The Attack of Moodzilla

[cleolinda]

AUGH. I am going to stab my DVD player, because there aren't up/down/left/right selection buttons on the player itself, and the remote has decided to DIE, because apparently new batteries aren't GOOD ENOUGH for the FUCKING LITTLE BASTARD. Is it too much to ask, really, to let me watch the Lost extras? Is it? I ASK YOU.

(Did I come up with "Sawyerland," or is that something the writers actually had Sawyer say? Because I have a feeling Sawyer said it, but that I would have mentioned it in a recap, and I can't find any reference to him actually saying it. Oh, and the search function on LJ user info pages? SUCKS.)

Also: Yes, I missed Talk Like a Pirate Day. Mostly because I felt bad and not piraty. Which makes me very sad, because I really look forward to pirate-talking online all day long each year. Sad and ANGRY.

(I swear to you, I was not this angry all day. I was fine until about ten minutes ago.)

Oh, and I locked myself out of my fucking online bank account, because apparently my username/password is not what I thought it was, and I tried so many different combinations that the site decided I was a hacker, and now I have to CALL CUSTOMER SERVICE ON THE PHONE NOOOOOOOOOOO. Seriously, I'm half joking and I'm half serious here. I hate phones.

(Maybe I really have been cranky all day and just didn't know it...?)

Oh, P.S.: I seem to have lost my backlog of linkspam, Katrina and otherwise, in a Semagic crash, woe. So I will simply give you what I have:

Money Earmarked for Evacuation Redirected.

New Orleans Suspends Reopening of City.

angelic_oni: "Have you seen this excellent Lost site? You should totally pimp it out, because I'm not sure lots of people have heard about it. Click on the "Untold: Step into the Subconscious" and you go on interactive tours through the lives/minds of the castaways. Some of it is frightening (Claire's, Locke's and Sayid's especially... oh, and Jack's has a strange kind of Donnie Darko-esque feel with the rabbit) but all of it is pretty excellent and gets me extremely hyped for the new season."

The Cthulhu Awareness Ribbon.

I'm not sure what's going on here, besides short films, and a pleasantly spooky web design.

arielchan (who gave us the meme that spawned Cleo Sue, by the way): "Cleo, dear, I know it hasn't been that long since I requested something, but next time you're doing pimpage could you possibly pimp out emoawards? It's funny as heck, and needs more members."

So, uh, I didn't watch the Emmys, because I think of them as The Boring Awards Show, partly because I don't watch much TV so I don't care about who wins and I totally forgot that Lost was up for so many things, and... I didn't get the memo that the show was going to be cracked ouuuuuuuuut. Thus, I am grateful to Diego Zanzibar for a link to Emmy Idol downloads. I have a guilty fondness for "Fame," and... yeah. (Warning: image of Donald Trump singing "Green Acres" may scar you for life.)

Random thoughts: "Heaven" (you know, that old Bryan Adams song) came up on my mp3 player and I had this weird urge to hear it covered by someone like Nick Cave or something. Like, the chorus is pretty awesome to belt out at one's desk, not that I spent this afternoon doing that or anything, but the verses are crap. "Once in your life you find someone who will turn your world around, bring you up when you're feeling down"? "There's lots that I could say, but just hold me now, 'cause our love will light the way"? Are you kidding me? (It probably doesn't help that the melody at this point just kind of sags and doesn't really support the lyrics in any way, so you're left with nothing but the bald crapitude of the words.) But now imagine Nick Cave singing the same lines. Possibly sounding like he just escaped from prison. Yeah. It's a hell of a lot different now, isn't it? "And baby you're all that I want, when you're lying here lifeless in my arms , I'm finding it hard to believe we're in heaven because I was, after all, convicted of six counts of first-degree homicide. And lovin' is all that I need, and I found it there in your heart still beating in my fist; it isn't too hard to see by the light of the oncoming police sirens we're in heaven--WHOOOOOOOOO-OOOOOOOOO-OOOOOOOOOOA!"

You can hear it, can't you?

Oh, and while I'm thinking about it, Spreadshirt has possibly thrown a wrinkle, or a wrench, or whatever, into the CafePress situation. The good news is they have black t-shirts and good prices. The bad news is that vectors are involved.

