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This is an entry I've been wanting to do for a while. A while back, jekesta (at least) did a "Top 5 Favourite Vids" meme. This would be quite impossible to choose, though it would involve the Rama Lama Bang Bang vid and at least one of the Sea of Souls vids Jekesta made. So I'm going to do something a bit more manageable - My top 5 favourite "Holding Out For A Hero" vids!

My Top 5 "Holding Out For a Hero" Vids

1. Star Trek Voyager. I won't say it was the first. The first was the one in my head of Sawyer from Lost, with shots of him running and swimming and making masts and OH THE IRONY. But this was the first one that showed me what was actually out there on the net, if I bothered to look. I love it so much. I never really even watched that much Voyager. I mostly didn't know who Seven of Nine was. But I love Janeway. I love Seven of Nine. I love them together. They are great. Oh. ( Spoilers for the vid )



2. Alien Resurrection. I judge it slightly for not being to the Bonnie Tyler version. But other than that it is great. Ripley is so the person you'd want popping up if you needed a hero. I love this vid quite a lot.



3. All action heroes pretty much ever. I love this vid for taking the lyrics QUITE LITERALLY. And deciding that masses of violence is what this songvid probably needs. ( Spoilers for vid )



4. The rest are tricky. The problem with seeing some great Holding Out For A Hero vids is that you become critical of the rest. I judge vids that show clips of the "hero" before the first 'I need a hero!'. I judge vids that do not have another/the other characters looking sort of sad and forlorn until that point in the vid. I sort of judge vids that do not use the Bonnie Tyler version of the song. I judge vids that do not have actual reaching at the 'Some were reaching back for me' part. A lot of vids just seem sort of rub compared to 1, 2 and 3. But I recently found a Life on Mars one. Which is great. Much like Gene. ( Slight spoilers for the vid )
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5. And the last place is a bit of a tie. At the moment I love the Brothers Grimm and love that this vid exists, but it does seem to be a lot of long clips from the movie, which don't always fit with the lyrics. So hmm. But yay. And then there's the Stargate Atlantis one, which takes ages to load. Mostly I love it because it has a lot of running and jumping in it, I think. Also I like the way Rodney looks at the gun in one clip, although I don't know why. It makes me slightly sad I never watched the show, although it's quite possible that's just the effect of the vid/song. Oh I love Holding Out For A Hero. It's great.

That is my list. Rah. Mostly I think every fandom should have a Holding Out For A Hero vid. I think it would improve things by quite a lot.

And hurrah, the next Futurama is the one with the worms! I love it so much. "This is my home! My ancestors came over on the Sandwich! I raised a cloud of children here!" :D

The tulips I got for my birthday are wilting. I think I sort of prefer it. In a scary Funhouse kind of a way. They look like this:

( Tulips )

My ruby bracelet, on the other hand, looks like this:

( Rubies, omg )

And I love Carl from Emmerdale, who looks like this:

( Carl )

Or did in 2004 anyway.

I had a plan to cook tonight. But on the other hand there is a cottage pie and ready-made salad in the fridge. So probably I'll actually do that. I'm not an expert on Adaptation and Appropriation yet. Woe.

I feel like I want to say something about the Avian Flu thing. I don't really know how I feel about it. When I see the papers saying things like 'AVIAN FLU', I don't care so much, but when people are on TV saying 'now, people really shouldn't panic...' I start to get worried. I try to reassure myself that flu epidemics, like the ones we're regularly supposed to have, usually mostly effect the very young or very old - except that I've got a one year old nephew with a dodgy chest, and a wobbly old grandma. So it's worrying me a bit. But probably it'll be one of those things like BSE and Foot and Mouth that mostly effect the farming industry and no-one else. Hopefully.

Anyway. It's Green Wing night tonight! That came round awfully quick again. Please to have another half-naked Mac and Guy wrestling scene please. With the same music. Oh, and I finally watched episode 2 of Life on Mars! WHY has no-one yet made any Sam or Gene 'For Great Justice!' icons? And possibly a Warren 'all your bases/witnesses are belong to us'? It is a SHAMEFUL crime. Shameful.

