Monday night, sleepy

[cleolinda]

Re: Sister Girl's Yay Culinard Graduation Dinner last night:

MY MOTHER: Should we put candles on the cake?

SISTER GIRL: It's not my birthday!

ME: Put those number-shaped candles on--the amount of money Culinard cost.

SISTER GIRL: Oh, like the cake's wide enough.

Linkspam:

World Fantasy Nominees Named. Hey hey! There's at least two LJers on the list: Scott Lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora and Catherynne M. Valente's The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden. Congratulations!

Iconic philanthropist Brooke Astor dies at 105.

5 killed in fall from Ferris wheel.

Toy maker in giant recall commits suicide.

Reporter who cooked up dumpling hoax jailed.

How to stop travel’s sad customer-service slide.

Here's how to ace dorm-room design. God, I nearly forgot--I'm far closer to thirty than twenty (Jesus! ), so the idea that people would be going off to college soon slipped my mind. Who here's about to go off for the first time?

Arrogant igmo running amok at Wikipedia.

VH1's 40 Greatest Reality Moments. Okay, any list that does not include "MY OX IS BROKEN!! " is not worth its salt.

Parker says snake in 'Weeds' promo photo is real.

''Rush Hour 3'' sluggish, but still No. 1. Meanwhile, Stardust comes in at #4, woe, despite most of y'all reporting back that you enjoyed it muchly.

Chris Weitz to draft Subtle Knife. (Huh--so that is what Hester should look like.)

Slow-Day-at-ONTD Movie Trivia: And lots of it. "The Matrix: The blocking moves Neo uses against Agent Smith upon his realization of being "the One", are the exact same techniques Daniel LaRusso uses against Mr. Miyagi upon his realization that he has in fact been karate training in The Karate Kid (1984)."

Rolling Stone Exclusive Sneak Peek: Todd Haynes’ Bob Dylan film, ‘I’m Not There.’ Includes "Cate Blanchett as Dylan... screaming 'play your old stuff' at a statue of Jesus Christ alongside David Cross as Allen Ginsberg" and "Christian Bale as the late-’70s born-again Dylan."

Sam Raimi to direct 'Hobbit' film if Peter Jackson produces.

Has Paramount Picked a Helmer for Their 'G.I. Joe' Movie? Specifically, noted auteur Stephen Sommers.

Hard Candy and 30 Days of Night director David Slade to Direct Gaiman's Neverwhere.

Gordon-Levitt Continues Indie Streak.

Shoot 'Em Up : The Sequel?

MTV Exclusive Photo/Clips: ‘Across the Universe.’

Millennium Acquires Conan Rights.

Caspian Mixes Up New Creatures.

Heat-packing velociraptors and other signs of fourquel suckage. Shpfff, I wrote about that JP4 script three years ago.

Comments

[elendiari22.livejournal.com]

I just got back from seeing stardust, and it was fabulous. The whole Captain Shakespeare shipboard-brawl with the Can-Can playing in the background was just too funny for words.

[patchie04.livejournal.com]

Amen!

[poinsley.livejournal.com]

Okay, any list that does not include "MY OX IS BROKEN!! " is not worth its salt.

I totally agree. I saw this on VH1 a month or so ago and kept waiting for it and it never came. :(

[falco-conlon.livejournal.com]

St Lawrence University in two weeks! Woo! TERRIFIED!

[derangeddarling.livejournal.com]

What is your icon from? I like it. It gives me a Scarlet Letter vibe..

[gabsy.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm leaving for college for my second year, but for the first time, I will be in my own appartment. This means that I will probably live there for the next three years, and therefore will have more liberty to decorate my room.

It's exciting, really.

[pennyverse.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, Neverwhere movie!

Extremely nervous first-time college-kid here. (Moving in on the 24th.)

[thea-scooter.livejournal.com]

Icon love! I start the drive down to college on the 23rd so I'm totally seconding the extremely nervous first-timer stuff here.

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

My ox is broken! This is bullshit!

[lyricalnights.livejournal.com]

Agh! They stare into my SOUL! If only I could speak Mirnish to break their evil spell!

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

Oh, good Lord, I hope this guy doesn't screw up Neverwhere. The TV series was terrible (with the usual British $12 production values), but the book is great. I know you loved Stardust but I still maintain that Gaiman's works always get screwed up when translated to the screen (more Dark is Rising than Harry Potter).

If they choose a good cast (oh please please PLEASE let them choose an all British cast, preferably including James McAvoy, Chiwetel Ejiofor and an ENGLISH Door), this could be great. I have very little hope of this, though.

[theonlykow.livejournal.com]

Hard Candy was superb, and 30 Days of Night looks like it's going to be great, but I withhold judgment on the latter until... it happens.

[londonsparrow.livejournal.com]

I'm very much more into Prince Caspian news, now, because of the actor's appearance in Stardust. Though, as fine as he is (and that cannot be denied) I am still weirded out since I always saw Caspian as maybe twelve or thirteen in PC and not becoming hot until Dawn Treader. This is like when I found out they cast James McAvoy as Tumnus. It's all very confusing.

