we got all night

I didn't post on Saturday but it was James Roday's birthday. I usually make a picspam, but the man himself joined Twitter last week, so I just tweeted him a birthday wish. I kinda feel bad breaking a tradition, but it's a picspam, not a holiday parade. Also, it may not exactly be Jason Schwartzman (it's allegedly him and two staffers at Young Baby Records, although I wasn't aware they had staff), but @CoconutRecrds is on Twitter, so that's something.

I realize that there's a bit of a Twitter backlash lately and I realize that it might be because of the LoudTwitter posts. I know how annoying those can be, since I'm on Twitter and don't feel like reading everything twice. I usually skip the LoudTwitter posts, but it still takes up space on my flist. So for those Firefox users tired of those posts, I wanna point you to a Greasemonkey script called LJ-Twitterless. It doesn't get all of them, at least not for me. But it helps.

I saw Monster Vs. Aliens this weekend, and everyone in the house keeps quoting B.O.B.'s lines. :D I want an animated icon of B.O.B. with the jello at the end but I have no idea where to get caps or an icon. Coincidentally, I'm now in a Seth Rogen phase now, so I decided that this first week of spring break (it starts Wednesday and goes until the 20th) will be about the Apatow crew and finally watching all of Freaks & Geeks and Undeclared and then watching The Spiderwick Chronicles and Horton Hears A Who for Seth's V.O.s. :) Next week will be wrapping up Mad Men, Touching Evil, and starting either Queer As Folk or Friday Night Lights.

It turns out that I don't have much to say about TV. ( But here's thoughts on HIMYM, Big Bang )

I haven't even gotten around to re-watching Lost. BUT THE GAME, HAHA OMG. I got Via Domus because it was the cheapest game they had that I wanted at Toys R' Us, even if it was bad. The first moment you see Michael, I was like, "Hey, I'm going to ask him about Walt." So I walk up to him and click the button and he immediately goes, "I can't find my boy. Waaaaalllttt!" I about died laughing. The acting is okay, it just doesn't go with the stunted animations worthy of early PS2 games, so everything sounds like... the Resident Evil 1 school of acting. Or Iron Man. "TONY! MEN! WITH GUNS! OUTSIDEEE." "STAY. INSIDE! PEPPER." lolol, licensed games will never not be funny. I still want Watchmen: The End Is Nigh, Rorschach's rage burst and all. Don't judge me.

Lia

It's April 4th you say?

According to IMDB.com, it's also Heath Ledger's birthday, so I thought I should mention that first.

But it is also James Roday and Robert Downey Jr's birthdays (what are the odds really?), and so I put together a minispam of sorts, since that's how we celebrate birthdays in fandom-- showing you pictures of the person(s)!

So ( onto the spam! )

Here's to many more years for both of them. *raises Capri Sun*

YYAAAYYY.

Okay, now I'm going to go back to my movies, lalalala.

Lia

P.S. All pictures from james-roday.net and robert-downeyjr.net, and my own trailer caps.

ETA: According to ET (yes, I watched it specifically for the Birthday Quiz today, stfu) Robert Downey Jr is the first SNL cast member to be nominated for an Oscar.

Just when I think I'm up to date with my podcasts, five new episodes of various ones pop up. Thanks. Who told podcasts that the length for an episode must be an hour or more? I only have two hours a day whilst traveling to listen to stuff! *gripes some more*

Anycakes, Skinwalkers? So good. I found it amusing that two people from Shooter are in it, but I like Koteas and Mitra isn't that annoying. They twisted the legend around a bit, and from what I see on IMDB everyone hates the movie. It could've been worse in explaining the lore (The Covenant, anyone?) and the acting was good enough, considering. I kept comparing the boy to Liam James, but he was okay. They used that same stretch of road that Supernatural used two or three times though. Good old Canada.

Standing Still was also good, although it felt hollow. I guess I expected a bit more, although in what respects I have no idea. Also sorta stumpy in the ending was The Bourne Ultimatum. The flashbacks were done well. They're getting better with that anti-aging stuff. if you didn't see the first two Bourne movies (yffy, I'm looking at you), you're going to be a bit confused with all the talk.

Blonde was so boring. Eric Bogosian couldn't even save it and I barely paid attention by the second disc. Jensen's kimono scene was funny, but if you've seen one animated icon of it, you've seen the entire thing. I'm not a huge Monroe fan, but all these fictional accounts of her life are kinda annoying.

