Where did my evening go?

[cleolinda]

Welcome, MSNBC readers! This is the kind of entry I wrote--still do, obviously--before Twilight ate my brain. I also post the occasional movie parody at m15m and put out a book of them overseas a couple of years ago. (Yes, I have promised to write "Twilight in Fifteen Minutes" or die trying.) Feel free to friend the journal, comment or lurk as you please, and enjoy your stay!

(Uh, y'all? I went back and looked at one of my old entries, and... the userpic wasn't mine. I'm not even sure who was in the picture. It seems to have eaten my favorite Reiko Shimizu icon--I think I've heard about this kind of glitch before? I'm just saying... if you see an icon that looks out of the ordinary for my style... that's why. It's a glitch. I don't usually have guys in my icons, for example.)

(It might have been Jackson Rathbone? Even Livejournal glitches know that I write about Twilight? I'm kind of scared now?)

I keep meaning to post variations on this story and forget, so: Ancient Vampire Killing Kit Sells For 15K. (How is the garlic still fresh?) For those of y'all who remember the Black Ribbon novel I'm still working on--man, I would love one of those.

Linkspam!

Teens ease one victim's pain with letters, book.

Exclusive Video Interview with Novelists Joshua Ferris and Matthew Eck.

Which Author Sold The Rights To Her Books To Pay Off A Bad Gambling Debt? [Blind Item Roundup].

Zombies and Unicorns Battle for Literary Supremacy.

Purple Reign or Purple Feign?; Prince Upset About Gay Marriage 'Misquote.'

David Cook album takes heavy, delicate journey; Introducing 'David Cook,' first album from the 'Idol' winner; 'Idol' Cook isn't quite cooking on new album.

I Am...Sasha Fierce: A "Gimmcky Concept [That] Falls Flat" [Critical Mass].

Stephen Colbert on CBS's "The Early Show."

Emma Thompson Graphically Mauled By Stuffed Animal on 'Letterman.'

Vampires, sex make 'Blood' a hit.

GQ 2008 "Men of the Year."

10 contenders for the best picture Oscar; Oscar Brief: Rourke is Great and ‘Australia’ is Long; 15 Documentaries Getting Oscar Consideration; 'Roman Polanski' Snubbed, Werner Herzog Avenged in Early Oscar Jockeying; LA Times Makes Fun of Variety for Losing Oscar Ads They Covet; 2003 Best Picture Oscar: Want a do-over?

Movie Site's Snarky 'Frigid 50' List Topped by ... Heath Ledger. WOW. Again: another good example of Trolling for Traffic.

Images: Ewan & George Are About To Be Blown Away (I think this may be a 'Men Who Stare at Goats' set pic?); DRAGONBALL NEW PICS (THIS IS WORTHY OF CAPSLOCK); Check This Out: Photos From Indie Sci-Fi Flick Hunter 'Prey.'

Trailers and clips: Official Trailer for Rod Lurie's 'Nothing But the Truth'; Clips from 'Milk' released; MTV Scoffs At Scarjo's 'Spirit' Demotion From Surgeon To Secretary.

Huge Sale at WB Harry Potter Shop including Tonner Dolls, Noble Collection and NECA Action Figures.

'Quantum of Solace' Debut US Weekend Total Updated: $67.5 Million; Sony Braces For Life Without James Bond; Gemma Arterton Is Fields... Agent Fields; Discuss: Anonymous Bond. See, the lack of Bond trademarks in the new movies doesn't bother me, because I assume that they're working up to those--they're making the character earn them, since they rebooted the series from "Bond first becomes a 00" up.

Cinematical Screens 'Star Trek' Footage!; ArtsBeat: J. J. Abrams Reveals ‘Trek’ Movie; Trailer Reveals Who’s Hooking Up With Kirk and Why Scotty’s All Wet (screencap analysis); Ten Things You Should Know About 'Star Trek'; Watch This: 'Star Trek' Meets 'Beverly Hills 90210.'

John Travolta's 'Bolt' is next out of the animation pack; Travolta shows up at 'Bolt' premiere, and just about everywhere else.

Josh Schwartz to Write 'X-Men: First Class.'

Red Carpet of 'Australia' World Premiere in Sydney, Australia (Nov 18th); Australia hopes Kidman film spurs tourism.

New Pics from ‘Revolutionary Road’ and Some Early Reviews Roll In.

