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10:28 pm
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Frost/Nixon
What can I say? Worst... slashing... EVER.
p.s. In case you're not aware, that's actually just the name of a movie coming out about the interviews David Frost did with Richard Nixon. *G*
p.p.s. Rob Blagojevic, the governor of Illinois who was arrested today for attempting to sell Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat can please go to hell. Please. I've never been so ashamed to be a Democrat.
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11:14 pm
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Goths and Vampire fans - you gotta watch South Park!
Gaya and Catw - this is for you. *G* Great episode on South Park this week where some of the kids start a Vampire club, where they all pretend to be vampires. Problem is, the goths are pissed off because the vampires are stealing their looks. Heck, the goths are even being mistaken for the "vampires"!
Funniest part? When the vampire club brings in a new member and, to undergo the transformation... they take him to Hot Topic and put together a suitable outfit for him. *L*!!! Love it.
(could somebody remind me how to do the html for lj-users? Thanks)
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11:35 pm
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Adam Busch Sighting in "Sarah Connor Chronicles"!
One minute ago I just saw Adam Busch (of the band Common Rotation, and also known for playing one of the Geeksome Trio in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer) on "The Sarah Connor Chronicles"!
A soldier from the future who's traveled back in time thinks she recognizes a traitor from the future who apparently has also traveled to the past. When her compatriot isn't sure whether or not to believe her, she goes out and comes back dragging... Adam!!!! He's playing Charlie Fisher... which is who the first guy refuses to admit being. Basically, Adam gets to play scared and confused by this all, as he sits strapped in a chair. (Okay, I'm a bit confused... is Adam the current Fisher, and the older guy from the future is the younger him? Oh, crap!!!! The compatriot is threatening to cut off the younger guy's finger. Ah... because he wants to protect his younger self. Cool.)
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12:42 am
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Question for LOTR fans...
So I read on TORN that there's a movie being made in England (low-budget, not for profit) about Gilraen and Arathorn: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10543119
Tell me - is this still that movie that we saw clips of at various conventions? Do you remember the one I'm talking about? I don't quite remember the name of it... darn, it's driving me crazy. Anyway, I thought that it was also about the Rangers.
Sorry for my rambling, but I'm hoping somebody remembers the movie in question, and what happened to it.
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10:06 pm
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And on the lighter side...
At the end of the latest beach volleyball match played by Misty May-Kreanor and Kelli Walsh (did I get the names right?), I saw something that really impressed me: Kelli Walsh went around to each and every official/volunteer/judge/whatever from the host nation who was on the floor, shook their hand and thanked them very graciously and warmly. It was good to see somebody - especially somebody American - show that kind of kindness and graciousness. My respect for her, already very high for her athletic skills, really rose.
I got a great opportunity today to do something real and concrete to help others - and get paid for it! My company let us choose to help out in an organized day of volunteering, if we chose to. About 300 of us went to a school in one of the more disadvantaged area neighborhoods and painted the classrooms. It was fun, I got to do it with some great people, and we did a really good job; our classroom looked professionally painted. I'm really glad my company does this, and that what we did really accomplished something and wasn't just a feel-good activity.
But boy are my legs tired!
ETA: Great Olympics cartoon by Dork Tower today - *G*: http://syndicated.livejournal.com/dorktowerfeed/164849.html?view=3640561#t3640561
ETA yet again: Can somebody please explain what this "Podium Training" is that all the commentators keep mentioning? As in "Earlier today, in podium training, such-and-such happened". They... train to get on the podium for their awards? Or is this some gymnastics piece of equipment?
ETA ETA ETA: omg, these are TOO CUTE! All you Dr. Horrible fans (that's YOU, anonypooh!) and My Little Pony fans (psyknife, you know who you are) must go forthwith to see MY DR. HORRIBLE LITTLE PONIES! (thanks to green_queen for the info): http://www.requiemart.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=6124
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11:31 pm
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Scientifically inaccurate song lyrics...
Okay, I'm going to give into my inner geek here, but does hearing these lyrics make anybody else feel like somebody is scratching fingernails on a chalkboard, because... they're just wrong? Or maybe you have a lyrics pet peeve of your own to add? Here I go:
"Turpentine" - A great song by Brandi Carlilie (http://www.myspace.com/brandicarlileband), who, btw, sings the song to the car commercial that plays over and over during the Olympics coverage - you know, the one called "The Story": "All of these lines across my face... tell you the story..."
Lyric: "These days we go to waste like wine... that's turned to turpentine".
Come on, Brandi... wine turns to vinegar; turpentine is made from gum from pine trees!
"Good is Good" - by Sheryl Crow.
Lyric: "And everytime you hear the rolling thunder, you turn around before the lightning strikes" Now that would be a neat trick... being warned of lightning by thunder! Sorry, you see lightning before you hear it.
