A few quick things

[cleolinda]

First things first: Super Bowl movie commercials that have already leaked:

NBC will stream commercials as they air.

Updated: Watch the 2009 Super Bowl Movie Trailers. Specifically:

'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen' and 'Star Trek' Super Bowl Spots Online.

‘G.I. Joe’ Super Bowl Spot Revealed! Check Out Snake Eyes In Action.

First Look at the 'Land of the Lost' Super Bowl TV Spot!

The Fast & Furious (Super Bowl Spot).

And thus ends my involvement with anything having to do with the Super Bowl. Call me if they get Prince to come back.

Re: MyLeaky: The "favorite ship" question has been fixed so you can, in fact, input an answer, and they have a place for you to describe what kind of wand you want to have. I am so lame that I have an actual holly wand from Alivan's, but in trying to decide what I wanted to put on my profile, I browsed a couple of their wand sections (click on a particular wand, and it'll include a description of the wood). I mention this because I also found a wand wood guide and a wand core guide on another site, but that list didn't include almond, which I almost chose instead of holly. But the Wizard Wands site does discuss associated elements (fire, earth, etc.), which is something you might want to consider when deciding on your wand. So I nearly, nearly decided on almond with a unicorn core, but ended up with holly and dragon heartstring--actually, I had holly and phoenix at first, but then I went, "Oh, shit, that's exactly what Harry has, that's no fun."

Imaginary wands: srs bsns.

Re: Kylie videos: I went poking around YouTube and found a few other things. Such as this live performance of "In Your Eyes" (my other favorite Kylie song) on the Showgirl tour. This is definitely a woman who knows her audience, let me just put it that way.

I can't find the video in any kind of quality worth a damn, but here's the official "In Your Eyes" video. It is also pretty trippy, although I can't decide if it would be more or less trippy if I could actually see what was going on.

Back to "Love at First Sight," here's a slightly different, American version of the video. "You know what the Americans would love? AN AIRPLANE."

And here's "Come Into My World," which several people expressed a fondness for.

Meanwhile, cleojones brings us Swing Out Sister's "Break Out." Hee.

Comments

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

It's weird that they'd let you choose your wand -- isn't that counter to the books?

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

But so is the infinite bitchfight that would erupt even if they tried to come up with, say, a personality quiz that would select your wand for you, let alone if they just issued you one.

Of course, there'll be two million Holly-and-Phoenix-Feather wands. Still, path of least resistance here.

[kinnosuikazura.livejournal.com]

I ended up going with Willow for water/air (plus it's my favourite kind of wood) and Dragon Heartstring for air/fire (as I love dragons). Since Air is my primary force but water and fire are my secondary ones. Also, I went with willow because the wand I have IRL is a replica of Ron's Willow wand that I got a few years ago. ;-)

Kylie = LOVE. SO much love. *adds some of her music that is already on the compy to my tinsy mp3 player*

[sweetsyren.livejournal.com]

WTF? Did James T Kirk just say "Why are you talking to me, man?" in that trailer.

*rewatches*

He did. Oh dear. There are so many level of wrongness in that I have no idea where to start.

[eyemage.livejournal.com]

visions of the dolls singing harmony to your singing Kylie...

( faramir 2 has an amazing voice it seems )

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

Ok, that's it, I want one of Oak.

[lilyofshalott]

I saw in the comments of your last MyLeaky post that a House test might possibly be in the works—perhaps I'll hold off on joining until then. (Because said forum sounds AWESOME . . . even though I really don't need yet *another* procrastination tool.)

Ooh, wand stuff! I'll have to check those sites out for my wand (incidentally, the wand chapter was one of my favourite parts of DH)—my RPG character's wand is rosewood with a unicorn core.

Imaginary wands: srs bsns.

TRUFAX. ::nods sagely::

ETA: Hmm, the wand wood guide you linked doesn't even *have* rosewood. Curious . . .

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I don't know how long it'll take them to come up with a house test, but I suspect it'll be sooner than later, yeah. I think you can go ahead and join without choosing a house, though. You just have to make sure you don't choose one on your profile.

As for the rosewood, that's why I included the Alivan's page. They have a couple:

"Rosewood is well known for its powers in matters of the heart as well as for its medicinal qualities. This makes it the perfect wand for love charms and healing. It is also well suited for use in divination."

I mean, really, you can write in anything you want, so it doesn't matter who says what about it. I just figured it'd be helpful for people to have an overview of *some* choices and what they mean.

[schneefloeckli.livejournal.com]

http://www.diagonalley.5u.com/ollivanders/test.html

This is how I chose my wand. I'm so lazy...

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

*starts humming "A Wizard's Staff Has a Knob on the End"*

[bleakwinters.livejournal.com]

The Transformers video is no longer available! Oh dammit, stupid YouTube and copyright laws.

