That behind-the-scenes Merlin thing is on RIGHT NOW and it is ALREADY AWESOME!

( reactiony - spoilers, I guess )

FYI, my recording totally FAILED. I got the first minute and then it has all mysteriously disappeared. *is sad* Hopefully somebody got it, because I want to watch again OMG RIGHT NOW. Even with the lame voice-over of lameness.

Dear Liam,

Stop it. Stop it right this instant! You can't go around being this hot. What the hell am I going to tell your brother?

With the wrongest of wrong love,
Me.

Dearest Hemmo,

Sorry, my eyes just tripped and fell on your hot, wet baby brother. It means nothing! And I'm only getting all hot and bothered at him scooping Miley Cyrus up like that because that's how Kim used to hold Robbie, OKAY?

Devotedly (and I mean 100%, I SWEAR *shifty eyes*)
Me.

Also:


*swoons* Smiling, laughing, PANTING, sweating Hemmo. I'm not sure what I exactly did to make the universe love me quite so much lately, but I'm more than willing to reap the rewards!

(Also good to see the co-ordination hasn't much improved since the DWtS days! Zing! Seriously, though, I could just watch him talk with his hands like that FOREVER - the way he holds them out with fingers splayed is a very Hemsworth-like trait.)

Okay, so this is my current desktop. You have no idea how much I'm loving this new widescreen monitor that is actually bigger than my TV.





CONNER! AND KRYPTO! IN SMALLVILLE! This may very well be my most favourite image in the history of comic books ever, and I stare at it and smile sappily on a daily basis.

And if you can read that after shrinking, I'm not looking at something Merlin-related as the firefox label would suggest, but a quick interview with Francis Manapul, who happens to be the artist of said desktop. It includes this:

5) What hero or villain would you like to change if you could and why?
hmm.. this is gonna sound totally self serving..but I'd have to say Superboy. Not so much changing the character but more exploring him and bringing him to a wider audience. Geoff believes that Superboy is right up there as one of the greater characters at DC and I'm totally with him. Hopefully after it's all said and done we'll have accomplished something that would bring a wider spotlight on the character. Because it's just too cool to not be in said spotlight. That we'd like to try and change.

*nodnodnod* I think my baby's in good hands.

Also, why yes, that IS Adobe Premiere Elements I have open there. I know a couple of you have been gently persuading me away from the evil that is WMM but eek! Looks like some learning curve, and I'm wondering if there's better software out there before I take up too much time with tutorials and whatnot.

Still catching up on my Smallville viewing and, finally, that word doc shortcut in the middle of the screen is something that I'm not really sure will ever be let out for public consumption, but it's a Merlin AU that got away from me. It's inspired by a FANTASTIC film, Fido, which takes everything you know and love from the genre of dog movies, but replaces the dog with a ZOMBIE. Highly recommended. In my AU, the dog/zombie role is filled by a warlock and it's basically the story of a boy and his warlock. I've stalled somewhere around the point where said boy realises he wants to FUCK said warlock because, DUDE. I don't think even MY brain can pull off something so twisted.

Anyway, here's the opening line, just because:

“Arthur and Morgana, I love you both so much, and you have earned the new warlock that's coming with us to Camelot.”

Milk bones to anyone who gets the reference! The initial idea was so hilariously cracky and fun to play with but, yeah. Right now, the thing I love most is the title. It was initially Merlin and Me after I'd fallen for movie!Marley (and Merlin is SO a Marley) but now it's Old Speller. C'mon, that's freakin' AWESOME, admit it. Heh.

So it appears that while I've been off testing the greener pastures of ABC Family, The CW has been working on something to bring me back.

Dearest friends of impeccable taste, this is your advance warning:



It looks EPICALLY BAD. Like, think of something that actually WANTS to be Twilight, then add Lucas from Smallville and make it as formulaic as you possibly can. Put that all together in an extended trailer to have me mildly interested for a few minutes and then, at 3.15, throw in a SURPRISE!IAN SOMERHALDER moment and any resistance I may have ever had is lost. I actually squeed out loud. This can in no way be a good sign.

So, yes, I think I will be watching. And possibly reading the books, just so I can be all, "OMGZZZZ YOU GUYS, SHE'S SUPPOSED TO HAVE BLONDE HAIR AND BLUE EYES - THIS TOTALLY RUINS THE ENTIRE STORY!" because, c'mon, that shit is fun.

