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[cleolinda]

I fell into the bottomless pit that is TV Tropes again yesterday afternoon, and came across this and... well, it made my entire day. Apparently there are a (very small) handful of m15m mentions sprinkled across the site--probably because pointing out abused/overused tropes is a large part of what I do in the parody things. It still makes me giggle every time I find one.

One More Time: Britney returns to MTV VMAs. I hear that, despite all official denials, she will actually be performing. Which is why I can't not watch this trainwreck. She'll probably end up doing just fine, though, because you'd have to be an idiot (no, a real, genuine, flatlining idiot) to crap out on national television two years in a row. And more power to her if she can hold it together this time.

(No, I'm not sure why I have a "britney spears" tag, either.)

(Oh hai! Paramore seems to be there! I am pleased.)

Also, word on the street is that some sparkle motion is going to be present tonight. I hope The Hair brought backup.

Entertainment Weekly's VMAs liveblog. I would do one myself, but... I'm just not sufficiently aware of when MTV actually plays the videos What the Kids Today listen to. I'd spend most of the liveblog going, "Here's... someone? I don't know? They are saying things and doing stuff. Hey, that girl there is almost naked."

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[library-of-sex.livejournal.com]

Is the show in L.A.? My sisters and I saw the Paramore lead singer at a burger joint, and she looked pretty low-key. I couldn't begin to say if the other band members were there because I can never remember their faces.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think it's in LA.

[library-of-sex.livejournal.com]

They seem to move the damn show everyy ear so I never know where the hell it's being held. I didn't even know it was on tonight till I saw your entry!

[thyroyalmajesty.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's in LA, a couple of blocks from my apartment. Uuuugh, the traffic this will cause. And I need to go to Target, too! :-(

[bexone.livejournal.com]

MTV doesn't really play videos any more. Originally that was what they started MTV2 for, but now they don't play videos there much either.

...I watch Fuse instead.

[missmp.livejournal.com]

I am watching the preshow, and apparently I have no idea what The Kids Today listen to either. I'm okay with that.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

All I know is that on ONTD, any mention of T.I. doing anything is followed with "remains sexy while doing so." And that I want anyone from "The Hills" shot into the sun on general principle.

(Who is this on an elephant? What THE HELL happened to John Norris?)

[missmp.livejournal.com]

What THE HELL happened to John Norris?

He melted, apparently.

Sigh. I long for the days when Courtney Love showed up trashed to heckle Madonna.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Shit, I long for the day Madonna was voguing while dressed as Marie Antoinette. Those were the days when they knew how it was done.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

"Here's... someone? I don't know? They are saying things and doing stuff. Hey, that girl there is almost naked.

This has never stopped anyone liveblogging the Eurovision song contest. Though usually in that case they add 'Oh, and here's someone pretending to be Dracula doing gypsy dances. Again.'

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

See, but that actually sounds like fun. I've always gotten the impression that NO ONE knows what's going on at Eurovision.

[celticwitch99.livejournal.com]

I'm sure we'll hear about it if the sparklemotion is good...

...I have to check out the (possible trainwreck) new show True Blood on HBO, so I'll pass on the concentrated brain damage of the VMAs. Hope you loaded up on popcorn!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

See, I really want to see "True Blood," but I have OnDemand, so I'm hoping it'll be on there later tonight.

[glass-radical.livejournal.com]

True Blood was pretty good, I'd say. A bit slow, but you'd expect that of a first episode.

[miztic-night.livejournal.com]

i <3 your icon. its great

[celticwitch99.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[batmaz.livejournal.com]

Pretty please may I snag your icon? Because, you know, trufax.

[celticwitch99.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. There's a link to more like it back in the MS recaps, I believe...

...because I'm not that creative!

o_O

[elizardbits.livejournal.com]

Ahaha. I can't believe the VMA's still exist. Oh MTV, you so crazy. As if you've actually played a music video any time in the past 8 years. ALL ABOARD THE FAILBOAT.

Also, that RPATTZ drunkyfan facial gropeage video is terrifying in its wrongness. Poor guy. (At least it wasn't a grabbyhanded squealing TwiMom. *shudder*)

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[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, she was totally going in to kiss him--someone was saying you can hear her say "Pucker up"--but The Hair seems to have warned him in time. I didn't hear it because I was laughing too hard.

(Isn't sad, how much more awesome MTV was when it was like five years old and didn't take itself so seriously?)

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[elizardbits.livejournal.com]

At this point, I am picturing the groper as the Balrog and his hair as Gandalf, bellowing "FLY, YOU FOOL!"

(SRSLY. It's so rubbishy now, I would not watch if the future of the human race depended on it.)

[cleojones.livejournal.com]

ANNND...

