'New Moon' Smashes 'Dark Knight's' Opening Day Record!

Which means it's already made a shade just under one hundred million ($100M), which was my original entire-weekend prediction. (ETA: Or wait, the midnight screenings are included? $72M is a bit better. Although that's still more in 24 hours than Twilight made its entire first weekend.) I'm officially revising my estimates up to $170M now. (Well, in that case, let's take it down to $140M.)

You know, I'm not surprised, exactly. It was tracking above TDK all week, and it's already the highest-grossing advance ticket seller and midnight opening. And it may be that the mainstream won't turn out the rest of the weekend. But the official @Twilight account on Twitter has been RTing messages from fans saying that, as of mid-afternoon yesterday, they had already seen the movie four and five times. Four and five times. I understand, sociologically, psychologically, emotionally, financially, why it's happening. I'm not surprised, precisely. But I'm kind of astounded.


(Zomg e-book! The Annotated Movies in Fifteen Minutes: Wizards!)

Tags: crazy, movies, sparkle motion, twilight, where is your god now, wtf
Current Mood: miserably congested

JESUS CHRIST Salon linked to my Twilight page GET IN THE CAR.

( Sparklemas approaches, to the chagrin of King Solomon )


(Zomg e-book! The Annotated Movies in Fifteen Minutes: Wizards!)

Tags: crazy, dolls, fandom, movies, sparkle motion, sparklemas, this is going to end well, tonner, twilight, why god why, wtf

So I had a really bad weekend. I couldn't get to the (shared, family) computer either day, it rained the entire time, I spent most of it curled up under the covers moping, so on and so forth. I don't know if it was some kind of hormonal dip or that whole solar-powered thing I have going or what. (I notice that the weekends have been particularly tough lately. I think it's because that's when everyone's home and it's no one person--there's just more people around than there used to be, and on the weekends they're all here. We're all competing for the same physical space and the same resources and I'm so stressed out from the final e-book details dragging on and onnnn--last weekend I was in that foul head-punching mood the whole time, remember? So that may be it.) I ended up pulling out Fraser's Marie Antoinette and using my full-spectrum light as a reading lamp for about half an hour, and then I sat under it again this morning while I checked my email on the iThing and maybe that'll help. Also: cinnamon toast.

And then, a few minutes ago, I received the most delightful flame in the history of Flames I Have Received. Oh my God, it is a thing of beauty and joy and magnificent irony. I'm not even saying this in a LET ME TELL YOU, INTERNETS, HOW VERY MUCH I DO NOT CARE way. I am serious, I actually laughed out loud and clapped. Also, it has been pointed out to me that you must look at the interests (expand the "Connect" section), which are particularly hilarious given the stories I tend to tell. I just--seriously. Beauty and delight.

Tags: crazy, depression, haters to the left, hilarity, marie antoinette, twilight

Okay, so: the mania was getting so unpleasant (and let me repeat, it was a physical sense of being overcaffeinated; I was otherwise completely calm and non-crazy) that I broke down and started my new, slightly higher dose of Lamictal. Things seem to be gradually calming down. Of course, side effects include back pain and stomach upset (both of which have already set in), so that's fantastic.

Also, I got three packages in the mail today and I have no idea who they're from, and thus no way to contact anyone, thank them (thank you!) and let them know that things arrived. So: 1) witch hazel/rose toner, received; 2) Neutrogena conditioner, received; 3) soap and conditioner mask from Lush, received. (Again, thank you!)

Still truckin' in the Comedy Mines. Might be done with things this weekend, I don't know.

Meanwhile: two-part video of the New Moon panel; the best, snarkiest writeup I've seen ("I can’t wait to take part in the Caesarian"); leaked clips, get 'em while they're hot. (Summit's taking them down as they find them, so I won't be able to repost them if they go down. Short version: Ghostly Edward appears, Bella wipes out on a bike, BLATANT JACOB FAN SERVICE; yellow Porsche, Bella runs, 6000 women scream at Shirtless Edward. As McRachel and I were discussing, it's like porno for pre-teens.) (Also, God bless Chris Weitz, I am totally in platonic unscary movie-fan love with him.)

