Exterminate, Regenerate

Would you look at that, it's April 30th-- there goes my "blog everyday in April" plan... Oh well.

Anyway, moving on, I hung out with a couple of friends last night. We watched Dr. Who episodes on Netflix, which they have on their Wii. For those of you who have never heard of "Dr. Who", it's a British science fiction series that revolves around the time travel adventures of The Doctor and his various companions.

The show started sometime back in the sixties, but I have only seen more recent episodes thus far. And I've only watched episodes in which David Tennent plays the Doctor. Even though I don't have anyone to compare his Doctor playing abilities to, Mr. Tennent is still my favorite Doctor. He wears converse with every outfit (even tuxes) and actually pulls it off. He also wears glasses sometime, which I think it great because I wear glasses and glasses are cool... (okay, not really, but whatever).

Something that makes "Dr. Who" such a unique and successful show (I mean it's been on since 1960) is that whenever the actor playing the Doctor stops playing the Doctor, the writers thought of like THE perfect way to working changes in casting without disrupting the show-- whenever the Doctor dies in the show, he regenerates. Only when this happens he is a different person, so-to-speak. What could be better than that? I mean it's the best way to deal with casting changes without losing viewers because the character is technically exact same, the actor playing him has just changed, which is a something the writers compensated for. Pur genius.

Sadly, David Tennent is no longer playing the Doctor. In the newest season, which just aired in America last Saturday, Matt Smith is the new Doctor. I haven't seen any of his episodes yet, but I have heard that he is fairly decent.

I have a feeling that David Tennent is always going to be my favorite though, and that is parcially due to the fact that he was in the fourth Harry Potter movie (he played Barty Crouch Jr.).

Anyway, if you haven't ever seen "Dr. Who", I highly suggest it. As of today, "Dr. Who" has been added to my DVR's list of shows to record. You should do the same as well. Unless of course your TV doesn't have a DVR, in which case you should just tune in everyday Saturday at 8:00pm on BBC America.

Random Fact: Charlie, you know that British Youtuber that I keep raving about? Well he's in a band called Chameleon Circuit that plays Trock (Time Lord Rock), which is songs based on "Dr. Who". My favorite song they sing is "Exterminate, Regenerate", but "Blink" is also very good.

This is Me...Actually, it's Charlie

I could spend this whole blog post complaining about schoolwork, but that seems to be the only thing I’ve been doing lately, so I’ll talk about more positive things.

For example, I decided to take a short YouTube break from my homework last Saturday. I watched the latest video from Charlie McDonnell and figured out the first thing that I am putting on my Christmas Wish List: Charlie’s first album.

Well, technically it isn’t the first album that he’s ever been involved in, but it is his first solo album! I was so excited to hear that he was finally making his music available for purchase because I tried to by his music last year and couldn’t find them, which made me really upset.

I could just go and buy the music off of iTunes right now, but instead I am going to pre-order a CD from his website. “Why?” you ask? Well, I could explain everything to you, but instead I will just direct you to Charlie’s blog and you can find out for yourself. (For those too lazy to click on a link and read another blog post, it’s basically because it looks super cool, it’s his very first solo album and where the song lyrics are supposed to be on the inside pamphlet he just wrote about himself.)

As a bonus to the wonderful CD, I really want to order the Cloning Charlie and This is Me Bundle because then not only do I get the fabulous CD, but I also get the Cloning Charlie shirt, which is a reference to one of Charlie’s other YouTube videos.

I probably seem like such a totally fan-girl/nerd for all this, but I don’t really care. I will wear the Cloning Charlie shirt proudly, assuming that dear Saint Nicholas is kind enough to pre-order me the bundle. ☺

My goodness… this post is unusually short. I apologize. I suppose I just have less to say when I force myself to be relatively optimistic. Huh. That really says a lot about my personality. Anyway, you should all go and pre-order Charlie’s CD, or at least buy the songs on iTunes, or, at the very least, go and watch his videos so that you can hear the songs-- they're amazing.

It's hard to beat an adorable British guy singing and playing the ukulele.

http://tinyurl.com/CharlieMerchandise ---> Go here to buy his CD/t-shirts!










(Click on the title of this blog and it will take you to Charlie's Blog about the Youtube video/his album!)