Sleepy, a little scattered

[cleolinda]

Re: LiveJournal: Here's the press release about the layoffs.

Back at the ranch, as it were, I got so sucked into this afternoon's rerun of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit when Sister Girl was over doing laundry this afternoon--it was one of those L&O specialties where they started off with one crime and midway through switched to another that they discovered in the course of investigating the first one, which was great and fantastic and all except that I kept screaming "BUT WHAT ABOUT BRIANNA????"

... maybe you had to be there.

Meanwhile, yesterday, I ran around doing housework (you know it's bad when I try to procrastinate by cleaning) until I ended up throwing up all over the bathroom. (Which then, of course, had to be... cleaned.) I have no idea what that was about, except that I'd had a heavy breakfast (well, you know: greasy fast-food biscuit) on a nervous stomach. And then I felt feverish and had chills all day (and a good bit of today as well), so maybe I'm legitimately sick, who knows.

I made Sister Girl take the rest of the Mountain Dews with her, though, so that temptation is at least removed. Also, I think the withdrawal headaches have eased up.

I'm also trying to remind myself that I may be in a hypomanic phase (what with the running around cleaning), so if I suddenly crash and don't feel magically energetic anymore, that's not a moral failing. It just means that if I feel good now, I need to make hay while the sun shines.

Apropos of nothing much, one more thing about Prince Caspian: there's that council scene early where all the Telmarine lords are like, "Right, uh-huh, you've got a brand-new heir and your nephew the real prince just happened to disappear, I am so sure," and one of the lords yells something, and even though I'd already seen it twice in the theater, and even though I didn't even see the guy when he spoke, I suddenly realized: HEY YOU GUYS WHAT'S KARKAROFF DOING THERE? It's true! It's him!

One more thing: I still love the mouse music. And I kind of dance to it every time it plays. What?

Oh, by the way, I got an email newsletter/casting call from Universal Pictures, and when I tried to copypaste the info to pass it along, it turned out to be a series of image files. Huh. Therefore, I will present it to you as it was presented to me (click to enlarge):

Of course, I saw the name "Edward" and ran screaming, but there you are. (Oh, and the MySpace and Facebook links were clickable; at least you don't have to type those in. The latter demands to know whether you are THE NEXT MCLOVIN' OR MICHAEL CERA?!, which should give you an idea of what they're looking for.)

Speaking of Edward, mistress_gwen has started the comm sparklpires for lolfans. Enjoy.

Catchup linkspam!

Charges against Brolin, Wright to be dropped; Video Surfaces of Jeffrey Wright Being (Needlessly?) Tasered by Cops.

Gladiators to ‘fight’ again at Rome’s Colosseum.

Crystal, china maker Waterford Wedgwood collapses.

FBI touts 'hiring blitz' for 3,000 openings.

Twitter Hacking Epidemic Claims Britney Spears, Barack Obama.

Battlestarbook Tells The Tale Of BSG, Facebook-Style. Okay, let's just all get all the Austenbook ripoffs homages out of the way right now. (Yes, Twilight has already been done.) Everyone pick a media property and let's get it over with. Go!

Is Short Science Fiction Moving To Original Anthologies?

Mommy? Maurice Sendak's monstrous kids' pop-up book.

Meg Cabot bids farewell to 'Princess Diaries' series.

Producer's Guild Nominations Hint at Good Things for Batman.

7 in Running for 2008 Visual Effects Oscar.

2008 ‘Razzies’ Nominees Include Indy 4, Paris Hilton And Tom Cruise - How Would You Vote?; Razzie Nominations Serve A Shocking Snub To 'The Spirit.'

Images: Exclusive: 'Sunshine Cleaning' Poster Premiere (I have to say, I've heard it's not that great, but I'd see it for Emily Blunt and Amy Adams alone); Whoa, is that 'Dorian Gray' poster real? Damn; First Image: Judd Apatow's 'Funny People'; The New 'Street Fighter' Poster; Run! You've Got to Stop This 'Echelon Conspiracy'!; Michael Myers Needs to Learn Proper Mask Maintenance; First Look: First Photos from Jon Harris' 'The Descent 2'; Hi-Res Stills from 'Last House on the Left'; New Dragonball Pics Let You Laugh At Those Less Fortunate Than You [Morning Spoilers].

And, separately, because the listing is huge, Universal Pictures and Rogue Pictures 2009 Preview, including images from 'The Unborn,' 'Duplicity,' 'State of Play,' 'Drag Me to Hell,' 'Cirque du Freak,' 'The Boat That Rocked,' 'Public Enemies' and 'The Wolfman.' Can't vouch for the newness of the pictures, but there they are.