There’s a Lot of Pressure Being Put on Cruise, MGM and ‘Valkyrie’; Scoop: Tom Cruise laughable in ‘Valkyrie.’ "Sources tell the Scoop that 'Valkyrie' is nowhere near as exciting as a thriller should be, and Tom Cruise’s performance elicits uncomfortable and inappropriate laughs." I have to admit, I giggled through the trailer when I saw it in front of Quantum of Solace. I couldn't even put my finger on why he seemed so wrong for the role--he just was.

Danny Boyle's Mumbai: 'A City In Fast-Forward.'

Spike Jonze Unveils New 'Where the Wild Things' Are Photos; Spike Jonze Relates 'Wild Things' Delays to Bad Case of Gender Confusion.

MOVIE NEWS: 'House of Night'; Could ‘House Of Night’ Be The Next ‘Twilight’?

Amy Adams Talks Suiting Up As Amelia Earhart For ‘Night At The Museum 2.’

John Carpenter Has a Brutal Gangster Film in the Works?

Seth Gordon Organizes 'Death Squad.'

Disney Making 'The World's Most Annoying Man.'

Another 'Nutty Professor' in the Works? *facepalm*

Comments

[syvia.livejournal.com]

I've been told the userpic thing is a glitch. I don't know if that's true or not, but it's been going on for a while. :(

[madeline-may.livejournal.com]

Oh lord oh lord Star Trek oh lord.

Do you think you'll see it?

[padawansguide.livejournal.com]

Something weird is going around - a lot of folks have had an icon replaced. It must be an LJ bug. I just checked and one of mine had too. Don't know what the deal is! Congrats on the MSNBC coverage!

[jedilora.livejournal.com]

The Secret Life girls have nothing to say about the TLC sale?

[kelcea.livejournal.com]

Forgive me, it's not even a Twilight post.

Favourite Twilight quote of the day:
"...In addition to Edward, their make-shift family consists of Carlisle's wife, Esme (Elizabeth Reaser), along with 'kids' Emmett (Kellan Lutz), Alice (Ashley Greene), who can see the future; Renesmee (Nikki Reed), who's no fan of Bella; and Jasper Hale (Jackson Rathbone)."

Yes, that is right, Renesmee. My local free-daily newspaper is obviously getting ahead of itself.

Also, from the same newspaper, I've learned that SMeyer has a cameo halfway through the movie. Have you heard anything else?

I got to play an hour-long edition of Horrify the Twilight Noobs the other day. It involved ice cream by the end. My cousin couldn't grasp how Edward managed to procreate. The look on her face was priceless.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, sweet hopscotching Christ dipped in chocolate, a House of Night movie? So are they going to reveal in the first movie that Zoey's a colossal Mary Sue or are they going to stretch it out for a few movies before they finally can't hold it in any longer?

I mean, I'm hooked on the books, but I also know it's my tragic embarrassing burden to bear. Aw, poor public.

Also, I've been assembling the Twilight soundtrack at work for the past two weeks. Seeing that thing going past me on the belts for two whole shifts is impeding my desire to go even for the LULZ.

[dramedy.livejournal.com]

What's really sad is that I absolutely LOVE a lot of the People in Valkyrie. Eddie Izzard, Bill Nighy and Kenneth Branagh? AWESOME. The fact that the movie looks mediocre and stars one of my least favorite actors ever? SADFACE.

I can't tell if I am going to love or really hate Australia, since Baz always seems to make me love or loathe anything he does (Romeo and Juliet, loathe; Moulin Rouge, LOVE).

[dachelle.livejournal.com]

Help - Twilight has invaded my Google news alerts for Peter Doherty! (http://www.mercurynews.com/celebrities/ci_11017509) Is there nowhere on the Internets I can go that's safe?

I've read this article five times and I still don't understand WTF the writer is on about.

Also, I am getting so excited for the Trek movie. I didn't think I would, since I checked out of Trek fandom sometime around the middle of Voyager, but dammit - Abrams is sucking me back in.

[plazmah.livejournal.com]

When I saw the trailer to Valkyrie I felt there was something off about the movie as well. I think it has to do with seeing Tom Cruise as anything other than an American, I'm not sure.

I had the userpic glitch problem as well, acquired a Dr. Who icon somehow. Just open a new request at LJ Support and they fix it in a few days.

[mercat.livejournal.com]

They really just need to leave classics like The Nutty Professor alone.

