Narrrrgh

[cleolinda]

You know, it's really productive to have a gigantic head/jawache from stress right when you need to work on something that would earn some money and thereby alleviate the source of the stress.

So... let's go to another happy jewelry place! I bring you--via elisa0984--georgianjewelry.com. (Favorite pieces: the man in the moon earrings; the moonstone double heart ring; the moonstone heart pendant; the scalloped piqué hoops; the pearl heart pendant; the French locket. But then, I think I'm a sucker for the sun/moon/stars motif in general. And also, moonstones.)

Linkspam!

Christina Applegate Cancer-Free After Double Mastectomy.

I play well with others. Others, not you.

Turns out Satan likes parties. Just... not the kind you'd think.

All Hail the Fail Whale!

Five terrible fake Jane Austen novels. I don't know, I'd read Punk and Punctuality.

The Best Scifi Book Covers Of All Time — And Space.

How Mad Can a Scientist Get? [Review]

Summer 2008: Our Monsteriest Season Yet.

Bigfoot claim a fake, enthusiast says; Researcher: Bigfoot 'discovery' just a rubber gorilla suit.

An Original Viral Marketing Tactic: Excellence.

Bono cranks new U2 tunes, fan steals them.

90210 to critics: Drop dead! Critic to 90210: Game on!

Why Dollhouse's Original Pilot Will Make A Better Second Episode.

'Veronica Mars' movie mission?

How Well Do You Know Your Movie-Poster Fonts? Surprisingly well, actually.

Disney Princesses The Way Frank Miller Likes Em. This is, I am sorry, one of the best things ever. Snow White in particular will kick your childhood like a puppy.

Images: Early Teaser Posters for Baz Luhrmann's 'Australia'; Exclusive: Check Out The New Poster For Simon Pegg’s ‘How To Lose Friends & Alienate People’; A Life Misunderestimated - New W. Posters Discovered; New 'Whore' movie poster (after we save Ray Stevenson from 'The Punisher,' I vote we swing by in the roflcopter and rescue Lena Headey from this one as well).

Trailers and clips: Short New TV Spot for Guy Ritchie's 'RocknRolla'; 'Secret Life of Bees' Trailer Finally Gets to the Bottom of Bees; 'Book of Lies' Trailer; Get Revved Up with Six Clips from 'Death Race'; Check Out This 'Monsters vs. Aliens' Trailer, While You Can; Exclusive: Watch The ‘Juno’ Gang Get Spoofed In ‘Disaster Movie.’ Because MTV hates you.

It's Twilight Tuesday! Jackson "That Guy Playing Jasper" Rathbone explains what the hell was going on with his hair in the first publicity shot. You're going to laugh, but this is something I genuinely wanted to know, because it was a hideous Helmet o' Hair, and I was even more shocked when I saw what he actually looks like (really cute! WITH DARK HAIR). Why did they hire all these dark-headed actors (that's Peter Facinelli in the back of that first shot!) and blond them up? Badly?

Meanwhile: More Twilight wank! The ETA is priceless, by the way: "TwiMoms send white chess pieces to EW to get them to change their review for BD from a D." Way to get Entertainment Weekly to report how crazy you are, you guys. Because that's all I really see happening--like hell they're going to change a review grade. Also: Pattinson and Stewart interview at Borders site.

Potter Fans Petition Against Release Delay ("HAI U GUYS WE CAN ALSO DO PETITIONS, WE ARE ORIGINAL FLAVA CRAZY"); Debunking the Myths Surrounding the Harry Potter Date Change ("MYTH #4: Sending a petition to Warner Bros. demanding they reverse their decision will yield any results whatsoever"); J. K. Rowling Wins Mythopoeic Society Award; Named Among 50 Best-Loved British Authors.

Lawsuit Won't Stop The Watchmen; The 'Watchmen' Studio Blood Feud: How Bad Is It?; Get Knee Deep in 'Watchmen' Legal Papers; 'Watchmen' DVD May Be Even Longer Than 3 Hours. Huzzah!

High On 'Dark Knight,' Warners Contemplates Next Steps For McBoringface Superman.

Writing Begins for 'The Hobbit' Films. The second one, as you will recall, is going to cover the events between The Hobbit and LOTR--reconstructed from Tolkien's other writings, I guess.

Coen Brothers Already Finshed Casting 'A Serious Man.'

