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Talking about sleeping and/or dreaming through math made me think of the one math class I took in college, which was the lowest-level math I could get myself into short of telling my advisor, "Look, I'm an idiot." I think it was some kind of pre-cal. Maybe even pre-trig. I think I may have taken a level I had already taken in high school, and still struggled with it a bit. That's all fine and dandy. What I really wanted to tell you about, for no good reason, was the single memory I have of that entire class. Let's call this guy "Ted." Ted was kind of disgusting. He didn't mean to be, but he really should have seen a doctor about all that mucus. I mean, a whole semester of it? I'm just saying. So one day, we're having whatever lecture on whatever mathy thing that I retained for approximately two days afterwards, and Ted reaches down into the front pocket of his grubby bookbag and pulls out a snack: a box of Chick-fil-A nuggets. Here's the thing: We did have a Chick-fil-A window on campus in the old caf (actually the little caf off the big caf) my freshman year before an entirely new student center was built. We did have one. And it opened at ten o'clock in the morning. But our class was at nine am.
I leave you to your own horrifying conclusions.
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theferrett: The Schrödinger's Cat Toy collectible.
I love that there is actually a Circus Skills category on Wikipedia.
Fraser On Board Third Mummy. I have a bad feeling about this.
The new website for Marie Antoinette is up. I'm rereading the Fraser (no, Antonia. Yes, I know that turned out kind of weird there) bio (the one the movie was based upon--Fraser apparently thought the movie turned out wonderfully, according to a commenter whose post I will totally dig up who saw her at a book signing), and I notice that a lot of the in-depth info about the "characters," as it were, is paraphrased from her book. (The little section about pets at Versailles, for example.) I'm assuming they have her permission, so I'm viewing this as a good thing, since I love that book. Thus concludes your daily requirement of parentheses.
Lost season three poster. Whee, Desmond!
New Casino Royale trailer. I haven't downloaded it yet, but I'm hearing that it's awesome.
Sephora readers' top makeup choices, or Makeup I Can't Afford to Buy.
As we previously suspected the last time I mentioned Four Square Racial War Survivor, host Jeff Probst is a genuine idiot. "Until Survivor host Jeff Probst sat in on casting sessions for the CBS reality series's new edition, in which competitors were picked and put into 'tribes' based on their ethnic background, he had not realized that 'Asian' includes Japanese, Koreans and Chinese and that they do not necessarily like each other as a matter of ethnic solidarity. 'When you start talking to a person from Asia, you realize -- Wow! They have all different backgrounds!' [...] 'And I found myself saying to the Asian doctor, "Where in Asia is your family from?"' The dentist said he was Korean. 'The only reason I had the courage to even ask that question or the knowledge to ask that question was I'd just spent 39 days with people from Korea,' Probst said." Yes, as far as I can tell, he's being perfectly serious. No, I don't know how he manages to walk upright either. 
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May. 18th, 2006 11:15 amHappy Grandma Movie Day! We have located a copy of Emma, conveniently living at my favorite aunt's house, and so here's hoping Grandma likes this one. She absolutely adored Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, so I have high hopes.
Current New Order song obsession: "Guilt Is a Useless Emotion." Which is odd, as that phrase never occurs anywhere in the song. The actual chorus is, in part:
Linkspam. Apparently the new version of Semagic hinks up my links a lot, so I'm composing in HTML view rather than WYSIWYG. I'm just saying, though--if the links go wicky again, let me know and I'll fix them as fast as I can.
Lost links: Is Lost a repeat? And the new Hanso password site. Sponsor: Jeep. Be careful--apparently you're supposed to go digging through the folders (the Hanso one will take you back to the Hanso Foundation site), but my computer flipped the hell out and opened 92 Internet Explorer windows before I was able to reboot it. Literally, they were numbered (as they tend to be--this happens on my computer sometimes; I don't think it's Hanso-related), and they got as far as 92 before I could get a keystroke in edgewise.
