Not intended to be the day's full linkspam

[cleolinda]

I think seasonal affective disorder is starting to set in--it's funny, because I go through this every year (by definition, actually), so you'd think I'd have the warning signs down to a science by now. For some reason I'd gotten it down to "January and February are increasingly bad," but I hadn't ever really noticed December. Maybe because December is shiny and full of cake? I don't know. But it's suddenly occurred to me that, in terms of weather, November is cold (well, sometimes down here) but sunny, and December is just crap on a stick. And, as previously discussed, I think I may be a reverse vampire solar-powered.

So I'm not feeling so good right now. The good news is, it's not really an emotional depression; that lifted after I got through my birthday. It's just a sludgy Let's Curl Up on the Couch and Watch DVDs Instead of Doing Fuck-All depression. Which, I mean, that's great, but when you're dumb intrepid enough to try writing for a living, you don't get paid if you don't produce. So I suck, is what I'm saying. Seasonally.

(To digress, a nifty trick I have discovered: if you add your own Livejournal to Google Reader, and then you create a particular tag for it ["livejournal," let's say], you can then search any term in that tag. And the full text of your entries will be included. So basically, you've got your own personal LJ search engine. Hell, you could add anyone else and search them, too. Problem: It won't show any friends-locked or privatized entries. But since the majority of my entries are public anyway, it's extremely useful for tracking down That One Time I Mentioned Something; it took me two seconds, maybe, to find the "I am solar-powered" entry.)

Hmm. Let's have some Twi-spam. I can't believe Twimania's still marching on at this rate (well... actually, I can), but it is, and it's crazier than ever:

BBC Interview Transcript of a Pattinson/Stewart Interview:

Rob: There was actually someone who put little notes on my car - right where I lived – where I was living. Saying like, ”Hi I just want to say that I’m a really normal person, if you’d like to have a drink or whatever, give me a call.” And the next day there’s another one at the same place. It said, “Please don’t ignore me, I swear to God I’m a normal person.” And the next day…“Don’t ignore me again. If you ignore me again, I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE.” What are you even thinking?

WOOOOO CRAZYYYYY. And then there's Kristen Stewart chiming in:

Interviewer: Do they hate you because you get to kiss Rob?

Kristen: Some of them are abundantly clear that they actually want to kill me.

Merry Christmas! Enjoy filming 'New Moon'!

Meanwhile, the ONTD mods are cracking down on the incessant Twilight posts, so helpful members have started posting pic/video dumps instead. Here are two of them.

Taylor Lautner Continues His Campaign To Join ‘Twilight’ Sequel; POLL: How Would You Address The ‘Twilight’ Casting Crisis? With a federal bailout, or perhaps UN aid?

Chris Weitz on getting the 'Twilight' gig: The secret translation.

So MTV did their top ten men and women of the year, right? The top five women were, from five to one, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Britney Spears, and...

MTV News' Woman Of The Year: Twilighters! Send Us Your Video Acceptance Speeches! YOU ARE SHITTING ME. I have never seen such a naked attempt to suck up to a fanbase (and I say this in the same year Entertainment Weekly put out THREE TWILIGHT COVERS and alienated half its subscriber base in doing so). They've just cut out the celebrity middle man and gone straight to the source of power and its kissable, kissable ass. GET OUT, MTV. GET THE FUCK OUT AND DON'T COME BACK.

Okay. I'm over that now.

So, here's something that made mist up a little: the story of 1) where Carter Burwell's composition for "Bella's Lullaby" (or as he prefers to call it, "the love theme," since it doesn't really sound anything like a lullaby) came from (it predates the movie) and 2) the dumbass interference from the studio over a "dissonant" B flat. Because I'm so sure you know better than Carter goddamn Burwell, Studio Guy. And, most importantly, 3) the role the piece played in his own life (make sure you read through to the end). I'll just be over here getting some sparkle out of my eye, it's cool.

THINGS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH TWILIGHT:

All 26 Coraline alphabet posters! (Scroll down for the rest.)

SAG nominations: Who got snubbed?

49 Songs Queue for 2008 Oscar. I have four words for you: "Rock Me, Sexy Jesus."

Eddie Murphy won’t be playing The Riddler; Alan Horn Clears Up Dark Knight Sequel Rumors. Everybody breathe, okay?

Is Baz Luhrmann Actually Going To Make a Great Gatsby Movie? This is Sister Girl's favorite book, Luhrmann. Don't screw this up, or I'm going to get another long, angry phone call from her like the one I got after she saw the Benjamin Button trailer (also based on a Fitzgerald story).

Fuck You, Penguin ("A blog where I tell cute animals what's what").

Oh, and also--the Young Wizards forums have been spiffed up.

Comments

[genmaicha.livejournal.com]

I have Seasonal Affective Disorder, too. It was incredibly bad when I lived in Montana and Minnesota, pretty unnoticeable when I lived in South Texas, but now that I'm in the San Francisco Bay Area, I get some touches of it, mostly because NorCal winter weather is Grey + Rain. And it does sneak up on me, too.

So, uh, yeah, I guess what I'm saying is "boy, it sucks, dunnit?" I bet you've tried things like full spectrum lamps (I have one) and other such things. Hang in there, 'kay?

[dramedy.livejournal.com]

I get more lethargic as the winter months come. It's the lack of sun, the shorter days, and having to deal with my family more often. :/

I keep thinking that the Twihards will stop, at some point, and become less crazy. But it seems they just want to lure me into a false sense of security and then sparkle my eyes out.

