one more miracle

The vets of this journal will remember Jeremy, my (young, gorgeous) film prof from college whom I became actually really close friends with and who made senior year bearable. I talked about him far too much, and I do apologize about that, but he really was the glue keeping me together that year.

Anywho, I emailed him letting him know that I'll be back in town, and asking if he wanted to get together and catch up. He just replied and INVITED ME TO HIS HOUSE FOR DINNER! ♥____________♥ I am seriously so full of giddy glee! I get to meet his two month old baby boy! And his wife, whom I haven't met yet! And hang out and chat and just be with him again! He's just... one of those people who makes me feel infinitely comfortable and happy - you know? Those people don't come along very often. I'm really, really, really excited about this. Yay. :D

You know all those things that went shitty yesterday? Magically they all fixed themselves today. I RECEIVED MY BAND OF BROTHERS DVDs!!!! :D The lovely UPS delivery guy who I always say hi to brought them to me at work, and I could have kissed him! :D Then the experiment that took all day Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday until 9 PM worked GREAT and my boss is really happy! \\\o/// And THEN, one of my project group members actually said something that really helped me straighten out my thinking and stop panicking, and today I got a lot of productive research done and wrote up a respectable outline for our paper!

This yo yo is up for a moment. I'm predicting I'll actually manage to stay up for a while - tomorrow hang times with my Ann Arbor besties, then driving HOME and seeing daddy and mommy and lil sis, then high school teachers <333, then JEREMY OMGGG, then Rob and MICHELLLLLE and and!! It's going to be glorious.

Thanks for putting up with my shit, y'all. ♥

I love Twitter. What did we do before Twitter? Oh right, not have daily brushes with random celebrities. Huh! It's a brave new world.

In which Mark Rose is ridic and adorable and I heart his face:



And in which I LOVE JON HUERTAS SO MUCH HEARTS ARE POURING OUT OF MY EYES:



I mean, I know he just said thanks, but this is only the capper on his EXTREME AWESOME. I seriously love him so much I could burst. I really hope there's a Castle con some day, because him, Nathan, Seamus, and Stana in the same room as me? BE STILL MY HEART. I want someone to put together a montage of all of Poke's stuff in GenKill, because ugh Ilovehim.

You guys, my will is totally crumbling. A rewatch will happen, I can tell. With fast forwarding through the most epic incompetence I am sure. :P

Maybe I'll do some of that when I visit my best friend next week! During spring break I'm going home to see the parentals, then hopefully visiting JEREMY back at college - which, OMG, amazing, and also his wife just had a BAAABY who's 2 months old and I really want to meet him! And then I'm going to spend a couple days with Michelle, and we're going to get her through the rest of Band of Brothers (she's only seen through Carentan but can't watch without someone to hold her hand!) and then probably watch some Gen Kill which she is so completely ass over teakettle for that she can only make high pitched noises when Nate Fick is mentioned. :D

What on earth would I do without fandom, and more importantly YOU GUYS? I am not better by any means, but in this moment, right here, I am happy. Thank you. ♥ (And thanks Mark Rose and Jon Huertas, hahaha. <33)

To all the non-BoB fans on my flist - I'd say this is well worth checking out. It's all about light and shadow and color and shot composition and is really just a feast for the eyes. No prior knowledge necessary, and I think it would brighten your day (and/or convince you to give the series a try? :D). Minor warning for one cap with a bloodied face - the rest is a-okay.



So here we go again! I decided to do something different because people seemed to be interested in this idea - a focus on the beautiful way this series is shot. I hope you enjoy! Split into two parts because, um, there's 131 images. As usual, if you want anything in super duper hi-res, please ask! And feel free to use for icons or graphics or anything. I'm gonna hold off on the commentary for this one, cause it would really just be "Oooh, pretty!" and I think you all know that already. :)

( Cinematography Part A )

PART B

Notes: For obvious reasons, Webster sneaks in here several times. I hope no one minds. ;) This is very large - 88 hi-res images. They're big thumbnails but you can click on them for the super duper hi res version. Please, feel free to use for graphics or anything you want. That's why they're here. :)

I've uploaded a zip of all my Liebgott caps: 212 of them, ~300 MB. DOWNLOAD HERE (right click, save as)

( In German, Liebe means love. )

In all my rewatching of Band of Brothers, Liebgott has continually stood out to me. He's beautiful and entertaining, but he's also one of the most wrenching and painful characters in the whole series. I'm deeply impressed by (Scottish!) Ross McCall's performance. I hope I've managed to at least do him some justice with this catalog of his story. And I hope that you all enjoyed it. More to come. :)

So I've been reading the oral account of Easy Company by Bill Guarnere and Babe Heffron ("Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends") and while the entire thing has been amazing and absolutely filled with gems of information that cast both the events and the men in a new light, this one piece absolutely stopped me in my tracks and begged to be shared. This is for bloodygoodgirl, who showed specific interest, but also pretty much anyone who's fond of manly yet schmoopy declarations of pretty intense emotions. It's a letter from Johnny Martin to Bill Guarnere when Bill was at the hospital in England after his leg got literally blown off in Bastogne. For anyone not familiar with the series, Bill is one tough sonofabitch, a real soldier and a wonderful sergeant who took fantastic care of his men and did his damnedest to get them all out alive. Johnny is also a complete badass sergeant dude, which is why the emotional nakedness of this letter is so very striking.

( I never felt so hollow inside in all my life. )

Easy! ;____;