Heroic Computer Dies to Save World from Master's Thesis.
More completely awesome jewelry. And, once again, they both 1) have a LJ and 2) are BPAL fans. They have both Tudor portrait replica jewelry and a belt brooch they've apparently supplied to the Anne Hathaway/Jane Austen biopic, Becoming Jane. I crave the Paradiso Rosa pendant.
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v4v_awards: A new V for Vendetta icon awards community that was kind enough to nominate a couple of my m15m icons. Do please go over there and nominate some others, as they deserve better than my sad Photoshop skillz, which are limited to "cropping" and "text."
Another icon community:wd_awards (Walt Disney Awards). It does seem to include Narnia and POTC, as well as all the Disney cartoons and old-school live action movies, and the mod, squishysquidgy, is good people. Hit the FAQ if you'd like to know more.
More Marie Antoinette pictures. I am now dead from pretty dress.
Zoo bear eats monkey before horrified visitors. Warning: fairly upsetting picture. No gore--but it's the "pulled the monkey, shrieking and resisting, from the fence" portion of the meal, which may make it more disturbing.
sound_of_bells: "I'm an advanced history student and we're doing independent research projects. I chose to do mine on the effects of 9/11 on America using primarily sort of miniature memoirs from ordinary people about what their experiences were on the day and what its lasting impact has been on them. All the specific information is here." I actually think this sounds like a really cool project, so give it a shot if you feel interested.
Speaking of which: the trailer for Oliver Stone's World Trade Center. I have a bad feeling about this.
Current New Order song obsession: "Guilt Is a Useless Emotion." Which is odd, as that phrase never occurs anywhere in the song. The actual chorus is, in part:
Real love can't be boughtWhich cracks me up. As does the later line, "You sure know a lot for a girl."
It is wild and it can't be caught
Real love can't be sold
It's another color than gold
(I need your love) I just wanna buy it...
Linkspam. Apparently the new version of Semagic hinks up my links a lot, so I'm composing in HTML view rather than WYSIWYG. I'm just saying, though--if the links go wicky again, let me know and I'll fix them as fast as I can.
Lost links: Is Lost a repeat? And the new Hanso password site. Sponsor: Jeep. Be careful--apparently you're supposed to go digging through the folders (the Hanso one will take you back to the Hanso Foundation site), but my computer flipped the hell out and opened 92 Internet Explorer windows before I was able to reboot it. Literally, they were numbered (as they tend to be--this happens on my computer sometimes; I don't think it's Hanso-related), and they got as far as 92 before I could get a keystroke in edgewise.
Heroic Computer Dies to Save World from Master's Thesis.
More completely awesome jewelry. And, once again, they both 1) have a LJ and 2) are BPAL fans. They have both Tudor portrait replica jewelry and a belt brooch they've apparently supplied to the Anne Hathaway/Jane Austen biopic, Becoming Jane. I crave the Paradiso Rosa pendant.
v4v_awards: A new V for Vendetta icon awards community that was kind enough to nominate a couple of my m15m icons. Do please go over there and nominate some others, as they deserve better than my sad Photoshop skillz, which are limited to "cropping" and "text."Another icon community:
wd_awards (Walt Disney Awards). It does seem to include Narnia and POTC, as well as all the Disney cartoons and old-school live action movies, and the mod, squishysquidgy, is good people. Hit the FAQ if you'd like to know more. More Marie Antoinette pictures. I am now dead from pretty dress.
Zoo bear eats monkey before horrified visitors. Warning: fairly upsetting picture. No gore--but it's the "pulled the monkey, shrieking and resisting, from the fence" portion of the meal, which may make it more disturbing.
sound_of_bells: "I'm an advanced history student and we're doing independent research projects. I chose to do mine on the effects of 9/11 on America using primarily sort of miniature memoirs from ordinary people about what their experiences were on the day and what its lasting impact has been on them. All the specific information is here." I actually think this sounds like a really cool project, so give it a shot if you feel interested. Speaking of which: the trailer for Oliver Stone's World Trade Center. I have a bad feeling about this.
