And now, to sleep

[cleolinda]

I'm going to see Watchmen tomorrow afternoon (and at some point over the weekend, guest on a podcast), so you might not hear much from me over the next couple of days. Of course, as sure as I say that, I'll post five times. I'm just saying, either one is possible. (I never know what I'll be able to write until I sit down and try to do it. So I have no idea if I'll be able to put up something about Watchmen or not.) I'm finishing up a new Secret Life, but I'm also trying to space them out a bit. Honestly, I've just given up on the idea of getting any actual work done until Monday, but at least I know it, I guess.

I've also been feeling really tired lately--I mean, I know you already know that because I'm always talking about it, but I'm starting to think it's actually a mild bit of depression. You know, that chemical imbalance kind where you feel bad for no specific reason, not an event-related depression. We're getting into spring now, though, so I think it'll lift. I'm just not feeling so great at the moment, is all.

And right as I was putting on the finishing touches, the new Star Trek trailer came out. Enjoy.

Publicist: Robin Williams needs heart surgery.

Former Monkee Peter Tork says he has cancer.

Facebook gets yet another facelift

Jon Stewart's Epic CNBC Rant: Best Moments.

U2 and the $3.99 album: Great marketing or financial folly?

Barnes and Noble Acquires Fictionwise for $15.7 Million.

Susan Orlean Abandons Microsoft Word.

James Franco Scores Scribner Deal.

Poe letter apologizing for drinking goes on display.

Pizza joint gives staff t-shirts with the text of 1-star Yelp reviews. What? They made me laugh.

Barbie is a badass bitch with butterfly tattoos; Doll Makeovers Are Not Child's Play [Toy Stories].

(Speaking of doll makeovers in a different sense, here's one of my favorite repaint/costume sites. Scroll down to see actual pictures of the newest dolls [I like Isolde and Vivienne a lot]. Warning: site will try to play music.)

Let your guitar gently weep with 'Beatles: Rock Band'; Surviving Beatles unite to push kids' meditation.

Absinthe might need its own holiday to remind people it's legal.

Indira Varma going 'Inside the Box' for Shonda Rhimes.

Clive Owen left starstruck by David Bowie. As all right-thinking people are.

Images: New 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' Photos; Angelina Jolie: First ‘Salt’ Set Pictures.

Trailers and clips: The New Star Trek Trailer!; We’ve Got The Final ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’ Trailer In Hi-Def!; 'Duplicity': Clive. Julia. Thong; The Rock Struggles To Placate Disney's Family-Friendly Aliens [Race To Witch Mountain]; New Trailer for Jim Jarmusch's 'The Limits of Control'; SXSW Exclusive Clip from 'Sorry, Thanks.'

trailer_spot: Public Enemies, (500) Days of Summer, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Enlighten Up!

WB Releases New Half-Blood Prince Trailer; Rumor Alert: New Half-Blood Prince Trailer Before Watchmen in IMAX?

Box Office Preview: 'Watchmen' will be No. 1, but how much will it make?; Wkd Prediction: 'Watchmen' Could Do $70M; Big day about to dawn for 'Watchmen'; 'Watchmen' stars eagerly await release; Newsweek: Don't believe the 'Watchmen' hype; ‘Watchmen’ has a pocketful of kryptonite; 'Watchmen' forgettable after opening blast; Review: Zack Snyder's Watchmen - Bordering on Brilliant (wow, there really is a sharp divide between traditional media and online critics in terms of reviews); The Version Of Watchmen The Studio Wanted [Watchmen] (a happy ending, in the present day, and no back story!); Who watches the ’80s Watchmen children's cartoon?; 'Watchmen' ... as Directed By Quentin Tarantino?; 'Watchmen' technology in real world; Watchmen's New York [Gallery]; Dr Manhattan rises out of Thames; 'Watchmen' Tops Inaugural NYT Graphic Books Best Seller List; Wolverine Vs. Rorschach: "I'm A Marvel, I'm A DC." Meanwhile: 'Watchmen' star Jackie Earle Haley jumps to Fox pilot.

