Just checking in

[cleolinda]

Good Lord, where has the day gone? Also, Mom taped over Lost. Looks like I'm going to be making up passive-aggressive homoerotic dialogue, you guys.

Oy:

A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE

This one was so strange, we had to run it near the top. Faithful reader Hector Lima pointed out this tidbit over at Contact Music, so strange we can only quote it: "Eccentric film-maker David Cronenberg shocked his cast and crew on the set of new movie 'A History Of Violence,' by publicly performing sex scenes with his wife. The director hoped his explicit displays of affection with his wife would help stars Viggo Mortensen and Maria Bello, who play man and wife in the film, feel more comfortable during their sex scenes together. But, instead, the Cronenbergs just left everyone on the set stunned ... Mortensen says, 'There's a couple of fairly racy sex scenes in the movie ... between Maria Bello and myself. David, trying to be helpful, as usual, thought it might be a good idea to call up his wife and have her come down to the set. The crew and Maria and I just sat and watched while he and his wife got into something comfortable -- nothing -- and they started to say, 'We want you to (do this).' Maria and I were both going, 'OK, we get it.' This is a testament to their relationship, they kept going and they kept going and then we broke for lunch and some time in the evening Maria and I got to have a crack at it. Instead of putting us at ease, we actually were kind of freaked out... Maybe some things ought to stay private.'"

SUPERMAN RETURNS

The official site has launched, without much going on as of yet, but at least the latest video blog shows one Jimmy Olsen handing the figurative torch (or bowtie, in this case) to another.

In possibly related news, proving once again that truth will remain in the lead over fiction in the "strangeness" race with a lead so unsumountable as to be embarrassing, former proposed Superman actor Nicolas Cage and his wife Alice Kim welcomes a baby boy into the world, who they promptly named Kal-El Coppola Cage. No, really. Babies born around the same time are already signing up for a lottery to be the first to kick the Cage baby's butt.

Ralph Fiennes on Voldemort and his costar: "Dan's very good," he said, "working with him was wonderful. Poor guy, he had to be so patient. I had to do all this waffling and talking about how I'm the Master of the Universe and how I'm evil and I'm going to kill him and he has to stand there all tied up, writhing around and groaning with pain while I'm monologuing towards him. The Evil-Genius monologue bit - no film is complete without it! I just love playing evil characters!"

(Monologuing. Is that anything like voguing?)


Oh, and elyim reports that Amazon.co.uk has dropped the price on the book to £4.79 from £6.39--you may want to cancel and repreorder. No, I have no idea what's going on with the American distribution. Still looking into it.

Also: Have you thought of something to write for NaNoWriMo?


   

Comments

[girlalmighty]

Will you be doing NaNoWriMo this year? I'm still working on character sketchs and plot, but I'm thinking it would be fun to play with contemporary Gothic; I've never done that before, and my tiny, creepy-at-night, private, all-girls, East Coast liberal arts college has provided a lot of inspiration as far as setting goes.

And I have absolutely nothing against made-up passive-aggressive homoerotic dialogue. In fact, I am completely for it. And Evil Genius monologuing. And voguing.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I think it would be cheating if I worked on Black Ribbon, but I'm thinking about doing that anyway. Maybe in an unofficial capacity. I like the spirit of the thing.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

I've thought of way too many things to write for NaNo, actually. I'll be running around panicking about decisions on 31 October again, I just know it.

[princessstarr.livejournal.com]

Between my current fanfic (which I pushing myself to have done by Nov.1) and NaNoWriMo, I think I may never leave this computer.

[koritsimou.livejournal.com]

Re: The first item. Um. Wow. I just saw that last night, and yeah, the sex scenes were.... well, I'm not the shy type and I was embarrassed. Possibly because it was a first date *cringe*. I definitely had to look away at a couple of points. Let's just say that what happened with the cheerleader outfit had me giggling nervously.


But HELLO, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN PREVIEW. I nearly wet myself with excitement.

[state-champion.livejournal.com]

I was on, like, the billionth date, and it still made me blush and giggle!

and for some reason the audience I was viewing with couldn't take the trailer for Brokeback Mountain. Jackholes.

[valkyrie79.livejournal.com]

See, this is why I can no longer live without a Tivo. Totally necessary for life.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Except that with Tivo how long will you be able to keep it (http://www.pvrblog.com/pvr/2005/09/drm_on_ifc.html)?

A PVR is a necessity, though it'd be better to BYO (http://byopvr.com/).

[emargaret.livejournal.com]

I think we should do it. And incorporate $5 Grey Goose drinks every Thursday into the requirements. Afterall, what's a good writer without a substance abuse problem?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heh. P.S. The book comes out on a Thursday.

[mandy0x.livejournal.com]

[Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] should have it up.

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

"Looks like I'm going to be making up passive-aggressive homoerotic dialogue, you guys."

Really? Hmmm, maybe your mom should tape over Lost more often. ;-)

[twilight-zen.livejournal.com]

A. Taping over LOST should be a felony.

B. I love Ralph Fiennes in every way imaginable. He's hot and smart and talented and amusing and just absolutely wonderful.

C. Nick Cage used to be one of my favorite off beat actors. Now he's just bizarre. I wish he'd do more off beat roles so I could love him again, because I really, really did LOVE him. In leaving Las Vegas he was awesome. Raising Arizona? Funniest/weirdest flick that I loved during my misspent youth. And I'll even give him props for playing Charlie Kaufman. But all these cheesy action flicks MUST. STOP. NOW. And we won't even get into the almost kidnapping of his child bride and nearly instantaneous pregnancy/marriage. Dude's just weird. But it worked for him when used it in off beat films. Now? Not so much.