I'm in the middle of watching Tadpole and She's All That, but Sarah Michelle Gellar just popped up in She's All That, so I stopped it and I'll watch the last few chapters tonight. And dude, please thank whoever introduced Dulé Hill to weights. I'm not a muscle lover, but the man was a beanpole in that movie. Tadpole is interesting to say the least but I'm in love with half the cast so I'm probably biased.

If anything comes from Blockbuster before I finish what's taped on the DVR (I still have Alpha Dog to watch too, geesh!) I'll probably watch that. Hey, it's either a Alan Rickman movie or The Talented Mr. Ripley coming. Win all around.

This is getting long, but last night I saw "Man Band" and the "Singing Bee" and then the late night movie on NY 55/10 was On The Line, which is the one DVD of mine that has ceased to work at all. Oh, *NSYNC night it was. On the train I saw the ads for Justin's concert thing too, but I made sure to stand underneath it.

Oh dude, last night's Big Brother. JESSICA IS SO GULLIBLE OMG. Mom and I were laughing so hard. And then I told mom what that box Jameka had been praying on recently was (the Jack Shack), and we laughed even more.

Coldstone ice cream is no huge deal. Fun, but I like my ice cream cheap and with a variety of flavors. I'm not falling for that Starbucks mentality again. I do want to try Pinkberry though, because James Roday loves it and who am I to ignore Roday's style? And dude, you can have Cap'n Crunch, pineapples and bananas for a topping on Green Tea pinkberry. It's like... an official Psych dessert or something.

Lia

P.S. If you haven't read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series yet, dooo it. Hysterical. I'm only the second book in, but lololol

Wow. The net is DEAD. I'm half amused, half saddened. Why don't I have friends like that NEAR ME, damnit!?

And now I want a video of Snape singing the theme to Fresh Prince. :/

EW YOU SLAY ME. Attack of the Show is watchable? Pereira and Munn are adorable? GAG ME NOW. And no one gets away with saying Pereira can have tough-minded conversations with anyone. I cannot take you seriously anymore, TV section. And now I don't feel so bad that you snub Psych every week.

( Entourage )

( Big Brother )

Damnit, I missed Monk and they didn't give it at 12am, and I'm not watching it at 2am. :P Tomorrow.

( Psych )

Anyway, the five of you who aren't packed away reading a book this weekend! You should totally check out The Kill Point on Spike TV starting this Sunday! :) It's a mini-series but it still looks awesome. (And written by Todd Hartan, the other writer of Skinwalkers.)

Which brings us to Skinwalkers! If you're looking for something to watch this Friday at the movies, SKINWALKERS. That is all.

Lia

ETA: I love how I'm on hiatus but have managed to post at least once a day for half of this week.

My dad is delayed in showing me these things. But anyway, if you've heard the podcast I linked to the other day, James Roday mentions spending some time in New York.

THIS MAY BE WHY.

*brainspasm*

I need tickets. Immediately. Anyone who wants to join me? I mean, I've got about a bloody week two weeks left! :O

Lia

I needed to type this somewhere because I had a wicked awesome but touching dramatic Psych-related mash-up of a dream last night/this morning. I'm typing it all up because it's one of those dreams that was really good and I remembered it all so I had to write it down. But that's not this post. That's the next post.

This post is about James Roday. OK, it's pretty well-known amongst the Roday-addicts (we need a cool fandom name...) that his birth name is James Rodriguez. He's from San Antonio, Texas. So it'd be safe to assume that the hispanic part of him must be Mexican. Texas is right there on the Mexico border after all. Which would be fine to leave it there. But Ryan Cabrera (you know Ashlee Simpson's best-friend/ex) is from Dallas, Texas just like the whole Simpson clan-- and he's half Colombian. Cameron Diaz has blonde hair like Ryan Cabrera, and she's half Cuban. (She's from San Diego, so that doesn't fit into our equation though. I was just rambling on blonde-haired hispanics for a second.) And Alexis Bledel? The chick from Gilmore Girls? She's half Argentinian and half Mexican and hails from Houston. WTF.

Look on a map of Central America and there's tons of Spanish nations, and South America is basically Spanish-world too. So I give up (for now) trying to figure out what James Roday is. I mean, it doesn't really matter but it'd be cool to know.

Lia