Also, when is TV going to catch up to the zombie trend, huh? Vampires are so last year. It's like people who are still, "omg cupcakes!" when EVERYBODY knows it's all about brownies now. *g*

*clutches tummy*

Who knew that living on nothing but pancakes and crumpets can make you queasy! No, having three meals a day consisting of crumpets (and pancakes for snacks!) is not one of those fad diets, but the reason for this insanity will become abundantly clear after the cut:

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MERLIN TOLD ME TO.

Also, our local Coles has a CARDBOARD CUT-OUT MERLIN who, like, hypnotises me into buying the stuff displayed next to him. I drop by on my lunch break, just to say hi...and purchase his sweet, sweet offerings.

Annnnd, then there's the small fact that by eating as much as I can, I increase my chances of GOING TO PIERREFONDS AND MEETING THE CAST OMG. There's this whole other part of the prize - something about London and hotels and spending money but DUDE. You get to go to freakin' CAMELOT.

Excuse me, must go force down another pancake...

solanyxe tagged me for the youtube meme and it's not like I could back down from a challenge, right? So in case anyone else was interested:

5 Facts About Me



Um, pick the fandoms! Heh.

Source material includes Merlin, South Park, Merlin behind the scenes stuff, Supernatural, The Inbetweeners, Flight of the Conchords, Psych, Hollyoaks, Kyle XY, The Two Coreys, Home and Away, Hemmo in real life, Beautiful People, Power Rangers: Jungle Fury, Star Trek, Another Gay Sequel, and my dog! Oh, and Ben Lee for the music. It's pretty much like a look inside my mind at any given part of the day.

OH MY FUCKING GOD YOU GUYS.



LOOK AT HIM. All evil and hot and evilly hot. This is, like, what would happen if Zoe had convinced Kim to go on the run with her, stalking people in the wilderness.

Also, he's totally channeling Heath Ledger here. The smiles and scene by the water with the mumbling, especially.

Anyone who said they've cast too much of a pretty boy lightweight as Thor better take another look because - just - GUH. Dude, the level of dirty, dirty thoughts these images give me... um, yeah.

Ooh, David Twohy's latest blog!

A Perfect Getaway will be released August 14, and a trailer will be out soon, and he has a congrats for our boy:

And to Chris Hemsworth: Good on ya, mate. Chris played “Kale” for me in A PERFECT GETAWAY, and just this week he landed lead roles in both THOR and RED DAWN, assuming negotiations work out.

*loves* *but loves the accompanying still even more*



LOOK AT HIM! All scruffy and mmm, and wow, the last time I remember Hemmo trying to grow a beard was during that plane/helicopter crash storyline (btw, do you think, when he read the Trek script, that he thought, "Good god, why does every method of transportation my characters travel in have to crash and burn?"?) and he was at the Logies scratching his patchy facial hair every time the camera panned across the H&A table. A few years down the track, however, he can totally pull it off.

I think this movie's gonna be fun. Also, I think he might die. Again.

(And is he wearing his ring again for this role? I swear, it's like Bradley James' ring - he never seems without it.)

The Thor news has hit the Aussie press: Herald Sun article with nice photo. It also mentions Liam's latest role. Poor Liam - loses a huge role to his brother, then is probably putting up with a lot of ribbing over this Miley Cyrus movie.

Speaking of Liam, check out his audition for 90210.

Liam Hemsworth from Sam Nolan on Vimeo.

He has these little QUIRKS to his mouth when he's flirty that kind of kill me dead. That Hemsworth smile...*sigh*

My favourite report so far, is probably from Dark Horizons just because it says Hemmo "got his break playing the often shirtless but generally kind Kim Hyde..." and I swear to god, I got all sniffly at the description. Often shirtless but generally kind. Is that not the most perfect thing you have ever heard?

Oh! And because today has once again made me nostalgic for BOTH my H&A boys, we should have a Jason Smith update. Starting with ( new IMDb profile pics )

He's so cute when he's trying to look all grown-up and manly, bless him. Also, he's posted a new song to myspace. I kind of want to do a Hemmo vid to 'Celebrity', just because it would be hilarious. Oh, and I highly recommend reading the comments over there. There are one or two people who make MY level of craziness look quite normal and mundane in comparison. *g* (But I really want to comment and recount my own Robbie dreams in explicit detail. Ahem.)

Okay, see, now it's just getting ridiculous.

HEMMO HAS BEEN CAST AS THOR!

I am currently sitting here torn between squeeing or laughing out loud at how amazing this all is. I keep remembering our sweet little Kimothy on his first day at Summer Bay High, and now he's going to be a fucking NORSE GOD.