[zeroxgirl1201.livejournal.com]

Here's a megaupload of it, if you want.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YYPQ6Z8L

[dives.livejournal.com]

Swing Out Sister!! Oh, that brings me back (to, uh, 2004). I bought one of their records at Goodwill right after I got a record player on a total whim, never heard of them before then. Good times. Goooood times.

[dives.livejournal.com]

*er, bought the record on a whim, not the player. I got the player for free.

[mysticowl.livejournal.com]

Rowan and pegasus wing feather for me. I was going to go with birch, because it makes me feel a bit nostalgic and Great Mother Russia and all, but I had a secret longing for a rowan wand ever since the Diane Duane book where Nita got one.

Gah! I'm so old

[mythicvictory.livejournal.com]

I remember Kylie from Neighbors. I used to watch with mom when we lived in Scotland. Gotta say my fav. Kyile song was Kids, with Robbie Williams.
Took me awhile to pick up my teeth when I recognized her!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYB4ebbJUys

[quitesometime.livejournal.com]

Off-topic, but:

My friend and I are at disneyland, and he's been asking me all day if I'd rather be a twilight vampire or ______. We're eating lunch, and he's just asked me Galadriel or a twilight vampire.

I've said Galadriel, and he doesn't understand why she's awesome. I've come to you for mediation.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Wait, WHAT? Would you rather be Galadriel or a Twilight vampire? This is the question? I... I don't understand this. HOW in the world did this come up? How is this even a CHOICE?

Um. Well. Let's see. Galadriel is sparklier, shinier, stronger, faster, and more powerful than a Twilight vampire, doesn't have one lonely bullshit X-Men power like a Twilight vampire, and isn't terminally lame like a Twilight vampire. She can read minds AND communicate telepathically AND see the future, and she doesn't have to drink blood, and if she did she wouldn't screw over the ecosystem by only going for apex predators and then calling herself a "vegetarian," and also, she is queen of an ancient and mysterious realm rather than SPEND ETERNITY IN HIGH SCHOOL, QED.

[starstruckfeie.livejournal.com]

Oooh wands! I'm too flighty to pick just one.

I'm actually excited for The Land of the Lost. If only for Anna Friel.


AND SUPERBOWLWUT?! Kitty Half-time is on right now.

I've tuned into the Puppybowl. :D

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I FORGOT ABOUT PUPPY BOWL!

[highlystrung.livejournal.com]

Humn. Wands are tricky. Its sort of, what do I like, what do I have an affinity for, what do I want to have an affinity for ...

Of course, it always cracks me up when people are all 'I love this animal so I want it for my core!' (For example a friend of mine is writing a fic right now where part of what she's doing is working out character's wands. (Regardless of canon at times. ^^) Anyway, she decided that Charlie should totally have a dragon heartstring for his core because he loves dragons at which point I had to point out that in order to get the heartstring the dragon would have to be, you know, dead.) Wands don't seem entirely ethical, really. At the very least they'd lead to a lot of poaching.

... And this is just one of the many, many signs that I over-analyse source material.

[shiraz_wine]

My favorite Kylie song is actually "Slow". Not a trippy video, but interesting nonetheless - almost minimalistic.

[soulforophelia.livejournal.com]

Um, can I have a gaggle of men with wings following me around? I kept giggling like a little kid when they'd do hip thrusts.

[falco-conlon.livejournal.com]

Dude. Mr. Eko is in G.I. Joe? The movie just got ten times more bad ass.

[malady579.livejournal.com]

I can trump your lameness.

I have a mahogany wand I bought from Alivan's booth at the first Harry Potter convention at Walt Disney World. Still love it.

[numb3r-5ev3n.livejournal.com]

Re: MyLeaky: The "favorite ship" question has been fixed so you can, in fact, input an answer,

I actually put Squidwarts. I should have added, "LOL HI I AM FROM FANDOM WANK."

[krzychk12.livejournal.com]

you are making it very difficult to resist joining MyLeaky.. it seems so fun! I am in the process of rereading the series for the 4th time right now. But NO no noo MyLeaky (for now) -- I really have enough procrastination tools as it is!

[annalynnlaughs.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know this is kind of a weird place to comment but whatever.

Just wanted to say that I've been following your blog for a while now, but I only just got a lj (and the nerve to actually comment).

Basically: I think you're awesome. Enough said.

=)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee, thank you.

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

Cleojones isn't you?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Nope. I link to her movie reviews sometimes, in fact.

[torak303.livejournal.com]

Come Into My World is one of my favourite videoclips ever. It was done by Michel Gondrey who did pretty much all of my favourite clips. It's just a cool cruisy videoclip for a cool cruisy song. Damn good idea, interesting and simple and weirdly not repetative while being repetative. Love it :D

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

Also, I still find G.I. Joe upsetting. Especially since it's hard to deny that Chris Eccleston is in it when he probably has the most face time of anyone in the trailer. :(