So... it’s been a while...

[cleolinda]

Annotated "Dracula" on Wednesday; wrote as much on "The Day After Tomorrow" and "Hidalgo" as I could without the internet (which turned out to be surprisingly little, compared to the other parodies--only 50 notes or so each). Ended up taking Friday and Saturday off, because my eyes had started burning and a bit of the vertigo came back (congestion related to allergies, I think). Probably best not to get burnt out this early in the process. And then someone actually sent me the Webkinz black cat I was going to get for myself, which was a really nice surprise (hee!). So... basically, I'm going to pick another one to look forward to while I slog through, because I'm just that lame. Heh.

Also, I need to start drinking more often, because I had a glass of white merlot with dinner, and I'm a little woozy now. (Maybe I'm just not used to the feeling anymore, I don't know.) Maybe I will instate a quota of one (1) Woodchuck Amber per evening or something (I hate the taste of beer), because this is just sad. My favorite drink in college was Long Islands, y'all. And if nothing else, you'll have 100% more annotational entertainment as I attempt to work while toasted.

Oh, Jillian emailed me the other day--"The Extreme Makeover Home Edition show has announced email casting/nomination for Illinois and the more people to send in nominations for us the better." The entry with details at Christina's journal: "The TV show Extreme Makeover Home Edition is casting for the state of Illinois. We have sent in the application but I need the help of my friends and your friends if possible. I only have until May 7 to get as many letters to the producers to try to get our family chosen." She also describes what they need--why they'd like to get on the show.

Another entry from Erin (see previous entry), and it's not good this time. ETA: She's deleted and reposted something else.

More linkspam--I apologize for the sheer massiveness of it, but various crapnesses got in the way of posting. You may want to at least give the headlines a cursory skim, because there's some really good stuff in there.

Attn technopeasants: Andrew Burt did not win the SFWA presidency. (Background.)

''Idol'' exit Q&A: Carly Smithson; Idol Loser Judged A Witch; Idol haters, your savior is here.

Interpol warns of attack at Olympics.

Sam's Club, Costco limit bulk rice purchases. Well, there goes my plan to take over Birmingham with legions of sentient rice pudding.

Vladimir Nabokov's Last Will And Testament To Be Ignored.

Mailer's longtime mistress sells papers to Harvard.

Bear gave off no reasons for concern before trainer's death. "The grizzly bear that wrestled Will Ferrell's character in the recent film 'Semi-Pro' seemed to obediently follow cues — which made its killing of its trainer with a bite to the neck all the more stunning."

Tests Confirm T. Rex Kinship With Birds.

Penis theft panic hits city.

Study says near extinction threatened people 70,00 years ago.

ther appeers 2 b a price on mai hed; teh road to basement cat is paved wit catnip playthings; dam it dam it dam it; Nitey nite! lolcat Magic cards.

Chupa Chups: lollipops for your suicidal kids.

My Little Pony turns 25 and I am SO OLD.

Flight Of The Conchords cause Beatles-like frenzy in LA.

'Lost': Doc Jensen on the set; What Happens After The Oceanic Six Get Home? [Morning Spoilers].

Grab your couch: Cruise is returning to 'Oprah'; 'Valkyrie,' UA Not Just Another Cruise/Wagner Casualty, Say Cruise/Wagner [Disaster Of The Week].

Wesley Snipes: 3 years in jail.

New Annie Leibovitz Disney Photoshoot; Julianne Moore is The Little Mermaid.

Critics damn 'Gone With the Wind' musical.

Ebertfest 2008: To Absent Friends; Ebertfest 2008 -- Gangsters, Devil Worship, Organic Farming and Ritual Suicide; Two Thumbs Up for Roger Ebert, Blogger.

trailer_spot: Narnia: Prince Caspian, Young People Fucking, Earth, Hamlet 2, Henry Poole is Here.

New Iron Man , WALL•E and Speed Racer Spots.

