aruan | "These guys are like peas in a big pop pod." -SmashHits

I'll have a more elaborate list later, but right just now, having spent quite a bit of my day in front of our 300+ channel cable service (five channels of MTV! Where they actually play videos!) I'm thankful that any sales I want to check out this weekend could wait until a decent hour tomorrow. (The new service also means Chamber of Secrets is on pretty much 24/7 this week - I've seen the duel about three times now, and it doesn't get any less wrongly sexy at all.)

Watching the Memphis club show was fantastic. The accounts that trickled in throughout the tour were great, but to actually hear the Inspector Gadget theme played over his entrance (the big dork!) and hearing him sample You're So Vain during Cry Me A River and play kickin' guitar over Like I Love You were such a treat.

The new Lord of the Rings cast pictorial in Empire magazine is breathtaking. Everyone, fan or not, should go out and buy a copy.

I've been thinking about adjectives and adverbs,

synchronik's comments on the Booty Cam = sexiness as lazy because directors can't find a more creative way to convey it, and cursing in films which I've read mentioned as laziness in finding a proper expression as well. Not that I'm about to start talking like Hemingway's lost convent-bound second cousin, but valid points all around.

I'm also thankful for gossip columns and tabloids. Not the sleazy ones where they crawl into trees in the celebs' yards or whatever, but the party rumors and alleged insider info stuff. Although this does make two sources claiming a JC/Carlos liason and Lance being a big queen in private. *shrug* Personally, I'm having trouble reconciling either for various reasons I'll revisit after next weekend.

Mmm, Thanksgiving leftovers. And downloading capabilities! Good to be home doesn't even begin to cover it.

Quotes of the Day:

"I agreed to go see Timeline? Man, I must've been wasted."
-me to my brother, talking about being post-five glasses of wine last night

Exerpts form the SmashHits interview:

Q: Who's got the worst dress sense?
JC: What do you mean "worst"? We always look really cool!

Q: You have to snog (French kiss) another member of *NSYNC in a life-or-death situation - whom do you choose? (Have I mentioned the Canadian press can do all their interviews?)
Justin: Absolutely no way out? I wouldn't want to hurt any of their feelings so it'd be all of them.
Joey: I'd choose Justin because everyone wants to snog Justin - and I do prefer blondes!
JC: I'll take the death option. No way am I kissing Joey!
Chris: I'd be happy to snog any of them. They're a great lookin' bunch!
Lance: Maybe JC or Justin but I'd rather not kiss any of them!

How much do I love every single one of their answers? *g*

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Out of those answers my favourite is Lance's. Of course, we have no idea if he's says it jokingly or not, but the way it's written it sounds all serious. Like the first thing that pops into his head is he'd kiss JC & Justin and then he realises what he said and has to cover. It's very revealing. And it also amuses me greatly that JC feels it's necessary to point out that he doesn't want to kiss Joey. It's very suspicious. :)

I love Justin's egotistical-masquerading-as-egalitarian diplomacy - keep everyone happy, but really, if it came down to the end, they all secretly want to kiss him anyway so he'd actually be helping them die happy. But then, Justin's known to be an affectionate limpet, so maybe he was just being sincere. Both interpretations would jive with what I "know" of him. Justin has a way of giving clever, two-sided answers.

Joey's is the safe answer, and I'm a little disappointed with him for it. Just me though.

Yes, JC singling out Joey is rather suspicious indeed. Especially since this interview happened during the Celebrity tour, at which point they practically were snogging onstage every night.

Chris' answer is honest to the point of being funny, if that's how you're inclined to read it. Otherwise it's just honest, and I could so see him doing it, too.

Lance's pointing out JC and Justin specifically again begs the "doth protest too much" observation. It's okay to say you do, Lance - you're all good-looking, affectionate boys, especially those two if you read the teenie magazines which we know you do. ;) Maybe they were going through another management-enforced reassertment of their heterosexuality. Which is itself amusing, since if you have to say it, you're probably not.

Not that you asked any of that. And those, of course, are not the end-all interpretations, but if they get to have fun with their answers, so do we. *g* Cheeky monkeys all around.

Wooo! I love your interpretations! It makes them even more fun then they were to begin with. People should really ask more questions like these so we can dissect their answers into little tiny but infinitely slashy pieces.

Weh? Watching a club show? There's video somewhere? *blinks*

Just Justin's concert special.

Ah, okay, the one that I'm not allowing myself to watch until I finish all this stupid reading, right. :-)

How's you?

I'm good! Thanksgiving weekend at the parents' was very pleasant. They're a busy, happy bunch, which was so nice to come home to. Nothing like strife in the home to mess with your groove, y'know? So it was good to see everyone doing well. I had a very unproductive, relaxing few days, though they weren't nearly long enough. Got to watch Chamber of Secrets and oogobs of MTV to my heart's content, ate well, yada yada yada, couldn't have asked for more. Well, a little homework-doing gnome would've been nice.

Drive done, home now, word ahead of me.

So I read! :-) Yeah, still have much more reading to do that I'm ever gonna get done in time for tomorrow's test, so we'll see how that goes. Meep.

You! Flight info! Since it would be nice to know when to come get you ;-) Email me or something, since it's not likely I'll be on IM much with this paper business to get done.

Actually, I'm rather peeved off at Justin because he sang "Gone" during that Memphis thing. Without the rest of *N Sync. Granted, it was probably approved by the other guys, but I saw that and everything inside me was screaming "Traitor!"

It may be totally unfounded, but I couldn't stop myself. I found myself thinking the first thought ever of doom for *N Sync ever getting back together. Which is a terrible, TERRIBLE thing.

You didn't get to go to any of his shows? He sang Gone and Girlfriend during the tour. And see, that was my knee-jerk reaction, too - actually, it made me cry when he did it in concert. I've since made a kind of tentative peace with the notion, and did enjoy hearing them live. If you think about it, it was more of a tribute to the abscence of the guys - almost everyone at his show knew these songs as *NSYNC songs, and it was kind of like having the rest of the guys in the room with us when he sang them.

What, for the Strippified tour? No. They were sold out before I got a chance to get any tickets, and even if I could ave gotten tickets, I might not have had anyone to go with.

I dunno. It might have been a tribute, but I just still think it's sort of blasphemous to do that, you know?

I see what you mean about it being blasphemous, in its own way. I tend to think of it as remembering where he came from, keeping that he's still part of a group in people's minds even as he does his own thing. Not that he can do it without them, but doing it as a nod to them, that even though he's on his own, they're still there with him, still a significant part of why he's here now and deserving of recognition. Paying homage to his roots and all that.

But like I said, I do understand what you mean, I just don't choose to look at it that way.

You are a better person than I, Jules ^_^. Maybe I'll move on into acceptance and such later, but it's so fresh in me right now that I'm still just sort of in the shock phase.

"These guys are like peas in a big pop pod." -SmashHits

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