This will surely mean a multi-picture deal, right? And he's likely to get to play in that Marvel sandbox with Iron Man and Hulk and...OMG, even if DC is my universe, this is exciting.

And there should be lots and lots of Hemsworth skin on display (hope you've gotten over that particular hang-up, baby *g*). I hope they don't make him too muscle-bound - something along the lines of Brandon Routh's transformation for Superman would do me - Hemmo is naturally bulkier than BJ anyway, so I think it would work.

AND NOT ONLY THAT, but according to Screenrant, He has also been cast as the lead in the remake of Red Dawn.

I love you, Hemmo, and you totally deserve all this. \o/

ETA: Nikki Finke has some interesting tidbits about how Hemmo got the role:

The way Chris Hemsworth got the part of Thor is one of those great Hollywood backstories that happens only once in a blue moon. Ward had found Chris during one of the manager's many scouting trips to Australia. Ward brought him to Los Angeles and really put him out there to casting directors and production executives. As for the major agencies, I hear CAA passed on the meeting, Endeavor took it but passed on repping him, and ICM was interested but dragged their feet. But Eileen Feldman got his appeal immediately.

Chris had read for the part of Thor but wasn't given a test because a casting director had nixed him early on. I'm told Chris' younger brother Liam (who's also a ROAR client) then tested for the role of Thor, but Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige passed. Then, after a conversation with Ward ("You've got to reconsider Chris, he's your guy"), Feige decided to let Chris read again. And once Marvel put him on tape, it was "Oh my god". Branagh came to town last week and saw the Chris test and made the final casting decision today.

Oh My God, this is awesome.

I think it's time to say it, guys, so here goes: WE TOLD YOU SO!

ETA: Um, this is actually all pending on an official announcement, I guess. But we got that with Cabin after the rumours, so I am hopeful. And even if it ends up not being true, it will have created awesome buzz around the place.

I spend of good majority of the working day surrounded by keys. Lots and lots of keys. Registering, tagging, loaning, cutting, hunting down those pesky missing ones...the little fuckers are the bane of my existence. Also, for some strange reason, the metal in keys reacts with my skin and causes my hands to smell like garlic. It's BIZARRE, and I really, really hate keys.

And as well as keys, I hate those garage door remote thingies because they're big and cumbersome and never fit neatly in the key cupboard. Well, I hated them until this week. Because this week, THIS one was handed to me:

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It only takes a small thing like that to totally brighten my day.

Unfortunately, I've tried pressing every combination of those buttons I can think of, and Merlin has yet to be zapped into my office. *sigh*

Today's Hemsworth news isn't about Chris. Shocker. But not quite as shocking as Liam's new role: *dies laughing*

DISNEY. As MILEY CYRUS' LOVE INTEREST. In an adaptation of a NICHOLAS SPARKS NOVEL.

Can this get any more ridiculously fantastic? Yes, yes it can. Just by reading his character synopsis: "Hemsworth is playing a member of the local cool crowd, an awesome beach volleyball player with Ivy League dreams."

... ... \o/

Okay, Liam, quick disclaimer. Any mocking I may do now or in the future regarding this role will be done out of love.

Well, one Hemsworth-free post is enough, right? Ahem.

lucky_rabbit has the best radio interview with Chris Hemsworth OF ALL TIME.

It has Star Trek, Cabin in the Woods and New Moon gossip. Go, Go, Go!

Oh, stalkery Twilight fans. How dare you upset my boy. *g* I picture everything going into slow motion with dramatic music as the two casts cross paths in the lobby, eyeing each other warily. The Whedon/Meyer clan wars would be epic. Sorry Jacob Black, I'm on Team!Cabin!

He sounds almost disappointed to not have stalker fans. We must rectify this immediately! Who's up for a Canadian road (and air) trip. *snerk*

Also, if Cabin is still "a cross between The Truman Show and Night of the Living Dead as Hemmo TOTALLY SPOILS (don't kill him, Joss), then it's still close to the leaked script floating around. *cough*who else has read it?*cough*

Ahahahaha! Hemmo's IMDb Starmeter: Up 3,197% in popularity this week.

Three THOUSAND percent. Chris Pine is only at 700!

And that would account for the random "I've just googled that hot guy from Star Trek" messages I've been getting. *waves*

Your daily Hemsworth fix:

Apparently, our boy was on E! News the other day, but I am no longer a lady of leisure able to watch E! all day so I missed it. *sigh* Holidays are never long enough.

