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[cleolinda]

I actually turned down a movie outing to work on my Pixel-Stained Techopeasant piece for tomorrow, so y'all better enjoy the hell out of it.

Five things: No one has actually tagged me for this meme, but I want to do it anyway. Heh. So, five things most people (on the internets) don't know about me:

1. I still have a large collection of My Little Ponies from my childhood in the back of my closet. Large as in "I had the four-rooms-and-a-pool pony mansion."

2. I have always secretly wanted to be a back-up singer, in that Aspirations I Will Never Actually Do Anything About kind of way.

3. I once roomed with an actual crackwhore. To be fair, I think she was doing coke rather than crack.

4. I used to love mushrooms as a toddler, and then one day my mother made homemade spaghetti sauce with those canned, sliced mushrooms that are kind of bland and beige, and I saw them on my plate and decided they looked exactly like severed ears. Now, how I knew this at the age of three I don't know, but I have a very hard time eating mushrooms unless they're just kind of there in small bits, like buried in pizza.

5. When I was in--high school? Early college?--I sent a script out to the X-Files' production office. I didn't tell anyone at the time because even I knew how lame an endeavor it was, but you know, there's always that 1% chance that totally awesome things will happen. Unfortunately, the other 99% prevailed when 1013's lawyers promptly sent it back, saying that for the show's own protection, no one in production could read unsolicited manuscripts. Years later, though, there was an episode that included what was also the primary element of my script (someone stalking Scully, victims found with their hearts torn out. I want to say it was "Milagro"?). On the other hand, pretty much the rest of the episode was nothing like it, and I really do believe they didn't read the script. The coincidence just always struck me as cosmically weird.

(Also, "Five things, besides 'your ride,' that you might wish to 'pimp.' ")


Pirates swashbuckle into New Orleans.

'Dangerous' prisoner faxes his way to freedom. I just love the headline.

Punk icon Iggy Pop turns 60, dives off stage. And all was right with the world.

Fashion was strong by the middle of the decade, and over a hundred women in Philadelphia perished at the hands of ladies who felt the victims had 'bit their styles.'



Phil Stacey now Vote for the Worst's pick? "We love you even if you can't be exposed to direct light." Meanwhile, a chat with the creator of Vote for the Worst.

trailer_spot: the low-res international OOTP trailer, which I also found here. Includes another, different shot of Bellatrix looking awesome; Ralphdemort looking weirdly hot in a tailored black-on-black suit; and yet more proof that the only battle spell Harry knows is "Expelliarmus."

Philip Pullman Says He Always Wanted Nicole Kidman To Lead 'The Golden Compass.' Which is interesting, because when I reread the book after the movie stills had come out, she seemed absolutely perfect for Marisa Coulter--the only difference being that Coulter apparently has short dark hair. On the other hand, Pullman's top choice for Lord Asriel was... Laurence Olivier, which would be perfect if we had a time machine.

"An individual from Jane Fonda's camp recently made me aware of Jane's bitterness towards Lindsay Lohan..."

Darabont Angry at "Wasted Year" Over 'Indiana Jones 4' Script.

Rachel Weisz Dropped 'Mummy 3' Because of Bad Script, Source Says.

Brad Pitt Joining Coens' Burn After Reading.

Sam Mendes Will Direct 'Middlemarch.'

300's Rodrigo Santoro Joins Rose McGowan In 'Black Oasis.'

New Alien vs. Predator 2 Pics. I mention this only because my mother really liked the first one, much to her own surprise. But then, she's the one who raised me with Aliens constantly on TV in the background, so I'm not sure why this came as a shock.

New Narnia Blog Update.

First Look at The Joker... Kinda.

Great Moments In Remake History: Building A Better 'Birds.' *headdesk*

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[hulamoth.livejournal.com]

Great Moments In Remake History: Building A Better 'Birds.'
make it not so!

