Better late than never, I always say

[cleolinda]

I changed up the sidebar a little bit. Let's see if you can tell what I added. *cough*

(Memes aside, I have just felt so sluggish today. Fnarr.)

HEY WAIT I ALMOST FORGOT. YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS, IT IS EPIC. Seriously, it is so awesome this entry can barely contain the awesomosity of it. SOMEONE ACTUALLY PUT THAT ON THE BACK OF THEIR TRUCK, YOU GUYS.

Linkspam!

Pink Floyd architect Richard Wright dies at age 65; Remembering Pink Floyd's Richard Wright.

David Foster Wallace: 1962-2008; Still Waiting For The Jest.

For Roth, death delivers the ultimate 'Indignation.'

Philippa Gregory's 'Queen' rules with intrigue. Oh dude! I totally have to get this! (I always like to think of Gregory's books as "romance novels for uppity people." You are only reading them for the historical fiction angle, yes. Totally.)

ALL SHALL LOVE DIANE DUANE, BUY HER BOOKS, AND DESPAIR.

Is 'All Known Metal Bands' a work of plagiarism?

The Killers' New Album Out In Late November.

The Google Armada Is Coming.

io9 Talks To John Noble About Playing Science Fiction's Weirdest New Character.

The New 'Prisoner' Will Be Retro, Gentle.

12 Weakest Deaths In Science Fiction History. Spoilers, obviously.

Is This Really The New Batman And Robin? Hey, I didn't even know Neil Gaiman was doing Batman!

The 26 Most Disturbing Kid Movies Ever. So of course, I love half of them.

Kilmer Tipped To Become New Mexico Governor. Wait, what? Current governor Bill Richardson: "I like the idea. Val Kilmer is a New Mexican, he was Batman."

Toronto Review: J.T. Petty's 'The Burrowers'; Toronto Review: Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel's 'Deadgirl'; 10 SF&F Films That Wowed Toronto; Toronto Film Fest: Rourke wrestles with success; These Toronto festival finds are bound for USA.

'Slumdog Millionaire' hits it big with audience award.

Images: 'Smother' Poster Too Artistic For a Dax Shepard Comedy; 'Repo! The Genetic Opera' Pics (you had me with the title, and then you lost me with the Paris Hilton pic).

Clips and trailers: Seven Minutes of 'The Day the Earth Stood Still'; Sneak Peek: Check Out Michael Cera’s ‘Nick And Norah’s Infinite Playlist’; Exclusive Clip: 'Battle in Seattle'; 'Torchwood' Clip Sneaked; 'Four Christmases' Trailer is Pukable; 'Smother' trailer doesn't sound much better.

JKR/WB vs RDR Books Trial: An Appeal to be Filed.

Pepsi Man Jack White Lashes Out at 'Quantum' Theme in Coke Commercial; Alicia Keys Sounds Off on ‘Quantum’ Song, Says She Wants To Be A Bond Girl; Swatch Launches 007 Villains Watch Collection. I'm now imagining Le Chiffre wearing that pink Swatch watch I had in fifth grade.

How Billy Idol And Lance Henriksen Were Nearly James Cameron’s Terminators. I would have watched a movie with a Billy Idol T-1000 SO MANY TIMES.

'Iron Man 2' and '3' Details as Longoria is Rumored as Wasp in 'Avengers.'

Colin Firth Says Coen Brothers Film ‘Gambit’ Not Happening.

‘Twilight’ Star Kellan Lutz Says Stephenie Meyer Should Take Her Time With ‘Midnight Sun’ ("Yeah, take your time, bro. Rupert's still on the first one"); Nearly 1,000 Twilight fans swarm into Forks for Stephenie Meyer Day (which is also Bella Swan's birthday, which--if they were celebrating it correctly--they ought to be ignoring entirely); YOU GUYS THERE'S A TWILIGHT CONVENTION; "You hate Stephenie Meyer, so I hope you miscarry."

A Visit to the Set of 'Coraline.'

Fiennes + Pike To Replace Bettany + Connelly In Darwin Biopic. Whoa, that was quick.

And Two by Two They Came, for Darren Aronofsky.

DJ Caruso Wants to Shoot 'Y: The Last Man' Next Year.

Hirsute, Howl, and James Franco.

Jessica Biel, Catherine Keener Praise Director David O. Russell, Decide Not To Punch Him.

Ben Affleck to Write, Direct and Star in 'The Town.'

Ehren Kruger Adapting 'God Is a Bullet.'

Andy Tennant is 'Chasing Harry Winston.'

Vin Diesel is Back in 'xXx: The Return of Xander Cage.' Was it the first 'xXx' that had the immortal line, "Bitches, come!"? Factoids like this taking up space in my head is the reason I can't add numbers in my head anymore, by the way.

Comments

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

I changed up the sidebar a little bit. Let's see if you can tell what I added. *cough*
Was HEY YOU GUYS I WROTE A BOOK there before? Thanks for the handy link!

