Another sunny day

[cleolinda]

Did not go swimming again, as I felt a little sun-sensitive from spending so much time outside yesterday. Have a few mosquito bites on my arm that I keep scratching in my sleep, leading to prolonged swelling and itchitude despite cortisone cream. Also discovered that the ice cream in the freezer downstairs was almost completely melted but still delicious, which suggests that the freezer may be borked. Which will probably cost us more money. Still feeling pretty good anyway.

Jean Delannoy, French Director, Dies.

Hundreds swept up in mortgage fraud arrests.

Dems, GOP agree to surveillance bill. It's so hard to pick a party to vote for when they both suck.

Former 'spam King' Must Pay MySpace $6 Million.

The Story of Robert Cox, World's Most Important Blogger [Media Bloggers Association].

UK Writers and Publishers Consider Strike Against Amazon.

Happy Birthday To You's complex, sordid copyright history.

"Why r der wurds up der, moma?" "Iz caled a capshun. U get used to dem"; Catapult: $50. He suspects nothing: priceless; souls. i eets them. AHHHHHH.

Top 30 WTF Moments From 'Lost.' Past-episode spoilers, obviously.

AMPAS Sets New Rules for Oscar's Original Song: "First, while there continues to be no limit on the number of songs from a given film that can be submitted for consideration, no more than two songs from any one film may be nominated for an Academy Award." Which means that we will no longer have to endure chokeholds on the category from musicals or Disney movies.

'Iron Man' Gets to $300 Million First.

Robert Downey Jr. & More Get Walk of Fame Stars: "Joining Downey Jr. on the cinematic side of things is Tinkerbell (presumably due to the new movies coming out), Tim Burton, Leslie Caron, Cameron Diaz, Charles Durning, Ralph Fiennes, Hugh Jackman, Sir Ben Kingsley, and William H. Macy. You know that it's a tough accolade to capture when you can become knighted before receiving a star."

Will Smith set to be the undisputed #1 movie star in the world ever.

'X Files,' Reitmans and Other Convenient Tips For L.A. Film Festival Hell.

YouTube Spotlights Indie Films.

Images: New Mummy poster, trailer will run in front of 'Wanted'; Exclusive Look at the 'Mirrors' Poster; 'Blood Car' Poster! And How About Those Gas Prices, Eh? Blood Car may be one of the best movie titles I have ever heard. It is up there with Snakes on a Plane in terms of pure, shameless truth-in-advertising.

Trailers and clips: New Extended and Restricted 'Wanted' Clips (I wonder if it's possible to watch the entire movie if you put all the clips posted over the last month into the right order); Preview of 'Presto', the Short Airing Before 'WALL-E'; Must Watch: 'The Wackness' Red Band Trailer. I feel bad about this, because I keep hearing that The Wackness is supposed to be good, but the dumb title plus CONSTANTLY HEARING ABOUT HOW AWESOME IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE has already got me never, ever wanting to see it. Ever.

Wanted's McAvoy Bulked Up; Universal Has 'Wanted' Sequel Already in Development; The Explosive "Wanted" Shootout You Will Never Get To See [Morning Spoilers]. Warning: I'm not terribly familiar with the plot (I tend not to read spoilers or watch clips if it's a movie I actually want to see), beyond "dweeb becomes awesome, and also, Angelina Jolie is hot" and it sounds like I kind of just got spoiled as to who the villain is. Oops.

Prince Caspian - The Biggest UK Film Premiere Ever; Ben Barnes Answers Your Questions.

Why Baz Luhrman's 'Australia' Needs to Be Oscar-Worthy.

Megan Fox reveals ‘Transformers 2′ script re-writes, make-out scenes; Bay to Fox: "Just Look Hot."

George Lucas NOT Directing 'Red Tails.'

The Hulk That Almost Was -- Aaron Sims' Concept Art.

Steve Coogan is One Sexy Jesus!

'Bruno': Sacha Baron Cohen Pic to Bow Next May.

The Love Guru Is Going to Be the Worst Movie of the Summer (Exhibit A: Its Rotten Tomatoes rating has actually gone down over the course of the day from 15% to 11%; by comparison, The Happening is holding strong at 19%); Roger Ebert dings it with one star (and he liked The Happening); Review: ‘The Love Guru’ a cinematic bed of nails. I am begging you, people: I will not be taking one for the team on this one. Save yourselves.

Clive Barker Says: Save My 'Midnight Meat Train'! Only if you'll run it in a double feature with Blood Car.

