we got all night

So much to talk about, so little time.

( Robert Schwartzman at Webster Hall )

THE WEEKEND WAS THE GREATEST. World Cup of Quidditch V. It started out already exhausting because I really needed rest after being at work all of Thursday and then having to wake up early Friday. Saturday (and sometimes Sunday, if I can get away with it) is my day to really enjoy sleeping in with nowhere to go. Instead I woke up at 7am, and left to pick up splits_thesky at Penn Station. We walked up to Times Square, where they were re-creating Super Mario Land for the day. It was still pretty early so the crowd wasn't ridiculous and we were able to observe and leave quickly. I didn't realize until later that they were actually giving away the Tanooki tails and ears the volunteers were wearing. I wanted a pair. :(

( Then Quidditch happened )

I'm like an episode away from being caught up with American Horror Story. THE HELL IS GOING ON.

I was supposed to be asleep two hours ago. I will pay for this tomorrow when I fall asleep while my poems are workshopped. D:

ANYWAY. This happened. I KNEW SOMETHING WAS ROTTEN IN DENMARK, DIDN'T I? That's the first time a band member has left a band I'm actively interested in. When Wes left Limp Bizkit I was only moderately invested in their music. And the shifts in Cobra Starship and The Academy Is... happened before I got into their music. I'm not as distraught as the fans on the forums/Facebook seem to be (my initial reaction was "WHO WILL BE THE CREEPY SUNGLASSES GUY AT CONCERTS NOW?" and then "Well good for Matt! It could be worse news.") but it's still weird. Every time I see another tweet about it I've auditioned other bassists I know in my mind (ROONEY AND SISKY! ROONEY WITH GARBOWSKY!) and I can't picture anyone else on that side of the stage. I'm just hoping whoever they find is ready in time for this summer tour they're alleging. And that I have money by then to see them (in a related note: omg Twitter, shut up about Extinction). And that it doesn't fall apart from here on out with Ned being busy with Emmett (HOW ADORABLE A NAME, BTW, OMG), Taylor with The Roughs and Robert doing the Solobob thing. Ack.

The point of this post was this meme that I just snatched from ewanspotter, never mind the five other ones I've been tagged for that I haven't gotten to yet:

The Find ___ Game!

1) Go to Wikipedia.
2) Click 'Random article' (on the left navigation bar)
3) From there, only using links in articles, navigate yourself to Holmes's page
4) Post your path!

Find Jason Schwartzman! (see, it fits this post!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juice_bar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_IV:_A_New_Hope
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Graffiti
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Ford_Coppola
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Schwartzman

A JUICE BAR? Jason's six degrees from a juice bar. Freakin' vegan!vegetarian (I say that with love, you know this).

I have another thing to ask of you guys, but I'll make another post about it tomorrow. I want to try out ElJay's posting abilities on my phone. :P

Haha, okay, so I've been on a bit of a Coppola kick lately. YOU CAN'T BLAME ME. Anyway, I'm trying to watch all these movies on my "must-watch" list before I succumb to a Coppola marathon. But then today I kept seeing references to them. They were playing Jason movies (random ones he's barely in like Hitchhiker's Guide and Bewitched), wandersfound tweeted about Princess Diaries 2 (which is the wrong movie but whatever), and I found all this information about Sofia's new movie (which I'm actually excited about for once--cast!!!). So I had to slowly back away for a second before I ran and like, re-watched Bored to Death and Lick the Star again.

Instead I tracked down the Gunslinger Girls anime to watch. I saw the first episode at this anime and gaming club they had at Pace, but never got around to watching the whole thing. I know there were only two seasons but Blockbuster has a vol. 3, season 2 and a DVD collection all with three discs so I can't tell what is what. I found the first season elsewhere, though. I just need the second season. I'd get the manga too, but that's like 67 collections and lol, I'm not tracking all that down. I might, if I enjoy the anime more than I expect I will. I don't even watch anime! The last thing I watched in that genre was Appleseed. And I hate that it's considered a genre, because there's different anime. Like there's different animation. So that'll be my "thing to watch" for this weekend, when I'm done catching up on comics.

( Month of December meme )

Anyway, I'm going to go watch Cole Hauser torture people or something. Whatever, Emmanuelle Chriqui has something to do with it.

Lia

By way of hegemony

An Open Letter to Eric Kripke

I couldn't have said it better myself, really. I'm usually one to completely miss these things on my tv shows but for some reason Supernatural makes it super-obvious and it really is my only gripe about the show (I mean, it's on CW but that's not really an excuse).

In other news, I will be listening to this for the rest of the day.

