The lazy Monday I promised myself

[cleolinda]

New Awesomeness Initiative unresolution: Be less neurotic. I almost think I'm so neurotic (example: being too squeamish to check my own email for an important reply) because I'm accustomed to being neurotic. Like, because I'm used to it, this is a behavioral baseline in my mind. And, well--you know the saying "Fake it till you make it." I'm just going to have to pretend to be someone who has her shit together until maybe I actually do.

Anyway:

The Deathly Hallows of Online Community [LiveJournal], or, Valleywag's poison-pen letter to the "revolting," fanfic-writing LJ userbase and "relentness weirdness that infects the site."

Quick Golden Globes spam:

Sting's beard makes Colin Farrell die a little inside.

A Golden Globes Blind Item: Who got a little too drinky and started badmouthing the competition? Between the "It should be talent, not politics" bit and Robert Downey Jr.'s bitchface when he lost to The Late Heath Ledger... I am a sad panda.

Internet Unofficially Apologizes To Tina Fey.

ABC hopes 'Slumdog' can revive 'Millionaire.'

Golden Globes Ceremony The Lowest-Rated Since 1996. This is the problem with award shows: you can't advertise the best parts in advance.

Regular linkspam:

Disease research lab likely to be in Kansas. "Despite concerns that an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease on the U.S. mainland could devastate the nation's food supply, a Kansas town in the heart of cattle country may soon be home to a new lab where contagious animal diseases will be studied." You know, every time I read about this, I feel like I'm watching the first five minutes of a disaster movie.

From spooke: Fully functional, handmade leather BJD doll armor. I think the dolls in question are 30", so--far too big for the girls (11-12") or Elizabeth (16", although I would love to have some Chinese pirate armor for her).

(OH OH YOU KNOW WHAT I WANT FOR ELIZABETH? The Chinese "princess" outfit. I keep hoping Tonner will make it, but who knows?)

'Evolution of Dance 2': Still grooving? The song choices aren't as good as the first one, IMO. Maybe I'm just easy, but the Vanilla Ice bit in the original had me on the floor the first time I saw it. (I think I enjoy his complete commitment to the task at hand.) I also like how the MC Hammer segment was devoted to all the lamest dance moves of the '90s (yes, children, we actually had a move called "the lawnmower").

The Cute, Friendly Side to the Monster Manual.

Man Of Steel, Woman Of Bondage? [NSFW]

For Free: Most X-Rated Parts Of X-Rated Book.

Poe's 200th Birthday Is Just As Weird As You'd Expect.

Images: LA Times Massive 2009 Preview - Plus 12 New Photos (including pics from some of the following links); New behind-the-scenes image from James Cameron's 'Avatar'; 'Where the Wild Things Are': The Beach; What the shit is that first picture?; RDJ filming Sherlock Holmes; First Look at Sideswipe--One of Those Morphing Monsters from 'Transformers 2'; Over 20 Stills from 'The Uninvited.'

Trailers: New Watchmen , Friday the 13th & Underworld TV Spots; Exclusive 'New in Town' TV Spot; Sundance Trailers: 'The Missing Person'; Unexciting New Trailer for John Madden's 'Killshot' (no, the English John Madden); First Look at a Deleted Scene from 'Mirrors'; Burn Away Important Brain Cells with the 'Miss March' Trailer.

Focus Features Announces 2009 Slate.

Eckhart Teases Two Face Return; Fanboys Freak Out; Who Created Dark Knight's Joker?; Gaiman's Batman A Lover, Not A Fighter.

Sienna Miller Squeezed Out Of Sherwood Forest By Russell Crowe?; Oo-de-lally! Russell Crowe's Weight, Badittude Threaten To Destroy Nottingham.

Walden Still Committed to Narnia Franchise.

Dan Radcliffe on Harry Potter Book Purists and Fans of the Films; Larger locket and ring images.

Taylor Lautner Talks ‘New Moon’ & Debuts Buffed Up Body ('Access Hollywood' Eager To Perv All Over Teenage 'Twilight' Star); Vanessa Hudgens did not, in fact, audition for 'New Moon'; Jackson Rathbone Thinks 'New Moon' Will Be 'Pretty Fantastic'; New Moon's Edi Gathegi on Taylor Lautner and a new director; Robert Pattinson Creates Cult Fiction.

EXCL: Neeson Hasn't Seen Script for Spielberg's Lincoln.

Brendan Fraser Joins Ford in 'Crowley' ("the true story of John and Aileen Crowley, whose two children had a rare genetic disorder").

