Wednesday night, weepingly tired

[cleolinda]

I really am leaning towards all this activity being part of a hypomanic episode, though, because I had that slightly dizzy, feverish feeling after I'd finished working for the day, like it was time to crash. Or maybe there's guarana in my High! Energy! Multivitamin!!1!, who knows.

Yeah... it's guarana. I checked the back of the vitamin bottle after being completely unable to sleep last night--I actually just gave up and sat at the computer until 4:30 am, that's how hopeless it was. The H!E!M!!1! contains not only guarana but also green tea and cayenne pepper (wait, what?); it's so effective that even after I'd only had a couple of hours' sleep, I went downstairs to let the dogs out, took today's vitamin, lay down on the couch, and was so very, very awake. Painfully tired; BOLT AWAKE. Also, my blood was really loud. But for three days in a row now I've gotten tons of work done and mentally I'm sharp as a tack, so... I'm just gonna have to get used to it.

("This product contains about as much caffeine as a cup of coffee." Okay, no, I can't hold my caffeine anymore, thanks for asking. I kicked Mountain Dew a year ago! Don't judge me!)

(ETA: Since several people have expressed concern, let me just assure you that it's just a very common, mainstream Centrum vitamin, not something exotic off-brand thing I found randomly. It's just that I never drink caffeinated drinks unless I'm in a restaurant or a movie theater, which is, sadly, not all that often. I've taken this vitamin on and off before when I wasn't too lazy to bother, and I never had a problem with it back when I was also drinking caffeinated drinks. I seem to remember that the antidepressants I'm on can magnify caffeine effects a little bit, which is probably why I'm noticing it so vividly--if I take it early enough in the morning and give it a week to get used to it, I genuinely don't think it's going to be a problem.)

Meanwhile, I noticed in audiography that all these entries would be titled, like, "1988," "1989," so I was like, "Oh, cool, some kind of '80s week." And then I saw the actual theme: Birth Year. I felt heinously old until posters finally showed up with some '70s entries.

(My year of birth, dear God.)


Bizarre Parasitic Star Found.

London's Harrods hires cobra to guard £62,000 shoes.

Online sleuths use Google to search for Fossett. My stepfather, meanwhile, theorizes that Fossett is in hiding somewhere.

We expected Britney to maintain a sad ideal:

Then, as Jay Leno heaped fat-joke scorn upon her head on “The Tonight Show,” I felt sad, and paunch-conscious. If Jay thought Britney was fat, then … then … Jay thought I was fat! Shut up, Jay! Besides — the woman’s had two children! Children she chauffeurs around in her lap, but still! Things … stretch out after you’ve introduced an embryo to the former bricks of the abdominal wall!

And then my sense of women’s college indignation kicked in after I heard Sarah Silverman’s “two children = mistakes” comment. Dude, Sarah. Support a sister when she’s being shined down by her pleather-sporting backup dancers.

And then I drank, and I cried, because I had been … defending Britney Spears.

From Jezebel: An email of breathtaking asshaberdashery.

How to turn a sock into a Yorkie sweater. With pictures.

Pooped pooch plucked from surf.

Restaurant fires garlic-stomping worker.

Winegrowers take a nearly nude stand for land.

'Most wanted' drug lord caught with pants down.

Best headline of the year: Minnesota Toe Licker Nabbed.

Suspect admits he's the 'Hat Bandit.' Nope... still not as good as the Toe Licker.

Apparently Bucky is now some kind of pimp.

Bits Blog: Please Don’t Marry Our Daughters.

Brand Extensions: Martha Stewart is now all up in the Facebook.

Reprieve for the Pint and the Ounce.

Search inside…my PANTS.

"You know why you haven't read any books by Peter Sacks? Because you're anti-intellectual, lazy, and fascinated by Paris Hilton, that's why."

Disgraced memoirist Frey writing a novel. I'm to the point where I start hissing like a cat every time this guy's name comes up. I don't know why, because it's not like he's saying, "No, really, it's really gonna be nonfiction this time! Really!" I think it's because the nature of his particular deception (I'm a fucked-up bad-ass who kicked hard drugs on my own! You could do it too if you tried hard enough!) just pissed me the hell off.