Lia

I saw Funny People. It could've been deeper but it was just glossy, depressing and long. I still enjoyed it. Although Apatow's daughter can sing pretty well and that one bar scene with EVERY COMEDIAN EVER was amazing.

TV this week-- loved Royal Pains and Leverage. I hate the stacked seasons on USA. Royal Pains is still going on, but Burn Notice is over, In Plain Sight's going to finish on Sunday and Psych and Monk are just beginning. I lik when they'd all end at the same time, right before my fall shows would start. Actually, I haven't seen this week's In Plain Sight yet. I was too busy with my layout to notice the time when they re-ran it yesterday.

Lake Bell's got a new series coming soon!! I love HBO. It's the only paid cable network I bother with, but employing my favorite B and C-Listers doesn't hurt.

( Meme )

Changed my layout. It took me forever to do the banner because I wanted it exactly like it looked in my head, so I had to track down effect tuts, textures and brushes I didn't have. And then I changed Castiel's line of vision, but it's so small you can't even tell now.

Psych tonight! I won't be home when it premieres at 10, but I'll be back by the re-run. \o/



Lia

So I'm finally getting around to reading fic I've saved in my "to-read" folders and tags from the last two years. At ten fics a day (with the way my family runs) it'll take about a week. Excuse the years-late comments. The good thing is I'll be reading all the fic y'all post from now on, like I used to. So there's that.

Anyway. The whole Diggnation in NYC in June thing is part of the Digg.com Meetup schedule (haven't kept up with Digg in the last year either, whoops) apparently, but they're coming to Webster Hall which is amazing, because I've always wanted to have an excuse to go there that wasn't for some random rave or whatever they usually do there. So next week! Just as excited as last year. Maybe this time I'll get decent pics of Prager and Hippie. I still want the TRS boys to come along, though.

In movies that I have watched recently, Night at the Museum 2 was entertaining and I totally didn't know all the cameos that were going to happen, nor did I know John Schwartzman was the DP. And he's not officially a Coppola, but he works a lot with Nic Cage and he's an alright cinematographer. When the inevitable two-movie pack comes out, I may buy that. I'm also finishing up on the Star Trek movies prior to the 2009 reboot and I'll talk about them as a whole when that's done (if all goes according to plan, First Contact, Nemesis and Insurrection will happen tomorrow). But at this moment in time, Voyage Home is easily my favorite. "I think he had too much LDS." XD Unintentionally insinuating Spock likes Mormons equals AMAZING.

And finally, I've started researching Castiel more for this fic I'm writing and I keep coming across video interviews of Misha Collins and I'm really starting to like the guy. I still get super-protective when someone doesn't understand fandom or reacts to fans like we're aliens, but it feels like he's trying his darnedest, so that's a plus. And he's amusing on Twitter.

Lia

THIS PICTURE:



*EXPLODES*

WHY DOES NO ONE TELL ME WHEN IMDB UPDATES STUFF, OMG.

EDIT: TRAILERRRRRRRRR

ALSO THIS WHOLE STORY. BRB, EXPLODING SOME MORE.

IT'S SO DIFFICULT LOOKING FOR HEADPHONES TO WATCH TRAILERS IN THE DARK AT 5AM. BUT TED MOSBY, YOU LIE. SOME THINGS ARE AMAZING AFTER 2AM.

EDIT PART 2: AHAHA, Y'ALL ARE OFF THE HOOK. EVERYTHING JUST GOT UPLOADED FRIDAY/TODAY AT 9PM.

Lia

Last week I had mentioned that before class I decided to write down all my ships. I had meant to post them here, as sort of an FYI. But then last week was sort of a blur and I never did.

So let's do that now. Although, as a sort of disclaimer: my mind works in weird ways. I tend to ship people for different reasons. Sometimes it has more to do with the actors than the actual characters (but not in an rpf way, although I do have rpf ships) or writing, and sometimes I have really cracky ideas that I have no real desire to see play out, but entertain them nonetheless because they are so amusing and/or I can't unsee it. So not all of these are things that I think, "OMG IT MUST END THAT WAY OR I SHALL DIE."

Also, my fan fiction origins were in the *NSYNC fandom, but not so much in the slash way of things. I think that contributes to my high tolerance of RPF, but the idea does creep me out some. Eventually (although not always) I lose the fight!

( Ship List '08 )

In other news:
YouTube FINALLY added something similar to the highlighter on GameVee.com and I'm pleased.

AND HOLY SNAP, THANK YOU YOUTUBE SUBSCRIPTIONS. COCONUT RECORDS, NEW ALBUM IN JANUARY 2009. \O/ (lol, my second thought after "OMGYAY" was "His family are like rabbits." I don't even know whose kids those are, but what the hell, Sofia had a kid last year! Although it could potentially be Sofia's kid and Kal-El-- but IDK if the extended Coppola family is that close-knit.)

