Sister Girl in New York, Day Two

[cleolinda]

"Hey, you know that part at the end of Cloverfield, where they're under the bridge?"

"Yeah?"

"What's it called? I think I'm there."

"Oh, shit, I know this..."

"Can you look it up?"

"Yeah, yeah, lemme get to the computer... LOAD! LOAD! Shit, I know this, I had to find it out for the--wait, wait, I bet it's in the thing--"

Under Some Bridge, 6:42 AM

CAMERA-ROB: My name is Robert Hawkins, and if you’re watching this, well—then you know more about what happened than I do.

THE AUDIENCE: *laughs and laughs and laughs*

"DAMMIT!! Do you see any signs?"

"Yeah... no."

"You are in Central Park, right? Because if you're not there, that's not where you are."

"No, yeah, we're in Central Park."

"That's a statement for the ages, huh? If you're not there, that's not where you are."

"No, yeah, we're in Central Park. Southeast part."

"Yeah, I just saw an interactive map yesterday..."

"Yeah, okay."

"LOAD! No! I don't care about Sheep Meadow in 1853!"

"Look, it's okay if you can't..."

"No, I can find this, I bet it says on... LOAD! Shit, IMDB doesn't say... "

"I'm taking a picture of Jessica and she doesn't li-i-ike it, I'm taking a picture and she doesn't li-i-ike it..."

"WAIT I BET I KNOW WHO KNOWS IT--LOOOOOOOOAD!!!!!"

"Look, it's okay, I'll probably call back and want to know somewhere else I am--"

"NO! NO! I KNOW THIS! I KNEW THIS! I CAN KNOW THIS AGAIN!"

"What? I can't hear you, there's a helicopter--"

"GREYSHOT ARCH! IS IT GREYSHOT ARCH??"

"I don't know... there aren't any signs."

"Well... if you're there, it's Greyshot Arch."

"Cool."

(I'm pretty sure she wasn't at Greyshot Arch.)



5.2 earthquake rocks large region of Midwest.

Polygamist sect hearing in Texas descends into farce, "with hundreds of lawyers in two packed buildings shouting objections and the judge struggling to maintain order."

BPAL's new steampunk line of perfume blends. Also, new Good Omens and Neil Gaiman blends (Pepper sounds particularly nice).

I'm hoping our observance of earth day will make the polar bears less angry at us.

Yale: Abortion Art Piece Was "Creative Fiction" [Updates].

Scott Adams Gives Dilbert Pen to Fans.

Meat Loaf and Tiffany belt it out for AT&T.

Secret History of Infocom's Never-Released "Restaurant at the End of the Universe" Game.

Marilyn Monroe Sex Film Hoax.

Just Because You Can Buy Your Child A $21K Jungle Gym Doesn't Mean You Should; $10,000 for child's birthday party? NO.

Why's Barry Sonnenfeld so scared of Facebook?

Batman: Not R.I.P., But Something Worse?

Lost Spoilers Revealed, none of which I looked at LA LA LA.

Emma Watson Meets Napoleon?

Behind the Scenes: The World of Narnia.

Cloverfield DVD Reveals Details; Spike TV's Exclusive Cloverfield Alternate Ending Clip.

From sunni_sideup: More set pics of Robert Pattinson (and a few of Kristen Stewart) from 'Twilight.'

Scoop: Cynthia Nixon lets slip 'Sex and the City' [spoiler].

The Latest Poster for Hugh Jackman's 'Deception.'

Bilson Also Snapped on 'New York' Set.

Harrison Ford Wanted to Kill Han Solo! "But I couldn't get George to go along with that. He didn't want to stop making the toys.'' New photos at the link as well (Cate Blanchett brings out the crazy eyes!). Also: EW Summer Preview scans.

Drew Struzan's 'Hellboy II: The Golden Army' Poster.

Sigourney Weaver On ‘Alien’ Sequel: ‘Let Ripley Rest.’

Val Kilmer, Sharon Stone and 50 Cent Walk Into a Bar ...

Hilary Swank as a Browless Earhart in 'Amelia.' I still say they should have cast Cate Blanchett in this one. And I actually have grounds for saying that this time.

Remaining 'G.I. Joe' Character Shots Revealed.

