Thursday night, breakfast for dinner

[cleolinda]

God, I just feel tired and wonky. Maybe I needed to detox a little from all the crazy MUST WRITE FASTER 3000 WORDS IS NOT ENOUGH jag of the last couple of weeks. I ended up spending the afternoon on the couch wrapped in a giant knit blanket, which was decadent-lazy but really nice. Of course I probably won't be able to sleep tonight, but what can you do. I have something smaller I'd like to finish anyway.

(Since the projectdownload comm seems to be friends-locked now: Erin had been having radiation-induced seizures, and her friends posted yesterday that one of them finally caused memory damage. As in, she can't remember the last year and a half, some of her friends, or Project Download itself.)

Linkspam:

Why Venezuelans Turned on Chavez.

I call shenanigans on the latest installment of the Megan Meier case: either Lawyer: Woman unaware of cruel messages or Megan Had It Coming blogger outs self as Lori Drew, "explains" herself. Either she knew or she didn't, y'all.

Writers, studios return to negotiations to eye Web payments; Walk Of Fame Zorro Sees Opportunity In Writers Strike.

MTV Memo Barely Mentioned Drastic Benefits Changes.

U.K. Court Rules Springer "Opera" Not Blasphemous.

Gibson unveils self-tuning guitar.

Swedish boy outthinks angry moose with Warcraft skillz.

Lost Deaths Necessary.

'No Country for Old Men' Named Best Picture by National Board of Review; The Oscar race has begun!; No Oscar front-runner as awards season begins.

Compass' Elliott Sweet-Talked; Catholic Bishops Give Thumbs Up to 'Compass' (!); Ebert: ‘Compass’ Takes Fantasy World In Right Direction (four stars); The Golden Compass opens big in the UK; A Whole Lot Of Monkey Business In ‘Golden Compass’ (okay, that scene [I won't give it away] really is super creepy in the movie, but they quote Pullman as saying he came up with it, which I find fascinating. Nicole Kidman: "I thought it was clever. It shows that she’s struggling with herself, that she’s confused, for the first time in her life"); Green Bewitches In Compass; Navigating The Golden Compass (Dakota Blue Richards: "Personally, I don't think it's necessary to be the same with the actor as with the character, because you work with people who really are lovely people, who play people that you hate, and I mean, you don't want to go around - what's the point in kind of estranging yourself from people who are nice people, just for the sake of the character?" Bless her for having common sense. Also, Sam Elliott and Philip Pullman are apparently BFF now); Interviews: Nicole Kidman & Daniel Craig.

trailer_spot: Golden Compass opening & clips, Oxford Murders, Accidental Husband, 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Persepolis. Note about the first five minutes of GC: The beginning of the movie was probably my least favorite part. I mean, the Eva Green voiceover is fairly well done in terms of introducing the Lyraverse to newcomers, but the frolicking outside Oxford didn't do much for me. Don't judge the movie by the opening, is what I'm saying.

Exclusive Video: Johnny Depp Sings In ‘Sweeney Todd’; 3 Sweeney Todd clips on official MySpace; Charting the blood flow in Sweeney Todd.

Will Depp Become Dillinger?

Dark Knight Prologue Previewed; 'The Dark Knight' Poster; The Dark Knight's Viral Marketing Gets Very Real - Cakes, Cell Phones and All! ("If you can believe it, the Joker now has real, live people recruited to his army sitting with a phone awaiting his call")

'Cloverfield' Marketing Gets Weirder; Cloverfield 's Running Time, Slusho! Commercial; MySpace Update - Rob, Beth, and Lily (and guess what movie they're going to see?).

"Lord of the Rings" Tops "Harry Potter" in New Book to Film Poll; MTV Picks Top Ten List of Wizard Rock Bands.

Keira Knightley Says No to 'Pirates 4.'

Dizzying first look at Speed Racer. Wow, that's Christina Ricci?

EXCLUSIVE: 'Juno's' Ellen Page and Diablo Cody Discuss Their Favorite All-Time Movies.

Ray Park is GI Joe's Snake Eyes.

Hilary Swank Grows Fangs.

