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[cleolinda]

Dear Sender of English Chocolate Bars: Thank you thank you thank you thank you I love you squee! That is all.


More fun for y'all: 99 Sin City bases/icons. Many of them are different versions of the same image, but still: a pretty good selection. If I missed someone you wanted, let me know and I'll dig through what I've got. Take/want/have, alter, animate 'em together, be creative, have a party (but no hotlinking).

General linkspam:

New pics from Batman Begins, Harry Potter, and Star Wars. (More Batman pics here.)

There is now actually an Wikipedia-style encyclopedia entry on "My hed iz pastede on yay" (complete with original photo manip!), in case you've ever wondered what it means. I like to give myself credit for helping popularize the phrase with the Crystalwank metaquotes I did on Journalfen... and then I get over myself.

Yeah, I bet Michael Jackson feels "ill." I would too, if I had a lot of time on my hands to contemplate what would happen to me in prison.

In similar news, Paul Shanley gets 12-15 years for the Catholic priest sex abuse scandal. Lawyers estimate that he'll last 12-15 minutes in general population before he gets shanked.

Because Starsky & Hutch did so well.

Dear Usher: STFU.

Johnny Depp frightens children as Wonka. NO, REALLY?

(Mmmmmmmmchocolate.)

Keira Knightley stars in a movie about a model-turned-bounty hunter that's based on a true story. Only problem is, the real Domino is a lesbian. And she doesn't like the film's "raunchy [heterosexual] sex scenes." In other news, advance ticket sales just shot up 1000%.

The Amazing Race's Jonathan and Victoria will be on a Dr. Phil special tonight. One can only hope that Phil beats him to death with his own bottle of hair gel. (Actually, I'd like to see Host Phil turn up to help out with that.)


Back to work it is! I wonder what reading I have due for tomorrow...

Comments

[meredith-mae.livejournal.com]

*I* thought it was great, but I was a lot younger and it was the first time I saw Phantom. I'm working on finding the Canadian cast recording with him, or a bootleg. The original cast recording has another actor. Currently I only have the movie soundtrack, and I love Patrick Wilson, I think Emmy Rossum is pretty good, but I don't like Gerard Butler's voice.

When I heard Gerard Butler's voice ...

[(Anonymous)]

... I first thought hmmmm okay. Not trained. Seemed to strain for some notes big time in POTO and MOTN. But I was okay with it - sort of rough but sexy. Then I listened to MC recording - and I thought he sounded beautiful but well ... kinda feminine. Then I saw a clip of Point of No Return with MC voice dubbed over Butler's. Freaked me completely because it completely mined the sex out of the song for me. It was like hearing my grandma lip-sync over AC/DC.

Then I heard Hugh Panaro and Colm Wilkenson (sp?) and thought "Better, but I like it Butler's rougher voice". And now, I am a complete POTO movie soundtrack whore. I keep listening to it over and over and over again, especially PONR. I blame Butler for two things - making me see this cheese fest in the theater multiple times ("ohh, there he is in the Red Death outfit") and lowering my standards for musical theater. Bastard.

Re: When I heard Gerard Butler's voice ...

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heeeeeeeeeee. Welcome to the exact experience dozens of girls are having over at the Fametracker POTO thread. It's okay; you're among friends now. : D

Re: When I heard Gerard Butler's voice ...

[darkrosetiger.livejournal.com]

When I heard Gerard Butler's voice in POTO, I thought, "Wow--*I* could do a better job of hitting those low notes than he did." I was unimpressed. The Phantom is supposed to have a voice of surpassing beauty, and I was too aware of the Butler's obvious lack of vocal training to really feel that.

I still want to see a copy of the film score and the original score side by side, because it really sounded to me like they did some transposing.

Re: When I heard Gerard Butler's voice ...

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with you on POTO - was not impressed which was a shame because that is the first time you hear him in the movie. Really wish they would of spent more time on that because his weakness on that number can color what you hear for the rest of the film. MOTN was like that too. Okay, but not great. Kept thinking "Are you going to hit that note or not? Oh okay - ya did, but sorta shaky".

But then Christine falls for the pretty boy in the bad hair and Butler seemed to get better from there. Loved the jumping on the statue and his "You will curse the day you did not do ..." Loved the sneering "It's true her voice is ... good" and the "You belong to me" during "While so silent" and I thought his PONR and AIAOY was wonderful and sexy and sad. So .. yeah - vocal performance mixed, acting very good (even with a mask he's the only one of the three leads who managed more than one facial expression) and of course, he gets points for bringing the pretteh and the pants ....