Occupation: Girl

So I saw The Avengers

Mon, 07 May 2012 17:08:56 GMT

Short version: I liked it (my mother loved it), but (for me) it wasn't the hot fudge sundae of film, although I understand why it might have been for someone else.

SPOILERS:

( Read more... )

comments

ALERT ALERT ALERT

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:06:22 GMT

@comingsoonnet: Francis Lawrence Offered The Hunger Games Sequel, Catching Fire

@HitFixDaniel: If you remember Francis Lawrence's handling of alt-reality dystopia on "Kings," he makes more sense for "Catching Fire."

@jenyamato: I prefer to think of Francis Lawrence as the guy who directed Gaga's "Bad Romance" video. That helps. #catchingfire

( PREPARE YOUR MIND TO BE BLOWN )

comments

Sad news

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:38:00 GMT

I keep not wanting to tell people but needing to tell people. Sam passed away somewhat unexpectedly yesterday afternoon--somewhat, because we'd been expecting the other shoe to drop for a full year, but you just never quite expect someday to be now. Maybe I'll talk about it at more length later. I'm just too tired to get into it right now, except to say that he was happy and peaceful.

I put together a couple of pages of pictures, if only as backup in case I lose the original files. These are the last two pictures I took of him, with my mother--he decided to rally for about half an hour to make everyone smile one last time, I think. (Pictured: tummy rub.) ( Read more... )

I may or may not be around much today. I already have a doctor's appointment scheduled (sigh), so I'll be gone for that anyway. I may sit around on Twitter for a while, I don't know. It's like, I feel terrible about--well, everything, really--but I don't really know what else to do with myself.

comments

And the kitchen sink

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:15:08 GMT

1) Bella Swan: vampiring better than you since *checks watch* 2008. This is the same teaser that ran in front of The Hunger Games, so you may have already seen it (stop poaching Katniss's deer, BELLA). ( Read more... )

2) Meanwhile, shit got real: The Hunger Games' box office crushes the Twilight movies. All of them.

3) I seem to have hit a hypomanic upswing; mine, as I've explained before, are pretty mild. The only thing someone would really notice from the outside is that I'm a bit more upbeat, enthusiastic, and talkative--but when a movie I've really been looking forward to comes out, that doesn't seem out of place. (Honestly, I've started wondering--as I've said before--if you can trigger manic moods. If nothing else, I think it suddenly being SUMMER IN THE MIDDLE OF MARCH gave me an overdose of natural light, and that may have caused it as well. As I recall, my most pronounced upswings are almost always in the spring and summer.) Otherwise, I'm outwardly calm, but as I've gotten older, I've been edging further and further into mild mania, and the happy creative bursts have been "evolving" into something less comfortable. The upside at the lower hypomanic end is that I feel happy and creative (verging on hypergraphic); at the high, verging-on-manic end, I feel overcaffeinated, impatient, and irritable, I have all these ideas but I can't concentrate or focus, I have a hard time sleeping, and I don't want to eat. I have a sample of BPAL's Safari blend, and a dab on the back of each hand (so I can smell it while I'm typing) seems to have centered me a bit. Once I was able to actually focus, I got 1600 words written in a couple of hours last night (there's your hypergraphia), but it took me all day to be able to concentrate that long.

On the other hand, you get wackadoo flights of fancy like the mandatory Panem TV schedule, and like this:

@cleolinda: WHY IS THIS STILL HAPPENING RT @NikkiFinke: Hugh Dancy To Star In NBC Series ‘Hannibal’

@cleolinda: Look, save some time. Modern-day Sherlock Holmes hunts Hannibal Lecter. In a dystopia. With a vampire. An alien vampire.

@cleolinda: The alien vampire is on the run from a beauty pageant to the death. Also, Sherlock is a werewolf. His brother is a steampunk faerie.

@writingfreak88: No alien ninja turtles?

( Read more... )

comments

So I saw The Hunger Games

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:09:15 GMT

Numbered thoughts are organized thoughts!

( Spoiler discussion )

comments

The odds may or may not be in my favor

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:41:56 GMT

THE HUNGER GAMES APPROACHETH. I have no idea when I'll get to see it, but I'm hoping in the next two days.

@SmartBitches: I think there’s a movie coming out. Something about gaming while hungry? Maybe it’s about Cheetos.

@cleolinda: I believe it’s the Doritos Hunger Bowl XXVII.

@SmartBitches: Brought to you by Ford?

@cleolinda: By the Ford Focus. Ford Focus: When you need to focus, focus on a Ford. And now back to you in the death arena, Caesar!

@SmartBitches: “Side curtain airbags would have been no help on that hit.”

@cleolinda: “Put your hands together for Taylor Swift and the Tesserae Dancers in the Snickers Half-Time Show!”

