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[cleolinda]

My God, I am groggy and tired. My doctor's adjusting my medication--she's upped it a teensy bit--so I'm going through two or three weeks of mild side effects. Feeling flushed, kind of caffeinated, kind of feverish--it happens whenever I miss my medication, or reduce it, or up it, or basically deviate from the normal schedule in any way. Except if I miss it or reduce it, it's less "caffeinated" and more "hungover." (Small doses of Zoloft and Wellbutrin, if you're wondering. It's the Zoloft that we're adjusting. Like, from 150 to 200--milligrams, I guess? Nothing huge.) Anyway, I'm largely feeling more focused over the last week or so that I've been taking more, so that's good and all... except that I'm having a hard time falling asleep. Well, "caffeinated," or feeling a facsimile thereof, and all that. So we were going to go out to breakfast early this morning and then have Happy Grandma Movie Day, so I thought I'd take some Tylenol PM last night. Yeah. No. Bad idea. I was already sore from helping cart those giant shelves upstairs--it wasn't the actual carting so much as the "OH GOD CATCH IT THERE IT GOES IT'S FALLING OW THAT WAS MY KNEE" parts, and now I'm so groggy I keep having to stop in the middle of a sentence and start over because it's not coming out right. Or, as I would be saying, "I having to keep starting the sentence because it's not righting out." Hell, I should have just had a toss of vodka and gone to bed on that.

(I tried to catch a couple more hours of sleep after breakfast, but--roofers, you guessed it. Headphones only helped a little.)

(An Ideal Husband went over pretty well, however. My grandmother really liked it; I was more B+ about it. It's one of those movies where half the plot would be over if, let's say, Rupert Everett would just say, "Look, Robert, I thought that was Gertrude in the parlor, and I was trying to get you two back together, okay? I didn't know the Wicked Witch of Mayfair was in there, all right? Oh, and give it up, Mabel, I'm Rupert Everett.")

K-Fed cleans up. I am less, rather than more, unnerved. I keep trying to figure out who he looks like, and all I'm coming up with is some evil DNA recombination of Patrick Wilson and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. Like, in a bad way.

Speaking of which, more on The Tudors, plus set pictures of JRM VIII riding. And yes, he still totally looks like JRM.

Since this is one of my most favoritest songs ever, I thought I'd share the links I came across today: three versions of "I Drove All Night" on YouTube, to which I have added audio downloads from my own collection:

Cyndi Lauper: YouTube video; YouSendIt mp3.
Wow, this a bad video. This is my favorite version of the song, with the Orbison version a close second, but wow, is it tacky.

Roy Orbison: YouTube video; YouSendIt mp3.
Notable for featuring very little Orbison, except on a TV screen in the background--I think he had passed away by this point--and, instead, Jason Priestley and Jennifer Connelly circa 1993 or so. Priestley in particular looks so young, and unexpectedly vulnerable and anxious, which is what strikes me most about the whole thing. Definitely the best video of the three.

Celine Dion: YouTube video; YouSendIt mp3.
Look, I'm not proud. It's just such a great song that it emerges relatively unscathed. Yes, it was used for a car commercial, and was probably recorded for that purpose. Again: not proud of this.

I think all the links are correct, but if Semagic is being crabby today, let me know and I'll try to straighten them out.

You know, I had always wondered whether Orbison or Lauper recorded it first, because I remember her version coming out before his--certainly the video is redolent of late '80s cheese, while the Priestley-Connelly video is very early '90s Herb Ritts-ish--but it totally sounds like Orbison's musical style all the way. Turns out? It was written for him (1987), but he died (1988) before it could be officially mixed and recorded, so the song was given to Lauper (1989); a posthumous collection of Orbison masters and demos, including a remixed take of "I Drove All Night," was released in 1992, and if I recall correctly, I first saw the video in rotation on MTV in early 1993. And that solves a mystery that has bothered me for wayyyy too long. Thanks, Wikipedia!

All right. So. I'm going to load up my Zen and get back to organizing my shelves. Ow.

Comments

[arielchan.livejournal.com]

<3 JRM. I wish I could see that show, damnit.

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

Yay, thanks for clearing up the whole "which came out first?" thing. I'd been wondering that ever since I heard the Orbison version in a Hugh Jackman movie called Paperback Hero. :-D

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Okay, that combination kind of makes me want to see it now.

[margeauxmay.livejournal.com]

The K-Fed thing? Is freaky. There's no other word for it. I'm not sure if I'm glad I saw that or not. Either way...

Word on the whole An Ideal Husband RupertEverett thing. Just...word.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

KFed looks like Chris Klien's sleazier brother. I would buy nothing from someone looking like that. Talk about an oily smile.

And yes, that totally looks like JRM riding a horse pretending to be Henry VIII. Why they got someone so distinct looking to play someone so distinct looking in a completely different way is beyond me.

[wildcatlizzie.livejournal.com]

Wow. K-Fed kinda looks like he should be the creepy serial rapist guy down the street. No matter what that man does to his image, I will never like him.

[paranoidgrl.livejournal.com]

I keep trying to figure out who he looks like

He looks like a cross between Noah Wylie and Ashton Kutcher.
Somehow the clean clothes make him skeevier.

[t4-flirt.livejournal.com]

love the icon.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Also, the bad craziness descends on your neck of the woods (http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/31/attorney.abducted/index.html) again. Be safe.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh shit. I really want to find out that it was a planned kidnapping by someone who knew her, or had a reason to kidnap that specific woman. Because random carjacking? EEEEEH.

