Still sick, so no first day of uni today.

No work either. I slept a lot and tried not to throw up. Woohoo. Hopefully better tomorrow. I did get to watch Blues Brothers (gods I love the music and car chases in that movie) and PoA. But that's about it.

Awww, man, I want the DVDs for my next interest, but it is SO expensive. I've wanted it so long! *cries*

SLIDERS

Sliders remains, in my mind, one of the coolest TV shows ever. It was well-written, interesting and had good characters, and most importantly it was built on a genuinely interesting premise. I watched the first two seasons religiously, geeking out over the scifi aspects and adoring Jerry O'Connell (who, by the way, is still very hot on Crossing Jordan, but with a worse character.)

Here's a primer for those who've never heard of it: Quinn Mallory is a physics student at university. He's a serious nerd and has been investigating the possibilities of a theory of Einstein's that states that there are many dimensions in space, creating multiple versions of our world. Quinn discovers a way to jump from our dimension to another through a wormhole. He uses a timer to open the wormhole, and after a programmed amount of time the timer returns him home.
Quinn has a crush on a girl he works with, Wade Wells. He takes her and his professor, Maxamillian Arturo, with him on his second adventure. He has to make the wormhole bigger to accomodate them. Unfortunately he makes it too big and it kind of spirals outside and another poor sucker, a washed-up singer called Rembrandt Brown, gets sucked into it as well.
The next world they get to ends up having a (tidal wave? twister? killer bees? all happened, can't remember which one was in this ep.) Quinn forces the timer to open another wormhole and...uh-oh. They didn't go home, they don't know how to get back and now the timer's on the skids, setting whatever time it feels like before the next 'slide' into another dimension. So they just keep going in the hopes of getting home.

Unfortunately it all went hopelessly awry in the third season, and truly turned to crap after John Rhys-Davies left over artistic differences: "I was artistic..." Even Jerry, who seems like a very easygoing guy, left before the end. That's gotta tell you something. For a show with endless possibilities they really made a mess of things, but watch the first two seasons for great TV.

ETA: Jerry was also in one of my favourite movies as a teenager, Stand By Me. Awesome flick.










Professor Arturo


Rembrandt Brown (the idea is that there are often other versions on you on different worlds).


Wade Wells.


Quinn Mallory.






OMG Henry!


Room 12 at the Motel 12 <3











Okay, you know what? Jerry's hot:









The only other person I know on LJ who likes Sliders is [livejournal.com profile] dudepower1982.

It would also be cool to get the Part of Five DVD set, I used to love that show too. It's Foxy's old show! Anyone know any good sites about it?

Link of the Day is my favourite new community, [livejournal.com profile] teh_music. As you all know I'm not so much a music person but this community is SO COOL. Go join it.

Pics of the Day - well, just coz you lot don't like Jake as much as I do doesn't mean I'm not gonna post him. So Jake, who is hot.











No ma'am, we're musicians - 143 days
Green Queen

From: [identity profile] anniversaire.livejournal.com


sounds pretty cool. kinda of sounds like quantum leap and that's one of my all-time favorite shows.

From: [identity profile] truffle-shuffle.livejournal.com


Mmmmmmmm. Jake. That's a welcome sight first thing in the morning. :)

From: [identity profile] framianne.livejournal.com


Ok, the shirtless pics have...unsettled me a bit.
I might or might not just have been converted to the Jake loving.

mmm...

::watches pictures again::

mmm....

From: [identity profile] green-queen.livejournal.com


I loved Quantum Leap as a kid. Once a scifi nut always a scifi nut, right? They're different in style and tone but both classic scifi shows.

From: [identity profile] truffle-shuffle.livejournal.com


It should help for sweet dreams, I'd guess. ;) God, his body is incredible.

From: [identity profile] green-queen.livejournal.com


It really is. So nicely toned and just...I'm sorry, what? Jake. Yum.

From: [identity profile] green-queen.livejournal.com


What, this Jake?

Image

This one right here?

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Okay, now I'm jsut showing off, but these are funny:

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From: [identity profile] framianne.livejournal.com


Oh my. ::falls on floor and drools a bit::

The...first...picture...all...wet...

I want to lick his abs...

From: [identity profile] green-queen.livejournal.com


I have a ton of the wet pics. I'll post them tomorrow, k?

From: [identity profile] hobbitofkobol.livejournal.com


awwww I used to love Sliders!
Now I only use it in that phrase "you know, Gimli was in Sliders". And people tell me "in what?"

From: [identity profile] ladydewinter.livejournal.com


[livejournal.com profile] teh_music is a *great* community. But it's also dangerous. The amount of money I spent on CDs because of that community... I don't really want to think about it. But then, I'm a music addict, so.

From: [identity profile] overloved.livejournal.com


I LOVED Sliders! But I didn't know it was on DVD. I think I'll Netflix them. Cooool!

From: [identity profile] green-queen.livejournal.com


I still love it. There's some fanfiction online that's essentially like episodes of the show and is VERY good. And I talked to my friend for a few hours last semester about dimensions in terms of quantum physics. Which was cool :D

From: [identity profile] green-queen.livejournal.com


LMAO it hasn't affected me that way. I just pick up songs that sound interesting. Probably because I almost never buy CDs.

Nice Rufus icon :D

From: [identity profile] green-queen.livejournal.com


I know how it ended. They escaped from that world that was about to be hit by meteors, and that was the end of Sliders as I knew it. Everything after that was crap.

That sounds a bit vicious but I was so disillusioned.

From: [identity profile] ladydewinter.livejournal.com


I used to buy lots of CDs as a teenager, then I seriously cut back when I was 18 or so until last year. I had directed my money to things like books and dvds, but now I'm back to my music addicted ways. It's crazy, but I like it.

And thank you :) I looove the Rufus. I'm going to see him soon! He's supporting Keane on a concert in Cologne. *bounces*
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