And it looks like I accidentally missed Brothers & Sisters and Entourage tonight (there's a football game on and my parents are wrapped up in it, so I wasn't alerted to it ever being 10pm), so I guess that'll be for tomorrow's TV post of doom.

Lia

This weekend has ended on a good note.

Leo (my cockatiel) is back to singing, although he's not really eating anything more than millet (which is essentially snack food) and still hangs out with his mirror image. I miss the chorus of the two but it's good to hear the song again. He's totally anti-social though, because I went by the cage to chirp at him and he just turned his back to me.

And right now I guess every Psych fan on here is at James-Roday.net, but if you're not, GO! They have goodies from the S2 DVDs that are out on Tuesday (I'm getting mine Monday night). USA is finally playing promos for the new season and I'm so excited. I have to go buy pineapples soon, so I can make some Lassies.

I couldn't NOT talk about this. The sad thing is I'm already envisioning stalking the sets (because they have to shoot on location, mmkay?) and the LJ communities and the fandom in general. The pilot isn't even in production and I'm all excited. I'm determined that this will be more Entourage than John From Cincinnati in terms of ratings and stuff. HBO, I trust you can do it. JASOOOONNNNN. And Funny People starts shooting soon! *glee*

Since this entry is basically focused on "males that Lia loves" um... crap. Nothing exciting in Downey-land lately. Here? *fails*

WAIT. kkissbbang started up a newsletter that focuses on news about Val Kilmer, RDJ and Michelle Monaghan and it's pretty awesome. The new "issue" is here. Not so much about RDJ this time but whatever. Like I said, it's quiet in Downey-land this weekend.

Lia

P.S. My iTunes LOVES me today!

First of all: RIP Stan Winston. I was pretty shocked to hear this. Hollywood won't be the same without him.






Yesterday was a crazy day all around. I ended up not going to the Rooney concert because I decided that seeing Kung Fu Panda and The Incredible Hulk were more worth my money, especially since Rooney had no new material to perform-- and I'd seen them in November which was relatively recent.

So my sister, nephew, dad and I all went to see Kung Fu Panda, even though dad was like, "I'd rather see the Hulk!" And it was adorable-- better than I expected and funny to boot. I spend most of the time watching animated movies just marveling at how far they have come, both in storytelling and effects. It might just be my family, but a lot of these so-called "kid's movies" are more fun for the adults than the kids. During one particularly fascinating fight scene I glanced over and my nephew was snugged up to my sister, but my dad was on the edge of his seat and leaning on the seat in front of him, lol. Things like that are why I love my dad. He's never grown up, for better or for worse. I would've loved to have been able to by him a PS3 and a HDTV for Father's day like I wanted. But we bought him a power drill... for the home projects that he never does? IDK, it's hard to buy affordable stuff for a selfless man like he is. I hope everyone had a good Father's Day with whoever is their father figure.

Later on my dad and I went back to the movies to see The Incredible Hulk-- and two seconds before we left my aunt called to implore us to go see The Incredible Hulk XD My dad was like, "Actually, we're leaving right now." And it was good, but I wasn't floored by it or anything. I will say that Edward Norton does fit the Ultimates Banner much better and while I still don't see Liv Tyler as Betty, she did great. I'm sure splits_thesky will approve.

In my mind I have this idea that Downey, Favereau, Howard, Leterrier, Norton and Tyler are all calling each other this weekend saying welcome to the club and that congratulations are being sent all around. I think the camaraderie of Twitter has taken its toll. That, or my mind is just thinking in Entourage terms again.

OMG, ALSO. THE CLONE WARS TRAILER. I am uber-excited. Shaak Ti!

Some links I found while clicking around the net:
Transporter 3 French trailer (Frank Martin! ;djks;afds)
First look at DragonBall Z movie (lol, Justin Chatwin)
New Apatow comedy (just look at the cast, you guys: Seth, Jonah AND JASON?)

And I meant to share this when it was on Diggnation ages ago, and most of you have probably seen it by now, but this video is long, yet awesome.

And this story might be of particular interest to sparrowlove, lol.

I'm like, six issues away from the end of Y: The Last Man and I'm scared. And the fact that the director of the upcoming movie wants Shia LaBeouf to be Yorick annoys me. Yorick isn't a stuttering idiot. Shia can act tough, but he can't be tough. Yorick is more Sean William Scott or Bryan Greenberg. This feels like my very own version of the Twilight fandom's frustrations when they didn't get their Edward and Bella.

Lia