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[apocalypsos]

Pimp something.

Hell, pimp anything. Anything that you think needs more love or gets love but could always use a wee bit more.

TV shows, movies, books, comics, websites, LJ user, LJ communities, fanfic, writers, songs ... anything you want. (Just make sure you pimp it in such a way so people can get their grubby little paws on it. Tell where it can be seen, link to it, etc.)

Go on, you know you want to. ;)

As for what I'm pimping ...

1. The 4400 -- No, seriously. Why are so few people I know watching this? For crying out loud, this show makes me happy. It's got superpowered people and neat little romances and it's ten dozen kinds of awesome. It's on USA Network on Sunday nights at 9 and midnight, and the first season is also on DVD (for only sixteen bucks, depending on where you pick it up).

2. One Big Happy Pantheon -- It's a Dogma/Good Omens crossover. Did you hear that, people? Dogma and Good Omens, and it's a perfect blend of both of them.

3. Orville Redenbacher's Cinnabon popcorn -- Oh, don't make that face. I know it sounds ... well, questionable, but as long as you like both popcorn and Cinnabons, you will love this. Seriously.

4. Encyclopedia Titanica -- I've been all over this website lately for DMIDS, and damn. Honestly, the detail they've got on the sinking is so great.

5. Arrested Development -- This is the best comedy on TV, and I'm not just saying that because it's funny but because it's got one of the best senses of continuity on television right now. Stuff just comes out of left field in the storyline, and if you've been following it, it's hilarious. (Although you definitely don't have to be a rabid fan to get the jokes. They're good like that. :)) Those of you not watching ... *chases after you with clue-by-four* The premiere is Wednesday, September 14th, and the first season's already on DVD. WATCH, damn you! *goes back to chasing*

6. "Paperback Writer" by the Beatles -- See, what you do is you put it on your iTunes or Winamp or whatever, and then whenever it comes up, that's your computer telling you to WRITE, DAMN IT. (Well, that's what it means when my computer does it, anyway.)

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[kc-rumors.livejournal.com]

Fables, definitely Vertigo's Fables comic series by Bill Willingham. I've already gotten all my RL friends hooked on the series. Lack of money for postage is all that's preventing me from trying to hook my online friends.

Fables is if all the characters in the fairy tales are real, and living in our world. All those Prince Charmings? All one guy - he had commitment issues. All the Jacks are one guy too - no one really trusts him since he's always coming up with one scheme or another. And all the big, bad wolves are really Bigby Wolf - whose mother was a (I assume) ginormous wolf, and whose father is the North Wind (hence the ability to huff and puff and blow damn near anything down).

Definitely a must read for ANYONE who's loved fables or fairy tales (excluding those stories Willingham probably couldn't get the rights to, like Oz and Narnia).

[irradiatedsoup.livejournal.com]

For anyone who hasnt already (I know you exist because I've seen you on the telly);

Firefly. Space Pirate Cowboys. It's ace-fun, and very slashy.

SEE IT BEFORE SERENITY (the movie) COMES OUT, FOR SERIOUS.

[irradiatedsoup.livejournal.com]

And when you're done with that.

21 Jump Street Camp eighties undercover cops with too tight pants and punklings in love. Also Johnny Depp and Peter Deluise, very wee. Guaranteed HILARITY.

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

I pimp: Ljcomms scans_daily and sages_of_chaos.

mostly scans_daily, but Sages makes an amazing distraction. Also: Where else can you have the Death Star pine for Namor, who pines for Sure Storm, but not the one that we have? Or posts like This? (http://www.livejournal.com/community/sages_of_chaos/1744620.html)

[divabat.livejournal.com]

EE ANOTHER SAGES PLAYER HELLO. :D

[phillyexpat.livejournal.com]

"The Way We Get By" - Spoon: It's a kick ass song that sticks in your craw.

Mysterious Skin-one of the more gripping movies I've seen this year, if ever. It deals with strong subject matter (pedophillia, teenage hustlers), but the performances are so powerful. You won't regret seeing it.

An Almost Perfect Moment by Binnie Kirshbaum-Brooklyn. The 70s. A rich host of characters, and outcomes you don't expect. Seek it out.

[faith21.livejournal.com]

That's a great song.

[silent-sybil.livejournal.com]

Tally Hall. Especially "Banana Man"-- it's under "Video." (Audio as well, but you really kind of need the visual.) That song owns my soul.