Do you think they didn't know any better, or that they just couldn't resist the way it sounded?
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10:37 pm
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Olympic in every sense of the word...
I haven't really watched the Olympics for years and years. In fact, I don't think I remember any I've watched since I was a kid. But after hearing how amazing the opening ceremonies were going to be, I watched it, and I was utterly stunned. I watched it with my mouth open, saying over and over again "how are they DOING that?!", while, at the same time, enjoying its beauty, grace, and dignity.
Then, I decided to watch a little on Saturday... and Sunday... and even today! I'm not an athlete, and I never watch athletics, but the difference from what I remember seeing decades ago and what I'm seeing now just dumbfounds me. My god - have any of you been watching what the Chinese men do on the stationary rings? How can anybody DO that? The body strength required is absolutely phenomenal. And then to see Michael Phelps and his complete control in swimming, or the way the American relay came from behind to pass in the last lap?
And then... there's the little things. *G* Like:
- When did gymnasts start wearing those funky leather supports on their hands and wrists - the ones that look like what people wear when they have wrist problems due to poor ergonomics. How do you grip with those things on?
- When did swimmers start doing that "stick your arms out in front of you, clasp your hands together, and wiggle like a dolphin" move whenever they dive into the water or turn around at the end of a lap?
- What's with this "landing on your upper arms" on the parallel bars - ouch! ouch! ouch!!!! What sadistic person thought of that?!
In addition to swimming, and men's and women's gymnastics, I've watched some of the women's beach volleyball. No way - 102 wins in a row for ANY team - even a beach volleyball team? How is that possible? That's just unreal!
The best thing about this Olympics? Seeing the athletes really do their best. That doesn't always happen, as the pressure causes people to fall apart, but for most of what I watched, everybody was truly performing at their best. You hold your breath, wondering if people are going to stick that landing, or put on the speed they're supposed to - and they do! (I have to mention, though, that women's gymnastics was a pretty big exception, unfortunately)
Oh - and finally - best uniforms? Chinese by far. Wonder if there's a medal for that?
p.s.
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11:12 pm
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For anybody who ever imagined Paul Bettany as Aziraphale in "Good Omens"...
... apparently Paul Bettany is currently filming a movie called "Legion", playing a character called Michael, and this is the movie synopsis:
"When God loses faith in humanity and sends his legion of angels to take care of business on Earth, humankind's hope lies in a group of misfits holed up in a desert diner -- where the archangel Michael happens to be as well."
Whoooooooot!!!!! Paul as an angel - it had to be! *G*
p.s. Been absent for a while again; started when I went to Sanibel, FL the middle of last month to rekindle that little flame of hope that there really was life out there, that spring would come, and all was not snow-covered and bleak (i.e., not everything looked like Chicago in winter). Whew, it has been a long, tough winter. But the snow is almost all melted, and I may even be able to clean up the yard this weekend, and put some stuff on the lawn. Yay!
When is the next new "LOST" going to be on?
For ELIJAH WOOD FANS IN BRITAIN: TORN says they're looking for EW fans for a TV show audience for a taping on April 10. Details here: http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2008/04/03/28599-uk-fans-needed-for-the-audience-for-elijah-wood-interview/
Oh, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) tootsiemuppet! I have a theory about midshipman Ellis! ( Cut for spoilers, and for those who have no idea what I'm talking about - *G* )
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08:31 pm
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How can I be such a nerd and still not use html correctly? *sigh*
Anyway, saw some funny nerd stuff in the Signals catalog:
A pie plate with the symbol for pi in the middle, and the number all around the edge.
A sweatshirt with "If I'm talking, you should be taking notes"
A t-shirt with "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate" (*G*)
A plaque with the quote "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called Research" - Albert Einstein
A t-shirt with "Gray is the new Blonde" (okay, that's more age-related - *G*)
And the classic "There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't".
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08:24 pm
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Early Happy Birthday, grace_poppy!
And looooooong belated birthday greetings to any and all I've missed over the last few months, like <lj user="magickal_molly">, <lj user="tootsiemuppet">, and everybody else.
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11:04 pm
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LOST
*bawls my eyes out*
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07:04 pm
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Ooo... nice look for TORC
And, still on LOTR stuff: I hadn't actually been at TheOneRing.com in ages, relying instead on seeing it through an LJ feed. It's had a very lovely facelift, and I like the quotes they put up there. Here's the one for today (and one that really makes you think):
"No, Frodo 'failed'. It is possible that once the ring was destroyed he had little recollection of the last scene. But on must face the fact: the power of Evil in the world is not finally resistible by incarnate creatures, however 'good'; and the Writer of the Story is not one of us."
