A little preface is needed before I dive into the meat of my thoughts.

On the new Coldplay album, there's a song I love called Life In Technicolor. It's the opening track, completely instrumental. But I discovered something interesting about the track...
It was formerly described as an acoustic-guitar driven and jangly, one of the few tracks that seems built from the Coldplay template of songs like "Don't Panic," only a bit more, well, panicked: "Baby it's a violent world," Martin sings.

However, since this description was publicized, Life in Technicolor has been stripped of its lyrics and turned into an instrumental track on the album, which Chris Martin reportedly did in response to a comment that the song is "the obvious single".
And I don't know about anyone else, but every time I hear Life In Technicolor and the music swells to a crescendo... I mourn for the song that never happened, the lyrics that never materialized, the reality that's just out of my grasp because the song is great the way it is, but as a fully fledged song it would have been amazing. And the fact that the earlier conception of Life In Technicolor actually does exist somewhere in Coldplay's collective head makes me dearly wish for that version, even if I know it will never appear.

It happened, but it didn't happen.

And this is something you find once you delve a little too deep into fandom, especially once you start to scour the web for interviews by producers and writers of the show. With Firefly, for example, there is the story from a few years back about an episode that had been planned before the show got canceled. It was VERY dark; Inara is charged with killing a noted abuser of Companions by injecting herself with a toxin that makes sex with her lethal. Then while she's separated from the crew, Reavers show up. And she allows the Reavers to rape her to that she can kill them and Mal finds her broken and traumatized OMFG. Another example of canon that never happened.

In Dragonball Z, I'm pretty sure the creator wanted Goku dead so that Gohan could take over as the main character. But fanboys loved Goku so damn much that the creator was forced to bring the damn Saiyan back from the dead over and over again. It wasn't his original intention, but that's how things turned out. Goku staying dead: canon that didn't happen.

In CSI fandom, I have the feeling that if Gary Dourdan hadn't had his little run in with the law, he wouldn't have been written out of the show. I know the writer's strike terminated a very important storyline exploring Zack's time in Iraq for Bones. I don't even want to know how many abandoned plot lines there are for Lost. I'm fairly certain the writer's strike fucked over a lot of shows by forcing execs to cut out whole plot lines (like Zack having PTSD from Iraq goddam) that would have happened otherwise.

I'm a fic writer and it's no secret that what I write is only one version of the reality I was trying to capture. Often, I have a (visual) idea in my head when I start writing, but the nature of words and writing takes me in a different direction. There's an alternate reality to everything just out of reach, it seems.

Jun. 5th, 2008

It's raining men, hallelujah!

I’m totally in love with SYTYCD as of 10 pm last night. Seeing Travis audition in drag sealed the deal. Rawr baby. Boy was fierce and I love him for it. I can’t wait for season 4 to properly start so that I can start pairing all the couples up in my head. ;)

I hope SYTYCD Canada (henceforth abbreviated SYTYCD-C) brings it just as hard as its American counterpart, but I am doubtful. Excited, but doubtful.

May. 29th, 2008

Cause I'm curious...

A couple questions...

1. Where did this whole "protip" thing come from?

2. I still don’t understand what, exactly, [info]lol_meme is. So people post in all caps there and... make their own memes? Someone explain it to me FTLOG!

May. 5th, 2008

in b4 lulz f!s

Now that I have Photoshop back, I have gone absolutely crazy-go-nuts with making fandom secrets for the eponymous community that we all know and love. I don’t care what anyone says, the process of making, submitting, and seeing your rant/diatribe/concern/squee posted up is therapeutic.

Feb. 18th, 2008

Aaaaand they're at it again...

Jodha-Akbar, despite being a grand ole movie, is causing so much damn controversy. See, my desi brethren? THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS. Seriously. Gowariker was not attempting to frigging rewrite history! He's a movie director, not an academic historian! *sigh* I can't stand people who can't take entertainment for what it is, and can't detach movies from reality. Anyway, here are some threads of vapid horridness, for my own reference in the future.

http://www.rediff.com/movies/jodha08.html - I... what? Some of the most ridiculous comments I have ever seen, like insinuating that if you think a person's religion can be determined by what religion their mother followed, you were born in a brothel. Yeah, I got nothing either. Also, "Aunty Ash" WTF??!! FUCK YOU ON HER BEHALF.

http://www.rediff.com/movies/2008/feb/15jodhaa.htm - Apparently, the secular tradition of appeasing minorities is dangerous. *headdesk* And the Mughals having gun-powder technology when they invaded India was cheating omg!!

I can't go much further without permanently injuring my retinas. The grammar and spelling... IT BURNS US. :(

Jan. 8th, 2008

We can't stop here, this is SPARTA!

Nothing much to say, just wanted to show off my new default icon. Two fandoms in one, hooray!

God, life is so boring without my weekly dose of TV to squee and obsess over. Phoo.

Nov. 9th, 2007

I feel a little torn right now-

THIS WINE TASTES LIKE POISON YET I CONTINUE TO DRINK IT.

