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Aw, hell. I've been sneezing a lot lately, and then today I came down with these weird alternating hot and cold spells. I don't know that I'm running an actual fever, but it sucks either way. It's probably allergies. But still--I am determined to not go into the month of October without finishing the annotated Fifteen Minutes thing because I HAVE BEEN WORKING ON IT LONG ENOUGH NOW, GOD. I have got to move on with life at some point.

(That's frustration with myself talking there, by the way.)

("Are you feeling guilty? YEAH YOU ARE!")

By the way, I'm recording another--different--podcast on Saturday, which should be fun. General subject: vampires in the media. Doing speaky-speaky stuff like this seems to help my confidence, so I'm going with it. Someday, I may actually bring myself to be sociable in real life, my God!

Linkspam!

Motown writer, producer Norman Whitfield dies; 'Grapevine,' 'War' hitmaker dies at 67.

Midnight hour will usher in Paolini's latest. This Saturday? Huh. Didn't know it was coming out so soon. (The Eragon fandom is going to have to work a lot harder if it wants to catch up with the Twilight fandom. Although, the fact that the Eragon movie came and went without a ripple suggests that it's too late for that.)

What's A Summer Without Harry Potter Look Like? Kind of bleak, if you're the publishing industry.

'Brokeback Mountain' Author Not Interested in Your 'Zombie Jack Twist' Fan Fiction "They constantly send ghastly manuscripts and pornish rewrites of the story to me, expecting me to reply with praise and applause for 'fixing' the story. They certainly don't get the message that if you can't fix it you've got to stand it." See, okay, Fandom Etiquette 101: Don't Send Your Fanfic to the Creator, They Usually Hate That and Also It Creates Legal Liability for Them).

Eoin Colfer to write new Hitchhiker's Guide book.

Vietnamese Science Fiction Authors Band Together.

New Sia video. I would just like to note here that after the Six Feet Under series finale used Sia's "Breathe Me" for the last five minutes, I cried for forty-five minutes. And I'd never even seen that many episodes of the show. I just... YouTube it or something. I can't even go look for it.

Former MTV VJ Dave Holmes On The Demise Of 'TRL', MTV's Current Programming Slate:

Listen, I will watch The Real World/Road Rules Challenge until the day I die. Big, hot dudes with their shirts off yelling at each other and getting drunk? For some reason, that never gets old. Like, I will watch CT take his shirt off and yell at somebody all fucking day. If there was a channel that was just that, I would watch it.

Also: Prince's Swear Jar.

Fox tackles contemporary 'Dwarfs' "Tentatively titled 'Georgia and the Seven Associates,' the hourlong dramedy, produced by ABC Studios, is tonally described as 'The Devil Wears Prada' meets 'Taxi' set in Los Angeles' legal circles"); The Hater: New Fox Show Is Both Everything And Nothing.

It's A Galactic Eclipse! [Space Porn]

Joss Whedon and feminist cookies; Fox still committed to Joss Whedon's 'Dollhouse.'

Watch your back, Grinch: Here comes 'A Colbert Christmas.'

Bette Davis honored with postage stamp.

Alien Table Will Spit Acid And Rip Apart Your Ikea Crap.

Oscar Update: Foreign Language Oscar Potentials Begin Lining Up.

Images: Stone's 'W.' Heads to London as His Cabinet Debuts Online; Final Poster for Bousman's 'Repo! The Genetic Opera'; New 'Quarantine' Pics Show Day Glo Slumber Party From Hell; 'Coraline' Behind-the-Scenes Photos; On the set of 'Whip It'; First Look: 'Frost/Nixon' poster; 'Hounddog' poster Review: Hounddog).

Trailers and clips: Must Watch: Full 'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' Trailer; 'My One and Only' trailer; Second Official Transformers 2 BTS Clip; First Saw V Clip Revealed!; First TV Spot for Adam Sandler's 'Bedtime Stories'; Tomorrow's Number Six Fears No Sand [The Prisoner].

New HBP Photos, Including Luna Outside Gates of Hogwarts; Production on Rupert Grint Film 'Wild Target' Begins Today.

Two New Badass 'Quantum of Solace' TV Spots!; 'Quantum of Solace' - Official Blog Report #26.

Viggo Mortensen Still Waiting For Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Hobbit’ Call. Keep in mind that the second "bridge" film would, in theory, require a lot of Aragorn.