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Lemony Snicket official site
Apr. 15th, 2004 10:37 amOoo, the site is up. The only way it could be better would be if it actually had Brett Helquist artwork. I'm doing some screen caps of the new photos (Flash-only, unfortunately) and they'll be up in a bit. In the meantime--I only saw three of these desktops on the site itself, so consider the last two an exclusive:
http://www.unfortunateeventsmovie.com/wallpaper/wallpaper.html?wallpaper=wallpaper_1_1024x768.jpg
http://www.unfortunateeventsmovie.com/wallpaper/wallpaper.html?wallpaper=wallpaper_2_1024x768.jpg
http://www.unfortunateeventsmovie.com/wallpaper/wallpaper.html?wallpaper=wallpaper_3_1024x768.jpg
http://www.unfortunateeventsmovie.com/wallpaper/wallpaper.html?wallpaper=wallpaper_4_1024x768.jpg
http://www.unfortunateeventsmovie.com/wallpaper/wallpaper.html?wallpaper=wallpaper_5_1024x768.jpg
ETA: I've added the new photos and a couple of screenshots--mostly of the "letters," which, if they weren't written by Daniel Handler himself, are damn good attempts at his style--here.
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My theory in action
Jan. 28th, 2004 01:51 pmHmm. Remember my "boys drool, girls rule" theory of webmaster working-together-ness? Yeah. We're gonna test it out today. I hope I didn't come off sounding sexist--I wouldn't choose one site over the other just because of the webmaster's gender; I choose the best site available to me. And my Trailer Park staff is currently all male, so I'm not saying I don't like to work with guys; in fact, they're the bestest guys ever. It's just that guys never seem to be very forthcoming. Anyway. Coming Soon had a link to some really great stills from "Kingdom in Twilight," the movie version of Wagner's Ring cycle (not to be confused with "Kingdom of Heaven," or "The Ring," or "Lord of the Rings"), and the pictures came from Kristanna.com. The webmaster is male. I wrote him my standard "come out and play with us" email, and even pointed out that adding a Kristanna Loken tag for "Kingdom in Twilight" to the Orlando Bloom tag I already have for "Kingdom of Heaven" will make it so much easier to distinguish the two movies at a glance. So. We will see what answer we get.
Meanwhile--I'm having a high rate of stupid mistakes/typos, but I think that's because I've put out a lot of content lately. That is, the proportion of error is normal--the total output is just higher. Still, it's distressing. Did you see Spellbound? Yeah. I was one of those kids. Willfully bad spelling gives me the jibblies. I'm surprised I'm not allergic to the internet.
Almost done reading the next section of The Quaker City for tomorrow's class. I persist in thinking that we're a day ahead of the day it actually is. Have done an amazing amount of work this week on the site. Well, amazing compared to the amount I was doing over the two months previous, which was zero.
Someone--Brassy?--suggested offhand that we try to do an Oscar play-by-play, only in shifts. I wonder how that would work. It might. I would take the last shift, of course--partly because we have NO IDEA when the last shift would end, but also because I'm in one of the earliest time zones. Hee. It could sort of be like a relay. Could be fun. Of course, the flip side of this is that there's really no need for a recap--the Oscars are broadcast in most countries, unlike the Globes, where the effect was something like having a seeing-eye dog. And I really do wonder if people can type as fast as I do. I was a little underwhelmed by CHUD's play-by-play, for example--you don't want to describe every damn twitch, but you have to set the scene well enough that you can read it the next day and have a clue what's going on. Compare how we each did the same segment of the show:
CHUD: 8:40pm, est - Ellen needs to marry Gabriel Taflames. Then she'd be Ellen Burstyn-Taflames.
8:41pm, est - Nicole Kidman's accent brought to you by Lucifer.
Digest: 7:38 CST. Commercial. People mill and people schmooze. Back to commercial.
