In which I feel chatty

[cleolinda]

So... who had a really weird dream today? I DID, I DID! It started with my sister's boyfriend telling me that he wasn't certain, but he was pretty sure he'd figured out that I was a lesbian, and it ended with zombies. The zombies were too busy taking over a mall to tell me whether they also thought I was a lesbian, and I was too busy looting a Sephora to ask. Seriously, if you ever find a shade of Bare Minerals blush called "Wild Ginger," you will know that the End Times are upon us.

Linkspam:

'Killing Fields' survivor Dith Pran dies.

The Aftermath of Minghella's Untimely Passing.

Large, small screen actors guilds cut ties before contract talks. Yes, that's right: we're potentially in for another strike.

Siegel's Family Reclaims Share of Superman Rights.

Brangelina Married! No It's Not!; Us Calls Bullshit on Star! [Update].

Cops bust high school root beer kegger ...the point of which seemed to be that teenager revelers can be just as annoying sober as they are drunk:

Zebro purchased a quarter-barrel of 1919 Classic American Draft Root Beer, and by 10 p.m. Saturday, the scene outside his rural Wausau home had all the makings of a teen drinking party — cars, noise and kids.

Kronenwetter Police Chief Daniel Joling said an officer was dispatched to the home March 1 on a complaint of cars blocking the road.

Juveniles began coming out of the house after the officer used his squad car's loudspeaker to warn that cars would soon be towed, Officer Jason Rasmussen wrote in his report.

Nearly 90 breath tests were done, and officers even searched locked rooms for hiding teens.

"It was a tremendous waste of time and manpower, but we still had a job to do, and our officers did it," Joling said. "If one kid had come there, even hadn't drank there, but had come there and had been drinking and had left and crashed and burned, then what would the sentiment be? Why didn't the police check everybody out?"

Students accused of copying honor code.

The photograph that terrorized London.

Sample The Hugo Selections Online [Hugo Awards].

100 Best Last Lines from Novels. As a sidenote, I discovered a couple of days ago that #4 is the basis for Kate Bush's "The Sensual World" ("He said I was a flower of the mountain, yes").

Clockwork Photoshopping Contest at Worth1000.

Mysterious New UFO Pics Probably from X-Files [Viral Marketing]. "A set of photographs depicting a beautiful, steampunk-looking UFO hovering over a small Northern California town are most likely from an X-Files viral marketing campaign." But... that kind of doesn't make a lot of sense. Unless Mulder's great-great-grandfather was in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen or something.

Sunday Discussion: The $30 Movie Ticket - Would You Pay? HAIL NO. The last time I paid that much for a movie, I got a midnight-release copy of Deathly Hallows thrown in. If I'm paying three times the current movie price, I want a recliner as big as a Cadillac and the star of the movie to personally feed me ice cream. And you're funding this with the Retirement Systems of Alabama pension fund? Welcome to Lake Badidea. Seriously.

Speaking of things happening in Birmingham: Diana Ross among 41 acts revealed for City Stages 2008. Key comment at the list of the 41 acts: "Good grief, the only group or person i recognize is Diana Ross. Could they have not done better this year? I asked my teen age son did he recognize any of these and he said, 'no'.. so that tells me something.. I predict a low turn out this year.. but the Diana Ross thing may save them. But I'm disappointed."

The best (awesomely) bad movie titles.

17 Fashionable Movies. Bringing Up Baby: "The movie in which [Katharine Hepburn] debuted her signature pants, never before seen on a woman in the movies. When the studio heads insisted she wear a skirt, she strolled around the set in her underwear until they gave her pants back."

Report: Auditions to Begin for Characters at Harry Potter Theme Park; New Official WB Photos of Emma Watson Due Soon.

Frank Darabont's Fahrenheit 451 Suffers Another Setback - Tom Hanks Drops Out. I'm actually that rare heathen--someone who's not really a fan of Tom Hanks--but even I thought this was perfect casting. Woe.

New Indiana Jones 4 TV Spot Whips into Action.

Prince Caspian - Adventures in Narnia 2 Clip.

Rumor: Hayden Christensen is Superman in 'Justice League: Mortal'? Cue moral outrage... now.

New Photos from Bryan Singer's 'Valkyrie' - Where's The Buzz? I have a feeling that the mainstream audience who'll stick by Tom Cruise for the feel-good action movies may balk at the Serious Political and/or Historical Movie (see also: Lions for Lambs), and the rest of us are just sick of him. Which is sad, because I don't know about you, but I'm there for the supporting cast.