Nipplegate revisited. I'm still not sure why everyone kept trying to blame Timberlake and/or Jackson herself for this. It seemed pretty obvious to me, even at the time, that he was supposed to rip off a leather panel, under which there would be a red lining, to go with the line "Gonna have you naked by the end of this song." Except that the red lining came off as well. Now, who thought this gesture, as dance moves go, was a good idea in the first place, I don't know, but it seemed to me like it really was a "wardrobe malfunction": the lining was supposed to stay on and it didn't. Look at the accompanying picture, for example: Jackson looks mortified, and Timberlake is wearing the purest expression of "Oh, fuck " that I've seen in a good long time. I mean, look at that face. He knows. He knows that he's just biffed something so badly that people will still be talking about it almost four years later. People, it's time to let it go.

Jon Stewart to return as Oscar host. YAYS.

Blanchett dishes on ''Elizabeth,'' ''Indy'' (bolding mine): "It's phenomenal to be working with Harrison Ford and Spielberg and Karen Allen, all of whom were in one of the most amazing experiences of my childhood, watching that film." O SNAP. "And Harrison looks f---ing great." Heeee.

Elizabeth: The Golden Age Site Live; Elizabeth 3? YES PLZ.

Toronto: Dave Karger on what's Oscar-worthy; ''Atonement,'' ''Universe'' grab day's buzz.

TIFF Review: Margot at the Wedding; TIFF 07: Across The Universe.

Dan Radcliffe on HBP Film: Tragedy of Slughorn Outweighs Comedy. And no, we don't know who's playing Slughorn yet.

Harry Potter Franchise Outgrosses Bond and Star Wars Series... if you crunch the numbers a certain way.

TIFF Interview: Joe Wright Talks To Cinematical About Directing 'Atonement,' Working With Ian McEwan and His Next Period Film.

Keira Knightley on life after ''Pirates'': "I think the bond between actor and director is very similar to the chemistry between actors. It's rare, and when it happens, it's very exciting. And I think it creates — oh, I sound like a wanker!" This is why I love her, people.

An actor's training: Nutcase, weight loss, Batman.

Bello Takes Over In Mummy 3; Image: The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.

Three New Posters for '30 Days of Night.'

Love in the Time of Cholera Poster, Possibly by Georgia O'Keeffe.

Final One-Sheet for Richard Kelly's 'Southland Tales.' Whoa, dude--go read the fine print at the bottom of the poster and see who's in this: John Larroquette! Bai Ling! Kevin Smith! Mandy Moore! Cheri Oteri! Miranda Richardson! Justin Timberlake! I kind of don't believe the universe can allow this movie to exist, actually (maybe that's why it's been on the shelf for so long...?).

Spoiler Hancock Set Pic. Huh. That's actually pretty cool.

Roman Polanski Drops Out of Pompeii. Awww, trainwreck averted!

Cillian Murphy Joins Dali & I. In which Pacino plays Dali. Oh God.

Norton and Pitt Reteam for State of Play.

Kate Bosworth to star in Veronika Decides to Die.

David Cronenberg: Drifting Toward the Mainstream.

Ang Lee shares 'Lust' for life, filmmaking; Lee Cuts NC-17 Film So It Can Be Viewed by Chinese Kids. And at--what, five minutes long?--it should be just right for kids' attention spans.

EW reviews: Across the Universe, The Brave One, December Boys, Eastern Promises, Silk.

Return of the King Complete Soundtrack Recordings Nov. 6.

Rambo Declares War on Jan. 25. Okay, look: I know that, against all odds, Rocky Balboa turned out to be decent. But what are the odds that two unnecessary Stallone sequels in a row won't be abominations?

Where are the action hero names of old? Which I include solely for the line, "These were names that were just one step away from being Ballsy McTestes."

Comments

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

You're seriously going to continue taking uppers?

That sounds so dangerously unsafe.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, it's a Centrum One-a-Day vitamin. I didn't exactly buy it off the street or something.

[incogra.livejournal.com]

Those "Crap Email From a Dude" entries on Jezebel are always awesome. And they make me so, so happy to be single.