Must Watch: Badass Trailer for Neo-Noir Sci-Fi 'Franklyn'; Ryan Phillippe's 'Franklyn' Loves Masks, Hates Religion: "Ryan Phillippe and his cast-mates Eva Green, Bernard Hill and Art Malik are featured in two separate storylines in 'Franklyn.' One takes place in the present, and the other is a futuristic world oppressed by a government that forces everyone everyone to choose a religion (it doesn't matter what kind). Phillippe plays an atheist superhero/vigilante who shakes things up for that dystopian future. While the characters exist in both realities, it takes a murder to them all together."

Jim Caviezel reveals his passion for 'The Prisoner'—and his co-star.

Taylor Kitsch on Gambit (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and 'Friday Night Lights.'

Inkheart's Eliza Bennett will time-travel in her next fantasy film.

Cate Blanchett Eager To Find Director For ‘Cancer Vixen’ Adaptation.

Headey Bows Out of 'Black Death': "This reunites Janssen with GoldenEye's Sean Bean who, here, is a man seeking a necromancer during the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England. Rupert Friend is said to co-star."

Rhona Mitra talks exclusively about being the new vampire in 'Underworld: Rise of the Lycans'; Rhona Mitra wouldn't say no to Catwoman, but addresses the rumors.

Lennon Biopic 'Nowhere Boy' Gets its Cast.

Duncan Jones' 'Moon' Details Start To Emerge, which sound really interesting, by the way.

Exclusive: Derek Luke & Anthony Mackie of 'Notorious.'

EXCL: 'My Bloody Valentine 3D' Director Patrick Lussier; Full Gallery, Clips from My Bloody Valentine 3D.

Radha Mitchell in 'The Crazies' Remake.

Jaime King Explains Sin City 2's Development Troubles.

‘Tron’ Sequel Will Be Like ‘Nothing [You've] Ever Seen Before In Film,’ Promises Olivia Wilde. I'm not sure how it happened, but I already never want to hear about 'Tron' again.

Hilary Duff Takes On Bonnie And Clyde Remake. This is going to end well.

Comments

[flamingtoilet.livejournal.com]

It's amazing how quickly LJ has become known as the home of the HP pedofic.

[saramiskismet.livejournal.com]

If only they knew what else LJ was home to. If only they knew.

[saramiskismet.livejournal.com]

Taylor's almost disturbingly smokin' bod: Discuss.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I still can't reconcile it with the baby face.

[kashmir1.livejournal.com]

Wow, the 'trailer park' of online communities. I kind of want to put that on an icon and be - well - trashy apparently.

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

I thought that was MySpace?

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

I'm going to take this moment to simply say that Taylor Kitsch is extremely studly.

[supersyncspaz7.livejournal.com]

I concur.

[palmetto.livejournal.com]

Every time someone mentions Tron and isn't referring to my beloved 1982 favorite movie ever, I die inside.

[padawansguide.livejournal.com]

I get squeamish if I know there's likely to be drama in my inbox. Sometimes I won't even read those comments or messages. :-)

[padawansguide.livejournal.com]

On another topic, that scathing indictment of LJ made me really mad. I was hoping you'd talk about your feelings on it, actually -though maybe they are obvious?

[dreamingreader.livejournal.com]

Her name is Eliza Bennett! Hahahahahahaha, oh that speaks to my inner geek.

[saramiskismet.livejournal.com]

teehee literature jokes.

[fallingmallorn.livejournal.com]

Crazed Article: OMG, LJ is, like, sooooo icky!!1!!1!!!
Every LJ User Ever: What are you, new?

[misslucyjane]

Was the Valleywag fired by Livejournal? Or slept with Brad and he didn't call? Because that's a lot of bitterness right there.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heh, seriously.

[divadeanna.livejournal.com]

I liked the first Evolution of Dance better than the second one, too. I mean, it had the Brady Bunch dance in it. That's hard to follow, IMO. :)

[sarahjanet.livejournal.com]

The Brady Bunch dance was the best part by far. How was he going to top that?

[etoiletpapillon.livejournal.com]

I don't think Robert Downey Jr. is the blind item, in fact, the way I saw it he looked almost in tears. As someone else said, I think he realizes that he could of been in Heath's place somewhere in the 90s and he's too mature and characteristically has a light and humorous mood toward things. Besides, is anyone really stuck-up enough to pout on Heath? < /rant>
If anyone, it was Angelina. She's been shooting dirty looks all over the place.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I hope it wasn't him. The thing about Angelina, though, is that when Kate was all like "OH MY GOD WHO IS THE OTHER ONE??," they cut to her and she was smiling like she was kind of touched by Kate being so emotional.

[mercat.livejournal.com]

A lot of people in the comments of that RDJ post are saying he doesn't drink, though, so I'm less inclined to believe it's him.