New Jason Vorhees Revealed.

New Ridley Scott Movie Has Better Drugs Than 'Blade Runner.'

Cohen's Bruno Causes Trouble in Kansas; Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno Nails Ben Affleck.

The Queen's Peter Morgan Moves On to 'Hereafter.' MAYBE THIS MOVIE WILL MAKE ME LESS ANGRY.

Comments

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

Large, small screen actors guilds cut ties before contract talks.

Wow, I'd gotten the impression that there was a lot of anger at SAG for not being more proactive to get negotiations underway after a four-month strike but I'm shocked. I can't tell if this is good or bad (and I have no idea who is in which union - are people like Katherine Heigl (for instance) in both?) - on the one hand, I can see actors who have lost four months work due to the strike wanting to get a contract nailed down before the season goes into production in May and being pissed at a guild who's top-flight membership didn't actually lose any work during the strike. I'll be following this one, Cleo - thanks for the link.

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

Okay, thanks to Google and Nikki Finke, I understand that SAG represents 100 per cent of film productions and 90 per cent of TV and that AFTRA seems to rep people like news anchors and daytime - and has a shitty reputation for the job they're doing, too. From Finke's reporting (http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/), it looks like an attempt on the union's part to worm into primetime TV productions by undercutting SAG contracts - shame on them.

Still, could SAG get out there and negotiate? Mama needs a new season of The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

But were the zombies lesbian strippers?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Only some of them.

[glass-radical.livejournal.com]

Speaking of Steampunk, did you know that BPAL is launching a Steampunk scent line sometime soon? And if you do, are you as excited as I am?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

OMG WHAT?

[pygmymetal.livejournal.com]

They reorganized my Sephora - I walked in there today and was like wtf is my stuff?!

Child unit is drooling over Prince Caspian. I find him attractive but I could be his mum. Yikes.

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

Teenagers, especially in self-reinforcing mobs, will be obnoxious and ill-behaved. Alcohol is not a requirement, merely an accelerant.

[metonymy.livejournal.com]

Unless Mulder's great-great-grandfather was in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen or something.

I'd read that fic.

[lilgoala.livejournal.com]

Re: the $30 movie ticket - my answer is definitely not, mostly because people would probably be just as talkative and obnoxious as they are in regular theaters. And that's irritating enough when I've only paid $10 to get in. Plus, if I want to watch my movies with good food and big comfortable couches, I'll pay for rentals and watch my movies at home. I've got that stuff here.

In short, it's a nice idea, but really not practical. I don't think many people will consider it worthwhile.

[lilgoala.livejournal.com]

Also: Hee, Hogwarts theme park! :D

And why do casting directors think Hayden Christiansen is a good actor? I really don't get it.

[theatre-angel.livejournal.com]

You seriously have the best dreams ever. If you ever decide to pitch that as a film, I insist that the title be Wild Ginger.

[discogravy.livejournal.com]

well, zombies or no, i totally respect your lesbocity. or lack thereof, as the case may be.

SRSLY, have you google image searched with the adult filter off?

O_o
o_O

[madkestrel.livejournal.com]

Okay, wow...I, too, had freaky dreams. In mine, I worked in a daycare in a shopping mall, and the IT guy at my real life work kept trying to ask me to marry him. He's a cutie, but I'm old enough to be his mother. *creeped out shudder*

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

Dude! If all movies cost that much, it would be cheaper to just buy yourself a big screen and home projector and watch them at home that way. That's ridiculous.

[threeparts.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank god other people have dreams about zombies in shopping malls and it's not just me! I seem to have at least one every six months (shoot-outs in the stationary aisles, barricading the escalators), although last night it was a spaceship that crashed onto an island full of raptors.

Brains are fun!

[sinanju.livejournal.com]

I do! I do! I dreamed I was in a five-story mansion that belonged to Tony Stark (aka Iron Man) with a bunch of other people. And we were fighting off ninjas AND assassins AND police SWAT units AND Men in Black, all of whom were trying desperately to capture the dragon's hoard of fantastic weapons--both technological and magical--that were strewn about. And unlike, say, monsters in dungeons, we had the smarts to actually USE said awesome weapons in our defense of the building. Bad guys were getting stacked up like cordwood--when they weren't blown up or out of the building or into bloody pieces...

