*flop*

[cleolinda]

Fairly productive day--a long slow slog, but I kept on keepin' on. I mean, my eyelid's started twitching again, but what're you gonna do.

Today's journal flashback: Van Helsing in Fifteen Minutes, because that's pretty much what started everything. And, you know, Halloween and stuff. Speaking of which, I have something fun planned for tomorrow, if I can get it all to work.

Meanwhile, the dogs went crazy yesterday evening while everyone thought someone else was watching them and they tore a large strip of wallpaper off near the kitchen window. Which means that if we can't match the wallpaper (we probably can't), we'll have to re-paper the entire kitchen. You know, because we have the money or the fortitude to deal with that right now. Also, they ATE THE WALLPAPER, WHAT THE HELL. So now we're going to have to get a second crate (they're too big to both fit in the old one) and crate them during the day because I can't watch them and get work done, which hurts my heart but guess what? It's not like we can let them run around and destroy the house, either--they've already acquired a taste for magazines as it is. Fnarr.

Total change of subject: can anyone recommend a good, free music player/program for my computer that is NOT iTunes? Yahoo Jukebox has decided to suck hosewater since they killed Y! Unlimited and tried to send everyone over to Rhapsody, WHICH IS NOT FREE, leaving the player a shell of what it once was. Seriously, it ate all my playlists and now it's acting like my music library is empty, and even after I load all my thousands of mp3s again it does it again the next day, and now it's all like, "Reload what? You don't have anything." I mean, if I click on a specific mp3 file in Windows Explorer, it opens just fine. It's just that everything that makes a player convenient to use, like PLAYLISTS and A LIBRARY, is gone. And I really liked Yahoo Jukebox, is what pisses me off. I downloaded Media Monkey and it seems okay, except for me now having to learn the finer points of a new program and all--oh, and the fact that I can't figure out how to make the equalizer DO anything, and I'm used to my music sounding a certain way, FIX IT NOWWWW. *stamps feet*

ETA: Ah, okay. Apparently what I want is the "Rock" preset, and then move the scary DOOMP DOOMP slider down to -10?

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Chris Nolan Talks 'Justice League' and More 'Batman 3.'

Christian Bale Playing Dr. Strange? There is a footnote I did for "The Prestige in Fifteen Minutes," and it begins, "All your big-budget leading man roles? Christian Bale is going to get them. All of them. They’re his, and you can’t have them. He is going to play every famous character he can think of, and then he will make up some more just to be sure." And I wrote that three weeks ago.

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Comments

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Pandora?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Pandora's a player? For some reason I thought it was just an internet radio thing.

[cacopheny.livejournal.com]

I'm a huge fan of winamp, myself. I don't use iTunes at all, don't even have it on my computer. Winamp has always been free when I've downloaded it.

I don't think you can download or purchase music with it, though, just listen to it. But you can make playlists and things, and I find it very easy to use.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm mostly concerned with playlists and easy browsing.

[editornia.livejournal.com]

Do your dogs think they're CATS? 'Cause destroying the house, running wild, and developing tres weird tastes is *so* a cat thing...

[visceralvamp.livejournal.com]

Not going to lie, I would not have an issue with Christian Bale playing all my leading men. At all.

I harbor the dim hope that someday he'll return to his Newsies roots and do another musical.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised he hasn't kneecapped Hugh Jackman yet to get the Cleopatra musical away from him.

[jubileslie.livejournal.com]

I use and love Songbird (http://www.getsongbird.com/). It's still in beta, but it's pretty stable, and getting better with each release.

Relevant to your interests...

[mustang-bex1126.livejournal.com]

Lets just say, when I saw it, I uttered "Oh SNAP!" loudly enough to startle my dogs.

http://www.onesentence.org/stories/2584/

Re: Relevant to your interests...

[visceralvamp.livejournal.com]

oh NO.

-_____-

[sapphires13.livejournal.com]

I only use iTunes for loading/organizing my iPod because it's a necessity to do so.

I've actually found Windows Media Player to be much easier and better to use (providing you actually go and download the new version and aren't trying to use some dinosaur version of the program.) The library and playlists are really easily organizable.

[jharrison19.livejournal.com]

soo, that rpattz interview must have been done earlier, cause i cant imagine anyone still being fine with twihards and being sane at the same time. at least now it looks like he's making an effort to look unattractive, but damn, try as he might, that boy is still fine.
have you seen the rome film festival footage? their wirework makes me sad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTGSjoEPUfc

[siromygod.livejournal.com]

Beat me to it! I won't be able to watch this movie without laughing in all the wrong places. Oh help me God, I've already agreed to go on opening weekend though.

