*flop*

[cleolinda]

Number of times I walked Pete, who I was dogsitting: 6.

Number of things I got done today: ZERO.

It's amazing how not getting anything done can leave you so tired. Either that, or it's the fact that I was up all night with an upset stomach. (Oh, that.)

Hmm. Today's flashback omg help I am running out of entries: Let's go with the post I wrote on Melville's Pierre, a book so bad that critics at the time actually told him to stop writing. ("And then I find out that that's not even the incest the professor was talking about.")

All right: easily skippable Twi-spam. Most of it I wrote last night, which is why there's a difference in enthusiasm between this section and the one below. Again: being up all night sick will do that to you.

TOUR OF TERROR '08! It's like, "You know, Comic-Con was not traumatic enough. Let's take this shit on the road!" God, I hope they get hazard pay for this. Also: Everyone calm down, there WILL be sparkling; Aww! Dying Edward flashback pic!; RPattz!Edward was nearly given long hair, which I think we all know would have ended in tears and a mullet; Hi-res versions of all the new pics from OutNow, including a new-new one of the cafeteria where the other Cullens have different clothes and food, but Edward is EVEN MORE EMO; ‘Twilight’ run time is longer than expected; trading cards! Oh, shit, y'all, I have complete sets of trading cards like those from each of the LOTR movies,* because I am a sucker for cards--trading cards, tarot cards, illustrated playing cards, whatever. I bought complete sets of the LOTR cards off eBay for like $10 each, one set each year, and the sellers even put them in nifty little plastic boxes for me. I never had any of the ones with fabric samples from the costumes, though--

Twelve cards featuring pieces of the costumes worn on screen during the movie.

* T-shirt worn by Robert Pattinson as Edward

OH, CREEPY. At least if I'd gotten a card with Galadriel fabric on it, even if it had been worn in the movie, it would have been, like, one of 50,000 yards of cloth in those gowns. Not like... that. Also: the Edward T-shirt cards will go for three digits on eBay, I promise you. Maybe four, who knows ("It touched him! IT TOUCHED HIIIIIIM"). You think I'm exaggerating, but I also predicted the Twihard outcry the moment the Russell Brand thing happened. I didn't spend seven years in the Harry Potter fandom without learning a little something about crazy, you guys.

* Look at it this way--if I had been journaling here during the height of the LOTR movies, that is all you ever would have heard about. Twilight is not really an isolated phenomenon in that sense.


I think there's still more linkspam flagged in the Reader, what with the weekend backlog. I just ran out of giddyup.

Guillaume Depardieu, Son of Gérard, Dead at 37.

Amazing Holocaust love story lives on.

Bollywood star Bachchan hospitalized.

Korea's Internet Suicide Pandemic [Sad Things].

Krugman Wins Economics Nobel.

Was 'Lightness of Being' author an informant?

TSA screener ripped off hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of electronics from passengers, TSA itself didn't notice.

"Take On Me," the literal version ("Piiiiiipe wreeeeeench fiiiiiight!").

XKCD strip explains how DRM creates piracy.

Elvis Costello to Damage His Legacy With Fall Out Boy?

Robert Smith Has The Cure For Your Sunday Blues. Oh... wow. That is not a man who has aged well.

Monkeys Form Dangerous But Adorable Alliance With Tigers [Awww!].

NOM.

Awesome High-Speed Photography.

'Nash Bridges' Show Was Hunter S. Thompson's Idea.

David Tennant to stay in Who til 2011?

Would You Let These People Into Your League of Evil? [Doctor Horrible]

Tim Robbins gets star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Starlets Look Boldly Awful At Hollywood Life Style Awards.

Cosmo Elects Johnny Depp Sexiest Man in the World; Vanessa Paradis Opens Up About Her Romance with Johnny Depp. "What's also natural: Women's desire to mob Depp, 45. In fact, Paradis feels it herself. 'I understand. I want to mob him all the time, I do,' she says. 'He's a very charming person.' " AWWWWW.

'Chihuahua' sits, stays at No. 1. O snap, Body of Lies.

Images: Paul Bettany as Darwin on the set of 'Creation'; 'Australia' Poster: It's 'Gone with the Wind' Meets 'The Other Sister'; Two New French Posters for Soderbergh's 'Che' Double Feature; Ben Kingsley on the 'Prince of Persia' Set; First Look: Jean Claude Van Damme in 'Full Love'; Japanese 'Street Fighter' Poster, Site.

Trailers and clips: Trailer for 'The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond'; 'Transporter 3' Trailer Features Bunnies and Teddy Bears?; A New Clip From 'Punisher: War Zone'; Oliver Stone Talks 'W.' with Bill Maher; Must Watch: Officially Badass 'JCVD' Trailer.