Psycho, Rocky Horror... Blech.

[tomatoe18.livejournal.com]

I couldn't even put my finger on why he seemed so wrong for the role--he just was.

I'm thinking, would it kill him to use German accent? This movie will be the Fail of 2009. Or... when is it coming out again?

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

Emma Thompson is awesome. She won me over when she described her naked, piano-defiling sex scene with Jeff Goldblum in THE TALL GUY as "F***ing liberating and loads of fun!" and insisted on naming her lesbian guest character on ELLEN "Emma Thompson" so that people would be confused into thinking she is one in real life!

Heath Ledger: Questioanable timing and taste- though to be fair, he *was* a famously awful interviewee at least over here- single word answers, grumpy moods, deliberate obtuse responses and all..

Dinsey's MOST ANNOYING MAN: It has to star Jack Black, right? Or David Spade? Ricky Gervais? *g*

[gracie-in-greek.livejournal.com]

Sup, sup'cat?

[quitesometime.livejournal.com]

(Uh, y'all? I went back and looked at one of my old entries, and... the userpic wasn't mine. I'm not even sure who was in the picture. It seems to have eaten my favorite Reiko Shimizu icon--I think I've heard about this kind of glitch before? I'm just saying... if you see an icon that looks out of the ordinary for my style... that's why. It's a glitch. I don't usually have guys in my icons, for example.)

This happened to me! D:

[winter]

The userpic thing is a problem with the way userpics are cached - a telling thing would be that some people would see the correct userpic, and others the changed one. Go open a Support request with the URL to the userpic in question, someone will give the server a kick force a cache-flush so that you see the right one again.

[backfromspace.livejournal.com]

first!


...wait, no.


(p.s. hi cleo!!! long time no see!)

[lunylucy.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, the DBZ pics. I've never wanted to see a bad movie so much XDDDD When is it coming out again?

Also, I don't know if you're over the premiere by now, but I finally made a picspam post (http://lunylucy.livejournal.com/187205.html) of my pictures from last night! :D

[sorchar.livejournal.com]

Should we make cookies for the new people?

[mad-hatter14.livejournal.com]

Hi! First time poster, long time reader. I just thought you should that there's a review of Twilight (http://www.aintitcool.com/node/39154) on Ain't It Cool News. I think a fan wrote it, though--there doesn't seem to be that much criticism in the review. Enjoy!

[goonie-freak.livejournal.com]

Wait would that Nutty Professor be a live action movie? Because I work at blockbuster and a cartoon Nutty Professor just came in today...

Ugh I don't understand Hollywood sometimes...


AND if they are making all teen books into movies... they should look into the Vampire Academy Series by Richelle Mead... at least the main character in that series has gumption!

[schneefloeckli.livejournal.com]

The user icon thing happened to me too a while ago. I submitted a support ticket and LJ fixed it.

[delurker.livejournal.com]

I keep meaning to post variations on this story and forget, so: Ancient Vampire Killing Kit Sells For 15K. (How is the garlic still fresh?)
Apparently it's because the kit is a total fake (http://sanctumdorktorum.blogspot.com/2008/10/vampire-hunting-for-fun-and-profit.html). (While still being totally awesome, of course.)

[eponine-b.livejournal.com]

See, the lack of Bond trademarks in the new movies doesn't bother me, because I assume that they're working up to those--they're making the character earn them, since they rebooted the series from "Bond first becomes a 00" up.

One of my friends said that the lack of "Bond" bothered him and that was pretty much the argument I put forward for it. I mean, he's just starting out - he needs to work up to the cool stuff!

[soulforophelia.livejournal.com]

I had that same problem with my Jacksper icons. It came up as an army 'yes we can' type of icon. Very strange. Thing is, when I went to delete it my icon numbers dropped by two instead of one. Very odd.

[mogumogu.livejournal.com]

Re Dragonball: I cannot believe they're spending money to make that. Then again, it looks goofy enough to be the old Dragonball and not the SUPAHARDCORERAAAR DBZ.


I started watching TrueBlood with the Chinese subtitles. Wow, with the way this was advertised, I thought it was going to be some sleek urban gothic affair. It takes so long to load an ep, though, it's a pain in the butt when I get to the end of what's loaded and have to wait a few minutes for the next few lines. Oh, and I'm sick of orgasm faces and wild almost-porno, even though a certain doofus does have nice hips.