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Oct. 12th, 2010 12:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
1) It was National Coming Out Day today (technically yesterday now), which means it's the one year anniversary of my coming out as a trans man. And hey, one year later, I'm still trans! Hooray! (One of my issues has been the fear that I was somehow deceiving myself and would change my mind. I haven't, and I feel a lot more certain and comfortable in my identity than I did a year ago.)
2) I'm taking the GRE tomorrow (er, today, actually, starting in about 10 hours). Wish me luck. I'm less nervous than I was a couple of days ago, because in the meantime I've done respectably enough on the math section of a practice test. Looking forward to getting the damn thing over with and forgetting the Pythagorean Theorem all over again.
3) As the new television seasons begin in the US and the UK, I'm watching . . . old Australian comedy. The Doug Anthony All Stars, of course (here they are in The Big Gig [start at the top of the playlist on the right and scroll down], and here's a fantastic live performance [use the playlist again, but start with part 2, as Flacco is an acquired taste], and here are links to their surreal and amazing comedy/science fiction/fantasy show DAAS Kapital), and DAAS-related stuff like Good News Week (which is all over YouTube) and The Sideshow (ditto). Even the beautiful Tim Ferguson may not be enough to make me watch more than one episode of Funky Squad, alas, but I was oddly charmed by the episode of Don't Forget Your Toothbrush that I watched on YouTube. Tim in a pink suit thwacking cakes with a golf club and spraying the audience with the bits, what's not to love?
I've also been branching out beyond DAAS, mostly based on which Good News Week guests I like most (in no particular order: Fiona O'Loughlin, Josh Thomas, Jimeoin, Frank Woodley, Stephen K. Amos, Julia Morris). I started watching The Adventures of Lano and Woodley because I saw Colin Lane talking about his split from comedy partner Frank Woodley after 20 years of working together as though he'd just gone through a heartwrenching divorce; yes, I do pick shows based on the likely level of male/male homoeroticism, and yes, Lano and Woodley has so far quite fulfillled my expectations. It's not my usual style of comedy--I like verbal humor best--but the guys' love/hate/tolerance is adorable, and Frank Woodley in particular does physical comedy so well that I can see the art in it.
Oh, how I hope one or two of you lot will start watching this stuff too, so that we can talk about it! And also so that there can be DAAS fanfic for Yuletide! *makes puppy eyes*
2) I'm taking the GRE tomorrow (er, today, actually, starting in about 10 hours). Wish me luck. I'm less nervous than I was a couple of days ago, because in the meantime I've done respectably enough on the math section of a practice test. Looking forward to getting the damn thing over with and forgetting the Pythagorean Theorem all over again.
3) As the new television seasons begin in the US and the UK, I'm watching . . . old Australian comedy. The Doug Anthony All Stars, of course (here they are in The Big Gig [start at the top of the playlist on the right and scroll down], and here's a fantastic live performance [use the playlist again, but start with part 2, as Flacco is an acquired taste], and here are links to their surreal and amazing comedy/science fiction/fantasy show DAAS Kapital), and DAAS-related stuff like Good News Week (which is all over YouTube) and The Sideshow (ditto). Even the beautiful Tim Ferguson may not be enough to make me watch more than one episode of Funky Squad, alas, but I was oddly charmed by the episode of Don't Forget Your Toothbrush that I watched on YouTube. Tim in a pink suit thwacking cakes with a golf club and spraying the audience with the bits, what's not to love?
I've also been branching out beyond DAAS, mostly based on which Good News Week guests I like most (in no particular order: Fiona O'Loughlin, Josh Thomas, Jimeoin, Frank Woodley, Stephen K. Amos, Julia Morris). I started watching The Adventures of Lano and Woodley because I saw Colin Lane talking about his split from comedy partner Frank Woodley after 20 years of working together as though he'd just gone through a heartwrenching divorce; yes, I do pick shows based on the likely level of male/male homoeroticism, and yes, Lano and Woodley has so far quite fulfillled my expectations. It's not my usual style of comedy--I like verbal humor best--but the guys' love/hate/tolerance is adorable, and Frank Woodley in particular does physical comedy so well that I can see the art in it.