[elessar.livejournal.com]

OMG TALLY HALL <333333

I love "Break It Down." My cousins showed me it XD

[octopedingenue]

TV show: Does anime count? If so, I'll pimp one of my favorites, "Princess Tutu". It deserves all the pimping it can get because no one watches it due to its ridiculous name. I mean, it doesn't even have the dignity of sly irony like "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" or anything. Sigh. Worst name for a good show EVER. It's a magical girl series with long stylized transformation sequences, but it's so atypical it turns the magical girl cliches on their head while fully embracing them. On the one hand, it incorporates themes and music from classical ballet and fairytale literature. On the other hand, the series heroine is a duck who turns into a girl who turns into a ballerina princess superhero who dance-battles ghosts and ravens and giant ballerina anteaters. And on one occasion a lamp.

A writer of fairytales died before completing his last book: his characters try to end the story by breaking out of it, but instead send the fairytale spiralling out of control. Stories unfold within stories and push them out of shape, characters question and reject their written roles, and the story narrators/writers are palpable and sometimes malicious presences--after all, how would characters feel about the writer's standard of making their story more interesting by making horrible things happen to them? (Usually NOT HAPPY.)

And it fanfics itself! Fanfic used as a verb here because that's what happens between the two halves of the series. The first half is an exceptional magical girl series with a contained storyarc. The second half takes that storyarc and turns it inside out in the way great fanfiction does; some of the storytelling tropes of fanfiction--to fill in unexplored backstory and characterization, to pair unconventional couples romantically, to fuck with everyone's heads--that you don't expect to see in a main storyarc are exactly what happen in the second season main.

Curious? Check out episodes one and two. (I just happened to have these uploaded for someone, which inspired this pimping. Serendipity!) If the ballerina anteater doesn't get you, nothing will.

[pie-is-good.livejournal.com]

I love The 4400! I missed most of the first season, though. I thought the idea sounded kind of stupid, but then I watched one and was hooked. ^_^

[ashlle1.livejournal.com]

A second for Firefly, because damnit, more people need to love that show.

PhD Comics (http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1), to be read all the way through. Hilarity about grad school, to be appreciated by anyone who was ever in academia at all.

scrubs_quotes: a quote from Scrubs, every day. Guaranteed to perk your day up.

Audioscrobbler (http://www.audioscrobbler.com). You download a plugin (all the most common media players are represented) and your music listening stats are automatically uploaded to the website when you connect to the internet. After a while, this builds up terribly interesting stats. Here's mine. (http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/ashlle/) (Ignore the fucked-up weekly artist/track stats) I feel that everyone should get an Audioscrobbler just so that I can see what everyone else is listening to, because I'm nosy.

[faith21.livejournal.com]

Ooooh! I have Audioscrobbler also.

*goes to check out the Scrubs community*

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

The Bradley Method (http://www.bradleybirth.com/): Usually referred to as "Husband-coached Childbirth", we used this method for all of our three kids. It's fabulous, and helped us have drug-free births each and every time.

Latest Book I've Read: Gil's All-Fright Diner by A. Lee Martinez (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0765314711/qid=1122262102/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-5780751-1211844?v=glance&s=books&n=507846): So. Damn. Funny. Sort of Lovecraftian tale that's a jumble of supernatural beings. Completely worth the $10 they're charging. Trust me.

The Most Exalted Potentate of Love, the Cramps (http://s64.yousendit.com/d.php?id=1WR7M4HO7140C4IQII06E3TES): The granddaddy's of psychobilly, with a dollop of Dick Dale thrown in for good measure. Definitely not child-safe lyrics. Buckle up and hang on for the ride of your life.

Television: Firefly (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000AQS0F/qid=1122262483/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-5780751-1211844?v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846): Yeah, I know, you caught it once, it made no sense, why should you shell out the dough. Trust me. Watch it in order and you'll fall in love just like everybody else. Plus, the movie is coming out in September, and it kicks ass.

Also Television: Carnivale (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002YLC1U/qid=1122263227/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-5780751-1211844?v=glance&s=dvd). Set in the 30's, in a revival house and a carnival. The enternal fight between good and evil, plus riveting performances, brilliant storytelling, and powerful visuals.

::is embarrassed::

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

granddaddy's

::cough:: Please remove the apostrophe; I changed the sentence but didn't change the punctuation.

[ciara-belle.livejournal.com]

If there's anyone who hasn't seen iharthdarth, I think it is absolutely the cutest thing ever.