Access Hollywood Has Deleted Twilight Scenes; Brenna Lee Roth In New Moon Cast; cap_it: Twilight: HQ full film (LET THE ICONS BEGIN); Kristen Stewart Clears the Air! Twilight fans: Kristen Stewart really loves you! Honest! (" 'You have to stay away from certain key words that can be twisted in a negative connotation. Like the word "psychotic" apparently is really bad,' she said, provoking laughter around the table").

(Related: Dakota Fanning to Play Cheri Currie in 'The Runaways,' in which Stewart will be playing Joan Jett.)

Danny Boyle Shuts Down 'Bond 23' Rumour. Meanwhile, ‘Slumdog’ becomes millionaire 200 times over; Slumdog Millionaire' creators vow to help the film's impoverished kids; India politicians battle over 'Slumdog' song rights; Freida Pinto - Vogue India Scans.

Sherlock Holmes Set Visit; Producer Joel Silver Talks Sherlock Holmes; Robert Downey Jr. & Jude Law are Holmes and Watson; On Location with Sherlock Holmes.

Two New Mexico Test Screening Reports on the remake of 'The Wolfman.'

Werewolf comic 'Welcome to Hoxford' developing as film.

Hugo Weaving on a 'Transformers 2' Return.

Choose Your Favorite '500 Days of Summer' Poster!; New trailer for '500 Days of Summer.'

Steve Carell to Star in 'Hi-T.'

Rudd, Carell and Roach Ready to Serve ‘Dinner for Schmucks.’

Helmer Found for Possible Tom Cruise Political Drama.

Mickey Rourke Just Needs '11 Minutes' with Alice Braga.

Heard and Yustman in 'And Soon the Darkness' remake.

Nightmare on Elm Street Sets Release Date.

Jessica Biel Will Only Strip at Home (or, 'Powder Blue' is going straight to DVD).

Now THAT's How You Do Homoerotic Magic Fighting [Found Footage].

Comments

[glenvorian.livejournal.com]

Those dolls you linked to are fantastic! The costume detail is amazing.

[tomatoe18.livejournal.com]

I just learned that Watchmen may not be playing in my country at all and now I'm pissed off as hell.

[madeline-may.livejournal.com]

Ohhh nooo... what country?

[etod.livejournal.com]

Oh, I have big hopes for the Star Trek film. I loved Nemesis, but aside from that, the last few Star Trek films were pretty disappointing. And that's saying a lot because I really like Next Gen. Not as much as DS9, but still.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heeeee, your icon.

[emmaorgana.livejournal.com]

Jon Stewart is my new Internet boyfriend.

[beachlass.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of excited by the prospect of another movie based on Ben Templesmith's artwork... Definitely my favorite parts of 30 Days of Night were the shots that best recreated some of his art.

[insomniacafe547.livejournal.com]

*snerk*
(http://s448.photobucket.com/albums/qq203/InsomniaCafe/?action=view&current=OCDcat.jpg)

Is this pic too big? I'm kinda worried. If it is, then tell me and I'll edit as soon as I figure out how. XD

[smirkdoctor.livejournal.com]

I always hit my lowest right before Spring starts. It scares me every year, like I'm going to slip into something deeper.

Anywho, there's some sympathy...I really hope you get to feeling better!

Barbie

[hulamoth.livejournal.com]

OH MY BLAH. Kids like stickers. Kids are also smart enough to realize that there is a huge difference between pointy needles and permanent tattoos and STICKERS.

[queenanthai.livejournal.com]

*furiously scribbles 4/16/10 as PROTEST DATE on calendar, sets aside money for flyers and cardboard signs*

ANYONE with me on this?

Bueller?

[emmy-scarlet.livejournal.com]

*raises hand* Oh, so right behind you. Give us Robert Englund or give us...well, that's pretty much it. There's no negotiation.

[ofshoesandships.livejournal.com]

Apparently I'm going to see Watchmen tomorrow afternoon as well because of some ticket issues with my little sister.

[ofshoesandships.livejournal.com]

Also, I want a tramp stamped Barbie! Oh dear Lord, she can play with Edward Dollen. Days and days of lecturing about the body being a temple.... XD

[elysian-dreams.livejournal.com]

Hm, Edward's jacket looks suspiciously beige in that deleted scene. Coincidence...? Not that I'm complaining, even shades of grey are still preferable to beige.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I think it's white--you see it in the closing credits where they run the actors' names over different clips.

