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Gosh, it's been so long since I was able to start a post with my lovely Gale.

It was lost in the fantasm of Green Day shows, but we finally got official word that Gale Harold will be returning to Desperate Housewives this Sunday. His accident was 6 months ago and he's finally well enough to come back to work. He gave a bunch of interviews, but in typical Gale fashion, he managed not to say anything about his accident or recovery...except that he had one, and has recovered. So that's all good. And of course, we got pictures. He looks frickin' amazing I must say.



It seems pretty likely that he may be invited back as a regular for season 6 too. YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!! Welcome Back Gale! I've missed your pretty face so much.

Still totally riding the Adam Lambert Love Train on American Idol. I'm ready to buy that boy's CD today. He gave a New Year's Eve performance at a cabaret in Los Angeles last December, and just today a video appeared on YouTube: An amazing jazzy cover of Prince's "How Come You Don't Call Me Anymore?" I would pay the $60 and sit through the rest of the dreck on the Idol's summer tour if he would just promise to do this song.


And the GREEN DAY stuff going on is OVERWHELMING! And it's just started. So, it looks like I'll be going to the tour opener on 3 July in Seattle (with about 7 or 8 other people on my flist!) and the next show in Vancouver with and_ed. Then the San Jose show and LA show(s) in August.

And 15 May and the new CD (which I've heard live TWICE already....EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!) can not be here soon enough.

For you Metallica lovers on the flist: Lars appeared as a guest today on the Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC tonight. It was so cute to watch her fangirl all over him.

I can't get it to embed, but here's the link:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/vp/30443821#30443821


Welcome back my_own_beat_now!! We missed you.

Hope everyone is well!

YAY! Finally! The first pictures of Gale since his accident that have surfaced.

They are from an Elton John sponsored AIDS benefit last month. I'm not a big fan of the scruff -- this is true in the general case for me -- but hell, at least he's alive and mugging for the camera. But. Boyfriend. I gotta say: EAT SOMETHING. Gale Harold has always been a slender man, but he just looks painfully skinny. Like QaF Season 1 Brian Kinney skinny. Or skinnier even. Anyway, I'm glad he's out and about, and I hope they find a way for him to make at least a cameo on Desperate Housewives this season. I've heard rumors that they may bring him back next season, but frankly, I think those are along the lines of wishful-thinking conjecture, not based in any facts.

plumduff did a meme a few days back about 10 fictional characters you'd like to sleep with. Very cleverly, she managed to list 10 characters played by Gale Harold that did NOT include Brian Kinney. This meme is a total failboat for me though, because I just don't get into fictional characters at all. (Although interestingly enough, I would do Brian Kinney!) I don't go to or watch movies, and the only TV show that I watch that's fictional is Supernatural. (And DH, when Gale was on, of course!) But still, I don't want to do Castiel or Sam or Dean...I want to do Misha or Jared or Jensen. (Or all three. Heh.) Sort of goes along with me liking RPF/S but not so much on the FPF/S.

Now that I've said that, I read an absolutely stunning Castiel/Dean fic by fleshflutter the other day. "whose wings, though tattered, shall carry me home" It's only 2200 words and if you've ever seen SPN you should read it. :-)

I'm bummed that the Prez is speaking on Tuesday and making me wait an extra day to see what Adam does with Motown week. That also means the results show will conflict with SPN on Thursday. What's a fangirl to do?

Hope y'all are having a pain-free Monday!

Well, I failed yesterday: I didn't make a post. It's not like I didn't have time or anything. I just didn't have anything to say and I forgot to make something up in time!

Much excitement yesterday in Green Day Land on the flist. At least 3 flisties got passes to see the premiere screening of "Heart Like a Hand Grenade" in LA next week. Even if the boys don't show up for their documentary, I expect a good time will be had by all. And I want detailed reports!!!

There was a musical clip circulating around the internet purported to be from the new CD, however a number of people called it out as fake: It was actually from an Oasis song. The irony of this is that about two years ago Noel Gallagher was bitching in the press about how "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" was a ripoff of "Wonderwall." This was amusing not only because it had been at least two years since BOBD had been on the charts, but mostly because A)it's not like he invented that incredibly common chord progression, and B)in that case, did he forget to list the Beatles as co-writers on all his albums?

I suppose I could have babbled a bit about American Idol, except that my boy Adam advanced to next week to the surprise of exactly no one. But someone needs to clue-in the little girls drowning out Ryan Seacrest with their screams of "I love you, Adam" that they sound dumber than usual. Do they actually believe those drag queen pictures weren't really him?? Next week is country week, which will present a bit of a challenge to my lovely guy-linered gay glam rocker. Personally, I think he should do "Crazy" by Patsy Cline.

Studio version of "Black or White." It's a lot more controlled than the live version.


Barb has reminded me that Supernatural is on tonight. Boy, my TV watching has skyrocketed of late. I've got AI on Tue and Wed, SPN on Thurs, and I had Desperate Houswives on Sun, but now that Gale's gone (sob), I guess that's free again. Good thing I don't have one of those...whatchacallums...oh, lifes.

I've got a few days off, which has been nice, but not much else new going on. You know, sometimes I think I like my life like that. Off to go grocery shopping, woohoo!

Of interest to various assorted people on my flist:


Via cleolinda: A very interesting and cogent essay on the differences between fiction and fanfiction by dien. Worth a read.


A blog by some dude on some TV show called "Heros."

For a few, brief, shining moments we thought there might be news about Green Day, but alas our hopes were dashed.


Of interest to me:

Gale Harold was delicious (well, except for the hair cut--IT MUST DIE) last night on Desperate Housewives. I counted at least three clear shout-outs to Queer As Folk, proving that Marc Cherry is a big ole closet (no pun intended) QaF fanboy. In my dreams, he'll write a guest role for Randy Harrison next.

Funniest scene: A karaoke cover of the Ramones!



Yes, as a singer, he's a fine actor. :-)