Thursday night, breakfast for dinner

[cleolinda]

You ever have a day where you're both busy and yet feeling like you're accomplishing nothing? I had that kind of day.

Just a teensy bit more American Idol from drpeprfan: live and studio recordings for the last few weeks. Note: Definitely check out Jordin's studio recording of "Livin' on a Prayer," which is so much better than the live performance. This might actually be true of most of the recordings (Gina's "I'll Stand by You," for example)--except for Blake's from Tuesday night, which is even more impressive after you listen to the studio recording. Oh, and Haley Scarnato's "Tell Him," the charm of which is entirely in the live performance. Ahem.


Queen Elizabeth visits Virginia; Queen's visit prompts protocol fears; Queen Elizabeth to attend her first Kentucky Derby.

LAPD rubber bullet barrage at protesters probed.

Man dies of thirst during survival test. "And the guides, it turned out, were carrying emergency water on that torrid summer day. Buschow wasn't told that, and he wasn't offered any. The guides did not want him to fail the $3,175 course."

Judge sues cleaner for $65M over pants.

Jin Nam Chung, Ki Chung and their son, Soo Chung, are so disheartened that they're considering moving back to Seoul, said their attorney, Chris Manning, who spoke on their behalf. "They're out a lot of money, but more importantly, incredibly disenchanted with the system," Manning said. "This has destroyed their lives."

The lawsuit was filed by a District of Columbia administrative hearings judge, Roy Pearson, who has been representing himself in the case. According to court documents, the problem began in May 2005 when Pearson became a judge and brought several suits for alteration to Custom Cleaners in Northeast Washington, a place he patronized regularly despite previous disagreements with the Chungs. A pair of pants from one suit was not ready when he requested it two days later, and was deemed to be missing. Pearson asked the cleaners for the full price of the suit: more than $1,000. But a week later, the Chungs said the pants had been found and refused to pay. That's when Pearson decided to sue.

Manning said the cleaners made three settlement offers to Pearson. First they offered $3,000, then $4,600, then $12,000. But Pearson wasn't satisfied and expanded his calculations beyond one pair of pants. Because Pearson no longer wanted to use his neighborhood dry cleaner, part of his lawsuit calls for $15,000 — the price to rent a car every weekend for 10 years to go to another business. "He's somehow purporting that he has a constitutional right to a dry cleaner within four blocks of his apartment," Manning said.

I think we need the Sarcastic KFC Judge to rule on this one.

Loltrek: Tribbles and Also Troubles.

Invisible motorcross; Bring me a tricycle.

From bubosquared: Map of the Internets in poster form!

"Go Away Paris Hilton" by Citizens for a Better America. I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Lohan: "I Am a Serious Actress & New Film Will Prove It." Maybe I just have lolcats on the brain, but all I can think of is that macro with the cat saying, "I are serious cat. This is serious thread."

Gilmore Girls Canceled.

Pilots: Geico 'Cavemen' Review: Maybe ABC Was Going For 'Astoundingly Awful'? "This video will get passed around like the infamous Star Wars Christmas Special."

Review: 'Spider-Man 3' mixes highs and lows; 'Spider-Man 3' has huge intl. first day; Box Office Preview: ''Spider-Man 3'': Biggest opening ever?

David Yates to Direct Half Blood Prince. What this says to me is that Order of the Phoenix is really, really good, if they're willing to have him back rather than continue the rotating director thing. I still want Cuarón back for the seventh (haters, keep in mind: any problems you have with missing plot is not necessarily the director's fault), but the OOTP trailer looks fantastic, so...

(Meanwhile: OotP to Have "Over 100 Centaurs" and Three New OotP Character Posters.)

Samples of the entire Pirates 3 Soundtrack.

The Golden Compass teaser poster. Also, a poster for A Mighty Heart, the Angelina Jolie-as-Marianne Pearl film. Eh, Daniel Pearl's in there somewhere.

International Evan Almighty Trailer.

trailer_spot: Rush Hour 3, Ratatouille, Nightwatching, Fido, Spider-Man 3, Pirates of the Caribbean 3.

Michael Caine is God in Sophie's World.

Hartnett to Star in I Come With the Rain.

And finally, Premiere's 100 Greatest Movie Lines. You know, before the magazine folds entirely.

Comments

[thunderphoenix.livejournal.com]

The LOLTribbles thing made me laugh so hard I hurt myself, as stupid as it is.