[gwynnywonk.livejournal.com]

I'm not seeing Watchmen until tomorrow night. Pooh.

All the same, I'm looking forward to it. :)

[clarinetqueen.livejournal.com]

FIZZGIG!

Icon love <3

[http://users.livejournal.com/_stormthesea/]

Have you considered that you might have dysthymia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysthymia) (and sorry for linking to wikipedia, but the page on it is pretty good)? It's like chronic depression in some aspects, but it's less intense- you feel sad all the time, basically, but you're not so completely numbed by it that you are unable to function.

I like this diagnosis better than the one I got when I was hospitalized: Mood Disorder Not Otherwise Specified. Seriously, what the hell does that even mean? I did not pay $70,000 for you to make shit up, Hospital Psychiatric Staff (technically I did not pay, my parents did; but I had to listen to them complain about the cost so much that I at least paid in guilt).

Okay, sorry, that was a bit of a tangent. But I hope that you start feeling better, soon! I know from experience that when you're depressed, that seems like one of the stupidest things ever to be told, but I honestly mean it, so I hope that makes up for stupidity of the statement. Depression is also largely affected by the environment, so you should be right about the weather- as soon as it starts getting nicer, your mood should elevate at least a little.

[sirius20-81.livejournal.com]

it could also be seasonal affective disorder (SAD) which is what i suffer from. basically it's a depression brought on by a lack of sunlight, which generally coincides with changes in the seasons, so spring should help snap you out of it.

mine's moderately mild (i don't go on suicidal crying jags, but i have days where i can't do anything but lay in bed) so i just make sure to sit with some bright lights and take some melatonin in the afternoon and it's relatively well controlled (i only have one crying jag a week, as opposed to one a day)

so, hopefully this will lift soon for you. i hate to hear of anyone suffering. take you a box of tag-a-longs, get a beach chair and soak in some sun. hope it helps, honestly.

[kismeteve.livejournal.com]

Okay, so Indira Varma and Martin Henderson's characters are "on-again, off-again smooch buddies"? I SHIP IT.

(Is this the news show she was originally writing for JDM?)

[ailaes.livejournal.com]

I bought a bottle of LUCID for my birthday last November and let me tell you, it kicked my ass. Course I had to do it the movie way first, light it on fire and take it as a shot. The traditional way [slowly drip ice-cold water until it turns a pretty cloudy color], I find is a bit easier to take.

Although if you don't like the taste of black licorice, be prepared to gag.

Also - no hallucinations. Just a pleasant buzz.

[sirius20-81.livejournal.com]

i've gotten a 3 different kinds of absinthe in the last few years, all imported legally... kinda. anywho, the first kind was nice, really high thujone level and gave me a very clean lucid drunk. the second bottle was the hapsburg hardcore, and the name is no lie, it's 89.5% alcohol. it's a very deceptive drunk. you feel fine, so you drink another one, and you still feel fine, so you drink another one, then that one and it's 2 brothers come to find you. the last one i got was a cannibis infused, and it was like the first one, but i got more of a hallucinogenic effect. it's not like i saw or heard things that weren't there, it's that everything seemed just slightly off around the edges of my vision.

[megalosaurus.livejournal.com]

I definitely had a teen skipper with butterfly sticker tattoos. this was in like, the late 90s.
and whoa: cyclops in the wolverine trailer?!

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

You know, raise your hand if you can think of a movie right now that's not either based on a comic book story, or a remake. I mean, really. Wow. It's gotten kind of ridiculous.

Not that I'm complaining, exactly. Just...I feel like there's an inevitable burnout coming.

[mal-contented.livejournal.com]

Not to mention the HBP trailer with the Save the World or Perish narration, and Harry as some pint-sized Batman burdened ... oh so burdened... with the fate of it al.

