Two days of catchup

[cleolinda]

There is so much awesome in this linkspam that it can barely be contained.

Eyewitness Photos of Hudson River Plane Crash [Photo Gallery]; Hudson Plane Crash Survivor: 'Scary as Shit'; Passenger: 'It seemed like it lasted an eternity'; The Joy of a Disaster Averted.

Pilot’s 3-Day Run From Ruin Comes to an End; Mistakes unraveled fleeing Indiana pilot Marcus Schrenker's escape; Feds file two charges against fugitive pilot Marcus Schrenker; Runaway pilot awaits doctors' orders.

State of the Plagiarism: It's been a year since the Cassie Edwards plagiarism scandal, and somehow people still want to punish the whistleblowers rather than the wrongdoer (including the logically specious statement, "Isn’t it enough that you people set out to destroy her career and almost caused her death?"). In response, NORA ROBERTS RIDES AGAIN.

From caitlen: The best line in the worst comic ever. Beats "I'm the goddamn Batman" with one hand behind its back. Warning: Is not safe for work or life or brains.

yuki_onna: Clean your damn apartments, guys: "Batman does not live in an apartment with a broken futon and a dusty TV, guys. None of the greats do. This is your lair. Treat it with respect."

nihilistic_kid: Every "Extreme horror" story ever written and Every "Quiet Horror" Story Ever Written (" 'The Horror Of Horrorville' by F. Streetname Whitebread"). I have to admit, I was totally guilty of a "Sometimes the branches look like hands to me" line with "The Hot Door."

If you're going to NY Comic-Con, I suggest you try to pick up the exclusive "Forging Excalibur" Lara Croft doll at the Tonner booth. (I don't actually have a page link for it.) Someone's going to asshat-resell them; it might as well be you.

New Gorillaz demos: Awesome.

The Decemberists offer free MP3 of creepy but catchy 'The Rake's Song.'

Fox plans a giant 'Simpsons' birthday party.

A Moment Of Zen For Jon Stewart's First Decade On 'The Daily Show'; Jon Stewart Gives Daniel Craig Sweaty Palms [Clips].

John Barrowman to write Torchwood comic.

Sasha Obama gives Uglydoll her special sassy seal of approval.

Balloon Animals Get It On.

Sundance 2009 Day 0: Welcome Home to Park City!; Live From Utah, It’s The MTV Movies Team At Sundance!; Even Sundance feels the weight of recession; Media Blames SAG On Eve Of Sundance; Can’t Make It To Sundance Film Festival? Download Select Films Free On iTunes.

‘Slumdog Millionaire’ and ‘Ben Button’ Lead BAFTA Nominees with 11 Followed By ‘The Dark Knight.’

Costume Designers Guild nominations.

Oscar Fallout Begins Over Foreign-Language Snubs; Kate Winslet's Oscar hopes in doubt after Hollywood backlash over Nazi role; Is ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ Next in Line for Oscar Backlash?

2009 Oscar Presenters Kept Under Wraps.

Images: The Top 10 Shots of 2008; First Look: Audrey Tautou as Coco Chanel; EXCL: Over 15 New 'Friday the 13th' Photos; Exclusive Friday the 13th Photos; Detailed Images of Mezco's New Voorhees Toy; New 'Franklyn' Artwork; Kristen Stewart in 'The Cake Eaters', on the set of 'Adventureland'; Clive Owen in 'The International'; 'Kick-Ass' Photos Emerge With Old Man Nic Cage; Sundance Exclusive: 'Lymelife' Poster Premiere; The Sundance Poster for 'Grace'; Photos from Rupert Grint's New Film 'Cherrybomb'; Kellan Lutz on the set of 'The Warrior'; 'Crank 2: High Voltage' Poster Promotes Cutting, Self-Electrocution; Street Fighter pics; new Dragonball pic; Olly Moss’s Poster Remakes.

Trailers and clips: James Toback’s ‘Tyson’ Documentary Debuts At Sundance — Get Your First Look Here; Five Clips from the Sci-Fi Thriller 'Moon'; New Theatrical Trailer for 'Fast & Furious'; 'Checkmates' Trailer: Chess Meets Checkers Meets Stepping Up; Must Watch: Red Band Trailer for Bret Easton Ellis' 'The Informers'; My Bloody Valentine 3-D TV Spot - Good Old Fashioned Bullshit; A WTF Trailer for Season Three of 'The Tudors.'

trailer_spot: Scripts, Franklyn, Tokyo Sonata, Next Day Air, Killshot.

'Terminator Salvation' Art You'll Want To Spray-Paint On Your Van; McG Clears Up Numerous 'Terminator Salvation' Rumors; We preview footage from 'Terminator Salvation' and have massive spoilers!; Sarah Connor Will Haunt 'Terminator Salvation.'

Rumor: Sienna Miller Fired From 'Nottingham' for Being Too Hot? I know this is pretty much the same story as before, but I just find the Russell Crowe and His Ego shenanigans endlessly funny.

