Cleolinda everywhere

No, I don't have anything better to do on a Friday night than sit at home, listen to really old Bryan Adams, and fuck around on Twitter. We've already taken my mother out for her birthday dinner and come back, I don't know what else you want from me.


@Salome: @cleolinda So OF COURSE they have these personalize-your-own vampire books... http://www.bookbyyou.com/teen/default.asp




( Oh my God, this is mortifying. I am totally going to fill it out now )

I fully encourage you to mess around with the other book generators, which include but are not limited to Fierce Moon, Pirates of Desire, and Click for Love. Obviously, you have to report back afterwards.

A bit of movie news for you all:

From Roger Ebert: Eric Rohmer, 89, wise humanist, RIP. One of the founders of the French New Wave.

Spider Man 4 Scrapped; Tobey Maguire & Sam Raimi & Cast Out; Franchise Reboot Planned; Sony Rebooting Spider-Man in 2012! So... by "reboot," do you mean do the origin story and kill Uncle Ben off all over again? Because I'm sure audiences will sit through that all over again less than ten years later, and--when did the last one come out? Like, five minutes ago?

That said, the scramble in Young Hollywood to grab the newly-vacated roles will be something to see.

(Malkovich confirms Vulture role in Spider-Man 4. Yeah... about that...)

James McAvoy Shoots Down 'The Hobbit' And Ian Fleming Biopic Rumors. 

Stuart Townsend Ditches 'Thor' Over "Creative Differences."

@cleolinda: RT @hollywoodcrush: 'Twilight' Author Stephenie Meyer Reportedly Against Splitting 'Breaking Dawn' Into Two Films

@cleolinda: @Cleolinda Reportedly Against Any 'Breaking Dawn' Film Being Unleashed Upon A Defenseless World

I thought it was Stephenie Meyer's insistence in the first place that Breaking Dawn had to be two movies just like Deathly Hallows omg, so I don't know what's going on here. All I have to say is--you keep on fighting that good fight if it keeps this movie from happening. Seriously. I don't think my embarrassment quick can take it.

Twilight: Breaking Dawn could start shooting this fall, with a Renesmee who may end up "being a full CG creation, but it also may be a human shot on a soundstage that then is used to shrink down." I just--I can't even articulate how I feel about this, except it involves a lot of "Uncanny Valley, oh God" and "Somehow, James Cameron is responsible for this and must pay for his crimes" and "do not want do not want DO NOT WANT."

Rumors of Taylor Lautner's demise somewhat incorrect. Not that I'd blame him for trying to fake his own death at this point.

(Someone asked me if it was true. Without even having to do any fact-checking, I replied that it couldn't be, because Twitter and ONTD would be on fire.)

Via maudelynn: Woman Married To Fat, Emotionally Distant Vampire Escapes Into 'Twilight' Novels. The second photo caption is where I fell over.

Meanwhile, any time I feel cranky (LIKE RIGHT NOW), I go back and look at Twilight retold in lolcats. I know it's old (even the sequel is a bit old by now), but the "I AM HATES U (fer some reason)" pic and the reaction shot right after "I luvs u" kill me. What kind of cat is that, anyway? ETA: Pallas cat! So much want.

What is the point of Twitter, you ask? What's it any good for? Well, customer service, for one. To catch you up, a package went missing in transit, and last night I was bitching on Twitter, as you do, and the following exchange happened: ( THE TWILIGHT GIRL NEEDS HER PACKAGE! MOVE MOVE MOVE! )


ETA: Oh, man, it's time to trot out the Gerald Story for the relative newcomers, isn't it?

Now that I've had a couple of hours to listen to the lulz lamentations of the POTO fans across the land(s), let's get a couple of other things out of the way:

From laerwen: Sir Pterry! (Write Well, Be an Advocate (and a British Citizen) and You Too Could Be Knighted.)

If you'd told me there would be Yeti Field Goals, I would have gone to see this movie.

New Watchmen Featurette Probes Separation Between Superhero And State; VIDEO: Why Is Fox's Sister Company MySpace Hosting New 'Watchmen' Sneak Peek?

Hold on a second, 2009: Extra tick goes on clock. NOW YOU'RE JUST TAUNTING ME.

