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So my BFF pimped this to me with the lure of the gay romance and I was intrigued, but didn't get around to it, so then she mailed me the dvd, and I put off watching it because I figured a musical about a nightclub in the 1980s probabaly wouldn't appeal to my housemates. Finally got around to it and OMG.

I Can't Fight This Feeling - Alec Baldwin and Russell Brand

Now, I am not a Tom Cruise fan, I quite liked him as Lestat, and thought he was great in War of the Worlds, but other than that, have been completely indifferent to him.

THEN THERE'S THIS - TOM CRUISE, ROCK GOD.

I am questioning everything I thought I knew about the world.

LES MISERABLES was just stunning. The cast were fabulous, and Anne Hathaway’s performance especially just blew me away. Absolutely stunning. Disclaimer: except Russell Crowe, who has a lovely voice, but it’s just not powerful enough for the role. I may be biased, because still adore Roger Allam’s Javert, and of course Philip Quast was famous for it. OOH look, here they are performing together, how have I not seen this before. Okay, oh wow, now I've just found this "international" version Must go investigate further...I can see I'm not going to be very productive this morning...


LEWIS - I thought about trying to rec Lewis fics, but instead I’m just going to rec the entire fandom (inspector_lewis) For such a tiny fandom, we are very active. And friendly and wank-free! I’ve never been involved in a single fandom for this long before because I run away from anything that might spoil my glee. There are 14 Yuletide fics this year, plus a Secret Santa exchange running (lewis_challenge), plus other new fics regularly appearing on AO3. Yay us!

I haven’t been able to throw myself into Yuletide as completely as I usually do, due mainly to time constraints, but also I think due to the fact that I keep getting distracted by Lewis fic I’ve even been poking at a few gen fics *gasp* Only because even most of the gen fics focus on the Lewis&Hathaway friendship, tbh.


( Just a few other Yuletide recs )

Sexy Hugh Laurie, just cos.

This photojournal is the rockingest thing. It's mostly made up of cute cats animals and birds, semi naked women, but in among all that there's an assortment of all sorts of weird and interesting stuff.

In other news, the fabulous, gorgeous, wonderful person who pimped 'Reefer Madness' to us last week has unexpectedly SENT US a copy, so I can now share the experience with interested parties...Mynxii?

I love fandom! I love my friends!

Because vegetariansushi's enthusiasm is infectious.

Yay they made a movie.

I saw Rent 10 years ago in London, wandered in off the street and got a fabulous seat for half price, and as I remember, ended up going for coffee after with the woman next to me who'd done the same and who turned out to work for WHO.

I remember being on such an incredible high after watching it.

Also remember it being way more gay than this trailer seems to be.