Vaguely related: Why Wasn't 'The Road' at the Festivals? It Isn't Done Yet.)

‘The Duchess’ is all dressed up, nowhere to go.

Knightley Still Waiting On 'My Fair Lady' Confirmation.

Tobey Maguire Getting Well Reimbursed for Pretending to be Superhero "Sony is reportedly ready to pay Tobey Maguire $50 million to shoot Spider-Man 4 and 5 back-to-back, plus grant him mornings and evenings off to spend with his young daughter." DAAAANG, Y'ALL).

Exclusive: Shia to Shoot 'Dark Fields' This Winter; Walking Wounded Shia LaBeouf Gifts Jay Leno With Portion Of Severed Pinkie (DO NOT CLICK UNLESS YOU ARE PREPARED FOR VISUAL EVIDENCE).

Megan Fox Plays Herself in 'How to Lose Friends' but Does She Know It?

I can't be sure what to think of Megan Fox. She obviously knows she is treated as a piece of meat in the industry. She admits to loving comic book films and says, "If I get stuck doing comic-book films for the rest of my life, I'll be really happy... I love those types of movies. And I don't mind being sexy--if it's a character with a backstory and an arc and something progresses."

Does this mean we should expect some major character arc in Transformers 2?

"Transformers 2 is directed by Michael Bay," she says.

Okay, I lol'd.

Nicole Kidman to Star in 'The Eighth Wonder.'

Dunst Produces 'Jealous Ghost.'

‘The Women’ Director Diane English Takes Controversal ‘Fear Of Flying’ To Modern Day. This woman must be stopped.

'Looper' To Twist Time Travel.

What If You Only Had 92 Minutes to Live?

So... it's a whole smörgåsbord over here at the Uwe Boll Slot today:

Nicholas Sparks to Write Novel to be Turned into Movie for Miley Cyrus. I'm always so glad when they basically just come out and go, "Here is a movie that you will not, under any circumstances, want to see. But now you know! Everyone wins!"

'Dragonball' trailer to run in front of 'Max Payne' October 17th. And there they go again! Thanks, guys!

Even Fans Don't Want Dane Cook in Movies Anymore!

Screw "Day the Earth Stood Still" and Watch This! [Ripoffs Of Ripoffs]

Matthew McConaughey Joins Elite Group Of A-Listers Who Couldn't Crack a Six-Figure Opening; The real reason Matthew McConaughey's 'Surfer, Dude' went under.

'Beverly Hills Ninja 2' in the Works.

Keira & Orlando to remake 'Saturday Night Fever'? OH WHATEVER! THOSE WORDS DON'T EVEN MAKE SENSE NEXT TO EACH OTHER!

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I would just like to note here that after the Six Feet Under series finale used Sia's "Breathe Me" for the last five minutes, I cried for forty-five minutes. And I'd never even seen that many episodes of the show. I just... YouTube it or something. I can't even go look for it.
We were just talking about that this morning! A friend of mine finished the series recently.

Does this mean we should expect some major character arc in Transformers 2?

"Transformers 2 is directed by Michael Bay," she says.
Haaaaaa ha ha ha.

Looper is set in a present-day world in which a group of hitmen are sent their victims from the future.
Okay, that...is new. Perhaps hilarious and awesome?

'Beverly Hills Ninja 2' in the Works.
HAVE THEY NO SHAME.

I really think the Keira and Orlando and Saturday Night Fever thing is kind of a joke. Someone wrote it as a joke and people bought into thinking it was serious. I mean, everything about it sounds ridiculous. Perhaps it's part of a study of how viral things are on the Internet, and how the worse/crappiest/most inane stories spread farther and faster? Somewhere, there is an informative, well-thought-out, and fact-based article on the Civil Rights movement that is dying in cyberspace.

Hee, yeah. I truly do not believe that story can be real, or have originated with someone who was being sincere in the telling.

NO MORE SPIDER-MAN MOVIES UNTIL, OH, THEY CAN REVAMP IT COMPLETELY. I like to pretend that there are none after the second one, and it was excellent. (weren't they saying that they were going to cast Patrick Fugit in the next one? Couldn't they have stuck with that? I might've reassessed my thoughts after that.)

I can't wait for Quantum of Solace. I get a bad case of the squees whenever I see the movie poster.