[leucocrystal]

What this says to me is that Order of the Phoenix is really, really good, if they're willing to have him back rather than continue the rotating director thing.

You may be right there -- I think that's kind of what happened with Chris and the first two; the first was a huge success (though to be fair, they were hard-pressed, I think, to screw up the first Potter film, but hey, credit where credit's due).  I think that definitely inspires confidence as to the quality of OotP as a film though, which sounds great to me.

I still want Cuarón back for the seventh (haters, keep in mind: any problems you have with missing plot is not necessarily the director's fault), but the OOTP trailer looks fantastic, so...

Man, I'd love for Cuarón to come back SO HARD.  That would be just too awesome.

[ter369.livejournal.com]

Man, I'd love for Cuarón to come back SO HARD. That would be just too awesome.


Yes, yes, yes, please (http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/news.php?id=4759).

[enid-keaner.livejournal.com]

See, I didn't think the first two were well made at all. Chris Columbus frightens me as a director.

Cuarón so needs to come back for the seventh. That would rock all corners of the earth. I just turned in a paper centered on Y Tu Mama Tambien and his brilliance. I love that man.

[plazmah.livejournal.com]

Maybe I just have lolcats on the brain, but all I can think of is that macro with the cat saying, "I are serious cat. This is serious thread."

I thought the exact same thing when I read the article title, and then you read my thoughts Cleo. ;)

[ter369.livejournal.com]

What this says to me is that Order of the Phoenix is really, really good, if they're willing to have him back rather than continue the rotating director thing. I still want Cuarón back for the seventh .....

This is all what I've been chanting for since I saw the trailers last month!

[falco-conlon.livejournal.com]

Every time you post something new about OotP I start freaking out. I am SO excited.

And also, I have such mixed feelings about GG ending. I want it to, because it's been too long already, but at the same time, I never get tired of their banter...

[carnotite.livejournal.com]

I love the Geico gecko and the Aflac duck, but I've never heard of a TV show based on a commercial. I enjoy your links because this is one of many stories I would not have noticed on my own.

[sapphires13.livejournal.com]

Okay, I was reading the article about the Queen coming to see the derby, and I got to this line:

The queen has stabled horses at Kentucky farms in the past.

And I read it as stabbed horses, and I was like WTF O_O

Anyhow, come derby day, I plan on finding a picture of her there and making a "I'M IN UR STATE, WATCHIN UR HORSEZ" macro to post in my journal. Because I'm THAT lame.

[thegeneralerin.livejournal.com]

Well...that play was based on the Queen's life...they just changed it to a guy for politics.....

[starlady42.livejournal.com]

Awesome. The lolTrek thing is by a friend of mine... I have been having a blast tracking its spread across the web all day. I wondered if/when it'd show up here. :D

The best part is, even though today is the day Stephen's meme hit a frillion weblogs including boingboing and Digg, it's not even the most exciting thing happening to him at the moment, because his wife is in labor right now.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Aww, best wishes for the baby!

[word-herder.livejournal.com]

The more I see the snippets of POTC3, the more I am DYING to see it. Seriously, I listen to the soundtracks almost every day. :)

It sucks that I'll be driving from Illinois to Pennsylvania May 25th and 26th. (Two cats--we don't want to do it all in one day.) But maybe it will be better not to see it on opening day--you know, avoid the crowds and all that...right?

Dammit.

[notemily.livejournal.com]

WAIT, WHAT? A SOPHIE'S WORLD MOVIE? WHERE? WHO? HOW? BUH? WHA?

And Michael Caine is God? wtf? God isn't even a character in Sophie's World!

[cellophane-crab.livejournal.com]

I didn't know they were making a movie, either. The God character is Albert, the guy who wrote the book, if I remember correctly.

[frodosgoosegirl.livejournal.com]

As much as I love Gilmore Girls, I can't help but say thank God it's ending. It's just become so horrible, it's really a disgrace to the show.

Ah, a subject near and dear to my heart.

[freyalorelei.livejournal.com]

...okay, I work at a dry cleaners (a small family business no less; we employ twelve people) and that article about the judge suing scares me to fucking death. $12,000 and we'd have to shut down. I hope to God no one thinks they can get away with what he did. (Plus, dude--THEY FOUND YOUR PANTS! STOP BITCHING!)