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

Hehehe. I'm in that community too, also born in '78, and I was glad to see a few Sixties babies and one '54 baby. :-P

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

I could make you all feel better with my birth year! 1962!!

[koritsimou.livejournal.com]

Ok, the Minnesota Toe Licker sounds like some odd species of frog or something.

[suzanne-laura.livejournal.com]

Please be careful. Feeling sharp as a tack and getting a lot done are seductive, but not good for you in the long run. If you really feel this vitamin's ingredients are effecting you so strongly, I hope you'll switch to something less provocative. Take care.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I really don't think it's going to be a problem once I get used to consuming any caffeine at all again. It's a Centrum vitamin--extremely mainstream, top brand, not something random I found at GNC or anything.

[jennnk.livejournal.com]

I had to read the Love in the Time of Cholera link because the headline made me think "What, it's a flower that looks like a vulva? Or was it vulvas that look like flowers?"

[mattcowens.livejournal.com]

The last legally-bought-from-a-chemist dietary supplement that I tried which contained cayenne pepper also contained speed. It was pulled from shelves a few weeks later for being a not-so-natural remedy :)

I doubt that Centrum are up to such shenanigans, but I did wonder at the time what the purported effects of pepper are in a supplementary sense (as opposed to the amphetamine content, the effects of which are fairly widely publicised).

[sucrelefey.livejournal.com]

A lot of stuff that has no nutrient value is allowed in supplements down in the states. Most of it are natural source stimulants to get through loop holes of the regs. By boosting metabolism in general it gives and instant sense of well being. I feel great! These vitamins are working. Only a couple of nutrients give noticeable overnight results in normal people and they're not the ones in common suplements.
Caspicium has medicinal uses but not nutritional.

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

Also...

Best headline of the year: Minnesota Toe Licker Nabbed.

GAH! That thing was in my neck of the woods? Holy crap.

[foresworn.livejournal.com]

What multivitamins are these? I might have to get me some =P

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Just a Centrum vitamin with "Energy" in the name, nothing terribly exotic.

[callie-girl.livejournal.com]

I had a pretty strong reaction to guarana too. It was in a bottle of vitamin water and the stuff literally gave me the shakes. It's some pretty strong caffeine, more than some people realize, I think.

[velvet4269.livejournal.com]

78?

You young'uns.

I'm old enough to remember when the first Star Wars came out in the theatre - it was the first movie I remember seeing in the theatre - but just barely.

And in '78, I was starting kindergarten.

[psybelle.livejournal.com]

pfffft.

I was working in the theater then.....

[tragical-mirth.livejournal.com]

I need to find that vitamin. I can't handle my caffeine anymore either, and I just started grad school. *cries*

[angevin2.livejournal.com]

Here's my birth year! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_in_music#Biggest_hit_singles) Dear Lord.

...My parents used to sing "Hot Stuff" to me when I was very small. Which probably explains a lot.

(1979 also gave us The Wall and Quadrophenia though. Yay!)

[lyn-thorne.livejournal.com]

Ok, that does it.

I'm totally getting a cobra to guard my shoes!

And 'Minnesota Toe Licker' is an *awesome headline*. A friend of mine sent it to me this morning, and it was the first thing I saw. Still cracks me up.

I'm glad to hear you are getting alot done, I just hope you get to sleep some soon. :)

[trash-addict.livejournal.com]

Ah, I have just spent the best part of the last hour or two reading Crap Emails from Dudes.
V. entertaining.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Well, guess I'm never going to read Peter Sacks's books. You know, reading that rant of his, I started trying to count the stupid, but I had to give up when I hit ten to the idioth. Fuck, there was non-Euclidean stupid in there.

I'll persist in the belief, until the day I give up writing altogether, that readers are smart, that Americans want to read, and that they have attention spans of more than 30 seconds.

But why would you say that if you really thought so? Isn't that remark a way of putting down readers while simultaneously distancing yourself from the put-down so you won't get blamed? They call it plausible deniability when politicians do it.

But don't tell that to Amazon. Recently, the online bookseller installed a new feature on its website, presumably to allow its more anti-intellectual customers to keep their book purchases to a 6th grade reading level. Thus, I have learned from Amazon that my new book has 1.7 syllables per word, and that 61 percent of the books in its system have fewer syllables.