[highlystrung.livejournal.com]

Ahhh I saw Watchmen today. I haven't read the book yet either, which is different for me. It was a good movie, in parts an enjoyable movie, but by the time I left the cinema I just wasn't impressed. And with all the hype, I was really hoping to be impressed. For all I know though, it could have been a fantastic adaptation. I hope it is, so the fans will love it. But if it is, I worry for the book, because I've been wanting to be impressed by that as well.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, the book is able to do things the movie can't, because it's a comic book deconstructing comic books. You bring a separate medium into it--film--and you lose some of that meta. And the book is wonderfully complex--there's a pirate comic book within the book, a memoir, various documents, magazine/newspaper articles, a missing person case, Dr. Manhattan experiencing the past, present and future simultaneously (I don't know if that's in the movie), all kinds of things. And while they've tried to adapt some of that on the side for the DVD--the pirate comic and the memoir--there's just a medium-within-the-medium quality you can't get outside the book. And that's okay; I think both the book and the movie are valid unto themselves. But the book does have more than the movie and is more complex.

[zhymmy.livejournal.com]

Just got home from Watchmen.

Was not impressed.

Will not spoil, but one piece of advice: drink some sort of energy drink before you go see it. I kept falling asleep. Also, it's the movie that never ends.

[zhymmy.livejournal.com]

Oh. And nudity. Lots of nudity. Mostly Dr. Manhattan. Apparently, if you're a superbeing capable of just about anything, clothes are optional.

[exileslament.livejournal.com]

Also just got back home from Watchmen - and I thought it was AMAZING. I love the graphic novel, and could not think of any possible way they could have made a more faithful adaptation. Being a fan and knowing the story, I'm not sure how those who are unfamiliar with it will react, though.

[zhymmy.livejournal.com]

I've never read the story, so maybe that was one thing. But I really just had high expectations based on my friends who have read it, and the trailers...and I felt let down. It wasn't a BAD movie, don't get me wrong. I just think you could have cut an hour out of it and had effectively the same movie, without it putting me to sleep at least 15 times.

[glass-radical.livejournal.com]

Watchmen was very very good. As a fan of the comic, I was impressed. It wasn't *perfect*, no movie ever is. but it was still excellent entertainment.

No spoilers! I promise :)

[izzy-unkempt.livejournal.com]

Watchman was EPIC. My jaw was on the floor for most of the movie. I loved the visuals, the music, the casting (I came out of the film feeling for Dr. M, Rorschach, and the Comedian-- which I think is a testament to the acting because I didn't really feel that way in the book-- look out for R's final scene in particular), the editing, the general faithfulness to the book, and even the choices they made to adapt it. It was a difficult movie to watch, but that is good for the story (but really- if anyone has issues with violence, get ready to shut your eyes and cover your ears frequently). My only issue was the makeup...I imagine it was a stylistic choice to have it be over emphasized, but it was to the extent of being sloppy. It pretty much worked, but I found it distracting (Sally's hairline, Nixon's nose, etc).

Anyway- can't wait to hear your thoughts, Cleo!

[aerrin.livejournal.com]

If you've never tried it before, you might want to give some St. John's Wort a try. I had a similar thing during grad school (I spent a lot of time anticipating my next nap), and it did wonders for me. You can get it in most pharmacies, although I had trouble finding it in Walmart at the time.

Be sure to give it a week or two, though - it doesn't work superfast. I was a little dubious (maybe I just got better on my own! It took awhile!), but as soon as I stopped taking them, I noticed a difference again, so I'm pretty sold on it. Although I think with the chemical thing, it's just different for everyone...

Still, worth an over-the-counter try!

[mogumogu.livejournal.com]

Another review, (http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-03-04/film/zack-snyder-didn-t-ruin-watchmen/) this time in the Village Voice, says the Watchmen sex scene is stupid.

Edward: *BITE*
Bella: YUM, your spit is tasty!

"You know what happens now, don't you?"

HE GETS SEXED UP!
No, wait.

A Young(ish) Dumbledore

[mal-contented.livejournal.com]

Dumble-dorable (http://pics.livejournal.com/mal_contented/pic/0001170f/)

Hi, my name's Dumbledore, unless you're feeling saucy, then you can call me Al-booooos. I like long walks down memory lane, magical flights of fancy, posing for the cover of AARP Wizards and hats. Looking for HLB (heroic little boys) to save the world and share licorice with.