New images: The Spirit, The X-Files, Burn After Reading, Prince Caspian, The Pineapple Express; Indiana Jones; The Happening; Sex and the City; Speed Racer; Igor; ‘I Love You, Man’ and ‘Marley & Me’ Set Pics.

Guillermo del Toro to direct `The Hobbit' movies.

It's All Part of the Plan - 'The Dark Knight' Trailer Hunt on Monday; Amazing New Poster for ‘The Dark Knight.’

The Chronicles of Narnia Ending with 'Voyage of the Dawn Treader'?; ‘Narnia’ Producer Has List Of Directors For Fourth Film, ‘The Silver Chair.’ So, wait--are we on or off or what? Also: Eddie Izzard Discusses His Role as Reepicheep; Dawn Treader Starts Shooting in October.

James Bond production halted amid fears of a curse; 'Quantum' Filming Suspended In Italy; Accident Investigations Ongoing; Second Car Crash On 'Quantum of Solace' Set In Italy; Bond stuntmen stable after crash.

Official: Deathly Hallows Part One Due November 19, 2010; New HP Half-Blood Prince On-Set Report (BELLATRIX YAY!); an earlier report as well.

Zack Snyder's Watchmen Veidt Advertising Contest.

New Hancock Extended Trailer - Actually Looks Good?

Hugh Jackman Talks 'Wolverine', Two Castmembers Added.

'Superman' Sequel Might Reveal an "Angry God."

Chris Carter's 'X-Files' secrets.

Ayelet Zurer Cast as Vittoria Vetra in ‘Angels and Demons’; Ewan McGregor Also Joining ‘Angels & Demons.’

Wanted: 2 New International Trailers; Angelina Jolie 'Wanted' Poster is Very Artistic; New [different] 'Wanted' poster.

Matt Reeves Puts ‘Cloverfield’ Sequel On Back Burner, Eager To Get ‘Invisible’; Cloverfield DVD Buyers Guide; Cloverfield Ending - Did Something Fall From the Sky?; More Cloverfield Interviews; JJ Abrams on AOTS, Matt Reeves interview; J.J. Abrams: 'Cloverfield' Was Made For TV; 12 Movies That Will Make You Motion Sick. Wow, the accompanying optical illusion is already making me sick.

Abrams, Paramount & Dyer are ‘Hot for Teacher.’

Matthew Fox finds 'dark side' for 'Speed Racer'; Speed Racer Barbie and Ken.

'Iron Man': The inside story.

Christian Slater and Wes Bentley Join 'Dolan's Cadillac.'

untitled sparkly vampire project; Twilight super post; Twilight in Time magazine; Robert Pattinson Composing ‘Bella’s Lullaby’ For ‘Twilight’ Movie; Our Official TV Announcement Of ‘Twilight Tuesdays.’ Are you KIDDING me? Who is paying these people off to report on this movie weekly? (I just keep posting the links out of bogglement, really.)

First Look: Alejandro Amenábar's ‘Agora’ Set ("Oscar-winning actress Rachel Weisz plays astrologer-philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria who fights to save the collected wisdom of the ancient world").

Eastwood's 'Changeling' leads Cannes crop. I want to like this one, I really do...

Brian De Palma's ‘The Fury’ Being Reimagined.

Ang Lee Directing an Adaptation of ‘Taking Woodstock.’

Brendan Fraser Sounds Game For ‘Mummy 4.’ But are we?

Tilda Swinton To Star In 'I Am Love.'

De Niro, Pacino get an offer they can't refuse.

Eli Roth Going PG-13 and Sci-Fi Next.

Sarandon and Pullman join "Peacock."

Virginia Madsen Joins 'Amelia.'

'Eloise in Paris' Finds Its Lead Girl.

Rumor Patrol: Seth Green Says There Is No 'Austin Powers 4.'

Review: 'Harold and Kumar' dopey, smart, timely satire.

Film review: ‘Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed’; I saw it, so you don't have to: Ben Stein's 'Expelled.'

