The last of the photot meme pictures, notapipe asked for: something beautiful (not an animal or person), my books, and my CDs

( dial up warning, somewhat large pictures under here )

I just watched The Day After Tomorrow, it was quite good, but I get the feeling that it would have been a lot more spectacular in the theatre on the big screen. Still, Jake Gyllenhaal is a beautiful, beautiful man.

Oh. I forgot to mention it earlier but I have desktop sized, 1024x768 versions of a couple of those beach pictures in case anyone is interested. They are here: [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] I have one of them set as my background right now, it's very zen.

AKA: Hot Naked French Rugby Players!

evil_man posted these pictures earlier in his journal and I had to steal them because this much hotness just has to be spread around. If any of you haven't heard about the calendar before here's a little background: every year the french rugby team gets naked with each other and shoots a black and white calendar. It's pretty much all about the homoeroticism. I posted some pictures last april from the 2004 calendar and the 2005 calendar just came out.

So, without further ado, except to warn that this is entirely not worksafe, here are 37 pictures form the new photoshoot.

( not worksafe, yo )

Also, if any of you are interested in buying the calendar, it's available here on the amazon.fr website and they will ship to pretty much anywhere in the world. They even have a help section written in english to talk you through the buying process and if you've got an account at amazon.com it works on the french site as well.

And now I'm off to study for my midterm tomorrow. No fun!

So. As an athiest and a lover of religious and political snark I really couldn't resist posting this. But, since I still have some latent catholic guilt, I'm putting a cut on it.
( possibly offensive religious iconography, don't yell at me if you click it and don't like )

fuskeez: I got your package today!!! OMG I cannot possibly thank you enough, all the music! My god it's amazing. thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!

crownzeal put up these clips of the first two episodes of Season 4 of Queer as Folk, so I thought I'd share the love. Obviously, they are spoilers since the season hasn't started yet. right click and save, and please drop a comment if you download. edit 4-23-04 files removed


Also, some of you may have heard about the calendar that the French Rugby team puts out every year, essentially it's black and white pictures of the players naked. And they made a "making of" dvd for the 2004 photoshoot. crownzeal linked to the bootleg file that's on BitTorrent and I got it, so if any of you want to download it the info is here. Or, if you ask especially nicely, I could be coerced into mailing a copy out to you.

Just so you get an idea of when the calendar looks like, here's a few scans: ( NOT WORKSAFE! NAKEDNESS INSIDE )

Things I love:

+ Finding a secret public garden/park that I never knew existed while bicycling today. We've deemed it the Secret Garden, and it has wonderfully lush dark green grass, sculptures, a water wall, and a bocce ball court. The kicker? No one knows it exists. It's hidden right behind a hotel and it looks like it's actually on their grounds but it is a public park. Beautiful.

+ Realising that I had a shitload of pictures stored on my photobucket account and some good media files on my illustratedstory.net site. So I didn't loose absolutely everything in the hard drive fuck up.

+ My bicycle.

+ New books.

+ Finding someone with a really fast connection and hundreds of mp3s on Acquisition, I ended up getting something like 70 or 80 songs from this guy, most of which were by people I hadn't heard of and they turned out to be brilliant. I will be reccing them soon.

+ End of the month bandwidth parties all over my flist.

+ Going for Thai food and having them bring us incredible Sweet Potato soup for free.

Things I hate:

- Weather report predicts rain tomorrow and I had looked forward to riding my bike to school.

- Not having a whole slew of peoples email addresses anymore, since I lost all of my old emails and addressbook in the epic hard drive crash.

- Not having any of said emails anymore.

- The fact that Apple, apparently, fucked up in putting my powerbook together again and it's running hotter than a mother. The fan is almost constantly on and my CPU is hotter than I can ever remember it being. So chances are, I'll have to send my computer in, yet again. Fuckers.