Also-also: Tonner Edward's "Hungry" double (via annlarimer); The Sparkenpire in the wild. Maybe I'll get one as a chew toy for the Ellowynes for Christmas.

Tags: actual sparkle motion, barbie, bipolar, conventions, crazy, depression, dolls, m15m, mail, medication, sparkle motion, tonner, tour of terror, twilight, video
Current Mood: sore

As a reminder, my FriendFeed page has unedited Comic-Con news and tweets from attendees as they roll in (unexpected Johnny Depp is unexpected!). Back to work, mostly, I go.

Tags: conventions, crazy, movies

Re: Friday's Secret Life: People do this every time one of the characters refers to "Miss Cleo," so--I just want you to know that I'm not trying to hint that you have to call me that. I'm not a TV hotline psychic or the little old lady down the street or anything. Plain "Cleo" is just fine.

Also, if you feel creative in the comments or something, this is precisely what folks created slodfans for. I mean, fanfic of fanfic will probably destroy the universe, but that's what it's there for. (Newest post: Icons!)

(This afternoon: more guerilla photography, lest I get busted taking pictures of vintage toys again. "Is that--" "NO!" "--one of my forks?" "... Maybe." I did discover that the NECA action figures do have a bit more bendability than I had originally thought. I also put two characters close together in the same shot for the first time and it is TERRIFYING. Like something out of Gulliver's Travels, for real. Anyway. That'll probably go up tomorrow.)

I've rambled on too long already, so: remind me to tell you what I ended up doing to rescue my hair for the next chatty/linky post.

Meanwhile, I totally, deplorably forgot to link the big first-anniversary Made of Fail episode when it came out; there's also a poll up for you to weigh in as to whether you like the new intro better than the old one. (I'll be guesting on the next epsiode, which will be Harry Potter-themed.)

Also-also, from lightlack: "I was wondering if in one of your future linkspam posts, you might be able to post something about this story in the LA Times about a very young girl with severe schizophrenia. I don't know this family personally, but they're friends of a friend, and after I read the article I wanted to help spread the story, in case somebody out there with connections might know of some resources that could help this little girl out."

( Linkspam of major WTF )

Tags: 300, alabama is the center of the universe, alice in wonderland, books, comics, crazy, fame, feminism, harry potter, indiana jones, inglourious basterds [sic], iron man, made of fail, monsters, movies, narnia, oh hell no, phantom of the opera, podcasts, sci-fi, sparkle motion, superman, the hurt locker, the last airbender, the runaways, toys, twilight, vampires, watchmen, wtf
Current Mood: hungry
Current Music: Garbage - Why Don't You Come Over

It's been a bad week, in terms of the depression thing. I'm just at a point where I'm afraid to talk about it. I finally let my mother in on the severity of it, and she immediately went into I JUST WANT TO FIX IT mode. And she knows she did, and she knows she can't. BUT OMG IS THERE ANYTHING SHE CAN DO TO FIX IT? NO REALLY, IS THERE? I've made about six different attempts at this paragraph and backspaced them all. My inner Elinor is flaring up and I'm afraid to say anything about how I feel now, because mostly I feel moldy and selfish and unmotivated on the best of days, and hellaciously cranky/stupidly weepy on the worst. And I am so, so afraid that if I don't post regularly enough (mmm, aged news! Delicious), readers are going to wander away, but I know I have to hold off if that's what I need to do. And meanwhile, I want to talk about this the way I usually talk about depression, but I just--can't. I don't know. Maybe I'll do a voice post or something--I feel like y'all would need to hear from my actual tone of voice that I'm not falling to pieces over this. It's just... heavy.

