Daily Pilots Post

[dramaturgca.livejournal.com]

Last day!

Today, as sort of a change of pace, let's play Pimp My Fandom. Here's how it works:

There's this great tv show/film/book/comic/expressionist artist/zoo/piece of music/ancient martial art/brand of tea that you're wild about. This post is your opportunity to share that with a community of people who, at the very least, share your taste in BSG pairings! It's that easy. Post in with whatever is in your life right now making it more awesome. If it's in some way connected with BSG, cool. If it isn't, ALSO COOL. What should we be reading/watching/listening to/eating/doing?

Comments

[dramaturgca.livejournal.com]

The list of things I find awesome is huge, so I'll try to keep it to the things that I really really love.

Law & Order|UK: Jamie Bamber as adorable British cop. The decription of his character from this series's press release is "the charming DS Matt Devlin, JAMIE BAMBER (Battlestar Galactica, The Last Detective, Ultimate Force) whose approach to policing is part seduction part force." Freema Agyeman of Doctor Who is also in it. Second series starts in Britain on Sept. 9

Queen & Country: A series of comic books and novels by Greg Rucka. They're pretty dark, but very well-written, about an operative of the British Secret Service named Tara Chace. Who, I think, strongly resembles another badass blonde whose name rhymes with hers. My brief description of Chace: "Street smart, tough, good looking, rule breaking, self-abusive blonde with severe issues with her mother, drinks to excess, smokes, fucks around, loves to paint but not little art pieces, giant wall-sized splattering pieces where the paint gets all over her, sniper, best at what she does, involved with a younger man who dies and leaves her with an extra ton of emotional baggage. In love with her CO the whole time, even during the affair with the younger man." Sound like anyone you know?

Other things I'd recommend: Warehouse 13 on Syfy, Leverage on TNT, White Collar on USA, Tam Lin by Pamela Dean, the Black Jewels novels by Anne Bishop, faerie tale anthologies edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Good Omens by Neil Gaiman, Soulless by Gail Carriger, anything by Shakespeare, going to see shows at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, following @bergopolis on Twitter, Harry & David Moose Munch especially the Milk Chocolate Mint Chip, copper wire jewelry, British comedy albums of the late 60s... The list goes on and on...

[stripes13.livejournal.com]

I'll second Leverage. It's such a fun show. The most recent episode had me out of breath I was laughing so hard.

[amaliak.livejournal.com]

LO: UK FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

There are many random things that give me joy! :)

Buster Keaton's silent films and shorts. He is simply astonishing. If you think you might want to try watching him sometime, I would recommend "The Cameraman" or "Seven Chances" or "Sherlock Jr." There's a wonderful reviewer, Igenlode Wordsmith, who has posted lovely comments about almost all of his movies and shorts here (http://uk.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=17884208), and they are a good guide to what you might enjoy. If you care to see a clip to decide if you might like him, you can try this scene from Spite Marriage (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npHGPN19CC8&feature=related), in which he attempts to put his drunk wife to bed, but her balletic noodliness necessitates increasingly desperate contortions on his part. The music track is annoying for about the first fifteen seconds but then it quiets down and just lets the scene play.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mysteries. I love them - they are so articulate and sharp and atmospheric, and Watson is my hero. If you'd like to give one of the short stories a try, I'd recommend The Musgrave Ritual (http://sherlockholmes.wikia.com/wiki/Story_Text:_The_Adventure_of_the_Musgrave_Ritual) for sheer fun. It's not the best mystery, but it's a treasure hunt, and it's awesome. The Jeremy Brett TV version is delightful, too.

Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance as performed by Kevin Kline and company. This is my favorite musical of all time, it just makes me bounce with overflowing goodwill!

"Fit as a Fiddle" and "Moses Supposes" from the movie Singin' in the Rain. A close second in the 'favorite musicals' category -- this is a fantastic dancing musical, and the closest I've ever seen to a living cartoon.

The enchanting children's film The Black Stallion, so full of silence and beauty.

Elizabeth Marie Pope's two young adult novels. The American Revolution romance/ghost story The Sherwood Ring, so full of snark and elegance, and its counterpart The Perilous Gard, an Elizabethan tale of mystery and dread.

The poem Insensibility (http://www.poemtree.com/poems/Insensibility.htm) by World War One poet Wilfred Owen. His other poems are more famous, but this is the one that speaks to me.

Sting's album "Songs From the Labyrinth," which is a rendition of the 16th century ballads of English composer John Dowland, along with brief extracts from his journals. It's really beautiful. Clear or Cloudy reminds me of Kara: "Her trust, her doubt / like rain and heat in skies / gently thundering / she's lightning to mine eyes."