Xzibit, Peet and Connolly Join X Files 2.

Michelle Williams to Play DiCaprio's Wife in Scorsese's 'Shutter Island.'

Indiana Jones IV Writer Speaks: ‘You’ve Just Got To Hope To God You Don’t Screw Up.’

McLovin and Others Join Apatow's 'Year One'; McLovin is Back in Biblical Times!

FIRST LOOK: 'Sex and the City' Trailer.

Dawson and Harrelson Join Will Smith in Seven Pounds.

Playing Kurt Cobain Not Nirvana For James McAvoy, Actor Says Rumors Are False.

Wanted Moved Back to the Summer.

Documentary Directors Adapting Freakonomics.

Surveillance cameras bring new ‘Look’ to film.

New Line Cinema Has Chemistry for Beginners.

Tim Roth Teases Surprising Look In ‘Hulk.’

New 'Iron Man' Photo Reveals Dollar Store Armor.

R-Rated 'Harold and Kumar 2' Trailer Surprisingly Funny, Mutant-Filled.

More 'Alvin and the Chipmunks' Anger Fuel.

Comments

[word-herder.livejournal.com]

Hey! I had breakfast for dinner too! Good night for that.

[caitlen.livejournal.com]

That is a lot of linkspam today.

Sad about Erin (projectdownload) :( I read the post by her friend yesterday. I hope her memory returns. I'd desperately hate to lose the last year & a half of my life.

[karadin.livejournal.com]

I feel so bad for Erin, I hope she can come back from this, my mother also had cancer to the brain, and recovered.

and after spending a few minutes reading that tripe of Lori Drew, I need to go find something to read to make me feel good about the human race again.

[viorica8957.livejournal.com]

From the incredibly distasteful blog:

You don't understand what the last two years have been like, living in this town, dealing with these people.

BITCH, PLEASE.

Even if it weren't for the fact that she's a self-pitying sociopathic narcissist, I still wouldn't believe her, considering the fact that she hid behind the facade of a teenage girl before claiming that she and her daughter (she keeps pulling "Think of my poor innocent baby!") were actually the victim. Holy shit woman, do you have no conscience?

[gannet-guts.livejournal.com]

That Juno trailer look so adorable.

And that's so sad about Erin, I can't imagine what it would be like.

[msilverstar]

I hope that's not Lori Drew, I hope very very much that's someone pretending to be her, because it's one of the sickest things I've ever read. I'm a mom: if a kid's being mean to your kid, you deal. You do not descend to junior high school and fool her on myspace. Disgusting.

[pennyverse.livejournal.com]

If it's someone pretending to be her...holy crap, that's almost as sickening. Sort of like that guy who said he'd killed JonBenet Ramsey.

Blogger's been saying they have no evidence of the blog being a hoax, though - here (http://deathby1000papercuts.blogspot.com/2007/12/lori-drew-megan-had-it-coming-what-her.html).

[anolinde.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I actually left a comment on Lori Drew's blog because I was so disgusted by her behavior.

What a psychopath.

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

Both Erin's lost memories and maybe-Lori-Drew get an "ick" for me, though for somewhat different reasons.

[lyrainverse.livejournal.com]

Swedish boy outthinks angry moose with Warcraft skillz.

I read that as the moose had Warcraft skillz. I actually had to read the article to figure it out. That was a confusing few moments.

I saw a trailer for Alvin and the Chipmunks and couldn't find my remote in time to change the channel. A little part of me died and I'll never get it back.

[tifaria.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if it's worse for that blog to actually be written by Lori Drew or an impersonator. Both options make me incredibly sick to my stomach for different reasons.

Besides, I don't see why it's still up. Other than being completely disgusting, isn't it basically a confession that completely contradicts everything else she and her lawyers have said so far? So if it really is her, then, um.. it's kind of not a good idea to leave it up, is it? Or am I missing something?

[chaosdancer.livejournal.com]

If it is her, then she appears to believe both that she's blameless (as a total sociopath would), and that since there weren't any charges filed previously, that nothing can touch her now. Apparently she doesn't really understand the concept of civil lawsuits. (Or vigilantism, despite her twisted, manipulative attempts at it herself.) I worry about her daughter.

