Also, I have a molar that hurts

[cleolinda]

So I have finally talked to my doctor, and I am going to be on three! three! three! medications for the time being--the same Zoloft, a little less Wellbutrin, and tiny increments of Lamictal that we're going to ramp up over the next eight weeks so I don't get Teh Fatal Rash Oh Noes. And if I get Teh Sub-Fatal Rash Zomg, which may or may not involve a tightening of the throat and shortness of breath as well, I need to go to the emergency room and get a shot of Benadryl, because it basically is or is like an allergic reaction, much the way you might have one to peanuts or penicillin or bee stings or morons (I have those a lot).

Meanwhile, your ration of cute for the week.

Aaaaaaand the Ramsey-Karr DNA doesn't match. Shine on, you crazy dicksmack. Shine on, in your THAI PRISON.

"Good evening, you godless sodomites." "I could have lost to Wolverine! He has claws!" My mother, who was watching to cheer on Jack Bauer, is now very fond of some "Jon Colbert" person she keeps talking about.

ladyvoldything: Tom Cruise Wins "Ernie Award" For Sexism.

Ann Coulter runs out of bullshit.

Ron's Quidditch scenes might be cut from OotP film (see also "Weasley is our king," "the loudest fannish wail since... whatever pissed them off in the last movie").

Jim Broadbent to play Judge Turpin in 'Sweeney Todd'? Ooo! Casting is so exciting. Seriously, the casting of anything. I love that quicksand period where you get to watch (from a very distant vantage point) movies, particularly the ones with larger casts, take shape. Like the way that Nicole Kidman's White Witch would have been very different from Tilda Swinton's, and so on. It's like you get a peek into alternate universes for a moment.

(If you dig this kind of thing, you absolutely have to read this book. It cracks my shit up so hard--they'll end a chapter completely straight-faced with something like, "And then, a rising new starlet was chosen to star in Sleepless in Seattle: Demi Moore," and you'll have to go on to the next chapter. It's brilliant. Hell, just look at the title: if I recall correctly, the speaker of that line was Burt Reynolds, and the role was One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.)

tecno_fairy, this one's for you. Even though I don't think any of the outfits you made are in there, unless you also worked on Pintel and Ragetti. It's still fab.

A fall movie preview.  Seriously, did The Illusionist come out already and I just missed it? Did it just not come to Birmingham? Was I just too depressed to notice? (Winnah!)

Going to see Little Miss Sunshine tonight, assuming that I don't find anything else to be allergic to in the next three hours. Also, I finally got around to watching Inside Man this weekend, and it was really, really good. Fie on not seeing things in the theater.

Comments

[megapope.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I am saddened that we in New Zealand lack such vitriolic hate spewing celebs such as Anne Coulter. The best we can manage is a mad homo-hating Pastor called Brian Tamaki, who claims that his Destiny Church will take over the country any day now.

Also, John Stewart rocks.

[phoenixforhire.livejournal.com]

Ron's Quidditch scenes might be cut from OotP film

DAMN THEM!

[cheapblackpens.livejournal.com]

I think TI is just in limited release right now, because the wide release date I checked this morning said September 1st.

[morgan-c-hoax.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD SO MANY KITTENS!

It's pretty bad that my first thought was, "Hey, that's the Fark cliche kitty."

[divabat.livejournal.com]

LOL that was my first thought too. "Hey, DomoKitty!"

and I recognized so many from various LJ icons. :P

[scornedsaint.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaaand the Ramsey-Karr DNA doesn't match. Shine on, you crazy dicksmack. Shine on, in your THAI PRISON.

I feel kinda bad about laughing over that.

Also, I finally got around to watching Inside Man this weekend, and it was really, really good.

Loooooved that. Clive Owen normally does nothing for me but I completely fell for him in this one.

And yup, The Illusionist is in theatres, although if you miss that, The Prestige comes out soon and I think it's just the same movie.

[nixve.livejournal.com]

And yup, The Illusionist is in theatres, although if you miss that, The Prestige comes out soon and I think it's just the same movie.

I hope you're joking.
I've seen The Illusionist and read the book of The Prestige: they are very different but both good. It will be interesting to see which traslates into film best.

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

Little Miss Sunshine is excellent. There is schmaltz, but it makes you feel like marrying a nice man, instead of that George fellow your mother has been warning you against.

[leucocrystal]

Oooh, enjoy Little Miss Sunshine!  I saw it last night with a friend, and was very nicely surprised, even though I was already expecting it to be great.  It got a lot of laughs, but also a lot of love, out of the audience, myself included, which is always great.  Also, Steve Carrell?  Impressed the hell out of me.

Yeah, The Illusionist has been out, for maybe a week I think?  Now that I no longer work for a movie theater, I never know when anything's released anymore, lol.  All I know is, that's next up on my Must See list. :)

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Man- one day Coulter is going to take Henry Rollins up on his offer, and the world will immediately become a better, saner place thereby.

[edda.livejournal.com]

What offer was that? I couldn't download the video at work.

[jeeperstseepers.livejournal.com]

For a lot of people, the problem with cutting Ron's quidditch is that it means cutting the kiss Hermione gives him on the cheek before his big game.

The Illusionist was lovely. I'm crazy excited for the The Prestige, but even though it's a very different story and type of movie, The Illusionist is a good magic movie to help pass the time till October.

[meandstuff.livejournal.com]

For a lot of people, the problem is that Ron will just be the jealous, side-kick comic relief again (although I'm sure the shippers will make it all about them).

