This post has spoilers about season 3 of Torchwood, but I don't think anyone on my f-list actually watches that show, so it shouldn't matter...If you do watch it, and haven't seen season 3 yet, and you can't work out what my avatar means, maybe you should read this to prepare yourself for some heartache...


I finally changed my default avatar.


It only took the death of like, my favorite character on one of my favorite TV shows (Torchwood) to get me to do it.


I don't know how long I'll have it...I guess until I get over the shock / anger / sadness / frustration / whatever of the event that caused me to make it.


Just last season, season 2, two of the main characters were killed off in a very tragic and depressing way.


And by the end of season 3, another main character has fallen in a very tragic and depressing way.


What happened, Season 3?? You started off so epically awesome, and dark, and thrilling, and tense, and amazing. I was left hanging on the edge of my seat the first 3 nights, but by the end of the 4th episode I was crestfallen. I couldn't believe what had happened...I watched episode 5 constantly hoping and thinking maybe, maybe, there would be some way to bring Ianto back to life. I kept hoping and waiting for it...I had never wanted a trade-mark "Russell T Davies magic reset ending" (à la Doctor Who's Last of the Time Lords finale) more in my life!! But towards the end of episode 5 I realized it wasn't going to happen. The aliens were gone, and they would have been the main reason for a "magic reset" ending. The Hub was destroyed, and the "Risen Mitten" along with it, so no chance of an Owen-style resurrection.

My heart sank.

It was just...too soon. I mean, there are still people who haven't gotten over the death of Toshiko and Owen, then the writers go and kill off Ianto too??? Maybe...Maybe if it had happened at the end of season 4 it might have been...I don't know...Easier to handle? Maybe if we'd had one more full season (sorry, but I don't count 5 episodes for season 3 as a "full" season when we're used to getting 13 episodes) without any main character deaths, then maybe, maybe. But...


If they do a 4th season I don't know how interested I'm gonna be in watching it. I've read that Russell T Davies (creator/head writer of Torchwood) had said that if season 3 did well, they had a season 4 ready to go...And season 3 apparently did very well in the ratings in the UK. But, the way season 3 ended, I don't know how they would start up season 4. The ending for season 3 just felt so..."final", like it was a permanent end to Torchwood...Or at least the Torchwood that fans have come to know and love. The only surviving members of the Torchwood team are Gwen and Jack, but Gwen's pregnant and Jack's off roaming the universe trying to make himself forget about all the deaths he blames himself for (Toshiko, Owen, Ianto, his grandson, etc.). Before Jack left he even said he had no reason left to stay on Earth, nothing to come back to. It all just felt so "this is the end forever" that doing a 4th season would make it seem like...Like the way they ended season 3 was a total waste. Why bother to create plot lines that lead to "wrapping things up" for an exit of the show if you're going to just continue it?? If season 3 was the absolute end of Torchwood, and they were never going to make another season of it, then...Well, they would have certainly gone out with a bang. But basically planing on making a 4th season before season 3 even aired somehow makes the ending events of season 3 seem like...I don't know...like it was just done for sensationalism or shock value.


.........Where's a new Doctor Who special when you need it?! I could use some lighthearted heroics where the hero saves the day without his close friends/relatives dying :(

MAJOR SPOILERS (AND MY RANTING) ABOUT TORCHWOOD: CHILDREN OF EARTH EPISODE 4 ARE BEHIND THIS CUT...

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Last week I ordered a copy of the "limited edition" version of Placebo's latest album, Battle For The Sun, because it comes with a DVD of a "making of the album" documentary and was only like $5 more than the normal CD. It's weird, on Amazon.com the version with the DVD was around $24 not including shipping charges, but directly from the record label website it was around $24 including shipping charges. So I went with the cheaper option and got it straight from the label :)

The CD/DVD arrived today and I just finished watching the documentary about 10 or so minutes ago.

OK. SO. This probably isn't going to matter to anyone, but I have to say it cuz it bugs me every time I hear this guy talk! Placebo's new drummer, Steve Forrest, is supposedly from California, but he has the strangest Californian accent I've ever heard in my life!! The first time I heard him talk, not knowing where he was from, I thought he was from some random European country and just had really good English XD. After I found out he was from California, my first thought was "Oh...Does he have some sort of speech impediment that makes him sound like that??" ;;>_> He almost sounds like he has a subtle or diluted British accent, like maybe he lived there as a child then moved to the US and lost most of his accent but hung on to a bit of it...Or maybe like he was deaf for years then got cochlear implants and had to learn how to talk later in life, maybe??? He just...has this strange, hard to place, accent that doesn't quite sound natural. But it's apparently just Californian lol.

I heard this on the news this morning and was SHOCKED. I think almost more so than Michael Jackson dying...

Billy Mays, the guy most known for yelling infomercials at you through your TV, was found dead today in his home in Tampa, Florida. He was only 50 (51, next month)!

Farewell Oxiclean man! Goodbye Kaboom guy! So long Mighty Putty chum! Your legacy will live on in a generation of people who grew up with you shouting at them on infomercials!!

Strangely, just the day before, he was on an air plane that, upon landing, blew its tires which lead to the landing gear failing. All the passengers were ok, but they had a very rough landing... I wonder if perhaps the bumpy landing had anything to do with his death?

Recently, I was looking through all my music trying to find something different to listen to cuz I've kinda been listening to the same stuff over and over lately XD. I finally decided on Shiina Ringo, who I haven't listened to in probably like 2 or 3 years! lol

It's a shame I never got more into her music, it's really good! I kinda want to now XD. There are not many female singers I would consider myself a "fan" of because I usually prefer male vocals, but she seems so...unique/quirky/eccentric I'd be willing to try to make myself become a fan hahaha

After I listened to the songs I have by her (only 7, mostly singles) I hopped over to YouTube to watch the music videos. After watching the video for ギブス (Gibusu) I felt it seemed a bit similar to another video and after thinking for a bit it suddenly hit me which video—Nirvana's Heart Shaped Box!

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I think the overall message behind the two videos is fairly different, but there are a lot of visual similarities, and I'm thinking it must have been on purpose! After all, ギブス (Gibusu) has the lyric:

You're one to all of a sudden want to show me your sulky side
I'm always glad about that, I mean, it's so Kurt
Doesn't that make me Courtney?
(source)

"Kurt" being Kurt Cobain and "Courtney" being Courtney Love.




LOL, when I was uploading the pics for this post, I saw this and forgot I had uploaded it...



...I kinda want to make an avatar out of it now XDDDD (<3 Gogo Star's seemingly crazy singer).
I wish I had more avatar space...I mean, granted, I usually end up just using my default one anyway (it's been my default for like 3 or 4 years? A looooong time), but I don't know...It'd be nice to have a ton of them just in case the occasion ever arose when I needed a special or specific one. But the only way I can get more avatar space is to either switch to a "sponsored" account (= BANNER ADS = DO NO WANT), or get a paid account (= GIVING MY MONEY TO LJ = DO NOT WANT)... So I guess I'm stuck with my 6 avatar maximum :|