csi:ny. kind of.

and, ok, fuck, it's... way late again. tomorrow: how the men's studies lecture in my "gender and sexuality in the nordic countries" course makes me have warmfuzzy thoughts about mac and danny applies to csi:ny.

i fear my own pontification.

also, this is a gip, because stellaluna_ and danny both find mac's denseness irresistable in light of his big, logical brain. hell, who am i kidding? so do i. edit because i forgot to mention that it's obviously also because everyone loves a man fondling his gun.

gary!

it was actually gary oldman's birthday yesterday.  in any practical sense, i don't particularly care about his birthday--it's not like i know him personally--, but i've seen enough pictures posted that i figured it was as good an excuse as any to post. 

so i present ( my favourite gary oldman picture )

, the one that inspired it's called the world. 

the other thing that inspired said novellette was wolfsage's comment about gary growling here (i hunted through months of community and journal posts for this damn thread :facepalm:).  and my favourite bit of unapologetically kinky fantasy ( from that fic: )

nifty music: finnish jazz film soundtrack

this movie's called keisarikunta ("empire"--it's a bar) and came out before christmas.  the finnish-language films don't get subtitled even in swedish, and it's been running all that time and still isn't on dvd, so i haven't seen it yet.  but it's set in the thirties or forties and the trailer was enough to convince me that i wanted the soundtrack.  wax bought it a few weeks ago and i'd've listened to it non-stop if she didn't keep complaining.*

keisarikunta.zip

and as samples here are the three songs from the trailer that really, truly hooked me.  they're all in english, but 2/12 tracks are instrumental and there's a fair dish of finnish too.  the finnish jazz is charming.

charles salter - minnie the moocher  it's that "hi di hi di hi" song, if you didn't know--the one fry & laurie sing in the pilot of jeeves & wooster.  the lead singer's voice is characterful and there's this backup chorus and.  it's really irresistable.

tidjân - diga diga doo  lots of nonsense words in a rich bass voice you could drown in. 

emma salokoski - i'm a dreamer  the song that tipped the scale for me because the one line at its emotional climax stuck in my brain from the first time i heard it.  a sweet clear high alto voice, wistful and beguiling, with a lullaby-ish tune.







*she only approves of playing things on repeat when they're her newest british indie rock fixations.