20 Minutes Of 'Quantum of Solace' Previewed; Roger Moore Prefers Bond Villains To 007, Daniel Craig says Bond girls stand up for themselves; New Bond girl comes from humble beginnings; Marc Forster: Creating His Own James Bond; James Bond Puts The Pressure On Marc Forster ("If I make a film that isn't as good as 'Casino Royale', it's going to be a failure." YEAH, PRETTY MUCH, SO YOU MIGHT WANT TO GET ON THAT); Upcoming 'Quantum of Solace' TV Specials.

Kristen Bell Reacts To Harley Quinn ‘Batman 3′ Fan Art; Fan Made: 'Dark Knight' Meets 'Toy Story.'

Sherlock Holmes set pictures now with Jude Law/Watson; Here's Dr. Watson on the Sherlock Holmes Set, Too; See RDJ and Jude Law as Fictional Sleuths; more RDJ. I... I am slowly warming up to this. Also, Jude Law's mustache is perfectly Watson, I will give them that.

J.J. To Show Us All What His Trek Is Made Of In November.

David Fincher's 'Rendezvous with Rama' Officially Dead.

Mark Wahlberg Concerned Aronofsky's 'The Fighter' Might Not Happen; Wahlberg On 'The Lovely Bones' And Peter Jackson.

‘So It Goes:’ Guillermo Del Toro Discusses His New Take On Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Slaughterhouse-Five.’

Ridley Scott's Return to Sci-Fi is Actually 'The Forever War.' So... not 'Brave New World'?

Frank Darabont No Longer A ‘Law Abiding Citizen’?

Carla Gugino Set for 'Every Day.'

Sarah Connor's Son Dekker To Play Aspiring Singer In 'Fame' Remake?

Plot Details Revealed for Cameron Crowe's Wacky Romantic Comedy.

Is This The Performance That Will Win Mickey Rourke An Oscar? ['The Wrestler']

How Older, White Critics Have Missed the Boat on 'Rachel Getting Married.'

Dakota Fanning A Diva From Hell, Claims Her Latest Director.

The Horde Makes Mobster Zombie Pie And Feast III Details [Cult Scifi Worship]; Wall Street Zombies To Invade Manhattan?; Zombies attend the 'Quarantine' premiere.

Mel Gibson Ditches 'Lethal Weapon 5,' Leaves it Dead in the Water. Oh, thank God.

Comments

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

The Twilight-madness makes me want to go to the tour stops (even though I have absolutely no interest in anything Twilight other than your LJ entries) just to add a little sanity to the venues. I hate it when crazy people make fandom look bad.

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

’Ello, wot’s this — Holmes in ’Er Majesty’s carriage? Interesting.

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

Oh, also, here's your daily serving of WTF: http://io9.com/5062231/omg-robo-unicorn

[flamingtoilet.livejournal.com]

I can't wait for the recap of this week's True Blood.

I like this show, and the wife and I were still riffing on it so hard.

[oldfeatheryhat.livejournal.com]

ohmigoodness icon love. So many wonderfully atrocious lines from that movie.

[padawansguide.livejournal.com]

I feel for RPattz, I do! Oh, and funnily enough, the first thing my husband said when I made him watch the Twilight trailer is "Why aren't they sparkling?" :-)

That Holocaust love story was something!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, and funnily enough, the first thing my husband said when I made him watch the Twilight trailer is "Why aren't they sparkling?"

Heeeeeee.

(So The Duchess was good? Or... just the costumes?)

[robinmc.livejournal.com]

First: yay Paul Krugman!

Second: Ok, I've read the Guillermo del Toro interview twice, and I cannot for the life of me figure out what he is saying. I don't know whether to be excited or scared by this. Right now I'm leaning toward scared. Please don't ruin Slaughterhouse-Five.

[thefireisblack.livejournal.com]

Mel Gibson Ditches 'Lethal Weapon 5,' Leaves it Dead in the Water. Oh, thank God.

My mother is going to be so disappointed. She loves those movies.

[soccerharry.livejournal.com]

The flashback pic is amazing. Mainly because it doesn't make the movie seem entirely about dazzlegasms.

[msmcknittington.livejournal.com]

Ditto. I would be ten times more excited about this movie if it were just about the flu pandemic. It doesn't even necessarily have to have vampires in it. Just cut all the vampire stuff and the Bella stuff and the baseball, and we'll call it good.

So, not this movie at all, really.

Dear Santa, for Christmas I would like to see RPattz in a costume drama. WITH AMAZING COSTUMES. RPattz doesn't even need to be in it. Just AMAZING COSTUMES. I can't see him in a bustle dress, anyway.

[r0ck3tsci3ntist.livejournal.com]

Wow, Victoria and James look so cool! Why did the most interesting characters have to show up in, like, the last one hundred pages, just to die?