House, M.D. is my current favorite TV show, although The West Wing, Season 1 is a close second.

Also, I would like to pimp my favorite non-LJ blog: Crooks and Liars

And Lapsus Stili, because no one reads us. :(

[clauw.livejournal.com]

I agree on House, M.D. I think you'd really love it, it's the best snark on tv *nods*

[dragonsinger.livejournal.com]

Should I do it here or in my journal? Maybe both. Do you promise to look?

Anyway, I already pimped this in my journal yesterday so I'm doing it here.

Willing Victims by cleo_kitty -- Set after Batman Begins, Dr. Jonathan Crane is still at large and growing more and more insane. In this story, he meets the distraught lead singer of a goth band named Darcy and helps her descend slowly into madness. Witness the making of a villian.

Music!

[octopedingenue]

"The Origin of Love" cover by Rufus Wainwright: Romantic, sexy, and defiant.

"The Engine Driver" by the Decemberists and "Telling Stories" by Tracy Chapman: Pair these with "Paperback Writer" and WRITE SOMETHING.

[elessar.livejournal.com]

For the Harry Potter obsessed, potterpuffs.

The Trials (http://www.greatestjournal.com/communities/the_trials): An RPG taking the ideas of X-Men and Witch Hunter Robin and twisting them around slightly.

[pie-is-good.livejournal.com]

<3 icon.

[luna-k.livejournal.com]

++ wizzart, hp_sticks, and potterpuffs, my new favorite Harry Potter comics.

++ Encyclopædia Dramatica (http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Main_Page), a hilarious black humor take on Wikipedia. NSFW.

++ My political journal, liberalrage. Because I'm a whore.

[ainbthen.livejournal.com]

campfuckudie - If you're into anime at all, or even if you're not, the camp is hilarious. All kind of fictional characters in a summer camp with zombies, mandatory nude day, and a tentacle monster in the lake. Very funny stuff!

[liamere.livejournal.com]

Pate. That goo made from geese/pig/other livestock innards. It sounds terrible, and doesn't exactly look fantastic, but it tastes sublime. Available from your local supermarket.

Cocked up the HTML but good didn't I, LJ?

[adjectivegirl.livejournal.com]

Err, sorry. Let's try that again. (want edit functions on comments, dammit)

-I, Robot. Awesome, underrated movie. People have to bask in the glory of a virtual Alan Tudyk once in their lives, right? Also Will Smith, Bridgette Moynahan and James Cromwell= Teh Pretty. (yes i have a community for it, it's called oh_robot, we need members, heh so sue me.)

-Sarah Dunant. A British writer who unapologectically delves into the sensual meatiness of both art and family. The Anti-Dan Brown. My two recs of hers are: Mapping the Edge and the much longer The Birth of Venus. She needs mainstreamity, stat!

-Rescue Me. Just a brutal, sexalicious, thought provoking, tear your throat out series. What else could you expect from Denis Leary? He looks like Sean Bean's like, cousin in this, btw.

-Takeshi Kaneshiro. I dunno what to say here, but he's hot ain't he? Like the Asian Orlando Bloom.

-And everyone needs a little Fug Blog in their lives.

[trishalynn.livejournal.com]

ljdq: I know all of you here reading these comments love funny things (otherwise, you wouldn't have trollprincess on your f-list), so it's to your benefit to have the LJDQ on your f-list every week. I frequent LOL while reading the weekly answers to the Quiz. There's a new list going up every Monday. Go for it!

I write and publish porn, and it's damn good porn. Check out Saucy Goose Press for more information.

And finally, Sequential Tart, for all your intelligent, literate, insightful comics commentary needs.

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

And finally, Sequential Tart, for all your intelligent, literate, insightful comics commentary needs.

Ooooo. Thankss for the link - this is great!

[freedomfry.livejournal.com]

Everyone, everyone, everyone should read Lamb, by Christopher Moore. The story of Jesus's life through the eyes of his snarky friend Biff. It's hysterical.

For the Lotrippers who might be looking for something new to read, might I suggest peter_and_fran, an incredibly well-written cracked-out universe where the guys are really a folk band named Peter and Fran. Viggo's weird, Billy and Dom are hyperactive, Orlando plays the tambourine. What's not to love?

Anna Nalick's Anna Nalick's Just Breathe (2 am) has been on repeat on my iTunes for the last week. So pretty.

Canadian Idol. Because I can't be the only one here wandering just what kind of drugs Josh from Saskatoon is on.