Ellen Burstyn is here to present the Cold Mountain clip. Hey, I thought I put down a ban on use of the phrase "one of the greatest battle sequences ever filmed." Oh, and I am not particularly impressed with Nicole's Southern accent. Nor Jude's. Ooo! It's Cate! And I do so like her dress! She is pregnant, after all. It's a lovely ruby red. The hair . . . eh, it's almost there. She always has fab jewelry, though--love the chandelier earrings. Blah blah blah HFPA suit blah blah giving something back to the community. Twinkly music plays in the background. For a full minute, we're stranded in a Sally Struthers Feed the Children commercial.
Maybe CHUD is funnier. But the second example is the way we'd need to do the Oscars, unless we just want to stick up a tagboard or use the Digest Yahoo group chatroom and gab the whole time. Thoughts?
Meanwhile--I'm having a high rate of stupid mistakes/typos, but I think that's because I've put out a lot of content lately. That is, the proportion of error is normal--the total output is just higher. Still, it's distressing. Did you see Spellbound? Yeah. I was one of those kids. Willfully bad spelling gives me the jibblies. I'm surprised I'm not allergic to the internet.
Almost done reading the next section of The Quaker City for tomorrow's class. I persist in thinking that we're a day ahead of the day it actually is. Have done an amazing amount of work this week on the site. Well, amazing compared to the amount I was doing over the two months previous, which was zero.
Someone--Brassy?--suggested offhand that we try to do an Oscar play-by-play, only in shifts. I wonder how that would work. It might. I would take the last shift, of course--partly because we have NO IDEA when the last shift would end, but also because I'm in one of the earliest time zones. Hee. It could sort of be like a relay. Could be fun. Of course, the flip side of this is that there's really no need for a recap--the Oscars are broadcast in most countries, unlike the Globes, where the effect was something like having a seeing-eye dog. And I really do wonder if people can type as fast as I do. I was a little underwhelmed by CHUD's play-by-play, for example--you don't want to describe every damn twitch, but you have to set the scene well enough that you can read it the next day and have a clue what's going on. Compare how we each did the same segment of the show:
CHUD: 8:40pm, est - Ellen needs to marry Gabriel Taflames. Then she'd be Ellen Burstyn-Taflames.
8:41pm, est - Nicole Kidman's accent brought to you by Lucifer.
Digest: 7:38 CST. Commercial. People mill and people schmooze. Back to commercial.
Ellen Burstyn is here to present the Cold Mountain clip. Hey, I thought I put down a ban on use of the phrase "one of the greatest battle sequences ever filmed." Oh, and I am not particularly impressed with Nicole's Southern accent. Nor Jude's. Ooo! It's Cate! And I do so like her dress! She is pregnant, after all. It's a lovely ruby red. The hair . . . eh, it's almost there. She always has fab jewelry, though--love the chandelier earrings. Blah blah blah HFPA suit blah blah giving something back to the community. Twinkly music plays in the background. For a full minute, we're stranded in a Sally Struthers Feed the Children commercial.
Maybe CHUD is funnier. But the second example is the way we'd need to do the Oscars, unless we just want to stick up a tagboard or use the Digest Yahoo group chatroom and gab the whole time. Thoughts?
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Jan. 24th, 2004 10:10 amI would just like to take a moment to say, God bless female fansite webmasters. The funny thing is, they're almost all I run into these days. Guys are the ones who run movie fansites--Batman, Superman, Hulk, etc.--but it's the girls who run the actor fansites for the most part, male and female actors alike. Of course there are exceptions, but this has generally been my experience over the last two years. And you know what? God bless 'em. They just get it--a lot quicker than the guys, too. The guys always sit there and ask, No, really, that's all you want? What exactly do you get out of this?