Is Emily Blunt up for Black Widow in 'Iron Man 2'?; EXCLUSIVE: Sam Rockwell Confirms ‘Iron Man 2′ Role, Was Considered For Tony Stark; Samuel L. Jackson Wants His Motherfucking Self Off This Motherfucking 'Iron Man' Sequel.

(Related: Sundance: Sam Rockwell Heads To Park City With Two Films In Tow.)

Studio denies report of James Mangold directing third 'Twilight' book 'Eclipse'; Nina Ricci Takes Legal Action Against Twilight Fragrance in one of the most brazen cases of design theft I've ever seen; Michael Copon responds to being an EPIC FAIL; Pie chart: The Reasons People Hate Twilight.

(Moar charts: 20 Celebrity Lives in Flow Chart Form. I love the Sherlock Holmes one, although the David Caruso one is genius in its simplicity.)

From weird_cowgirl: A 'Spartacus' series casting call (CHARISMATIC. RUGGED. ATTRACTIVE. INTENSE).

‘Star Trek’ Stars Zachary Quinto & Chris Pine Talk Sequels, Comparisons And William Shatner; J.J. Abrams defends his Star Trek: You'll love it!

Exclusive: McG confirms details of his upcoming Captain Nemo; McG Wants Will Smith for His 20,000 Leagues' Captain Nemo?

‘Atonement’ Writer Goes ‘East Of Eden’ For New Adaptation Of Steinbeck Novel.

Jim Sheridan Developing Project About FBI Informant Whitey Bulger.

Gore Verbinski Directing Scammed Rancher Movie Next?

Kieran Culkin Cast in 'Scott Pilgrim.'

MGM Announces 'Silence of the Lambs' Blu-Ray. OH DAMMIT NOW I'M GONNA HAVE TO BUY THIS TOO. I swear to God, I already own like three different versions of this movie. It was my absolute favorite movie as a teenager (what? Clarice Starling had a profound effect on my adolescence), and I still maintain that it is one of the few better-than-the-book adaptations in cinema.

‘Cowboy Bebop’ With Keanu Reeves is Set to Go. And the wailing begins... now.

'Twilight' Star Jackson Rathbone Hopes To 'Show His Range' In 'Last Airbender.' Well, he better hope that his range includes a different skin color, because I know a lot of unhappy Airbender campers.

Paul McGuigan Talks Push — And Deathlok [Exclusive]; Watch an extended 'Push' gun battle video here.

Fan Made: Star Wars Retold (By Someone Who Hasn't Seen It).

What Happens When "The World Sinks Except Japan" [Found Footage].

ETA: WATCHMEN SETTLEMENT

Comments

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

I have actually come to accept and even anticipate the Cowboy Bebop movie. It is very confusing. Maybe it's just the promise of being in a movie theater with spaceships, I don't know.

[bgmaster.livejournal.com]

But... but... Keanu can't do Spike's mannerisms correctly. It'll be like when he played Constantine, and totally failed to get the dark, nasty humor of the comic character. Arrrrgh.

I have spent the last few days linking "You have to get out of here. YOUR VAGINA IS HAUNTED." to people. Reactions have ranged from "oh god why" to "that is the greatest thing ever." It is AMAZING.

On the 'horrifying links' front, take a look at this ad for Microsoft Songsmith. (http://nimcraft.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/stop-the-presses-microsoft-songsmith-ad-renders-me-unfit-to-work/) You will soon understand why I have IMed my friends at Microsoft going "what have your people DONE?!"

[raanve]

Ugh. Keanu Reeves as Spike Speigel kinds of ruins everything.

But on the other hand, more Sam Rockwell is always a good thing. So yay!

[albauk.livejournal.com]

That Kate Winslet stuff is just absolutely ridiculous. Have they even SEEN the movie?! I'm Jewish and I thought it was an astounding movie. I was so affected by it, I was shaking for a few minutes after and had to hold myself. These critics are idiots. Her character isn't pitiable at all. Ultimately, she's a monster, because she's more ashamed of her "big secret" (no spoilers) than she is of having been a prison guard. In fact, she's not ashamed of the latter at all. How can that be someone who's sympathetic?!

Idiots.

[queenanthai.livejournal.com]

I love TAROT. :)

noooo avatar

[jubilantia.livejournal.com]

Um yeah, this Last Airbender thing is Not Okay. Rathbone says "I hope the audience can suspend disbelief a little bit." Well, I'm very good at suspending disbelief, but the blatant disregard of the makers of the movie for the underlying themes of the show is what I'm angry about, not how the characters look or anything.

Re: noooo avatar

[emmaorgana.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to say 'seconded' because, frankly, I'm too infuriated to think of anything coherent to say myself.

[roseredhoofbeat.livejournal.com]

A-FUCKING-MEN on that "guys, clean your filthy shnasty apartments already." And women? Do not marry this person and hope it will get better, because it doesn't. Ever.

[zrath.livejournal.com]

Samuel Jackson what?!!?
What the hell is going on at Marvel?

Go Team Ricci, go! Nail the Sparkles!

Man, those Terminator Gundams are large!