[peloquyn.livejournal.com]

I'll second that notion, I hadn't seen it before! And I'm observant and stuff. ;)

[bibliotech.livejournal.com]

I'm reading The Queen's Fool right now. Her books are like CRACK. Pure, historical (mostly) CRACK.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

And that's the good one. The Other Boleyn Girl was, before Twilight, the book I was most ashamed of reading like five times.

[misachan.livejournal.com]

DJ Caruso Wants to Shoot 'Y: The Last Man' Next Year.

I just want you to know that I first read this as David Caruso and spent a minute wondering what in the HELL they were doing to Y.

[glass-radical.livejournal.com]

Fiennes + Pike To Replace Bettany + Connelly In Darwin Biopic.

Why does the world hate Paul Bettany? Fail.

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

Well, he already did a pseudo-Darwin in Master and Commander. Maybe that filled his quota.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Syd Barrett and Richard Wright. Damn. Okay.

What kind of Faustian pact did Keith Richards sign to survive this long? Not that I don't love me some Keith, but I'm beginning to think he's stumbled onto the formula that turned his body into some kind of psychochemical wonderland incapable of dying. Just so long as he's very picky about who he shares it with, it's all good.

[bienegold.livejournal.com]

It's my theory that he's already mummified, so he can't die.

[latenightcuppa.livejournal.com]

YOU WROTE A BOOK. THAT IS AMAZING.

In other news, while speaking of Harry Potter and lawsuits, here's (http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/sep/16/harrypotter.harrypotter) something that you might be amused by.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, I wrote it three years ago and it never came out on my own continent. That makes it a little less amazing.

[azzinita.livejournal.com]

Kilmer Tipped To Become New Mexico Governor.

Seriously? Seriously? Bill, you had BETTER be joking. Because, we really hate that guy. He's kind of a tool.

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

WATERSHIP DOWN IS TERRIFYING. I was never able to make it through the Secret of NIMH when I was young. I own a copy and everything, and each time I couldn't get past the Great Owl. I still haven't watched it and I'm 21. And Dumbo! Dumbo was so sad. I still feel awful thinking of Dumbo and his mama.

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

This is so weird. There are all these UCF people coming out of the woodwork because of that truck. The internet is small.

[sinkalicious.livejournal.com]

Re: The invasion of Forks article "Stephenie Meyer Day, named after the author of the four-novel series, kicked off with breakfast at the Congregational Church, just across from Forks High School — where mortal Isabella Swan met her vampire boyfriend, Edward Cullen — and ended with a bonfire in LaPush."

DO PEOPLE NOT REALIZE IT'S NOT REAL???????

OR IS REALITY TOO MUCH TO ASK OF TWILIGHT FANS???

/chagrined

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

"Chagrin" has stopped looking like a word lately.

[incogra.livejournal.com]

The black rabbit from Watership Down still haunts my dreams. And the wolf from The Neverending Story! And everything in Labyrinth (although I could appreciate that one on a different level once I hit puberty). I loved them all the more because they freaked me out, though.

I need to read The Secret of NIMH again.

[sarilizard.livejournal.com]

They really don't make movies for kids these days that are half as freaky as they were back in the 70's and 80's. I think there is going to be a whole generation of less interesting (although far less warped) adults.

[casirafics.livejournal.com]

Your comment about editing the sidebar came up on my friendslist right after Neil's blog, and this line:

"He'll return to an improved feed and a tweaked sidebar...."




We're on to you. ;)

[shoiryu.livejournal.com]

YOU ARE SO NOT THE ONLY PERSON WHO'S GOING TO FIND THAT EPIC AND YOU KNOW IT!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT YOU TODAY! *clings*

[aliaspiral.livejournal.com]

omg, the creepy movies. The Neverending Story, Willy Wonka, Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal..these are the movies i still watch over and over, but YES OMG CREEPY.

im not sure how Return to Oz missed the list, though. Or there was this one movie that freaked me the fuck out as a kid..The Peanut Butter Principle? maybe? or The Peanut Butter Solution? All i can remember is its about a kid who put this weird gunk on his hair and his hair grew and grew and grew and then he's laying there unconcious on a bed under all this hair, and someone is cutting it and making PAINTBRUSHES out of it and WHY DOES THIS STILL FREAK ME OUT AAAAAHHH.

Was it the first 'xXx' that had the immortal line, "Bitches, come!"?
it is. and i cried laughing.

[grammargirl.livejournal.com]

The Peanut Butter Solution!!

OMG, that movie scared the CRAP out of me as a kid and I have never been able to find anyone else who'd ever seen it, let alone been scared by it. I was starting to think I'd hallucinated the whole thing.

[theburningdoll.livejournal.com]

Dude, Pinocchio so needs to be on that list of disturbing kids films. The scene with the donkeys? Honest-to-god scarred me for life. Like, I still get freaked out thinking about it.

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

Indeed! He's crying for his mother and then goes all "hee-haaw!" chilling. Uncle Walt was in a baaad mood that day *g*

[saint-kat.livejournal.com]

I was somewhat curious about 'Repo! The Genetic Opera' after reading the TV Tropes entry (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RepoTheGeneticOpera) about it (That site has got me hooked already, by the way) and after looking at one of the teasers on the official website (the one where Paris looks like a dominatrix...which, to be honest, she doesn't look half bad despite my usual contempt of her), I wanted to see it for myself (even if it means waiting for the DVD to come out early next year).

