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I have been lax about LJ-ing recently (RL *sigh*), but Chrome is not helping right now. Once you're out of beta, you're supposed to be more stable, damnit. Although this could have something to do with the amount of free space on my machine. I need to tidy again.

I have been experiencing something of a Rolling Stones fandom resurgence. I listened to the new tracks on the re-released 'Exile on Main Street' and the love came back. Most of them are awesome, especially the Soul Survivor alternate take with Keith singing crazy lyrics, and just being Keith. <3 This also wasn't helped by the BBC screening Stones in Exile, the documentary about the making of Exile on Main Street, on Sunday. Oh, Stones (esp Keith) I heart you for reasons I can't quite articulate.

On a semi-related note, I was linked via ontd_downey to RDJ's Inside the Actors Studio (which is awesome btw) and then ended up (oh, YouTube) at Johnny Depp's, and he was wearing a Keith Richards t-shirt! <3 I love his love for Keith.

I'm a little behind on TV. I haven't got to the latest Dr Who (I've heard varying reports) and I *still* need to watch the pilots of Caprica and Treme which have been sitting on my laptop forever. I do however have The Good Wife, which I think I'll be watching before I go to bed, as I'm really enjoying it and Alan Cumming is incredibly awesome.

I did catch the season of finales of Gossip Girl and Bones, both of which were underwhelming for different reasons. Bones was just, blah, really blah, which it shouldn't have been, and Gossip Girl was just too much drama, which yes, is the point, but it was all a little exhausting and circular.

I also didn't think I'd really missed True Blood, but the trailers and clips I've seen have me quite intrigued. Damn you, Skarsgard, this is your fault.

Also, while I'm going on about random TV, I caught an episode of Glee on Monday. Huh. It was okay, admittedly helped by the fact that Neil Patrick Harris was guest-starring, but I could watch it again. I'm unsure I guess, but I quite enjoyed it.

Okay, the list of tags for this post grew crazy fast. *boggles*

Music: The Rolling Stones - Soul Survivor (Alternate Take)

I have the house to myself for 5 days (2 flatmates in Malta, 1 in Northern Ireland) and while that is awesome, I've been incredibly lazy. Yesterday, I got out of bed at 2pm, wandered down to the supermarket, cooked dinner (vegetarian chili ftw) and then spent untold hours lost in this ONTD post on the 50 Greatest Music Videos of the Decade and spamming my Tumblr with them.

Today, I was meant to be seeing Sherlock Holmes but my friend cancelled as she wasn't feeling well. Was almost tempted to go by myself, but my friend suggested seeing it next week and seems keen to see it, so next week it shall be. So, to get myself out of the house at some point today I went to the library this afternoon and picked up some books, because despite my best efforts, I've still be slack about reading books this year, and there's so many good ones out there I want to read. This was of course after getting out of bed at 1pm after watching The Hangover (not too bad, pretty funny, characters not as big a douches as I was expecting). See? Lazy.

I have also been reading Yuletide fics. Recs are at my delicious. (Is that the correct preposition for delicious? Delicious page? Anyway).

Christmas television has been kind of blah, but I did watch the RSC's latest take on Hamlet starring David Tennant (part of David Tennant Fortnight on the BBC, because seriously, the dude is everywhere). Overall, I liked it, but then it was David Tennant and Patrick Stewart in Hamlet (my favourite Shakespeare play) and at one point David was doing soliloques in jeans, bare feet and messy Doctor-like hair ... I, was never ever going to have a problem with that. *chinhands*

There also might be a small Gossip Girl thing. Clearly I was missing a slightly trashy teen drama in my life. But they're all just so pretty! And Chuck/Nate is awfully intriguing ... and for my sins, so is Serena/Nate, and Chuck/Blair. Yeah, I don't even know.

Tomorrow I shall be spending my New Years Eve bowling in Essex. ;) New Year's Eve's I either do nothing or are totally surreal, this promises to be the latter.