one more miracle

I'm having a *lovely* birthday. Thank you so much to everyone on my flist who's wished me a happy day, I adore you all! *snuggles* And special thank you to Sas for getting me two months of paid time and icons and feeding the addiction! :D

Haven't opened all my presents yet, but my daddy got me ANGEL SEASON THREE! *twirls* My grandma also gave me 100 dollars, which is just so yay and helpful because ack NASHVILLE is going to cost SO MUCH. But anyway.

And something I'm COUNTING as a birthday present - the news that Best Buy is giving the Paley Panel as a bonus DVD with SPN S1!!!!! So I preordered my copy last night, YAY!! So crazy excited.

Last night I went out to dinner and ice cream with my daddy (oh I love my daddy). Right now my mom's making king crab legs (YUM) for my SECOND birthday dinner, hee. And then there will be CHOCOLATE CHIP CHIFFON cake made by my daddy which just smelled HEAVENLY and eee I can't wait.

Yay!

A random, late night entry. We'll do list format.

A Brokeback Mountain article posted over at wranglers: http://www.livejournal.com/community/wranglers/141522.html?mode=reply It's from Vogue and has a GORGEOUS new picture, and the article is brief but thoughtful and lovely. I really, really can't wait for this movie.

I just watched the Angel S1 episodes Five by Five and Sanctuary. Wow. WOW. My Faith love has returned full force! I was really really obsessed with her for a while (she's the only character in any fandom that gets an individual icon folder on my hard drive - now that's love) but once I sort of drifted away from Buffy, she slipped to the back of my mind (as did the music video I have half finished, alas). But watching these two episodes... she just blows my mind! And this pair of eps in particular epitomizes Faith - in one, you have snarky, badass Faith who's kicking ass and taking names, but then you have angsty, guilt-ridden, conflicted Faith who is just... so pathetic you want to cuddle her. Or at least I do. And I've watched a lot of Faith's stuff from season 3 and such many many times, and sometimes Eliza's acting isn't the *best*, but I think by these eps she's really got her game down. I clearly know what happens at the end of Five by Five, but I completely unexpectedly just started crying. It was that affecting. She's repeating her litany of "Just do it Angel, please, just do it..." and I'm waiting for it, waiting for it, and then... "Just kill me!" and I broke into tears! I just... wow. I feel so much for her. And I love that I can enjoy her badassness, which is just SO entertaining and sexy (yes, sexy) but then also empathize with her tortured soul. I LOVE HER. And I also love Angel for caring about her. Buffy is really, really, really a bitch in Sanctuary. Granted, she totally has the right to be, but it just pisses me off when she has this completely appalled look on her face when Angel punches her - as Angel says, "Not to go all schoolyard, but you hit me first." He totally has a point. She's like "WHAM - ow! You had no right to punch me you big meany!" *sighs and rolls eyes* But ANYway. My favorite part is when Angel comes down with the donuts and he sees Faith standing in the kitchen, and you only see her torso, and he's like "The first think you need to do is.. give me that knife." And then a second's pause before the camera pans down and we see that she is indeed holding a massive butcher's knife. And the music, very subtly, becomes ominous and creepy. It's just so perfectly done. I love that she doesn't say anything. I could talk on and on about this but I'm tired and this post is getting long. You know what? Maybe my refound complete adoration of her will incite me to finish this video! I'm so very proud of what I have so far, I just haven't felt motivated to get it done. Here's hoping!