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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.

[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)

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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. :(

[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.

::is embarrassed::

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

granddaddy's

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

Re: ::is embarrassed::

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

And that's "eternal", not "enternal". I plead lack of sleep.

[elessar.livejournal.com]

OMG TALLY HALL <333333

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

[divabat.livejournal.com]

EE ANOTHER SAGES PLAYER HELLO. :D

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

WASSUP.

*is Fell. Is also Victoria. heaven help me if they ever meet in my skull.*

[phillyexpat.livejournal.com]

I wanted to check out The Cramps song, but alack, I got an error message . . .

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.

[silent-sybil.livejournal.com]

^___^ My little brother showed them to me, and I think I've annoyed him by requesting them obsessively ever since. ^_^

[elessar.livejournal.com]

LOL! That's awesome :D. I'm so obsessed with them, too ^^;;

[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.

[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.

[pie-is-good.livejournal.com]

<3 icon.

[luna-k.livejournal.com]

Whoops, you beat me to the potterpuffs rec! But seriously, it's JUST THAT GOOD. ;)