Who The Wild Things Are: The Monsters, The Voices, The Actors.

Selick: 'Coraline' Near Wrap.

Darth Vader Slays The Wookiees In Force Unleashed Concept Art.

Tom Cruise and Sam Raimi Working Together on 'Sleeper'?; Has Tom Cruise Found His Comic Book Movie? There's something hilarious to me about Tom Cruise playing a superhero. I mean... he can't be a superhero, he's already Tom Cruise!

'RocknRolla' Gets Early Praise - Guy Ritchie Confirms Sequels.

F. Gary Gray Helming 'Julius.'

Russell Crowe to Play Bill Hicks?

Mr. T and Bill Hader Join 'Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.'

Bill Maher's Oscar-Bait 'Religulous' Currently (and Quietly) Screening in a Suburb Near You.

Demi Moore's Daughter Rumer Stars in Mom's Directorial Debut.

'Whip It!' Recreating the Magical Coupling of Fallon and Barrymore. Five bucks says the strains of Devo will be featured in the trailer.

Rachel Taylor…Not In ‘Transformers 2,’ And Proud Of It.

Dean Cain is a 'Maneater.'

Love-Hewitt: 'I Wish I'd Spent My Youth Nude.' Um... thanks for informing us?

Vin Diesel Directing 20 Min 'Fast and Furious' Prequel; Vin Diesel Beats Up Everyone In Science Fiction.

Snowden and White Penning 'Poltergeist' Remake. You know, given the famous Poltergeist curse, I'm going to be surprised if anyone actually wants to star in this.

Comments

[cleojones.livejournal.com]

REMAKING POLTERGEIST??!!

GTF off my classic movies, Hollywood!!!

[glenvorian.livejournal.com]

I am going to pull an Andy Bernard and put a hole through the wall over that.

[glenvorian.livejournal.com]

God, I saw a commercial for the 90210 and wanted to throw up. Leave it alone!

[kirsdarke.livejournal.com]

'Veronica Mars' movie mission?
I swear, if this happens, I will never complain about the cancellation again.

Well...I'll try.

[cleojones.livejournal.com]

And...uhh why is Mulan not Miho?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heh, I was wondering that myself. Maybe because she's not a "princess" per se?

[marginaliana]

Re: Fake Jane Austen novels - I feel like "Rash and Rationality" is a Torchwood Jack/Ianto fanfic waiting to happen.

[rorqual.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's...totally perfect! :)

[sound-of-bells.livejournal.com]

Oh man, when I read that about Tom Cruise I initially read it (for some bizarre reason) as Tom Hanks, and I cannot convey to you the utterly bemused horror I experienced for a moment there. And then I actually read the headline and it became simply hilarious... oy.

[kl1138.livejournal.com]

:sigh: Hugh Jackman. Can't wait for Australia!

ooh shiny

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

where do you find all these fabulous jewelry store sites?

drools.

Re: ooh shiny

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I'm googling for a specific piece or era; sometimes people bring me links. : )

[flamingtoilet.livejournal.com]

Disney Sin City is so brilliant.

And I would bet that Miller would approve.

[oldfeatheryhat.livejournal.com]

They're making Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs into a movie? With Mr. T and a Playboy bunny? About a science experiment? Dude, my entire childhood just went up in flames, right there. Head for the hills, folks, nothing is safe anymore!

[roxieluvs.livejournal.com]

Thats EXACTLY what i thought. How could they ever catch the wonder of that book in a movie? ooh, I'm pissed, fo sho.

[saramiskismet.livejournal.com]

I am embarrassed to be in the Twilight fandom.

I'm only here for the uncanon fic and the snark, but these bitches be fuckin' crazy. Where is the dignity?

TOM CRUISE SHOULD PLAY XENU FOR A PROMO FILM.
And the internet would meme it 3 seconds before it existed.

[eldritchdragon.livejournal.com]

Cleo,

Since I know how much you like costumes and Victoriana, I thought I'd share a link to a book on Victorian dress patterns that I picked up during a family outing to Washington Irving's house. I know you've been having money troubles lately, so you might consider borrowing it through your library even though it's pretty reasonable through Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Authentic-Victorian-Fashion-Patterns-Complete/dp/0486407217/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1219200750&sr=11-1

I thought you might find it useful for your research. :)

- Laura (a werelurker)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oooo, pretty. I will definitely put that on my list.

