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[cleolinda]

The world's most boring horoscope: Your filing system is out of date. Take some time to pull it together.

Wha...?: Plan ahead for Easter. Ride a pink elephant to work, and throw mushrooms at people while saying things like, "My Grandad is a toothbrush."


I just ordered 24 season one for my mother, because apparently she is Amazon-impaired, and also she is obsessed. Seriously, she's gone backwards and watched all of 24 except for the first season. In fact, she's watching 24 right now. She and my stepfather sat holed up in a dark den for about three weekends in a row, powering through as many episodes in a sitting as they could. (Well, I think he was just along for the ride.) Aaaaand now you know where I get it from.

Fametracker refugees, please check the "Last One Out Turn Off the Lights: The What Next Thread," because people are getting alternatives together, and a few LJ communities are popping up as well. In fact, a lot of us have already started settling in at new comms and boards for the time being.

(Non-Fametracker people: Have I told y'all the Tiny Moist Hand story?)

Quick note: two different people, as far as I can tell, persistently tried to add me to Yahoo Messenger today. Which is fine and all, and I like y'all, but the fact is that I only use IM services for 1) family, college friends and Vladimir or 2) emergency pow-wows. The latter of which I think I've participated in maybe two, total. Y'all know me. If I were on IM with multiple people for any length of time, I would get zero work done. So I'm just forcing myself to not use IM except with a handful of people I'm extremely close to, most of whom aren't online much anyway. If you try to add me to AIM/YM/MSN, I will turn you down. Nothing personal; that's just how it is.

Question: Does anyone have an mp3 of Ryuichi Sakamoto's "Wuthering Heights"? I don't know if it was written for the 1993 Ralph Fiennes-Juliette Binoche version or was just cadged and stuck over the credits, but it's gorgeous, and I realized last night that it's one of the tracks I lost in the crash. Woe.


Interesting links:

Excellent behind-the-scenes multimedia look at the stage production of His Dark Materials.

Bedside manor? Vintage point?

New galleries at OutNow: Hostage, Robots, The Dukes of Hazzard (sigh).

Heeeeeee, adoptable movie sprites. (Thanks, violetsocks. The little gondola! It even has a lantern...!)


Tired. Slept all afternoon and was totally out of it when Mom tried to wake me up. Man, my immune system isn't worth shit. I better not be getting sick again...

Comments

[jedilora.livejournal.com]

I hope you're not getting sick again. ::offers candied ginger bits::

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

tell us the tiny moist hand story! pleeeeease?

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

also, could the advice for easter be referring to purim? i'm not jewish, so i don't know all the purim traditions, but from the services i attended i seem to remember a lot of costumes and silly behaviour. could be wrong, though.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

(Non-Fametracker people: Have I told y'all the Tiny Moist Hand story?)

*shudder*

Please do, if only to silence my hideous imagination.

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

::icon love::

[ayn-rand-fan-13.livejournal.com]

I hope you're not getting sick! It could just be fatigue or all the sleepless nights ever coming back to haunt you.
I have been totally out of it for the better part of the afternoon, and managed to totally forget how to read music during my piano lesson.
What's the tiny moist hand story?

[elbiesee.livejournal.com]

*hands over vitamin C, zinc and vodka, so in case you do get sick, you won't care...*

And that eggcorns link reminds me of the Barenaked Ladies song "King of Bedside Manor". They do a mini-tribute to Styx near the end...

And what about this Tiny Moist Hand? Is it as good as The Rooster?

[ccaretta.livejournal.com]

I love that song, and once I read the link, I had to begin playing it. Yay for Barenaked Ladies!!

[barrelgoddess.livejournal.com]

I want to hear the Tiny Moist Hand story. XD It sounds like it could be potentially disturbing and/or hilarious.

[lezopez.livejournal.com]

WOOOOOE I am still devatated over Fametracker.

However - while I have read the Tiny Moist Hand story... you REALLY might want to tell it again... and add it to memories. That story is one of the funniest things I read EVER on FT. (Oh.... still so so so sad)

[meredith-mae.livejournal.com]

My mom made me and everyone who happened to be in the house watch about 17 episodes of Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman on and right after Christmas. Of course, it was sort of my fault for getting it for her...

Holy...

[iczer6.livejournal.com]

HDM is a play? Where, when, WHO DO I HAVE TO KILL TO GET A TICKET!?

Re: Holy...

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I think it's in London with Timothy Dalton--click the link, there ought to be more info there.

[greenwitch.livejournal.com]

Dude, 24 is a cult or something. My sister did that. Hogged my netflix membership for 2 weeks O_o

[queenmabwords.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link to Pat's Wuthering Heights! I've been listening to it all day!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee, me too. : )

[squee1123.livejournal.com]

i really wanna see the Hostage...it seems like a really good movie...welp...back to Super Nanny...^_^ good show it is

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

My second cousin did the sets, so I imagine my family will be trooping out to see it this weekend. : )

[duncatra.livejournal.com]

I was around when the Hissyfit boards were taken down, and all attempts to create a second comm failed pretty miserably. A lot of people went to 3WA, but I never really got into that site there... I didn't much like the board formatting, which can really make or break a comm for me. Same with Chicklit - I need that whole 'remember which page you last read' feature. Although that kinda sucks since the FT/TWOP upgrades if you read the site on more than one computer.