Trailers and clips: Exclusive 'Hotel for Dogs' Clip; Exclusive: Clip from 'Taken'; 5-Minute 'Taken' Sizzle Reel Online; DVD EXCLUSIVE: Watch The ‘Pineapple Express’ Stars Improv It Up; Moviefone's Unscripted for 'Bride Wars'; 'Confessions of a Shopaholic' International Trailer; 'The Narrows' Trailer; First Promo Trailer for George Romero's '…of the Dead' (yes, apparently he's just run out of things of the dead); Val Kilmer Teaches Kids About Global Warming And Death In 'Thaw' Trailer.

Newest 'Watchmen' Trailer Has An Aggrieved Warner Bros. Turning Japanese.

High Res Weasley Wheezes, Trio and Slughorn Half-Blood Prince Photos.

Chris Pine puts his own spin on ‘Trek’s’ Kirk.

'Twilight' Star Ashley Green excited about 'New Moon' Director Chris Weitz, or, more precisely, the yellow Porsche she hopes they'll let her drive. Considering that Alice stealing the Porsche is awesome pretty much only part of New Moon that's actually worthwhile, I will cross my fingers for her. Also, apparently they really are stuffing more Edward scenes into the sequel, which may explain the next headline: Robert Pattinson Drops Out Of New Film ['Parts Per Billiion'], Citing ‘Twilight’ Commitments. I literally shouted "OH NO!" when I saw this, because I had gotten really, legitimately interested in that one. I will have to console myself by staring extra-hard at Rosario Dawson the whole time, I guess. Once again: Twilight, the reason we can't have nice things.

Forest Whitaker Might Be 'Expendable.'

‘Beautiful And The Damned’ Nabs Keira Knightley, New Director.

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are Tintin's Thomson and Thompson.

'Monsters Versus Aliens' Viral Site Is Actually Cool.

Pixar Animator Jimmy Hayward Helming 'Jonah Hex'?!

Adam Shankman Developing 'Bye Bye Birdie' Remake; ‘Hairspray 2: White Lipstick’ Director Plans To Sober Up Zac Efron, Subtract A Big Star.

The 'Ender's Game' Movie is Scrapped.

'Shazam!' is Dead, Says Writer John August.

Daniel Craig On Filming ‘Defiance’ — ‘They Told Us [The Swamp] Was Clean, But Who Knows?’

Olivia Wilde reveals a few secrets from 'TR2N,' with a blast from the past.

Poe's 'Raven' Flies Again, except that it totally doesn't: "Scripted by Ben Livingston and Bionic Woman's Hannah Shakespeare, the story has nothing to do with Edgar Allan Poe's narrative. Instead, it picks up in the final days of the author's life and finds him being drawn into a serial killer investigation."

Frank Miller Retreats To What He Knows Best: '300' and 'Sin City' sequels.

'Cleavagefield' Destroys Cities, Exposes Undies.

Comments

[mistress-gwen.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thank you! <3

[cassildra.livejournal.com]

I ALWAYS HATE WHEN LAW AND ORDER DOES THAT OMG. Does the first case not MATTER anymore?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

This time, they actually did manage to bring it back around to the original case, but then a suspect got killed and they never investigated THAT! Even though it was totally obvious who would have killed him! But they were just like, "Eh, whatever, he deserved it. I guess."

[snowwhite2421.livejournal.com]

trust me, my disappointment over Rob's withdrawal from Parts Per Billion is epic.

There go my plans for 2009.

[yvaine28.livejournal.com]

Re: Karkaroff

I knew it! I knew one of those lords looked familiar, I just couldn't place him... Thanks for pointing it out. :)

[dragonsblog.livejournal.com]

(you know it's bad when I try to procrastinate by cleaning)

That's...a bad thing? That's exactly why I got in the habit of cleaning my dorm room on Sunday afternoons so I could procrastinate a little longer and not feel quite so damn guilty. Now I'm just a semi-neat freak.

RE Meg Cabot- Thank God. I would dutifully read each book, hating it and not realizing it for years. I finally came to the conclusion all of her characters are whiny idiots that need a slap upside the head. The plot point in a book in the other series, All American Girl, was that the girl thought that "playing Parcheesi" meant having sex, when in fact, it meant playing Parcheesi. Board Game =/= Sex! Dumbass. And I hate all her characters that much.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

(you know it's bad when I try to procrastinate by cleaning)

Heh. Maybe the emphasis in that sentence should have been on "I."

[robinmc.livejournal.com]

I'm starting to think that Ender's Game is never ever going to make it to the big screen, and that maybe it's for the best.

Also, in case you haven't already seen this, it's hilarious: http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/01/zac_efron_piano_guy.html

[alliemolloy.livejournal.com]

Uhmmmmmm... ILU, Zac Efron.

[word-herder.livejournal.com]

NOOOO! I was so hoping Ender's Game would HAPPEN this time.