Maybe it's something embedded deep in our social genetics, but women just seem to grasp the concept--and how it benefits both of us--a lot more quickly. And they're always excited to join up and what else can they do and let's keep in touch. Guys? Well, I rarely ever hear from them again. (I have to break in here to say that the guys at Keira Knightley Wavefront are absolute dolls.) Which is fine. But considering that guys are usually so concerned about how many hits a day they get--one webmaster was having a completely normal IM conversation with me, and then he suddenly blurted out, "I get 250,000 hits a day!" Uh, put your ePenis away, dear--you would think that they would see that helping people usually results in 1) tons of goodwill and 2) links back to your own site.
You know what the saddest thing is? If the major movie news sites--CHUD, Coming Soon, IGN, Dark Horizons, AICN, etc.--are all male. If there are female editors, I don't know about it. Well, Empire Online, I think. But that's the official website of a film magazine. None of the built-from-the-ground-up sites are run by women. Which is why you see all this coverage devoted to horror/action/scifi/comic books--many of which do appeal to women, not that they realize it--and a movie like Pirates of the Caribbean sneaks up and stuns everyone with its popularity.
That's what always cracks me up--people are astonished when this or that movie is unexpectedly huge, when it's a no-brainer from a female perspective. Lord of the Rings? I can't tell you how many articles were written about how it wouldn't appeal to women, never mind that there are 65 flavors of hot in the cast. X2? Ditto. The Hulk? Well... a movie that pushes shirtless Eric Bana out of the way in favor of the Angry Green Giant, well, it's not gonna do too well. Duh.
Anyway. I don't know why I've gone on such a ramble today. But that's always the perspective I've tried to run my site with--what do I find interesting, and what do my friends find interesting? And the answers surprise me sometimes (if you'd told me I'd end up looking forward to Hellboy, I wouldn't have believed you). But what I consistently find is that male-run sites miss a lot of things that women are interested in. Here's hoping we fix that. :)
Maybe it's something embedded deep in our social genetics, but women just seem to grasp the concept--and how it benefits both of us--a lot more quickly. And they're always excited to join up and what else can they do and let's keep in touch. Guys? Well, I rarely ever hear from them again. (I have to break in here to say that the guys at Keira Knightley Wavefront are absolute dolls.) Which is fine. But considering that guys are usually so concerned about how many hits a day they get--one webmaster was having a completely normal IM conversation with me, and then he suddenly blurted out, "I get 250,000 hits a day!" Uh, put your ePenis away, dear--you would think that they would see that helping people usually results in 1) tons of goodwill and 2) links back to your own site.
You know what the saddest thing is? If the major movie news sites--CHUD, Coming Soon, IGN, Dark Horizons, AICN, etc.--are all male. If there are female editors, I don't know about it. Well, Empire Online, I think. But that's the official website of a film magazine. None of the built-from-the-ground-up sites are run by women. Which is why you see all this coverage devoted to horror/action/scifi/comic books--many of which do appeal to women, not that they realize it--and a movie like Pirates of the Caribbean sneaks up and stuns everyone with its popularity.
That's what always cracks me up--people are astonished when this or that movie is unexpectedly huge, when it's a no-brainer from a female perspective. Lord of the Rings? I can't tell you how many articles were written about how it wouldn't appeal to women, never mind that there are 65 flavors of hot in the cast. X2? Ditto. The Hulk? Well... a movie that pushes shirtless Eric Bana out of the way in favor of the Angry Green Giant, well, it's not gonna do too well. Duh.
Anyway. I don't know why I've gone on such a ramble today. But that's always the perspective I've tried to run my site with--what do I find interesting, and what do my friends find interesting? And the answers surprise me sometimes (if you'd told me I'd end up looking forward to Hellboy, I wouldn't have believed you). But what I consistently find is that male-run sites miss a lot of things that women are interested in. Here's hoping we fix that. :)
Well, here's the outcome of the Great Plea for Help Finding Affiliates: I'm in talks with cellardoor28's Matt Damon lead ("in talks." Sounds so very Hollywood, doesn't it?); alysscarlet's Clive Owen lead is a fait accompli already on the news page; and Gunther, who is my new hero, sent me a metric ton(ne) of link suggestions, and of those I've already locked down the David Thewlis site and the Kirsten Dunst site. Charlize and Viggo we are waiting to hear from. Well, not them personally, although that would also be nice. You know what I mean. I'm still emailing the rest.