Rachel Weisz Dropped 'Mummy 3' Because of Bad Script, Source Says.
was afraid of that

[hulamoth.livejournal.com]

When I was in--high school? Early college?--I sent a script out to the X-Files' production office. I didn't tell anyone at the time because even I knew how lame an endeavor it was, but you know, there's always that 1% chance that totally awesome things will happen. Unfortunately, the other 99% prevailed when 1013's lawyers promptly sent it back, saying that for the show's own protection, no one in production could read unsolicited manuscripts. Years later, though, there was an episode that included what was also the primary element of my script (someone stalking Scully, victims found with their hearts torn out. I want to say it was "Milagro"?). On the other hand, pretty much the rest of the episode was nothing like it, and I really do believe they didn't read the script. The coincidence just always struck me as cosmically weird.

also, you win at life

[golden-d.livejournal.com]

3. I once roomed with an actual crackwhore. To be fair, I think she was doing coke rather than crack.

I would love to hear this story.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

She would sleep with her dealer, IIRC, for discounts; one of my other roommates walked in one night to find her snorting coke off the back of a license plate. She was also prone to talking really loudly for no particular reason and, occasionally, going off on scary screaming tantrums. Also, she left her underwear out in the common room a lot.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Cleo, some large candy makers have petitioned the FDA to change the definition of chocolate not to include cocoa butter (http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/008893.html). There's only three days left in the public comment period -- it ends April 25 -- so if you like your chocolate not to taste weird, drop the FDA a public comment (http://dontmesswithourchocolate.guittard.com/howtohelp.asp) before then. I swear I'll stop spamming you with Making Light junk now, but this is kind of urgent. (I'm panicking over here, can you tell?) Please pimp.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

What? What ungodly shit is this? Post this on SF, seriously.

[derangeddarling.livejournal.com]

I love this linkspam.

The HP trailer is amazing!

[lilgoala.livejournal.com]

The HP trailer is amazing!

Agreed. I'm getting excited despite myself. :/

[tabbyclaw.livejournal.com]

I still have a large collection of My Little Ponies from my childhood in the back of my closet. Large as in "I had the four-rooms-and-a-pool pony mansion."

Where I come from, we call those "raw material." (Well, no we don't because I only work with the new ponies, but many is the time I've wished I still had my childhood collection so I could customize the hell out of some of them.)

[leucocrystal]

That's weirdly, bizarrely awesome about the X-Files scripting attempt.  Despite knowing the unlikelihood of anyone out there reading it, let alone having it make it through production, I still think it was a great chance to take.  I mean, there's plenty of ways to go out on a limb, especially as a writer, but that's definitely got to be one of the more awesome ones.

As for "Milagro" (I'm pretty sure that's the right one, but I'm blanking right now), I actually remember a favourite fanfic writer of mine once having a weirdly specific dream about the characters for the show she usually wrote for getting stuck in a ventilation shaft, of all things, and having to figure out a way to get out.  The very next day, she was given a writing challenge, and her assignment was: how to navigate a ventilation shaft.  Heh, funny how those things happen, isn't it?

[kosher-jenny.livejournal.com]

Oh, those Joker pictures are frustrating. How can I pass fannish judgment with such blurry photos? /kidding, mostly.

Rachel Weisz Dropped 'Mummy 3' Because of Bad Script, Source Says.

Considering how crappy Mummy 2 was, that's saying something.

[kosher-jenny.livejournal.com]

Also, did anyone else only read the first two letters of "dive" in the Iggy Pop headline and panicked a little? Iggy no! Oh wait, never mind. *G* I like how the article calls him "eerily athletic" too.

[nohara-megami.livejournal.com]

You so made my day with the kinda-Joker pics and that kick-ass OoTP trailer.

[ironclad1609.livejournal.com]

And I was so hoping to finally learn something about your love life in those five points.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Like what? Besides the fact that it doesn't exist?

[elvensapphire.livejournal.com]

That Harry Potter trailer is...wow. Intense. That movie will be hard to take.

Harder than normal, considering we all know that the entire series will be coming to an end a week later. I will be a weepy mess.

[dives.livejournal.com]

OOtP is going to be so. sweet.

It's clearly a marker of my nerdiness that when I saw Ralphdemort in the suit the first thing I thought was "Voldemort would never wear Muggle clothing!"

[sapphires13.livejournal.com]

Ralphdemort is way too hot for his own good. I watched the trailer this morning, and was kind of like "Holy hot Voldemort in a suit...." and then I couldn't stop thinking about it, and then I remembered that I've seen him naked, and so I couldn't get it out of my head, and then my friend reminded me that I'd also seen Snape naked, and what with all this Equus stuff, I'm like "Okay, Harry Potter people need to STOP TAKING THEIR CLOTHES OFF" because I cannot get any of it out of my head now.

[confusedmuchly.livejournal.com]

I'm just glad I'm not the only one who found Ralphdemort hot in that suit. Load off my mind, really.

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

Re #5: That's why they don't look at unsolicited material. There's always the chance that someone has come up with the exact same idea as you at the same time. If that sounds impossible, think about how all the animated films come in pairs (under-the-water computer animated fims, small bugs computer animated films, etc.) I don't think people are stealing ideas, they are all just drinking the same water and reading the same newspapers.

