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Couple of links here...one which will be very useful to any NCIS LA fans out there. Episode guide from a French website, which has transcripts of the episodes. Season three is going up at the moment and if you can picture me doing the dance of joy from my couch, then I am! Fic link - In His Mind There Was Still Cello Music, SG1, post Unending and set during season four of Atlantis, though with no spoilers for the season, unless you count the big cast change from that season. Teal'c/Sam, implied Jack/Sam and oh man it broke my heart! School continues; this morning's meeting did not go well but with the best possible outcome for me and the class in general. We shall see what the morning/week brings. Only what, four weeks left? Can't come soon enough! Tags: links, ncis:la, recs: sg1
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Brian Orser has been my favourite skater since I remember, literally since I was about seven years old. Can't even tell you why I love him so much, I just do. One world championship, umpteen silver medals (84,85,86,88), two Olympic silver medals, the second of which had me *hating* Brian Boitano for a full six years. (He lost by one tenth of a point and I was ten. You're allowed do these things when you're ten!) Not the first person to land a triple axel, he was the second, third and fourth (possibly more than that) and the one who made it de rigeur in men's competition. (Irony? He only did one triple axel in the Olympic free program in '88, had he done a second, he may well have edged Boitano for the gold.) He was as much an artist as he was an athlete and remains to be so. Good as he is on the ice, he's a stand -up guy off the ice as well. He's got every reason in the world to hate the Christmas season - one year his brother died of a heart attack, the following year his mother died around the same time, and the third year, he was outed by an ex-lover with a palimony lawsuit. The backlash from some areas of the press hit hard (people called him a liar for not admitting his sexuality; he maintained that he'd never mentioned girlfriends or boyfriends at any point in his career. Like so many other people, he'd just avoided the subject). His main worry was for his nieces and nephews who were at the age where people would tease them in school, that the backlash would be that much worse having their uncle go from a hero to a "liar". Skating fans, however, rallied around him, as did the whole skating family. Lately, he's been involved in coaching, bringing Yu-Na Kim to Olympic gold in 2010. But my favourite moment from Vancouver involving Brian is a little seen moment, right in the corner of the rink as Yu-Na (I think?) skates out to get her medal. Brian sees Manon Perron, who had just coached Joannie Rochette of Canada to a bronze medal in the face of Joannie's horrible personal tragedy (her mum died the night before the short program; trust me, that's another post) . The two of them look at one another, the biggest grins ever on both their faces, and rush to give one another a huge hug. This program of Brian's that I've picked is one of my many favourites, possibly because I saw him skate it live. *sigh* He did it at the 88 Olympics in the Gala, and in 1998 he reprised it because it was his mum's favourite. Both versions are here, one from him skating outdoor, and also one that I've not seen before from 2007 CSOI which marries it with another song, Happy Endings. And yes. I still cry. Tags: 100things
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So I'm thinking of my ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif?v=92.2) het_bigbang (which I managed to map out when administering standardised tests to a classful of kids once I'd finished my other work and was bored, and before the fit hit the shan yesterday afternoon) and am now looking at YouTube for Nate links... Hetty catches Nate reading comic books/graphic novels. We learn later in the series that Kensi has a collection. Coincidence? Apparently, Nate has, in the past, backed into Hetty's Jag. And Kensi likes a man in a suit. WAIT! THERE IS A VID JUST ENTITLED KENSI AND NATE? HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS? It is slow to load and I cannot get sound. I am saving this for later! Nate joins Kensi in the field, from 1x16 "Chinatown". Nate busts her chops like partners do, she threatens him with a muzzle. The topic? Being in a relationship. I have just got a whole new scene. No I don't, it won't fit in with my timeline. Damn. Hang on. I can rewrite the timeline. And get extra scenes and bump the word count. Give me pompoms. Haven't seen this but it's called the secrets of Kensi and purports to tell her story as we know it. Again, saving for later. Tags: links, nate/kensi, writing, youtube
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I have just finished watching three eps of 21 Jump Street; the first because I needed it for my au_bigbang story, the other two because I just let them play as I was typing the scenes around the first ep. Have decided to stop for the night, still mid scene but am in the post ep position of it and need to think about it some more. On the bright side, I am now at almost 7,900 words out of 15,000 so yippee me! Also, I love my show. Still contemplating het_bigbang; signups end on May 17th so I have a week to come up with something. Currently leaning towards NCIS LA Nate/Kensi but have two things blocking me at the moment (a) Coming up with a plot that would stretch to 25,000 plus words. I have an idea that I've been kicking around, I just need to put it down on paper, I guess, see how it might fit together and in particular would it get me to that word count. (b) Readership. It's a very rare pairing and do I want to spend all that time and effort for something that very few people (anyone?) would end up reading. (c) I have had wine and as Himself is away at a con, I'm on my own with Nimoy all weekend. I can renumber my lists! If I don't write Nate/Kensi, what would I write? I have no concrete ideas even if I have many ships. Anyone? Bueller? Tags: writing
