Very cool, if true

It's a good thing I'm not a geek, since I have zero idea who those people are.

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One of them is in the modern equivalent of Murder She Wrote, the other did a Bez for Orbital once.

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I've heard of Murder She Wrote and Orbital.

I mean, if one was an actor from a well-regarded American police procedural or a musician from a Belgian electro act, I might have more chance of recognising them I guess.

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skreidle.livejournal.com

Well, Nathan Fillion (as Richard Castle) is a reasonably well-regarded American police drama. (Also, you may be familiar with a popular, short-lived little series called Firefly, and the follow-on movie Serenity.)

Matt Smith is the current Doctor Who. :)

Edited Date: 2012-07-18 02:09 am (UTC)

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kashandara.livejournal.com

You might think he'd be familiar with these things, but it saddens me dayly that he really really isn't.

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skreidle.livejournal.com

That oughta be rectified. :)

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You realise you're doing the equivalent of hipster kids who are all "I don't listen to them, they're too popular", right?

You'll be hanging out in Shoreditch next.

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http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2670

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Whatever Nick's reply was that was going to be my comeback. ;)

Oh my god, he's a HIPSTER NERD.

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If it makes me a hipster nerd to like popular mainstream TV shows and films, I think maybe you have your definitions wrong.

If I was saying "pfah, that Whedon character is too mainstream for me - I'll only watch horror things written by obscure Eastern Europeans in the original Polish, without subtitles" or "I liked him before he was popular" then it'd be a fair cop.

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I think Belgian electro-acts count :P

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So since I like Belgian electro, I should also be familiar with Joss Whedon and co? I don't think that follows...

Also, I don't think there are any industrial bands I've managed to like before they got popular, much to my shame.

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No, but then I'm not being ENTIRELY serious.

I don't think there are any bands ever that I've liked before they were really well known, but then I don't go out and find new music..

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I've listened to a few things months before The Guardian was all over them, but that's really just a case of being slightly ahead of other 30something middle class people.

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(also the show Nathan Fillon is in that's a police one appears to be about forensics according to the imdb - I went off those after overdosing on CSI. I prefer stuff about street policework ie something like The Wire, The Shield or Homicide)

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I'm glad I haven't really done CSI just because I think it would be easy to overdose. I've heard good things about Castle.

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The problem with CSI, and it's a big one, is that almost every single episode at the point where I watched it was the same in structure. Since whichever channel it was on showed at least four episodes a week of CSI and CSI:Miami, this became very obvious very fast.

Also the ridiculous unreality of it in a semi-real world set show just got more and more ridiculous.

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Castle episodes mostly also have the same structure. But, thankfully, the point of the show isn't the crime-solving (which doesn't work the same way each week), but watching the characters get into (and out of) situations. It's more like, say, Miami Vice than CSI in that respect. You're watching it because the main characters are cool, not because you actually care about a particular crime.

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Also, Mark has a tshirt that says "I listen to bands that don't even exist yet".

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Mark is basically a hipster geek though, isn't he?

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He doesn't wear thick framed glasses or tight trousers.

He does have a ridiculous amount of Apple hardware, though.

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He's so much of a hipster, he's smirking patronisingly at the ones who're still wearing thick framed glasses and tight trousers. That was so last year. This year it's no eyewear and Oxford bags (which I shall assume he wears, being in Oxford as he is)

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He is not a hipster.

I wouldn't have married a hipster. That would have been crazy.

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Whatever, hipster-bride

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Also, in that example, I'm the one reading the magazine, not the other one, most likely. Sorry.

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It's kind of funny that people who like things that can be considered alternative will complain about their tastes being frowned upon or otherwise remarked upon by those in the mainstream of media, but are equally surprised by/sometimes outright intolerant of people who don't share their alternative tastes.

I don't mean this specific case, but it's pretty noticeable sometimes. There's this odd assumption that it your tastes in one form of media are "alternative" (or are ones you claim as being alternative even if it is actually mainstream), then they will be in other respects too. Warhammer 40k, Marvel comics and boardgames are three things that I don't see as being linked together, yet you'll see stores selling all three and people will assume that if you like one, you'll like the others too and sometimes be surprised that you don't. Musical tastes, for example, are pretty separate to taste in TV shows, but it's pretty obvious that some people assume alternative music fans all love sci-fi/horror/fantasy.

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fragglechick.livejournal.com

Hahahahaha!

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until i zoomed the image, i was wondering who the slightly boyish woman was.

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call-waiting.livejournal.com

She's Nathan Fillion, silly.

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meaningrequired.livejournal.com

I was going to ask, which one!

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spacelem.livejournal.com

Cool, it's Nathan Fillion! And some fan with no eyebrows.

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moniqueleigh

Hahaha! That's been my complaint about Matt Smith from pretty much the first time I saw him: "But that can't be the Doctor! He's got no eyebrows!!" Meanwhile everybody else was going on about the chin. That, I can handle. But the lack of eyebrows just weirds me completely.

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You're going to have great fun when we meet _actual_ aliens. :->

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moniqueleigh

LOL, I know!

Normally this sort of thing doesn't really bother me, but something about this guy... Maybe it's that the hair on top of his head is so dark...

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fragglechick.livejournal.com

*happy place*

SDCC looked SO goddamn awesome this year. GUTTED.

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It's not really my kind of convention (I prefer things like Eastercon), but I think I'd like to see it in person some day, just to boggle.

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moniqueleigh

This.

The mere idea of that many people in one space just makes me want to curl up in the fetal position. But the idea of seeing that many of my fandoms colliding tickles me, too.

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pennski.livejournal.com

Are they doing "Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!" do you think - or is it just me seeing dinosaur claws in there?

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doubtingmichael.livejournal.com

I would have believed you if you'd said the one on the right was Charlie Sheen.

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On the one hand, I can totally see that.

On the other hand, I'm going to have to ask you to turn in your geek license.

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doubtingmichael.livejournal.com

If enjoying Being John Malkovich means not being a geek, I don't want to be a geek.

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BJM was a very geeky movie.

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doubtingmichael.livejournal.com

Yes. Such a shame Charlie Sheen has never done any other film either before or since. Ahem.

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