X-Men2

So our X2 expedition went off with only minor hitches (two of our party getting lost and not making it to the cinema, Sarah not being allowed to take booze in etc). I loved the movie. Loved it, much more than the first one. I'm not coherent enough to do a detailed review, but I'm just going to squee about the slashiness.

( major X2 spoilers )

Friday 5

Taken from cerdd_gwen

Do not mock my appalling taste in music...

1. Name one song you hate to admit you like.
1. "Incredible" - Darius. Shut up. (This will mean nothing to my US friends, but liking Darius is a shameful, shameful thing indeed)

2. Name two songs that always make you cry.
1. "Full of Grace" - Sarah McLachlan
2. "When She Loved Me" by the same artist

3. Name three songs that turn you on.
1. "Closer" - Nine Inch Nails
2. "Your Song" - Ewan McGregor
3. "Amazed" - Poe

4. Name four songs that always make you feel good.
1. "Affirmation" - Savage Garden
2. "Sk8er Boi" - Avril Lavigne (I know, I know)
3. "Vampires in Love" - Marvelous 3
4. "Year 3000" - Busted

5. Name five songs you couldn't ever do without.
1. "Amphetamines" - Eve6
2. "La Vie Boheme" - from Rent
3. "We Are the Champions" - Queen
4. "Angels" - Robbie Williams
5. "End of the World as We Know It" - REM

Pairings meme

What are your favourite canon pairings (where canon is defined as having a romantic relationship taken beyond innuendo and UST in the present or past that has been verified by events seen in the show excluding dreams, alternate universes and other events-negating plot devices)?
Buffy/Spike, Angel/Cordelia, Willow/Oz, Wesley/Lilah, Gunn/Gwen, Willow/Xander (it's kind of canon)

Favourite non-canon pairings?
Angel/Wes, Andrew/Xander, Angel/Spike, Angel/Lindsey, Spike/Tara, Angel/Willow, Angel/Faith, Wes/Faith, Wes/Gunn

Favourite obscure pairings?
Connor/Wesley, Andrew with any of the male Angel cast, Dawn/Tara

Pairing you won't read no matter how well written?
I used to have a bunch, but now I'm just a WHORE! I have my reservations about Buffy/Dawn, though.

Pairing you used to dislike, but grew to like or vice-versa?
I used to want Wes and Fred together. Got over it pretty damn fast when I saw Wes with Lilah.

Does it matter to you if your pairings ever get recognition by TPTB?
Since most of my uncon pairings are slash I'm not expecting recognition and won't be vastly upset if I don't get it, but there are no words for how much I would love either Angel/Wesley, Wesley/Connor or Xandrew on screen.

If they already have, does that make the pairing seem more legitimate somehow?
I guess so: it means I'm not just wacky in seeing the non-existent subtext.

Grr

With 13 days until my first exam (and an assignment due this Thursday and a mock exam on Friday), in my absence my parents and brother have blithely volunteered me to make a website for someone. And I've been steamrollered into doing it. Oh well, it only needs to be a basic site and I do need the cash...

Fake author madness

Some spam on a book list I'm on directed me to the website of one Hiroshima Kindelan. Frankly I'm stunned I've never heard of this talented author, since at only 24 she's "the recipient of such prestigious writer's awards such as the O'Henry award and the Pulitzer Prize. In the world of respected authors the Pulitzer Prize is the biggest award that an author can receive." Needless to say, this person has never won either of the awards mentioned. This left me scratching my head. I think it's the sheer audacity of claiming you've won a Pulitzer, vs saying something like "my work has appeared in publications too numerous to name"... Oh wait, she does say something like that, on the order page for her single, self-published children's book.

(this post was bestowed upon thee by doyle, multiple Nobel Prize winner! And I won seven Academy Awards too, so nyah!)