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[cleolinda]

I have a headache, so I'm taking a break from work. (Deadlines do not take the weekends off, unfortunately.) So, a little linkspam on my way to the bottle of Advil:

THIS FIGURE SHALL BE MINE. OH YES. THIS FIGURE SHALL BE MINE.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy site opens. Plus, Coming Soon has a new picture. Awww.

I just hit B-List over at Snarkfest. I demand that y'all FT refugees join, if you have not already, and help keep things going.

I'm listening to the "Cells" instrumental, and while it's really well put together under the circumstances... yeah. It's really patchy. It may not be as noticeable if you're just playing the track in the open air and not wearing headphones, as I am. Of course, you're talking to someone who used to pull her headphone jack halfway out of her Discman to hear the background vocals and instrumentals better, so... the patchy effect really isn't that new to me. The fan edit just brings home the fact that an officially-produced instrumental version would ROCK. And my understanding is that "Cells" has been used in the trailers and commercials, but will not actually be on the soundtrack. (Really, music used in previews and music used in the actual movie rarely overlap. This isn't a surprise.) So... I don't know who we go beg for this, but... please? Somebody? The Servant? Robert Rodriguez? Help?

Comments

[zero-design.livejournal.com]

That is indeed one seriously yummy figure. Wonder what it's going to be like in colour... *sends headache-soothing thoughts*

[reynardine.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, Dark Galadriel! So cool! *adds to wish list*

[thejobsagame.livejournal.com]

Yay for Hitchhiker's!

[kauricat.livejournal.com]

Oops, last comment came out wrong....Sorry, deleted now.

Anyway, I was trying to direct you to this (http://costumes.glittersweet.com/movies/galadriel.htm) website, where a cosplayer has done a creditable job of recreating Dark Galadriel's garb.

[pinkdiamond.livejournal.com]

Thank you. That was mine, I'd still like to redo the breastplate.

Being but a poor gimp I couldn't actually afford the materials I wanted to make it from.

Ah well.

[girlfrom10thave.livejournal.com]

*pets cleolinda*
*goes in search of the ancient tibetan headache cure... and chocolate*

All shall collect me and despair!

[aberrantangels]

As jameshoward has been known to say, "Foley Huck!" I think I may waaaaaant!

[leucocrystal]

Yeah, I had a listen to the instrumental version, and... since I always have to listen on my headphones... maybe it's just because losing my low frequency hearing has sensitized me to high frequencies... but OUCH. The scratching hurts, just a tad...

It's a commendable effort, yeah. But I can't handle the pitches with my ears.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Oh no. It's very noticeable. Very, very noticeable. The effort is commendable but still amateurish.

[reannaremick.livejournal.com]

Ooh, yeah I imagine it would hurt on headphones. It was pretty bad up too loud in my car, but on regular speakers or turned down a bit it's still pretty good.

[lezopez.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the Snarkfest shoutout! I'm glad to see that you've settled in *grin* You might want to check out the SnarkLust thread because a couple people have declared their love for ya *wink*


I'm sorry, I have to go gaze longingly at the Hitchhikers website.

[lezopez.livejournal.com]

Did I say thank you yet? I just went back over there and saw at least three posts with people saying they found it through you. So thanks:-D

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee, yeah. I'm just sorry MORE OF THESE SLACKERS aren't going over there. Faster! Faster! Must snark faster!

[http://users.livejournal.com/lorien__/]

*hugs*
hands over an aspirine and a glass of water... darkens the room (always works for me)... and leaves

L.

[pistolharris.livejournal.com]

At last! Somewhere to feed my Hitchhiker habit.
Although I gotta say, the animations on that site could be better. They should get JK Rowling in there: now THERE'S a woman who can make a website purty!

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

Deadlines do not take the weekends off, unfortunately.

Condolences -- I'm in the same boat. Mine's on the 23rd, and no way in hell am I going to make it. It would take a miracle or a couple of clones.

Good luck, hope you fare better than I.

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

That Galadriel doll is awesome.

[theatre-angel.livejournal.com]

Freaky, green-ish blue Galadriel! Yes, you need that.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

OMG it's The Curse of the Blue Figurine (http://tinyurl.com/6ulpl)!

[fairyfey.livejournal.com]

Dude.. *_* I want that figure...

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

I do, too. lol That'd be a great addition to my desk... hee.

[fairyfey.livejournal.com]

I don't think it would fit on my desk (too messy), but I'd make room. XD *scary galadriel obsessor*

[vladimirsever.livejournal.com]

Dude, it might be the #4 Early Adopter Product in Action Figures, but... it's *still* Galadriel G-1000, ne?

And do I see "Material Type: Polystone" anywhere? No? Well then it's not much more than just a toy, is it?

/loves his polystone Cleo in Trueform

[malsperanza.livejournal.com]

Why does Dark Galadriel have 2 right hands?

[kosher-jenny.livejournal.com]

Ah, I love the final trailer that plays when you enter the ship site.