Comments

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Did you check the freezer temperature gauge (where you set how cold it should be)? My friend Mike had a refrigerator that he assured me was broken, and I "fixed" it just by turning the knob to the right setting.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I don't know why it would have changed, but Mom cranked it up as high as it would go just to see what would happen. We're waiting to see if it gets any colder or not.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Well, like in Mike's case, if you own an air conditioner or refrigerator for long enough, there's a chance that refrigerant can leak over time, and whatever setting it was on would not keep it as cool. Also, I guess someone could have just bumped the knob/switch with their hand or something.

[barrelgoddess.livejournal.com]

Ben Barnes Answers Your Questions

Except for the ones I really want to ask, none of which would have been suitable for answering on-air. >.>;;;

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I'm horribly tempted to take one for the team and see The Love Guru at this point, just because I miss movie popcorn THAT MUCH.

(Also, I still have The Hottie And The Nottie and I Know Who Killed Me on my hard drive for mocking purposes. Clearly I can tolerate anything.)

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

I watch the Power Rangers movie, Sailor Moon R and Krull all the time. AND I ENJOY THEM.

I only wish I had enough money to go and see The Love Guru. That kind of glorious pain is somehow more visceral when it's thirty feet high and shared with strangers.

[jaded-lady.livejournal.com]

I Know Who Killed Me is CINEMATIC MAGIC, I TELL YOU. I'm so glad I paid $8.50 to watch Lindsey Lohan strip (badly) and then have all of her appendages sawed off. AWESOME.

[lunylucy.livejournal.com]

I wonder what's worse: "Love Guru" or "Zohan".

I don't intend to find out.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

From what I've heard, "Zohan" is pretty funny, actually. Not exactly the smartest movie ever made and not the funniest movie either, but not horrible.

"Love Guru," on the other hand ... I've yet to hear a single complimentary thing about it.

[jaded-lady.livejournal.com]

I got a Mummy preview when I went to see The Hulk - but we got there late because my boyfriend was dithering (he HATES previews and does not understand why I obsessively must be there to SEE ALL OF THEM - actually, precious few people that I know actually enjoy previews - let alone look forward to them) so I didn't see all of it, but what I did see was pretty cool looking.

& the love guru? It's like ... everything I hate in a movie, with the added bonus of Jessica Alba pretending that she is funny. She is not.

[eleigh.livejournal.com]

I love movie previews and one of the reasons I hate going with other people is because no one ever wants to get there early enough to sit through all the previews.

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

Hey, I love the previews and get profoundly disappointed if I miss any of them...

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

Is it odd that I love Ben Barnes more because his first thought was to link Springfield to the Simpsons?

[barrelgoddess.livejournal.com]

Ben Barnes love is never odd.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

By the way, there's a lot of fun to be had in the Making Light comment section on the "Media Bloggers Association" post. Teresa is in there with her sleeves rolled up, throwing incendiaries.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Eeeeee! Who showed up to pick a fight, the guy himself?

[kvschwartz.livejournal.com]

Didn't John Wayne and Cary Grant star in movies that made over $100 million? Oh, right -- INFLATION. So I guess current movies stars really are the best of all time.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it'd be fun to have them adjust the numbers and watch Shirley Temple pwn them all.

[kth524.livejournal.com]

Ahaha Midnight Meat Train. Our band went to NYC this March and we got to see Young Frankenstein. And then Roger Bart, who plays Dr. Frankenstein, came out and talked to us because his niece was in the band, which is how we got the tickets in the first place. And then he was talking about what he was doing other than the show and he was like, "I'm in a new movie that sounds like a porno, it's called Midnight Meat Train." It was probably one of the funniest moments of my life.

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

Roger Bart is so freakin' awesome.

[stepliana.livejournal.com]

I just got back from seeing Wanted, and I cannot BELIEVE they cut the scene described in that link. Not that the ending isn't satisfying.. I just really, really, would have loved to have seen that.

[to-no-avail.livejournal.com]

Must say, I love me some Steve Coogan. I watch Night at the Museum just for him. ^.^

[t4-flirt.livejournal.com]

am catching up on the f-list this morning; had to comment on your choice of song. Kylie FTW!

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

I saw the Mummy trailer in front of Hulk - it actually looked pretty fun (I'm a sucker for the idea of those pottery soldiers coming to life).

I will never, EVER go see Love Guru. Even watching the trailer pained me. That and the Adam Sandler hairdresser movie make me wince.

[batmaz.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I couldn't concentrate on the rest of the post because I just found the word itchitude so awesome that I got overexcited. Lmao.

And ehm, people in the movie industry need to stop dying. It's making me sad.