Britney choked AGAIN!!

This time, not performing at all.

[t4-flirt.livejournal.com]

Since when does MTV play videos?

[tua-marionetta.livejournal.com]

The Twilight cast should be on in five or six minutes, according to them. Naturally, they mentioned how they "took a bite out of Harry Potter."

I just hope RPattz can use his sparkle to protect himself. God bless that poor boy.

[scornedsaint.livejournal.com]

R Pattz just showed up looking very cute in his suit and also very confused by the microphone, got interrupted by Russel Brand, and then cut off by Paramore.

[thenotoriousso4.livejournal.com]

Omg, did you just see that they cut him off before he could even say anything during the presentation?

And...

[celticwitch99.livejournal.com]

...Twilighters everywhere are having a collective seizure at the lack of srs RPattz. TwitMoms will be picketing outside MTV by tomorrow morning, ya think?

And then...

[thenotoriousso4.livejournal.com]

...maybe MTV will finally understand just how freaking crazy some of these people really are.

"Twilight takes a bite out of Harry Potter" my ass.

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[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I was hoping they would! I fully believe that he paid Russell to interrupt him. Or The Hair paid him.

Re: And...

[celticwitch99.livejournal.com]

I had that same thought myself...

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[thenotoriousso4.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the same. He didn't look at all upset at being interrupted, poor thing.

[greyduck.livejournal.com]

When will I learn NOT to click on links to TV Tropes? WHEN WILL I LEARN?

(Like You Would Really Do It led to Anyone Can Die because I was thinking about how the anime series Mai HiME does a good job with that one, and oh look there's actually a page on TV Tropes for Mai HiME, and oh crap a full list of tropes used in the show, and... where'd the last hour go?)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I once fell in there for seven hours straight. My picture was on the side of a milk carton before a rescue arrived.

[greyduck.livejournal.com]

You know what's really sad? I'm seriously considering pulling a handful of tropes for deliberate subversion in my autumn writing project thing. Hmmm...

I've had worse ideas, it's true.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, I totally use it as cliche research, to make sure I either don't succumb into some common pitfall or so I can put it in and then subvert it.

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

YOU. You with the linking TV Tropes and causing me to get lost in that site for hours on end!

(Did you know they have a Deadpool page? Also a Discworld page? I'm not surprised by this. I just wasn't aware!)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

It's like that videotape from The Ring, man. The only way to get out is to drag someone else in.

(Someone linked me to their Twilight page the other week and I didn't climb back out for four hours. This time I needed something for the annotations, which was almost worse because I was *supposed* to be working.)

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

The only way to get out is to drag someone else in.

This is made funnier by the fact that I totally have several TV Trope links that I plan to post at lunch today. Heh.

BTW, with the several times you've been linked/referenced there, is there a Cleo page? I don't think I saw one (but I'm AFRAID TO REENTER THE PAGE now.)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, I can't imagine I'd be important enough to have one. I or something I've written is mentioned maybe five times total in that whole massive thing.

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

Well I think we need a collection! Send me the links? :)

(Hey, even some of the editors have their own links. And also, it's mostly because *I* want to be able to click-and-find.)

And also, generally anyone who is a "Trope Namer" (i.e. it started with their work) has links.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid to go back in--offhand, it's like, "The Littlest Cancer Patient," mentions under "Like You Would Really Do It," "The Woobie," "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night." I remember the other two because it was like, what random places to get mentioned.

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

It had to be done. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CleolindaJones) *g*

May fancy it up a bit more later. I am still learning the editing process there (I blame Discworld and Deadpool for getting my started editing there - there was a great Vimes example no one had cited yet in Unstoppable Rage, and Deadpool wasn't getting the respect he deserves in Dual Wielding and Katanas Are Just Better. Heh.

[batmaz.livejournal.com]

OMG I CLICKED ON THE CLEOLINDA PROFILE AND AM STUCK

YOU GUYS THIS ISN'T EVEN FUNNY, IT'S STARTING TO SCARE ME THAT I CAN'T LEAVE

IT'S LIKE WIKIPEDIA X A HUNDRED MILLION

I'M THIRSTY AND I NEED THE LOO

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

HURRY SEND A LINK TO SOMEONE ELSE, THAT'S HOW YOU GET OUT, IT'S LIKE "THE RING"

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

I KNOW IT'S DANGEROUS!

Also? Like, 5 minutes after I made the page, someone else added stuff to it. Crazy!

[ms-treesap.livejournal.com]

Slightly off-topic, I found your book in an (British) discount bookshop, and when I took it to the register the American lady talked about how good it was and that she'd bought it on import when it came out (hi if you're reading :D)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, that's awesome. I wonder who she was?