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.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

But were the zombies lesbian strippers?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Only some of them.

[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.

[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?

[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.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

OMG WHAT?

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

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

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

You have to watch out for the Libyan lesbian librarian zombies. They're the worst.

[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

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

SECONDED

(This from a chick who has never worn perfume or anything in her LIFE.)

[roseredhoofbeat.livejournal.com]

Watch Shattered Glass and get back to me on that one.

[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*

[glass-radical.livejournal.com]

I quote, from the site:

"For a limited time, a preview of of next month's steampunk-inspired scent line will be available: the Phoenix Steamworks flagship oil with its accompanying tee! You will receive a tee in the size and style of your choice, plus a 5ml bottle of Phoenix Steamworks: Burnished gold and oiled bronze notes with Abramelin incense and sage."

and here the shirt: http://www.blackphoenixtradingpost.com/teezoom-phoenixsteamtee.html

[glass-radical.livejournal.com]

Yeah, with a script that actually does not suck, Haydren Christensen isn't as horrible as he seems.

(I love Shattered Glass for Peter Sarsgaard but Hayden is okay too)

[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]

I have created a monster.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

And now you know what kind.