ARGH ARGH WHAT IS GOING ON SERIOUSLY WHAT

LUCIE? I CAN'T EVEN BEGIN TO ARTICULATE HOW ANNOYING THIS IS NOW

Let us echo Danni: THIS IS A SINGING COMPETITION

John and Edward are entertaining, but I'd personally rather see Lucie again, and really I think this is going to backfire on Simon - it's so obviously an attempt to a) get rid of a good singer who he isn't mentoring, and b) a shock move to get ratings up.

Not very coherent thoughts:

+ LOL MERLIN YOU IDIOT
+ But his angsty face brings out Colin Morgan's cheekbones even more! :D Oh, the tears in his eyes, bless him.
+ Bradley James's face is a thing of great wonder - his expression when Merlin was accused was priceless. Arthur being more kingly with every episode is brilliant, he's a lot more inclined to stand up to his father. Princely personal growth is sexy, people.
+ Speaking of which, the person encouraging him most in this was also awesome. God, Gwen I LOVE YOU, being all investigative with Merlin and hugely worried for Morgana and calling Arthur out on her father's death - USING HIS FULL NAME IN THE PROCESS LOL ♥ I'd like far more of her with Morgana though, cheers writers.
+ The one thing I was displeased with in this episode: it's understandable that Morgana is scared that she'll be discovered, but apart from that, why was she scared all the way through? She'd accepted her magic! She hoped that one day it would seen as a force for good! SHE IS BETTER THAN THIS, WHAT IS GOING ON WITH HER CHARACTERISATION? Not a tantrum for more of her wielding a sword, honest. But, uh, Katie McGrath looked good in this episode. More sword fighting please.
+ Briefly back to Arthur and Merlin: Arthur being understanding when Merlin was angry was lovely. Also: beautiful profile shots of both of them, and flickering candlelight illuminating Colin's cheekbones again! THANKS DIRECTOR.
+ Hi Charles Dance! You are one of those people who can play the villain with the smirking and looming creepiness and yet pull it off without being pantomime. It's amazing what gravitas and subtlety can do.
+ GAIUS IS LAYING IT DOWN STRAIGHT TO KING GILES UTHER I LOVE IT, WHAT A ZINGING SMACKDOWN

Next time trailer:

salfadfl;kss;d;lv MORGAUSE?! What have the writers made her in this Arthurian universe? HEY EMILIA FOX IN ARMOUR WIELDING A SWORD, OMG. CAN WE PLEASE HAVE HER AND MORGANA AND GWEN SWORDFIGHTING? OH LOL SHE DUELS ARTHUR. Merlin and Arthur on a quest! OMG ARTHUR LEARNING ABOUT HIS MOTHER. Uther getting called a hypocrite yeeeesssssss! SIR LEON HELLO. Wait, where the hell are Gwen and Morgana?!?!

Picspam of this cast is overdue, it will be coming soon.

For the longest time, I thought that our tiny ancient 80s keyboard was broken. Today, we plugged it into the wall and lo and behold it worked!

Casiotone MT-100

It sounds bloody awesome - me and F mucked around with it for ages, it was so much fun. The mandolin sound effect has changed dramatically because of how old the keyboard is, and now it's a synth-y tone that repeats itself uber-rapidly. That and the cosmic tone are my faves, but the fact that certain Casio Chord arrangements end up sounding like NES sound effects is also amazing. I really want to make use of the extra hidden hardware, like the arpeggiator, but I know nothing about circuit-bending or where to get all the extra switches and things like that :(

Also found: a huge red check-pattern shirt, in the bottom of a box we were putting away. I don't think it's flannel, but the material's quite similar, so it's nice and warm, yay.

Episode 1 verdict:

MALCOLM WHAT NOOOOO

*clings to Harry*

THANK YOU DIRECTOR FOR ALL THE DELECTABLE PROFILE SHOTS OF LUCAS - DEAR WRITERS PLEASE DON'T KILL HIM, RICHARD ARMITAGE NO LONGER HAS ROBIN HOOD AND I'D LIKE HIM ON THE TELLY MORE CHEERS

DITTO HERMIONE NORRIS, ROS IS STILL THE COOLEST (AS A RESULT ALSO THE HOTTEST, SORRY JO)

Lol, the American accents. Seriously, are they for real?