Sometimes, you get a little bit manic, and you can't concentrate, so you start scrolling through the TV listings, and you start thinking things.

PANEM MANDATORY VIEWING SCHEDULE – DAY OF REST, MARCH 25TH

( Read more... )

comments

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:54:28 GMT

"We were so wrong":

YOU ARE SO SCREWED, NOOMI RAPACE

SORRY TO SAY

Also: See the timeline of Weyland Industries and witness the birth of the David android. ( Read more... )

comments

ALERT ALERT ALERT

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:11:15 GMT

I probably need to say some things. I am still very tired from a persistent fevery death blarg, however. NONETHELESS the Dark Shadows trailer is out and it is not what any of us expected and I kind of love ~~Eva Green~~ it.

( Read more... )

ALSO IN OTHER NEWS they keep putting out Prometheus trailers--twenty seconds! A FULL MINUTE! Two and a half minutes sometime later today!--and for real, Christopher Nolan needs to step up his trailer game because The Dark Knight is one of my favorite movies but I would pretty much chew my own arm off and hit Batman in the face with it if he were standing between me and this movie.

( Read more... )

Also-also, all the reviews and Twitter comments from people who saw The Hunger Games at its premiere last week indicate that all persons involved have knocked it out of the park. My understanding is that Tonner will preview their Katniss doll (!!!!) the week the movie comes out. I am working on many things to post, like Secret Life and Varney and what-all, but: fevery death blarg. My health has not been good for a long while now. However, I obviously have to hang on until I see The Hobbit, so we ought to be good for a while. IT IS A GREAT TIME TO BE ALIVE.

comments

HAAAAACK

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:28:07 GMT

I should probably say something interesting, but I was having some blood pressure problems on Oscar weekend (stress-related), and then once I got through that, I caught my mother's cold, and then I got over it but she gave it to my stepfather and apparently I caught a completely separate iteration of it from him, because I spontaneously came down with a chest cold, including sore throat and hacking cough, at about 6:38 last night (the friend I was on the phone with can confirm this. "HACK! I think I just swallowed something wrong...? What is thACKHACKHACKHACKHARRRRRFFFFFFF"). My point is: Cinna (who I can't get to embed for the life of me).

Also, Katniss takes on Mugatu, to the shock of Wes Bentley's beard. ( Read more... )

So. In conclusion, not doing too well at the moment, but keep on keepin' on. Also, Cinna.

comments

Oscar liveblog #10

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 04:46:08 GMT

Another montage of actors explaining what movies mean to them. What a wonderful break for my fingers. I have three Tagalongs left; I'm pacing myself. ( Read more... )

comments

Oscar liveblog #9

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 04:11:17 GMT

Billy Crystal informs us that Michael Douglas was Occupying Wall Street before it was cool, and I just don't even have the strength to think of a way to turn that into a hipster joke. ( Read more... )

comments

Oscar liveblog #8

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 03:51:05 GMT

"Front row, you know what I'm thinking? Why don't we chip in and buy the Dodgers?" ( Read more... )

comments

Oscar liveblog #7

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 03:24:06 GMT

Billy Crystal: "I have this gift where I can look at anyone in the audience and tell you what they're thinking." I literally groaned out loud, y'all. I could not stop myself. WHY DON'T YOU TELL US? ( Read more... )

comments

Oscar liveblog #6

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 03:08:18 GMT

I'm not even dignifying this Melissa McCarthy seducing Billy Crystal in a pink robe bit with one more second of my time. It's to introduce Ben Stiller and a statuesque Emma Stone, who has a massive red bow vampiring her neck, presenting Visual Effects. "This is my first time presenting an award!" she oozes, basking in the stage lights. She is about three hundred feet taller than Stiller. "We should have some banter! Where people laugh at you but you seem okay with it? We should have a song! I should pull someone up from the audience!" And then it goes from really funny to a gigantic train wreck. "Get up here Jonah! Let's dance!" Out in the audience, Hill makes a (scripted) CUT IT OUT gesture. Stiller, disapprovingly: "You don't want to be the presenter who tries too hard." "Oh," says Stone, turning on him, "you mean, like the guy who dressed up like Avatar? Or in a lime green unitard?" Okay, the whole thing was worth it for that statuesque BURN.

Visual Effects

    "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2"
    Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson
    "Hugo"
    Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann and Alex Henning
    "Real Steel"
    Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg
    "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"
    Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett
    "Transformers: Dark of the Moon"
    Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier

I'm so busy trying to type up the Emma Stone business that I only just realized that, since Hugo wins this, Andy Serkis and Planet of the Apes just got robbed.

Billy Crystal: "You know, this is the year we say goodbye to Harry Potter. They made more than 7.7 BILLION dollars, and only paid 14% in taxes last year." Please welcome non sequitur-winning Melissa Leo!

