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Bernard Butler and Brett Anderson are in a band together and no one told me. OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Short version of why - Brett Anderson was the lead singer of Suede who were one of the original Brit Pop bands. Bernard Butler was the guitarist. They didn't get on. Split. Suede carried on, Butler did some other stuff. Them talking again, never mind making music is pretty amazing.)

And they were ranting about the re-release of old singles being really bad for the music biz. They're right and it's just so nice to see them.

Celebrity Wrestling and Dr. Who

Watching celebrity wrestling. It's got D'Lo Brown and Joe Legend as the team captains and the Hot Rod himself co-presenting. Guess why I'm watching.

Dear Roddy, I hope they're paying you well. It looks like he's having fun anyway. And being beyond cool.

When did Marc Bannerman get hot. Oh when he grew stubble. I have problems.

Will watch Dr. Who at 7. It has Daleks. Stupid Channel 4 has scheduled the first terrestrial TV showing of Felllowship of the Ring against it. Which is annoying because it means my nerd wants clash but I was a Whovian before I'd even heard of LOTR so yeah...

Plus I can't actually see Channel 4 winning this ratings battle because well every reasonable nerd already has FOTR on DVD and who wants it broken up by adverts.

Favourite Character types

Saw this sort of thing on a few ljs that I browse and I thought I might as well do it because I know I have a fair few. I've tried to keep to a single favourite character per fandom but I've failed miserably in that.

So yeah, character types that I always fall for -

Misunderstood heroes, prone to doing things that are wrong or stupid - Gambit (a hero, shady past, brooding and a sense of humour), Boromir (a hero, driven crazy by the ring and so hopelessly good and hopeless), Zechs Marquise (a hero driven by his beliefs to do deeply stupid and bad things) and Snape (a hero, well on the side of good anyway, with a shady past, who sulks and snaps). Athos.

Sidekicks, loyal to a fault Iolaus, Ron, Gimli, Kai in the King Arthur legend. Totally loyal to their cause. Given to bravery in unexpected and expected circumstance, and to cracking jokes. AMW even though they're each other's sidekicks. Horatio in Hamlet, who probably would have drunk the remaining poison if Hamlet hadn't stopped him. Little John, Alan a Dale and Will Scarlet. Porthos and Aramis. Lucrezia Noin who is also being put in the ass-kicking women section.

Skewered by love You know the ones, in love and hopelessly so. Devoted to a point beyond insanity. Marcus Cole, Lennier.

Wise old warrior Theoden, D'Argo, General Martok. Benoit probably fits in here.

The Outsider Strange, odd, unusual and the odd man out most times. Spock, Data, Odo. Murdoch in the A-Team. Liet Kynes in Dune.

Taking names, kicking ass and female Okay slight gender bias but if I see a female character who does this I tend to go slightly weak at the knees and love her dearly. Kira Nerys and Aeryn Sun are the obvious examples. I'm looking forward to the new Battlestar Galatica just for this. Lucrezia Noin like I've said.

I made the right choice

watching CSI:NY was definitely worth it, 'cause wheee Danny story line. I have no idea what Danny's surname is (he's the dirty blond with glasses) and he's so very cool. And the guy can act.

Plus a De Luise acting his socks off which means of course that he was very, very, very good.