I so need one of these things! [from here]

Alarm clock set to wake doziest of sleepers

LONDON (Reuters) - Can't get out of bed in the morning?

Scientists at MIT's Media Lab in the United States have invented an alarm clock called Clocky to make even the doziest sleepers, who repeatedly hit the snooze button, leap out of bed.

After the snooze button is pressed, the clock, which is equipped with a set of wheels, rolls off the table to another part of the room.

"When the alarm sounds again, simply finding Clocky ought to be strenuous enough to prevent even the doziest owner from going back to sleep," New Scientist said on Tuesday.

This just in: Joss Whedon is fucking fantastic. I went to Wondercon today, and it was SO COOL. Joss was there along with Adam Baldwin, Summer Glau, and Nathan Fillion who are also extremely fucking cool. First off we got to see a clip of Serenity which looks like it's going to be really good. And then we got to see Joss and Nathan banter about getting naked. Oh man. It was awesome. Someone asked Nathan about a supposed quote in Firefly that went "at least I've got my spacepants on" and Nathan literally spit his water out all over the table in shock. !!!!! OMG I haven't laughed so hard in forever. Also, someone asked Joss about the possibility of an Angel movie and he said that there weren't any plans. And then he said that he'd gotten a bouquet of flowers on valentines day from some fans who want him to make a Spike movie. And his exact words were "so do I!" but he's not the one we have to convince, it'd really be the networks and James and whatnot. Someone also asked about a Buffy movie to which he said I'm really not the one who'd have to be convince. My money's on Sarah Michelle Gellar for that one. Also? John Cassaday (Astonishing X-Men artist) is fucking hot. I would like to point out Joss' writeup of the con.

And then, if that wasn't cool enough Kevin Smith was on directly after Joss. And! Jason Mewes came out with him. Not only did Kevin give the funniest fucking film promo ever when asked what he'd have done had he been making The Passion of the Christ, but he was astonishingly smart and cool. I should note: his response about the Passion of the Christ went something like this: "Why would anyone want to make a movie about beating the shit out of jesus? 'We really love jesus so let's kick him in the nuts' isn't the movie I would want to make. If it were my movie I would have made that whole thing the first five minutes of my movie. Start with him walking up the hill. Show him getting nailed to the cross, and all the guards standing around placing bets on his clothes and then, right when he's about to die, two fucking ninjas come swooping in! With uzi's (because we're already being anachronistic with the ninjas). So you show the ninjas just spraying the guards with bullets [acts it out] and the guards going 'what the fuck?' and then one ninja grabs jesus off the cross, pulling the nails out and jesus is going 'what are you doing? I'm supposed to be dying for everyone's sins!' and then the ninja throws jesus over his shoulder and goes 'not on my watch'. And then they rip off their masks and it's Jay and Silent Bob. And that would be the first five minutes of the movie. The rest of it would be a living jesus trying to get a job. He'd be all 'well the only thing I was good at was dying and since that didn't happen I don't know what to do.' But he'd be good with numbers you know, give him a few fishes and some bread and he can multiply that shit like no one else."

Oh man! The dude is just hilarious! All in all it was a pretty awesome afternoon.

Oh fuck. So The Boondocks Saints has eaten my brain. I just. I just really want to lick them. Or something. Seriously, if you haven't seen this move go! go rent it! rightthisverymoment!

And now: an Argument Through Pictures about why you should see this movie:

( Meet the MacManus Brothers, two Irish twins who live in South Boston. (SPOILERS) )

Conclusion? This movie fucking rocks. It's funny as hell, and totally badass, and these guys are amazing. I saw it a long time ago and noticed the slash potential but it wasn't until a few days ago that I got the urge to see it again mostly thanks to ladyjackyl who just saw i for the first time last week. And now I'm slightly dismayed to announce that my brain has, in fact been eaten by those two men up there. Also, you know by the FIC. Because fandoms have this horrible ability to completely take over my head and I missed my class yesterday morning because I had stayed up til 5am READING FANFICTION. But at least I got some good fic out of it right?

Recs (all of the twincest Connor/Murphy variety):

The Already Crazy series by stewardess_lotr. Mmmmmmm this is probably my favorite of the stories I'll be talking about today because it's just, brilliantly written and so fucking awesome, and LONG. I love long stories and this one is just perfect. It's a series of nine, increasingly long stories that follow Connor and Murphy from the ages of 10 to 18. Stewardess did her research for this, she put in obvious amounts of time into writing a thoroughly believable backstory for the twins. And her voices for them are practically flawless. There's angst and happiness and she writes about their relationship, how it's evolved and is evolving, which is one of my favorite aspects of fic in this fandom. The twins have this incredible, intense relationship. They're this indestructable, unbreakable, insulated unit. They are, in every sense of the word, a pair. And that intensity, that starkly obvious lovedesperationneed for each other is an awesome jumping off point for writers because it's interesting.

perseph2hades is a good Connor/Murphy writer. Her stories are all here, there's not very many of them, and none are all that long so I'm not going to go into detail about any of them except to say that perseph2hades has a good hold on their voices and their relationship.

lassiterfics is another talented writer, her stories are all in her memories here. Again, I really wish that she wrote longer stories, but what she has written is uniformly of the good. Also, One Long Dying Twilight has the boys and duct tape and god that's a good combination, isn't it?

lux__aeterna's stories are here and I'm just a big repeating machine because again with the short but really well written.

