Random

--> My boss "ordered" me to read Kim Harrison's books for evaluation. Oh, the hardship *strikes a dramatic fainting pose*

--> I need to start editing "Dragons of a Vanished Moon" today. Puh on that. I hate editing! X(

--> Since my Alphonse Mucha jigsaw puzzle is done and finished, I started to crochet once again while watching TV/listening to podfics.

--> Now that I finished watching T:TSCC, I need to finish Torchwood and re-watched the whole series of Stargate: Atlantis (before saidrifter chains me to my chair to make me do it XD).

--> Last night, I listened to the podversion of the SG:A fic "Catch 19" by mmmchelle (the fic itself is f-locked :( though the podversion isn't!) and I love it. John marrying Rodney to become a citizen of Canada, John calling Rodney "dear", "sweetheart" and "darling" to raise his hackles... XD

--> Also last night, I re-watched bits and pieces of SPN's Mystery Spot and I noticed one thing: You remember the first scene in the bathroom, Sam making a face at the toothpaste, then watching Dean gargle? Take a good look at Jared when gargling Jensen turns to look at him and smiles - Jared is grinning! I know that he's turned away, but look at his cheeks, how they totally dimple! XD

--> I'm still reading Camille Bacon-Smith's "Daemon Eyes". The book is very good - but it has almost 600 pages 8)

--> I find this icon *points* incredibly hot!

Of interviews and ratings and bad trackers!

There is a new interview with Eric Kripke over on TV Guide's web site. There's nothing really spoilery there - at least in my opinion - if you don't consider things like "lower budget for S4" spoilery, that is :)

There are some awesome things in the interview though... Quoting:

So in Season 4, (...) we'll be presenting it in our scruffy, angsty, Supernatural way, and we'll return to concentrating on the relationships and the characters. Does that basically mean the return to S1? No flashy gore, more low budget scare? *crosses fingers*

But if the fans overwhelmingly reject something, over and over and over, on every website, we tend to pay attention to that. Again, I want to stress, it never alters the core story and central mythology;... Awesome. I just hope that they did apply it to one chick by the name Bela Talbot and they will kick her butt out of the show *nods*

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Ratings for Monday...
Gossip Girl: last week (repeat) 1.29 mil.; this week (new) 2.44 mil.
One Tree Hill: last week (new) 2.72 mil.; this week (new) 2.82 mil.
Bones: last week (new) 8.54 mil.; this week (new) 8.64 mil.
House: last week (nothing); this week (repeat) 8.04 mil.

Ouch for GoGi. I mean, all that money thrown into soft porn ads, fans miffed for them taking their show from down from streaming on their site... and for nothing. These ratings are horrible. And even after such a huge campaign, they're almost the same like the last airing's on Jan 9th - 2.34 mil. viewers...

ETA: This is ridiculous...

According to Marc Berman from The Programming Insider, the CW's spin on GoGi's ratings is: The return of Gossip Girl, paired with original episodes of One Tree Hill to create our new night of drama, gave us our best Monday EVER in adults 18-34 (2.0/6) and women 18-34 (3.0/8)... From 8-10, The CW was second in women 18-34 (3.0/8) and first in female teens (3.0/9).

Do they even realize how ludicrous they sound? "Yeah, nobody actually watched us but we had the most teenage viewers!" O.o I'm not slanting the show itself, just the spin on the ratings they give it. Come on, this is the least watched full hour show on the CW and they still present it like a hit!

ETA2: And if you want to read a hymn on GoGi take a look at this: The Genius of Gossip Girl. I wonder how much the CW paid for that article...

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Lately, I've been having tough time downloading stuff. Some of the downloads from eztv don't work for me at all. And I can't download anything from a.scarywater, the main torrent site for anime. It tells me "10060; Operation timed out". I went looking for what that means and the web sites told me that basically, the tracker is busy and it kicked me out. Great. So, I have no way to download anime at all now because only Shinsen, aarinfantasy and some smaller subbers don't use this site *sigh*