And, in conclusion, the Muppet Ode to Joy (http://www.youtube.com/user/MuppetsStudio#p/u/9/VnT7pT6zCcA).

[reginaspina.livejournal.com]

Oh, dude, Elizabeth Marie Pope too! I loooooove those books! I always wished she'd written more.

[skieswideopen]

Oh, I loved The Perilous Gard! Hmm, I wonder if it's possible to still hunt down a copy...

[coffeesuperhero.livejournal.com]

Holmes! I've loved those since I was a kid. I have the whole set up on my bookshelf! I couldn't possibly pick a favorite, though The Adventure of the Red-Headed League has been on my mind recently, because it's part of a Kara Thrace story. (Weird, I know.)

[damao2010.livejournal.com]

I read all of Sherlock's books as a teenager and I used to like it a lot. I haven't reread them after that. You made me want to go back to them again. And to see this new series, a British one I believe. It doesn't air in Brazil. :( Thank God for the internet. :) I really liked the movie with Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law (the best screen Watson ever,IMHO).

[dramaturgca.livejournal.com]

If you like Perilous Gard you really REALLY should try Pamela Dean's Tam Lin. Based on the same 13th century Scottish ballad, but set at a small midwestern liberal arts college. It is literally my favourite book of all time.

[reginaspina.livejournal.com]

For those two or three BSG fans who haven't read them yet, the three books that comprise "The Hunger Games" trilogy. Also, GRR Martin's giant unfinished fantasy series and Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond books. I'm not sure that the latter have much in common with BSG other than great characters and a bleak sensibility.

For films - The Lives of Others, The Lord of the Rings and the Three Colors trilogy are things I keep coming back to.

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Wow, yes, The Lives of Others just hits straight to the gut, doesn't it? I'm a long-time fan of "Les Miserables," both the musical and the book, and I'm always drawn to different iterations of the Javert story and character.

And LotR is one of my oldest loves. My uncle used to read those books aloud to us, and they have never lost their magic. I actually associate the Grey Havens with the BSG finale (don't kill me! I know the finale was botched while the Grey Havens were beautifully realized, but I've always sensed something similar in the underlying sentiment):

"I thought you were going to enjoy the Shire, too, for years and years, after all you have done."

"So I thought too, once. But I have been too deeply hurt. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so when things are in danger: someone has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them. But you are my heir: all that I had and might have had I leave to you."

** meep **

But, yes, full of love for these. May I ask who your favorite LotR character is? Mine are Gandalf, Frodo, and Faramir, which makes me fairly predictable, I suppose :)

[amaliak.livejournal.com]

I haven't read HG yet. I know I'm made of fail. I feel so left out...one day I will read them, I promise....

cheers.
--Lex

[ddt73.livejournal.com]

"The Hunger Games"?

Over the summer I've been watching reruns of Supernatural, Medium and Ghost Whisperer.

Guess I'm on a ghost/demon kick lately lol.

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

I will never judge you for loving Harry Potter, I do too! I've written more stories about Snape than about any other fictional character :) I hope you enjoy the re-read. Azkaban is so fun!

And if you're enjoying Kate Winslet, I would recommend "Sense & Sensibility," she's quite lovely in that one :)

[koolaidmom11.livejournal.com]

I am also a fan of G.R.R. Martins Game of Thrones and can't wait until HBO shows it. I'm a huge fan of The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. My kids and I spend an inordinate amount of time casting these books for a miniseries.

Books that I love are Atlas Shrugged and a must read, The Phantom Tollbooth

[coffeesuperhero.livejournal.com]

High five for The Phantom Tollbooth! One of my all-time favorite books. I still read it at least once a year.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Heh. Do I even need to say The Hunger Games series? Thrace_Adama and myself even created a comm (good_hunting_hq) dedicated to the similarities we saw between it and BSG and our beloved pilots.

I am also loving Huge on ABC Family. What a unique and well written little drama. I love all the characters! It's what Glee sorta wants to be and what FNL already does so well. There's a conversion post here (http://taragel.livejournal.com/139683.html#cutid1). I don't know that it's much like BSG, except that it's a really good show in the way that BSG S1 was a really good show. Oh and Gina Torres is in it, which may appeal to BSG/Sci-Fi loving peeps.

[koolaidmom11.livejournal.com]

What is this Hunger Games that everybody is always mentioning?