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Continuing the theme of Olympic Moments with a capital M... Silvia Fontana's Long Program at the 2006 OlympicsI'll have to be honest here, I have long had a love for Silvia Fontana. I find her sweet and charming, so sweet and charming in fact that I can overlook her wrapped free leg that I would normally find horrendous and a deal breaker. She is married to the ever so lovely John Zimmerman, and I heartily recommend to anyone who hasn't seen his ep of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy that you hunt it down. So much adorable between the two of them, I simply cannot cope. Silvia retired before the 2006 Olympics (I want to say after 2003 worlds but I may be wrong on that.) but since the Olympics that year were held in Torino, Italy, she decided to come back. After the short, it may have been not the right decision; she was in tears in kiss and cry, barely qualified for the free and skated first that night. And it was magic. No, the jumps weren't all there, but what she did, she did. The crowd, knowing her, knowing her story, were behind her a million percent. And at the end? They erupted. Not a dry eye in the house, or here. And, just in case you thought it was just me, the text from an article written at the time that I linked in my LJ... ( For Love of Country )Tags: 100things
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Paul Wylie wins the Olympic silver in Albertville 1992So to put this in its context, I was fourteen years old during the Albertville Olympics and this was way before the internet era. I didn't know too much about Paul Wylie; I certainly didn't know anything about the whole fact of Todd Eldredge (reigning two time US Champion and world bronze medallist in 91) not being able to compete at Nationals due to a wonky back, and Paul Wylie winning the silver at nationals but a lot of people thinking Mark Mitchell, who won bronze, deserved a shot at the Olympics with Todd and Christopher Bowman. (Ah, Christopher. You are a post unto yourself. Probably more than one.) I knew nothing of how one journalist had the audacity to ask Paul at an Olympics press conference, "Paul, what are you doing here?" and of how Paul was selected to go to Olympics but Mark would go to Worlds. I knew nothing about any of that. I just knew about the skating. In any Olympics, there is always a moment. A moment where the placement ceases to matter, where the reaction of the crowd, the reaction of the performer, the performance itself becomes almost a living entity. This is that moment. In these four and a half minutes of skating, Paul Wylie moved from a journeyman into a legend, and forever cemented his place in my heart. There are those who will argue that Paul was robbed of the gold medal, that Viktor Petrenko, who won, should have been no worse than fourth in the long. I'm one of those people - I'm in good company. Brian Orser is quoted in Christine Brennan's Inside Edge as saying that, "The men's gold medallist had the worst performance since 1948. Paul Wylie should've won." Whatever you feel about that, you can't deny the magic of this. Tags: 100things
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Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje, World Championships 2012 Free Dance, Je Suis MaladeSince the last couple of posts have been on an ice dance theme, I'm keeping going with my favourite free dance of the worlds this year. Yes, more than Scott and Tessa, more than Meryl and Charlie. Kaitlyn and Andrew are a Canadian team that have been doing better and better over the last couple of seasons and I can't wait to see where they go from here... their coaching team consists of Shae Lynn Bourne, Pasquale Camerlengo and Angelika Krylova, who can be seen at the end of this video with tears rolling down her cheeks. And she wasn't the only one either - in an age where ice dance is being more and more technical, where people are complaining that it's all about the tricks and ladies pretzeling themselves and the dances are all looking the same and where is the creativity.... in an era where all those things are being levelled at ice dance, this program is a thing of beauty. It's technical, sure, but it's got heart and soul and it's just breath-taking... Kaitlyn looks fabulous in her so-simple red dress and Andrew presents her beautifully. This program brought the French crowd to their feet, and Simon and Chris from Eurosport were convinced, as was I, that they would take home the bronze medal. Until the French team of Nathalie Pechelat and Fabian Bourzat came out to skate; training partners of Weaver and Poje and with Nathalie skating with a broken nose. They were in third after the short dance; Kaitlyn and Andrew were in fourth, and after the French skated, that is the order in which they remained. And how did Kaitlyn react to losing a bronze medal? She ran into kiss and cry before the marks even came up and gave Nathalie Pechelat the biggest hug ever. Classy. Tags: 100things
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Feeling very industrious today. Just sent the final draft off of my fivetimesbb fic to the mods, and have been chipping away the last couple of days at my au_bigbang fic. Turns out the first check in opens tomorrow, suggested word count is 5k. My word count, and I'm not even making this up, is 5,432. So for the first time ever at a big bang check in (you'd think I'd done loads, this is only my fourth and the third is a baby bang so does that even count?) that I'm on target. Which is making me cocky and considering het_bigbang. Hold me. Two fic recs for The Avengers since of course I came out of the film with a ship! Both are Clint Barton (Hawkeye)/Natasha Romanov (Black Widow). Tightly Wound by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.2) sugar_fey R-ish rating, 261 words, Summary: It isn't like the thought hasn't entered her mind.Budapest by Kayim, wherein it's obvious they both remember it differently. Tags: random, recs: the avengers, writing
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Torvill and Dean, Mack and MabelOK, so when people think of T&D, they think of many things, most notably Bolero. But for my money, Mack and Mabel is just as good a routine, and a heck of a lot more upbeat and fun. (And it's got the train in it!) But as Chris Dean says in the intro to this video, it was a breakthrough routine for them - yes, they may have won worlds the season beforehand, but this program was the first time that they'd ever taken one piece of music and used it for the full four minutes; it was a new and unusual departure in the world of ice dancing, though it's de rigeur now. (The season before, their program was four difference pieces of music, only two of which I remember off the top of my head; Red Sails in the Sunset and Hot Lunch Jam from the movie Fame) This is a program that literally changed the face of ice dance as we know it. Plus? Jayne's skirt? Ostrich feathers dyed gold! Tags: 100things
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