Return of linkspam!

[cleolinda]

I'm starting to think my constant snivellous snerf is allergies rather than some kind of cold, because it's a persistent, low-grade annoyance. Fnarr.

Meanwhile, the fan failure issue seemed to have been fixed by pulling clots of dust out of the back of the CPU; the system battery's still an issue, but I've talked to a few people, and apparently it's going to involve me going to Wal-Mart and buying a CMOS battery the size of a dime, no big hassle. So I'm working on the computer downstairs during the day to buy a little more time until I get out to do errands on Friday, and when I change out the battery, I'll vacuum can-of-air the inside of the CPU.

Also, activities on The Shelf are continuing, but I don't want to burn everyone out on that, so we'll hold off on updates for now. Although if you have icon requests, let me know, because I think I'm going to kill some time doing those tonight.

Made Of Fail - Episode 13: And That's When the Internet Exploded. Unless there's been a change of plans, I'm scheduled to go on their next podcast to discuss Watchmen (THREEPEAT GUEST, WOO!).

Linkspam!

U2 kicks off week of performances with David Letterman; New York names street 'U2 Way'; U2 to 'equal Madonna, Stones record'

Prince to release new CD set through Target; Prince to Release Three Album Box Set. Favorite headline: Prince goes to Target: You don't have to be rich to rule his world.

Robert Smith Clarifies His Radiohead Comments.

Compose yourself: Snicket is back with a kids' mystery, CD.

"LOST" behind-the-scenes photos; A Lost Mix Tape, Including Drive Shaft's "You All Everybody."

ABC Cancels 'Life On Mars'!

Will Timeshifting Save Sarah Connor and Dollhouse?

ArtsBeat: Blanchett in Kennedy Center ‘Streetcar.’

Penn to lobby for Harvey Milk Day in California.

Vanity Fair: Not In Favor Of Naked Men [Grin And Bare It].

Woody Allen's New Film to Open 2009 Tribeca Fest; Sam Raimi and Jonathan Demme Join SXSW Line-Up!

Images: First look: 'Salt' gives a grain of truth about Jolie's spy; Poster for Almodovar’s ‘Broken Embraces’; James McAvoy - 'Three Days of Rain' Production Stills; The 'Princess of Mars' That Pixar Won't Show You [Concept Art]; Dreams of Being Totally Ripped Have Never Looked More Somber ('Fighting' poster); New 'Crank 2' Pic; Haunting in Connecticut's Gooey New Poster.

Trailers and clips: Exclusive 'Monsters vs. Aliens' Clip!; Check This Out: Full TV Spot for Alex Proyas' 'Knowing'; Five Clips From 'The Last House On The Left'; Viral 'Lesbian Vampire Killers' Video; Exclusive Clip from 'Dead in 3 Days'; 'Pandorum' Teaser is Coming When?

trailer_spot: Terminator Salvation, Paris 36, Harvard Beats Yale 29-29, Hunger.

'Watchmen' Midnight Shows Selling Out; Watchmen Update: 8 TV Spots & 1 Trailer; Watchmen Super Post!; Watchmen L.A. Premiere Mega Photo Post; Exclusive: The cast of Watchmen explains it all for you; Get to know the not-so-super ‘Watchmen’; The Geek Beat: Watchwomen; Watchmen: 6 Minutes to Midnight Launched!; 'Watchmen': The EW review; AP : `Watchmen' almost too faithful to book.

(Related: Jackie Earle Haley ‘Curious’ About Becoming New Freddy Krueger.)

'Public Enemies' Gets Poster, New Images.

The New 'Terminator Salvation' Trailer!; Exclusive Terminator Pic; McG Wants Robert Patrick in Next 'Terminator' Film (man, I love him); Terminator's McG will meet with Arnold, still talking with Hamilton; Will McG Actually Get Terminator Salvation an R Rating?

ABC Family to Broadcast Harry Potter Weekend this Month; Regal cinemas hi-def HBP caps; LeakyCon 2009 Opens Submissions for Fan Art Gallery.

Third Narnia Set for Dec. 10, 2010 Release.

Coraline's revenge: Jonas Brothers 3D "underperforms badly"; A match made in heaven: Jonas Brothers sponsored by cheese.

Access Hollywood Previews the 'Twilight' DVD; Summit Announces DVD Launch Features.

New 'Witch Mountain' Pics; AnnaSophia Robb reveals a few 'Witch Mountain' secrets.

Would You See a Danny Boyle Directed James Bond Movie?

Molina is the Villain in 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice.'

WC 09: Elijah Wood Talks '9.' The trailer ran in front of Coraline and looked amazing, by the way.

Do Next Gen cast members cameo in Abrams' Star Trek?

J.J. Abrams on the Future of Cloverfield.