Don’t be fooled by silly ‘Deception’; Ewan McGregor: Naked or singing?

“Getting gay with Jim and Ewan *swoons*”

James McAvoy to work with Steven Spielberg? (Also an Ewan McGregor project.)

Caan Quits David O. Russell's 'Nailed.'

Here Comes 'Bad, Bad Leroy Brown: The Movie'! I'm Serious.

Check Out the DVD Cover of 'Lost Boys 2.'

Comments

[lilgoala.livejournal.com]

And then someone actually sent me the Webkinz black cat I was going to get for myself

Aww, that was nice. :) Have you seen the mouse and the chicken and all the other new ones?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee, yeah. Apparently someone activated a lioness today. And the mouse is so cute! (IT ONLY COMES IN LITTLE!)

[vwlphb.livejournal.com]

I went out to lunch with my dad today, and since he hadn't gotten Mothers Day cards yet, we swung by Hallmark to get some so that I could get another webkinz. I feel insane. Now I have four.

My new one is a leopard named Pollux. If I get another at some point, he will be named Castor. My main problem is that the cuteness of the physical stuffed animal and the webkinz avatar don't always match. The polarbear is awesome, and both work. But with the dog I got before, the stuffed animal is super cute and the avatar is weird, and I kind of feel the opposite with the leopard.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

The leopard avatar is SUPER cute, yeah. But yeah, I know what you mean. (You have nothing to feel insane about, because you are so very, very far behind me. Although, in my defense, I've been collecting for like two years now.) Which ones did you get?

[skyblade.livejournal.com]

I don't know what it says about the industry, or those writing about it, where a studio waiting to see how a second movie in a series does before moving ahead with a fourth one means doom. From where I stand, it means sanity. Do these guys think about what they're getting two Christmases from now while opening their gifts?

[metonymy.livejournal.com]

The Julianne-as-mermaid picture is amazing, but this comment (http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/22799571.html?thread=2734378707#t2734378707) made me bust out laughing.

[mysticowl.livejournal.com]

Hmm, now the entry in which Erin said she'll be closing the community has been deleted, but there is another entry past the "I've been hacked" one.

[supersyncspaz7.livejournal.com]

I should be able to recognize Michael Phelps's back from anywhere (I spent August of '04 swimfanning the hell out of him), but I did not know he was in that picture with Julianne Moore until someone pointed it out to me.

Twilight fever MUST BE STOPPED. I am SO over Edward Cullen, even if the actor playing him is le hawt.

[rockgeisha.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess Bulgakov was right--manuscripts don't burn.

[leucocrystal]

I consider it my duty, as an X-Phile, to point you in the direction of this new XF2 still, since OutNow doesn't appear to have it. It's gorgeous.

[nohara-megami.livejournal.com]

I'm ashamed to admit this, but thanks for posting all of the Twilight links. I am so lazy when it comes to looking for any kind of movie news, so I appreciate it.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I just keep thinking that one day, something's going to come out--some really great picture or trailer or something--and I'm just suddenly going to get it.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

That penis-stealing thing, were you the one who told me it gets mentioned in the Malleus Malficarum?

Aha, assuming you weren't the one who told me about it in the first place:
The flying phallus and the laughing inquisitor: penis theft in the Malleus Maleficarum (http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-25500653_ITM), from the Journal of Folklore Research.

[sunshine95.livejournal.com]

Yum, cider. I hate the taste of beer too. Have you tried any other ones besides Woodchuck Amber? One of the things I love about Seattle is that there seem to be tons of different ciders here, many of them on tap.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I haven't! I don't think we're much of a cider town, but then, I haven't really explored much.

[angelene.livejournal.com]

I had a glass of white merlot with dinner, and I'm a little woozy now.

Aren't you taking Lamictal (http://www.lamictal.com/)?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Can you not drink at all if you take that?