Advantages: Printing also available on dark textiles

Disadvantages:

• Only one or two colors per design
• No color blending possible
• A vector file must be submitted (using Corel Draw, Illustrator, PageMaker, FreeHand)
• Designs must be checked before being released, the design will be available for printing after one workday

I don't even have any of those programs. (I don't think...?) I think we might be able to pop over there occasionally for special t-shirt designs or fabric colors, but if it's okay with y'all, I may try to work within CafePress's design limits--I mean, they can do any colors we want on the designs, just not so much in terms of the shirts themselves. And I cannot bring myself to believe that CafePress will not someday offer black shirts, because that's ridiculous, and maybe if enough of us lobby for them, they'll see the light. I'll see if I can figure out what the hell is going on over there, but if you want to hold off on buying shirts from CafePress until we figure it out, that's perfectly all right.

(ACK MY EYELID IS STILL TWITCHING AUGH.)


   

Comments

[ambiguousreason.livejournal.com]

Ooh, did you get the Lost DVDs finally? I was sort of disappointed by the extras, particularly the deleted scenes, but I was sort of only half-watching them, so.. I don't know.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I did, but I can't get to anything, because MY REMOTE HATES ME.

[word-herder.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well, at least you have power. Ameren IP is The Worst Power Company EVER. We had a and like, 2000 people are without power here in Champaign, IL.

It was a sucky Monday. I totally agree.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. Sounds like my modem.

[pygmymetal.livejournal.com]

You can hear it, can't you?

hahaha! Yes! :D

[stillxmyxheart.livejournal.com]

As far as I know, you can make a vector in any advanced graphics editing program (like PSP or Photoshop). Not that I can, but... yeah. Unless they're talking about a different kind of vector or something... heh *is clueless and no help*

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

Okay, I was sympathizing with the Mood of Doom until I got to the Nick Cave version of Heaven, and then I was laughing too hard to do anything besides imagine all that. Needs to be metaquoted. Seriously. :-)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I am dead serious, do you think we can get him to do it? Maybe just toss off a live cover at a concert or something?

[basedonthebook.livejournal.com]

Sawyerland is yours, cavetown is theirs.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Huh, really? I knew Cavetown (or "commie sharefest in Cavetown," to be more precise) was theirs. But I don't know if that means I can't use "Cavetown-on-Dead Pool" or not.

[vladimirsever.livejournal.com]

I miss you.

[may-burrows.livejournal.com]

Oh... oh dear. *nervously pets Cleo* 'Twill be all right. Because, after all, even when you're cranky and upset, you're still of the kick ass hilariousness. (And, if it makes you feel any better, I am now slightly afraid to go to sleep tonight, due to the fact that I think I've part-concussed myself in our bathroom while digging under the sink/behind the drawers o'underwear for a box of tampons that don't even exist, woe... hahaha, not that my paranoia is funny or anything. *end self-absorbed rant now*) ANYWAY. Feel better, dear Cleo! All of fandom is pulling for you! (Somehow, I feel that a quote about ass-licking minions would be appropriate here, but I can't for the life of me figure out why. *grins*) We love you!

[arielchan.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the pimp, dear! Hope you feel better.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

I feel you remote pain, because I'm suffering from it myself. Our TV remote died the other day and like yours, spurned the whole concept of new batteries or being beaten repeatedly against the coffee table. My theory is that the mini-light-bulb is stuffed. Luckily, we took out an extended warranty on our TV (which covers the remote) but we could be in trouble if the repairers decide that God smote the remote in order to punish us for excessive television watching... Act of God clause, my foot...

I am SO SICK of having to get up to turn the volume up and down. Gah!

[havocs-roman.livejournal.com]

'Heaven' as sung by Nick Cave just made my week - and I speak as someone with something of an unashamed fondness for Brian Adams' sap, because, really, life's too short to be ashamed of this stuff - I'm listening to his duet with Kylie Minogue as I type, and I can just see 'Heaven' as the sequel to this whole 'all beauty must die' business. Eheh!

DVD players are the Devil's youngest spawn. Didn't you get the memo?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heeee, exactly. And I love me some Bryan Adams... shamefully.

[perdu.livejournal.com]

I was watching the scene where Sawyer claims the tent for himself and I didn't hear any Sawyerland in that scene specifically.

[sualocin.livejournal.com]

Poor eyelid!
I was almost going to say *hugs to your eyelid*
but I decided that would just be ... awwwwkward!

And I feel like I should haul off and find a journal place wehre you could stick designs on them that have lined paper. . . Because I want one soooooo bad.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Aw, hope you feel better soon. I'm in the throes of Sudafed myself. You know how it says, "Stop use immediately if dizziness or sleeplessness result from use of this product, which is, by the way, chemically related to Ephedra and popular in Meth labs everywhere?" Yeah. Got dizzy. Couldn't fall asleep. Perfect recipe for a crappy morning. It's worn off now, so things are looking up.