... WELCOME TO THE WEEKEND!

(Am I supposed to be reverent and pious because today is Diwali? I don't think that's gonna happen. :P)

Nov. 5th, 2007

I chose the worst time to forsake the internet

REMEMBER REMEMBER THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER!

Oh my god, this is what I get for going AWOL for a week. HP Lexicon wank of epic proportions... and I am so out of the loop.

In other news, I discovered the xxxHOLiC Kink Meme. Forsooth! :)

Sep. 21st, 2007

Friday afternoon television goodness

It's Friday Sept. 21st at 5:26 PM, so you know what that means...

AVATAR BOOK 3 FIRE OMGGGGG!

What an exciting start to the new season! Spoilers - 3x01 )

Jul. 24th, 2007

Curiouser and curiouser...

Wait... Livejournal and Vox aren't working? What happened? Did Six Apart get sucked into another dimension or something? Hmm. I guess I have no choice but to update my Blogger now.

What, me? A blog whore? ;)

Oh noes!

Sep banninated me from [info]fandom_wank!

Oh well, my bad.

Jul. 23rd, 2007

And now for my Deathly Hallows deconstruction

Not enough wank because it was actually a better book than HBP. Dammit.

Jul. 10th, 2007

I should have seen it coming, really.

The wankitywankness of the House MD post on F_W makes my brain all hurty like. Can't we all just get along?!

*lets laughing gas leak into JF unnoticed*

Jun. 12th, 2007

Because I'm a sucker for punishment

Anyone have the link to the horsefucker wank? Found it. Let the pain begin! ;P

For posterity:
Main wank: http://www.journalfen.net/community/otf_wank/519621.html
Follow-up wanks: http://www.journalfen.net/community/otf_wank/537507.html and http://www.journalfen.net/community/otf_wank/538032.html

May. 24th, 2007

For Posterity!

http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1082584.html?thread=151731672#t151731672

Because if it weren't for [info]fandom_wank, I would be completely useless in the kitchen. ;)

Apr. 23rd, 2007

Indians: we wank with the best of them

I just have to type up this madness for posterity.

Yesterday, my dad revealed to me that the Indian news site Rediff.Com is a cesspool of insults, non-sequitors, and mind-boggling ridiculousness. How it works is that for every article posted on the website, anyone can comment with their thoughts. And BOY HOWDY do they ever comment. We're talking Grade A entertainment, in a sad sort of way. It's even worse than the IMDB message boards. I just spent a good deal of time trudging through the comment threads and I feel kinda depressed now that my people are such psychos. OH INTERWEBS, you shatter my illusions so well. I'm gonna toss up some examples; please note that a lot of the comments are in Hindi, making them unreadable to a good portion of people. Oh poo.

Examples:

Abhi-Ash seek divine blessings - Mocking religious rituals, the hypocracy of the Bachchans, and challenging people on their knowledge of Hinduism.

Varanasi protests against Gere for kissing Shilpa - Calling Shilpa a whore, insinating that a kiss = Gere and Shilpa fucking, and blaming the media for ignoring the AIDS conference.

The woman behind Provoked speaks up - Women staying in bad marriages have low IQs (*RAGEFROTH*), murder is a-okay, and a ton of male chauvinist trolls.

Sanjaya Malakar out of American Idol - Sanjaya is an insult to NRIs, obligatory racism comment, and white chicks best stop romanticizing Indian men.

Ugh, I feel stupider for actually reading through all these comments. And it's astounding at how many comments get deleted by the mods, I good 40% I would estimate. Crazy, crazy stuff y'all.

Apr. 18th, 2007

Don't ever leave like this again!

HOLY SHIT... IT'S SUNNY OUTSIDE.

*falls to knees and weeps with joy*
Tags:

Apr. 17th, 2007

How do you cheat in a game with no rules?

The good people at ontd_discussion were laughing at how cheesy Drive is last night. I don't see it, frankly. Maybe I'm desensitized to cheesiness because I watch Bones. Drive being cheesy? Not particularily. Drive being ridiculous, on the other hand, I can agree with. Ridiculousness aside, I've probably found myself another show to keep me occupied over the summer. That and Standoff, which I hear is coming back in June. Man, I never found Nathan Fillion hot in Firefly, but when he took that secret!knife to the Fake Cop's throat and blasted down the highway with a smirk and Corrine at his side? SMEXY yo.

Mar. 28th, 2007

When Will This Day End?!

BOOOOOOOOOORED!!

WANT MOAR LULZ!!

Mar. 20th, 2007

This does not look good for plazmah

Oh my fucking god, they've finally blocked Livejournal at work. I knew this day would eventually come... and it's killing me!! How am I supposed to get through the day without being able to read my flist or post about my evening?? Aaaaaaaargh! Vox is also blocked, leaving me with Journalfen and Blogspot. Maybe I'll start posting more on Blogspot. Maybe.

Can I say that the Ponyfucker wank wins at being the most amusing and disturbing thing ever. I hope the drama never ends!

Previous 20