[barrelgoddess.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I feel the same way. ^^ As long as he plays Caspian well, though, it's all good. I confess to having high expectations, as Caspian is a personal favorite character of mine.

[jedilora.livejournal.com]

Hah to your sister on the tuitioncake: my sister's at NYU:Tisch for theatre. She's at one of the most expensive schools in the country for one of the shakiest financially careers.

She went to bartending school this summer just so she has a marketable skill!

I, on the other hand, have no degree and a retail job, but I'm moving out of my folk's house this week. I win, I guess?

[enid-keaner.livejournal.com]

I'm at NYU in Tisch too...for film, and damn proud of it.

[lauramcvey.livejournal.com]

But- Neverwhere’s already a movie! Well, a TV series, but still.

Anyway, went to see Stardust. It was okay.

[girlalmighty]

Mmm, thanks for all the fabulous news. It's really good to hear they're already preparing for The Subtle Knife, since I'm dying for The Golden Compass. Stardust was so, so much fun, and any news about Joseph Gordon-Levitt doing more movies is good news (and that The Frog King one looks pretty interesting). After Brick, I've been wanting to see pretty much anything he and Nora Zehetner do.

[mustang-bex1126.livejournal.com]

SisterGirl= very funny, actually, your family= very funny. It's weird to think, I just graduated from Uni last spring, and I already feel out of the loop, even though I've friends there, and I'm starting up grad school.

[derangeddarling.livejournal.com]

nice icon. :D

[velvet4269.livejournal.com]

*eyes the Dorm Room Design piece*

$599 for a rug from Crate & Barrel? I don't know about anyone else (and I won't tell you how long ago it's been since I've been in college), but I'd be doing good to afford the $19.99 blankets, let alone a $599 rug while I was in college.

And those spiffy maps that they're displaying for $40? $8 at Teacher Heaven (or any teacher supply store, most likely) will buy you two.

Snake geekage...

[puchuupoet.livejournal.com]

In the 'Weeds' promo pics, the snake looks like a red tail boa. They did mess with the eyes of it though (RTB eyes blend into the surrounding scales, rather than being bright yellow).

[agatha-mandrake.livejournal.com]

Arrogant igmo running amok at Wikipedia

So, according to the arrogant igmo, Greenpeace is a terrorist organization, and given that I used to work for Greenpeace, this means that I'm a terrorist. Woo-hoo! Look out world, I have Weapons of Mass Recycling!

[wearejustducky.livejournal.com]

I've been out of college for four years, but I start law school next week, so that's something new and exciting and terrifying. I think I might be more worried about law school than I was about college.

The good news, though, is that for the first time EVER I will not be the youngest person in my class. This is sadly very exciting news to me.

[agentsculder.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for that movie trivia link. Some of those were hysterically funny. I loved the one where the director and crew tricked Christian Bale and Ewan McGregor during Velvet Goldmine. And the one about Bob Hoskins' son was sweet.

[theatre-angel.livejournal.com]

I love your family. And seriously, who is going to pass up the chance to see velociraptors with machine guns?

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

From that link on airline customer service,
"As a consumer advocate, I see a lot of e-mails that end with, “I’LL NEVER FLY ON YOUR AIRLINE AGAIN!” But that’s quickly forgotten the next time travelers are shopping for a flight and find that the cheapest fare is offered by the airline they’ve sworn to never patronize again."

It's the air-flounce!

[kismeteve.livejournal.com]

If the last year of Brooke Astor's life is any indication, her will and the aftermath could be mighty interesting.

[dives.livejournal.com]

Starting my second year of college...living in a suite this time around, so any dorm room decoration will probably be an improvement on last year's decoration, which consisted of one Wanted poster of Sirius Black. :-/



Ohhhh, please please please don't screw up Neverwhere, Hollywood, it's my favorite Gaiman book. It should, at least, be easier to market than Stardust (It's a magical London where everything is terrifyingly literal! MAGIC, DAMMIT).

[edda.livejournal.com]

Your family needs its own sitcom.

On Wikipedia..

[xander77.livejournal.com]

I think that Websnark has hit the nail on the head:
http://www.websnark.com/archives/2005/10/on_the_other_ha_15.html

Anti-Elitism. "We don't need no stinking credentials/knowledge/understanding".

And frankly, anyone who deletes an article on "The Great Wiki War on Webcomics" because it's "offensive to an individual or group" is so full of... personal bias, it's not even funny. Not that I'm still bitter about the hours of work completely ruined, or anything.

[sapphires13.livejournal.com]

I am beyond excited for Across the Universe, and those clips look incredible. The movie's going to have everything I could possibly want in a film. I cannot wait. I imagine I'll end up liking it more than Moulin Rouge, which is really saying something, as that's been my favourite film since it came out.

[vampirepig13.livejournal.com]

*raises hand for first-time collegiate count*

If I ever freaking hear back from the school...