Next time trailer: Lol Tazbekstan. Writers, that is an original made up name. Mind you, are they making a not-very-subtle-statement about Turkmenistan? They don't need to, everyone knows the previous leader was a deluded oppressive nutter, and everyone knows that the current leader is turning into the same thing, only perhaps less mad. But what is up with Jo? Does she get kidnapped? She is not going to deal well with that if that's the case :/

Christ, I'd forgotten how nerve-shredding this show is \o/

Totally making up for my devil child youngest sister, my brother in a Skype conversation with my other sister and me just now:

S: *mock seriously* "Tru dat, tru dat."

Ming: "...I think my ears are bleeding."

J: *laughs*

S: "Ming, I could save your life with that in London."

Ming: "...you could save my - "

S: "Someone could come over and say 'Give me all your money blud!', and I'd say back 'Oi, step off, step off yeah?', and then they'd go away."

Ming and J: *blink with disbelief before cracking up with laughter*

Dear British public,

I understand that John and Edward are the comedy Irish twins who provide regular car crash amusement and piss off Simon, but really, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

Rachel was one of the best singers on X Factor, and the best singer out of all the girls (sorry, but IT'S TRUE), so when someone with that talent gets voted out simply because a) you all voted for the worst act to annoy Simon, and b) you somehow 'don't connect with her', then you all need to have your ears ripped off and surgically reattached so that your collective hearing improves, and your heads examined for common sense. John and Edward need to go.

STOP VOTING OFF THE GOOD SINGERS PLEASE,

NO LOVE

ME

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A related video: Olly and Jamie cover Cheryl Cole's 'Fight For This Love'



♥ There is so much to love about this: Olly losing the lyrics on his phone, him and Jamie mugging comically, Olly making fun of Danyl's singing-drama-look-at-me-yelling technique, Jamie dancing! Just, LOL forever. COME ON ESSEX!

*incoherent joy*

Oh gooooooood, ten days to go until it's released :((( Look at the cinematography! Some of the scenes are like paintings, jesus, and somehow, Abbie Cornish and Ben get prettier every time I watch this. I've been listening to the soundtrack, and it's almost unbearably lovely - a mix of Mark Bradshaw's wonderful score, which turns from ecstatic lightness to a tensely wild melancholy, dialogue from love letters and poems spoken by Ben Whishaw, as well as the amazing 'Human Orchestra'. I'd forgotten how good listening to poems can be.

Oh, and the song used in this trailer is 'To Build A Home' by The Cinematic Orchestra.

ETA: New icooooooooon. Look at them being all yearning and hopeful! God, the light in this film is incredible. Sob, I have only one icon space left.

This is CassetteBoy's One Minute Remix of how Question Time should have gone:



Lolll, brilliant.

The whole programme is on iPlayer and YouTube, for those who haven't seen it. Other relevant links: Channel 4's FactCheck on Griffin's claims, and an article which, despite their condemnation of the BNP, shows how much in common The Daily Mail has with them: Quote Comparison: Nick Griffin vs The Daily Mail. I watched the show and then listened to the live debate on Radio 5Live afterwards, then went to bed with a headache of rage :((((

There is just so much which honestly makes my head spin about what this furore has brought into focus, I don't know where to start.

Oh, I know. The claim that 'indigenous British people' are victims of cultural genocide. Their list of what this consists of is hilarious - 'Anglo-Saxon Folk community' and 'Celtic-Norse Folk community' being my favourites. Hi ho Brits, start making longships again, we're invading America as part of our loyalty to our indigenous history! Essentially, the BNP are angry obsessive cavemen, since the 'indigenous British people' are like bloody unicorns - they don't exist, and yet they keep on running after them bleating about how persecuted they are. Fuck you BNP, are you all blind as well? Here, have a table from the 2001 Census as collected by the Office of National Statistics:



92.1% OF THIS COUNTRY'S POPULATION IS WHITE.

How dare he use the word genocide? How dare he say that London has been ethnically cleansed of British people? As Bonnie Greer said, he and his party need to learn some history and look at world affairs properly. There was a man who called into 5Live and stated that he felt like being a white British Christian was something to be ashamed of nowadays, with outrage making his voice shake ever so slightly, and I think this highlights what the BNP are tapping into: a fear that the 'British identity' (whatever the fuck THAT is) is being eroded by all the nasty immigrants and liberal fascists.

Ahhh, immigration. The issue that lots of people are worried about and know very little of. Here, The Independent includes levelling points like our aging population.