And please know that even when I'm not posting, I'm flagging stories for later, not all of which I even end up using. So really, I am keeping up with things, and if I don't compile a linkspam, you can still see what's going on there, if you want.

Re: Tonner SDCC exclusives: They're apparently going to be selling whatever's leftover on the direct site, so I think I'm going to try that (or eBay) rather than ask an unknowable number of readers to try to track down a slightly variant Tonner Edward. As much as I appreciate y'all offering--and, I mean, I did ask--I'm just not sure how that would not end up being a total clusterfuck, since no one would know if anyone else had managed to get one, and we'd end up, with, like, seven.

Also: they're going to have a Black Canary exclusive as well.

Also-also: I think I have found the Uhura I want.

( Linkspam: Yes, I *did* hear about the getting kinda-hit by a cab thing )

Tags: 9, american idol, batman, books, conventions, crazy, depression, dolls, fame, harry potter, indiana jones, inglourious basterds [sic], iron man, movies, music, pixar, public enemies, remember me, robin hood, sherlock holmes, sparkle motion, star trek, thirst, tonner, twilight, vampires, werewolves, wtf, zombies
Current Mood: blah
Current Music: Eleanor McEvoy - Whisper a Prayer to the Moon

I am having a gigantic crankiness problem lately, particularly in real life. I can tell I'm being really irritable and snappish, but noticing it tends to make me... more irritable. At least I can hide it a bit better online, but I'm still losing my patience way more often than I should--I get really pissed off about things I know are stupid, about things I know never used to bother me, but--it's completely involuntary and irrational. And I've been like this for weeks now, if not months.

I'm trying to work on it--I cut out caffeine again (a long while back) after I noticed it was making me cranky, I've been trying to eat better but more often, drink more water, get more sun--I already take a B complex and a multi-vitamin (and antidepressants, for those of you just coming in; I've been doing really well as far as the drugs + vitamins regimen goes, and for a long time now). I just don't know what else it is. Stress, maybe--stress of the uncertain and the unfinished, I guess. People around me dumping their stress on me, possibly. To be honest, I think a lot of it started six months ago when I began getting really emotional about turning thirty but not being what and where I wanted to be by this point in my life, and I don't think I've gotten past that yet.

I think I need more alcohol in my life. Perhaps something with fruit.

( Linkspam )

Tags: awards, batman, books, clash of the titans, conventions, crazy, disney, dolls, harry potter, inception, john carter of mars, london boulevard, movies, nora roberts, oh dramatize, remember me, sex, sexism, shutter island, sparkle motion, star trek, the da vinci code, the time traveler's wife, tonner, true blood, tv, twilight, twitter, wanted, watchmen, where the wild things are, why we can't have nice things, writers, wtf, x-men
Current Mood: hungry

... which could probably change on a dime.

First off--had a couple of requests to talk about saving the show Chuck: library_of_sex says, "There's the usual letter-writing campaign and voting at E!Online's Save One Show, but there's also the Finale and Footlong, involving Subway, a big sponsor of the show," and foresthouse has more ideas here.

Oh, by the way: super cute charm necklaces. I have the Love Letter (wearing it right now, actually) and the Chat Noir.

( Linkspam! )

Tags: american idol, books, copyright, crazy, disney, epic fail, fandom, harry potter, jewelry, lolcats, movies, never let me go, robin hood, saturday night live, scifi, sparkle motion, star trek, stephen colbert, terminator, the da vinci code, the hurt locker, the wolfman, titanic, tv, twilight, twitter, wtf, x-men, young victoria
Current Mood: mellow

Thataway: The Package is REVEALED, and the responses are cracking me up. (I love how the predominant sentiment is, "He's an asshole! YAY!")

(Hello, new unlurkers! A few folks mentioned getting LJ accounts so as to comment on that entry, so welcome aboard and enjoy your stay.)

Meanwhile, I am hearing disturbing rumors that NECA might not put out The Littlest Bella until JULY. Y'all... I am gonna be so screwed if I have to tread water on this for another three months. I am trying very hard not to email them like a wingnut and plead for information.