But here's a video from AMCTV with a little bit of Chris. He seems so much more relaxed and...chirpy when talking to people now.

Popstar.com has an interview where he mostly pimps Trek and mentions Cabin in the Woods...and also how much Dancing with the Stars sucked. We KNOW, Hemmo. Let it go. *g*

Also, I have read a LOT of reviews praising Chris Hemsworth for his acting. People are talking about him EMOTING. Good god, if only they knew what it was like to fangirl this man five years ago. Remember when people had to hold me back from potential flamewars on BTTB? Those were the days.

OMG LOVE!

( spoilers and some proud Hemmo fangirling )

Okay, you know what's awesome about having an entire week off work? The fact that it's midday and I can sit here in my comfy Wonder Woman PJs just stalking googling Hemmo and eating cereal out of the box. My life is pretty fucking awesome right now. *g*

And, hey, because that's all I seem to be capable of posting these days, here's another Hemsworth update:

+ Movieline has a fantastic interview with our boy in which he talks about Luke and Liam, how the three of them all got into acting, and how he now competes with Liam for roles - as in, he's READING FOR THOR next week! I know his name was thrown around in fannish circles last year, but then Liam was named as a contender and I thought that was good enough. Now I'm not sure who I'd prefer, but I guess I'll go with Chris because he's already proven his slash cred with Robbie/Kim and I'd like to see some nice Thor/Loki action (like in that Son of Asgaard or whatever run I read a few issues of a while back, when they were both young and hot and very, very gay.)

Also, he talks about working with JJ, Drew and Joss. I heard somewhere that he's actually good friends with Drew but I think that was part of a thinly-veiled "he didn't get the role because of acting ability" comment in which the dreaded word, "plank" was thrown about, so whatever. I just like that he describes them as "super-intelligent". Cute.

Oh, and he has a little bit to say about Dancing With the Stars, too. We lived through that with you, mate. We share your pain. *g*

I also love that when linking to the interview, UGO call Hemmo a "superstar of tomorrow (or, frankly, later today)". Hee.

+ Hemmo may be part of the Australian team for the Hollywood Ashes this year. And the very idea of Chris Hemsworth playing cricket opposite Daniel Radcliffe is going to entertain me for, like, the REST OF THE YEAR.

+ Star Trek premiere photos! Those with probably the least intrusive watermarks can be found here. I'm not 100% sold on the grey suit, but I think it's just because of the bagginess. Also, c'mon Chris, as your oldest and most loyal fans, you can tell us - what brand of mascara do you use?

+ Haven't mentioned this little article from the Herald Sun last month yet. He mentions kickboxing (so that's where he got the new litheness?) and his terrible surfboard addiction. Bless. It's quoted from GQ Magazine, but I'm yet to read it.


And now the mutts are calling me for playtime...

Apologies for the crappy quality - I am tech-stupid and this took ages as it is. Turns out he WAS on both shows this morning, and not only did they show some good footage of George Kirk in Star Trek (in which we hear his American accent for the first time), but they also showed early H&A footage, and we're talking his first episode, people. In which he met Robbie and Tash for the very first time and I helplessly spiralled headlong into an obsession that has never died. That is the holy grail of H&A eps for me and it's nice to see a little piece of it again. *sigh*

First up, Chris on Sunrise, in which he talks about landing the role in Star Trek and living in LA, fanboys JJ Abrams a little bit, and chats about his family.



How awesome is it that his parents are with him filming Cabin in the Woods in Vancouver! (I just picture him walking around covered in fake blood and his mum shaking her head and wondering why her boys couldn't just be accountants or something.) And also that Luke and Liam keep his head from getting too big.

Okay, on to The Morning Show, which is worth a watch for their brief recap of Hemmo's career thus far because it includes that moment I had given up hope of ever seeing again, when Robbie reached out and introduced himself to the new kid and the greatest friendship in Aussie soap history was born. Oh, and a nice bit of overacting!Kim from the early days, too. Heh.

Also, he talks about Trek, surfing, his relationship status (not that ANY of us were even interested in this information...) and weirdly flirts with Larry Emdur a little bit at the end.



OMG, I have missed this guy.

Also, heads up: the Star Trek premiere is tomorrow and Hemmo is expected on the red carpet. There's gotta be a couple of fannish sites that might get a photo/soundbite or two, right?

And the official website for CA$H is up. There are some new stills, and I now have a screensaver with Hemmo on it! Yay!