[bienegold.livejournal.com]

I think it sounds cool, but between Sarah Brightman and Paris, there's no way I'm going near it.

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

12 WEAKEST SCI-FI DEATHS: Right there with them on Cyclops in X3. It killed the film for me- Phoenix saga is hollow without him. And that's not just my huge raging Marsden love talking *g*

SCARY KIDS MOVIES: Word on WATERSHIP DOWN. The scene with the cat freaked me out- "Can you run? I think not" and General Woundwort was f***ed up. What? No PEANUT BUTTER SOLUTION, Disney's PINNOCHIO or DARBY O' GILL AND THE LITTLE PEOPLE?!

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

Totally right about Cyclops- I get that Wolverine is the main character of the trilogy and I'm a pathetic Hugh Jackman fangirl, but you have to Cyclops there, if only to lead the X-Men, because Wolverine is totally wrong for it and Halle Berry doesn't have the presence. But X3 in general was a total clusterfuck and I like to pretend it never happened.

[prncssaurora.livejournal.com]

Oh sweet Moses. I think we are going to need to make a HasTheTwilightConventionDestroyedTheWorldYet (http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/) website.

[celticwitch99.livejournal.com]

Ahh, you needed to be around at the beginning...

...because in the beginning, there were days of argument already over where to hold the damn thing. Seattle/Port Angeles/Forks?

Or Houston?

Or Phoenix?

Or Chicago?

Or New York?

No, no I really have no idea WTH.

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

Nooo, not friggin' Alicia Keys as 355! (They meant 355, right? Because 711 is totally not a main role, and her whole storyline tops my list of "most likely to be cut" bits of the comic.)

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

I know! They did mean 355 for Alicia Keys, but I was totally confused at the mention of 711 too because I wasn't expecting her to be in the movie at all. And I was surprised at the author's surprise that Dr. Mann would be in it. That...was a question? WTF.

355 is totally more Angela Bassett, but I think she's too old for the role now? Maybe Sonja Sohn?

[christwise.livejournal.com]

Um. Have you seen this (http://headtripcomics.comicgenesis.com/d/20080915.html) yet?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I keep trying but Firefox won't let me see the images!

[delle.livejournal.com]

Crow had never been to Forks before, but she hopes to return.

"I would move here if I could," she said.

Oh, god, please NO. We've already got more than our share of Californians non-Pacific Northwesterners here that think it's so beautiful so they move and drive up the housing prices and then discover that we weren't joking: it DOES rain 9 months out of the year. Esp. in Forks, which is right by the Olympic Rain Forest.

[celticwitch99.livejournal.com]

But...but...there's srsly nothing to do in Forks...didn't they pay attention while they were up there staking out the woods for vampires?

Good grief.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

DJ Caruso Wants to Shoot 'Y: The Last Man' Next Year.
Whoa, 711's going to be in it? Huh, I would have thought that whole storyline would be cut, given its...mature content and psychoanalysis. No one wants that in a comic book movie!

[sarilizard.livejournal.com]

Love your Spaced icon. Just thought I would let you know.

[quitesometime.livejournal.com]

LOL THE COMMENT ON THE PHILIPPA GREGORY PAGE




and omg why did she put another book out i don't have the money right now D:

[hypocriticalme.livejournal.com]

I hated that Cyclops died so early in X-Men 3. Yeah, it was shocking, and I liked that the writers had the gall to go through with it, but why couldn't they have done it later on? Where it'd be more traumatic and plot-worthy? I ended up spending the rest of the movie thinking, "He's going to pop up somewhere, nobody dies early on for no good reason without coming back." Not to mention that if they were going to deprive female viewers of one more handsome man they could've at least replaced him with someone else. Like Gambit. (But then there' the dilemma of him being in the Origins: Wolverine movie and since he and Rogue canonically try to get their freak on this would not work because in the X-Men trilogy he would be an older man. Woe.)

Fievel Goes West and Thumbelina were pretty creepy children's movies, but I have to admit the children's movie that scared the most shit out of me was Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland. Can't help but love 'em, though.

I've only just started reading "Y: The Last Man", and LaBeouf seems an odd choice for Yorick, but ever since Ledger's Joker performance I can never question an actor's ability to adapt. Here's hoping.

You know, for fans of Twilight to seem rational and call it "just a book" but then go into such vehement insults and slanders (or, as was pointed out, random acts of violence, WHAT) just... speaks even worse about them, IMO. I feel... I feel compelled to write SMeyer a letter of... of complaint. YES, I SHALL DO THIS. If I get a response, I hope I get some lulz out of it.

[sugarcages.livejournal.com]

I like the change in your layout. It is subtle, but beautiful, and has a quality of timeless elegance about it.

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

Oh, crap. I commented and LJ ate it. Gah. Um...

I believe part of it was:

JKR/WB vs RDR Books Trial: An Appeal to be Filed.

SHOCKING. Heh.