Ending for 'My Sister's Keeper' film veers from Picoult's book; Jodi Picoult's life is far from her wrenching novels.

Carl Franklin to Helm 'Ultima.'

Alexander Payne 'Downsizes' to Giamatti, Witherspoon, and Cohen.

Edward Zwick Directing 'Heart of the Sea.'

Blunt Read The Young Victoria's Diaries.

First Listen: Nick Cave's Score for 'The Road.'

Max Thieriot Boards 'Chloe' Cast; Julianne Moore Shoots 'Chloe' in Canada (set pics).

Michael Clarke Duncan Ready And Willing For ‘Sin City 2’… If It Ever Happens

Kevin Smith to Direct 'A Couple of Dicks'?

EXCLUSIVE: First Tasty Details On Hasbro’s Big Screen ‘Candy Land’; New Story Details for Candy Land, Monopoly, and Ouija.

Wes Craven updates remakes of Stairs and Shocker, plus Hills III.

More Details About Tron 2's Shakespearean Tragedy — With Lightcycles!

'Sleepless in Seattle' -- The Musical'? Is God punishing me?

Comments

[pyxie-blue.livejournal.com]

No! There is no shelf-burnout! Gives us more, precious!
...please?

[pyxie-blue.livejournal.com]

This is a lame-ass comment, so I am sorry that it is the first one I have ever made on something of yours. The end.

[glenvorian.livejournal.com]

I'd so love some Edward/Eowyn icons! Haha.

[misslucyjane]

To prevent the overheating from happening again, periodically get a can of compressed air and use it to clean out the vents in your CPU. You can also use it to clean dust and so on out of your keyboard.

[agirlsgarden.livejournal.com]

Seconded. PLEASE don't vacuum the inside of your case, unless you have a special static-free vacuum. You can kill your computer with a normal Dustbuster. It'd be better to get a can of air when you get your battery.

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

Wow, the cancellation of Life on Mars was worth an exclamation point? I didn't know it could arouse that level of enthusiasm in anyone. (The US version, that is. The original is another story.)

[jaseroque.livejournal.com]

It gets an exclamation mark out of me. I'm just so glad it's gone! (I love the British version unendingly, I'm halfway through the first series, and I can't understand why anybody thought a remake was in any way necessary at all. Why can't everyone just watch the British version? It's perfectly fine the way it is!)

[queenanthai.livejournal.com]

Well, even there is LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU NO SUCH THING AS AN ELM STREET REMAKE LA LA LA...I'd almost approve of Rorschach taking up the mantle.

Almost.

Maybe.

I still won't see it.

[lacunaz.livejournal.com]

For anyone who is interested in it, Lemony Snicket's The Composer is Dead is all sorts of brilliant and most certainly not just for kids. I was lucky enough to see the show live in Kitchener, although I was slightly disappointed that Lemony Snicket was not tall and sinister à la Count Olaf but rather portly and smiley, it's definitely amusing for any fellow musicians/orchestra geeks out there.

[dives.livejournal.com]

You saw Lemony Snicket?! Amazing! Every time I've tried I only find his personal assistant, Dan Handler.




^;-)

[mercat.livejournal.com]

Oh lord that Vanity Fair cover is hilarious.

[loony-moony.livejournal.com]

The trailer for "9" was exceptional. And Elijah's character resembled him really eerily.

[tabbyclaw.livejournal.com]

This is the first movie I've desperately wanted to see since Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

[wednesday]

I dug how @BrentSpiner handled the TNG/Abramstrek rumours.

Just to set the record straight, I'm not in the next ST movie in any way. At least, I don't think I am.

@onmejack Yes, it is possible I am in it, and gave the performance of my life, and still don't know it.

And then he went on to explain how he buys a shower curtain every time he's in a new musical.

gah, formatting

[sirius20-81.livejournal.com]

i love how wil wheaton went on with it in his twitter (he's wilw):

Just to set the record straight: I play Data in JJ's new Star Trek movie. Apparently, @BrentSpiner was not available, or something.

SPOILER ALERT: A huge part of the reboot is that Data now has a beard. He also wears totally awesome boots that have little ducks on them.

I also insisted that Data carry a Tricorder that said BAD MOTHERFUCKER on it. There was some resistance, but it was futile, of course.

awesomeness

[crucioveritas.livejournal.com]

I want a Dollen and Anna Icon <3

[ppyajunebug.livejournal.com]

Well, thank god I already got my Watchmen midnight tickets. Seriously though, I'm attempting to keep my expectations low because I don't want this to turn into a repeat of "Spiderman 3."

[queenanthai.livejournal.com]

No no no HIGH EXPECTATIONS.

I saw it last night and IT WAS UNBELIEVABLY FUCKING AWESOME.