[coffeesuperhero.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. I could write the better part of a treatise on Things I Find Awesome, but here's a short list that hopefully (fingers crossed) fits in this comment box:

01. Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. Can't. Stop. Reading. I haven't loved a book series this much since HP, and there are just really no words for how much I love Vetinari. There's no actual connection to BSG (insert Big Lebowski quote here: well, there isn't a literal connection, Dude), but as I read the series I keep casting BSG people in my mind, often with complete disregard of the character descriptions, which I've never done before. So I suppose it is an example of how much BSG has permeated my brain, lol.

02. The debut album (This is Somewhere) from Grace Potter & the Nocturnals. Haven't checked out the new one yet, but I'm sure it's fabulous, and they're coming back to my hometown in October to play one last small venue show there, and I figure that's totally worth a short road trip. BSG connection: Uh, I want to do the world's saddest K/L vid to Apologies? And Kara gen vids to...uh, all the rest of the songs on the album.

03. Sara Bareilles and her fabulous new album, Kaleidoscope Heart, which gets released SOON SOON SOON OMG. And I'm going to see her IN OCTOBER OMG FLAIL.

04. Chuck! Chuck! Chuck! New season SOOOOOOOON!!!! With special guest stars Linda Hamilton and THE OLD SPICE GUY. \o/ \o/ \o/

05. Bones! Because I'm a sucker for the "Will they? Won't they? WHY AREN'T THEY?" thing, apparently. *_*

06. Speaking of Will they/Won't they, I'll always love The X-Files.

07. HP. Never been in the fandom, no desire to be, but I'll love those books forever.

08. Horatio Hornblower! With Jamie's little face! I don't know how the rest of the boat doesn't see that Archie/Horatio is as much of a ship as the Indy. ;)

09. Thanks to taragel and her conversion post, I'm digging Huge right now, too.

10. I'll always love old school Trek. I love how they recycle plotlines and have thinly veiled homages to democracy. I love how Kirk has a girl on every planet. I love Uhura and her Space Harp of Win. I love Spock. I love McCoy forever and ever. Oh, and "I, Mudd," is the best crack that ever cracked, y'all.

11. Star Wars, nothing but Staaaaaaaaaaar Wars! First love of my sci-fi heart. The blasters! The lightsabers! The SHIPS, y'all. (A-wing♥) I would LOVE to see the look on Kara's face when she saw the array of flying machines that the SW 'verse could offer her.

Um, various and sundry things: The West Wing, Shakespeare, Castle, various Anne McCaffrey novels that I will sheepishly admit to having read and loved as a kid, T.S. Eliot, Edna St. Vincent Millay, shoes, and baking. (Yes, I fangirl shoes and food. It's true.)

[antismiles.livejournal.com]

Horatio Hornblower! With Jamie's little face! I don't know how the rest of the boat doesn't see that Archie/Horatio is as much of a ship as the Indy. ;)

HAHA, SO TRUE. It's so obvious! :D

[swamp-ariadne.livejournal.com]

1. Movie was not mentioned, but I will mention it because there's a parallel here that cannot be denied. INCEPTION. I think I've seen it more than threes times, watched every special and interview ever made by Leo and Ellen. All because damn it Dom Cobb is a male Kara Thrace. Both are warriors (one of the mind and the other in "real" life), both are out-of-the-box thinkers, both are broken yet still the best at what they do, and BOTH OF THEM ARE HUNG UP ON DEAD PEOPLE (Mal and Zach). Does Dom have his Lee parallel? In my mind he does (but the Inception fandom won't accept it)... It's Ariadne, or there'll be a Sam parallel too (which I'm not looking forward to) if ever a sequel ever gets made. Because of this movie, Leo just upped his geek cred and now I actually want to see Shutter Island and the Departed.
2. Game of Thrones. mentioned by several above. yes love it to bits. Also love Ursula K Le Guin, Orson Scott Card and Terry Pratchett. Titles: Left Hand of Darkness, Earthsea quadrilogy, Ender and Bean Stories, and Discworld. Oooh before I forget, Kazuo Ishiguro.
3. Gossip Girl - please don't judge me! Veronica Mars (to make up for the former).
4. Basketball - because we know what Pyramid is based on.

[amaliak.livejournal.com]

Some of these have been mentioned before, and some are new. I don't have a lot of time to elaborate, though.....


1. Alias - specifically Sarkney. You know it's hot.

2. House - H/C FTW!

3. Casablanca & noir films. All those hats...

4. Broadway musicals. Wicked, Grease, Les Mis. The list is LONG.

5. White Collar!!! Neil Caffrey is my new tv boyfriend (see #3's hat comment).

6. TV sitcoms from the 50s and 60s. I love Lucy, MASH, Gilligan's Island, the Munsters, the Adams Family, I dream of Genie.