Meanwhile-meanwhile, I've been clenching my jaw again, fnarr. Got a lot of work done today, though (which is probably why).

( Linkspam! )

Tags: american idol, art, books, candy, crazy, deaths, dolls, epic fail, fandom, harry potter, iron man, john carter of mars, kurt vonnegut, movies, neil gaiman, never let me go, perfume, public enemies, publishing, robin hood, salvador dali, sparkle motion, star trek, terminator, the da vinci code, the rum diary, the tudors, thirst, tv, twilight, twitter, vampires, watchmen, wtf, x-men, zombies
Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Exposé - Point Of No Return (shut up. You know I have no pride)

Early linkspam so I can go take some pictures for something I'm a bit behind on posting. Cough.

Re: the previous post: Okay, you know me. I love me some Tonners. That is not a factory fresh "original" Tonner Jacob. Now that I've gotten a good look at it, you can't convince me that it is. I know for a fact that the other two are repaints, because I know what the originals look like. That is just not a Tonner paint job, and you cannot tell me otherwise. ETA: Aha! Solved.

The new Made of Fail podcast is up, for real this time.

( More linkspam )

Tags: batman, books, clash of the titans, copyright, crazy, doctor who, dolls, fandom, fandom wank, harry potter, iron man, jane austen, movies, neil gaiman, pirates (arrrr), pride and prejudice, public enemies, sin city, sparkle motion, spider-man, star wars, stephen king, superman, terminator, terry pratchett, tonner, true blood, tv, twilight, vampires, x-men, young victoria, zombies
Current Mood: busy

A few things up front:

The new Made of Fail podcast is up!

Re: "Christmas in April": After some discussion on the last SLOD entry, I think we've decided that the green pegasus is named Medley, not Melody. Also: damn, y'all like you some My Little Ponies. I had no idea people still loved them so much, and I expected to be roundly mocked for still having mine.

(OMG THE BLUE PONY WITH THE FISH IS SO PRETTY! and also does not have dead, black eyes)

(OMG PWNIES.)

A couple of icons I loved but forgot to mention a while back: In case of explushination, break glass; a fever of 100 and werewolf.

( More linkspam! )

Tags: antiquities, april fool's day, books, cirque du freak, clash of the titans, crazy, fame, harry potter, icons, inception, iron man, lord of the rings, lost, made of fail, movies, music, my little pony, pirates (arrrr), podcasts, quelle scandale, rabbit hole, scary, sparkle motion, spider-man, stage and theater, star wars, sunshine cleaning, terminator, the last airbender, the rum diary, tori amos, true blood, tv, twilight, twitter, vampires, video, wtf, x-men
Current Mood: sleepy, a little headachy
Current Music: Bryan Adams - Run To You

A bit blah today, but not too terribly depressed. I guess that's improvement?

( Linkspam )

And now, to finish work on something else.

Tags: 9, alice in wonderland, comics, conventions, crazy, epic win, fashion, harry potter, iron man, lolcats, lost, movies, music, pixar, robin hood, salt, shutter island, south park, sparkle motion, spider-man, sunshine cleaning, the last airbender, toys, true blood, tv, twilight, u2, vampires, watchmen
Current Mood: blah

Depression: Can't tell if I would just feel bad no matter what--I think there was a legitimate, cyclical hormone dip late last week, which is partly why I felt so horrible--and (whichever topic) is the one I have chosen to gnaw on, or if (whichever topic) is making me feel bad, and if that's the case, if a strong attempt to redirect my thoughts would help. I mean, it probably couldn't hurt anyway, but I guess I'm curious as to whether redirecting my thoughts would make the situation better, or if I'd just settle into some new fixation. Because it's a hopeless topic. It's not something I can fix, it's not something I can do anything to improve, and it's doing a number on my self-esteem, which is leaking out all over everything else.