Migrants traditionally tend to be younger, and thus more likely to be part of the working population – an important consideration when the structural costs of an ageing population are likely to add to the already substantial addition to the national debt burden that will arise from the recession and bailing out the banks. Most economist say that the refusal of some European states to accept higher numbers of immigrants will leave their public finances even more vulnerable than the UK's. Immigrants and their children will add 7.7 million to the population between now and 2033, and help make sure the working population continues to increase (and pay for our pensions and NHS).

Also, we can't just stop letting people in. A) It's in European Union Law, and b) going to net zero on immigration doesn't mean 'closing the drawbridge', it means setting the number of immigrants at the same level as that of emigrants, which in 2007 was about 207'000. This is such a complex issue, and it does not help when all three mainstream political parties try to Act Tough On It to appeal to the public's fears - yes, they were trying to undercut Griffin's points, but to do it by posturing is not the debate that we need.

*takes a deep breath*

Going back to identity briefly. The British identity is not that of the BNP's dreams i.e. completely white, Christian and heterosexual. That's a myth, and the reality is that national identity in the world today is a nebulous thing which is changing rapidly due to globalisation and communications technology. Certain characteristics somehow survive and bind nations together (hello self-deprecation, pragmatism and whinging!), but identity is not something that is set in stone for all eternity.

I'm Chinese, if you want to talk about race, but like the hero who deliberately mispronounced Griffin's name as Dick on QT, I was born, brought up and educated here. I fucking love this country. In some ways I feel more British than I do Chinese, since I can't speak Mandarin or Cantonese (I understand most Cantonese, but that's about it), and never watched Chinese tv on cable or knew what was going on in Chinese culture like my cousins did as they were growing up. Like so many people though, I identify with both parts, and I don't feel like my loyalties are torn at all. Why should they be?

Apparently there's going to be a gay kissathon flashmob outside Nick Griffin's home on the 31st October. AWESOME. [Essay on QT comments about gays/sexual orientation/the gay agenda to be dealt with in a separate post, lol. ] I'd love to get the BNP angry like that (maybe I should leap on the nearest white dude and thus destroy an ancient white family line?), but instead I shall leave you all with something infinitely more cheerful: Ellie Goulding's video for her new song.

Under The Sheets



She dances a bit like I do! \o/

Also: drums with glitter on them - I WANT.

The urge to get out of this country and roam all over the world has hit me hard these past few months, but the early morning on the Isle Of Wight at Bestival reminded me of how stunning Britain is, and The Guardian put up two photo galleries that makes me want to get on a train tomorrow and adventure round these islands.

Autumn Colours

The 8th and 13th photos in particular are so beautiful I could cry with wonder - the light striking the waters! The blue of the evening sky!

Photos of Britain competition

Ngggh, Isle Of Skye and Wales. The Aberdeen harbour is eerie industrial beauty at its finest, and oh, the wild look of that horse is glorious. Much kudos to the photographers.

Some people are still sneering at climate change and asking why we should cut down on emissions. Well, a) isn't it sensible to stop consuming so much as a precaution anyway, and b) just have a bloody look at these photos! If you don't think this world deserves to be protected from we've done to it after seeing them, you are clearly braindead and have an iceberg for a heart.

Hi ho everyone, how's things? I'm currently visiting friends and hijacking a laptop since the internet at home is not working right now, so a proper update will have to wait, bah.

Music though: Editors new album In This Light And On This Evening is pretty good - they've added synths to their sound and it makes things more interesting. There are fewer songs which have big choruses and riffs like their second album, but this one is more experimental, and it largely pays off. Papillon is undoubtedly driven by New Order-ish influences, and it's unbelieveably brilliant - brooding but pulsating, danceable synths, whilst Bricks and Mortar has a gorgeous, soaring rainbow of synth melody which would sound just as beautiful if replaced by strings - but it stands out because it's different from the way that synths nowadays seem to be used i.e. chucked all over the place. The Big Exit somehow manages to be sinister and sexy at the same time, and Eat Raw Meat = Blood Drool completely transcends its odd name by being a massively amazing song, chorus and all.

Also: new band enters the blogosphere with one of the most seductive songs I've heard this year - Monarchy - Gold In The Fire

It is as smooth as silk, hypnotic and really, really hot. If they keep on producing demos of this level Monarchy are going to be huge.

GLASTONBURY 2010, HERE I COME!

Oh god, I am earning no money, but you guuuuuys, it's the 40th one!

