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[cleolinda]

Random, fragrant thoughts: I've been strategically stashing scented candles in drawers. Can one's underwear smell too much like jasmine, you might ask? And the answer is yes. Yes, it can. On the other hand, I've dug out my BPAL and put a few drops of Tamora in an oil diffuser, and it smells fantastic. You know, even though the oil is three or four years old at this point--apparently the stuff does keep pretty well. I wonder if I have any Snake Oil around here--I hear that one ages fantastically.

Not much else to report, except that I'm tired and behind on work.

Film Prints Revealed to be Destroyed as Universal Continues Taking Stock; Officials: Blowtorch accident started fire; Universal Studios fire may cost tens of millions.

Actor Mel Ferrer dies at 90.

Time Warner Launches Bandwidth-Capped Internet Plan.

Key to All Optical Illusions Discovered.

Trailers: The Full New Wanted Trailer!; New 'X-Files 2' Trailer a Harsh Reminder of Cold War; 'Hancock' is Poignant, Particularly on 'Ellen'; Trailer for Mischa Barton's 'Walled In'; New Movie Clips Galore ("The ComingSoon.net Trailers & Clips section has been updated with links to the new trailer for Steve Carell's 'Get Smart,' a fifth TV spot for 'The Incredible Hulk,' a second TV spot for 'Tropic Thunder,' a slightly different international 'Australia' trailer, the teaser for Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston's 'Marley & Me,' a new 'WALL•E' trailer, two clips from Adam Sandler's 'You Don't Mess with the Zohan,' a TV spot for Eddie Murphy's 'Meet Dave,' and the trailer for the thriller 'Transsiberian'").

Also: 'The Women' trailer. You know what? The Women is one of my most favoritest movies, and... I think I won't be seeing any remake on principle. Because, while the story comes off as fairly empowering (for 1939), if predictably sentimental at the end, I'm not sure the same story can hold up in 2008. It's just a different world now, you know?

Helen McCrory: Narcissa Malfoy is a "Baddie with a Heart."

'Terminator: Salvation' Ending Revealed to be Stupid. ETA: Leaked Terminator 4 Ending Is False, Says Director.

M. Night Shyamalan's Trouble in Hollywood - Will 'The Happening' Hit Big?

Plot Details Revealed on Alex Proyas' 'Knowing.'

Cam Gigandet Joins The ‘Twilight Tuesday’ Festivities.

Find Out Which Aliens Turn Up In J.J. Abrams' Star Trek Movie [Morning Spoilers].

Leelee Sobieski joins 'Public Enemies' as Dillinger's last girlfriend.

Doug Liman Wants Russell Crowe For Valerie Plame Scandal Pic.

Eric Bana in Judd Apatow's Next Dramedy?

Alfred Molina and Ben Kingsley Join 'Prince of Persia.'

Wes Bentley Becomes 'The Storyteller.'

Matthew Marsden Joins ‘Transformers 2’ Cast.

Frank Miller: 'The Spirit' Will Not Be Sin City 2.

Brittany Murphy Ousted as Tinker Bell.

Who's Directing 'Jonny Quest'?

'He-Man' Script Gets an A+.

Deepak Chopra Praises 'The Love Guru.'

Comments

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

Okay, am I the only one who thinks the Cam "Bane of Spellcheck" Gigandet interview was really awkward? It's like they kept asking him questions long after the interview should have been over.

[etherealshores.livejournal.com]

A He-Man movie?

*weeps*

Why must they keep destroying my childhood?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I haven't watched it yet, but the other MTV/Twilight interviews are kind of like that as well. I think MTV has given so much time to the Twilight coverage that they don't entirely know how to fill it.

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

For the same reason the show was made in the first place: they think they can make MONEY doing it!

[etherealshores.livejournal.com]

It's bad enough a Transformers 2 is being made. Now THIS?

Oh well, it gives me more movies to boycott.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

If it had been a normal social situation there would have been an awkward pause and then the party would have said "weeelll...I've got to be going now". Unfortunately you can't really do that in an interview so there was just the awkward pause.

[morganwolf.livejournal.com]

Item 1: I still don't see Jake Gyllenhaal as the Prince of Persia, but that might just be me and my lady-boner for dusky warrior types.

Item 2: Wait, Brittany Murphy voicing Tinkerbell? Lord a' mighty, I'm glad I missed that. I am not sure why there is a Tinkerbell serial at all, although I am an avowed Tink fan, but if someone's gonna voice her, it might as well be Mae Whitman, because she pwns in Avatar: the Last Airbender.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

It's a small improvement on the rumor that they were going to get Zac Efron for PoP. Um, what?

[trash-addict.livejournal.com]

Excuse me, I'll just be over in the corner molesting your icon. ROWR
(and just to seem like more of a complete weirdo, I looked at the rest of your userpics, and I'm very much amused that you've got some Horatio/Archie stuff in there. Hee! for long-forgotten fandoms).

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

Molest away. It's not like I haven't already.

Archie is my first fangirl love. All fangirliness on my part can be traced back to Jamie Bamber.

[dramedy.livejournal.com]

Eric Bana in Judd Apatow's Next Dramedy?

haha, my username. *is lame*

Sadly, Matthew Marsden is not related to James. This makes me sad, as two men that hot could have only been a good thing.

He-Man? REALLY? Of all the cartoons...HE-MAN? There best be a She-Ra film... On the other hand, maybe not.

Not only that...