(Sometimes I think that it might be too late for so many of the things I wanted to accomplish, even though I'm only thirty. To late to catch a trend, too late to be a child prodigy, too late for young love. Well, if that's the case--fuck it, I might as well just have fun, right?)

So. If the sun comes out tomorrow, I'm going to go outside on that photo safari I meant to take a few weeks ago. Take some more pictures of flowers and foliage, basically--I can get some camera practice in, now that I've started thinking of photography as a minor hobby. I've just got to stop angsting and get on with living.

Linkspam and housekeeping: ( Read more... )

Tags: awards, batman, cameron!avatar, crazy, depression, flight of the conchords, harry potter, indiana jones, movies, music, o snap, oscars, pirates of the caribbean, salvador dali, shakespeare, sparkle motion, star trek, star wars, terminator, toys, tv, twilight, watchmen, x-men
Current Mood: still sneezing
Current Music: Clint Mansell - Stay With Me (The Fountain)

Trufax: I was talking to my sister's boyfriend--we really need to come up with a code name for him, Sister Girl and I decided, but we don't know what yet--on Sunday and he mentioned the Twilight Tonner dolls. Apparently when I was all like YOU GUYS GO TO THE TONNER NYCC BOOTH AND JUST, LIKE... LOOK AT THEM OR SOMETHING FOR ME earlier this month, he did, and he was like, "Who's in charge here? Can we buy 400 of those for our stores?" And the Tonner people were like, "Uh... YES." Apparently it had never occurred to anyone to sell actual dolls at bookstores, even though their rival Borders has been selling the action figures and all the Hot Topic crap. So, uh... if you happen to be at a Books-a-Million and you see the Tonners there as an in-store exclusive, that's... kind of because one of their buyers has a not-quite sister-in-law who's a Crazy Doll Lady. *cough* I mean, I asked Sister Girl, and she said, "No, it totally would have been because of you, that's how he would have heard about the dolls in the first place," although of course he was the one smart enough to actually come up with the idea and get them for the stores.

And the other thing is... I don't have anything solid enough to repeat on this, but they might give Books-a-Million some kind of holiday exclusive, I don't know. It might simply be that Tonner's going to put out more stuff for the holidays, as they do, and Books-a-Million will be the only bookstore selling it, who knows.

Meanwhile, I am TIRED of this head cold. It's just bad enough to make me feel groggy and snerfy, but not bad enough to GET ON WITH IT.

Also: Remind me to tell you about the Bowl of Galadriel. Again. Uh... tomorrow. Like I said: I'm a bit behind.

( Linkspam! )

Tags: agora, american idol, awards, batman, conventions, crazy, dolls, dracula, gaiety, harry potter, iron man, movies, narnia, nine, oscar, sherlock holmes, sparkle motion, star trek, star wars, the duchess, the imaginarium of dr. parnassus, tour of terror, twilight, twitter, wtf, young victoria
Current Mood: Is it better than being a Crazy Cat Lady?

Omg, I am so tired in such a stupid pointless way. Mostly because I have that cold and I'm snerfly and argh I am so over this. And I was away from the computer most of the day so I'm also behind on everything. Otherwise, you would also have a new Secret Life entry, because we have developments on that front. So look for that in the morning, I guess. Maybe? When are the televised inaugural festivities starting? Because even if three hours of leadup bore me to tears, I feel like I should be there, you know? A historic first is, by definition, a once-in-a-lifetime event.

Anyway. Linkspam. I've decided not to post generic Sundance links, or at least very few of them, because there's dozens of them on my feeds and I have neither the time nor the fortitude to deal with that right now. If it's a specific news item, sure, it'll go in, but as mentioned previously, several movie sites are doing exhaustive coverage (off the top of my head: EW; MTV; Defamer), so, you know: enjoy.