Bat for Lashes at the Cambridge Corn Exchange on Sunday: AMAZING. Natasha is adorable (she started the first song then stopped because she was giggling), and really gets into her performance, which always results in the best gigs. Also, her voice, jesus. The high notes in live shows sometimes end badly, but she hit every one, and it was spine-tingling. Kudos to her drummer, who was especially brilliant, and Charlotte Hatherly (!) who was playing guitar for her on this tour. The support, Yeasayer, were excellent - they have an epic sound and their lead singer is one of those performers who throws himself into the songs so much he looks like he's having a fit.

ETA: Happy Birthday zamorna, even though it's about two weeks too early, haha. Check out the indie_exchange for Yeasayer's album All Hour Cymbals! :D

Went out and recorded people's opinions on 'cougar women' today, LOL FOREVER. Probably the most fun I've had so far, unsurprisingly.

Finding out about things and applying for them at the last minute = NOT COOL. Argh I have no time, but I wanted to see how you all were. Good, bad? What have you all been up to? I will comment when possible!

LOLLL, one of the best trailers for a tv series ever, I think you'll all agree?



*sigh*

Ladies of BSG, I love you all. ( Spoilers up to 3x08 )

Related to this, I have an appeal for help. Can anyone point me in the direction of Series 4 downloads? I've got the first three series, but can't find Razor or Series 4. I'm going to wait until the UK boxset gets all the extras and goes down in price, but in the meantime, I need to finish this show.

Work experience is going well - I'm doing the usual stuff like sorting post and replying to emails, but I also get guests and sit in the studio during broadcast. This week Jill Murphy who wrote The Worst Witch came in! She was really lovely - she talked about writing little stories as a kid, drawing, her new book and other things. Last week Mary Berry came in to talk about her new baking book, and brought in a HUGE box of cakes. The chocolate one with plain chocolate icing was literally AMAZING. I am going to make it sometime in the future, omg.

How are you all?

P.S. zamorna I think the tickets may have arrived - my mum needs to pick them up from the Post Office. Hopefully it's them, heh.

*cries laughing*
Jedi religion founder accuses Tesco of discrimination over rules on hoods

As always with stuff like this, the best things are all the comments on the article, and that's including the people taking his discrimination claim seriously, lolll.

Related article: Science fiction author hits out at Booker judges

Aww, he thinks Adam Roberts should win the Booker? That's pretty cool! Adam taught me on the second generation Romantics course in my second year - he's one of those annoyingly multi-talented people who somehow manages to do an amazing amount of things and do them really well. But he is a great writer, and I think everyone in the article has a point - sci-fi shouldn't be thought of as a genre that is second rate to 'serious' fiction, and more publishers should submit to the Booker if they think the quality deserves it, no matter the genre.

Why is the Battlestar Galactica boxset so expensive? :(((

Finally, Paul Theroux, I love you:

You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth to pass the time....

Why don't you take the plane? The Georgian had asked me.
Because - I thought when I was in the corner seat of my railway compartment - aeroplanes are a distortion of time and space. And you get frisked.

OMFG, EPISODE 4 RESISTANCE, OMFG. SHAROOOOOOOOOOOOON!

*cries*

She is definitely my favourite, and then THAT happens! I am so glad Jing's asleep, she would mock me for crying like I am now :(((

Other brief thoughts: Tigh is an idiot, but his wife is EVIL; Helo needs to realise that Caprica-Sharon means what she says about loving him and deciding to help humans; Kara is ♥ ; Gaius is still a headcase; Six is still hot but, um, intense? I LOVE THIS SHOW.

Sharoooooon :(((((((

Back from Bestival, but that can wait, because I have literally been listening to Muse's new album all day, and oh my god how can they be so awesome?! I am going to try and be a bit more objective, but you guuuuuuuuuys, they are still my favourites, ALWAYS AND FOREVER ♥

Showbiz, their first album, was naturally slightly inconsistent in quality, but since then I honestly think that every album they've made has been outstanding. The Resistance is the first album since Showbiz to stumble, and I think it's because they self-produced for the first time, so there was no-one around to hold them back, and you can hear the result of that so clearly on this album, because it's so over the top and so full of ideas that certain songs suffer. Guiding Light is quite U2ish and doesn't really go anywhere, I Belong To You doesn't gel together because there's far too much going on, and though United States Of Eurasia is crazily beautiful and epic when the strings crescendo in time with the piano, the Queen-ish vocals of 'Eurasia!' don't fit in as much as they could have made them.

