A night and a day in the life...

[maharetr]

Last night was so totally what I needed: cricketk, special_trille and sarren, there was yummy leek&potato soup with heavenly bread, there was Battlestar Galactica and oh! the pain and the squee!


[They're preparing to mercy-kill one of the Kobol crew. There's talk of overdosing him with morphine]

Audience: But other people might need that! Just shoot him, you fools!
Tyrol: [injecting guy with morphine] Hey, buddy. Rescue crew's here, you're going home.
Me: [not caring about the waste of morphine anymore] sniffle. Gahh...

And there was the lovely scene between Dee and Billy. He, clearly not knowing his way around guns, tries to carry it in his trousers.
Dee: Uh, you might want to put the safety on. *loves*



There were also songvids and Atlantis pretties. Speaking of songvids, I've been Googling the Dr Who vid with absolutely no success, cricketk? Help? :)

Awoke this morning to find a VHS copy of Black Books Season 1. Much happiness ensued. After observing wobowikkles perform obscene acts with pears, cinamon, sugar and a bit of hot water I attempted a similar feat and ended up with some pretty reasonable stewed pears for brunch and Black Books to watch. Life is good :)

Comments

[vegetariansushi.livejournal.com]

Okay, yes, that's EXACTLY what happened to me during that whole thing on Kobol. Tyrol was like, 'Hear that? Viper just landed. We're going home.' and then the guy's like 'I'm goin' home' and then and god, I was a MESS.

Also, you're awake right now, yes?

Please convince me to spend $75 on S1 of BSG and S1 (okay, Sonly) of Earth2. I really, really want them, but also feel guilty spending money on things. But I really, really really really want them. And there's shiny! SHINY, I tell you.

[maharetr.livejournal.com]

I know little to nil re: Earth2, but BSG? Buy! Consume! (depending on your current finances, of course, but any issues can be ignored by classing "DVDs" as an item of food)

[vegetariansushi.livejournal.com]

Hee! <3

See, I was going to be all mature and only buy one (by which I likely mean 'BSG'), but then I saw that at Best Buy - which is the only place that BSG is currently being sold because of this whole irritating thing with the UK vs the US releases and blah blah blah, if I buy them both together, I get $15 off! And they're already discounted from the list price, and... *justifies like a crazy person*

Um, and again: shiny!

Earth2 was this series in the early 90s about -- uh. Humanity lives on space stations, Earth is destroyed. After a while of this, kids start dying, and it's discovered that they're missing a bacteria(? I'm unclear on this) that allows them to breathe the recycled station air. So the mother of one of these sick kids gets together a group - they've found a planet that seems to be like Earth, and they're going to take a ship there and try and colonise it. There's a initial party (including the woman and her child) who are to go down and set up a base camp and all that, and then something like 5,000 people on a ship that will touch down a year after them. Some supplies and things like that had been sent ahead. (The planet is something like 21 years away from the stations, so they all did the deep sleep thing for a few decades.)

They're about to head down to the planet when the ship holding the initial team malfunctions, and people are forced to evacuate. By the time that they're on the surface, there are probably twenty people, some of whom weren't ever meant to reach the surface of the planet, as they were just crewpeople on the ship. Moreover, they've reached the surface of the planet, but terribly far from where the supplies were dropped, and then the series is about them trying to get back to their camp, and how they meet alien inhabitants of the planet, and it had moments of spectacular badness and amazing wonderfulness and won an Emmy and stuff, but was cancelled after one season.

Er. Aren't you glad that you said you didn't know? Sorry.

DVDs as food - brilliant! Why didn't I think of that earlier?

...I totally ordered them. Should be able to pick them up at the store tomorrow, if I can get out there. WHEE.

[maharetr.livejournal.com]

Actually, Earth2 sounds intriguing. Is there a possibility of perhaps burnt copies? *flutters eyelashes* *ignores flustered and overworked muse that howls "No more fandoms! No more fandoms! Can't cope!"*

[vegetariansushi.livejournal.com]

Yay! If you're at all interested, I'll totally burn copies. I was thinking about putting up a list of some of the DVDs that I have and offering to burn those for people as well, so this would be right the same way.

Would uploading them to my webspace or postalmailing them to you be better for you?

(Again: I am looking at SGA for you people! There is apparently always room for more fandoms.)

[maharetr.livejournal.com]

Postmailing would be easier on my hardrive, if it's not too rough on your wallet.

Also, do you know much/anything about Starbuck's backstory? Just came across this and am all curious now.

[cricketk.livejournal.com]

Oh wow!