Real life? Are you kidding? There's a GIANT BALL OF FIRE out there, man!

I have also heard very scary things about drop bears.

The piano line from "Breathe Me" was also used in all those President God Morgan Freeman/Visa commercials.

I used to confuse Uwe Boll with Manute Boll. "Why'd that basketball player start making crappy movies?"

This is the second time I've heard about Keira Knightley doing a remake of "My Fair Lady." I had hoped it was just an evil internet joke.

Rex Harrison is probably rolling in his grave.

That's the really annoying bit- if they want a big star for the box office, they can cast a really famous, charismatic guy who can't sing in the Higgins role. With Eliza you need to have someone who can sing. Soprano. Which Keira Knightley has never shown any sign of being capable of, let alone being anything like Julie Andrews or Marni Nixon.

With Eliza you need to have someone who can sing.

As soon as I read that, my thoughts for some reason immediately went to Emmy Rossum, and I flashed back to seeing her in "Phantom of the Opera."

Suddenly, Keira Knightley didn't seem so bad.

Nooo, someone new! And talented! A star is born and all that! Cast famous classy actors as Higgins and Pickering and Mrs. Higgins, get true singing actors for Eliza and Freddy. (If they cut "On the Street Where You Live" I will be SO SAD.)

Oh, I agree, casting new/talented people would be the way to go.

But honestly, I wish they'd just leave it alone. When has remaking a movie ever turned out well?

When has remaking a movie ever turned out well?

The Magnificent Seven? And I admit I kind of liked the Freaky Friday remake, too. *is ashamed* And didn't Hitchcock remake his own The Man Who Knew Too Much? I have no idea which version is better, though. Ocean's Eleven was a remake, too, and it was quite decent.

That said, no, there's no reason for a remake of My Fair Lady, but I've sort of resigned myself to it. At least it's going to be a movie musical with excellent source material, unlike certain others I can name from the recent crop.

Ok, you have me on Freaky Friday and Ocean's 11. But those remakes changed so much from the original movies, that I would call them more of a "re-imagining" than remakes.

I guess I was thinking of Gus Van Sant's ill-advised, shot-for-shot remake of Psycho.

I know they won't do a carbon copy of the original MFL, but how much can they re-imagine it without destroying it?

P.S. When did they remake The Magnificent Seven?

The Magnificent Seven was a...it's probably fairer to say reimagining of Seven Samurai.

Ah, yeah, I knew that, I thought you meant that they had remade the American version.

So I IMDB-ed it, and lo, they did, about ten years ago...as a TV show.

Oy.

okay, what is your icon from?

Arrested Development.

I have several. :-)

They wouldn't *dare* cut out "On The Street Where You Live"! That's Freddy's (aka Jeremy Brett aka Sherlock Holmes) shining moment in the movie, poor laddie!

I just think it's purdy. :)

Once upon a time I had a tape (of the cassette variety) of Jeremy Irons and Kiri Te Kanawa doing My Fair Lady, with much of the dialogue on it too, as I recall. I picked it up at a second hand store. Oh, here it is (http://www.amazon.com/My-Fair-Lady-Kiri-Kanawa/dp/B000OT8XQA/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1221735884&sr=1-10) (Dear God, what is she wearing?). It is quite entertaining and Jeremy Irons can carry an approximate tune, which is a bonus with Higgins. So, that's exactly the kind of casting you need, like you said. Some young thing with an amazing (soprano, not pop) voice and some uppercrust British person who can speak the hell out of Higgins.

Can Knightley do a cockey accent? I think I've only ever heard her use her own more poshish accent. Which isn't even as important as her ability to sing. Unless they got someone for her to lip-synch too, but I think that's considered taboo these days.

NEW HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE WHAT. WHAT. ::flail:: That's a whole stew of mixed feelings, there...

"Eoin Colfer to write new Hitchhiker's Guide book."

I almost spit Crystal Lite ALL OVER my laptop (good thing I didn't: my baby is sensitive these days).

Srsly? I mean...AF was entertaining. But...Hitchhiker's is so massive! I'm not sure it can ever be done. Also, he's basically asking for nasty mail and reviews. People like me will hate anything he comes up with. No matter how awesome it actually is. We're just annoyingly devoted like that.