Here's how brainshot I am: poor Gunther keeps emailing me, and I keep contradicting him, and then it turns out I'm wrong anyway. "Thanks, but I already have a Reese affiliate. Oh... that's the one I said was down? Oh. Well... then... I'll go write the Reese site now."
And writing affiliates always makes me nervous, because I'm afraid I'm going to screw up and mix up names, since I tend to do a batch of several at once. I'm not saying I have a "form letter," precisely, but I find that if I don't stick to a general script, I natter on trying to explain the affiliate-news-page-thing like an idiot. It's gotten to the point where I'm too paranoid to C&P anymore--I have to manually type it all out every time, just so I don't mention what a great affiliate Charlize Online would be, since Clive Owen has so many upcoming projects. o_O
Oh, and Gunther and I are still completely stumped as to a Halle Berry affiliate. I can't believe no one's got anything out there on the woman--I did write a British site way back last year, but they never answered. She does have an official site--Hallewood, I think--but I'm always afraid that official sites won't want it to look like they're endorsing things said on an unofficial website. I've wanted to snag McKellen.com for a long time now, but there's the same problem. Of course, it's hard to write to a webmaster and say, "I promise this is just an 'If You Would Like More Information' referral link and not an endorsement of the Digest," when what I would really be tempted to do is put up a banner that says, "The Daily Digest: If It's Good Enough for Sir Ian, It's Good Enough for You."
cellardoor28's Matt Damon lead ("in talks." Sounds so very Hollywood, doesn't it?); alysscarlet's Clive Owen lead is a fait accompli already on the news page; and Gunther, who is my new hero, sent me a metric ton(ne) of link suggestions, and of those I've already locked down the David Thewlis site and the Kirsten Dunst site. Charlize and Viggo we are waiting to hear from. Well, not them personally, although that would also be nice. You know what I mean. I'm still emailing the rest. Here's how brainshot I am: poor Gunther keeps emailing me, and I keep contradicting him, and then it turns out I'm wrong anyway. "Thanks, but I already have a Reese affiliate. Oh... that's the one I said was down? Oh. Well... then... I'll go write the Reese site now."
And writing affiliates always makes me nervous, because I'm afraid I'm going to screw up and mix up names, since I tend to do a batch of several at once. I'm not saying I have a "form letter," precisely, but I find that if I don't stick to a general script, I natter on trying to explain the affiliate-news-page-thing like an idiot. It's gotten to the point where I'm too paranoid to C&P anymore--I have to manually type it all out every time, just so I don't mention what a great affiliate Charlize Online would be, since Clive Owen has so many upcoming projects. o_O
Oh, and Gunther and I are still completely stumped as to a Halle Berry affiliate. I can't believe no one's got anything out there on the woman--I did write a British site way back last year, but they never answered. She does have an official site--Hallewood, I think--but I'm always afraid that official sites won't want it to look like they're endorsing things said on an unofficial website. I've wanted to snag McKellen.com for a long time now, but there's the same problem. Of course, it's hard to write to a webmaster and say, "I promise this is just an 'If You Would Like More Information' referral link and not an endorsement of the Digest," when what I would really be tempted to do is put up a banner that says, "The Daily Digest: If It's Good Enough for Sir Ian, It's Good Enough for You."
Plea for Digest help
Jan. 11th, 2004 09:35 amSo. The Digest has been updated three days running. I have a class tomorrow night, but I'm going to get the bulk of the writing done before I leave. However, like the Best Supporting Actress said, I can't do it alone [insert images of Cleo flailing around on stage here]. Well, I can, but we want to minimize the suckage, right?
