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[cleolinda]

Okay, question. Who's doing this version of "Happy Together" in the first half of the trailer? It sounds very like the Turtles, but I'm 95% sure it's not (faster, and the guy sounds current). A cookie for anyone who finds the real song!

LJ news: All journals are now located at username.livejournal.com (which previously you had to pay to get--it's to avoid a security hack) and communities are community.livejournal.com/username (which I had already noticed, and wondered what that was about).Old URLs will still work, but you can save redirection time if you do switch your bookmarks to the new version.

Project Runway: Livejournal Edition.

Mystery Man Places Roses on Poe Gravesite... for 57 years in a row. (Okay, technically, a man and his sons may be involved.)

Prisoner escapes by dieting. Also by using the "sleeping form made of pillows" trick.

BlackBerry Shutdown May Hurt U.S.

French Face Transplant Patient Smokes Again. Doctors: "Uh, seriously, don't do that."

Two from the Onion: Sean Penn Demands To Know What Asshole Took SeanPenn@ gmail.com and Hi, I Like to Cut Myself.

This site is going down tomorrow, so get it while it's Hoff.

A program that tells you whether your book, based on the title alone, will be a bestseller. The really fun thing to do, naturally, is plug in titles of actual bestsellers.

Clarkson Won't Let 'Idol' Use Her Songs, which makes Simon Cowell a bitchy sad panda. Oh, suck it up, Cowell. If I were Kelly I wouldn't let a bunch of woodling wannabes maul my songs, either--or, worse, knock them out of the park and steal them out from under me. Thanks, but no thanks. Update: "Gah, shut up, you can have them."

From Alison: "I made a documentary (for lack of a better word) of the week I redecorated my room. It's about 10 minutes long, but it takes forever to load. I would love other people's opinions on it. You can find it at queenalison.blogspot.com."

Study: Men Enjoy Seeing Bad People Suffer. Me, I just enjoy seeing annoying celebrities suffer.

dailydigestnews: Syriana screwed, Colin Farrell sues, Caspian on the move, a Beowulf trailer and MULDER SMASH!






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Comments

[lilgoala.livejournal.com]

I wonder how much hate-mail seanpenn@gmail.com has been getting lately...

[suenosdejmi.livejournal.com]

yeah really. That article is so hysterical though. I'm so putting that link on my journal.

[tania.livejournal.com]

This LJ domain thing actually annoys me a little. I spent a lot of money a while back getting a lifetime account, and slowly but steadily, all the extras I paid for since then have been given to everyone else anyway - scrapbook, 100 userpics, shorter domain...

I mean, I don't have a leg to stand on when it comes to complaining, because they did it for a good cause (security), but still. The compensation was more voice post capability? Dude, I live in Australia. We can't use voice post out here. :P Even if we could, I probably wouldn't.

[carbonel]

I can't tell you who it is, but I can up the certainty to 100% that it isn't the Turtles doing that rendition of "Happy Together." It isn't the Nylons, either. Maybe a cover made especially for that movie?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

That's my suspicion (particularly given the title), but who is it? And more importantly, where can I download it?

[someway.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the LJ update. I never read the LJ News.
I think the Poe story would make an awesome book/movie.

[magikalcrab.livejournal.com]

I saw that in the news yesterday, about the Australian prisoner. They had it all over the radio, freaking out because he's "dangerous" and blah blah blah. I wonder if they realise that a man who weighs that much is probably too weak to even hold a weapon, let alone use one?

[bacardibreezer7.livejournal.com]

Actually, he's more a danger to himself than anything. He's the younger brother of that actress, I forget her name but she played that blonde busybody lady in The Dish. Apparently he's got a severe heroin addiction and has been behind bars for half of his life, so he can't really cope on the outside. Coz of that, and his mental illness, his sister believes he's in serious danger of attempting suicide.

[sawcat.livejournal.com]

Song sounds like a revamp of the Turtles version until the very last bits of it. No luck in searching amazon or the movie's site.

By the way, have you heard of the Ipod Jeans Levis is making? Here's the press report: http://www.levistrauss.com/news/pressrelease.asp?r=1&c=0&cat=0&pr=764&area=North+America

I just know there can be so many jokes made about the joystick in the pocket.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

You laugh, but I've already seen an mp3 player/vibrator. Literally, as in sex toy.

[fateorlate.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure Simple Plan did a version of it.

[missdiane.livejournal.com]

I remember that too - it's on the Freaky Friday soundtrack
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000A4G4M/qid=1137704800/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-0841747-4481445?n=507846&s=music&v=glance

Blackberry link

[corkdorkdan.livejournal.com]

Blackberry link doesn't work? At least not for me.

[ter369.livejournal.com]

...it's to avoid a security hack

It's going to take lots o' my time to relocate and resave all the (pages and pages and pages) of LJ page links I saved in MS Word.

Because for all I know, LJ will drop new organizational changes on us any old time, several more times; and the versions I have saved now may not translate two or three more web-address updates down the line.

It's funny how I do all my shopping online, including purchases from sites not in North America or in English, and those vendors don't have to switch to this kind of domain format to maintain security.

Meanwhile ... I'll save time by dumping the feed from Neil Gaiman's blog, because by the time I scroll to that on my Friends page, the "major" quips or links he's listed have been requoted by my Flist.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Apparently the old livejournal.com/user/username URLs still work; you can just save redirecting time if you change them. But right, there's no telling about two or three changes down the line.