Actor in a Supporting Role

    Kenneth Branagh in "My Week with Marilyn"
    Jonah Hill in "Moneyball"
    Nick Nolte in "Warrior"
    Christopher Plummer in "Beginners"
    Max von Sydow in "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close"

And the Oscar goes to Christopher Plummer! Please bring some class up into this joint. Viola Davis leads a standing ovation (seriously, she JUMPS to her feet). Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's lipstick are slightly less beneficent this time around. "You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?" he says to his Oscar. "I have a confession to make. When I first emerged from my mother's womb, I was already rehearsing my acceptance speech. Fortunately for you, I have forgotten it." He also thanks his fellow nominees, particularly "dear Max, I am so proud to be in your company." Wait, I just realized that he is wearing a black velvet suit. I need to hit post now.

comments

Oscar liveblog #5

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 02:53:21 GMT

Kermit and Miss Piggy in the balcony. Because why not. ( Read more... )

comments

Oscar liveblog #4

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 02:32:43 GMT

"That win for Octavia Spencer is what the Oscars is all about," says Crystal, who is not at this moment wearing blackface, and then makes a joke about how he wanted to hug the first black person he saw after he saw The Help and was in an area where there were no black people.

RT @SmartBitches: "That moment with Octavia was what the Oscars is all about." Good thing you rushed her offstage so you could come on and make racist jokes.

( Read more... )

comments

Oscar liveblog #3

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 02:18:09 GMT

PLEASE WELCOME! ACADEMY AWARD WINNER SANDRA BULLOCK. ( Read more... )

comments

Oscar liveblog #2

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 02:04:43 GMT

"Welcome back to the Your Name Here Theater," because Kodak is going bankrupt, lol. "Let's go to the movies!" IT'S A MONTAGE! GOTTA HAVE A MONTAGE! ( Read more... )

comments

Oscar liveblog #1

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:49:32 GMT

Well, if I die tonight, I'll die eating Tagalongs.

( Read more... )

comments

Heads up

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:37:27 GMT

In theory, I will, in fact, be doing an Oscar liveblog in the grand old tradition. I have been having some health problems, though, and since we're talking about blood pressure spikes and dizzy spells, it's a little harder to just shrug it off. Less seriously, I'm mostly in panic mode because we've got a Billy Crystal song/montage/whatever it is he does coming up, and those are hell to recap in progress. ("I can't understand what he's singing! Now he's interacting with footage of a movie I have not seen! Drag, really? OH GOD WHAT IS HE DOING WITH THAT HORSE?!") Anyway. I will do my best.

@fuggirls: PLEASE, Hollywood, stop enabling Sacha Baron Cohen. "The Dictator" looks SO TERRIBLE. OMG. -H #oscars

@StessRingold: @fuggirls @cleolinda Did you see him "accidentally" spill Kim Jong-Il's ashes on Ryan Seacrest? Yeah. Please just stop, you are not funny.

@particle_p: I don't know, ashing Seacrest raises my opinion of Baron Cohen.

@cleolinda: I will say, the bit at the end of the Dictator trailer where he starts shooting the other runners made my mother laugh.

@fuggirls: A Fug National is at the Oscars and apparently E!'s security team is PISSED about the SBC stunt. - J

Oh dear.

comments

Grammys discussion post

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:05:32 GMT

I don't generally liveblog music awards, but if y'all want to gather round and talk about it, feel free. I'm sure it'll be... something... given that Whitney Houston passed away last night.

comments

What?

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:19:59 GMT

BREAKING: Publicist Kristen Foster says singer Whitney Houston has died at age 48.

Oh God, you guys, she still has a remake of Sparkle with Jordin Sparks coming out and I can't find a news channel with any NEWS on!

Okay, MSNBC saw fit to break into Lockup long enough to REPORT SOME DAMN NEWS.

comments

I don't even know, you guys

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:38:13 GMT

@mikeryan: At halftime, I hope Madonna plays "Gambler" from the Vision Quest soundtrack. Just that. No explanation.

@cleolinda: How bad is it? I can't find the remote.

@particle_p: @cleolinda OMG EXCELLENT TURN THIS ON. She went with a quasi Roman theme, as kind of an obvious jab at the proceedings. ;-)

( Read more... )

comments

SAG Awards #6

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:09:35 GMT

Commercials. I missed what this commercial with everyone in the world screaming "NOOOOOO!!" at sales and coupons was for, but if they had included the Nonono Cat, I would have bought whatever they were selling.

( Read more... )

comments

SAG Awards #5

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:47:23 GMT

Commercials. Y'all, I want to see The Woman in Black so bad. My soul craves this.

Ladies and gentlemen, Linda Gray, Larry Hagman, a cowboy hat, Patrick Duffy and the Theme from Dallas! "WOOOOOO!" Cut to polite, disinterested golf clapping. We have a divided audience, is what I'm saying.

( Read more... )

comments