[celticangel76.livejournal.com]

Ok so how do we find out when and where they'll be on this tour thingy? RPatz is coming to Dallas. I must go. And get pics and something signed. Not because I want it but because it's likely to make zillions on ebay. Hey - I got plane tickets to Helsinki to buy folks!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I'll hear as soon as more info becomes available--I have the Twilight Lexicon RSS feed on.

[poinsley.livejournal.com]

That "Take on Me" video was fabulous!

[schmoo999.livejournal.com]

The Horde Makes Mobster Zombie Pie And Feast III Details [Cult Scifi Worship];

Hmmmm....

[profbutters.livejournal.com]

[EDIT: sorry, same post. Different userpic.]
"Tears and a mullet". . . I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read that, although it perked up a really, really, really crappy day. (Can you say "exterminator returns?")

Also, bleh on the T-shirt thing. It sounds to me like a pin-up queen selling used stockings online.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah... and it's not even like it was his idea or anything. I fear for him and whichever of the guy(s) it was whose pants they also used for the cards. That's not going to end well at all.

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

I can't believe they're making us wait until the movie comes out until they show us the sparkling.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hey, I don't blame them at all. You gotta build up to shit like that. You can't just show the uninitiated in a two-minute clip; they'd fall over and die laughing.

[tabbyclaw.livejournal.com]

I would so let Picklejar join my evil organization if I had one.

[sonneta.livejournal.com]

The Vampire Baseball pics are like a horror-movie version of Field of Dreams with zombies. (In other words, LOL makeup artists?!)

[siromygod.livejournal.com]

And hair dressers. Don't forget the hair. Just awful. The baseball caps seem to sit way high because there's too much hair.

[diddakoi.livejournal.com]

re-commenting here because I don't know if you read comments on old entries -- did you ever finish recapping Venus in Boston? Because that was crack. (In a good way.)

[bya-san.livejournal.com]

Number of things I got done today: ZERO.

You think YOU had it bad? I decided to ignore your warnings about TV Tropes today, and you can imagine how much I got done today.

(I'm not sure if I should love you or hate you for indirectly introducing me to that site, by the way.)

[tabbyclaw.livejournal.com]

...I just saw the endtag on the "there WILL be sparkling" article, saying that they're optioning the "Last Apprentice" series (incorrectly labelled in the article as "Spook's Apprentice) for film. I would like ot be the first to register my giant shiny DO NOT WANT.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. Poor Guillaume. I remember watching stuff with him in it and even had a picture of him in my journal back from when he was younger. Doesn't sound like his personal life was too pleasant. Poor guy.

And AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!! WHAT HAPPENED TO PAUL BETTANY'S HEAD!?!?!

[jharrison19.livejournal.com]

wow, rdj is looking, like... FINE. weirdest hollywood transformation EVER.

[greedyskunk.livejournal.com]

Dude, RDJ has always looked fine to me. Even his cracked out, so-high-I-should-be-dead mug shots...OK, maybe not those. It must be the twinkle in his eye and his wtf randomness is charming.

[abbreviated-kt.livejournal.com]

Dakota Fanning kind of scares me. I'm not surprised to find out she's a raging cunt.

[kosher-jenny.livejournal.com]

Hey, Sherlock Downey Jr. cleans up pretty good! I am liking the waistcoats, although the photo of him in his Thinkin' Pose in the cab cracked me up. Jude Law looks great too.

Do you know that Discovery is doing a show that is all about high speed photography? Seriously, I think each episode they're just going to pick things out of a hat (popping a balloon! Punching a guy!) and then photograph them. I'm not sure if it's started airing yet or not. Man, between this show and Smash Lab I'm starting to think that they're just breaking off pieces of Mythbusters and creating shows around them. Next up, a show about crash test dummies!

[greedyskunk.livejournal.com]

Wasn't there a Saturday morning cartoon about crash test dummies?

[msilverstar]

Paradis feels it herself. 'I understand. I want to mob him all the time' cracked me up! I'm glad she's sympathetic towards us fangirls.

[mysticowl.livejournal.com]

I just went to wikipedia and apparently, Guillaume Depardieu played Pierre in the French film based on the novel (Pola X). Did you know this when you linked back to the entry or is it one of those slightly freaky coincidences?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

... oh, weird. No, I had no idea.

[thelovely2.livejournal.com]

I literally went "wow" after I read that Holocaust love story. If you live in Israel like me you hear more of those than you might like to, and eventually it might give you nightmares, but this one warmed my heart. Thanks :)
Again, fantastic linkspam! Also, to think that Twilight CARDS (GOD) are already being announced and pushed forward is kinda ridiculous... I mean, CARDS? GOD.