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spn_j2_bigbang started posting \o/ I'm almost done with my cover and sort of midway through the other picture I'm doing. Lots of Missouri :)
And speaking of bigbang, here's an art rec: go take a look at machinistm's artwork. I love the cleanliness of the first piece and the mix cover is just lovely.

A few video things:
The sweet: I really like this song from a hindi movie (no, it's not Rahman :)). It's lighthearted, sweet and the settings are very colorful. The video on youtube

The funny: The whole of Colbert's first show in Iraq. This is one of the most hilarious episodes of the Colbert Report that I've seen and I really love that he's there to entertain the troops. Apart from the bit with him doing basic training (which is awesome) the highlight comes when President Obama appears on screen to order General Odierno (Colbert's guest) to shave Colbert's head :D You can watch the full episode here though I'm sure everyone's seen the shaving clip floating around everywhere :) I love this man.

The ugly: David Letterman making misogynistic statutory rape jokes about a 14 year old. Link here. It's awful and completely unfunny. I really don't care to debate about the politics of it (please DON'T, it isn't defensible), making knocked up jokes about a young girl because you don't care for her mother is disturbing and I don't know if I'm more grossed out by the joke or by the fact that the audience laughed instead of booing him for it.

Excuse me while I go rewatch Colbert to get the nasty taste out of my mouth.

P.S: I'm unhealthily obsessed with Star Trek Reboot fandom. Somebody save me!

I posted SPN art yesterday and came to the conclusion that I should probably have a separate tag that's just for images that are red and black, because they're really building up. I also realized I hadn't done an art recommendation post in a really long time. So, here goes: 3 SPN recs, and 1 SGA rec. Go see and leave glowing feedback :)

Recs:
SPN:
Endings by nargynargy
Nargynargy does an amazing mix of painted and manipulated work. The colors are beautiful and the textures are exciting, but it's the whole mix that's just breathtaking. The atmosphere of the whole thing is fantastic. Go explore her other works, it's more than worth your time. Please note the artwork warnings though.

Untitled art (poster-style) by famira
Really cool painting style. Not photorealistic with respect to features, but the lighting and coloring is fantastic, and I rather like the way it's different because it seems deliberate. But I think the best part for me is the design, the composition of the whole thing with a really cool background and well chosen type.

Disturbia (vid) by reen16
This vid is creepily awesome. The vidder takes Rihanna's song and original video of Disturbia and splices in scenes from SPN. The cuts and scene selections seemed perfect to me, and fit in really nicely with the original video, and looked kind of like a music video for Supernatural the movie :D

SGA:
The Woods Are Haunted, Dark And Deep by astridv
As always, lovely composition and background, with really well done lighting and coloring. The eyes in the background and the splint on Rodney's leg are two of the details that just make the picture for me. The fire isn't half bad either :P

And in some self-aggrandizing news, maychorian is a sweetheart and made me a thread on the love meme. Thank you and ♥ to all those who are saying such lovely things :)

I made pumpkin bread and cornbread. They were both very very delicious. Somehow, the two times I've tried to put in a layer of cream cheese in the middle of cake/bread, I've managed to overshoot on the liquid part and so the cream cheese layer never stays as a layer, but becomes a meandering random line throughout the loaf. And that actually looks way prettier and like I meant to do it deliberately, I think I'll continue making the same mistake from now on.

And of course, after a week of making a mix of easy and complicated food from scratch, I burnt a pan trying to boil an egg and a potato :/ I almost went to bed, thankfully I was reading fic where someone was eating an egg and that reminded me about the stuff that I should have taken off the stove, oh, about an hour and 45 minutes ago. Yay for fic with food?

Two SPN art recs:

Nadir by acerbus_instar (Gen, creepy imagery)
Odd but arresting picture. Very well chosen colors and the starkness of it all is very cool. I'm not entirely sure what it means but it's just visually very cool and lends itself to as many interpretations as you want to give it. Look out for the reflection.

Sketch of Sam by blynnk (G)
Pencil sketch of Sam. I am generally not a huge fan of simply faithful reproductions of photographs without changing any of the context, but there's something very lively about the lighting/shading and the pencil marks in this picture. There's something a little off about the jaw line, but Sam's eyes and smirky-smile are so well done that the faults are completely overshadowed.

TVland:
Every time I come across an episode of The Legend of the Seeker, I am struck by how completely unengaging it is despite having elements that could have really worked. The cinematography is lovely, the lighting is wonderful, the people are kind of generic but still sort of vaguely attractive, the woman holds her own fighting skills-wise, the camera ogles the guy and the girl equally, and there are attempts at wisecracks. But it's just so earnestly trying and then completely failing to realize how silly it is. There's slow motion everytime someone's fighting, the people leave no lasting impression on you, their personalities might as well be stamped "insert heroic/tragic/romantic cliche here" and oh my god, I cannot stand it when people act like yentas in fic and I really can't stand it when they do it in tv shows and take themselves seriously while doing so.

I might be watching bits of Brothers and Sisters just to see if Rob Lowe is on.

Chuck is still my favoritest thing ever. And I'm still not fannish about it.

I'm hanging onto the Mentalist for now, but I still haven't really figured out if I really like it or not. Simon Baker and Amanda Righetti, however, are very pretty.

I walked four miles for the heard-of-but-never-seen-before huge Asian supermarket and it was completely worth it. I have a huge green mango! And lots of squid! And cilantro that looks unlike any cilantro I have ever seen! Someday I will be adventurous enough to buy the rather awful looking sea cucumbers, and rich enough to buy the amazing looking jumbo shrimps.

Pork chops broiled after marinating in garlic, ginger, lemongrass, rice vinegar and soy sauce is gastronomic heaven. To make it all even more amazing, broil some olive-oil brushed yellow peppers on the side. Mmmmm.

I am in TV heaven. SPN is wonderful, Chuck is fun as ever, Bones is entertaining, and I'm enjoying The Mentalist. Re: the last one, how is Simon Baker so hot? How?

A few links:

If you haven't yet been to paintedspires, run don't walk. there are quite a few creepy cool images up already. Warnings for crack, awesome skills and GORE.

Incredibly cool sketches of celebrities with just a few lines but you can tell who they are right away. Two artists, very different styles and both completely amazing.

Christmas/end of year holidays is still a ways away, but care packages take time. Soldiers' Angels is a wonderful volunteer-led non-profit organization that helps you send care packages and more to men and women who are deployed (and include other services for soldiers and their families as well). Think about it, even if it's just a minor donation.

Donate to support marriage equality in California and defeat proposition 8 https://secure.ga4.org/01/equalityforall

Check out Bankrate.com's "Safe & Sound" rating system if you're feeling wobbly about your own financial institution.

Craig Ferguson is hilarious 96% of the time, and I want him as a friend. This is him on the election and voting. He manages to be funny as well as make a whole lot of sense. Why is he on so late at night?