[kijikun.livejournal.com]

I think the only thing he does do these days is smoke and drink lots of supplement shakes. And possibly coffee.

[drapette.livejournal.com]

I love that Celebuzz mentioned Colin Farrell's reaction to Sting. As soon as Sting walked out on stage, I totally went "Wow" out loud, only to find that I seemed to be saying it in unison with Farrell.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I love how he seems to stop mid-clap in that picture. I mean, maybe he did; I didn't actually catch it when it happened.

[mercat.livejournal.com]

OMFG CATE BLANCHETT WOULD ROCK OUT WITH CANCER VIXEN. That book is amazing. It introduced me to the term 'asstlers'.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Who in the what now?

[gwynnywonk.livejournal.com]

The comments on that second "Franklyn" link make me nauseous. It really makes me appreciate the civility of the comments on your linkspam posts. People here are pretty positive and respectful!

That said, it made me happy to see Bernard Hill in that trailer. I have a soft spot for ol' Theoden.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

People here are pretty positive and respectful!

You know, I don't know why that is, exactly. I mean, I'm glad of it, but people always seem to be afraid of this righteous justice I don't remember ever having meted out before.

I think it may also just be a self-fulfilling thing, though. Everyone's civil around here, so everyone... keeps being civil.

About Renee Zellweger at the Globes

[kellyrfineman.livejournal.com]

I think Go Fug Yourself said it best (http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com/go_fug_yourself/2009/01/golden_globes_fug_carpet_renee.html). Here's a wee excerpt: "She looks like Crazy Aunt Ne-Ne, who's been let out of her attic for the first time since TV was black-and-white, crawled down a gin bottle, tasered her minders, and is now trying to hail a cab to the nearest military base to show our boys some real gratitude."

AHAHAHAHAHA!

Re: About Renee Zellweger at the Globes

[elbales]

That slew me. I love how she was the first fugging from the Globes. Also I love their comment to Glenn Close: "To be frank, you look like the Tin Man got it on with one of Donald Trump's couches."

[elizardbits.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you know, when valleywag smugly declares that I'm a revolting pervert, it kinda gives me a shiny & uplifting moment of existential validation or something.

It also makes me urgently want to direct their dubious attentions over to fandom wank, cause the squishy sounds of their prissy little heads exploding would make me giggle endlessly.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee. Fandom Wank would eat them alive. Shit, I hope this ends up on Fandom Wank.

[mollywobbles867.livejournal.com]

I just can't take something called "Valley Wag" seriously when it comes to...well, anything. I almost wanted to get all upset about it, but then I think: well, I know that LJ is infinitely better than the shitholes that are MySpace and FB, so it doesn't matter what Valley Wag says.

[raevgray.livejournal.com]

(example: being too squeamish to check my own email for an important reply)

I AM SO GLAD I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO DOES THIS.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

omg, the only thing that scares me worse than Important Email is Important Phone Calls.

[anonymeet.livejournal.com]

What's up with Jackson Rathbone's hair? It's taken on a life of its own . . . maybe he figures that shtick worked for RPattz?

[yatsirch.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'm paranoid, but I'm speculating that he might be attempting Sokka's hairdo (minus the shaved sides), since he's evidently been casting in the Avatar movie.

I gotta admit, I can see a resemblance to the character, even if I'm still up in arms over his age and the whitewashed casting >.

[mollywobbles867.livejournal.com]

Oh and I have almost 10,000 unchecked emails, most of which are LJ replies. *is afraid*

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

I get to a point where I just start deleting them unread.

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

Ha. I didn't check my college e-mail for a month once because I was doing badly academically and dreaded possibly getting some sort of notice of how much of a failure I was.

And the Valleywag thing? Um...wow. They're totally the models of civility and rectitude there. Thanks for setting an example for the vicious freaks of LJ, Oh Great Ones!

[summersdream.livejournal.com]

I did that for half of last semester!! I'm so glad I'm not the only one. Have an internet cookie, please. You make me feel less awful.

[sonneta.livejournal.com]

Disease research lab likely to be in Kansas.

As a native Kansan, I can only D: a lot.

[lemonade8.livejournal.com]

YYYYeah. *raises hand*

So why Kansas? *sniff*

[indie-wonka.livejournal.com]

I picked up one of the new Edward action figures at Borders today (for some reason they had that awful perfume there too). He's just as fug as the pictures online show him to be. But my other action figures were getting lonely so I felt rather compelled to purchase him. Haha

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

Your mention of New in Town reminded me: this (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/01/19/090119fa_fact_friend?currentPage=all) is a great (though verging on teal deer) piece about movie marketing. Why is Renee Zellweger shivering on her poster? Pose her on top of some luggage! And so forth.