Movie reviews: I need movie reviews. You can send in one, or many, or you can get into the habit of sending something every week. Most of y'all review the movies you see in your LJs, whether you realize that's what you're doing or not. I don't need anything rhetorically fancy--Did you like it? What was good? What was bad? There you go.
Affiliates: Half my affiliates went under without telling me. Grrrr. Affiliates aren't just link swaps on the Digest--I actually put links by each pertinent news story. (See the news page; go to bottom to see a list of all affiliates.) KeiraKnightley.org, for example, tells me that they get surges in traffic from the Digest when there's news about her movies. What I need from y'all are recommendations, places you like to visit--I'll go talk to them; I just can't find an Angelina Jolie site with anything more than pictures and porn ads. That, or I write sites and they never reply. What I really want is a site that updates its news frequently. Here's who/what I'm particularly looking for right now:
Alan Cumming (wow, he’s in a lot of movies)
Angelina Jolie
Batman
Brad Pitt
Charlize Theron
Claire Danes
Clive Owen
Colin Farrell
David Thewlis
David Wenham (site never replied to query)
Ewan McGregor
Halle Berry
Jake Gyllenhaal
Joaquin Phoenix
Jude Law
Julia Stiles
Keanu Reeves
Kirsten Dunst (affiliate hasn’t updated in a year)
Lemony Snicket (affiliate hasn’t updated in months)
Matt Damon
Naomi Watts
Parker Posey
Sarah Polley
Queen Latifah
Rachel Weisz
Reese Witherspoon (URL is for sale—I take it they’re down)
Spider-Man
Star Wars
Thandie Newton
Uma Thurman (site never replied to query)
Viggo Mortensen (affiliate went under)
X-Men
If you have suggestions for someone/something not listed, hit me with a comment. (In case you're wondering, the list above is based on folks who have either lots of projects or projects coming out soon.) I'm also okay with multiple sites for one person, although the linking logistics would get a little scary. If you run a fansite, let me know!
Movie reviews: I need movie reviews. You can send in one, or many, or you can get into the habit of sending something every week. Most of y'all review the movies you see in your LJs, whether you realize that's what you're doing or not. I don't need anything rhetorically fancy--Did you like it? What was good? What was bad? There you go.
Affiliates: Half my affiliates went under without telling me. Grrrr. Affiliates aren't just link swaps on the Digest--I actually put links by each pertinent news story. (See the news page; go to bottom to see a list of all affiliates.) KeiraKnightley.org, for example, tells me that they get surges in traffic from the Digest when there's news about her movies. What I need from y'all are recommendations, places you like to visit--I'll go talk to them; I just can't find an Angelina Jolie site with anything more than pictures and porn ads. That, or I write sites and they never reply. What I really want is a site that updates its news frequently. Here's who/what I'm particularly looking for right now:
Alan Cumming (wow, he’s in a lot of movies)
Angelina Jolie
Batman
Brad Pitt
Charlize Theron
Claire Danes
Clive Owen
Colin Farrell
David Thewlis
David Wenham (site never replied to query)
Ewan McGregor
Halle Berry
Jake Gyllenhaal
Joaquin Phoenix
Jude Law
Julia Stiles
Keanu Reeves
Kirsten Dunst (affiliate hasn’t updated in a year)
Lemony Snicket (affiliate hasn’t updated in months)
Matt Damon
Naomi Watts
Parker Posey
Sarah Polley
Queen Latifah
Rachel Weisz
Reese Witherspoon (URL is for sale—I take it they’re down)
Spider-Man
Star Wars
Thandie Newton
Uma Thurman (site never replied to query)
Viggo Mortensen (affiliate went under)
X-Men
If you have suggestions for someone/something not listed, hit me with a comment. (In case you're wondering, the list above is based on folks who have either lots of projects or projects coming out soon.) I'm also okay with multiple sites for one person, although the linking logistics would get a little scary. If you run a fansite, let me know!