[achipiquonque.livejournal.com]

Sawyerland is definitely yours. You used it in your "The Moth" recap, and it wasn't used in the episode or any time before that. I think that's all you really need to know.

[majormeg7.livejournal.com]

Arrghh! I hate the phone too. I always get nervous and forget information like my address, telephone number, and name. You know, information that I had memorized when I was two, but which mysteriously disappears the second a customer service rep answers the phone. Blech.

[arpeggiodreams.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I locked myself out of my fucking online bank account, because apparently my username/password is not what I thought it was, and I tried so many different combinations that the site decided I was a hacker, and now I have to CALL CUSTOMER SERVICE ON THE PHONE NOOOOOOOOOOO. Seriously, I'm half joking and I'm half serious here. I hate phones.

Oh my God. This happened to me today as well. Ack.

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

I wrote to cafepress a couple of days ago - no word yet, though.

I think they may offer free trials of Illustrator, etc. on the Adobe site - don't know how long they'd last, though.

And don't feel bad - I've done that bank account thing twice.

[tenkuangel.livejournal.com]

Yep... Adobe has tryouts of pretty much all their Creative Suite... and it's the latest version they have to try. The trials last for thrity days, so if you don't install it until you're ready to get everything done, it's a good amount of time. ^^

ha!

[cygnus.livejournal.com]

Takes a rare sort to still have the funny while in moodzilla mode; you have most certainly got the funny.

Superb.

Oh... and thanks for mentioning KoL a month or two ago or whenever it was, I've given more than a few weekshours of my life to those wacky folks.

[miss-lithi.livejournal.com]

Ooh! That Neomuet site is lovely! How noir! :)

Three minutes left for me. ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR, MATEY!

[edda.livejournal.com]

Yarr! Come plunderin' with me an' we'll get ye a new one of yer landlubbin' devices and more doubloons than ye can carry!

An' who needs but one day to talk like a pirate? Talk like one any day ye please, lass! An' ye be welcome aboard me new ship (http://www.livejournal.com/users/edda/167072.html) anytime!

[quizzicalsphinx.livejournal.com]

WARNING ABOUT THE QUAKES AND STORMS ANTHOLOGY: It is not a hurricane relief anthology. The editor, Nickolaus Pacione (http://ethereal.uni.cc/), is a truly disturbed and disturbing individual who is not in any way connected with any charity. This anthology is a publish-on-demand/vanity press work, and Pacione's plan to personally contribute the proceeds from this collection to Katrina relief (originally the proceeds were for tsunami relief) are scetchy at best: essentially all profits will go directly to Pacione, who will then send the money to a charity of his choosing, whatever that might happen to be. A Google search of this man's name will tell you everything you need to know about his reputation, and frankly, I don't trust anyone who has his own catagory ('Nickolaus: "The" goth!') on LJDrama. (http://www.ljdrama.org)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh dear.

[lezopez.livejournal.com]

OMG phone calls. Somewhere along the line, the people at Hallmark decided that I was the best person on the phone, and therefore saddle ME with all the ginourmous call lists to tell people their ornaments/junk has arrived. Usually I'm not bad, but then you get people and you can't tell if they're a man or a woman (Chris is SUCH a unisex name you know?) or you only get answering machines OMGIHAVETOLEAVEAMESSAGE *choke* and it just never goes well. Then you get the customers coming in to get their stuff and going "The girl who called me? Is she like... slow or something?"

And dude the Eye Twitch of Dooom. Mines been twitching for THREE STRAIGHT DAYS. *poke*

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Try two weeks of twitching, dude.

[k-joy.livejournal.com]

I was reading that but where you said that the search utility on LJ sucks major ass, and I would like to suggest that you use LJ Archive (http://fawx.com/ljArchive/). Basically, it's a program that archives all your entries on your pc so you can see them offline and lets you search within your entries AND comments. It's very useful to find that one entry you can't seem to locate :)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

DUDE! I already use that! I didn't even think of that!

[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

you know the other good thing about spreadshirt? there's an european site, too (because it started european, doh), and yeah okay you have to like, setup both times to get it done on US and EUR sites, but after that it means your European customers DO NOT have to pay an eye for shipping.

That's an important thing to consider, i would think - I personally bought Cafepress shit only once in my life, because shipping to me is just too expensive. :/

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hmm... good point. I'll try to play with the software, then--it can't hurt to have multiple stores, I guess.