It took me a while to figure out what that noise that played while the pages were loading was. Finally realized that it was a self-satisfied hum. Hee.

[jnerd.livejournal.com]

I love the Dark Galadriel figurine, but now I'm kind of annoyed at Amazon. Apparently since I looked at ONE TOY, I must be a completely and utterly obsessive LOTR fan--"The Page [I] Made" is now 50% LOTR merchandise. And since I now hesitate to find out by searching through Amazon (who knows what else they might try to sell me--a large white castle in New Zealand, perhaps?), I can only ponder: what exactly distinguishes the Return of the King Platinum Series special edition from other special editions?

[vladimirsever.livejournal.com]

I think that New Line just likes to call their best DVDs a "Platinum Collection". The new Texas Chainsaw Massacre got that tag slapped onto it, too. So they just put it onto the EE boxes as well... In Europe, those exact same DVDs don't carry any platinum tag!

[sparkythehamstr.livejournal.com]

This might have an obvious answer, but how do you make the links pop up in a new window? I really appreciate the fact that your links do that, and I want to know how to do it myself. Thanks!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I use Semagic to do it, where it's an easy option, but if you're just writing out the code, add target=blank before the final >. Like, ...whatever.com" target=blank>.

[sparkythehamstr.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[edda.livejournal.com]

Dark Galadriel will sit on your desk and sympathize when the shit gets heavy. And smite people, there's that.

Am I missing something, or is Snarkfest all done in blog style? Isn't that kind of annoying if you just want to deal with certain subjects?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Blog style? It's a message board...

[edda.livejournal.com]

There's more than one Snarkfest. (http://snarkfest.com/)

I didn't do the link-clicky the first time, because I had Yahoo open in another window just sitting there, and I thought, "Ah, I'll just type it in." And apparently in invision boards link was down and the other one worked and I though they were the same and figured, "Gee, it's like TWOP only...way lite."

Clicked the link this time. Joined. Thank you.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yay! Excellent. (See, it works almost exactly the way the FT boards do, only several things I like a little better, so I was like, "Blog...?")

I'm already up to B-List! Whee!

(What name are you using?)

[edda.livejournal.com]

My name is 'mercutia'. It is also 'mercutia' on JF. I would have been 'mercutia' on LJ except it was taken at the time. Though I kind of like 'edda' as an alternate persona, if by 'alternate' we mean 'even whingier and more neurotic than usual'.

Go ON with your bad self. I'm still hangin' out with Kathy Griffin on the D-List.

[malenky-devil.livejournal.com]

OMG! OMG! Dark Galadriel is available now! I've been waiting for it for months! *pines* I have the regular Galadriel action figure (she's sooo pretty). This one *will* be a part of my collection, it must be.

[eruvadhril.livejournal.com]

AI ILUVITAR! I WANT THAT GALADRIEL! *drools over squeeful dollness*

[squirrelgirl22.livejournal.com]

Love your icon!

eek!

[scary-lullabies.livejournal.com]

I hump your icon!

Re: eek!

[eruvadhril.livejournal.com]

*taunts with icon* Neener neener!
Go steal one of these: http://photobucket.com/albums/v434/lessien_celebrindal/

Re: eek!

[scary-lullabies.livejournal.com]

I shall! Anyone with a cool icon like that desrrves my complete obedience! ;)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_stormthesea/]

I just wanted to mention that today the Hartford Courant (newspaper) had a ginormous picture from Sin City blasted on the front page of the arts section. It's the picture with Bruce Willis that everyone and their mother has seen, but it was pretty exciting since I've never seen that picture in the flesh before. Just on the internets.

The "Cells" instrumental version is very patchy, it's not just you. It started to bother me halfway through because I'm not good at listening to music with no words. The lyrics may be dorky, but, dammit, they are lyrics!

[sprunkle.livejournal.com]

For some reason the dorky lyrics (we ate Chinese off our knees? WTF?) have sort of grown on me. You can't fight the music, baby.

[xenocharm.livejournal.com]

Where did you find the instrumental version of that? I've only found the original version.

Thanks!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I think the link is in the entry just before this one--it's a link to someone offering it for download on an IMDB message board. Can't miss it.

[shesnotallthere.livejournal.com]

I'm not an FT refugee (there should SO be a t-shirt for that), but I think I might join, anyway.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, if you can hang with the forum ethos--good grammar, affectionate snark, no personal sniping--you'll probably fit in just fine. A lot of people are showing up who used to lurk (or claim they lurked) and never posted anyway.

[shesnotallthere.livejournal.com]

Have joined. I think I can easily obey the laws of the land. It seems like a pretty cool place.

I didn't make a point of saying that I got there through your journal...if I accidentally commit some transgression, I wouldn't want everyone to turn their baleful stares in your direction. "For the love of puppies, WHY did you lead her here?!"

[mandy0x.livejournal.com]

personally, i take one headphone off to hear the background music and vocals.