A dream is an answer to a question we haven't learned how to ask

Thanks to the influences of the interwebz, I rewatched XF's "Paper Hearts" tonight. How good is that episode? I mean, really. Not to mention the entire season. It's a bit ridiculous. I'm really tempted to make some more XF icons now. Which, yeah, considering I already have a mess of BSG icons I'd like to make, I think it's time to buy more space. Or, as an alternative, I could just make them & not use them. But I don't like that alternative very much. Heh.

Aside from wanting to drop by & share my "omg XF ILU" flailyness, this entry doesn't have much of a point. I did want to add four more things though:

1. I am hereby transferring my happy ass back into Spoilerphobe Land when it comes to Bones. I let myself check out a few things about the premiere, got my fix as I go through summer withdrawls (I just want to see/read/know anything new, yo!) and it is now time to go back into the dark. God help me be strong.

2. Double rainbow all the way!. I have not been able to stop laughing over that guy for about an hour now. And I'm sure everyone's seen it already, but if not, GO. And then listen to this. "What does it meeeean?" Haha.

P.S. The best part is I saw that video after spending the day with Aimee last weekend, and (jokingly) asked that exact question about all the butterflies we kept seeing. "What does it meeeeaan, dude!" She was like, "probably means it's summer."

3. Mel Gibson is a psycho. Not that this is new information obviously, but wow. When will these d-bags learn not to flaunt their d-baggery when there are recording devices/cameras/etc available to catch their ass in the act? Chickity check yo'self, Gibson.

4. ( I got the test results back from my doctor )

For my Vid of the Day, I'm gonna go with something different today. Behold, one of my favorite moments of The X-Files:

P.S. The first time I watched this episode, I thought it was boring & ignored it. Probably because I was a 14 yr old shipper and was pissed there were no Mulder/Scully scenes. (heh, I keeps it real) I then unjustly cut it out of my rewatches over the years until finally giving it another chance during the epic rewatch I had with dosidella in '04. Together we decided it was basically the best thing ever. Okay, so maybe not EVER (hello, "Bad Blood". Also, this just in: I like to exaggerate. Hee), but still. It rules. Cancerman is Forrest Gump, people. A disgruntled, evil Forrest Gump. I rest my case.

"Beyoncé - Mine ft. Drake" (Watch on YouTube)

You kids get off my lawn!

Oh my God, I feel so old right now. Sweet baby Jesus.

So, I'm on facebook tonight, right? And one of my coworkers is commenting to her niece about some guy she knows being a "stud," and I click on the girl's page because I'm curious to see who my coworker thinks is so cute (and because I apparently turn into a stalker when bored. ~As one does~). And you know what I saw on this girl's wall? A birthday. And you wanna know what that birthday was? 1996. 19-fucking-96. And the "stud"? Is her boyfriend.

HOW IS IT POSSIBLE SOMEONE BORN IN 1996 EVEN HAS A BOYFRIEND AND IS OLD ENOUGH TO HAVE A FACEBOOK PROFILE? Shouldn't they still, y'know, be babies? With a bottle? And a naptime?

WHEN DID THE LAST DECADE PASS US BY?

Here's the thing: This girl? Is fourteen years old. In 1996? I WAS FOURTEEN YEARS OLD. For her one life? I'VE LIVED TWO LIVES. For God's sake, I could've given birth to her.

She never existed in the 1980s. She barely existed in the '90s. When 9-11 happened, she was still learning to read. I. . .cannot even comprehend that. How is it possible there are already teenagers walking around out there who will think of the '90s as before their time? Who never played Oregon Trail on computers with green screens on them? Or got mad at that little douchebag of a dog in Duck Hunt? Or woke up early on Saturday mornings to watch Care Bears and Scooby Doo? Or knew what it was like to turn on MTV and see nothing but music videos?

You guys: remember when cell phones were the size of bricks? When owning a cordless phone was a ~big deal~? When dial-up was new & exciting? When TV simply *stopped* at a certain time of the night, and that American flag came on the screen? Remember slap bracelets? Pound puppies? Walkmans? Those little plastic record players for kids? Roller skating rinks & drive-ins? Jelly shoes & crimped hair?

I think of all these things and I realize: there is not only an entire generation now that *doesn't* remember those things, but there's MORE than one generation. And you know what else? In two years, I will be thirty. Holy. Shit. I mean, really. It shouldn't come as a surprise to me, but it still does. Thirty. It used to seem so old. To that fourteen year old girl on facebook, it'd probably seem old. But for all you teenagers on my flist? Here's a secret: it's not. By the time you reach 28 years old, you will not feel old (until of course you come across the birthdate of some random teenager, obv). You will be too busy going, "WTF, WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN" to feel grown-up. I guarantee you.

With that in mind, I'm pretty sure I'll be saying this exact same thing again ten years from now, just with "oh my God I'm always forty" inserted instead. (Which, P.S., I do realize those of you on my flist who are in your thirties or forties are probably scoffing at my 28-year-old "I'M OLD!" crisis. Ha)

So, in honor of all my fellow '80s baby flisters, here's a Vid of the Day special for you. (And all you young teenage whippersnappers can of course watch too. Hee.) This vid makes me so nostalgic, I can't even say. I didn't always have cable growing up, but when I did? You best believe I watched me some MTV. Hours & hours of it. LOVED it. And if there were a channel of nothing but music videos from the '80s & '90s, I'd probably still watch hours of it now. Aaaand, yeah, I think that's officially how you know you're an old person. "Where's my oldies but goodies station, sonny?!"

"Adele - Rolling in the Deep" (Watch on YouTube)

Hot for teacher

Yes, I seem to be spamming my flist a little today, but I'm a bit bored. Maybe you all should entertain me and this wouldn't happen, hmm? Yeah, you think about that.

Anyway, the only reason I'm updating again is because I was messing around on youtube and came across a vid made by my friend nnaylime. Now, nnaylime, I know you happened to mention this vid recently on your journal and I also know it's a popular one, but I'd never actually seen it before. Now that I have, I'd like to take this moment to pimp the ever-loving crap out of it. Y'know, if you don't mind. Heh.

This may, for realio, be my favorite thing in existence right now. And while a lot of it is due to the (hilarious) song itself, it wouldn't amuse me nearly as much if the video weren't so good. Which it is. I don't care if you're reading this & don't even watch BSG, WATCH IT ANYWAY. It's epic.

(of course, there are spoilers, but please, like you've avoided them by now anyway? I doubt it.)

"Monica - Angel Of Mine" (Watch on YouTube)