[chaosdancer.livejournal.com]

Just so you know, I can see one of those entries on the project download blog again - it's not completely friendslocked. Though if there's been any new news, I haven't seen it.

[padawansguide.livejournal.com]

That is so horribly sad about Erin. :-(


But eeep! I'm excited for Sex & The City. While being terrified they will screw it up!

[callie-girl.livejournal.com]

I;m with you on shenanigans. I highly doubt "Megan Had it Coming" (ick) is Lori Drew. The first entry is written as a girl who went to school and had class with Megan. If I were Lori Drew, the last thing I would want to do is get on the internet and pretend to be anybody.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

Oh, MTV. They are assholes to their contractors. I worked for them at MTV Latino in the mid 90s. MTV Corporate let go 3,000 contractors worldwide one day to trim their bottom line for the year's financial statements. Then they tried to call me back up on January 3rd. Was already reemployed.

[edda.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear about Erin. Jesus, I hope she recovers OK.

Swedish boy outthinks angry moose with Warcraft skillz.

I read that and thought, "DAMN but I've got to get hooked up with that game."

My spoiler free Golden Compass review.

[ironclad1609.livejournal.com]

Having read the book I expected rather much of this. I really loved the design and visuals of the film, the daemons and polar bears were really nicely solved (although I would have wished for them to use real animals each time that was possible). As for the cast: Nicole Kidman was perfect, Dakota Blue Richards very good, Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Sam Elliot all great choices.
The reordering of some chapters of the book was an okay decision, but the ending came pretty sudden. Then again, the book ending was never really fitting for a film. But yes, the movie does feel rushed at times and is generally not as deep as the book, of course. The soundtrack wasn't anything special and sometimes even sounded unfitting to the scene. Not sure if I would have liked the movie more or less without having read the book. As it is: good entertainment, neither disappoint me nor blow me away. Better than Eragon and Narnia, far from Lord of the Rings. What I really wanna see is part three of this though, so I hope it'll do well.
7 out of 10 panzerbjörne.

[pinstripe-bindi.livejournal.com]

This whole Slusho thing has me quite flummoxed. J.J. Abrams, what are you up to now, you wacky genius?

[canonball13.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm not sure I'm clicking correctly. Once I click, it asks me to open or save. I've done both, and gotten a little text box with a paragraph about Erin. Is that it, or is there something else to it? I'd like to help, but I have no idea if I'm doing it correctly or not.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

That's it, that's all there is to it--you're directly downloading a .txt file. It's just a paragraph about Erin so as to have some kind of perfunctory something there to download.

[heyorion.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you already know about this, but I thought it might be good linkspam fodder. Apologies for untechnical linkage.
So this British guy, John Darwin, goes missing in 2002 after going out sea-canoeing on a very calm day. A verdict of accidental death is recorded.
A couple of weeks ago, he walks into a police station and utters the immortal words, "I think I'm a missing person". He claimed he had no memory of the past five years. (Linky: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/04/ncanoe104.xml)
His wife Anne had, just six weeks before that, moved to Panama with the life insurance money to start a new life.

Except... this photo turned up, showing he two of them in Anne Darwin's new Panamanian apartment. Last year. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,2223073,00.html)

John Darwin has now been arrested for fraud, Anne has admitted the photo is genuine, and their two sons have claimed they had no idea.
In fact, John had been living with Anne for three years prior to walking into the police station: http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/Missing-canoeist-lived-three-years.3568764.jp

[thansunshine.livejournal.com]

I saw that six-minute Batman prologue Thursday night. I got four tickets to see it in LA.

Heath Ledger is amazing as the Joker, for all 30 seconds he actually talked and was the Joker.

Seriously.

/random input.

[thansunshine.livejournal.com]

I blogged it (http://thansunshine.livejournal.com/25819.html), too, since I didn't see any full-on accounts of it.

[lotusbiosm.livejournal.com]

I have to say, I fell asleep during No Country for Old Men. And my parents weren't all that impressed either.