[tinylegacies.livejournal.com]

I downloaded Anna Nalick's CD last night because someone sent me Breathe (2 am) a long time ago and more recently someone sent me In the Rough and I loved them both.

[hemlock-martini.livejournal.com]

metatokyo2061. It's the archive for the anime-fandom-based RPG/story (not "RPG slash story," there's no "slash"...well, not much, if you count original characters) I and some friends have been working on for a while. You can go to the Calendar view and read from first post to last; it needs to be updated but there's a good chunk of text to read, if you're interested.

The previous story, Metatokyo 2058, should be archived, but we need to get around to that soon as well...

[gypsyjr.livejournal.com]

*pimps unfinished RP thread*

And now I have performance anxiety. Damn.

[liliaeth]

Doctor Who, yeah, you already watch it*g*,but I thought I'd rec it for those who haven't*g*

Best series on tv that I've seen in years.

[teleute12.livejournal.com]

I don't think that campfuckudie needs anymore pimping, but I will pimp it anyway for LO IT IS AWESOME. (And we need a River from Firefly like a really needy thing, and by "we" I mean "the mighty trio of me, myself, and I.")

So! Getting to the point of the pimp: campfuckudie is a crack-RP based around the assumption that your favorite child or teenaged character has been sent to the summer camp from HELL. If that isn't enough of a hook for you, here's another: members of the audience are invited. As an audience member, you can heckle a character, torment them, give bad advice, give *good* advice, and pretty much anything else short of actually changing in-camp events.

The population of campfuckudie is made up mostly of characters from anime and manga series, so people who aren't familiar with anything in that genre might have trouble getting into it at first. But that doesn't mean that no one you know is there - we have an Anakin Skywalker from the Star Wars prequels, Colin Creevey and Fred Weasley from Harry Potter, and Buffy Summers from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And hey, you never know - maybe one of the characters will inspire you to pick up a new fandom!

[adaorardor.livejournal.com]

http://www.frostmage.net/Scientology.mp3

A talk about that most wondrous of subjects, brought to you by a young man who wishes only to be known as Sean A./Stormclaw (I'd put his last name down, but 1) He's afraid of a random Scientologist eating him and 2) He'd kill me, you know he would).

So. Right-click, save, enjoy.

XEEEEEEEEENUUUUUUUUUUUUU.

[adaorardor.livejournal.com]

Also?

monsterhunters.

BEST THING EVAR. Unfortunately, we're a very tight-knit group (we've all worked together before, and most of us are close friends) and haven't accepted any applications for a while. But if you watch it (as a few people do), you get awesome things like Fwirl's FABULOUS comic, A Visit to Cadogan Street (featuring my character, Miss Linny), some awesome art, and occasionally some wicked writing.

[smallship1.livejournal.com]

Uru. Specifically, the online game, Untìl Uru.

1. It's cheap. As it is at the moment, you pay one ridiculously small joining fee and you're in for ever.

2. It's gorgeous. The graphics are superb and the sheer creative imagination that has gone into it is unparalleled.

3. It's fun. See, you don't have to spend your time slogging away at repetitive worklike stuff to make "money" or gain "status." There are puzzles to be solved if you want to. That's it. Which also means it's safe from online exploiters trying to make real money out of it.

4. As a corollary of the above, you aren't constantly surrounded by people who have been playing it for two days or two weeks or two years longer than you and are all somehow OMGSo!Rich! and OMGSo!Powerful! and OMGSo!Smug!About!It! that even when they're your friends you want to smack them.

5. No-one dies. No-one kills. There is one way you can die in this game, if you mess up the lead-in in a very specific way. Once you're in, you are safe, forever.

6. It's at least partly fan-run. This has got to be a good in itself.

7. If enough people join and are interested, there may just be a way that it could expand and become what it was supposed to be before the money men pulled the plug. But only if enough people join and are interested. And yes, this might mean having to pay more money, but for a game like this it's worth it.

For more information, try this site. To buy the game, check out Ebay. It's going for about five pounds or the equivalent in dollars. I have two copies free to interested homes, and I plan to get more. (Just call me Johnny Uruseed.) For Untìl Uru, the official site (which, as someone pointed out, doesn't actually explain too much about what it is) is here.

If you're interested in online games and have been bugged by some of the things I've mentioned, give Uru a try.

[casirafics.livejournal.com]

Note, however, that it is not supported on Macs. (about which I have been disappointed for a very long time.)