( Linkspam )

Tags: awards, books, britney spears, city of ember, conventions, coraline, crazy, dolls, film festivals, flight of the conchords, gaiety, harry potter, iron man, lord of the rings, lost, margaret atwood, movies, music, narnia, neil gaiman, sick, sparkle motion, spider-man, terry pratchett, the curious case of benjamin button, the princess and the frog, toys, tv, twilight, u2, vampires, veronica mars, watchmen, wtf, x-men
Current Mood: exhausted

Something you've probably noticed about me is that I'm a bit superstitious. I was talking with someone yesterday about that--Yeats, for example, was supposedly asked if he really believed in fairies, and he (allegedly) replied, "No, but don't tell them I said that." That's kind of how I am with superstition; I'm not crazy-go-nuts about it, but I feel like taking certain precautionary measures can't hurt. And I suspect that there's a sharp increase in superstitious activity when things aren't going well. Like, you know, THE WHOLE WORLD RIGHT NOW. That's the thing about magical thinking, I guess--it's an attempt to regain control where none can be had. The year 2008 sucked in many different ways for many different people, so I imagine a lot of us are taking "magical" precautions now--maybe they won't do any good, but good God, they can't hurt.

I have my own weird little superstitions--I don't know where I got this from or what it's even supposed to do, but I feel like you must change the calendar on the first day of the month, no sooner and definitely no later. But 2008 was such a pernicious beast that I made sure to take both my calendars down before midnight--I didn't want 2008 to get its dirty fingerprints on 2009, if that makes any sense. (Whereas if I'd had a really good year, I would have left it up until morning, to make a little good fortune rub off on the new year.) And then I put up my new 2009 calendar today.

I'm also trying to make sure I only listen to fun, happy music (nothing about broken hearts or endless longing) and do fun, happy things. FUN AND HAPPY, OKAY? I've also heard that red is a good color to wear on New Year's Day, so I have a kind of deep raspberry pink sweater to wear, and also that you should wear gold to bring prosperity (this is an example of sympathetic "magic," I think? "Like brings like," basically?), so I'm going to wear the locket and bracelet I got for Christmas. I mean, I'm just going to be hanging out around the house, but I DON'T CARE, THESE THINGS ARE IMPORTANT. I can't intimidate any of the appliances into behaving this year, but I can control what I wear, dammit.

Despite my not being able to control the weather, it's bright and sunny, though. That seems like a good sign.

Tags: crazy, new year's

MOAR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING. I know it sounds like we do nothing but shop these days, but the thing is, we're going out a lot and to a lot of different places, but we're really not returning with all that much. Also, it's really hard to find the right gift for some of the people on our list. So there's that.

Meanwhile, on the way home from our last excursion of the day, we dropped by my grandmother's to bring her some more ornaments. On the way out, I stopped to play with a--I don't know, I guess you'd call it a banner? It kind of looks like a long flat bell pull? I don't know. She has it hanging on her front door, and it's this tan-colored strip of fabric with little decorated felt Christmas trees, edged with shiny gold rickrack. "I loved this when I was a kid," I told her, shaking it a little so the bells would jingle. "Ruth made that," my grandmother said warmly. "She really liked arts and crafts. She made all of this herself, every bit of it. Even the tassels. She sewed everything on it there--the sequins, the little ornaments, she even put the pearls on the trees. She's dead now."

I managed not to crack up until I got to the car. My mother couldn't understand why I was doubled up in the passenger seat crying with laughter. I'm not sure I understand it myself.

Let's have a little linkspam.

( OMFG HE CUT OFF HIS HAIR EVERYBODY KERMITFLAIL )

THIS IS SO IMPORTANT THAT IT IS ABOVE THE CUT:

From sabra_n: My Fair Lady: Thompson Wants Laurie as Higgins ("The only way that could be improved upon, as one genius on the Innerwebs pointed out, is if they cast Stephen Fry as Pickering").

( More movie linkspam )

ETA: Oh, I forgot to mention--someone (I've lost the comment! Who was it?) suggested I claim my author profile on GoodReads, so I'm over there now as well. If you have any idea what I should put under "about this author," let me know.

