More crazy than usual

[cleolinda]

Is today Lostnesday again? (I promise no recaps. Mostly because if I promise them, I don’t deliver, and if I don’t promise them, I do.) Speaking of which, there’s a Lost page up at the wiki now. It’s not finished, but it does have a complete list of recap links up.

Meanwhile, no one’s found anything else to clutch their diamonds and pearls over since yesterday, but since it is Prince Week, I bring you a download of one of my favorite Prince songs: Thieves in the Temple. Here’s the thing about Prince songs: 98% of the videos are crap. There are a ton of '80s Prince songs that I just didn’t get at all until I finally heard them on CD or the radio when I was much older. “When Doves Cry”? Did not get the big deal at all, because the video was so unendingly lame. And now it’s one of my favorites. So what I’m saying is, if you remember the utterly lamesauce video for “Thieves in the Temple,” wipe that from your mind. Also, true fact: I listened to this a lot while I was writing “Titanic in Fifteen Minutes.” I don’t know why, but it got me through it.

Also, the visitors map from yesterday: so far I've gotten hits from France, Sweden, Germany, Australia, Ireland, Scotland, Austria, Norway, Malaysia, Latvia, somewhere in Africa (I didn't get to see the text description), Greece, Singapore, Colombia and the Netherlands. So far the only continental holdout is Antarctica, but the penguins are probably too busy dancing to get online.

Doctors say superbug can be controlled.

Dems may override Bush on kid insurance.

Wal-Mart faces historic sex bias case.

'Special relationship' questioned after US releases friendly-fire video.

Police want sex charge for boyish con. Aaaaand apparently now they have video of an actual crime.

School accused of covering up assaults. Sadly, the assaulter in question is a completely different, actual 12-year-old boy. Seriously, read this one--the school's handling of the problem is mind-boggling.

NASA to review screening process after attempted astronaut murder. Yup, y'all called it.

Massive hacker attack slows but fails to bring down Internet.

Italy may bar fans from soccer stadiums. Wha?

Teaser ad for Sweeney Todd YAY!

London museum devotes show to Kylie.

skyblade: Tom Cruise and Ben Stiller to play grown-up versions of the Hardy Boys. I must concur with Sky's pronouncement that this is "grotesque." Also, Tom Cruise's career is over. (The Hardy Boys? Seriously?)

From agatha_mandrake: Harry Potter and the Hint of Death. Now, I had heard about J.K. Rowling "vandalizing" a statue in the hotel room where she finished the final Harry Potter book (and after fifteen years of writing the damn things, I can hardly blame her for whatever mental state she was in at the time), but I hadn't heard that the crazy psychofans are trying to read Deep Clues into her choice of statue. Never mind that I'm not sure there even was a "choice," as it's not like she had a wide array of statuary to choose from. Early reports that she wrote on a bust of Hadrian led to "Septimius SEVERUS OMG!" speculation; the correction that it was a bust of Hermes has now set the Harmonians off. Because... you know... Harry/Hermione = Harmione = Harmony = Hermes... somehow. In that vein: Rowling mourns, celebrates Potter's end.

Comments

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

I'm sure there's a word for a Cleolinda-derived global consensus of awesome, but it's probably German and nineteen-leventy letters long and full of more guttural sounds than a pug trying to eat a peanut butter sandwich. So we'll just say that you are teh_awesome.

And yes, it is can be (http://picasaweb.google.com/sigma7/Teh_kewl_catz/photo#4979990731810734098) Lostnesday again. A Juliet episode. Oh be still my beating zzzzz. Still, at least it's not Kate again.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

It's a Juliet episode? Really? Sweet!

(She's pretty.)

[greyduck.livejournal.com]

Seriously, read this one--the school's handling of the problem is mind-boggling.

Truly. The sex-offender was sent out into the hallway, right next to the bathroom door? And the school wants the case dismissed. Did nobody in the school district administration think, "Hmm, this could go badly in the press..."?

[musikologie.livejournal.com]

The teaser add for Sweeney Todd is confusing the heck out of me. If Alan Rickman is Judge Turpin, Timothy Spall would be... Beadle Bamford, most likely? (Well, naturally, Death Eaters have to stick together!) But then... who the heck is Christopher Lee playing? Just one of the chorusmen who gets whacked? And I still want to know who they're casting for Anthony and Johanna....