[gwynnywonk.livejournal.com]

Those set pics from the Holmes movie both worry me and make me want to see more. Why is Holmes wearing that jacket? And that hat? THIS IS NOT MY HOLMES.

I hope RDJ can make it convincing. He's done good british characters in the past.

[oh-so-sparkly.livejournal.com]

MediaMonkey, hands down. Easily the most customizable and useful music library out there. The auto-tag functions are of great use to those of us with obscenely large music collections. Actually, everything under the Tools menu is your best friend. (And check out this MediaMonkey fanboy for useful features: http://trixmoto.net/mm/scripts.php?id=1)

This is an "is your computer plugged in, ma'am?" sort of question, but...did you check "enable equalizer"? And yes, everything after that is pinpointing the settings you want with the sliders.

[chorusgirl.livejournal.com]

Pandora! Pandora pandora pandora!

[impextoo.livejournal.com]

With all your linkspam to Gawker media sites, I'm surprised you haven't run across/read the 5 best media players (http://lifehacker.com/397135/five-best-desktop-media-players) on Lifehacker.

[la-petite-singe.livejournal.com]

I was just listening to "Dracula's Lament" from Forgetting Sarah Marshall! "AND IF I SEE VAN HELSING, I SWEAR THAT I WILL SLAY HIM!" Hee.

I'm starting to get sick of iTunes myself--that Genius thing is bugging me.

[robinmc.livejournal.com]

Winamp, all the way.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Roger Ebert is the awesomest.

OH YEAH! I was watching last week's True Blood, and I noticed that it was written by Alexander Woo, and I used to know him! I worked crew on the world premiere of a play he wrote, right around the time he was also working on the late, great show Wonderfalls. He's a really cool guy. At this point, I'm watching the show for him and because of your recaps.

[mokeyhokey.livejournal.com]

New Book Reveals How Comic-Con Destroyed One Man's Life.

It's wildly disturbing how everything is starting to tie back to Twilight in my head, but when I read this I immediately thought, "Isn't it a bit premature to write a biography for Rpattz already?"

*facepalm*

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Someone was telling me that there's already unauthorized (gasp!) biographies of him out on the Twilight display shelves.

[jharrison19.livejournal.com]

ben lyons sucks on at the movies. i sorely miss ebert.

i just carved an obama pumpkin and now my hands smell like obama pumpkin. yum.

[freyalorelei.livejournal.com]

...Okay, at first I read that as "Christian Bale to play Jonathan Strange," and thought, "Huh, you know, that could actually work." (And I'm not even a fan. Of Christian Bale, that is.)

[greedyskunk.livejournal.com]

Oh, if they ever make a movie of that book I will be so excited...provided they do it right. Christian Bale would be excellent as Jonathan Strange (as he is in every role), but I always pictured the character as someone not so conventionally handsome. Like the guy who played Darcy in the most recent Pride and Prejudice. Or maybe Cillian Murphy.

[thenotoriousso4.livejournal.com]

"Gary Oldman To Fight Denzel Washington After The End Of The World" sounds like a prophesy to me!

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

Morgan Freeman to narrate

[siromygod.livejournal.com]

Has anyone sent you this yet?

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

Holy awkward batman.

[jharrison19.livejournal.com]

stunts = fail. Rpattz= awesome.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

New Book Reveals How Comic-Con Destroyed One Man's Life

Or he, y'know, spent a shitload of money making films using somebody else's characters, tried to parlay them into a professional career, and was shocked, shocked when the copyright holders exercised their legal rights. As they periodically do.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

And seems to be bouncing back now! Needs moar existential despair.

[neveth.livejournal.com]

I can't believe nobody's plugged foobar (http://www.foobar2000.org/) yet! It's a small-memory-footprint, tabbed playlist music player! There's a crapload of add-ons to have like, rated songs or all that, but once I switched to foobar I never switched back. (After using foobar for a year I tried to go back to Winamp and moving between playlists in winamp was so complicated comparatively I have never looked at Winamp again.

[sugarcages.livejournal.com]

I'd just like to know what the heck Ginny's doing wandering in the marshes at nighttime with nothing but a robe on.

[everstar3.livejournal.com]

She watched the Keira Knightley Pride and Prejudice.

[elendiari22.livejournal.com]

You know, High School Musical 3 was shot here in Salt Lake, and one of my friend's brothers was in that shower scene as an extra. Even at the time, we were all going "WTF?"

[manasseh.livejournal.com]

The reaction at ONTD over the HSM3 shower scene was truly a marvel to behold.

That said, I have to wonder whose idea that scene was in the first place. They had to know there was no way Disney would okay it.

[syneblue.livejournal.com]

Have you not considered just painting the kitchen? Sure, painting is no day at Disneyland, but it's better than wallpapering, and you wouldn't really be able to tell if you primed the walls first.