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[cleolinda]

Nothin' but linkspam. Most of my break-time browsing today has been confined to the Snarkfest boards, so posters there aren't going to find anything very new here:

The speech accent archive. Go to town, y'all.

Speaking of accents, you will recall that Scottish and/or "some kind of British" was overwhelmingly the favorite the last time I asked. Well, tonight you've got your Sophie's Choice: Clive Owen on Conan and Gerard Butler on Craig Ferguson. In the same time slot. (NNNNGHHHHH!) I think I'm going with Butler, if only because Ferguson is also Scottish, and that should be frickin' hilarious. However, I am counting on y'all to find me digitized clips afterwards, because Owen's the A guest on Conan and Butler's the B guest on Ferguson, so I'm probably going to end up seeing neither of them in a frantic channel-flipping attempt to see both of them. Woe unto my not having a TiVo.

Something I found at Snarkfest (WARNING! Do not click unless you have at least an hour to waste! I'm serious!): Paperdoll Heaven. Omg I want Keira's cloooooooothes and Keira's body to wear them onnnnnnnnn.

From Gawker via Snarkfest: Ethan Hawke tools it up over in the Amazon book reviews:

*****I’m STILL laughing and crying.
This wonderfully insightful book presented me with quite a conundrum: laughter, or tears? As an actor, I can tell you: there’s no tougher emotion in the catalogue raisonne of the well-trained performer than mirth…or grief. And as the author of two hard-hitting novels I can back that up by saying it’s tough to express sadness and hilarity verbally. But this wonderfully insightful book had me rolling from side to side with belly-laughs, then scrunched into a tiny ball, wracked with sobbery. I don’t know how Foer does it. I am laughing now, as I write these words, but I can feel the tears backed up a couple of jobs in the old emotional queue. I’m buying extra copies of this book for all my friends, especially those who need help urging forth difficult emotions.

I assume you've heard about the Pat O'Brien thing, yes? ("The [perma-tan host of Access Hollywood and The Insider] checked into rehab Sunday, just as an embarrassing string of dirty voice-mail messages, which expressed a taste for hookers, cocaine and adventurous (if possibly unhygienic) sex, became public. His reps do not deny that O'Brien made the calls.") Well, jess_d_ripper took a bullet for us and transcribed the voice mails currently floating around the internet. Warning: skeevy to the max. You may crave the sweet release of death afterwards--even more so if you've ever *watched* Access Hollywood. Also, various gossip sites are reporting other O'Brien shenanigans that are just--beyond words, people.



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Report from the home front: Very tired and spacy today. I had a good point in class but frittered it away on confused babbling. Seriously, I sounded either drunk or in need of medical assistance, I think. It's fatigue, nothing serious. Next week's my spring break, so maybe I'll have some uninterrupted Come to Jesus time with the book. Hoping to wrap Braveheart up soon. Like, yesterday soon.

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[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Tragically, I remember Pat O'Brien from his days with CBS Sports, not Access Hollywood, thank God. But even glancing at the transcripts, all I hear is Jimmy Fallon doing his voice....

[mandy0x.livejournal.com]

i was thinking the same thing. (about Jimmy Fallon doing his nasally voice).

[agentsculder.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm Elizabeth Bennett! Now if I could only get my hands on Colin Firth in that wet shirt . . .

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

Another Elizabeth Bennett here... lol I think it was the 'reading' answer. :-)

[cmere.livejournal.com]

NGGGGGGGGGH indeed! Thanks for the tip!

*clicks on tv*

[slacker1985.livejournal.com]

I may be a bit late here, but I really, really like your icon.

[cosmob.livejournal.com]

I'm still annoyed at Pat O'Brien for having that name and making me do a double-take every time I see it, since my first thought is of a much less grating, lovelier sort of man (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002285/). *clutches her tape of Boy Meets Girl and Angels With Dirty Faces* That's the real Pat O'Brien!

[cosmob.livejournal.com]

Also, if you end up needing some digitized Gerald Butler on the Late Late Show, I might be able to hook you up. I watched and taped it (and he was freakin' adorable).

[kassandra05.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for the heads up about the talk shows tonight! And, thanks to my VCR, I don't have to choose. I just wish I could pass the tape along to you when I was done watching.

[-paperairplane.livejournal.com]

Why did I click the Pat O'Brien link? Why why why?

But on the upside, that paperdoll site has got to be the most addictive thing I've ever seen.

[sparkythehamstr.livejournal.com]

WTF, Ethan Hawke?

[ambiguousreason.livejournal.com]

OMG PAPER DOLLLLLLS. That is so cool.

[skyblade.livejournal.com]

Hawke taunts the irony Gods using words like "hard-hitting".

[la-sonnambula.livejournal.com]

I'm watching Conan since he also have Steve Carrell as a guest, but I'm taping Ferguson.

[mandy0x.livejournal.com]

I am in love with your icon.

[law-witch.livejournal.com]

holy mar doll, no kidding about time on the doll site - thanks for the fun link


GOOD to 'hear' you're happy healthy voice!