7. How I Met Your Mother. It's legen (wait for it) dary!

8. Chuck. CASEY IS MY HERO.

9. Joss Verse. Period.

10. Hollywood's golden age films. Pretty much if it was made between 1937 and 1962, I'm in. Particularly if it's a musical.

11. Life. (the one that used to be on NBC)

12. The BBC.

13. Lost. The Jears will save you.

14. Law and Order: UK.

15. The Office

16. Pushing Daisies.

17. Veronica Mars.

18. Star Wars.

19. Literature. All of it. Seriously.

20. DISNEY VERSE. It owns my soul.

the list goes on and on and on.....


cheers.
--Lex

[stripes13.livejournal.com]

DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISNEY!!!!

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

My list is small, since I am primarily obsessed with BSG, but I will rec some other things that I have loved in the past:

1. Lord of the Rings extended edition DVDs with an orgasmic amount of extra footage and shorts and interviews and commentary. *swoons* (and of course the books PLUS all the appendices)

2. Alastair Reynolds: Revelation Space series (hard sci-fi, yo!)

3. Peter F. Hamilton: Dreaming Void trilogy and The Reality Dysfunction series (my fave scifi series of aaaaaalll time).

4. Dune: All of them. Don't stop at the first one - read all of the elder Herbert's installments. And don't read the ones written by his son. Feh. (purist over here)

5. Law and Order: UK, so I had been watching these on mute because I find the content disturbing, but last night I mainlined three in a row (with sound) and I'm in love.

6. Doctor Who (The New Who): I am a TEN junkie, but they're all fantastic.

7. Whale Wars: I am freaking in love with this show. Gah!

[damao2010.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love Dune, as well. I couldn't read after the third book, though. It just didn't feel the same without Paul. :(

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

I’m always into yarn, knitting, clothes and shoes.
I love Chuck, White Collar and Warehouse 13.
I am a theatre nerd so there’s Shakespeare, the ancient Greeks, Brecht, Strindberg, Lillian Hellman, Tennessee Williams, Tom Stoppard and Sam Shepherd. And a host of others I’m totally forgetting.
I am a fool for Art Nouveau.
And I wish I was a physicist.
As soon as school starts and I get more time to myself again, I will be really into:
The Hunger Games - I have all three books waiting.
And I get to reread the Oresteia and Mourning Becomes Electra.

[amaliak.livejournal.com]

Yarn & knitting!

so, i take it you're interested in Big Bang Theory as well?
:)

[damao2010.livejournal.com]

Things I think are awesome...

1)Star Trek - I used to love the old TV series and years before the internet and fanfic I used to buy books which featured stories in that universe so I could have more Kirk/Spock/Bones 's adventures. I was really pleasantly surprised by this latest updated version. As a die hard fan I had to see it but I didn't expect too much out of it. Now I can't wait for more.

2) Star Wars - the original series with Luke, Han and Leia. I was really disappointed by the last movies, but the old ones still touch me.

3) I absolutely adore Dune. The books, not the movie or the miniseries. It's a very difficult and complex story to adapt to the movies and it seems to me that all the attempts to do so have told the story, have given form and color to that universe but have failed to move me with the angsty, tragical life of Paul Atreids.

4) Blade Runner. I have no words to describe this movie. Just awesome.

5) The X-files. My first fandom. Despite the disappointing end (even more disappointing than BSG).

6) I'm not a huge fan of silent movies, but I never get tired of watching Chaplin's "Modern Times".

7) House. I absolutely adore this show.

8) The Good Wife.

9) I love reading and I love historical books or books that have a historical setting for a story or that takes you to a different culture and you learn a little bit about it as you read. So over the years I have loved books as different as "For whom the bell tolls", by Hemingway , "The kite runner" (whose author I can't remember) and "The girl who stole books"

10) I absolutely adore MPB (Brazilian Popular Music).

[reginaspina.livejournal.com]

Hey, this is kind of turning into a friending meme. How fabulous!

[acsgrlie.livejournal.com]

I've been loving the Hunger Games series lately. The last book in the trilogy just came out and the whole series is just amazing.
Also White Collar on USA isn't such a shabby show and Matt Bomber is very pretty to look at ;)

[amaliak.livejournal.com]

Matt Bomber is very pretty to look at ;)

So say we all!! You know, I wonder what BSG would have been like if Matt played Zak....

cheers.
--Lex