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I've heard that Christopher Lee, Anthony Head and someone else are playing ghosts--this from someone who knows someone in the makeup department.

[troubleinchina.livejournal.com]

I've now read you from five countries, all over the world. Can I get a cookie? :)

[angelene.livejournal.com]

Italy may bar fans from soccer stadiums. Wha?

Well, yeah, that would be interesting. I don't recall what kind of measures the Brits had used to combat their own hooligans and drive 'em off the stadiums, but I think they're pretty drastic ones too.

When you speak of the[/your] wiki, do you have a link we can go to and check already, or are you still shifting things around and not ready for 'releasing' it?

[angelene.livejournal.com]

Ok, sorry. I had totally missed the 'Lost' link up there. My bad.

[starlady42.livejournal.com]

"Italy may bar fans from soccer stadiums. Wha?"

It sounds crazy, but it is exactly what needs to happen. Basically, Italian football has been overrun by hooliganism -- in Italy they call the super-fans "ultras" -- they smuggle flares, firecracker bombs, smoke bombs, and the like into games and hurl them at opposing fans. The teams actually encourage this crap by paying ultras to make banners and suchlike and paying for their trips to away games so the team will have loud supporters. The players encourage it for a variety of reasons, one of which being if they don't, then they're targeted by the ultras. (!)

The stadia aren't set up for security -- most of them don't even have turnstiles -- and most of them are municipally owned (rather than owned by the teams) so the teams have little incentive to try to crack down. The municipal police, for their part, are overextended and can't keep up with the ultras -- half the time their strategy is to fire tear gas into the crowd, which shuts down the game as soon as the players start getting lungfuls of the stuff. Every so often (read: every other week) things get violent and someone gets trampled/stabbed/shot. This time around, it happened to be a cop, so the Italian government is finally getting serious and declaring that the teams will play to empty stadia. (Of course, now the ultras will just crash bars instead...)

Or, in other words, (some) Italian fans are BATSHIT INSANE.

[mustang-bex1126.livejournal.com]

I am very glad that you knew all that- and ever more glad that I did not have to type it out and explain...

[dramedy.livejournal.com]

That assault case made me die a little on the inside. Seriously, WTF? :/

But Sweeney Todd makes it all better.

And Fanta. mmmm Grape Fanta.

[kira002.livejournal.com]

Orlando is in Antarctica right now. Surely he'll pin you[r map].

Okay, so the trick with Prince is to listen to the music without the videos? NOW you tell me.

[saint-kat.livejournal.com]

The article about the school covering up crimes of assault? It pisses me off that something like this would happen and that the officials did little to arrest the 12-year-old boy for it.

I know the article mentions this as district's argument:

...school officials cannot be held responsible under the Constitution simply for failing to protect youngsters from assaults by other students.

Still, I couldn't help but to feel angry that they didn't do something to stop the crimes from happening in the first place.

As for the story about Italy proposing to ban its fans* from soccer stadiums, I think the idea makes sense to me. I don't know if it will solve the problem of hooliganism and crowd control in Italian soccer itself (not that it hasn't had it share of problems already), but it would at least try to curb the problem at hand.

*I don't mean the regular fans who attend matches for fun (and support their team in the process, like a chunk of people on my f-list do from time to time), but the fans who attend matches just to pick fights, taunt visiting fans, and start riots. And there have been plenty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heysel_Stadium_disaster) of (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derby_della_Madonnina#2004.2F2005_UEFA_Champions_League) cases (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/6197274.stm) of that happening in the past and recent times.

[terriem.livejournal.com]

Also, the visitors map from yesterday: so far I've gotten hits from France, Sweden, Germany, Australia, Ireland, Scotland, Austria, Norway, Malaysia, Latvia, somewhere in Africa

England as well, surely! My London hits can't be showing up elsewhere - that would be tragic.

The wiki is really good and very informative, but as a one-stop shop for all that is Cleolinda, might it be good for it to have links to the works you're talking about? For instance, the Black Ribbon page doesn't link to the webpage where the work is. If you're about to edit this, please ignore a drunk birthday girl. I just think it would be cool to link to pages of your work, so more people can get to see them. The Black Ribbon is such a cool story.