X-Files Movie Novelization Reveals Plot; New 'X-Files' Photos, Movie Plot Finally Revealed?; X-Files's Duchovny Gets Back. You know, I'm having a really hard time coping with the concept of Scully having long hair. It's just not... Scully.

'Australia' Photos Teach Proper Lady-Care.

Empire Features 3-D Hulk Cover.

Brett Ratner Continues Life Support on Eddie Murphy's Career; Scott Weinberg Weeps Openly as Brett Ratner Snags 'Shrinking Man' Gig. NUKE IT FROM ORBIIIIIIIIIT.

Rudy Huxtable Becomes a Hooker.

The Astoundingly Good Case For Making A Ziggy Movie.

Brilliant Gag of the Week: Trailer for 'Tetris: The Movie.'

Uwe Boll Won’t Ever Be Entering The World Of Warcraft. "That’s the Uwe Boll I know and love – the Uwe Boll who’ll criticize even his most ardent followers. God bless you, sir." More to the point:

“I got in contact with Paul Sams of Blizzard, and he said, ‘We will not sell the movie rights, not to you…especially not to you,’” Boll revealed. “Because it’s such a big online game success, maybe a bad movie would destroy that ongoing income, what the company has with it.”

Comments

[chocotaku.livejournal.com]

Bornrich.org The site for people who REALLY want to blow a shitload of money on crap.

[mamak11285.livejournal.com]

I got woken up by that earthquake this morning. I thought it was a tractor-trailer going by my apartment, but then my friend text messaged me going "EARTHQUAKE!".

It kinda worries me a little, because if New Madrid is acting up...

[sapphires13.livejournal.com]

We're all gonna diiiiie. No seriously. 90% chance of a 6.0 or greater within the next 50 years (actually I think it was technically 2 years ago that they said that... so the next 48 years.) It could come any day now.

But yeah. It woke me up too. I was kinda like "Hey, that's an earthquake." and was mildly impressed by the duration. Then I went back to sleep.

[mamak11285.livejournal.com]

I stayed up for an hour on the phone with the friend who messaged me, telling her stories about my childhood in California and how we had our earthquake drills in kindergarten. She was telling me that friends of her family submitted to the Mid-West mentality of "OMG Nature! Head for the basement!" because they had no idea what to do for an earthquake.

[sapphires13.livejournal.com]

We had earthquake drills at school too. Basically it was 'get under your desk', but as I recall, we only did that a few times. Tornado drills were the big thing, but when we eventually did have a tornado during school hours, there was chaos because the teachers were more frightened than half the students. There were tons of fire drills too, but uh.. the schools I was at seemed to spontaneously catch on fire. At least three times during the two years I was at my middle school, some kind of small fire forced everyone out into the field for an hour >_<

But I digress. You'd think even people who had never experienced an earthquake would have seen enough movies to know to get into a doorway (if it's bad enough.)
I've had to lecture my mom on this though. Her bedroom doorway is probably the worst place she could go, unless she wants to be crushed by her TV.


(P.S. You and I seem to share a lot of interests =))

[rahrahmah.livejournal.com]

Lol Lol Lol!!! 6.0 or greater! Wow, it might knock over a bookcase! Whatever will the Midwest do?? Seriously, I'm on the West Coast of Canada where they've been predicting a 9.0 for a while now. Now THAT is an earthquake to worry about.(Although a series of 5/6es and that big sucker in Seattle I'm pretty sure negated that threat). If we can eat a 6 for breakfast, so can you guys. Earthquake pro-tip: Stand in a doorway, or get under a table. You'll be fine.

[sapphires13.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but the faultline we have here is completely different than what you guys have on the west coast. It's an intraplate fault, which makes more damaging/more widely felt quakes for their size. Plus nothing here is earthquake proof, 'cause the whole area is too dumb for any foresight.

[maetang.livejournal.com]

Have you seen Evil Monkey's Guide to Kosher Imaginary Animals (http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2008/04/17/evil-monkey%e2%80%99s-guide-to-kosher-imaginary-animals/)? It's a hoot! :^)

[tabbyclaw.livejournal.com]

*cackles and giggles and snorts and loses the ability to breathe and dies*

[etherealshores.livejournal.com]

Hilary Swank as a Browless Earhart in 'Amelia.'

Ugh. I'd have to agree, Cate would OWN the role.

[theendofallthat.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, the abortion art thing is freakin' brilliant.

