Why do I always blog right before dinner?

[cleolinda]

So I had another bizarro dream last night, and I know how much y'all like my dreams, or at least the opportunity to describe your own:

So at some point, there was a vampire, but it was a modern blue jeans kind of vampire, and he may have looked like Brad Pitt occasionally, but this is probably because Brad Pitt is in 73.8% of all my dreams (and yet I am never making out with him, which must have been one of the Long-Term Sad-Making Options the White Witch considered before she settled on "always winter and never Christmas"). I had some kind of female friend who staggered out into a very Spanish-moss-draped kind of country-plantation road, and she collapsed and was bleeding from the throat, o noz, and clearly she had been done in by the vampire. So then I went to a tiny little cracker box of an airport and I found the vampire sitting on the floor in a lounge area and we considered dating. He may have also been wearing a plaid shirt by that time. I don't know. But then I had to catch a space shuttle to the moon, but it was very important that he seek medical help for my friend, who I think was still collapsed under the Spanish moss, but he may have escaped instead. This part of the dream is particularly fuzzy, as I was very concerned about getting to the moon with all these college kids, where we set up a large hospital-colored tent. (It just... was, okay?) I was concerned as to whether the air was breathable, but surprisingly, it was. Immediately a couple of guys started fighting over some girl, and then one of them was knocked down and killed (at which point we figured out that gravity was, unfortunately, in effect). This tragedy was promptly forgotten as we got back to the Serious Business of Doing Things in a Tent on the Moon, and I think the guy may have even shown up again later. Eventually, after a great deal of fuss and bother we got back down to earth (I am sure the Serious Business was interesting, but I can't remember it now, except that the tent began to look like one of those "play structures" with tubey openings, and we were very concerned that the openings were getting smaller and we would never get back inside the Tent of Many Hospital Colors), and hundreds of people were waiting in bleachers to watch us land because apparently the whole country had been afraid we wouldn't make it, and I found my maternal grandparents and hugged them but then I couldn't find my mother. I kept finding my father's family but not my mother, and we kept calling each other back and forth on our cell phones, which is probably the most boring thing that has ever happened to me in a dream, ever. So then I went back to the dorm that I haven't seen in six years because I, you know, graduated and was trying to convince Brett the Vet that I'd had a thrilling and dangerous time on the moon, and I was gone for months and months, don't you remember?, and the Lovely Emily was like, "Didn't we just go to a movie, like, three weeks ago?" So we got on his computer and we were Googling for news articles (" '[My real name]' + moon"), and we found some! See! It really happened! I was on the moon, and it was dangerous, and we slept in cartoon-character sleeping bags and ate crackers, I told you so, and Brett the Vet was like, "No, I'm pretty sure we went to a movie last weekend, too." STOP HARSHING MY LUNAR BUZZ, SERIOUSLY. So I went to an aquarium to look up proof in the stacks (what? You don't have a library aquarium?) that I had been on the moon, but all I kept finding were these weird books, and one of them was diseased ("Uh, I think you need to take a look at this book? Maybe fix it? I think it's diseased"), and the pages kept sticking together, because they were made of oozing tissue and viscera. And then I woke up. Now I want to upgrade Crash Club to a B and give this dream a C - , because at least Crash Club was interesting.


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Superstar tenor Pavarotti dies at 71.

Oscar winner Miyoshi Umeki dies at 78.

Author Norman Mailer hospitalized.

Myanmar Monks Said to Take Hostages.

Apple responds to iRate customers; Early iPhone buyers get $100 credit. They're still out another $100, though. Suckahhhs.

Trout restoration used wrong fish. Genius.

Facebook allows limited public searches. Which means that you need to take down the pictures of you getting hammered at a party and drawing funny faces on your ass before the bossman looks you up.

The Bob Dylan Message Generator.

Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for the Mediocre Walloons.

Daniel Radcliffe as Doctor Who what?

More Golden Age pics at the Costumers Guide!

Images: Shoot 'Em Up, Across the Universe, Prince Caspian (mostly production art, no real stills), The Mist.

Ralph Fiennes to play Duke of Devonshire in Keira Knightley's Georgiana biopic.

Phillippe, Cornish and Bean in Viking Epic.