[baku-chan.livejournal.com]

I'm a little annoyed that Orson Scott Card won't consent to a CGI version because a) that would eliminate the ass-load of searching for good child actors b) and it would be able to keep the ages of the children the same, especially fucking BEAN. /smacks Card

[elyselynd.livejournal.com]

You know, I think I'm getting addicted to linkspam. :D Before too long, I'll be, I dunno, posting my own.

[eldritchdragon.livejournal.com]

Okay, so not only does the Tintin movie have Andy Serkis voicing the lovable drunk Capt. Haddock AND Steven Moffat writing the screenplay AND Spielberg directing the movie, but now we have Nick Frost and Simon Pegg voicing the adorable and inept Thompson twins? To be precise: I am going to be all over this movie like anvils on Daffy Duck.

[queenfaithie.livejournal.com]

It's stomach flu season.

I hope you feel better, though. =)

[maudelynn.livejournal.com]

I hope you feel better soon.

People need to step off austen before I get crazy.

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

Icon love! How very appropriate for the occasion, too. :P

[smu.livejournal.com]

I WANT TO SEE DORIAN GRAY SO BADLY.

OH GOD, PLEASE DON'T MAKE IT SUCK.

[baku-chan.livejournal.com]

THIS THIS THIS

oh hai /waves

[dives.livejournal.com]

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are Tintin's Thomson and Thompson

And here I was thinking that Jim Broadbent as Slughorn was the most genius casting ever.

[edoraslass.livejournal.com]

Anyone else read that Dorian Grey poster as "Exclusive Porno Screening"?

[arvada.livejournal.com]

I... I never quite got around to reading the words... *stares, drools, and crosses fingers for an excellent film*

[mollywobbles867.livejournal.com]

OMG...a remake of Last House on the Left. I discovered that movie when I worked in a video store. I was browsing the horror section one night when it was dead and I had nothing else to do and there it was: a Wes Craven film I had never seen.

It freaked me out so much. It was so uncomfortable to watch, but absolutely brilliant. That is horror, not the SAW shit that's so popular now.

[mudpuppy83.livejournal.com]

I think it's rather sad that I'm surprised this is the first time you've heard of Cleavagefield. Sad because it means I've known about it for much longer than is probably healthy.

I'm curious about The Descent 2, even if the Crawlers now look more like orcs this time than the love child of Nosferatu and Gollum.

Hilariously, the first article I read about it had a brief snippet where they had Natalie Mendoza (who played Juno in the first) talking about how her character also returns. The hilarity came from the fact that she mentioned her character's survival was a "surprise twist."

Okay, Natalie, I'll totally act surprised!

[arithil.livejournal.com]

Was Juno the badass bitch who got stabbed in the leg and left for dead? Because if she lived, then that movie just got way better for me.

[aestasbeyond.livejournal.com]

Technically though Austenbook was inspired by the Hamlet facebook minifeed. It even says so at the bottom of the page.

[abbreviated-kt.livejournal.com]

I love Seth Rogen. And I'm prone to like Adam Sandler. So why am I so, so, so not looking forward to "Funny People"?

[gwynnywonk.livejournal.com]

Jeebus, I saw "MCLOVIN" and I thought it said "MCOLVIN", which is my first initial and last name that I used for several online id's. It freaked me out a little.

[caerbannog.livejournal.com]

Okay, I am so incredibly ready to see Dorian Gray now.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

I have a feeling that Robert Pattinson wakes up every morning feeling good, then looks at his day planner and begins to weep uncontrollably. I'm sure he curses the day he ever heard of Twilight.

[pop-tothepeople.livejournal.com]

ikr, I'm so upset that he won't be in Parts per Billion. And not because of the bathtub thing, I didn't even know about it til now (though now I feel even worse, gimmepattinsoninatub!!!!), but because he sounded so excited about it everytime he talked about the film!

[ravenofthejade.livejournal.com]

Ugh, Warner's not EVERYTHING has to be grim and gritty. The Captain Marvel movie could done with just really awesome fights between Black Adam and whoever they got to play Captain Marvel.

[imdissertating.livejournal.com]

I also 'no'd a little at Pattinson dropping out of the other film; I wanted to see *more* Pattinson in 2009, not more consolidated Pattinson. Yep, I bet he's ticked off at this.

[thisiamdenied.livejournal.com]

Please to be leaving the Colosseum alone, people. :(

[thegeneralerin.livejournal.com]

The FBI hiring blitz? Probably the only regret I have about switching my major is that now I'll never get the chance to work for the FBI. I actually had gone through the application process to intern, and then turned it down. I had a major breakdown when I realized I hated my international studies track, and switched to theatre.

And now the economy crashed, and theatre is even LESS of a viable job.