The line a place he patronized regularly despite frequent disagreements with the Chungs instantly marks him as an asshole. If you don't like the service, you don't go there anymore. Heck, if he'd been that difficult, he should have been forcibly evicted and refused service from then on. My guess is he'd been kicked out of every dry cleaners in the vicinity and the Chungs were the only ones willing to tolerate his bullshit.

Seriously, this judge sounds like the most self-entitled asshole on the planet. Service to rent a car just to go to the dry cleaners? Fucking a family business out of every cent they have just for spite? (And, DAMN, they were actually willing to settle for $12,000? They sound like saints on earth.)

I have never wanted to punch someone in the throat so badly in my life.

Re: Ah, a subject near and dear to my heart.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

The line a place he patronized regularly despite frequent disagreements with the Chungs instantly marks him as an asshole.

I have to say, I had the exact same thought.

Re: Ah, a subject near and dear to my heart.

[bitchola.livejournal.com]

He sounds like a complete dick. Multiplying the amount he wants by 3 because there are 3 defendants (the father, mother and son)?! How did this man ever get to be a judge in the first place?

My hope is that his current position as a judge is reconsidered, because people in a position of power who are willing to file these bullshit suits are the reason there is such an issue of litigation in the US.

Re: Ah, a subject near and dear to my heart.

[cindyg.livejournal.com]

(Plus, dude--THEY FOUND YOUR PANTS! STOP BITCHING!)

Exactly! The article alleged to be lost turned up found, thereby negating all reasonable grounds for refunding the cost of the suit -- I do hope the man is disbarred for such arrant lunacy.

Here's hoping this case never makes it into common law. Every entrepreneur would have just cause to be frightened for a ruling in favor of such an idiot.

[enid-keaner.livejournal.com]

My mum got to meet the Queen, since she works for the VA gov. She said it was all very exciting.

[drpeprfan.livejournal.com]

Pirates snippets! Thank you! *promptly dies* Singapore and At Wit's End sound AMAZING, no wait, the whole thing does. Hans is legendary. The soundtrack isn't coming out until the 22nd...pure torture.

[karintheswede]

Wait, what? Sophie's world? How on earth are they going to manage that?

[wmetoile.livejournal.com]

Premiere actually folded in March, which is why I'm at home at two in the afternoon. Those 100 Greatest Movie Lines are from an article back in 2001 that's just now making it to teh Intarwebs.

[zrath.livejournal.com]

The Golden Compass teaser poster.

I've said this before, and I'll say it again...


OMGWTFPANZERBJORN! :D


"Gilmore Gab" cancelled: good!
No Lauren Graham has time to marry me.

[chocolat-violet.livejournal.com]

Michael Caine is God in Sophie's World.

Well, John Cleese is God in Monty Python's Spamalot and Morgan Freeman is God in Bruce Almighty, so I can't say I'm too surprised Michael Caine also upgraded.

[derangeddarling.livejournal.com]

I am overcome by your greatness.

This linkspam is fantastic...and the fact that I now have the Live and Studio version of all the Blake songs I know (Except Somewhere Only We Know, which I just have the live for, BUT STILL.)

You are fantastic. Is it sad that my favorite person in the world, I only know through LJ?

*fangirls until she cannot fangirl anymore*

Cleo, if you ever need a kidney...call me. You can have one of my mom's. ;)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Awww, hee. One of my dogs just died, so it's a nice comment to come home to. (She was the sick, elderly one. But still. You know.)

[greyduck.livejournal.com]

Is that Premiere list actually the from-print version? If so, their proofreaders need a good thumping upside the noggin:

59. "Gentleman, you can't fight here! This is the war room!" — President Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers) in Dr. Strangelove (1964)

...

35. "Gentleman, you can't fight here! This is the war room!" — President Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers) in Dr. Strangelove (1964)

(And isn't it "Gentlemen" anyway? Oi.)

[ladykorana.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry to hear about your dog.

I'm a huge fan of your linkspam and I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate all the work you do putting it together. I only wish I'd dropped you a note of thanks sooner.

Sadly, I can't get the POTC clips to play for life of me. I've tried absolutely everything I can think of, refreshed the play window, updated Windows, redownloaded Quicktime, you name it. I'm at a total loss, so I suppose I shall just have to be patient and content myself with the descriptions on the webpage. Thanks again for the link!

[canonball13.livejournal.com]

Agreed on David Yates/OotP being really, really good and definitely on Cuaron coming back for DH. Because, seriously, it's not entirely the director's fault concerning plot, you're absolutely right.