Basically everything you said.

hear hear!

the sia song from the end of six feet under is gorgeous.

i really wish i hadn't seen the cover of her latest album, because that made me never want to hear anything she ever records. ever.

Oh, I totally agree about 'Breathe Me' in Six Feet Under - and I'd never seen an episode either.

In funnier news, your commentary here:

Keira & Orlando to remake 'Saturday Night Fever'? OH WHATEVER! THOSE WORDS DON'T EVEN MAKE SENSE NEXT TO EACH OTHER!

made me laugh outloud! :D

Wow, no solid block of Twilight linkspam?

The wank has died out and I am a sad fan ]=

MUCH LOLZ ABOUT THE HARRY POTTER EFFECT. Obviously the future of teenager reading habits hinges on JKR's ability to pump out the textual heroin. Otherwise, SWOOSH, there goes literacy and Nerdfighter recruits!

Wow, no solid block of Twilight linkspam?

Give it a day, maybe two. Someone somewhere will start a new petition or tackle an actor or give a fantastically lolarious interview, I'm sure.

Well... Meyer was on Ellen today, supposedly. o.0

Yeah--I didn't see it, but apparently it went without incident and wasn't all that interesting. Plus, no links of anyone commenting on it. : )

i never saw six feet under or any show/movie with breathe me in it, but i've had it forever now, and OH MY GOD it makes me want to cry almost everytime. D: D: D:

WTF EOIN COLFER.

Please step away from the towel. This is not appreciated.

Because what HHG really always needed was fart jokes, I don't think.

Eoin Colfer to write new Hitchhiker's Guide book.

BLASPHEMY.

(No offense to Colfer. That could say Gaiman, Pratchett, Fry, Moffat, Cleese, whomever, and I'd still be howling.)

Colbert's Christmas special: great idea, or greatest idea?

"Transformers 2 is directed by Michael Bay," she says.

Wow, deadpan zinger.

And the rest of it -- you are rocking the linkspam theres days.

I'm torn on the new Hitchhiker's book. On the one hand, blasphemy. On the other hand, I'd like to read more, and it'd have to go pretty far to disappoint me more than Mostly Harmless.

I'll probably read it, if only to know what's got the fans howling with outrage.

Sorry, dropped a word.

I think the real problem with Dane Cook is that he's doing comedies. Most people know him as a comedian, so when they see him in comedies there's this expectation (subconscious or not) that it'll be like watching one of his comedy specials. When it's not, people don't like the movie. They want to see "Dane Cook" funny, not whatever brand of comedy the movie has.

Then again, I've never seen his movies, and I don't even like his brand of comedy. (He yells and shrieks too much. It's like he has to act outrageous to be funny, which seems to be the case to me. A drunken frat boy! That is what I was aiming for. He has a few jokes I've laughed at, but not many.)

OMG, your new Keira icon cracks me up. Her expression is priceless.

I think I need to use my own Crazy Eye icon to express my rage over the new Hitchhiker's Book. WTFBlasphemy!

wait, Anne reads the fanfiction? Again, Legal Liability 101, do not open the package, return to sender with a sticky note, "thanks for your enthusiasm, please buy more of my books".

I know, dude. I was all, "Well, that was your first mistake right there."

I can't help but wonder about that whole, "Fox is behind 'Dollhouse'! Really! Really truly!" And specifically the problem is Joss being held up writing? He doesn't seem to be in such a productive mode lately (having had problems with the Wonder Woman script), so, yeah. I wouldn't be surprised if we got a three-ep-aired countdown to cancellation.

But still--I am determined to not go into the month of October without finishing the annotated Fifteen Minutes thing because I HAVE BEEN WORKING ON IT LONG ENOUGH NOW, GOD.

*sends encouragement. and cookies*

I must commend you on the userpic. Superb.

And also, moar podcasts? YESPLZKTHX

And also, if anybody is interested, National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is starting up again on the 1st October.

And because I can't hyperlink to save my life, it's at http://www.nanowrimo.org if you don't mind an extra second of cut-and-pasting.

October? Did they move it up from November? (Oh God.)

Well, it says on the page that they're locking parts of the site down to delete archives or whatever, and they're reopening on the 1st October. It's a little unclear whether or not the actual novel-writing starts then, or whether it starts in November. I'm kinda hoping October rather November because the earlier in the school year, the less revision will get in the way!

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