D. I think monologuing is something like.... villing? Which is awesome.

[wmetoile.livejournal.com]

I first heard "monologuing" defined in The Incredibles, when Jason Lee, as Syndrome, yells, "You've got me monologuing!" at tied-up Mr. Incredible. It's when the supervillain dumps all their sad backstory and warped motivation on the (usually immobilized) hero, rather than just killing him or her immediately. And I bet Ralph is damned good at it, eh, Meester Bond?

[achipiquonque.livejournal.com]

Everybody should see that movie.

[elyim.livejournal.com]

I cannot write to save my life, I have a shitload of college work and university essays to do, but for some reason I have signed up to NaNoWriMo.

This is taking procrastination to a whole new level.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Wait, but what if you start to procrastinate NaNoWriMo? Then you'll have to go back to writing essays, but then you'll have to procrastinate the essays by going back to NaNoWri--BANG! See? You exploded.

Don't you hate it when that happens?

[all-ephemera.livejournal.com]

I just signed up for NaNoWriMo, but I haven't got a good idea in my head - and of course I'm terrified. This will be my 1st NaNoWriMo and the first time in YEARS I've written anything besides in my journal or loan approvals. I have no illusions about it being good but I want to try, anyway! You doing it?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Still mulling it over. : )

[yarha.livejournal.com]

Also, Mom taped over Lost.

Noooooooo, ahhhh! Oh, well. She's under the weather and hence can be excused (Ed: Somehow I originally typed the first syllable of 'excused' as 'executed')

Also: Have you thought of something to write for NaNoWriMo?

I have two project final reports to do between now and the end of December. I'm gonna skip it. :p "But they're non-fiction!" you might say. Well..uh..you see..nevermind.

Yarha, Non-non-fiction

[mandy0x.livejournal.com]

Alright, I gave in and ordered the "Princess Cut Swiss Blue Topaz Pendant" from Silver Jewelry Club. This is the start of a new addiction, I can tell.

[tigereyed24.livejournal.com]

Oooh, thanks for the heads up on the book price changing, I'll go cancel and reorder right now :) It seems silly for 2 pounds, but cmon! Thats like..5 bucks canadian! lol

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

Okay, WHERE did you get those INCREDIBLY CUTE cartoon Lost icons, and may other people use them? Is there a repository somewhere where people can steal if they wish (and credit)?

[amarantha-raven.livejournal.com]

...reports that Amazon.co.uk has dropped the price on the book to £4.79 from £6.39--you may want to cancel and repreorder.

They may just do it like with the HP book. People who preordered before the price changed got a refund in the form of credit toward their next order.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Someone a bit upthread was saying they were charging them the same, but maybe it hadn't kicked in yet?

[sapphires13.livejournal.com]

NaNoWriMo.... I'm not doing it. I'm already a good 21 pages into a story, and I'd hate to have to put it aside to work on a new one specifically for NaNoWriMo. Plus there's the whole quantity over quality thing. I'd rather write something slower and shorter, and have it be great, than to try and rush and write something crappy to fill in a certain amount of space.

Also, if you feel like pimping something, sliceofmusic is a new music sharing community that works on a rather nifty credits system. Going along with the slice theme, you get 1 lime slice per song you upload, and 1 lemon slice per full album you upload. You can use those credits to request songs/albums from people. But you can download anything uploaded on it's own/or for someone else, free of credit.

alexthedevil made me ask you to pimp that. I had to because I'm scared of her. She has red hair and she's the devil ;_;

NaNoWriMo Virgin

[elbiesee.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you brought the subject up, because I'm contemplating joining up this year. Any advice?

And Ralph? So cool. He rocks the Evil-Genius.

Re: NaNoWriMo Virgin

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I've never gotten around to doing it before, myself. I would definitely suggest that you spend October mulling over what you'd like to write about, though. Don't go in cold. And pace yourself--try to set a goal for each day. I think 2000 words a day is what it takes to get to 50,000, roughly...?

[elbales]

Oh, Cleo? Remember that stabbity stab thing? This is one better.


Teacher Banned After Ripping Out Boy's Insulin Pump
School Officials: Teacher Thought Pump Was Cell Phone


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[angel-kathryn.livejournal.com]

I'm doing Nanowrimo for the first time ... clearly, this is a mistake, as I have my uni exams during the first half of November, which require all of my time - I cannot afford to do badly in these ones! ;)

But, I have signed up for Nanowrimo in the hope that this will coax my muse back from whatever God-forsaken, monster-infected, plane crash-ridden hell hole distant island it has run away to.

[firegatka007.livejournal.com]

monologuing-discussed in The Incredibles a few times

its what villans do to waste time after they catch the good guy and end up giving the good guy time to plan an escape... monologuing usually leads to the bad guy's defeat

[themindseye.livejournal.com]

I just learned about NaNoWriMo a few days ago. I signed up but I still haven't gotten my email from them. I guess they are having problems. I am also taking a free online writing course at Barnes & Noble. I have never tried to write a novel before but I am sure as hell going to try. I actually do have an idea that is rolling around in my head. Most likely I am the only one that is going to find it funny. I take that back...my best friend will probably think it is funny too because she laughs at all my funnies.

[sorchar.livejournal.com]

*snugs* I set the VCR to tape Lost not knowing that they were re-running the previous ep first. Meh.

[dramedy.livejournal.com]

NaNoWriMo scares me. I miiiight try it. but it frightens me.

...Ralph Fiennes is hawt.

*goes back to bugging mom to pre order the book for her*

[princessstarr.livejournal.com]

I have an interesting GoF article:

http://www.vh1.com/movies/news/articles/1510896/10042005/story.jhtml?_requestid=79885

All I can see is, WHAT THE HELL?