(MOAR)

Linkspam, before I get back to work! ( My Little Alien, Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog, Growing Up Cullen )

... because I was doing something secret that may or may not turn out awesome. I'll tell you if it comes to fruition.

Oh, whoa: Comedian/actor Bernie Mac dies at 50.

Paul Newman says he will die at home.

Freeman Thanks Fans And Hospital Staff. It's becoming more and more obvious that Morgan Freeman really, really dodged a bullet called "the year 2008" there.

( Dorian Gray pic, Iron Man DVD, Twilight Lexicon hacked )

From the Twilight Lexicon (Lexicon. Lexicon. Lexicon. I am suppressing the urge to scream pretty well, don't you think?): Stephenie Meyer answered a ton of questions last night, and she revealed that [major spoiler] was the ending, and perhaps even the point of the series, that she'd had in mind since 2003. I don't want to say "I told you so," precisely, but didn't I say that there wasn't anything in the fourth book that wasn't in all the others? I AM JUST SAYING.

(Also, she claims that she doesn't know the answer to the Werewolf Paternity Drama question.)

Via pepperlandgirl4 on JF: The Divine Nora Roberts weighs in on Breaking Dawn, and she is not impressed.

And let's share some of the (good) linking karma. Via sumire: I like how we turned Edward into a 40 year old mother on a bad day. ( CAN YOU IMAGINE HIM SCRAPBOOKING? )

Okay, so it's pretty much been a relentlessly mediocre week all around, but I did get 5000 words done today, and that was kind of awesome. They weren't polished words--more me talking to myself about how to solve various problems, but there was a good bit of dialogue in there as well, and I realized that doing a major rearrangement of scenes in the first half would make a lot more sense. So, you know: good times.

What's pissing me off is that I keep wanting to watch movies I am absolutely sure that I own, and then I rifle my DVD cabinet and can't find them at all, and I finally realize that I never owned them at all. For example, I was dead certain I had gotten Something Wicked This Way Comes for Christmas one year or the other (it's a fairly toothless Disney adaptation, but it's totally worth it for Jonathan Pryce's Mr. Dark), and after checking diary entries three years back, I was able to confirm that I never got it at all. (Yes, I write down what I get for Christmas and my birthday. It comes in handy sometimes, see?!) And now I am pissed the hell off that I don't have it. Last week it was Interview with the Vampire, because I had this sudden need to see Kirsten Dunst get her grade-school bitch on, but apparently I never got that, either. (My mother: "I know you have it on tape, though." "TAPE IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH!!!") Of course today I had really gotten myself in the mood to have a movie on in the background, today, yes, NOW, so I ended up putting on my MST3K DVD of Manos: [or "Manos," more properly] The Hands of Fate. I'm pretty sure I'll be regarded as a heretic for saying this, but I had never actually seen an entire Joel episode before--I didn't get the right channels until MST3K hit the Sci-Fi Channel, which I think had just recently gotten added by our provider at that. So I grew up with the Mike Years, and I kind of have to say... Manos didn't do much for me. I mean, just joke for joke, I can think of at least half a dozen Mike-era episodes that are funnier. And it's weird, because Mike was head writer during the Joel era as well, so it's not like he just suddenly showed up and everything got different. I don't know. Maybe it's just my sense of humor.

Anyway, I'm so incredibly behind on linkspam that I'm not even going to try to make a dent in it tonight--I opened Google Reader and it said I had 1000+ new items, so... no. However, I did see this on Fandom Lounge: Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day, coming up in December (there's even a Facebook event for it!). Also, the suggestions in that thread that are gold: "Walk up to random people and say 'WHAT YEAR IS THIS?' and when they tell you, get quiet and then say 'Then there's still time!' and run off. And for the record, I've already tried out all of these in real life, in costume. It is so much fun you want to pee yourself. [...] If I can do it in Alabama, then I'm fairly certain you can get away with it anywhere." And one of my favorites: leaving a package for your "younger self" (scroll down to "Warning: expert level stunt"). You also get this piece of advice: "Anyone who is hesitant doing this is clearly inexperienced when it comes to public stunts. Rule 1: When you act a little strange or look strange, nobody bothers you, ever."

Tons of linkspam, and the last one's a killer: ( Read more... )