hither and yon

Pure self-indulgence, nothing of interest to anyone else. Summary: I have terrible taste lol. I like all the stupid straight-up pop songs and I dislike ballads. Also, all I care about is SM. This is a long-accepted truth. 

IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER: 

( kpop lists )

Ugh I want EVERYONE to be touching and loving him ALL THE TIME. This is why I have to ship him with everything, there can never be enough love for him for my liking. EVERYONE LOVE HIM ALL THE TIME OMG. Plus, his body is as always too good to be true. That tiny waist omg. PLUS, TAEMIN TOUCHING HIM. (LOL the captions say "Taemin, thank you so much" when he pulls back Jonghyun's shirt.) Has Taemin been more touchy lately? I can't really tell because I don't pay that much attention to him but it seems like there's been a bit more casual Taemin-initated contact? Question mark? PLUS, THIS FUCKING PAPER UGH GOD I HATE MY LIFE

... other vids I've been watching
Jonghyun and Minho hug out of nowhere during the first concerts. I love that Jonghyun got OVERWHELMED with all his feelings during the concert and Minho picked up on that and hugged it out to ground him. And Minho yells "Jonghyunnie-hyung is/it's fine!" at the end of it (or some approximation of that). It reminds me of Key's shout-out to him during A-Yo, which in turns reminds me of the way the both them traded off yelling out Jonghyun's name over and over when they won for RDD when Jonghyun was out with the swine flu. Goddamnit someone write that 1000000 word Hello Baby outtake dynamic fic!! Ah god the way Jonghyun closes his eyes and just is ~in the hug~. It was a hard year for him and I think the concerts gave him (and ~the fans~) a lot of closure. And of course ever since the concerts it's been non-stop flirting between these two on-stage. LOL it's just their thing now I guess. BEST OTP 
Jonghyun cut at Immortal Song 2 press conference. I want this job. I could totally watch boring footage of idols and narrate dumb captions over it. Jonghyun provides a lot of good material because he's almost always DOING something. Is there anything going on in his head when he makes those random faces? (I know there's nothing going on in mine when I do it lol.) I'm obviously biased but I'm always amazed at how much SHINee members stand out amongst uh non-SHINee people. Their stupid little faces are pretty extraordinary. I also approve of Shin Dongyup patting his ass because uhmmm I don't need to explain myself to you!!11 No, I do think it's cute when people cop a feel show affection off-handedly like that, especially to someone like Jonghyun who thrives on approval and love. IU and Jonghyun are maddeningly cute together. Just two tiny adorable creatures being tiny and adorable together! Also him helping her with her chair, ugh frondly little gentleman. The way they edited and captioned the bit where they're all waiting for their turn in the photo call is very soash of gendery. Or something. The ease with which the guys dominate the conversation vs. how the girls just stand there, especially Hyorin who's been pretty much blocked out of the ~circle anyway. idk it's not hard to imagine this as representative of (idol) interactions in the general. Society is society. I think the way idols are networked is really interesting. In closing, lmao his giant cuffs.

Why do unfunny people try to be funny? The unfortunate part of internet memes is that it's really easy to pick up the structure without understanding what actually makes them funny. Macros are a perfect example. Relatedly, just because something is meant to be funny does not mean that it is actually funny. I hope people are just going along with the expected call-and-response sequence (ex: "[macro]" "LOL IRL WIN!!!11") because I refuse to believe so many people think all the dumb contrived banality in omona comments is actually amusing. Are we human or are we dancer?

I have no idea what I'm arguing anymore. Crying tears of blood. I wish I could just type up the required 5-6 pages in blog form and hand it in.

I was writing a big thing on kpop fic fandom but I got side-tracked by things I would like to read. Why can't I write, I have so many perfect ideas!!!

( disclaimer, i am insane )

Oh BTW while I was bored and internetless in my room earlier today, I made this list. Feel free to add more, Theoretical Internet Audience!

BEATLES PICTURES DRINKING GAME
Take a drink every time
- none of them know what personal space is
- John and Paul don't know what personal space is
- John and/or Paul are gazing at the other adoringly or are otherwise clearly in love
- there are weird and inexplicable props
- one of them looks bored (LOL)
- George is clearly refusing to pose
- Paul has something in his mouth
- Paul is sitting weirdly
- you see a color version of a black & white picture and realize that they were all color-blind
- you see an ex-girlfriend/wife!
- someone is smoking (LOL)
- Paul is wearing a vest
- George is helpfully standing around doing nothing
- there are Miscellaneous Women in the picture and it's awkward
- they're in matching clothes!
- you see Martha!
- they're paired off in your favorite combinations
- you want to yell "SHAVE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, SHAVE" (have fun with your hangover)
- someone's wearing a stupid hat
- someone's wearing stupid sunglasses
- you see matching facial hair
and finally, the holy grail
- ALL FOUR of them look good AT THE SAME TIME

extras
Take a drink every time
- you mistake a picture of Dhani for a picture of George
- Yoko's rack looks good
- Paul's mullet doesn't offend you (this one is difficult)
and to finish you off
- Ringo looks exactly the same as the last three thousand times you saw him

LJ's "Writer's Block" question of the day:

It’s the Day of German Unity, marking the 1990 reunification of East and West Germany. In our current period of global instability, do you ever feel nostalgic for the seeming simplicity of the Cold War?