According to my sister (who has earned her Hemmo-stalker enabler stripes), Chris will be on Sunrise tomorrow morning to talk about life after Home and Away and that little space movie he has coming up next week. Not sure if he's back in the country, or it'll be via satellite, but DUDE, it's been FOREVER since we've had some live action Hemmo.

Hopefully, he'll be on before I have to leave for work, or there will be an awkward conversation about why I'm late. I mean, certain family members are aware of the importance of a TV boyfriend (requiring urgent phone calls) but I'm not sure if co-workers would understand. *g*


ETA: He's on at 7:50am. Live from "his home in LA", apparently. And if the little preview clips of George Kirk they've been showing are anything to go by, his 3 minutes in this movie are going to be awesomely heroic and mmm and probably worth the ticket price alone (plus, it's all pre-opening credits, I think, so if you're not into the Trek stuff, that's all you have to watch! *snerk* - Seriously, though, it's worth sticking around for the Quinto and Pine - Chris Pine even LOOKS like Hemmo.) The slicked back hair! The lycra! The explodey stuff! His American accent!

Also, whedonesque.com say that he's appearing on The Morning Show today. Not sure if they have their am TV mixed up, or he's on BOTH shows this morning, but I'll be at work for that one. Will try to record just in case.

Am back in the land of LJ. *clings* Will have to explain the absence later but for now, I must celebrate with NEW HEMMO!

First up, new IMDB profile pic:



(I think he's wearing the same shirt as he did in his first IMDB pic - the one taken from the gorgeous New Idea shoot before he moved to LA. It just looks a little more worn now.)

And then, FINALLY, thanks to the movie's fan site, we have something from CA$H...otherwise know as that movie with Sean Bean with a billion title changes that Hemmo filmed forever ago.

( two stills and the movie poster - YES HE'S ON THE POSTER )

Eeeeeeeee! I'm a little bit in love with Hemmo holding a gun (his arms!) and also Hemmo just, like, INHALING the scent of great big piles of cash. Heh. This looks like fun.

Also, he IS playing the character I most loved in the Cabin in the Woods script, so I am very pleased, even though I'm aware that it was a very early draft and they've probably changed all his moments of awesomeness anyway, Curt will probably still be fun. I at least hope he's able to subvert that jock role a little - the Curt in the early draft had these surprising moments of noble bravery and intelligence and I loved him for it. Also, he was hilarious. And if the dirt bike scene is still there, it will be EPIC.

+ Oh, South Park, I've missed you. This may have even been better than wee Zac Efron in that High School Musical episode last season. And I've never laughed so much while simultaneously cringing in embarrassment at all the little girls who are excitedly mystified at their "tingling ginies" when two Jonas brothers grind against each other on stage. Ahem.

+ Also, I'm watching American Idol this season, thanks to becoming addicted to the auditions which were repeated on Foxtel while I was home on weekends. I fell in love with Adam Lambert, and now I have to keep tuning in while he's around!

You can just go here for pictorial evidence of his prettiness, but I also quite liked the statement he made with 'Black or White' this week and when he sang about equality, it wasn't just skin colour he was talking about. That said, his performance of that song had nothing on Wes Carr last year...but his 'Satisfaction' might have been almost on par with Sophie's. *g*

( beware of dodgy youtube quality )

Other TV - I'm desperately trying to forget that Kyle XY is almost over and there's a criminal lack of Declan, although I love that he's still Kyle's go-to guy for secret Kyle business. When Dec is absent, I start shipping Kyle/Jessi like whoa. They're just so cute!

And I have to again reluctantly own up to watching The Secret Life of the American Teenager. SHUT UP! It made The Soup the other week (that whole, 'Can I borrow your pink cashmere sweater? I want my brother to have sex with me and I think he might if I can look innocent enough!' conversation) so I feel COMPLETELY VINDICATED, okay? It is, quite frankly, one of the worst shows on television, yet it's also impossible to look away. And if Ricky and Ben keep bonding like that, I will be FORCED TO SHIP THEM and go searching for fic in which Amy goes out and leaves the two daddies home alone to babysit and there is awkwardness and snarking, and then they make out while the baby's asleep. And from there, I'll only be a slippery slope away from shipping George/THE SAUSAGE KING, people! Also, Ashley's new boyfriend is Uncle Frankie from Big Love and he's a cute boy who is recovering from the emotional trauma of his dog dying, and I just want to HOLD him. I have truly sunk to new lows, here.

Oh! And I watched the first ep of Castle for a Nathan Fillion fix, and quite enjoyed it. Not my usual kind of show, but fun!