[pinstripe-bindi.livejournal.com]

I think Amelia Earhart had eyebrows, they were just freakishly light for some reason and didn't photograph. Which is weird, because eyebrows are usually darker than your hair, aren't they?

I can't believe I'm talking about Amelia Earhart's eyebrows. The internets are so weird.

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

Maybe she had reddish hair--some redheads and strawberry blondes have really pale eyebrows.

Also: yes, thanks, Internets.

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

I was born a blonde. My hair darkened; my eyebrows didn't.

[lyricalnights.livejournal.com]

Me too. I have had people come up, look at me, and go "huh, you have no eyebrows."

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

That judge in the polygamous sect hearings is hilarious.

"I assume most of you want to make the same objection. Can I have a universal, `Yes, Judge'?" she said.

In both buildings, the hundreds of lawyers stood and responded in unison: "Yes, Judge."

HEEEEE.

[themadfish.livejournal.com]

Wow, those 'spoilers' for Lost are kinda lame. I mean, it gets me excited about the Lost finale, but it doesn't really spoil anything. It's more in the lines of saying what sort of elements be in the last episodes of season 4. To give you an idea of what those 'spoilers' are like, if you were in the middle of season 3, then about the finale, they'd be like, "There will be a conclusion to Desmond seeing Charlie dying!" Except, even less exciting.

Here are some that were listed...and putting a big space and making it white for people just in case.

[ponygirl118.livejournal.com]

On the bithday party bit: WTF?!?! I remember feeling guilty for my paint a ceramic birthday party! Jesus christ, that is fucking insane!

[tundraeternal.livejournal.com]

Zomg, that's my friend Elliott doing the Ziggy pitch! He's fay-mouse!!

[sneaky-minx.livejournal.com]

It's somewhat scary how your conversation with Sister Girl sounds a lot like many I've had with mine. I can stand not knowing something, but I can't stand knowing that I don't know something. If that makes any sense...

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Cleo, it's flown under a lot of people's radar, but the Net Neutrality hearings at Stanford were today (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080418-big-isps-a-no-show-at-second-fcc-net-neutrality-hearing.html). The ever popular Lawrence Lessig was present, and there was a fascinating case of politics making strange bedfellows: the Christian Coalition did an awesome job arguing in favor of net neutrality.

"Use of the Internet has allowed the Christian coalition to amplify the voices of millions of hard working, pro-family Americans, in a way that has revolutionized their ability to be heard and to engage in the political process," Combs told the Commission. The Internet offers a voice "to even the most modest members of our society to disseminate ideals on a scale traditionally reserved only for the most powerful."

Then Combs laid into Comcast, recapping the Associated Press' determination last year that the ISP blocked transmission of a digital version of the King James Bible. "Unfortunately, in the last six months, we have seen network operators block political speech, block content, and block the most popular applications on the Internet," she noted. "If Comcast were to create a Christian Family Channel, would the FCC allow it to block access to a competing product from the Christian Coalition that was distributed by a BitTorrent application?"

Combs received a big round of applause for her remarks. Nobody on the Commission answered her question during the panel's QA period.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I am really, really starting to dread the sound of Lessig's name. That said, any large lobby that's willing to argue in favor of net neutrality is okay by me.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

I think by and large he's on the side of the angels. The only case where he's been really seriously off is the Lexicon, from what I've seen. Creative Commons is a good idea, and he's one of the big guys pushing it.

bridge

[bunnymonkey.livejournal.com]

Was it not the Gothic Bridge? That's always the one that's in movies. I need to find me some screencaps or something. Man, when I lived on the UES, I could just walk down the street and check it out. Stupid hell's kitchen!

Re: bridge

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

No, I remember actually reading that it was Greyshot Arch/Bridge/Whichever. Search it on Google Images--actually, I think I may have linked to that up there. It's simpler-looking than the Gothic Bridge, it looks like.

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

Sigourney Weaver has been wanting to kill off Ripley since ALIENS. She's said it so often, I'm starting to think it's a fetish *g*

[tabbyclaw.livejournal.com]

I want the Tetris movie LIKE BURNING.

[agatha-mandrake.livejournal.com]

NUKE IT FROM ORBIIIIIIIIIT

It's the only way to be sure!

[discogravy.livejournal.com]

this is too funny not to share, apologies if you've seen it (no spoilers)

previously on LOST: What? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcatQSyRK6c)