[angelene.livejournal.com]

Hi, Cleo. I was wondering if you were aware of this (http://angelene.livejournal.com/1206794.html?mode=reply) (linking my own journal's entry for convenience -- every other relevant-to-the-matter link's posted there) and if you'd mind to, say, share it in your next linkspam or something? I personally love the song/artist and the cause's a good one, isn't it? I was thinking, with a readership as large as yours, maybe it could get shared/posted a significant number of times on LJ? Sorry if I'm "doing this wrong" or something.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

No, no, there's no doing it wrong. I'll post it tomorrow, thanks.

[divadeanna.livejournal.com]

The only thing that would make that pie chart better would be if JK Rowling made it.

We all know her love of pie charts, after all. ;)

[trampchic.livejournal.com]

uhhh..what?

[barrelgoddess.livejournal.com]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

T_T Keanu Reeves as Spike? In the immortal words of Emerson Cod, "OH HELL NO!"

[jldecker.livejournal.com]

Likewise skeptical here. But if they get Yoko Kanno / The Seatbelts to do the soundtrack, I'll totally buy that. ^-^

[schmoo999.livejournal.com]

Uglydolls rock. My horde keeps them on one of the comfy chairs here in my computer/book room.

:)

Also Gorillaz rock, Nora Roberts rock and that pilot who landed that plane, stayed on said crashed plane until all the others were off really rocks. (and you icon is awesome)

[dives.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I read that plagiarism thing as Cassandra Clare and was like "WHAT? She had a STROKE? She's like, 24, isn't she?"


In unrelated news, I love Daniel Craig. He just seems like such a nerd.

[jaclynhyde.livejournal.com]

Oh, good, I'm not the only one who did that.

[all-ephemera.livejournal.com]

I want to marry Nora Roberts. I do. I want to marry Nora Roberts and turn yuki_onna loose on about half the boys I know and want to see get some.

[khaman.livejournal.com]

Oh man. TAROT. I spent a couple fun afternoons reading that when I was still working at the comic shop. I had to, because there was so much discussion in some of the fluffier segments of the internet about how EMPOWERING that comic was for neopagans.

It still makes me laugh. Now I get to laugh even more. Totally bookmarking that.

[edoraslass.livejournal.com]

One day, The Decemberists will get through an entire album without someone dying horribly.

And on that day, I will stop buying their CDs.

[anonymeet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, uh, anyone else having a hard time believing Copon's "I'm happy for Taylor," "I was just kidding around," "I wasn't campaigning (but I would totally love to be in Twilight, just in case anyone from Summit is watching)" routine?

Reading between the lines - Summit called his people to ask WTF is he doing - it sounded like he got the smackdown. Hee! But I'm not worried about him. "Good things are coming his way." There's always CSI: Miami.

He remains a douche, but sadly, this was not as spectacular a response as I was hoping . . .

I particularly liked the Katzenberg flow chart - SPIN THE ANIMAL WHEEL!

[flamingtoilet.livejournal.com]

Hooray for Watchmen settlement! Now we can let the wank about the movie itself begin.

[the-dala.livejournal.com]

My dad teaches in Nora Roberts' hometown, where she is much beloved (sadly, we live in another county and I was therefore ineligible for the scholarship she offers every year). That woman's awesome could power a small country for a week.

[ppyajunebug.livejournal.com]

Dear Baby Jesus,

Thank you for the Watchmen settlement. I will be thinking of you at midnight on March 6th, between stuffing my face with popcorn and fangirl squeeing.

Sincerely,

Me

[pop-tothepeople.livejournal.com]

LOL! Ricky Bobby reference just made my night.

[canonball13.livejournal.com]

I apologize in advance if you've already seen/linked this, but I found it from another lj-er, and it's pretty good:

http://www.cracked.com/article_16878_if-twilight-was-10-times-shorter-100-times-more-honest.html

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I linked it a little while back. : )

[mudpuppy83.livejournal.com]

Well, hearing that McG plans to basically use the Nautilus design from the Disney version of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea makes me happy. To me that is the Nautilus and no other design can ever come close.

But Will Smith as Captain Nemo? Absolutely not. He's not even close to being a good choice for Nemo.

Y'know who'd be awesome Nemo? Oded Fehr.

But not Will Smith.

[orca-girl.livejournal.com]

I... I... if they got Oded Fehr as Nemo, I would just about DIE OF GLEE.

[pop-tothepeople.livejournal.com]

GO NINA! The comments are amazing. It's unbelievable how many teeny Twilight fans don't know Nina Ricci and say dumbass stuff like "She's just jealous!!1". OMG, people. Get a brain.

[floatingpencil.livejournal.com]

At this stage even one brain between the lot of them would be a distinct improvement.

[melusina-snake.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad everyone that was on the Hudson plane crash is alright. Airplane crash stories always scare me.

[edda.livejournal.com]

Holy shit, you weren't kidding about the awesomeness levels there. I'm literally going to have to go to bed now and finish this tomorrow.

*wraps up in plastic and throws in fridge next to leftover king pao chicken*