*twitch*

[cleolinda]

Just a little bit of linkspam, because I am tired and my eyelid is still jumping and it looks like it's going to be good for me to take an entire weekend off (no, the recap for last week's True Blood is still not ready):

Why was Terrence Howard booted from 'Iron Man 2'? "Hollywood insiders believe the exit stems from Terrence Howard's difficult behavior on the set of Iron Man. But those with intimate knowledge of the situation suggest a far more dramatic backstory: Howard was the first actor signed to the film and, on top of that, was the highest-paid. That's right: more than Gwyneth Paltrow. More than Jeff Bridges. More than Robert Downey Jr." I cannot even fathom that. At all.

A little Twilight--and here's why I'm addicted to Twilight (or its fandom, or the general phenomenon, or something), y'all: I was in a terrible mood last night, and then I heard that Edward will have THE SKIN OF A KILLER (NO, BELLA, DON'T TOUCH ME, I AM A MONSTER, WHY JUST LAST WEEK I BROKE EMMETT'S STEREO) and then I laughed and I felt much better. Also: leaks from the soundtrack (I wouldn't feel right just putting the whole thing up a free-for-all download, but... yeah, I do have it, thanks to everyone who offered to send it); Love, Pain and the Vampire Thing at the (unexpectedly snarky) NYT; more TOUR OF TERROR carnage: Pattinson and Hardwicke to appear at the Apple store in Soho tomorrow night. DAMN. There are actual politicians who haven't spent this much time on the road campaigning.

THE GREATEST HALLOWEEN COSTUMES EVER: Heidi Klum OMG and I don't know who this is as Rose McGowan with a gun for a leg from Planet Terror but HOLY SHIT.

I THINK IT'S TIME FOR A POLL

[Poll #1290011]

Comments

[elvensapphire.livejournal.com]

LOL! The sparkly skin of a killer . It's so preposterously funny.

In “Twilight,” slayage isn’t a possibility Sigh. And therein lies its downfall. If there was a possibility of slayage, rather than just sparkles and unicorn cottages of wonder in the forest, I might actually like it more. xD

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

As a Project Runway fan, I'm disappointed there's not an extra ticky box for, "OMG, Christian came as Cruella de Vil!" Or something. HEE.

I finally started reading the Twilight books so I could feel more justified in mocking them. I just got done reading Eclipse and I've never felt better about my abilities as a writer in my LIFE. \o/

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Dude, for real. Every time I feel kind of down, I pick up Twilight and read for half an hour or so and then I feel much better.

[sucrelefey.livejournal.com]

Hedi and Seal are just so into dressing up it's cool.

[urizanegao.livejournal.com]

<3 Heidi and Seal.

[aymaera.livejournal.com]

It is entirely your fault that I am seriously considering reading these books just so I can participate in the trainwreck fandom!

TICKY BOX!

[visionary-gleam.livejournal.com]

Not that I'm encouraging illegal activity, but there are PDFs of the books floating around, if you're interested. *Ahem* Just you know, so you don't support the madness monetarily.

[la-petite-singe.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering if the insurance isn't still really high on Downey and that's why he got less...? I dunno. That whole thing's very shady.

DUDE, that Cherry Darling is excellent! That's certainly making lemonade, isn't it. (And I kind of love "Never Think." I'm scared of my own taste at this point.)

[enid-keaner.livejournal.com]

Probably the insurance factor and the fact that the studio didn't want him and the director had to fight hard for them to cast him

[glass-radical.livejournal.com]

Wow Heidi. As Tim Gunn would say, "Thats alot of look."

[robinmc.livejournal.com]

But the vein that Ms. Meyer’s story taps most obviously is simple, basic fear of sex. Bella is, recognizably, every teenager who is terrified of going all the way, and Edward, less grounded in reality, is a fantasy incarnation of that scared girl’s ideal boyfriend, infinitely — you might say eternally — patient with her trepidation.

Wait...what? Did this NY Times person read the same books I did?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

To be fair, as... aggressive as Bella gets, she does have that freakout on their wedding night. Even if the character isn't afraid of sex, I think the forced chastity of the relationship in general appeals to an audience who might be, or at the very least not ready for sex. I think of it as the Hanson Appeal.

[venice-diaries.livejournal.com]

Considering that I'm "Eris Rising" elsewhere, I had to vote for the bitch goddess.

[hangingfire.livejournal.com]

That Cherry Darling pic looks like it was taken at 2007 San Diego Comic-Con -- in fact, I'm 99% sure it was, judging from the backdrop. Also I remember the scar on her midriff. Someone told me that the lady in question was actually Rose McGowan's stunt double on the film.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it didn't actually look like it was a Halloween setting, but I kind of didn't care because it was SO AWESOME. And it was labeled as a potential Halloween costume in the site, so... well.

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[frogempress.livejournal.com]

I really like RPattz's song. An entire CD of his music? Doubtful. But that song I like, heh.

[redcurrantbasil.livejournal.com]

That Kali is fantastic.It makes me wish I was rich.
Ahahahah.Sparkles the skin of a killer?Also he eats adorable animals,has never had sex ever and spends his time scrapbooking and composing on his piano.OMFG the HORROR!1!!
Awwww I was just in Soho. I would have loved to see that.Apples and Pattinson and Hardwicke would be a disastrously hilarious mix.