Also, I wish I had New-Flavour Lost or, at least, a decent, non-UK way to get it. What's the verdict, US-siders?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yeah, that's the "under construction" thing I'm talking about. A lot of pages are either empty or just kind of perfunctory so I can get the infrastructure up and running, if that makes any sense.

(Happy birthday!)

[mercat.livejournal.com]

NO, STILLER, DON'T DO IT!

Also, please to not be ruining the Hardy Boys. They are awesome.

[karaph.livejournal.com]

I had the biggest crush on Parker Stevenson when he played Frank Hardy. *sighanddrool*

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

That school case is just appalling. I can't even fathom...they knew he had sexually assaulted a first-grader, and they did nothing?

[sugarplanet.livejournal.com]

eeewww, Tom Cruise as one of the Hardy Boys? He's like 80 now, instead of the The Hardy Boys Men, it's be like, The Hardy Geriatrics.

[ter369.livejournal.com]

I tried to add to your Map, but nothing I clicked on led to a box or a field for entry.

::fails at Internet map fu::

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Apparently just viewing it adds you--it must look at your IP or something.

[jessica-dwg.livejournal.com]

"Thieves in the Temple" is my favorite Prince song, and I say that as a freaky diehard Prince fan who has every album he's ever made, including the bizarro instrumental ones. Anyway, you need to hear the extended remix of "Thieves in the Temple." (http://www.sendspace.com/file/sexfgl) (SendSpace's random file tag for that upload includes "sex." Hee.)

I love the semi-spoken word bit he does towards the end, but then again, I'm a sucker for his speaking voice, which is surprisingly deep.

[jessica-dwg.livejournal.com]

Oops, posted too fast and left out this link: "Dave Grohl Gives Thumbs Up to Prince." (http://www.prince.org/msg/7/217094) My apologies if you've already mentioned it.

[confusedmuchly.livejournal.com]

So... Lost starts over here in Canada, for some crazy-ass reason, at 7:00.

You may all commence with the envy, now.

[georgie21.livejournal.com]

Yeah, what was up with that, anyway? I love Canada. :)

[georgie21.livejournal.com]

Hey, just wondering... are we getting a Lostnesday entry?

Because they, for some reason, aired it incredibly early on one channel here and I just saw it and feel the need to squee about it with people... So, discussion entry? :)

[georgie21.livejournal.com]

Oh. Yeah. Right. Sorry, just saw that it's totally already there. :)

[edda.livejournal.com]

I stand by my opinion that Prince's video for "Kiss" is one of the best EVER MADE FOR ANYTHING. I can't explain it; it just is.

[adoresixtyfour.livejournal.com]

"Lamesauce"? Hee.

[stringertheory.livejournal.com]

So far the only continental holdout is Antarctica, but the penguins are probably too busy dancing to get online.

*snerk, giggle* Oh, the wonderful dancing penguins.

And YAY for Sweeney Todd!

[eu-splinched.livejournal.com]

I got introduced to Question of U in my jazz class a few years back. I've loved that song ever since then.

[xander77.livejournal.com]

Also, the visitors map from yesterday: so far I've gotten hits from France, Sweden, Germany, Australia, Ireland, Scotland, Austria, Norway, Malaysia, Latvia, somewhere in Africa (I didn't get to see the text description), Greece, Singapore, Colombia and the Netherlands. /

Well, now I've lost the speshul feeling.

[purpleivey.livejournal.com]

Ok, if you're gonna get SO overly analytical about a statue that says "J.K was here," you REALLY need to find a new hobby. Serriously. I mean, I'm the sorta person that DOES read a lot into stuff and even I realise that's way overkill *shakes head* Some people...

[thegeneralerin.livejournal.com]

For your next linkspam:
There appears to be an official, announced date for the Indy IV movie. May 22, 2008.

"Spielberg states 'George, Harrison and I are all very excited. We feel that the script was well worth the wait. We hope it delivers everything you'd expect from our history with Indiana Jones.'"
from: http://www.indianajones.com/community/news/news20070102.html

oh shit!

[obigrrl.livejournal.com]

Anna Nicole Smith is dead!! (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17050167/?GT1=9033)

o_O

Re: oh shit!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Holy crow.