Oh, how I hope one or two of you lot will start watching this stuff too, so that we can talk about it! And also so that there can be DAAS fanfic for Yuletide! *makes puppy eyes*
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Date: 2010-10-12 07:52 am (UTC)I'm glad you're enjoying all the Aussie comedy, but the RPF aspects are really not my thing, especially as I went to school with one prominent comedian and he's still doing the same jokes now. Do you know
ETA: Oh, and the D-Generation! You might like them.
And good luck with the GRE!
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Date: 2010-10-12 08:04 am (UTC)I totally understand not being into RPF, especially if it might involve someone you've actually met. Although with DAAS it wouldn't have to be RPF, because stories could be set in the fictional DAAS Kapital universe. I'm terribly curious about who you went to school with, too, if you cared to
whisper the name in my earsend me a PM.I've seen
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Date: 2010-10-12 07:57 am (UTC)Maybe you'll like The D Generation? Or Front Line - a fake news show, very smarmy and sly humour. (Can't quite remember if there's any degree of homophobia in these - it's a university level of humour, so tread carefully.)
Or The Chaser? It's a different group of people, and much later than these, but I know there's a pretty vibrant Aussie wing of the Fake News RPF thanks to it.
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Date: 2010-10-12 08:11 am (UTC)I'm not actually a fan of fake news as such, because a lot of it hits my embarrassment squick too hard. I don't know if you've seen The Daily Show, but I can never stand to watch the interviews on that, and The Chaser seems like it's the same kind of thing. I'll check out The D Generation, though!
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Date: 2010-10-12 08:16 am (UTC)No, I can't handle The Daily Show, either. I appreciate that it exists, but I can't watch it for more than a few minutes at a time. I guess The Chaser was easier for me to watch, probably because culturally, we're good at taking the piss, so the target is a bit smaller, if you know what I mean.
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Date: 2010-10-12 03:35 pm (UTC)Ah, okay, that's good to know.
culturally, we're good at taking the piss, so the target is a bit smaller
I'm kind of amazed that politicians choose to appear on GNW, which can be a good deal sharper and less irritatingly "balanced" in its political commentary than The Daily Show. What I find painful about TDS are the interview segments at the beginning, when they talk to some poor idiot who doesn't realize that TDS is satirical and tries to respond seriously to ridiculous questions. Seeing a professional politician skewered doesn't bother me nearly as much, and anyway, show guests seem to be handled pretty gently on TDS, even when they're utter right-wing shitheads.
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Date: 2010-10-12 11:15 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-10-16 05:46 pm (UTC)(By the way, I completely understand being uncomfortable with RPF--I'm not always comfortable with it myself, and I do think there are ethical limitations on RPF that don't exist for FPF--but I also think that because of DAAS Kapital, which is highly fictionalized, it's possible for there to be DAAS fic which isn't RPF.)
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Date: 2010-10-16 10:13 pm (UTC)And the other one would probably not get into the fandom anyway, but he does like the one clip I showed him. ("I Fuck Dogs", of course!)
And... I don't know. I feel like maybe I'm a hypocrite, loving so much to read RPF, but never wanting to write it myself. But I just don't know. And about DAAS Kapital- I love the show. I think it's hilarious and awesome and I love it. But I just don't think I could write it well. :(
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Date: 2010-10-18 12:42 am (UTC)It's also very confusing--it makes me wonder if my sense of humor is wildly different from most people's. Which is possible, I guess, because I find a lot of popular comedy shows and movies excruciating.
But I just don't think I could write it well.
The thought of writing DAAS Kapital scares me a bit. I've written fic for a lot of fandoms, but DK is so utterly strange that I'm not sure I could do it justice.