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

[aruan]

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*

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_dragon_/]

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.

[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

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.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_dragon_/]

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?

[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

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.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_dragon_/]

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.