Of course, after we triumphed it began to look like maybe Iron Man was the real threat and we were seriously hosed, now that we'd helped defeat all the other bad guys. We started running around the mansion to a) stay out of his way while we b) looked for something to use against him that might actually work. Which is when I ran to the Richard Bachman room to look for some of the seriously deranged mojo items that sprang from the mind of Stephen King....

[christwise.livejournal.com]

I find it amusing that while some entries on that best last lines list include a couple of sentences, Ulysses requires an ellipsis so as not to take up the entire page for one sentence.

I do think "'Well, I'm back.'" is a notable exclusion.

[edda.livejournal.com]

Lesbians and zombies. My dreams always just involve wandering around a school lately, unable to actually find anything. Damn.

[skyblade.livejournal.com]

But it's the behind the scenes talent that has me interested (if cautious) in Valkyrie. I think if people really put their chips behind who made the movies, not starred in them, they'd be much happier ticket buyers. And I think Nazi stuff is totally in Singer's wheelhouse.

[mina-mina-mina.livejournal.com]

Have you guys seen the Valkyrie trailer, btw? As much as I'm opposed to Tom Cruise playing Stauffenberg, I do have to acknowledge that the trailer actually looks good. So I wouldn't consider it a bomb-in-waiting just yet.

[bewarethespork.livejournal.com]

Hey, you were feeling ill the last time I commented here. Feeling better yet?

Also, another strike = epic fail, but at least it might mean my brother will download Doctor Who S4 for me straight away as opposed to getting episodes of a zillion comedies first.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Somewhat better, thanks. Still sneezy and congested, but the really alarming symptoms (the vertigo, etc.) have gone away.

[tragical-mirth.livejournal.com]

I once had a dream that zombies flooded out onto the stage at Ford's Theater, rushed up into the balcony, and ate me and my friends on a tour of Washington D.C. And I haven't been in that building since.

[dives.livejournal.com]

Key comment at the list of the 41 acts: "Good grief, the only group or person i recognize is Diana Ross. Could they have not done better this year? I asked my teen age son did he recognize any of these and he said, 'no'.."


I'm inclined to place a bit of the blame on Teenage Son here. Sean Kingston? Flaming Lips? The Roots? Granted these are not Diana Ross-levels of fame, but I find it difficult to believe that a teenage boy with a television and the internet has never before heard of the Flaming Lips.

(but that's just me)

[chrryblssmninja.livejournal.com]

seriously, does that boy go out? None of his peers wear Flaming Lips t-shirts?

F 451

[lesamalie.livejournal.com]

I kinda have a little insight on this. One of my old profs was the guy who wrote the only biography of Bradbury on the market--so they are kinda close.

They've been having much trouble with the script until Frank Darabont came on. The casting of Hanks was something that Ray really liked--but Tom Hanks is IMO too old to play Guy Montag, who he was slated to play.

I don't know who the new cast will be, but I can only hope that a good (or more accurately) a more-true-to-the-book version gets done soon.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I read an article not too long ago saying that drunken hijinks are--surprise!--influenced by culture, and people who THINK they're drunk ACT drunk, and depending on the culture that takes on different aspects. So who needs an actual keg for kids to be little bastards?

[mina-mina-mina.livejournal.com]

Hee, that would explain the myriad of tales about American exchange students acting all crazy after drinking alcohol-free beer with their German exchange families.

[kookaburra1701.livejournal.com]

My most memorable zombie dream happened to me when I was a graveyard waitress at Denny's I dreamt I was at work, and a bunch of zombies came shuffling in, and they kept eating my customers and getting in the way. I kept trying to seat them, and they kept getting up and moving around, and screwing up my system.

I woke up soooo pissed off.

[bigeyedrabbit.livejournal.com]

When the studio heads insisted she wear a skirt, she strolled around the set in her underwear until they gave her pants back

OH KATE.

[zrath.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna go try out for the Harry Potter theme park!
Which character? Hagrid of course!!
Whaddayathink? (http://members.toast.net/zrath/Hagrid.jpg)

[mysticowl.livejournal.com]

I call bull on the 100 Best Last Lines; Bartleby and The Dead don't count as novels, and of all of Austen's works, Emma?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I wasn't all that impressed with them myself. But I had been interested in looking at first and last lines lately, so I was glad to at least have some samples.