(Hee, werelurker.)

[elsajeni.livejournal.com]

I will tell the embarrassing truth: I would probably read Beast and Bestiality.

[greenfairyels.livejournal.com]

You'd have to read it, out of sheer curiousity - and lots of giggles!

[wildthyme.livejournal.com]

The Twilight Movie Hair Watch amuses me to no end. This movie has it all! Bad dialogue! Boring plot! HILARIOUS HAIR!

I'm also really, really glad both of those earrings are currently sold out because my self-control is running seriously thin.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the newest picture? It's going in tomorrow's linkspam:

http://gallery.filmofilia.com/gallery/Twilight/image/2/

[leiabelle.livejournal.com]

Hee, the Fail Whale -- though cute -- has nothing on Ravelry.com's LOLBob:



(Bob the dog belongs to Jess and Casey, the owners of Ravelry.)

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

I need that locket. It's...I need it. I don't even having anything to put in it. But...it's so pretty and...WHY IS IT SO EXPENSIVE? *cries*

[tabbyclaw.livejournal.com]

Your icon is brilliant! *<3s Manny*

[nymphy.livejournal.com]

XD Did anyone else notice how many times Rpatts and Kristen flipped their hair back? It's was like a wave of hair-flipping...

*dies laughing*

[sapphires13.livejournal.com]

I LOVE that the U2 leak is getting media attention. Bono knew full well what would happen. I swear, he does it on purpose, blasting the music from his villa, which is just up from a public beach. This also happened in 2004 before their last album was released, as well as some demos in 2006.

I'm actually a member of the fansite where the files were leaked and are being distributed, and a few months ago I helped distribute a low quality recording made by a friend who visited their Dublin studio. But I haven't listened to the new leaked clips, because I want to have some surprises when the new album comes out.

[sweet-pessimism.livejournal.com]

Twilight fan woos man with the last name of Cullen and eventually marries him. (http://www.twilightguy.com/2008/06/17/twilightguys-report-mr-and-mrs-cullen/)

You saw this, right? Because if you didn't, you MUST.

[labonnefille.livejournal.com]

Oh for CRYING out loud.

I hope "posted anonymously" means "fat load of crap."

[tenebris.livejournal.com]

*GLEE OVER FAIL WHALE LINK* \o/

...sorry, but that article actually does describe me: even when Twitter went down, I was all, "Happy Flying Whale, yay!" And a t-shirt is on my list, if only to eventually wear to class and scare my students.

Though as others have pointed out, it is a little funny that the birds are all facing different directions...

Re: Rachel Taylor, I...didn't think she was eye candy. I thought she was more of a sop to diversity. But ya know, whatever floats ya boat, darlin'.

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

They're remaking NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET and SUSPIRIA and POLTERGEIST. At this point they might as well just go for broke and remake CASABLANCA, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and ET as well...

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

They did Casablanca as a television series. With David Soul.

[melpemone.livejournal.com]

Ya know, most casting choices make my head hurt and I have to be convinced, but weirdly, I think Russell Crowe would make a perfect Bill Hicks. It makes a kind of glorious sense. Wow, I really hope it's true now.

[discogravy.livejournal.com]

It is understood he is considering playing the main role of Hicks — a controversial and brilliant American comedian who battled drug and alcohol abuse before dying from cancer at 32. Crowe confirmed Nottingham would not go ahead until March next year because director Sir Ridley Scott wanted the leaves on the trees in England's Sherwood Forest to be the right colour.

He what drug and alcohol?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCf2fJsBxRc



That said, Crowe's probably the only potato-faced actor that would be able to do justice to Hicks.

[iamshadow.livejournal.com]

It's a BAD couple of weeks to be a famous black guy in America. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_en_ot/obit_leroi_moore;_ylt=Ag5H8fJo.__TC96XolbI9mqs0NUE)

[drapette.livejournal.com]

I live in Minneapolis, where "A Serious Man" is filming, and I just found out that I'm going to be an extra in it! I'm crazy excited! And the scene that I'm in is a small, contained one in a classroom - so I'll almost certainly get to ACTUALLY LOOK AT THE COEN BROTHERS. WITH MY OWN EYEBALLS.

[kirsdarke.livejournal.com]

That is so awesome!