Maybe now that there's more of a community off the site, via LJ, stuff might stick. But I'm doubtful. Really, really doubtful.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah. A group of FTers are working on basically setting up an entire Not Called Fametracker For Trademark Purposes, But Pretty Much the Same Thing on a new service.

[ex-krazycat651.livejournal.com]

Ooh, His Dark Materials.
I can't wait to see this film, I loved the books. At the end of the second one I was crying like a baby and had to reread a page five or six times before putting the book down, unable to continue for a while as I as shaking with tears.

It'll be interesting to see what they do with it. I tend to not really care if they change stuff from the books, sometimes it makes it interesting ( for example in Bridget Jones 2 - I loved what they did with Rebecca.) or just make it work better as a movie. So not a purist.

Having said that, I wanted to walk out of the cinema when I watched The Beach, I was so angry. Those changes were just too much.

[phoebesmum.livejournal.com]

They're allegedly cutting god out of the film (reminding me of the movie executive who told Terry Pratchett they could only sell Mort as a movie if they got rid of the Death element). I hold out little hope.

The stage adaptation was amazing. Also, six hours long (divided into two parts), and thus really defies precis. 'Amazing', though lame, will have to suffice.

RS Wuthering

[shoukinkasegi.livejournal.com]

Do you have the Sakamoto track already? If not, hold on, will send you it in >5 minutes.

Re: RS Wuthering

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Ooo, yay!

[leucocrystal]

OMG 24 absolutely rocks. I've gotten all my friends and their families hooked on it -- I am such a TV heroin dealer, lol. We call it "24-aline."

I highly recommend it to anyone reading these comment threads. :)

[kismeteve.livejournal.com]

Oooh, thanks for the HDM link!

::clicks::

[live-in-morocco.livejournal.com]

i love that HDM site. i found it one day really randomly on the internet and just sat for hours, looking over everything. it's so weird to see something that i've played out in my head for so many years acted out by real, live people. i wish i could see it.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

I'm confused by your icon. It's supposed to be "galadriel mist," but...it's some dude. Being a dude.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Say what?

It looks fine to me, but I have heard that LJ is doing some weird maintenance with its image database.

[slacker1985.livejournal.com]

Your horoscope is telling you to get high...that's one for the books. :-P

[lady-elina.livejournal.com]

I have the piano version of Sakamoto's Wuthering Heights theme, different from the one someone already posted above. If you're interested, you can download it here:

http://s34.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0HW7XPS5FS86Z28YB3PTUA5FL1

As far as I know, the music was composed specifically for that film. I don't think much of the movie itself, but the score is absolutely fantastic!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Ooo, thanks! It's just one of those movies I love beyond all reason, even though I know it's not very good. ; )

[missmp.livejournal.com]

My horoscope once told me to cut down on junk food and skip dessert. Is there something about Sagittarians that makes astrologers loopy?

[lyrainverse.livejournal.com]

I'm extremely skeptical of the film versions of HDM. I read the first one when it first came out (I still remember being at the library and pulling the book off the YA New Arrivals shelf and thinking, "Huh, this looks interesting. Pretty cover.") so I feel a little proprietary. Like, "Dude, I was into this FROM THE BEGINNING. Back off, bandwaggoners!" Because I'm a loser like that. But I am excited now that there are far more people to talk to about the wonders of HDM.

Anyway, last I read the producers were going to try and make Will and Lyra SIXTEEN. Um, have you READ the books? Because that? Is not gonna work. I think they were worried about the implications of the sexual Adam/Eve thing with preteens. Also, you know they're going to have to tame/change the Church Is Evil theme. So we'll see. I remain cautiously optimistic.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I read the books about two Christmases ago, so I understand the proprietary feeling. My fear is that it sounds like they're pretty much ditching everything the least bit controversial, which leaves... what?

On the other hand, they've already dropped two directors--it was kind of sad, actually. I was reading all these stories about how Chris Weitz got up there and did this huge presentation and pleaded to do the movie because he loved the books so much, and they got through a few months of pre-production, and he finally had to admit that he just didn't have the experience to do such an effects-driven movie. So as far as I know, the movie is rudderless at the moment. Who knows? The guy who eventually gets hold of it may be a lot braver with the content.

[rockgeisha.livejournal.com]

I am okay with the death of the FT forums. They vaulted the fish a while ago, in my never humble opinion.

And have you seen this Lost thingy?

Hurley's numbers: 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42

4 + 8 + 1 + 5 + 1 + 6 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 2 + 1 + 5 + 6 = 48, the number of original survivors

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Ooo, weird.

See, I'm not too sad about the forums, either--but I am seeing it as a huge opportunity to relocate with the really hardcore posters to a better version of what we liked about the FT forums. I stopped visiting more than just a small handful of threads several months ago--it's weird, because I can't account for this bad vibe on the boards, but others tell me they felt it too. What were you seeing out there?

[ambiguousreason.livejournal.com]

*cracks up* Your horoscopes are definitely on the junk. I mean, if there was ever any doubt, this settles it.