Sweeney Todd excerpt plays in Venice, and apparently Johnny Depp really can sing.

Cate Blanchett really is the best thing about I'm Not There.

Jodie Foster States Obvious, Blames Dina Lohan For Lindsay's Troubles. Also: Jodie Foster through the years.

Who's Creating the Wolfman?

Gael Garcia Bernal is 'Mammoth.'

Almodóvar Eyes Cruz for New Film.

Universal Calls Upon Jeff the Immortal.

Summit Acquires Penelope.

'Bad Lieutenant' Is Getting a Rewrite. But... why?

Indiana Jones Returns! If It’s Got A Press Kit, It Must Be Real.

Fanning Raises Jolly Roger For ‘True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle.’

Comments

[stepliana.livejournal.com]

They're making a movie out of True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle?

That's crazy. Crraaaaazy.

you Kant always get what you want

[hulamoth.livejournal.com]

books I hated growing up: The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
(it's probably because of Pirates that it's getting made)
What's wrong with an Animorphs movie, or Catherine Called Birdy? Huh?

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

you know, as much as i generally like depp, and generally enjoy him in burton movies, and generally wish there were more films based on sondheim shows out there....

i really wish walken had been cast as sweeney.

[jainamsolo.livejournal.com]

Fanning Raises Jolly Roger For ‘True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle.’

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[therecklesslady.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly... I can't even get excited about it now!

[cupcakery.livejournal.com]

DanRad as the Doctor = please no. Can't we have the Bowie on Doctor Who rumour be true instead?

Oh, good, Johnny Depp can sing. I demand the soundtrack now so it can join the other Sweeney Todd renditionings.

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

Just as long as James Nesbitt is out of the running. Bleah. Can't stand him.

Bowie would be fab, though, as would Ifans. Isn't Damien Lewis over here in LA now, doing American TV? I wish they would consider Julian Rhind-Tutt. He'd rule as The Doctor.

[catystorm.livejournal.com]

The Radcliff as Dr. Who thing reminds me of Pierce Brosnan stating he wouldn't mind seeing Radcliff as a young Bond, way back before Craig was confirmed. That made me laugh, a lot. xD;

[megmatthews20.livejournal.com]

If Radcliffe doesn't get it, I totally vote Rhys for Doctor Who...he is the epitome of awesome!

cheers

[dives.livejournal.com]

Maybe this is my creepy macabre side coming out, but the diseased book thing actually sounds kinda cool, in a weird Neverwhere kind of way.


re: radcakes becoming the Doctor:

WHUT

Out of any of those listed possibilities it should ~*obviously*~ be Rhys Ifans.

[arielchan.livejournal.com]

OMG Charlotte Doyle. ♥

Also, I can't believe people doubt that Johnny can sing. He has been in bands. He came to LA to begin with because he wanted to be in a rock band, and acting just happened.

Also, he's Johnny Depp and he's good at everything. When he farts, adorable fuzzy bunnies made of solid gold fly out of his ass.

[tonks07.livejournal.com]

The main point I have seen people making about Johnny is that he wanted to be in rock bands which yea you have to sing..but Sweeney Todd is almost an opera and is notorious for being difficult to sing.

and that last comment literally made me laugh out loud. ;)

[elendiari22.livejournal.com]

You know, I have been thoroughly depressed about Pavarotti's death all day.

[sapphires13.livejournal.com]

I didn't find out until like 8 PM, because I was out all day (having a fun time, actually), and then I found out as soon as I got home, and now I feel like shit ;_;

[at-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Oh wow -- I read Charlotte Doyle a few times growing up. Cool.

[londonsparrow.livejournal.com]

Ch-charlotte Doyle? I want to say "awesome", but I'm afraid there's some books I read as a child that can never be as awesome as movies. And this might be one of them.

The worst thing about Pavarotti is that any tribute clips are by their nature accompanied by dramatic, touching music.

[tonks07.livejournal.com]

Fanning as Chalotte?? No...just no. I really hope she doesn't ruin a good book. and they have Morgan [Freeman] is the captain, captain Jaggery and Pierce Brosnan is Zachariah, the ship’s cook, surgeon, and carpeneter.
I think that is reversed. Zachariah is suppose to be an old black man.

and all these reviews that say Johnny can sing make me so happy! I love Sweeney Todd. I hope the movie ends up good. As we know most musicals don't do well in todays box office.