What the jesus is this bullshit? It's like something that would be on the Yahoo front page.

My Friday night while roomie (need a codename) goes off to a party with her boyfriend: sitting at my desk wearing a srsly giant red pizza t-shirt, rewatching s1 of Dexter on my laptop and peeling off the silver foil on gum wrappers and pasting them on an index card. I am board.

That's my cue to talk about my cerebral thoughts on Dexter. Geez this show is good. The opening sequence is one of the best ever on television, super brilliant. This show is so effortlessly engaging, and not in the way most serial killer media is (sick morbid interest). It's genuinely fun to watch. I love Rita; Julie Benz is so good. Michael C. Hall goes without saying. Deb is awesome. SUDDEN DOWNTURN: Doakes is like a textbook example of a good character ruined by a TERRIBLE ACTOR. That guy plays him like a fucking cartoon commercial, what the fuck is all that ridiculous posturing? It is so over the top, it can't be attributed to the character. It's the fucking actor. I HATE HIM.

A conversation I had with my mom today:
Mom: I met [person at church] the other day and she complimented you!
Me: What? I don't know who that person is.
Mom: She said she met you once when she was working at a church event and you offered to help her.
Me: That doesn't sound like something I would do.
LOL it really doesn't. Sorry, person at church, you got it all wrong.

I was pulling in the library (it's just kinda shelving in reverse, no matter how euphemismy it sounds) the other day and I saw a book called Circles Move In and I thought, "oh that's kind of clever, I like that kind of thing actually, because you can automatically finish that in your head as 'circles move in circles', and that's both a neat image and a neat wordplay thing. And since the phrasing is ambiguous, you can also read it as circles closing in on something or someone blahrrrrmaglelkewjr;ls", I went on this whole thing in my head. But it turned out that the book was actually called The Circles I Move In. What a cockblock. Anyway I wrote that all out because I want you to waste your life.

I'm thinking about being more adventurous in my clothes. Well 'adventurous' in that I'm thinking about wearing skirts in public and stuff. It would be a sizable difference for me though. Pretty scary stuff.

MORE CHATLOGS B/C THEY ARE TOTALLY AMUSING TO EVERYONE NOT JUST THE PEOPLE INVOLVED AMIRITE

( I DON'T MEAN TO BRAG BUT )

LOL I'M OBNOXIOUS

YES, Alec Baldwin, I am INDEED "4 real"!!

THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU CANNOT FALL ASLEEP AT NIGHT:
THINK OF WORDS YOU CAN BRO

brofro
pull out the wedding broto album
brobots in disguise
bromotion
broposal
brototype
brocomotive
broing it way out of broportion

Leo Di'o ate my brains. In the past few days I've re-watched Catch Me If You Can, The Aviator, and Blood Diamond. (Hey, A-B-C!) I watched the Aviator and Blood Diamond at the same time (alternating as I waited for the parts to load) so it got a bit disorienting. Although not disorienting enough to make me watch one straight through and then move on to the other one like a normal person. I have a really unfulfilling approach to watching movies, in that I just consume them. The flow is broken? The emotional content is watered down because I'm playing Destruct-o-Match at the same time? Whatever, as long as I finish it. I'm so brainless, I swear to god.

I began Gangs of New York but I didn't go past the first hour. Better than the first time I tried to watch it; I didn't go past the first five minutes. My reasoning started and ended with: WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THAT KID. FUCK THIS, I'M NOT WATCHING.

Um yeah, anyway, I VERY MUCH ENJOY LEONARDO DICAPRIO. I'M GOING TO CONTINUE WATCHING ALL HIS OLD MOVIES.

I really should try to grow a brain and start, like... thinking while I read and watch stuff. I just always walk away either liking it or disliking it, nothing else in my mind. I can't ever answer questions on what the book or movie or TV show was about. UMM I DON'T KNOW. What do you mean, you don't know? You said it's one of your favorites. YEAH UMM I DON'T KNOW. I LIKE IT. I can't even explain why I like it, whatever 'it' may be. You'd think that I'd get seasick from all this time spent on the failboat, but I must've adapted to it.