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

I'm Elizabeth Bennett too. All God's chillun are Elizabeth Bennett. Things got a little awkward when they asked about my dream man, but I fudged with "I am too busy to think about a dream man; I don't think I'd ever get one, anyway." 'Struth.

Seriously, I sounded either drunk or in need of medical assistance, I think.

That happens to me occasionally. I'll have some crystalline idea, all perfect points evenly spaced, but when I start to explain it, it comes out mimble-wimble-oh-never-mind. Then people look at me as if to say, "You were waving your hand in the air for five minutes like a demented Hermione clone AND THAT'S IT?"

[edda.livejournal.com]

The Amazon link took me straight over to his reviews page which was...empty. Maybe he became aware of the snark and closed up shop?

God, Uma Thurman should get a medal for ever ahving put up with that fuckwad.

*dies and goes to linkspam heaven*

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

HA! Reviews were there earlier this afternoon.

[vladimirsever.livejournal.com]

But how can you be Miss Bennett if you're Miss Jones, kitty?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, Mr. Bennet from Primrose Publishers and I... well...

[jesshelga.livejournal.com]

From the mouth of someone who, arguably, was never a babe: I can back that up by saying it’s tough to express sadness and hilarity verbally.

I don't know, Ethan. Do you remember when you compared your infidelities to those of JFK and MLK, saying all great men of history were cheaters? I thought that was pretty funny yet sad. See? You give yourself far too little credit.

Sigh. This is why I'll miss FT. The Ethan Hawke folder was always a fun place.

[v827.livejournal.com]

No! Really? Not really... Really?

I should've gotten into the FT forums. I never knew they were there until the giant implosion of aught five.

[sexion8.livejournal.com]

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for providing the link to Teh Voice Mail Transcription Of Justice. I'm emailing like a fiend over here.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heh.

guess I should avoid trains...

[oya-yansa.livejournal.com]

You're Anna Karenina of Anna Karenina by Leo
Tolstoy!


(http://quizilla.com/users/dramaqueen270/quizzes/Which%20Classic%20Female%20Literary%20Character%20Are%20you%3F/)

Re: guess I should avoid trains...

[exiledprincess.livejournal.com]

*snorts*

i'm elizabeth bennet too. which works, 'cuz she's my favorite.

[maggiesox.livejournal.com]

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeep. Liz Bennett. Thank God.

In weird news, my VirusScan popped up with a trojan when I clicked on to the results page. Not sure if it was that site or an unrelated one, but you might want to run a scan, just in case.

[missmp.livejournal.com]

My VirusScan did the same thing.

I looooove your icon, btw.

[slacker1985.livejournal.com]

Aaaahh!!! Thanks so much for the Craig Ferguson heads-up! I'm almost always watching Conan, so I would have been informed tomorrow, too late, that I'd missed Gerry on YET ANOTHER talk show. I shall sacrifice Clive as well, because I <3 Gerry just...more.

Scottish accents = nice. :-*
British accents = nice too, but not as nice as Scottish.

[ginmar.livejournal.com]

Hard-hitting? What a pretentious little chinless chin-pube-growing, stripper-dating, scrawny flabby whiny irritating little poseur he is.

1. Talking all about himself.
2. Pimping his own craptastic books. Those books were almost Biblically bad. "And, lo, the seas parted, because Ethan Hawke had once again booted up his computer." He wrote a love scene that featured the use of the name "Roosevelt" in it, for fuck's sake.
3. Ethan Hawke in general. Remind me again why he's even popular? You expect him to burst into tears of sensitivity and woe.
4. He sucks.

Um, yeah, I'm well-adjusted. Hard-hitting? Hard-hitting? There are just some people that need to be slapped.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Gawker.com starts off its item about this by saying they doubt it's really him, but--you know what? I think it says a lot that we all went, "Gah, that's so like him."

Dis-turb-ing

[arialrose.livejournal.com]

why did I feel the need to click on that Pat O'Brien link? oh why? Just skimming through was disturbing enough...do I dare listen to the actual voicemail? I'm afraid curiosity's gonna get the best of me. I also had Jimmy Fallon's voice in my head as Pat! "Hi, I'm Pat O'Brien and I can't breathe." Hee!

[kaytethinks.livejournal.com]

I'm Elizabeth Bennett, too. And Paper Doll Heaven is so great.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

If they also had movie costumes, I would die.

[adoresixtyfour.livejournal.com]

**Now seeking out gallons of brain bleach to get text of Pat O'Brien voicemails out of head. Make...it...stop...**

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hey, man, "sweet release of death" and all that. Don't say I didn't warn you.

[amiens.livejournal.com]

I couldn't help myself; after reading it I had to listen to the Pat O'Brien messages because of some weird car-crash curiosity. Which: yeah. More haze than soldiers in Kuwait, indeed.

I'm going to be at that accent archive for hours. Thanks for pointing it out.

[flower4444.livejournal.com]

lol. have i ever mentioned you have a lot of free time. lol. Too bad that paper doll heaven thing doesn't let you see the finished finished result. You kinda see it, but not really...

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I have less free time than you'd think. It's just that I'm a student/"working" at home on the book, so I work my own hours and don't have a boss peering over my shoulder 24/7.