[auryanne.livejournal.com]

Lulu says my Nano novel has a 63% chance of being a best-seller. Sweet!

[duncanatrix.livejournal.com]

I don't think it sounds like Rivers Cuomo too terribly much but Weezer did a cover of the song for Spike Jonze to use in "Adaptation" that was rejected. It's possible that they might have chosen to use it here instead. I can't find a copy of that mp3 though.

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

not sure how this works, but it says it'll play it for you:
http://webjay.org/iteminfo/6755059/b50317419b06ce02005641e654fe7663

[arielchan.livejournal.com]

*watches Beowulf trailer*

It's decent, but I only plan to be seeing one Beowulf movie, and it is of course not that one.

[arielchan.livejournal.com]

And, on second thought, who are some of these people? o_O And why the hell is there a sex scene in Beowulf? There should not be a sex scene in Beowulf. Ever.

Beowulf trailer

[christwise.livejournal.com]

Grendel is a dude?

Uh. No. (http://www.library.gatech.edu/about_us/news/banned/images/grendel.gif)

Re: Beowulf trailer

[arielchan.livejournal.com]

Actually, Grendel was supposed to be sort of a monsterous human-like creature. His family was descended from Cain, supposedly, and Cain was human, so they'd at least be pseudo-human.

[la-sonnambula.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! The Onion article totally captured Sean Penn's toolness. And in a case of life sort of imitating The Onion, Mel Gibson is threatening to sue (http://melgibsonsblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/mel-is-threatening-to-sue-seriously.html) the owner of melgibsonsblog.blogspot.com.

Happy Together

[riverchild.livejournal.com]

Some poking around on the imdb boards yielded this: Last Conservative (http://music.myspace.com/lastconservative). There's an ad for the trailer on that page.

Re: Happy Together

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Woo! You need to go into private investigation, man.

[spooke.livejournal.com]

Do you remember the name of that game you linked to a while back? The one where you solve puzzles in order to get your dog back from alien dognappers? I can't remember the name of it, but I think it may have been Scandinavian... ARGH I CAN'T REMEMBER THE LINK! *goes insane* I'd love it if you could tell me what that address was.

[riverchild.livejournal.com]

Samorost 2 (http://www.samorost2.net/) :)

[drpeprfan.livejournal.com]

Thank goodness all the Pevensies are returning for Caspian. I only hope they film everything fast enough so that the actors don't get too old for the parts.

I found this, apparently Adrien Brody wants to be the Joker.
http://comics.ign.com/articles/679/679631p1.html

[theatre-angel.livejournal.com]

That...that's messed up.

I mean, he'd do a wonderful job, I'm sure.

But that's seriously messed up.

More LJ News

[virtuistic.livejournal.com]

You can disable the nudge function!

just go to the admin console and type in the following:
set disable_nudge 1


Figured you'd like to know.

About that cutting...

[kali921.livejournal.com]

That Onion article is bizarre. I can't quite tell who it's parodying, people that self-mutilate and cut due to pathology or people that scar as body adornment. Either way, it's weird. I mean, self-mutilation due to anxiety, depression, etc., I don't find funny - it's a psychological disorder and I don't see the point of making fun of people that do it. What I've read about self-mutilation is that the physical injury 1) releases endorophins and GABA into the brain that calms anxiety and 2) provides a specific, physical pain to focus on which gives some temporary relief from psychological distress, as fleeting as it is.

Cutting for scarification purposes - i.e., body art - is entirely different, and usually not associated with pathology, meaning it's done in the same vein as tattoos, branding, and piercing, for the purposes of beautification. It's a valid personal choice.

Re: About that cutting...

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I didn't feel like they were making fun of people who actually had that as a problem--they were making fun of a subset of wannabes, usually teenage or college-age girls, who dabble in cutting (and tell you so at every opportunity) to seem "dark" and "edgy."

[theatre-angel.livejournal.com]

The Beowulf film looks really good! I'm a member of the .234234 percent of the population who hasn't actually read the poem, but the film looks like an excellent indie adventure. (And I'm a total Sarah Polley whore. It's slightly sad.)

That Quizilla assessment was very profound. ;-)

[squee1123.livejournal.com]

AGH OMG Imagine Me and You! I must see this...NOT ONLY does it have Piper Perabo who I find to be gorgeous in all ways...but it also has Lena Headey who I fell in love with after watching Gossip and just...eeek...AND....to top it ALL off! GILES! it has GILES....I literally squealed when he came on...

Giles!

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

The title [title of my Nano work which I'm trying to market] has a 10.2% chance of being a bestselling title!

Schadenfreude my ass. "Fuck you, lady, that's what stairs are for!"

(Sorry, it's the current heading of my journal, I'm so smitten by the whole Avenue Q thing.)

[christwise.livejournal.com]

It's ok. The internet is for porn.

[bluinkalchemist.livejournal.com]

You know what would totally rock?

Heroine Addict icons of Starbuck from the new Battlestar Galactica.

Just something to ponder.

[suenosdejmi.livejournal.com]

omg omg yes!

[auror-lib.livejournal.com]

Prisoner escapes by dieting

Home town pride! You think he's gonna get a deal with Weight Watchers?

[blackdiamants.livejournal.com]

I'm quite curious how Beowulf will turn out and which portion they'll use for the movie.
But WTF on the cutting article. It's like a retarded personal that makes you wish there were anti-procreation laws for absolute idiots.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well... it is the Onion. So it is a parody.