[oohasparklie.livejournal.com]

I saw that Ann Coulter thing when it was live and laughed my ass off. They just cut her completely off and talked right over the top of her, it was so hilarious. Though I was very surprised that Fox News treated her that way, because isn't she their hero or something?

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Hope you feel better, as always. Also, if I'm one of the morons referred to (because of the train pun the other day), then I'm deeply sorry.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

No! I didn't mean any morons in particular; I just thought it would be a funny/unexpected way to end the sentence.

[rufus.livejournal.com]

I have big puffy hearts for Little Miss Sunshine. Hope you like it!

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

oh man! sorry to hear that you're not feeling well (again).

the illusionist is out here in boston -- we tend to get things a winch bit earlier than the rest of the country. my boyfriend and i saw it this weekend, and...meh. boyfriend really likes stephen millhauser, the writer on whose short story the film is based. as you can imagine, he had a few problems with the film. basically it's really pretty, paul giamatti is amazing, ed norton is okay, jessica biel is embarrassing, and there's a big problem with the way the story is told that would require some spoilers to explain. you will especially enjoy it if you see a bargain matinee.

BTW, what's the protocol for suggesting titles for movies in 15 minutes? i have a great suggestion but do not want to piss you off...

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heh. Usually the protocol is "Don't," because whether I feel inspired enough to write 4000-5000 words on something tends to be a very personal, spur-of-the-moment decision (that, and the depression hasn't been helping), but now I'm curious. What'd you have in mind?

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

Casting is so exciting. Seriously, the casting of anything. I love that quicksand period where you get to watch (from a very distant vantage point) movies, particularly the ones with larger casts, take shape. Like the way that Nicole Kidman's White Witch would have been very different from Tilda Swinton's, and so on. It's like you get a peek into alternate universes for a moment.

Yeah. I sometimes ponder on the narrowly-missed insanity/fascination of Tom Hanks as Harry in When Harry Met Sally (he turned it down because he thought it was too lightweight!), Stewart Townsend as Aragorn in LotR (kicked out because PJ came to his senses) and Christopher Walken as Han Solo (boy, would that have been a trip to The Twilight Zone). The road not taken, etc.

And I think you'll really love Little Miss Sunshine. I did.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heh--Townsend in particular I just boggle at, because he wasn't even the right AGE for the part. That, and the rest of the casting was so spot-on that I can't figure out how it almost went so very, very wrong right there. Except that Walsh and Boyens seemed to have a lot of... corrective input, let's put it that way.

A more recent one I boggle at is James Purefoy for V for Vendetta. Not that he would have been bad, exactly, but--I mean, I liked him on Rome well enough, but I just don't really see why you'd want to put him behind a mask for a whole movie and risk the rest of it on his voice.

[jmkelly.livejournal.com]

Ann Coulter runs out of bullshit?

It's too strange; suddenly I feel afraid. Very afraid.

[edda.livejournal.com]

OMG, best linkspam in a long time, and that's really saying something.

Tell your mom to keep her paws OFF that Jon Colbert; he's MINE. (OK, we can share on alternate weekends.)

[redmapletree.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the meds!

[skinheadskippy.livejournal.com]

Jim Broadbent + Johnny Depp = wheee, musical demon barbers!

[brainchild129.livejournal.com]

As interesting a choice as Jim Broadbent would be for Turpin, the person I would really like them to cast for that role is Christopher Lee. It could totally work! He likes working with Tim Burton, is effortlessly creepy, and can sing (quite well in fact -- he's done opera in the past).

...but maybe that's just me.

[promise19.livejournal.com]

Dittoes on the good luck wishes with the meds. Hang in there!

[pride4u2.livejournal.com]

Shine on, you crazy dicksmack. Shine on, in your THAI PRISON.

OK, so the Pink Floyd fangirl in me just exploded a la "evil Galadriel" in Galadriel's temptation scene in FoTR...this is bad.

[3hours.livejournal.com]

Woman crashes her car while giving her dog a driving lesson. (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BAD_DOG_DRIVER?SITE=ASIAONE&SECTION=TOP_STORIES&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT)

O.o

[blinkliz.livejournal.com]

'Per that YouTube video of the Reality Show award:

Was anyone else as befuddled as I was over the ever so random appearance by... well. THIS?






(I'll leave the joke to you, Cleo.)

Re: O.o

[r-a-black.livejournal.com]

Yes, actually that got a bit of a snort from me when it flashed by.

[r-a-black.livejournal.com]

Those kittens look like they need silly captions.. or better yet, they need to be Demotivaters in some way or another.

[stella-gold.livejournal.com]

Actually, Burt Reynolds lost a part to Jack Nicholson twice - once in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and once in Terms of Endearment. I'm going to guesstimate that he's not Jack's biggest fan.

Also, can you imagine Al Pacino as Rambo, Doris Day as Mrs. Robinson, Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streep as Thelma and Louise, Elvis Presley as the Midnight Cowboy, and Gene Hackman as, no joke, Hannibal Lecter? Because all of them were almost cast in those roles.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Not to mention Michelle Pfeiffer as Clarice. It's all in the book. : )

[kywhippets.livejournal.com]

For the edification of your non-tv-watching readers, could you tell us what Stephen Colbert lost to Barry Manilow?  Colbert, Manilow, and Wolverine make quite the diverse group.

That video, btw, cracked me up, each of the 4 times I watched it.  =)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure, but I think it was probably something along the lines of best variety show--Jackman would have been up for hosting the Tonys, I imagine.