How do you know they want fewer syllables? Maybe those customers want books that average 4 syllables and, trouble is, your count is too low, Peter. Maybe, just maybe, you got off on the wrong metrical foot to begin with.

Peter Sacks| BIO | I'M A FAN OF THIS BLOGGER

No.

[sucrelefey.livejournal.com]

If after a week or so of consistent use and the vitamin still gives you trouble you will have to shop for a different brand. Ricocheting is too hard on the system.
I have no idea what your budget is but some brands come in smaller sample sizes for trial runs. You really don't need an energy formula though. Be ruthless reading labels.
I swear by my Usana brand. I know Bayer has a nice simple One a Day formula for women that is gentle and affordable.

[i-amthecosmos.livejournal.com]

Dude, cayenne supplements by themselves can kick some serious ass. I used to take cayenne pills when I had to work dinner shift at a very busy resturant (Red Lobster, don't judge), and thirty minutes after I took them, it felt like there was a fire in my stomach. It causes your pulse to quicken and you get a lot of quick energy.

I don't take it anymore, I have high blood pressure now and don't need stuff that makes my blood pump faster.

[lylassandra.livejournal.com]

My husband was born in '70, and I was born in '84. Age is nothing.

[megalion.livejournal.com]

Hurray for Bello! I'm not a big fan of Weisz though I thought she was ok in the Mummy movies... but Bello? I'm OVER THE MOON!!!

I'll be looking forward to this one for sure!

[kosher-jenny.livejournal.com]

Heh, I wonder if the guy behind the Marry Our Daughters site is also responsible for the Marry a Canadian site that popped up after the 04 election. The layouts look pretty similar.

I just know that Peter Sacks article is going to be full of wank, but I haven't read it yet.

I agreed with you on the Frey thing. Plus, he always had that reek of upper-middle class "I'm totally hardcore" frat boy to me.

Cillian Murphy Joins Dali & I. In which Pacino plays Dali. Oh God.

Wait, what?

Lastly, State of Play: every time I read about this movie I pull a face. I mean, I like Pitt and Norton as actors (although Norton would be much better in Pitt's role) but the original miniseries was just so good, I've wound up becoming really protective of it. :\ Still, one good thing is that maybe when the film comes out they'll actually release the mini on DVD here in the states.

[revenantrose.livejournal.com]

You know, I find it really interesting that people rail on Britney for lip-synching at the VMAs while they fail to recognize that another flashy performer--Chris Brown--did the same exact thing. And just as bad. AND he tried to be Michael Jackson (dude. NO).

And the Nipplegate thing--I am so ready to never hear about that again. In my last two semesters at school, it's been in at least four of my textbooks. Enough!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

It's interesting about the Chris Brown thing--a number of people I talked to, and I as well, didn't actually watch the VMAs at all. I saw Britney on YouTube a couple of hours later. We all heard it was a trainwreck and looked it up, while other people I talked to tuned in for Britney and then turned the show off fairly soon after. I mean, I'm sure there are people who sat through the whole show, but I wonder if that's not part of the inequity here: maybe a lot of people just didn't see Chris Brown at all?

(I, for one, do not blame Britney for lip-synching, because my all-time favorite performance--Madonna's 18th-century-costumed "Vogue"--was totally, obviously lip-synched. I mean, you could tell because it was obviously the same recording as the album. I just didn't care because she nailed it to the wall, and if Britney had actually delivered the dancing, I'd be perfectly okay with that too. In fact, I'm pretty sure she also lip-synched "Slave 4 U" with the snake six or seven years ago, and I thought that was awesome.)

[karintheswede]

What's up with Keira's profile in the Silk posters?

http://www.cinemablend.com/gallery/previews/Silk-2414.html?tid=12572

[chaos-slave.livejournal.com]

Is it totally wrong of me to leave The Golden Age website up on a different browser so I can listen to the music from it?

[clodia-risa.livejournal.com]

No. I did that with Pan's Labyrinth for weeks after I saw it.

[marginaliana]

Oh my god that email on Jezebel - holy crap! I have tears in my eyes from laughing so hard!