[scornedsaint.livejournal.com]

Daniel Radcliffe as Doctor Who what?

I saw that on ONTD today and laughed for a solid five minutes. It's easily the most absurd thing I've heard all week. I can't say that it would make me watch the show (except for one episode, so that I could mock it), but if the writers want to explain how the Doctor regenerated into a guy who looks like he's about 16, they can have fun with that.

[rorqual.livejournal.com]

Ah, Bad Lieutenant. Somewhere in the middle of the movie, when he's, like, snorting cocaine off a photo of his daughter (I think), I wanted to stand up and yell, "Okay, he's *bad*; we *get it*!!" Not a subtle film.

[greenwitch.livejournal.com]

Daniel Radcliffe as Doctor Who what?

DO NOT WANT.

This is my bad casting idea, let me show you it.

[elbales]

Daniel Radcliffe as Doctor Who what?

THIS DEMANDS A MACRO. DEMANDS, I SAY.

[jenstar85.livejournal.com]

Love Charlotte Doyle! Don't mess it up.

Catherine Called Birdy could make a good movie too.

Dan Radcliffe as the Doctor would just ruin the series for me. Noooo!

[kosher-jenny.livejournal.com]

Please allow me to add to the chorus of good Lord, no! Regarding the Doctor Who rumor. My hope is Eddie Izzard, but I guess that depends on his show on FX not lasting until Tennant leaves. :\

Damien Lewis is an interesting choice. Granted, I've only really seen him on Band of Brothers, so I don't know if he could play the kind of charismatic weirdness of the Doctor well.

[kosher-jenny.livejournal.com]

Hah, I'm reading the comments in the ONTD entry and someone just suggested Dylan Moran. That would be...an interesting casting choice.

[lyricalnights.livejournal.com]

I love Charlotte Doyle, but I loathe Dakota Effing Fanning. This is a source of woe and conflict.

Rhys Ifans for Doctor! He was delightful (and sexy) in Danny Deckchair; I could see him doing well in the role.

Across the Universe

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

I got to see Across the Universe tonight, and my mind was well and truly blown. I want to see it again this minute. I am buying the soundtrack, I am recommending it to all my family and friends...just, right now, I can’t even tell you how much I loved loved LOVED it. It was gorgeous, and the cast was perfect (where did they find these people?!?), and the music was unbelievably awesome — like, they took these Beatles songs that I’ve heard a million times and love dearly, and managed to place them in their historical context and make them seem like the spontaneous expression of the characters’ feelings, and, GOD. SO GOOD.

Re: Across the Universe

[idrach.livejournal.com]

Well, Evan Rachel Wood (Lucy) was in a really good indie called Thirteen. She also happens to be Marilyn Manson's girlfriend.

[agatha-mandrake.livejournal.com]

Myanmar Monks Said to Take Hostages

That seems...unmonkish.

[dramedy.livejournal.com]

I sort of liked Charlotte Doyle. I felt it was trying to hard to relate to me, and I was like, "Don't bash me over the head with it, I get it!" yeah, I was critiquing things in fifth grade.

I love one of the comments on the Depp article - "THE BASTARD CAN SING TOO?!!" lol Oh Johnny.

Also, if DanRad became teh Doctor, I'd stop watching. I might watch Rhys whats-his-name. I personally think it should be Stephen Fry, who is like a call back to old Who(and would be POLAR opposite of the spastic David).

[hulamoth.livejournal.com]

also, your dream? Hilarious.
she collapsed and was bleeding from the throat, o noz, and clearly she had been done in by the vampire
Man, I hate when that happens.

[nohara-megami.livejournal.com]

Daniel Radcliffe as Doctor Who

Uh....no. That so better not happen. I have no personal preference for the 11th Doctor, but this is just wrong.

These dreams go on when I close my eyes...

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Y'know, usually people don't recite their dreams with a knowing sense of humor. Thank you for being a wonderful exception to that, and showing The Funny in 'em.

Re: These dreams go on when I close my eyes...

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Good God, why would anyone want to hear someone else's dream unless 1) they were being paid or 2) the dreamer at least went to the trouble of making it funny? It's the least I can do.