J.R.R. Tolkien in a letter to Miss J. Burn - July 26, 1956
p.s. OT - funny, adorable pic illustrating "mitosis" with... yes... baby bunny rabbits here: http://anneheart.livejournal.com/983579.html?view=2933787#t2933787
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03:17 pm
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"Worst... Directions... Ever!"
*L*!!!
All you LOTR fans, you have to check this out! Maybe this has already been all over the net, but my Yahoo mail account had this silly thing about using email like a hero, which I've ignored. I finally clicked on it, and it's a cute LOTR parody that sounds like something one of us would have written! *G*
It's a short video, and is work safe:
http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/featured_video
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09:48 pm
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Thank ALL of you for all of your kind birthday wishes!
I've been a little under the weather today, so your well-wishes were really great to hear and see! Thank you everybody. And my regrets to those whose birthdays I missed when I was off-line for so long; I still thought of you all.
p.s. I'm having fun right now watching Eli Stone, which I recomend to everybody. Jonny Lee Miller (the lead) is more than meets the eye; give him a chance.
Here's the wierd part: the guy they spend the episode looking for? As soon as I saw him, I thought "but, we've already seen him on the show!"... and then I realized that wasn't right. What WAS right was that we'd just seen the same actor - on "LOST"! *L*!!! Yep, he's one of the freighter guys, the doctor! *G* How often does that happen?
p.p.s. And the other guy who was also having troubles staying stuck in time - is my memory off, or was he Hurley's asylum inmate friend? I think he was!
p.p.p.s. Oh, and, I forgot the obvious: how cool is it that we saw them auctioning off the journal of The Black Witch - the boat that wrecked on the island!
p.p.p.p.s. So... how long before people start slashing Desmond and Faraday? I'm sure it's happening already... *G* *predicts that at least one story will be called "My Constant"*
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10:26 pm
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Nostalgia ain't what it used to be... *G*
Been feeling nostalgic lately, until I realized that we're having another "all the hobbits are in the news" week!
First there was Dom with the news of his casting in the "Wolverine" movie, and his appearance in the joke video made by Jimmy Kimmel.
Then we see Sean popping up in the news, supporting Hillary Clinton.
Next, Elijah's listed as one of the top actors under 30 by EW (get it, EW in EW? *G* That second EW is Entertainment Weekly) - whoo hoooo!!!!!
And tomorrow (or later today, if you're reading this in Europe), Billy's new sitcom "Empty" shows its first episode!
Yay, Hobbits!!! *G*
p.s. "Quarterlife", the show about a twenty-something who blogs on-line was on last night and was actually pretty good.
p.p.s. "Profess" and "confess" should be opposites, but they're synonyms. Think about it.
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06:25 pm
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Honk if you're f**king Ben Affleck
Okay, I couldn't resist! How strange that I finally subscribed to Google notification for Dom and this video comes out - with Dom among several celebrities (is that Brad Pitt as the messenger?!).
Sarah Silverman did a video called "I'm f**king Matt Damon" as a joke on her boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel. It's actually pretty funny - and a pretty good song!
In return, Matt did a video called... "I'm f**king Ben Affleck" - *G*. If bad language offends you, stay away. Ditto if the idea of seeing Jimmy Kimmel shirtless offends you (ick!). But you'll see Dom (with the shaved head) in the front row in the part of the video that does a takeoff on Band Aid, swaying and singing along.
I'm just wondering how much money they spent on these videos...!
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06:04 pm
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*dances* Dom is in the "Wolverine"!!!!
Whooohoo!!!! Is this not the greatest thing ever?
Here's a link to Dom and Liev Schreiber lunching together; Liev has muttonchops for his role as Sabretooth. Dom plays a character called "Beak" who has electromagnetic powers. He may be one of the bad guys, but I don't know the series well enough.
http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/02/23/liev-schreiber-dominic-monaghan-lunch/
I love it, because:
A) Ian's already a part of X-Men - althought probably not in this series
B) I remember seeing Shawn Ashmore as Iceman and thinking how Dom-like he looked - *L*! And now Dom's in the series.
C) Most importantly, Dom's in a big movie; I'm so happy for him. *S*
So, psyknife - excited? *G*
p.s. Here's the funniest version of the announcement: http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Dominic-Monaghan-Is-Wolverine-s-Electro-Man-7916.html
p.p.s. And I'm probably the last person to know this, but he has a lead in a movie (filming after "Wolverine") called "Pet", where he apparently keeps a woman captive under the animal hospital where he works (?!) but soon finds she's not who he thinks she is: http://www.reuters.com/article/peopleNews/idUSN1326621320080213
I'm feeling much better about Dom now. *G*
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10:11 pm
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Random Thoughts
It's COLD here in the Chicago area!!!! Damn, it's cold!!!! And we've had three huge snows - one in late November, one in mid-December, some small ones, and then the huge one last week. The weather man just said on TV that we have had 42" so far - wow. I was going to guess 3 feet, but was afraid I was overestimating. Last week was the worst because, although it was beautiful to see the trees covered in snow, the snow was the perfect density and stickiness to overload the trees and stay on them - so much so that when it all melts, we're going to see a lot of damage to evergreens, that hold a lot of snow.