I love "Fuck You, Penguin". It's just the burst of anger and cuteness combined that I need to start my day.

[musikologie.livejournal.com]

Okay, maybe it's my music degrees talking for me, but I'd really like to stick my rosewood baton in that studio executive eyes. Young girls won't like dissonance, what the fuck. Have you listened to the Harry Potter theme lately?

Not as funny as what you write, but...

[otterbird.livejournal.com]

... Star Wars translated into lolspeak.

http://slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/lolmovies/starwars/index.htm

I think we've had sun at some point this week here, but I'm not sure. Might have been a dream.

[darksumomo.livejournal.com]

If you get SAD down where you are, you'd never survive living any farther north. Where would you have to move to escape it--Florida? Southern California? Arizona? South Texas? Hawaii? I'm running out of locations in the U.S.

[symmetry.livejournal.com]

I can't believe there are really people who want to keep that Taylor kid as Jacob. Maybe it's just be but I just found him to be so skeazy and lets off such a douchebag vibe (and that isn't supposed to be Jacob until book three!). Plus he's supposed to look like..four years older and be two feet taller in the next movie, I'm not sure how they can pull that off with this kid.

[raynala.livejournal.com]

I hope you feel chipper soon. ♥

Thanks for posting a link to the posters! I've got new icon fodder. :3

Because you ALREADY know my sentiments about MTV...

[mustang-bex1126.livejournal.com]

HAHAHA! I'm so glad I didn't send you a link to Fuck you Penguin... That blog is such a perfect compliment to all the Cute Overload stuff out there! Also, I would totally love to spend a day hanging out with Sister Girl, talking about books and baking shit, let me tell you. lol

[rufinia.livejournal.com]

Congrats Britney. You got shut out of MTV News' Woman of the Year by a bunch of people crazier than you.

[celticangel76.livejournal.com]

I have a bit of S.A.D. as well. For me going to the tanning salon actually helps a bit when you don't see the sun for a while. I'm kind of like you right now though, just want to curl up and do nothing. Not really sad so much as not motivated at all. Which would be why my xmas shopping isn't done yet...

[misachan.livejournal.com]

Eddie Murphy won’t be playing The Riddler.

*stares in horror* Dear God, this was a possibility?

I think Luhrmann might have too much hope in his heart to do a Great Gatsby. I love that book, but it's one of the most cynical things ever written. And he's not going to find a Gatsby that'll match up to Redford.

[leoprincess.livejournal.com]

Eddie Murphy as the Riddler? Yea, that could work if they wanted to seriously and thoroughly kill the franchise.

[r-a-black.livejournal.com]

Some of the other questions in that BBC interview were totally weird. O.o

"Interviewer: What do you usually eat for breakfast?
Rob: I don’t really eat breakfast. I had bacon sandwich this morning though.
Interviewer: Do you eat at night? Midnight snack?
Rob: I don’t, actually.
Interviewer: Is it true that you asked Kristen to marry you on the set?
Rob: Yeah, probably.
Interviewer: If he actually meant it, would you say yes?
Kristen: Wow. He’s sitting right here."

Also, how do you center quotes like that? I try it and it never comes out right.

[scornedsaint.livejournal.com]

I'm clearly having a slow day, because upon hearing about the Coraline alphabet posters, my first thought was "Ooh, I wonder what the 'C' is going to be?" .:facepalm:.

[z-k.livejournal.com]

"I'm a normal person" and “Don’t ignore me again. If you ignore me again, I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE.”

Gosh, that's so normal. R.Pattinson should hire a bodyguard already. Because, you know. Lots of normal people. Stalking in most normal ways.

[gwynnywonk.livejournal.com]

I think SAD really depends on where you live. When I lived in the south, winters were always really depressing because all that ever happened was rain. Now I live in eastern Washington and we just got TWO FEET OF SNOW OVERNIGHT, WTF. Our huskies are loving it. Rain is depressing, but snow, ah snow! It makes up for the lack of sunshine. :D

[aurora-borialis.livejournal.com]

SAD sucks. I get it around February/March. When the dreary weather of IL and WI starts to just drag on forever, and Spring isn't in sight yet.

I hope you feel better. I found that taking a multi-vitamin, vitamin C, and vitamin D (especially this one) helped a lot for me.

[anthraxpretzels.livejournal.com]

I think TIME, on a smaller scale than MTV, of course, has been slightly sucked into this whole Twilight-mania. It just doesn't seem to be publishing any issues, like, ever, that criticizes it.

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[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

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[particle-person.livejournal.com]

think seasonal affective disorder is starting to set in-

I'm sorry about that, although I can't say I'm all that surprised --I can't find it, but I seem to remember wondering aloud to you if it was something along those lines.

On an RPattz related note

[anthraxpretzels.livejournal.com]

If I found his car I'd just write "Wash me" in the window XD

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the same thing--I think I could handle some nice fluffy snow and a clear sky. Here it's just wet and grey.

[r-a-black.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was way off. Thanks!

[profbutters.livejournal.com]

Of course, the Harry Potter theme sounds to me like a reworking of the main theme from *Swan Lake.* But I definitely like the first version better.

[evilbearhunter.livejournal.com]

Those Coraline posters are cool but kind of spoilery, in my opinion. I've read the book (and anyone they were sent to probably has too), but I feel like some of the stuff on there isn't revealed right away. But, eh, I'm also overly spoilerphobic.