[angelene.livejournal.com]

Oh, and the link to Erin's latest post is broken/incorrect. I think this (http://community.livejournal.com/projectdownload/35645.html) is the entry you were referring to, isn't it?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I hadn't added that yet--she deleted and reposted something else, basically.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Please help me. It's been years since I've read Prince Caspian. Is there a character named "Gaspian" in it, or does Caspian go disguised as someone named "Gaspian," or think that's his real name or something? Because I want to know who that is in all the trailers introducing himself as "Prince Gaspian."

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I think they've given him a Spanish accent, is the thing. Something about the Telmarines being descended from Spanish submariners in WWII who ended up in Narnia (CS Lewis's version was something about pirates, so it's not too far off).

[theatre-angel.livejournal.com]

Guillermo del Toro directing The Hobbit is fabulous. beyond. comprehension.

[sapphsmum.livejournal.com]

Cleo thanks for the link!

I didn't know Jillian had sent an email asking you to do this.

I sincerely thank you and everyone that has taken the time to write to EMHE's producers and those that have linked my post in their journals. LJ members have been there for us in the past and helped us get through some really rough times. I hope that this will help us get the makeover that could change our lives.

My humble gratitude to anyone reading this that has sent a letter to EMHE. I can't begin to say just how much I appreciate your help! I will go on to pay this forward!

Hugs, Christina

X-files

[christigilly.livejournal.com]

I'm watching the original X-files movie on DVD right now (I haven't seen it since I wore out my VHS tape...and no longer have a VCR). I didn't remember that our very own Creepy O'Scar was in it! He's the SAC that voluntarily 'splodes in the beginning.

My Little Pony!

[wulftracks.livejournal.com]

Ah! I just got done touring with My Little Pony Live (I actually started using LJ as a travel blog to keep my friends and family updated on my adventures in Ponyville). It's so crazy to see all the press that's out there right now with the NYC shows wrapping up.

Um . . . that is all.

[glass-radical.livejournal.com]

Matthew Fox finds 'dark side' for 'Speed Racer'

I think they mean "less boring side"

Ten bucks he cries. Matthew Fox waas born to cry.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

File under "better late than never but maybe you didn't account for DVD rips" -- "Roar" available via iTunes tomorrow (http://www.aintitcool.com/node/36548). You're four months late, people. Still.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Forget four months--if they'd just been able to get it up a week ago they could have avoided people ripping the credits out of sheer desperation.

At last the "Cloverfield" Overture

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Smile-y news! The *full-length* (12-minute-15-second) "Roar! (Cloverfield Overture)" is finally (finally) hitting iTunes tomorrow (http://www.aintitcool.com/node/36548).

(Parentheses!)

ETA: Beaten to it, and with better HTML to boot. Foo.

[jenny0.livejournal.com]

Hobbit movieS? Not that I'm complaining, as Del Toro is awesome to the core, but I'm wondering where further movies would come from (i.e. what books they would be based on).

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I think the second movie would bridge the events between "Hobbit" and FOTR, which I think we know from Tolkien's other writings. That would be a bit more difficult, though, since we don't actually have them in narrative-novel format.

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

I think the Webkinz cocker spaniel is adorable. Go for it next!

That's awesome that you're getting so far on the annotations. For your progress, you get...Ceiling Pigs! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/charishawk/2370540068/)

Oh, funny - I am also a hater-of-beer/drinker-of-Woodchuck. And my favorite drink in college was...Long Island iced teas! Until, that is, I dated a bartender to introduced me to Tokyo Teas - it's a Long Island, but with Midori (a melon-flavored alcohol) instead of coke. So...sweeter, 100% alcohol, and a pretty green color. Winnah!

...I tried going through the links, but my brain shut down after the penis-theft article. O_o

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Ah, but which one, the cocker spaniel or the American cocker spaniel?

(I think I may go for the panda, since it's the pet of the month and you get extra goodies. I do want an ACS and a yellow lab, though. I have the brown dog--no, seriously, the Brown Dog--and he looks exactly like the plain cocker, only he's... brown. And he totally looks like my dog Scout.)