Last night's Gossip Girl was so good that I had to picspam. ( Rufus and I both like to express ourselves through art that way! )

I might've accidentally spoiled myself earlier this week by accidentally looking at a spoiler pic. Dammit! I spend the rest of tonight's House, "House's Head," ( waiting for the other shoe to drop and being sad that Evil Nurse Brenda was not the one Cuddy assigned to make sure House stayed home! )

Tonight's Gossip Girl, "Woman On The Verge," was ( WIN TOPPED WITH WIN WITH A SIDE ORDER OF WIN! )Josh Schwartz, you did not disappoint.

The Act Becomes The Art of Growing Up
Disclaimer: 'Gossip Girl' belongs to Cecily von Ziegesar, Josh Schwartz, and the CW. No infringement intended.
Summary: She used to have thicker skin than this, right? Maybe she didn't. Maybe she didn't need to. (Georgina, Carter, Serena, Blair, Chuck)
Spoilers: 1x16 'All About My Brother'.
Note: Six connected drabbles, 100 words each. Title from Brand New's "Sic Transit Gloria…Glory Fades."


( She tries to change once. )

Wow, two movies posts in one day when I rarely post about movies!

Even though it got horrible reviews, I watched Speed Racer and didn't, uh, hate it? The colors were really bright and everything looked overly CGI, but I'm thinking that it was probably intentional. I mean, there's no way that when they were doing that CGI, the effects guys thought, "Dude, this looks so realistic!" I thought it was a really fun movie that didn't take itself seriously, which made it entertaining to watch. It was downright cartoonish!

And Scott Porter played Speed's brother! (Dude, who knew that Jason Street looked so hot in a wife beater?) And Spritle and Chimp Chimp were endlessly entertaining! And Trixie and Speed were ADORABLE! With the flirting! And her punching some girl when they were kids because she called Speed stupid! And kissing under the flashbulbs! TOO. CUTE. FOR. WORDS. So screw the reviews; if you're not looking for something too deep and just want to have a cheesy good time, go watch Speed Racer (unless you haven't watched Iron Man because you hate awesomeness, in which case you should get over the insanity and watch that first).

I watched Son of Rambow today and it was surprisingly really good! Ed Westwick was rocking the cardigans in a very Chuck Bassian manner in this movie too! Granted they were normal cardigans that didn't look like fish, but it still made me laugh. There is even one point when he picks up his brother Carter after he's gotten expelled where not only is he rocking the sweater, but he's also talking on Zack Morris' cell phone while Gary Numan's "Cars" is blasting from his car radio! SO. MUCH. GOODNESS. He wasn't in the movie for a whole hell of lot, but it was fine because ( the movie was really fabulous anyway! )

Tonight's BSG, "Faith," just confirmed that ( if Natalie is in the episode, it is guaranteed to be WIN. )

Remember after watching Iron Man, I was all FIC FIC FIC WHERE'S THE FIC? Well, gabby_silang wrote insanely adorable Tony/Pepper Iron Man fic that you should all totally go read right now. AWESOME.

I try not to watch sneak peeks for Gossip Girl because I like to remain surprised, but I just could not resist this time. Oh UESers, this is the friendship that I want to see! I love those kids so much! Chuck's tie is matching his Mr. Rogers cardigan! Grandpa, you look good! There's a Breakfast Club mention! (Not the 80s theme party I had in mind, but you're getting there Schwartz.) Clearly, Nate is the athlete and Chuck is the criminal, but who is the princess? The obvious choice here is Blair, but Serena is definitely not the basketcase or the brain. Is it bad that I want Georgina to join the gang so she can be the basketcase? (Come on! Can't you just see her lying about how she nailed her shrink?)

Not based on spoilers, this is exactly why the UES dynamic works and why Dan doesn't fit into their world. (I think Chuck should tell him to pursue a career in the custodial arts next season.) I'm not just talking about the rich/poor thing. It's about not getting it. Because of their wealth and status, Chuck, Nate, Serena, and Blair have the luxury to do whatever the hell they want because they know that, chances are, there will be no repercussions to their actions. Couple this potential for reckless behavior with the fact that (all VDB love aside) unlike the Humphreys who have each other, the UESers don't really have that family dynamic to fall back on, the fab four really have only ever had each other. So in that manner, I don't blame Dan entirely for not understanding bad!Serena. I'm sure it's completely offensive to him that someone could be a drunken, slutty idiot who likes THINGS, but in the UES, that's normal.