I have tall bushy evergreens in back - they're like arbor vitae, but 20 feet tall. The snow stuck to them and actually BENT THEM OVER DOUBLE. Seriously. Fortunately, it warmed up just enough to cause most of the snow to drop off, but I was beating the snow off of one that was still bent over the fence and touching the ground tonight. COOOOOOLD! Will they straighten back up? Some have come back most of the way, but they may not.
What about movies? I've seen "Michael Clayton" and, to be honest, I don't see why it was nominated for best film. It seemed like an episode of "Law and Order" to me. What do the rest of you think? I've also now seen "No Country for Old Men" and "There Will be Blood", both of which are multi-Oscar nominees. Both of them are similar, in that they revolve around 3 main characters, all male. In each of them, two of the three characters are obsessed with triumphing over each other, and just won't let go, no matter what the consequences. And both films are head-scratching "what did I just see?" movies. Were they great? Well... I really would have rather seen movies up for Oscars that were a little more meaningful and not just (possibly) praised because one can assume they must be great because it's not clear what they're about.
OMG... I'm officially a curmudgeon! *L*!
Oh, wait, I almost forgot. I just finished putting together a photo book from scans of our earliest family photos (at least, earliest of my immediate family, starting from when my mom and dad were married). It made me try to remember things about being at my grandparents (my dad's parents) house, and I always seem to think of playing with a little tea party set that was made out of wood and fit into a red wooden apple. I thought for years I must have imagined it. This time I decided to try looking it up on eBay, and lo and behold - I found it - *L*!! How cool is that? Anyway, apparently it was a dimestore toy made in Japan and sold in America in the '50's (back when Made in Japan meant it was cheap, in both senses of the word). But here it was on eBay, and for the low, low price of (gulp) $119!!! *L*! Anyway, I had to share a photo of it:
( Photos of Wooden Apple Miniature Tea Set )
Hey... some other apple tea sets just showed up on eBay that are much less expensive... maybe I'll bid.
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09:06 pm
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Seven Weeks ago?!
OMG - LOST!!!! *loves* And anybody who saw it knows why. Thank you, "LOST". We needed that. *sigh*
OMG - Johnny Lee Miller - best known to me for doing a fantastic job of playing Graeme Obree in "The Flying Scotsman", which co-starred a certain incredible Scottish actor named Billy Boyd, and the subject of fixation for onecheekyhobbit - is the lead in "Eli Stone"! He's such a normal looking guy that I didn't recognize him until I saw his credits.
OMFG - now they have The Proclaimers playing in the background of "Eli Stone"!!!
This is so cool.
Why have I been gone so long? Long story; I'll tell it some time. So if I missed anything, let me know.
Pooh - are you coming to the US at all this year?
ETA: heeheehee - see this for a hilarious quick re-cap of last year: http://ack-attack.livejournal.com/466310.html#cutid1
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10:15 pm
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"Go on buds, drink the suds, til you reach pure inebriation...."
So, anyway, how dense AM I?
Here I've been watching "Chuck" all season and thinking that the CIA guy looks familiar... and it only just hit me that that's because it's JANE! Jane from "Firefly"! Adam Baldwin (no relation to the other Baldwins, thank god!). Wow... I just looked him up in imdb to be sure, and he was born in Chicago... almost on my birthday... and he's only 2 years younger. Whooooot!!!! Damn, he aged well! *sigh* Too bad he's taken. I guess the suit and the clean-shaven look threw me off. Anyway - cool!
The quote in the subject is from someplace completely different - anybody recognize?
Also, I saw The Golden Compass and it was pretty good. Really well-made, but they didn't accompish the script-miracle that LOTR did; you could really feel the missing pieces. I'd read the book; I'm curious how others who hadn't read the book felt. The casting was excellent, though.
WTF - just saw an ad for Supernatural where Santa Claus... is a torturer?
p.s. Did they change LJ? I thought "View Friends Page" was under "Friends", but now it says "Filter Friends".
p.p.s. Yesterday was Dom's birthday and I forgot? Told you I was dense! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DOMINAC PATRICK BERNARD LUKE MONAGHAN!!!! (I'm sure I got that wrong!)
Finally, a really funny and creative version of the 12 Days of Christmas, from IU, which I saw posted by arevanye:
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