Old news Twilight trailer

[nimueailinen.livejournal.com]

I am indeed dead from awesome. This is also awesome, though a little old: http://www.twilightfreak.com/twilight_news.htm
The eight-minute video of Twilight is OMGWTFWIN but also very strange.
Is it just me, or does "Hold on tight, Spider monkey" sound absurdly sexual? I was kind of pulling for a hot makeout thingy in the trees the entire time and it didn't happen and I was SO DISSAPOINTED.
And the random!fog in the house when he's playing the piano gave me great lulz. Bella must also be a vampire at this point, becaus it's all no Bella, no Bella, no Bella, OMGWTF WHERE DID BELLA COME FROM? It's like, she's just randomly there.
And then the clouds move in. Ominously.

Re: Old news Twilight trailer

[skellington7d.livejournal.com]

I can't stop laughing at the goofy expression on Jasper's face.

[luna-k.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's really hard to believe about Terrance Howard. And that totally sucks - he was great in Iron Man.

I don't comment much lately, but I have to say I really love your linkspam.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks. : )

[moogleybacon.livejournal.com]

I saw Mute Math in concert awhile ago--they were the opening band for Matchbox Twenty--and I really like their stuff. It makes me sad to know that from here on out they'll be known as "that band in the Twilight soundtrack".


And that's weird about Terrence Howard, but at least we have a logical reason for it now. I'm not as upset anymore. (Though, I'm still against Don Cheadle. I love that man and everything, but he just doesn't seem right for the part.)

[kismeteve.livejournal.com]

The whole Howard salary thing does make some sense. He's a recent Oscar nominee, Paltrow makes surprisingly less than people expect (lots of smaller, indie films), and Downey probably still has some insurance issues/additional costs. He also probably expected a raise of some sort considering how well the first IM did.

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

Now here is another scary thing about the woman who did Cherry.

That "dimple" on her chest looks like a gunshot wound. Which really makes me wonder how she lost the leg.

[mustang-bex1126.livejournal.com]

I read that she lost her leg to cancer before she was 10- the dimple below her ribs rings true for a feeding tube scar.

[acaciakitty.livejournal.com]

Ugh! You get that awful eye twitch, too? I hate it when I do that. It happens when I get really stressed out and stuff. It makes my whole face tired.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I get it from staring at the computer too long, usually while stressed out about some project. Someone was telling me the last time I mentioned it that B vitamins (B12?) helps it some. I've also heard potassium helps--bananas are a pretty solid source for that.

[laurelt.livejournal.com]

okay, so, Twilight: am I right that the whole point of this series is for middle-aged moms to read a romantic fantasy about what they totally would have had liked to happen to them in high school, and because there's no sex until marriage, they can borrow their daughters' copies to read?

Because my older kid's friends are all swooing over Twilight and I really, really am not all that interested in buying her a copy. "No, here, go watch Season 2 of Heroes, it's better."

[positivelyb.livejournal.com]

If she's interested in vampires and the girls who love them, give her season one of Buffy. At least that one lets girls be strong.

[fleshandfantasy.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure the second woman (machine gun leg) was a booth babe at the San Diego Comicon last year - I spent a good 10 minutes just standing by the booth in awe.
I'd love to see the Craigslist posting for that one.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Klum. GOD DON'T NEED NO MACHINE GUN.

Oh, and Seal must be happy 'cause that means Heidi's good with her hands...

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Oh my God, Heidi Klum. I did not know Kali was a Halloween costume. I'm not sure whether I am offended or something. I didn't know people dressed up as Hindu gods! That is one hardcore-ass get-up, though, shit.

This is TL;DR, but, anyway...

[urizanegao.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link to that article. I enjoyed it.

However, I am disappointed that Mr. Rafferty didn't address the issue of Twimoms at all. I know the series is ostensibly marketed toward teenage girls, but the fact remains that lots of those teenage girls' mothers as just as into the books as their daughters are, if not moreso, and evidently S. Meyer did not write Bella's story (or at least Twilight) with the intention of appealing to 12-20 year old girls. Edward---and consequently the entire story---is Meyer's personal fantasy. The whole thing is, literally, a middle-aged mother's masturbatory dream. It didn't come from Amelia Atwater-Rhodes circa 1998-2004. It came from a woman in her thirties, for her own gratification. Despite the disturbing popularity Twilight's amassed among the adolescent set, the story's being at heart more to do with a woman 20 years older than her "target audience" than anything else is telling and deserves some thought.

Re: This is TL;DR, but, anyway...

[moogleybacon.livejournal.com]

"The whole thing is, literally, a middle-aged mother's masturbatory dream."

I love you for that. So, so much.

[jharrison19.livejournal.com]

OMG YOU HAVE NO IDEA. i was very bad this weekend, and ended up reading the whole leaked script for the movie. now im gonna feel like a douche sitting through it but, w/e. i read that line and literally blurted my choco-milk across the room. i wont give you deets to spoil the surprise of whether or not the script is good... thats all im gonna say
on a sadder note, my dog has been having little seizures the past couple of days (we're taking her to the vet manana) and i all i could think of is pete with the sock, though she's probably just tripping on some backyard weeds

[seamonkey-mags.livejournal.com]

Now that's how you do Halloween, bitches! I have to love Heidi just for the effort she puts into Halloween. Because Halloween is srs business.

NYTimes article

[suzeclues12.livejournal.com]

I can't believe something so silly as this article has just caused me to write my first letter to the NYT!

I'm not even the biggest Twilight fan....(more of a snark fan).

There goes any hope of any future editorship or career in writing (like that was ever going to happen).

Great, and now I sound all Edward-y.

gah!