Tags: alabama is the center of the universe, alice in wonderland, christmas, coraline, crazy, family, fandom, forbidden planet, harry potter, iron man, lost, movies, my fair lady, onoz, shopping, sparkle motion, state of play, terminator, the spirit, tv, twilight, underworld, vampires, watchmen, x-men
Current Mood: mellow
Current Music: Poe, "Fingertips"

I think seasonal affective disorder is starting to set in--it's funny, because I go through this every year (by definition, actually), so you'd think I'd have the warning signs down to a science by now. For some reason I'd gotten it down to "January and February are increasingly bad," but I hadn't ever really noticed December. Maybe because December is shiny and full of cake? I don't know. But it's suddenly occurred to me that, in terms of weather, November is cold (well, sometimes down here) but sunny, and December is just crap on a stick. And, as previously discussed, I think I may be a reverse vampire solar-powered.

So I'm not feeling so good right now. The good news is, it's not really an emotional depression; that lifted after I got through my birthday. It's just a sludgy Let's Curl Up on the Couch and Watch DVDs Instead of Doing Fuck-All depression. Which, I mean, that's great, but when you're dumb intrepid enough to try writing for a living, you don't get paid if you don't produce. So I suck, is what I'm saying. Seasonally.

(To digress, a nifty trick I have discovered: if you add your own Livejournal to Google Reader, and then you create a particular tag for it ["livejournal," let's say], you can then search any term in that tag. And the full text of your entries will be included. So basically, you've got your own personal LJ search engine. Hell, you could add anyone else and search them, too. Problem: It won't show any friends-locked or privatized entries. But since the majority of my entries are public anyway, it's extremely useful for tracking down That One Time I Mentioned Something; it took me two seconds, maybe, to find the "I am solar-powered" entry.)

Hmm. Let's have some Twi-spam. I can't believe Twimania's still marching on at this rate (well... actually, I can), but it is, and it's crazier than ever:

( If you ignore me again, I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE )

THINGS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH TWILIGHT:

All 26 Coraline alphabet posters! (Scroll down for the rest.)

SAG nominations: Who got snubbed?

49 Songs Queue for 2008 Oscar. I have four words for you: "Rock Me, Sexy Jesus."

Eddie Murphy won’t be playing The Riddler; Alan Horn Clears Up Dark Knight Sequel Rumors. Everybody breathe, okay?

Is Baz Luhrmann Actually Going To Make a Great Gatsby Movie? This is Sister Girl's favorite book, Luhrmann. Don't screw this up, or I'm going to get another long, angry phone call from her like the one I got after she saw the Benjamin Button trailer (also based on a Fitzgerald story).

Fuck You, Penguin ("A blog where I tell cute animals what's what").

Oh, and also--the Young Wizards forums have been spiffed up.

Tags: awards, batman, books, coraline, crazy, cute, depression, epic fail, fandom, forums, livejournal, movies, music, oscars, sag awards, seasonal affective disorder, sparkle motion, the great gatsby, twilight, wtf, young wizards
Current Mood: a little too mellow

You guys, I was having a really irritable I Hate People morning and then all of a sudden darkmagess sent me a link to OFFICIAL HOT TOPIC EDWARD GLITTER and I just sat there and laughed for like five minutes straight.

And then thirty seconds after that, I got this comment from dachelle about a dream she had, which involved the sentence, "And then you shushed me and pointed up into the rafters, and there were TwiMoms up there, waiting to pounce." There was actually a moment in there where I started choking on my own laughter.

Meanwhile, because the possibility is too awesome to hold for tonight's linkspam: Hugh Jackman to host the Oscars? That's why they were talking about dumping the jokey-joke monologue. ETA: CONFIRMED!

Oh, and for foresthouse: Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool May Find Life After ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine.’

Tags: awards, crazy, dreams, oscars, sparkle motion, twilight, x-men
Current Mood: amused