[firei.livejournal.com]

I go to Fordham, and U2 is coming to play here on Friday morning...I'm hoping to get photos and maybe some video! It's going to be so awesome, even though the rumor is that they will only be playing for 15 minutes or so... :)

[violet-anchovy.livejournal.com]

Meanwhile, the fan failure issue seemed to have been fixed by pulling clots of dust out of the back of the CPU;

"Clots of dust" probably explains a lot of the stuff that ends up on f_w. ::rimshot::

Please?

[mercurywater.livejournal.com]

How about an icon with all of the dolls?
(Pretty please? I've become addicted....you have no idea!)

[hepkittenatplay.livejournal.com]

I have so many Secret Life icon requests...when was the last batch you made? How far back are we talking about here?

I can see the "this is not going to end well" exchange with Gladdy at the end of "THE DAY HAS COME" working well in icon form, and the exchange between you and Anna (particularly the part about scrapbooking in hell) would be awesome.

[bgmaster.livejournal.com]

10 PM Friday, my entire group of friends, IMAX tickets.

My poor girlfriend, who can't stand violent movies, will probably spend the whole evening with her face buried in my shirt. I've told her she doesn't have to come, but she feels like she should see it since it's a big group thing.

[headphone.livejournal.com]

NOOOOO! I look forward to secret life! Don't hold out on us now!

[visceralvamp.livejournal.com]

..Candy Land movie? Oh dear god. That could be so very, very trippy. Oh goodness.

[alliancesjr.livejournal.com]

Yup, you're still on the next episode.

I'll be seeing Watchmen opening night. Dayna's already seen it. We'll do the episode the next convenient time for you after you've seen it. No huge rush.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I think I'm going to see it Friday afternoon sometime right after lunch? Not sure. I'd like to do a Fifteen Minutes, obviously, but I never know if it's going to work or not until I sit down to do it. So that'll probably take me a good bit of the weekend, I don't know.

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

I for one am glad VF didn't do a full-on nude parody of the Tom Ford cover - the sight of Seth Rogen's and Jonah Hill's bare asses (not to mention huge hanging bellies) would have sent me screaming into the hills. Now if they had been excised and it had just featured the nekkid Paul Rudd and Jason Segel - well, now you're talkin'.

[mudpuppy83.livejournal.com]

I wish J.J. Abrams would just get cracking on that Cloverfield sequel already. He's publicly stated that he came up with the idea for the film because he wanted America to have its own version of Godzilla.

Well, the second Godzilla movie came out six months after the original. You are slacking, Abrams!

You were supposed to give us a quickie sequel that's kinda cool, but still a huge step down from the original, but is the first to have your main monster fight another monster, and then have the series go into hiatus for 8 years. And then you'd bring the series back to raging life by pitting your monster against King Kong.

If you wanted to create the American equivalent of Godzilla, then you should have been prepared for those steps. And to make 28 films, occasionally rebooting the series' continuity every other decade.

[greedyskunk.livejournal.com]

And you must have the American version of Jet Jaguar (who my 5 year old self called Jet January) and those weird little Mothra twins.

[word-herder.livejournal.com]

CATE BLANCHETT AS BLANCHE DUBOIS OMG!

[maramala.livejournal.com]

And here I thought Cure would have at least a more coherent blog.

Way to crush my dreams, ontd. :p

[dragonzair.livejournal.com]

I may be the only one disappointed about Life on Mars. I haven't seen the original version, and I'm not bothered to invest in it when I've already started with the American version :/ I mean, I've seen a few clips on yt, and I understand the hate for the Americanised copy, but...

Seriously, ABC cancels all the quirky shows. It's pisses me off. I don't think I can trust Fables with them anymore. Godamn it. Im afraid for Fables. I want Bill Willingham to move it to HBO.

Pushing Daisies, Eli Stone...and the fact they suddenly moved Ugly Betty to a a different month, or whatnot.

Bah :<

Princess of Mars? How can I not have heard of that? o.O

JOHNNYYYYYYYY *drool* He must be happy to finally get to wear a fedora on screen XD Placement of text is badly distracting though.

LOL @ cheese at the JBros thing. I would actually go and watch it and even enjoy if people do start chanting CHEESE.

I am afraid of the twincest fans waiting behind the shadows once Escape to Witch Mountain hits the screen.

Sorcerer's Apprentice: I was actually hoping that it'd be classic Disney D: ONly to find out it's set in New York. Ah, well.

[chrryblssmninja.livejournal.com]

I hope we get at least a nice pilot leaked for Fables.

[diddakoi.livejournal.com]

Why is the Jonas Brothers thing Coraline's revenge?

[jaseroque.livejournal.com]

The Jonas Brothers 3D movie pushed Coraline out of the 3D movie theatres with its release.