I LOVED Earth 2. Good buying!

[vegetariansushi.livejournal.com]

YAY. I'm already copying it for one person - you want a set, while I'm at it? I'm so so excited for it; I've rung ahead to the store (since my order last night didn't go through for some reason) to make sure that they had it all in stock, and I'm just gleeful about it.

[cricketk.livejournal.com]

While you're at it - if it's no trouble I would LOVE a set. I have my treasured first two episodes on an old tape that has blurred out. My darling brother taped SouthPark over the rest these many years gone by now.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

See, me the Not Emotionally Invested One remembers the scene like this

Me Just shoot him. Don't waste the drugs
Maharetr YES! SHOOT HIM! SHOOT HIM!
Me In fact, cut his throat. Don't waste the bullet.
Trille *looking sideways at us* I'm not going into a forest with you guys, EVA.


Also, I really love 'Sonly' and into to incorporate it into my vocab *g*

[vegetariansushi.livejournal.com]

Oh, but see, there was BACK STORY.

The guy who died? He'd gone into jail because he was trying to cover for Tyrol, who was seeing Sharon/Boomer after they'd been ordered to stop the relationship. And then about two episodes ago, Tyrol managed to get the guy who died out of jail, and it was all -- LOOK, IT WAS VERY AFFECTING, OKAY? *sniffs*

Seriously, this series is so, so so good. And damnit, if I'm going to get into SGA -- NOT THAT I AM SAYING ANYTHING -- you should get into BSG.

(Also - this means that you're not mad at me, yes? Because it occured to me when I woke up this morning that my email from last night could have been misconstrued, and I was fretting and debating if I should send you another email and apologise.)

[sarren.livejournal.com]

I'm TRYING to get into it. REALLY! I missed about the last 7-8 eps of last season, so this was a big catch up for me. I do remember the guy going to prison and now I know it's him i'm MUCH SADDER.

Also, I dislike Tyrol intensely, oh wait I've got the names confused. Is Tyrol the Chief? I was thinking it was the unpleasant aloholic guy.

YOUR EMAIL LAST NIGHT WAS TOTALLY FABULOUS. I am sitting answering it right now, but it's taking a while :)

[vegetariansushi.livejournal.com]

Tigh is the unpleasant alcoholic, Tyrol is the sweetiepants Chief.

See, the last few episodes of last season killed me dead. DEAD. When I pick up my copy, I'll -- you have broadband now, yes? I'll upload the episodes for you, if you want. Because they're so, so good. And includes some lovely Starbuck/Apollo stuff that makes me go all gushy inside.

AM SO PLEASE THAT YOU TOOK IT THE WAY IT WAS MEANT. No pressure. <3

[cricketk.livejournal.com]

Ded ded ded.

We're trying to set up a regular viewing night for downloaded BSG and SGA, because so much better with other fen - but sadly all of our schedules conflict like blue and green in a high fashion article of clothing.

[maharetr.livejournal.com]

I must protest that shooting people *can* be a reasonably humane way to bump people off. Like: "Close your eyes. Hear the rescue team...BANG?" etc. Slitting someone's throat is far less peaceful death inducing. I must also say that Trille is probably being very wise... *EG*

[vegetariansushi.livejournal.com]

Man, am I the only one who wouldn't try and off y'all if we were in the forest?

I'm going on record. If we're ever stuck in somewhere and being hunted by baddies, I promise to do my damndest not to let any of you die. Or kill you.

[maharetr.livejournal.com]

Oh, oh! Must plug this meme!

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Well, I promise not to kill you, unless you look like you might give away our position moaning from your gut wound.

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

You haven't seen my obscene act with pears, cinnamon and sugar, baby.

[wink]

[leer]

Oh God I'm turning into juffles

[cricketk.livejournal.com]

It rather seems that you are.

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

I blame over-exposure: lots of it.

[cricketk.livejournal.com]

'Twas always your choice to be so over-exposed.

I've had a large flat white from Cino to Go, and now my internal organs are shaking around. Just because I'm tired does not mean I should ever drink coffee. It is just SO BAD for me.

*shakes and quivers*

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

[comfort]

I'm choosing to drink a lot of water.

You would have loved this morning:

"Hmm, the bolt has not been sheered off - all I need is the correct size nut and a washer and I can fix this... no nuts to be found but I have a piece of string and a rubber-band... *fiddle* *poke*.. Success!"

[maharetr.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Food porn!

You may have been non-kinky before meeting juffles. I, however, have no excuse...

[juffles.livejournal.com]

Can I make you worse? Can I? Can I? Huh? :D