With all that said, the main reasons for my worship of this band are on this album in spades: the good tunes, the ambition, the knowing and not really serious ludicrousness, the experimentation. Undisclosed Desires is perhaps the most un-Muse song - it's quite R'n'Bish and pop-like, which means that most hardcore Muse fans probably hate it, but fuck 'em, it is amazing, and like Supermassive Black Hole, a hot track. Oh Matt, you sexy bastard, please play this live lots. Uprising gets the thumbs up from me because the synths are Who-like, and Resistance has a slightly cheesey chorus but is nonetheless a big tune. Unnatural Selection and MK Ultra are the most conventional in that they have fantastic, meaty guitar riffs, and it's good listening to them and knowing that the boys still like to produce songs like that.

BEST OF ALL THOUGH: the three part 13 minute symphony at the end called Exogenesis. OH MY FUCKING GOD, I THINK MY BRAIN EXPLODED, IT IS THAT BLOODY AMAZING. LIVE LIVE LIVE I WANT TO HEAR IT LIVE.

Seriously, everyone needs to listen to it, everyone. There are delicate, Debussy-like piano bits, and waves of gorgeous strings that sound like they could have come from the LOTR soundtrack, which morph into heavy, huge guitar riffs that Matt compliments with Microcuts-ish falsetto and then a totally insane cry of "YOU MUST RESCUE US ALLLL!", and the whole thing truly is like a symphony, it's mad and gorgeous and this is why I love them so much - no-one else in the world does anything remotely like them.

Alsooo: all the classical stuff, I swoon, I die. The Chopin Nocturne! The utterly out-of-place lines from Saint-Saens Samson and Delilah aria! The symphony, did I mention the symphony?

In sum: not their best album, but despite the overflow of ideas that should have been reined in a bit more, the self-production does mean that we get the Exogenesis symphony, so you win some, you lose some.

Jesus Christ, Battlestar Galactica. I'm just over halfway through the first series, and if I didn't have to go and get my Oxfam steward training tomorrow I would probably sit in front of my laptop and watch it until I dropped. It's so good, I can't believe it's taken me this long.

+ Karaaaaaaaa ♥ Brilliant, instinctual, hilarious, emotionally raw - she's strong and awesome but lets herself lose control over so many things, and I love her.

+ Lee! He's so loyal, and his daddy issues are adorable. Unexpectedly though, I find myself more attracted to Helo than Lee.

+ Roslin and Commander Adama are AMAZING. Roslin at this point is the best sci-fi politician ever. In fact, all the women on Battlestar are wonderful. Their character growth is so good, and they're all brilliant in their own way.

+ Booooooooooomer ♥ At the heart of her and Six is the exploration of what it is to be human, and it's done so well. Gotta say, choosing Chief when Helo was around? Lolll, wut. Also: awesome South East Asian woman in a prominent, fantastic role on tv = AMAZING. I know I know, we're a minority etc. etc., but really, even taking that into account, how little we're represented in the American / European media is astonishing, and when we're there it's not often great. Hi RTD, thanks for the entire planet of Shan Shen - where stereotypes are conflated and all of Chinatown will apparently live in the future. Hi Joss Whedon, thanks for putting our culture at the forefront of your show and then not having Asian people in it with any dialogue (otherwise a cool show, but that is seriously WTF). Apparently one of John Cho's initial reactions on first seeing Star Trek as a kid was pretty much "OMG THERE'S AN ASIAN MAN ON TV." There's less of that feeling nowadays, but it's still rare enough that sublime characters like Boomer, underneath all the shallowness and sci-fi geekery, make me feel surprised and happy.

LOL WOW, I did not mean for that essay to appear! I adore Boomer though, and feel very strongly about her.

+ GAIUS LOL FOREVER. He is one of my favourites atm just for the hilarity of him looking like a lunatic whilst Six alternately feels him up and threatens him, but I can see his character developing in interesting ways.

+ Six. She is fascinating because I can't tell whether her feelings for Gaius are genuine or not. What makes some Cylons seemingly more susceptible to sympathy / love for humans than other Cylons? Also: not my favourite female character, but my brain has a meltdown everytime she appears. Six Degrees Of Separation spoilt me on that front - glasses! Beating someone up! Slow disrobing at the end! (Lol at Gaius running up the stairs after her.)

