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So as many of you might have noticed from my general red-alert level of squee, I've been pretty excited about Showtime's The Borgias. AND IT IS JUST AS AMAZING AS I THOUGHT.

I urge everyone to watch it. EVERYONE IN THE UNIVERSE. It is filled with beautiful scenery and history and Francois Arnaud's FACE. I've already watched the pilot twice is two days. And thus I present in picspam form why this show is so fantastic.

( The Borgias Pilot Picspam!! )

So! It's been a whole week into January but I never post anything on time anyway! I wanted to do a top movies or top TV show of 2010 picspam but I got lazy. Plus TV shows are hard since they run September to September and frankly I'm not sure I can even think of ten movies from this year I liked all that much. (The list would be Inception! Inception! INCEPTION!)

Instead I did my Top 15 Albums of 2010. I did a Top 10 of 2009 last year and it's really fun to look back on. I decided to expand the field this year because there were a lot of albums that I really liked (without being crazy in love with like with Florence or Metric last year). Also apparently I am terrible about talking about what I like about music? I would be a really terrific music reviewer apparently. "THIS MAKES ME HAPPY! THIS SOUNDS REAL NICE! I LIKE THE PART THAT IS PRETTY!"

( TOP 15 ALBUMS OF 2010 PICSPAM! With bonus music! )

I watched Black Swan Monday night. IT WAS VERY PRETTY AND FREAKY AND AWESOME. So I decided to picspam. Spoiler alert: when hopped up on cold medicine that movie is even more trippy.

( Black Swan Picspam! No actual spoilers other than 'there is ballet!' and 'weird shit happens'. )

~Morgan

So I actually missed watching the premiere of Gossip Girl live because I was crashing a show at Fashion Week, which I felt was probably the only acceptable reason to miss my favorite flossy darlings.

I was planning on just posting up a short entry with some thoughts and maybe one graphic of Blair and Serena prancing through Paris. But then, as it turned out, the whole episode was so pretty I found it sort of impossible not to picspam. My lack of self control, let me show you it.



( Gossip Girl 4x01 Picspam: OH LALA! )

So I put these caps together last week but was too lazy to put together the picspam until today. But we all know how happy I am to have the flossy insanity of XOXO back in my life so therefore I give you:


( Gossip Girl 3x13: Anyone who meets you can see you're an elitist snob who's perfect around a secret society. )

I just want to thank snowicane for allowing me the time to do this. It's all thanks to you, annoying combination of snow and rain that seemed like it was totally awful in the morning and then became SUNNY by the time I woke up again.

(I was watching the local news and they were like "MY GOD STAY IN YOUR HOUSE IF YOU WANT TO SURVIVE!" I'm not even exaggerating. Then they threw to one reporter who was reporting next to the car she had wrecked on the way to work! "This just in! I HIT A GUARD RAIL STAY INSIDE OMG DON'T DIE VIEWERS!")



( I start spinning slipping out of time/was that the wrong pill to take? )

So that thing happens to me that always happens when a new season of LOST comes on. Which is that I become reobsessed with the show, even though I haven't really thought about it in months. When this reobession compounded with an Amazon DVD sale...basically it was bad. I ended up buying seasons 3 and 5 and watching a whole bunch of Juliet episodes and deciding I really need to waste my life picspamming. BUT DVD QUALITY CAPS YOU GUYS!



( Picspam: Top 5 Badass Juliet Moments. {She's a bad mother-SHUT-YO-MOUTH!} )

So! I can't believe the year is almost ending. Goodbye 2009. Goodbye aughts! The 00s have been sort of the worst decade ever though so...maybe I should be like hello 10s? Seriously though, think about the last ten years. 9/11. Katrina. Bush (twice!). The worst economic meltdown since the Great Depression. The Twilight Saga. I mean this year alone we had all those celebrity deaths too. (seriously?! Brittany Murphy?! WTF!) So let's hope 2010 is a little less wonky.

Anyway I was planning on a doing a bunch of best of lists for the year but then I realized that ermmm I don't think that many movies were all that great this year? Or perhaps I just didn't see enough movies for a top ten? And TV is always hard to do 'best of the year' because TV seasons run September to May not January to January. (For instance HIMYM was awesome and delightful at the end of the season last year but has sucked like a hoover this year so where does that leave it exactly?)

So instead I will be doing Top Ten Albums of the Year because music is easy and I'm obsessed with it! Also my insanely long commute this year has allowed me time to listen to more whole albums instead of doing playlists. So without further ado:

( Top Ten Albums of 2009! )

Why is it so hard to write coherently about music? I find myself just going "IT'S GOOD AND SOUNDS PRETTY AND MAKES ME EARS HAPPY OMGOMGIDK!" I'm so ~eloquent~.

~Morgan

First of all it's become abundantly clear why I don't picspam more often as apparently I am unable to put together a picspam that is a normal size and instead feel the need for it to be of EPIC proportions. I need to work on this. At the very least I did most of the capping/coloring while watching Are You Afraid of the Dark, so at least I was amused.

Secondly, last week's episode of Gossip Girl was sort of awesome wasn't it? Wasn't it? Bueller? Ok maybe it's just me and my love for Nate and Serena being ~card sharks~ and Blair whoring out Chuck to a dude.

( Gossip Girl 3x06 Picspam! It's the episode where Blair whores out Chuck for fun and profit and Nate and Serena get all Ocean's Eleven, if eleven stands for how many brain cells they have between them! )

SO! I've been planning to do this picspam since last year but have been too lazy to get around to it. And sort of rightly so, as it took me FOREVER. But now, it is completed in all of it's glory so that everyone can acknowledge that Gossip Girl is truly American Hanadan.



( Gossip Girl = Hana Yori Dango: The Comparison Picspam )

Enjoy!