Old School Muzaks Wot I Give Unto Thee:

Lena Horne - Someone to Watch Over Me

Ella Fitzgerald - At Last

Bobby Darin - Beyond the Sea

The Platters - Twilight Time

Rosemary Clooney - Mambo Italiano

I have had a bird's nest on my balcony for a few weeks, but usually when I go out there the birds just fly off and I don't see them until I go back in. Yesterday, though, they kept flying in circles and swooping really close to me and squawking, and I was like, wtf, mate? And then I saw that there were baaaaabies in the nest. I went inside and watched through the window as Mom and Dad brought them various foodstuffs, including a big moth, and they did that thing where they stick their heads up and open their mouths wide and oh, so cute. I was very impressed by these little birds (I don't know what kind; the only breeds I know on sight are bluejays and robins, and these are far smaller) trying to intimidate me away from their babies. Especially since I was very nonthreatening, just sitting there reading The Oresteia and all.

WHOA. Billy's girlfriend had a baby yesterday. I read it first on ONTD, and was surprised, but I really haven't checked out LOTR fandom in a while. So I went to go see the squee, and they managed to keep the entire pregnancy a secret. No one knew, at all. And apparently Dominic recently gave an interview where he was talking about looking forward to spending time with a baby, and people were guessing that he and Evangeline were planning something, but actually, he was talking about Billy. And Orlando was just in Scotland, and no one knew why, and aw! They all kept the secret and it's just so cute and adorable and aw, LOTR boys. I'll always love you.

(I was telling Laura on the phone, and she was all, "Well, he's officially off the list," and I was all, "Heh, but seriously, it's great, and I'm not stupid, there's no list," but inside, I was all, "Oh.")

Laura made this. Yes. It fills my heart with joy.

So, the screenwriters are having a meeting tomorrow with one of the graduate program head honchos wherein we get to air all of our grievances, so of course it was scheduled during one of my other classes, so I'll get there late. I want full grievance airing time! I think we all have the same concerns, though (the fifth semester to get an MFA is a joke, the minor requirement is dumb, and the TA situation was not well planned), so I'm sure my grievances will be said by someone at some point.

OMG the TAR roadblock tonight was so, so awesome. An old abandoned prison! Searching through cells! Going through the tunnels underneath! Oh, I wanted to do it so much. It reminded me of the MTV show Fear (which was awesome, and which I wish were torrented or replayed or something), where they'd go to old scary abandoned places and have to do scary things, like sit alone in a locked cell by yourself in the abandoned prison for, like, nine hours or something. Like, provoking the kind of fear that actually scares me the most, where it's all in your head and you yourself just keep making it worse. (Dude, they had one in an old hotel, and they told a ghost story about a woman on her wedding night being blessed by the priest, who had her kneel on a pillow, and like, shot her or bludgeoned her from behind. So you had to kneel on a pillow in the hotel room and you COULDN'T TURN AROUND and it was completely dark and you COULDN'T TURN AROUND, and if I'm remembering correctly, the girl who had to do it got hysterical and couldn't complete the task [Laura? Do you rememeber that one?]. Yeah, Fear. So awesome.)

I had to scroll back up to remember that I was talking about TAR. Good times.

Laura made a mess of MST3K icons, all of which were hilarious, and all of which I think are completely incomprehensible if you haven't seen those episodes. Which is the joy and curse of MST3K; a lot of other shows, you can describe the joke and get a laugh out of it ("The Seaward," "I'm standing right here."), but it's different when you're describing someone else snarking on something. I mean, I'd like to think, "This movie is nothing but ropes and asses!" is universal, but it's hard to say. So anyways, her muse rubbed off on me a bit, and I think only Cat knows this one, but it's good enough. As Torgo is most definitely for lovers.

It's sad when only a few weeks of summer weather makes 80 degrees feel downright cool and breezy. Meaning that today was lovely and I didn't have to hose myself down upon arriving at campus.

Re: Veronica Mars. I too am going to have nightmares about someone hanging from the ceiling by cables, but instead of Tom Cruise, it's going to be Woody Goodman. I don't even want to know, people.

ETA: Oh, oh! Laura found this on YouTube: it's The Office opening credits set to the Battlestar Galactica theme song. Battlestar Office-ica

I subscribe to the End Game philosophy, in that everything and everyone in the entire universe exists for a single purpose, to create one thing. Be it a person, an object, an idea, everything happens for a reason, and it's to get to the end game.

The end game is MST3K. It's the reason for everything. It's 42. World War II happened so we would have this show. Eric the Red traveled to Greenland so that many generations later, Mike Nelson would be born and would host MST3K. That first cell became multicellular knowing that eventually that action would lead to a robot that looks like a gun dispenser making fun of the knees of a guy named Torgo.

Yeah, essentially, two mad scientists want to rule the world, and the way to do that is to find the worst movie ever and unleash it onto the populace, so they kidnap a helpless dude (first Joel, then Mike) and put him in a satellite (the Satellite of Love), and make him watch bad movies, until they find the one that breaks him. Joel makes two robot buddies, Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo, and they watch the bad movies with him, and they make fun of the badness, and it is hilarious and awesome. Seriously, I have never laughed harder at anything than I have at MST3K. I miss it ever so.