And I'm going to London! I'm going to see Have I Got News For You! I think! I need to look up train prices and things. And some nice person ::waves to them:: offered me a place to stay if I want to go to London to see Wicked. Which is nice. Actually...would anyone on here like to go see it with me? I'm thinking especially of people who I know have read and love the book. Just a thought.

Also: Elle just asked Toadie if he was okay, and BLATANTLY MEANT 'a gay'. FACT.

ETA: Omg! The girl leaves, and the pants come off! ::agog::

I'm not watching Green Wing tonight, because we're up to the episodes I taped when it was first on, and pretty much watched to death a year ago, or at least enough that I can wait for the DVDs. And they're the episodes where Guy is an arse (though I still love him), and his love for Mac is just angsty, and I'm getting all my old plotbunnies like that he talks in French in his sleep, and I can slightly do without it. So you get another post instead.

The DVD release date for Life on Mars has been moved up to May. Which means nothing to you downloading people, but it is VERY GOOD NEWS FOR ME.

It has occurred to me that I don't generally post much in this journal about my actual life and emotions, other than annoyance with DVD release dates and crying about essays. I get the feeling it makes me seem like a relentlessly and inordinately cheerful person. This is not the case. I don't think it's a big issue, but I just thought mention it and attempt to clear things up.

Most of the time I post, I do it at university. This means its a specially organised 'slot' in my life, rather than a general part of it. And just getting to a computer and the internet at all tends to make me happy. And I make an effort, since it's a temporary 'slot' to post about things I think other people will know about, like glorious TV and such, rather than personal problems with people no-one will know, and which I can deal with at other times, and probably already have dealt with. So that's that, and will probably change once uni is finished and I (assumedly) have the internet 24/7. Then will come the whining. Oh yes.

But other than that my life is really pretty okay right now. In that, it's not brilliant (no showers of gold and diamonds arriving in chauffeur (?) driven limousines while I fight crime by the sea, or anything), but its better than it has been for a long time. The family drama has quietened down, and my sister is coping, and clean, and my nephew is okay. And I'm enjoying my course, if not working too hard at it, and I have friends, whom I love. And I'm pretty much drowning in wonderful fandoms at the minute. I'm getting slightly antsy about what the hell I'm going to do when university is finished, and probably if I was doing more with my life, I'd probably have a lot more (healthy) stress to report, and that annoys me a bit, that I feel like I'm wasting a lot of time, but that's pretty much it. And even though it's not all perfect, I'm really not planning to complain, considering how bad it has been before. And could easily be, at any given point in the future. So am pretty happy at the moment.

And then there's the fact that I don't think I really get wound up about personal problems, in general. Unless they're really bad, and continuing, like the whole "family drama" thing was. I have long, extensive experience of just sort of 'leaving people to it' in bad situations, and getting on with my own life. Which is a bit callous, but what're going to do. Otherwise I tend to make decisions pretty quickly about how to handle things, and then just - do that. So you probably won't ever get long drawn-out deliberations about a situation or how to handle it here - ever. And I probably wouldn't be coherent enough to post about it until I'd sorted it all out in my own head first anyway.

And if this journal reads to other people like a big whinefest, then this is all going to backfire quite spectacularly.

But it's bugged me a bit for a while, so I just wanted to post and get it off my chest. So there it is.

Blah. I think I need to take that Yeah Yeah Yeahs CD back. On further inspection - after giving up trying to listen to that 50-minute track all in one go - it turns out the second track (15 minutes long) doesn't play at all, just skips straight to Track 3 - which sounds suspiciously like part of track no. 1. As do all the other songs on the album. Which could be a clever, post-modern trick, but just seems sort of - wrong. Hopefully it's a problem with my CD, and not the album itself. I will replace it, and find out.

I'm meant to be having a lecture at 4. Except that last week our tutor said that we 'would not be having a lecture in that room', and I thought she talked about emailing us with the room change, but I haven't heard anything yet. So I'm starting to think she meant a lecture at all. But I can't be sure.

I could go home. Or read. But I choose to waste some hours on the internet (conveniently close to my inbox) instead. Hence, a few memes:

New Snaps Cup Meme! Which you should all totally do yourselves as well.

