So I bought the first season of Homeland on iTunes because I wanted to catch up and then it took FOREVER to download - like, I am talking near dialup speeds here - and I am watching it VERY SLOWLY, because it makes me INCREDIBLY TENSE. Like, I have to stop at about the 35 minute mark and get up and walk around and, like, wash the dishes or something, and there is still like, TWENTY MINUTES left in the episode. I'm still really conflicted about Damian Lewis possibly being a bad guy. MY BRAIN CAN'T HANDLE IT.

I wanted to catch up because I don't want to be inadvertently spoiled by, you know, commercials or EW.com or my bosses, but maybe I SHOULD spoil myself; maybe that would relieve the ridiculous amount of tension and anxiety that I have when I watch the show. I mean, I have enough anxiety about real life stuff, right? I don't need it from my TV shows, too. Anyway, I've seen the first five episodes of season 1, and it's really good, even if it is doing a number on my head.

I actually slept for a whole six hours last night, which is twice what I slept the night before. I don't know what's going on - if it's the change in the weather or my usual year-end malaise starting earlier and earlier every year, or what, but bleh. Do not want.

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so I posted a story (of sorts) yesterday:

14 Tracks (at AO3)
Avengers (2012); Steve/Peggy, Steve/music, ensemble; g; 3,760 words
14 tracks from Steve's iPod and how they got on there.

It's funny because some of these were really clear in my head - Peggy, Coulson, Clint, Thor, Fury, Tony, Selvig - I knew what all of those were going to be as soon as I had the idea. Well, the song for Tony changed - originally Bruce was going to have Springsteen and Tony was going to have the Beatles (Let it Be, of course), but it seemed to work better this way. The ones that gave me the most trouble were Pepper and Natasha - originally, Natasha was going to have the Maria Hill section, because Natasha taking Steve undercover at a goth club = HILARITY but also seemed too on the nose? and I wanted to include Maria Hill, so Maria Hill: former goth was born. I also just envision Natasha's musical taste as tending towards Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits and others of that ilk more than industrial or goth or whatever. Also, I also almost labeled it Steve/Darcy, but it didn't want to go all the way there, so I didn't.

I dunno. Music is so personal and so important, except to people it isn't, and I don't really understand those people. Well, I don't really understand any people? But I understand people who don't love music even less.

In other news, I pre-ordered the Amazing Spider-man blu-ray so I can sob my way through it over and over in the privacy of my own home. #I JUST HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS ABOUT PETER PARKER OKAY.

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Ugh. I just spent half an hour on the phone with my dad trying to get my old laptop to work since his computer has died, but it won't connect to the internet and I can't remember what I used to have to do to make it work. He was all, "Come on, this is your computer!" and I was like, "And there was a reason I bought a new one! It's been almost two years since I used that thing!" So he is tetchy because he has no internet and I can't remember how to fix it. He called me yesterday all annoyed and "I am buying a Mac! I can't deal with this Microsoft shit anymore! You don't regret switching, do you?" and I said, "Not one bit." and then he wanted me to comparison shop for him. I tried to explain that there really aren't that many options when it comes to macbooks, but he insisted. So this should be interesting.

Before that, though, I watched last night's The Good Wife.

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Then I watched the first two episodes of Homeland.

I... don't know how I feel about it. I think they do a really good job of making Carrie simultaneously deeply sympathetic and yet almost completely unlikeable, which is a combination I find uncomfortable as a viewer. Given that it's created by the same guy who made "24," I'm a little afraid it's going to reduce down to jingoism and a simplistic us-v-them mentality instead really mining the awful complexity of the situation. ( spoilersCollapse )

Last night, fleurdeleo and I went to see 50/50, which was good, though ( spoilersCollapse )

Also, I thought they did a really good job with JGL's makeup, since he didn't really lose a lot of weight, but they made him look really fragile after the chemo, and I thought Anjelica Houston did a fabulous job in what was a mostly thankless role, though ( spoilerCollapse )

I would recommend the movie, but with the caveat that if this is a sensitive subject for you, you might want to give it a pass.

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