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

but Snake Oil makes a great horse liniment!

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

How sad is it that the Universal fire made me go, "Nooooooo!" I mean, all those prints! The Back to the Future square! Our cultural heritage, up in flames!

...OK, maybe that is rather pathetic of me. I guess I should be glad it wasn't the Met or something.

In other things, I just saw Iron Man again (I don't usually see movies twice in theaters, but man, this one was just as fun the second time!) and saw The Spirit trailer. And thought..."is this the second Sin City movie?"

I'm glad the actual movie won't really be all red, black, and white!

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

I always thought "docu-dramedy" was the limit of made-up TV genres. Are you with me there?

[greyduck.livejournal.com]

...it might as well be Mae Whitman, because she pwns in Avatar: the Last Airbender.

So very true. It still won't be enough to make me watch the silly thing, and I'm glad my daughter's outgrown the target demo just a bit. (Whew.)

[dzurlady.livejournal.com]

Snake Oil is excellent aged. (And also worth a considerable amount of money, just in case you weren't aware.)

[galaxianomiko.livejournal.com]

They're remaking Masters of the Universe? ...why?

I'll never understand remaking campy old movies. You can't really *plan* a movie to be classic in that way.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah--I think I gave my imp away a long time ago. All I have now is a bottle of Snake Charmer back from the first Carnaval release, I think.

[dzurlady.livejournal.com]

That's also worth quite a bit, though. :)

[chrryblssmninja.livejournal.com]

How sad is it that the Universal fire made me go, "Nooooooo!" I mean, all those prints! The Back to the Future square! Our cultural heritage, up in flames!
don't worry, I was thinking that too.

I've been there several times, and it's so weird when I place you know just goes up in flames...

[eofs.livejournal.com]

So is bandwidth capping a pretty new idea in the US then? Wow. I assumed it was around there just as here. We have a mixture of capped and 'unlimited' (aka, 'within reason') depending who you want to go to. Also, those prices are so depressing. For a 'slow' 768 kps and 5GB a month it's still cheaper than I pay for something around 256-512mps and the same bandwidth. Although admittedly the speed is because our infrastructure is so bad that I can't get anything better. And it's only this month my bandwidth allowance has gone up from 2GB to 5GB! $1 per GB extra is also a really good deal, about a third of what I pay per extra GB.

[summersdaughter.livejournal.com]

Hee, that would definitely fetch a pretty penny on Ebay if you were inclined to part with it.

[missnanna.livejournal.com]

Hey. I was wondering if you might mention the following story in one of your upcoming posts.
An editor at jezebel.com is pooling together funds to get 6 women who started an NGO to promote women's rights (and their husbands) out of Iraq as soon as possible, because one of the women they were protecting was murdered recently. They have no money themselves and are in real danger. She's asking people to contribute something, anything, to her Paypal account, which will then be transferred to a helpful journalist in Iraq.
The full story is here (http://jezebel.com/5013108/love-has-to-be-calculated-in-iraq-today-they-think-women-are-machines) and here (http://jezebel.com/5012297/mom-who-fled-her-honor-killing-husband-in-basra-shot-down-on-street-how-you-can-help). Back story here (http://jezebel.com/389734/welcome-to-basra-where-beating-your-daughter-to-death-gets-you-high+fived-by-cops).
Thanks in advance for any attention you might be able to generate.

[sfmarty.livejournal.com]

I have been thinking about your computer. Have you cleared the files of internet downloads? I hadn't done mine in a while and it took an hour and a half!

Log on to the net. Go to the tool bar and select tools. go to Internet options. Delete the top file stuff. I suppose you can keep your cookies (g)

[mysticowl.livejournal.com]

The Women is being remade? Eh... On one hand, I'm curious and kind of want to see it. On the other, I think you're right, it'll lose something very important being transplanted in time like that. It's like Shall We Dance (I didn't see the remake, only the trailers), take it out of Japan and into America, and suddenly it stops being a social commentary with a sweet ending and becomes all about Jennifer Lopez's ass.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Oh god. A year and a half ago I decided to clear my desktop's temporary internet files, after noticing this was where my virus scan would spend a couple of hours. It turned out there were more than 100,000. Apparently the "delete after 9 days" part hadn't been working all along...

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

Hell, I'd friend you simply because we share a lot of the same fandoms...


The icon helps though...

[eofs.livejournal.com]

I think you'll get a kick out of this: Harry Potter quoted in music copyright case (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7412671.stm).

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

I just saw Iron Man again (I don't usually see movies twice in theaters, but man, this one was just as fun the second time!)

I saw it a third time this past weekend...

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

Go ahead.

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

Will do!

[sfmarty.livejournal.com]

I don't know that my computer has that command. I clean it out now whenever I think of it. (which isn't often)

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

I know! *sniff*

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

IT'S SO GREAT!! Also (bonus) the sound for the last 15 minutes was off, so they gave us free passes for next time. W00t!

[all-ephemera.livejournal.com]

A propos of nothing, this link here has a doll about 2/3 of the way down I thought you might be interested in. :) I know Kambriel - buying from her is very safe.
http://kambriel.livejournal.com/163391.html

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, dammit--I'm totally broke right now. And I love her site, too. D:

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

Awesome -- on both counts!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Thanks--I kept meaning to post this! It's going up today.

[missnanna.livejournal.com]

Awesome! I was going to ask if you'd seen the update and then I saw you included it. Lovely.