Touch by veronamay is a good one. I'm, hmm well I guess it took me a while to be convinced that the characterization is on target, but she did, convince me that is. I have a hard time reading stories where Conner and Murphy have a problem that they can't/won't talk to eachother about because DUDE. These guys are fucking attached at the hip possessive/protective, codependent, whatever and I have a pretty hard time getting around the idea that anything could get in the way of that. That said, this story does a good job of a) convincing me and b) telling a pretty awesome story. It's set slightly before and during the movie timeline and goes through some of the events from Conner's perspective. And it's just plain cool.

goodtwin is another good writer, stories here, and there are a LOT of them (all pretty short) but yeah, the quality is good.

calvin_would has written at least a couple Boondocks stories, but doesn't have them linked anywhere easy to find. My best suggestion would be scrolling through the archives of bds_fic. Choir Loft is a pretty cool glimpse at the twins in their younger days.

Um, I have more recs but lj keeps giving me some fucked up error when I try to get at my memories and I'm also really tired. So conclusions. Go see this movie. Go read this fic. And then come back here and tell me everything you think because I'm desperate to talk about it.

OMG!! All that bitching about school this semester? I got a 4.0!

*runs around*

yay!!!!111!!1!!1eleven!!!

*flails wildly* You are all fired! No one ever told me that there's a FULL LENGTH version of the song that Christian Kane sings in Dead End (in Season 2 of Angel)!

Oh man I am so happy right now! Quick! Everyone download this and squee with me.

[ Christian Kane- L.A. ] -- mp3, 3.9mb

God I love his voice. I could not be more excited if I tried. More words! No Angel, Cordelia, Wes and Gunn talking over it! *dead*

eta I keep listening to it. On repeat. There's a whole other VERSE. I am so completely in love.

My head, feet and teeth are killing me but before I say anything more: *OMSQUEEE!* I Finally saw JC live! in concert! 10 feet away from me! And he was on it tonight, he was super energetic and smiling his ass off, and at the end of the concert he was just going nuts and quoting something that I think might have been Dave Chappelle. And then he launched into 100 Ways and the crowd went absolutely crazy, jumping all over the place it was awesome. Plus it was the Fillmore which is always a cool place to be. JC said so too, near the beginning of the show he said that he loved that he was playing the Fillmore because it's like the second home of Rock and Roll and he felt like he was feeling the ghosts of Christmas past or something.

So yes, JC is amazing and the hair is nice he had curls! Also, I don't think I realized that he sang the "bitches" in Some Girls in concert, that totally made my evening. The show was all ages too, but he didn't seem like he was taming it down any (although I wouldnt really know since this was my first solo!JC concert).

My broken foot was out in full effect today from all the standing around, so that was kind of sucky. Uh, and since I'm fairly sure that last sentence needs some backstory here goes. I fell down some stairs while at a party about three years ago, and I think I broke my foot but since I wasn't supposed to even be at a party I didn't want to tell my parents so I never got it fixed. I just limped around for a while. But now if I stand up for more than an hour at a time the toes on my left foot fall asleep. I really should have gotten it fixed professionally. Let this be a lesson to you all.

My teeth hurt too, possibly because I need to get my wisdom teeth removed. I think they might be trying to squish my other teeth together. I really need to call the dentist tomorrow.

While waiting in line for the show I talked to one of the guys who works there, he was super sweet and we ended up exchanging numbers so that we can meet up sometime. I'd be really stoked if he actually call me. It was pretty cute actually, he was just about to get off work when I showed up so we talked for a while and then he went to leave but before he left he came back to say goodbye and get my number and such. And then about half an hour later I saw him drive up again and park and he stopped by to tell me that they'd called him back in for some reason and he wasn't sure if he was going to have to stay for the show. So I said something about it not really being his day since he kept being dragged back into work and he said that it actually was his day because he got to meet me. So flattering! Who knows if he'll call, but he seemed genuine enough, and he didn't strike me as being the too flirtatious player type.

I might make a post later about The West Wing and how it's eaten my brain but I'm not sure yet. Someone please poke me and make me post because I still have more stuff that I want to say.