Also: Spielberg was sued for plagiarizing the E.T. script. As far as I know, it was just a coincidence. (He won.)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, I actually took the lesson to heart, because that is in part why I say I won't read parodies written in a similar style to my own, particularly of a movie I haven't done yet. There's also a Marion Zimmer Bradley case that was kind of scary--I think she wasn't able to publish an entire book because her idea sounded similar to someone else's fanfic. And I totally understand--if 1013 hadn't explicitly sent my script back unread, even though the "Milagro" writer never saw it in his life, I could easily sue them on the two major plot coincidences. I mean, whether I'd win, that's a different issue, but I could cost them a good deal of time and money just defending themselves.

And it's not just animated films either--we had two turn-of-the-century magician movies last year, two Capotes, there's two competing Harvey Milk bios in production, two deadly comet/asteroid movies a while back, there were two Alexander the Greats until Baz Luhrmann backed out, and now I think there's two Hector Lavoe bios this year. There's a point where I do wonder how much of it is one project getting off the ground and someone else saying, "Quick! Find one like that! We need one too!" Or even someone who's had the idea for a long time and suddenly realizing that they need to put it into gear, or they'll be beaten to the punch.

[freezingeva.livejournal.com]

I love that you wrote a script for X-files. My ideas for shows always remained in my head. Oh, I am pretty sure that is not a battle scene. It is Harry studying Occlumency with Snape. Instead of memories, he must be seeing Voldemort. That is why he says "Expelliarmis."

[deathwatchlove.livejournal.com]

The X-Files episode you're thinking of is "Milagro," and it is very high on my list-o-favorite-episodes.

Also, one of my close friends who is turning 21 soon is also a huge My Little Pony fan. I'm not sure how many she has, but she also has My Little Pony rainboots, a backpack, and an umbrella. She also made a bunny costume for one of her ponies, and she brings it with her to regattas for good luck.

[derangeddarling.livejournal.com]

Also, re: #2: we share that aspiration. ;)

[mercat.livejournal.com]

I love the fax story. It seems like just another reason people should actually care about grammar and spelling... =)

[lilotelasserie.livejournal.com]

I have to agree with you that Nicole Kidman is perfect for the role (minus the hair color). I'm re-reading the book as well, and I do think Daniel Craig will work well as Lord Asriel. He could definitely pull it off.

Looking at all the promo pics on IMDb, though, I noticed that no one has a daemon in any of the pictures. I'm not sure what to make of that.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

They're adding them in digitally, is all. There was a behind-the-scenes bootleg/promo clip that showed a very rudimentary version of Mrs. Coulter's monkey--like, a grey blob they were still mapping out. And I've seen pictures of a Lyra double carrying a wooden Pan. The daemons'll be there; they're just photographable, basically.

[soleta-nf.livejournal.com]

Your My Little Pony collection is sweet! I think I gave all mine to my little sister. :(

[morganwolf.livejournal.com]

Funny, I was just talking to my fiance about "The Birds" this weekend. What the hell is wrong with people, I ask you? And why does Hollywood continue to INSIST upon ruining every piece of cinematic gold?

I'm not against the idea of remakes per se, it's just that one of the many tragic flaws these Hollywood types seem to have is thinking that if it ain't broke, they could do it better anyway and they might as well try to fix it. Because, you know, it wasn't actually CREEPIER to have the birds go apeshit for no reason whatsoever. They clearly needed some biological background for wanting to destroy all humans.

Ass goblins.

[barrelgoddess.livejournal.com]

What makes it even worse is that some schmuck wanted to make them penguins this time around. Thank God someone shot THAT down. It's going to be bad enough as it IS without that kind of utter stupidity...

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for linking to Married to the Sea (http://www.marriedtothesea.com); I spent a goodly portion of the weekend trying to remember how to find “that site with the whacked out lithographs and bizarro captions.”

*

On the other hand, Pullman's top choice for Lord Asriel was... Laurence Olivier, which would be perfect if we had a time machine.

Oh, that would rock so hard. Especially if Vivien Leigh was cast as Mrs. Coulter.

[greenleafgurl17.livejournal.com]

Totally and completely random question:

Did you get the word "asshat" from that "fives" list site, or am I seriously missing something? Because I have never heard it before you used it.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I didn't make it up--I wish I could remember who did, if it could even be attributed to one person--but I've been using it for years before I ever found that site.