I'm not saying that the fab four should be elitist and buy Members Only jackets and not let any non-UESers into their club house. I'm just saying that Dan does not have to be a judgemental tool 95% of the time. You don't see Rufus freaking out over Lily being flossy flossy when they hang out. If Dan was more like Rufus, I wouldn't mind him. Even though Dan may not completely get that Serena was not the saint that she is now because he has such a whitewashed idealized view of her, it's completely irrational for him to always play the disappointment card when she can't live up to that hype. She didn't sign up to be worshipped and if he can't deal with her being human, then she'd be better off without him. She'd be better off without him anyway because Serena/Carter is a lot more interesting.

I mentioned to ever_obsessed that I had the Iron Man score and she was like, "ZOMG?!?!" Naturally, this prompted me to enable (which I'm sure ever_obsessed knew would happen anyway). It's like Ramin Djawadi is issuing Bear McCreary of BSG soundtrack love a challenge to see who gets to call himself my music!score!composer!BFF! They should have a showdown. Mark Snow and his The Truth Is STILL Out There, Bitches, And It's Coming To You On July 25th synthesizer can referee!

So despite having a ton of things that I need to get done tonight, I'm posting a mix instead. Despite the fact that Chuck and Georgina haven't even had a single scene together on Gossip Girl, I might be the only person in the world shipping them based on the havoc that they could potentially bring to the show should they ever join forces. And DUDE, Georgina is like Chuck with smaller nostrils!

Chuck and Georgina wouldn't be nice or sweet to each other. Hell, they'd probably fling insults back and forth at each other like they were at Wimbledon. They certainly wouldn't sit around in bed doing the New York Times crossword together during the weekends and watching cheesy romantic comedies. Chuck/Georgina would be all about sex, drugs, and rock and roll. And that's okay. Maybe everything doesn't have to be love and picket fences all the time. Sometimes UESers just need to let their inner bitches out to play.



( Does this party require clothes? )

Tonight's episode of House, "Living The Dream," ( reminded me of the good ol' Vogler days! )

Tonight's Gossip Girl, "All About My Brother," was SO AWESOME! ( It did my Jenny-hating and van der Bass-loving heart some good! )

Happy birthday, ever_obsessed!

So...Iron Man? ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC. LOVED. IT.

Robert Downey Jr? AWESOME.

Surprisingly, Gwyneth Paltrow? ALSO. AWESOME. Pepper Potts pretty much won at life.

So the poll results were even between making a mix and doing a picspam, but since I kind of have nothing to picspam about currently, the mix won out.

It's sad how difficult it wasn't to find caps of Chuck stalking. And yes, that is a manipulation of the picture of Blair and Serena that's on Blair's dresser in the pilot. Chuck Bass is totally the type of stalker who would badly photoshop his head onto Serena's body in pictures like that.



( Isn't there someone else you can torture? )

OMG, noirrobin is the awesomest awesome to ever awesome! I now have a paid account! Thank you so much, dude! You're entirely wintastic!

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I just watched Remember The Daze. Yay Leighton Meester! Boo for doing a movie that was not very good (still better than all the other crappy movies she's done so I guess that's good?). The plot basically consisted of following around a bunch of kids on the last day of school. Essentially, it's Dazed and Confused only D&C was way better and had the added benefit of watching Ben Affleck get humiliated by a bunch of freshmen. WIN! Besides, Jason London was downright adorable as Pink Floyd! This movie does the same thing where people keep car-hopping and talking about doing drugs without really doing them. D&C was a fun movie that didn't try to be overly deep whereas, if the tinkly background music of contemplation in this movie is any indication, Remember The Daze is trying to be the voice of a generation. Or something. Nevertheless, I felt that a picspam was in order since the cast of Remember The Daze wasn't half-bad. Hello Joan of Arcadia reunion! ( However, I don't remember half of the characters' names so I'm just going to have to make some up. )

In other unrelated news, is there anyone feeling kind and generous who wants to buy me a paid account so I can have more than six icons without being saddled with the fug of ads? THINK OF THE PRETTY! And how many more cracktastic posts I'd make if I could use a different icon every time I posted! Pretty please with a bowtie on top?

I had a random observation about last night's Gossip Girl, which somehow lead to a ( pseudo-picspam. )

CHASE. HOUSE. BOWLING. AWESOME. CTB, I LOVE YOU EVEN MORE THAN EVER FOR BEING THE REASON FOR THIS.

House. Cuddy. That last scene. SO, SO, SO HOT. Those two are totally having sex offscreen.

The rest of "No More Mr. Nice Guy" was pretty lame.