And, snagged from a few people but probably mostly nerdcakes: Name a character or pairing! Watch me I ramble on about it!

You can pick characters and pairings I don't know if you, but my ramblings might be slightly random and inexplicable.

I should probably have said yesterday that the Fantasy Pirate League was founded by our glorious leader tiniago. May she rule us randomly and benevolently for many years hereafter.

Also, I'd like to switch Edward Norton (despite the prettiness) for Will Scarlet from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, because dude - equally pretty, and good with knives! And, given that its probably not the best plan ever, I should probably switch the sadly water-allergic Elphaba for Flying Snow from Hero, in case of arrow attacks, or, y'know, anyone that needs killing. And by 'switch' I mean 'secretly in my head I have them both, haha!'. Now no more.

I am slightly saddened that no-one has taken on DI Sam Tyler as their reluctant but oh-so-useful first or second mate. But he's on the TV tonight, so it's not so bad. I have to read 300 pages of Jane Eyre before that though. I got up at 7 this morning, and have to do it again tomorrow. I am very tired. Woe :(

I feel like I have been away FOREVER. This is a complete lie, because it has in fact been a mere 2 days. And 120 entries on my flist. Because I chose not to make the massive (20 minute!) walk to campus to check my email on Wednesday, having no other purpose out of the house, or in general lately. I should really be doing reading for upcoming modules, but I'm at that horrible point when you really don't want to get into new stuff, and probably should have already started. Hmph.

Anyway. To recap:

Monday:

( I write too much. TV-talk )

Tuesday:

( Tuesday talk )

Wednesday:

TOTALLY WENT TO A NICK CAVE CONCERT. ( Probably quite a bit of talk about that )

And jekesta sent me DVDs! ::loves on her:: And a Christmas card, of BEAUTY. It was like a second Christmas, only with more black. I watched the (Sea of Souls) episode from series two that I never watched, due to my nephew being born, and was delighted at Craig climbing mountains adorably in a plastic windjacket. And he had sexual chemistry with a girl! He totally did! And I didn't even care, because they'd done a paranormal investigation and climbed some hills together, so that's okay. And she was cool, and had a fiance to get back to anyway. But it was so great! Beautifully, beautifully great! They can totally do sex secretly for a while until Wade steals his heart. Yes ::love::

Thursday:

Came home.( Some randomness, and talk of toilets )

So yes. Am home now, until Sunday evening. Laptop fully attached to the internet, of which I take great advantage. I have downloaded the Divinyls' I Touch Myself, which is simply THE MOST GLORIOUS SONG EVER (for the moment). It goes with every pairing. A person made a new Craig/Wade songvid at slashysouls! If I knew how to songvid, I would totally songvid Craig/Wade to this song. Does Craig touch himself a lot? It would be THE BEST SONGVID ever if he did. Probably I should stop talking about songvids if I don't know how to make them. BUT IT WOULD BE THE BEST SONGVID EVER.

::abuses the internet:: :)

::dances you all::

There is a Life on Mars community, lifein1973. And I have a Life on Mars icon. Excellent.

( Book ramblings )

Finished The Very Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 though. He wrote an expose on Barry Kent! He wanted to expose him! And Barry was the only one who bought it, for this very fact! Theirloveissooblivioustoitself! :D

In other news, I did not find Pandora quite so horrendous in this one - even thought her wanting to be called 'Box' was quite cute. But then the thing with the Barbara girl not being allowed to the political meetings because she showed Pandora up happened, and it all went a bit downhill. Adrian, on the other hand, was moping because he'd done something wrong, and said something like 'Am reading Crime and Punishment. It is the most true book ever', and I LOVED HIM ALL THE MORE.

My head feels a bit wobbly. I blame Daniel Defoe. And the fact that washing up NEVER GETS DONE IN OUR HOUSE. I hardly ever do my own. But I literally use something like a pan, two plates and a few knives all day most of the time, and it is hidden within very depressing huge piles of other stuff. Because J loves to cook, and is a bit rubbish at washing up anyway, and K gets sick of doing the washing up all the time. Also they randomly stew apples. What is that all about?

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