[oohasparklie.livejournal.com]

Oh my GOD, I can't believe you linked to the Jason Priestley/Jennifer Connelly video of I Drove All Night. I have been looking for that for ages. Thank you!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

At the same time, I'm not sure it's the only version out there--unless my memory is playing tricks, which it easily could be, I remember a version that had the same look, but involved more night driving and more Connelly in the car.

[rahrahmah.livejournal.com]

K-Fed looks more like a mix of Christopher Reeve and Norman Bates, if you ask me. I like the part where he says "The same day Dick Cheney shoots someone, they've got me on the cover of MSN [Web site]. It's life they're diverting attention from what's really going on." Because I know I was so diverted by his magnificent self that I didn't manage to hear about Cheney till THIS VERY MOMENT. *rolls eyes* what a conspiracy.

[fiveforsilver]

Yes! I was just thinking that he looked like Christopher Reeve.

Except the smile is just too oily. You know he's just about to burst out laughing in every single one of those photographs, thinking "what the hell am I doing?"

[kittenscurious.livejournal.com]

k fed looks ... almost ... attractive ... and ... charming ... if only you didn't know who he was....

[kelly-yoyo.livejournal.com]

"Look, Robert, I thought that was Gertrude in the parlor, and I was trying to get you two back together, okay? I didn't know the Wicked Witch of Mayfair was in there, all right? Oh, and give it up, Mabel, I'm Rupert Everett."

Bwaaa ha ha ha ha!!

I love this movie, but I'd love it even more if Jeremy Northram didn't have that gawd-awful moustache. How to make a handsome man look like a dishrag.

[nore-fortuna.livejournal.com]

K-Fed looks like a creepy young politician.

[sucrelefey.livejournal.com]

Johnny looks realy good in a doublet and tights but nothing like Henry at all. What part of lion like presence did they not understand. Where is the red hair!

[bibliotech.livejournal.com]

How does K-fed manage to look worse when he's cleaned up? I mean, even Aragorn still managed to avoid that whole "ew, he's bathed and scary now" factor once you splashed water on him. He just looked slightly less hot than usual.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

And the best part was, you knew he'd instantly get hot dirty again if he so much as stepped outside. K-Fed looks like he's just... pretending.

[sea-of-tethys.livejournal.com]

The Tudors link goes to a 404 Not Found...

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I think the whole site may be down, actually--I can't get anything at that domain to come up.

[sapphires13.livejournal.com]

I always had trouble with Zoloft. It seemed like it either worked too well, or not at all (and too well is not a good thing, too well meant I was just numb). Shortly before I stopped taking it altogether, my doctor increased my dosage from 75mg to 150mg (ie. he doubled it), which looking back, seems a bit excessive.

And don't get me started on Tylenol PM. I often have to resort to it to get to sleep, but I really, really wish I didn't have to. Because even though I do sleep, I feel so groggy the next day that it's almost as if I didn't at all.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

You know, at the rate I see Lunesta commercials, I'm half convinced to tell you that Lunesta could help you sleep.

[xlearntoflyx.livejournal.com]

Whoaaaa, hey there K.Fed. Uhh...interesting.

I'm definitely seeing him as the illegitimate lovechild of Ewan McGregor and Chris Klein. Hmm.

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

Oh, I was raised on 1950s movies, so plots where just EXPLAINING YOURSELF would solve everything seem kind of normal to me. Hee. But I'm glad your grandmother liked it.

[leila82.livejournal.com]

KFed looks like a really weird version of Ashton Kutcher, like Ashton gone awry or something. Very disturbing. *shivers*

[remys-haven.livejournal.com]

wow! you seriously hit the nail on the head with K-Fed looking like JRM and Patrick Wilson. *shudders* He looks kinda cute in a nerdy way. I can't believe I just said that.

BTW, Sorry about the whole medication deal. that really sucks.

xxxooo ash

[t4-flirt.livejournal.com]

So, I totally snagged the Celine Dion version (i kinda like it--don't ask why).

My mega dilemma right now is finding 3 or 4 more songs for this mix I'm making for my hubby's bday. We're sending the baby to my mom's overnight :)
And since we're really broke right now, I'm doing the whole 'candlelight/romance/seduction' thing.

Problem is, I only have 11 days to find 4 more songs for my mix.

Oh well...I could have roof-elves. *smirk*

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hmm, what've you got so far?

[cpip.livejournal.com]

K-Fed... looks good. That's scary.

And JRM... looks... not at all like Henry. Or even suitably Tudor, really. More like a rich boy playing at being Elizabethan. Maybe we could've cast him as Lord Darnley in a Mary Queen of Scots epic.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

You know, Darnley I could buy. (I found my Mary & Darnley bio yesterday and am happily rereading it.)

[sawcat.livejournal.com]

KF = sleezy used car salesman at best *shudders*. Wonder if this is an attempt to convince brit to cancel the babysitter.

[jessiesquash.livejournal.com]

K-Fed still looks like a skeeze! As a good friend says, you can't shine shit. Not that he doesn't look a ton better but I just don't think he looks anywhere close to good. And you're right, he's unnerving!

[emerald-skies.livejournal.com]

I'm on Zoloft and Wellbutrin as well! Is your Wellbutrin the XL or not? At any rate, my meds regime consists of 100 mg of Zoloft and 300 mg Wellbrutrin XL. All I get from it is feeling a tad dizzy, but right around when my shrink and I changed my meds, my energy levels went whack for a week or two, but once things settled down I felt great.

So does that make us med buddies or something? :)

(And, as a point of curiosity, if you intend to m15m-ize X Men: The Last Stand, I look forward to your interpretation)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Now that I look at it, it *is* XL. And I think I take the same dosage, too.

(X3 is going to go in the next book, if there is one; if that doesn't pan out, I'll just post what got written online.)