Basically, this show FTW.

+ Lolll, bloody hell, getting to Bestival is a mission when you haven't got a car. Right now I'm looking at a train to Southampton Central (with the Tube on the way), then a free shuttle from there to one of the ferry ports, then somehow I have to make my way from the port on the Isle Of Wight to the actual festival site. As an Oxfam steward, I have to get there a day early, and so miss out on the shuttle service for normal festival-goers that start up the day after. Jesus. Either I find a local bus on my own, or I find fellow Oxfam stewards and we go find a bus together, or we try and hitch a lift to the site from another steward who has a car.

+ I'm going on my own, and the only tent in the house is a massive four-man one. It is heavy. I really want to buy a more manageable two-man tent.

+ My mum doesn't like that I'm going on my lonesome. She came in when I was looking up train times and pronounced, "You're going to the Isle Of Wight on your own", in a dubious tone which suggested that my destination was somewhere like deepest, darkest Peru instead. I nodded and she went on, "How daring." I'm so glad I've only talked about Ghana with Dad so far.

+ Look at this bloody line up!!! I hope my shifts allow me to see Florence + The Machine or La Roux (it's going to be mad attempting to see them), Passion Pit, Pivot, Dinosaur Pile-Up, 65daysofstatic and possibly Buraka Som Sistema. I'd quite like to see Fleet Foxes, Bat For Lashes, The Big Pink, Maps and few others as well, but we'll see.

*combusts with excitement*

Does anyone listen to Radio 4? I've been listening to it quite a lot as prep for work experience next month (!), and it's getting really addictive. Favourites so far: Front Row, The Film Programme, all the comedy, World At One, Open Book, Poetry Please, Women's Hour. I had a huge argument with my mum after reading about James Murdoch's attack on the BBC a few days ago (what a Class A berk he is) about the BBC's value - in her opinion, giving it money when all the other broadcasters are suffering is wrong, and it should be made a lot smaller, which, argh, no that is wrong on so many levels. If the BBC was more biased towards the Conservatives, I doubt very much whether she'd feel the same way.

Half the posts about music I've made in the last six months or so have mentioned either Little Boots or La Roux, but today an interview in the Independent reminded me of Ladyhawke's brilliance, who was, I think, the first in this year's wave of female acts with a pop sensibility, despite not being included as such (partly because she's thought of as more indie-ish) by the media.

Awkward, it's my middle name

That picture is cool - I love her dress sense so much, it's the kind of style I aim for a lot and usually fail at, haha. Her top hat is brilliant. Awwww, she seems really stressed out! Hopefully she can relax very soon and get back to enjoying making music instead of feeling pressured by it. It's so rare to find a performer who doesn't love entertaining people, but Pip always seems to want to hide away in a studio, which, considering her Asperger's, isn't surprising. And LOLL, she dreams of zombies? I'd forgotten how much I love her, omg.

My favourite bit of an interview with Florence Welch (yes, she of Florence and the Machine), where she talks of the rash of female artists hitting it big:

‘We just all happen to be female. I’ve met La Roux – she’s a really, really nice girl, comes from South London like me. I love her album. Victoria [Hesketh], Little Boots, is really sweet. VV Brown, lovely… Marina and the Diamonds, her stuff is great and she’s such a sweet girl.

'Everyone is really supportive of each other and we’re all going through the same thing, the highs and the lows. I don’t ever feel like there’s rivalry. There’s a real sense of, “We’re in it together.” But we’re all different artists and if you listen to our music you can tell that none of us is doing the same thing.’

OMGGG I LOVE THEM ALL ♥

Honestly honestly, how are they all so lovely?

I have started watching Battlestar Galactica and it is already beyond addictive. Will post later when I have collected proper thoughts, but omg, how are all the ladies so awesome? Lee and Helo round off the eye candy nicely. Also, Gaius is unbelievably funny. Just, LOLLL, haunted by a Six made up by his subconscious? Not that anyone could blame him because a) she made him a traitor to the entire human race and b) SHE IS HOT LIKE BURNING, but it is always amusing to see them fighting whilst everyone else is like, "Er, Gaius...?"

Guys, have a look at the 10:10 campaign! I've signed up already - let's hope the people behind this can widen their ad campaign so everyone hears about it.

Oh, and the obligatory Muse mention: read the interview in Q magazine - Matt truly excels himself with the hilarious paranoia ♥