chrryblssmninja

Any Berkeley people or people wanting to crash a party need to go to

http://community.livejournal.com/ucb_anoncon/3065.html


seriously, this AnonCon has been so boring compared to previous ones


I just got Gareth Keenan (The Office)/Dark Helmet (Spaceballs) on a pairing generator

where's that full fic generator? The one where you put names and words and it makes a fic?

I also can't do much on the internet because my brother's not done with homework and there are Doctor Who spoilers everywhere


okay

oh my gosh no I just got John Locke (Lost)/Lyra Belacqua (His Dark Materials)
Marlin (Finding Nemo)/Number 6 (Battlestar Galactica 2004)


ETA:
found the Drabble Generator

if any of you Berkeley people are free today between 11 AM to 1 PM, text me so we can lunch before I have to go prepare for a presentation at 2.


via qwantz: using sink water to flush the toilet. YAY ECOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS, PUTTING THE "LOGIC" IN ECOLOGICAL

A collection of Craig Ferguson's musical and/or puppet openings for The Late Late Show.

Tilda Swinton says she'd welcome the chance to portray Conan O'Brien


finally, via retrokicks:



I totally thought they were going in for a kiss towards the end.


ETA: oh, and I finished Red Dwarf series 1 a few days ago. Now I want a cat book.
"Yeah, it's a cat book. They don't use marks, they use smells."

Discoveries in 2009 that had an impact on me

- Music Go Music
- the Maiku Hama series
- aloe vera drink
- chai
- Alison Mosshart (at first I thought she and The Kills were too hipster-cool to appeal to me, but then I heard her voice (sans the usual affectations) on the Last Shadow Puppets cover of "Paris Summer" and I never looked back
- Henry James' supernatural stories
- J.A. Caesar's crazy rock opera experimental music
- Fulltime Killer
- friends from ontd_startrek
- "The Pillowman" - a play by Martin McDonagh (writer/director of In Bruges)
- Creepyposts
- Sisters of the Gion and Osaka Elegy
- Brand Upon the Brain!, The Saddest Music in the World, and other Guy Maddin works
- Half-Price Books - this year I actually went inside and bought things
- rose gelato and Epicurious Garden in Berkeley
- Cupkates Bakery
- that cafe in Berkeley with the vegan pizza
- Tumblr
- this pear green tea
- Kern's Peach Nectar soda
- the mango sorbet with blueberries and granola combo I only found at Papamingo
- Arnold Palmer drink - thanks to kerlin!
- Felicia Day
- Listsofbests.com
- using the "bookmark" feature not just for sites I want permanently bookmarked, but also to return to sites I want to return to soon for a limited period of time. I used to paste links into a document for that.
- Final Girl

I like how many of these are food-related.

I'm sure there are more, but these are the ones I can remember at the moment. Go post your 2009 discoveries in the comments or on your own journal!

It is pouring rain.


There is a girl walking with a thin shirt, pants just below knee length, and no shoes or socks.
She is still using an umbrella.



hm.

The UC Berkeley (actually, it was UC-wide) protest I helped shoot for CalTV. Some other groups tried to push their message there, but the main protest was a faculty and student strike about proposed budget cuts.





oh my gosh I have asked the camera department head to tell me when there's a session dealing with lighting, because wow my lighting was bad up there. I thought I put it to let in the least amount of light possible! And it was still like that! Yeah, it was noon, but still...

Any video people reading this, especially claennis: How do you get your colors and lighting look so good?

Finally. I am done with the two papers.

I stopped flisting around Sunday, and I only let myself get distracted by music and ontd_lost. So if you posted anything you want me to see, leave a comment here.



I went and found some nu cumbia music to accompany my frantic typing.
You can get some good free tracks from the Bay to Buenos Aires label here and here (I recommend "Mundo Querido" from that last one) and free mixtapes from the Buenos Aires club Zizek.


After delivering my papers, we went to that food court place in Berkeley's Gourmet Ghetto area. Got some good chocolate at Alegio, and the guy at the counter let us taste these cool specialty chocolate covered sweets from Barcelona. aha I found it Enric Rovira. This little shop is the only place that sells these chocolate in the United States. We had to guess what ingredient was covered by the chocolate. I guessed the third one right - peppercorn, although I didn't know it was pink peppercorn. Really odd things, but they tasted good anyway.

now all I have is internship stuff and a poetry reading. Phew.

Wednesday was a very non-boring day.

Got to school a little early for CalTV filming. Saw a superlong line of people, some looking like they camped overnight, waiting for the tickets to see the Dalai Lama.

After filming, the reporter and I were walking in front of the Campanile and at that moment, a whole bunch of high-schoolers were running a race on the same path. It is so weird seeing a ton of people suddenly running towards you. We escaped, but shoot that was freakycinematic.

Caught a bit of the Arsenal CL game before class. Argh Roma scoring.

Class had a very interesting discussion about how movie/images have strength in presentation but how text has the edge in articulation. Made me think of people replying to each other in images (sign language still counts as "word" language). Not all discussions can be done via Youtube reply threads.

Silly me maybe shouldn't have had that yogurt shake after only one hot dog...
but it was so weird- on the way to the yogurt shop, I saw all these record and CD covers strewn around in the plants and bushes...like someone bought from Rasputin (just down the block) and then just took the records/CDs

immediately went to the school pub to finish the CL game. Because I am made of fail, I forgot that it was going to penalties and came out all disappointed. Oh well, had to print something and get a snack anyways before next class. While printing, checked ONTD a bit. Saw this:
Casting started for Star Wars live-action TV show
you do not understand. I had this tag for quite a while already. I don't care if it's bad or good, I just want to see it happen!
The plot of the series would "follow the Rebel Alliance as it slowly gains strength against the Empire. There will be Stormtroopers, but no Jedi or Darth Vader will appear on screen. As he did with the “Clone Wars” series, Lucas will write and shoot an entire year’s worth of episodes before looking for a cable channel on which to air the series."
HEY WAIT WHAT ABOUT MY SQUEEING ABOUT SHOWING THE "GREASY, SEAMY" SIDE OF THE WORLDS WITH THEIR BOUNTY HUNTERS AND SUCH?. Well, I guess it might get in. A young Mon Mothma would be cool too.
I am such a geek.

last class required much participation. I started out sort of stilted and organizing things with my hands, but by the end of the class I was explaining my opinions pretty well, yay
but my headache really started during this class as well

On BART, the sun keept attacking me. I kept on flinching, tried napping a bit but that didn't last long. I'm such a sunbaby, but headache plus not being used to lots of sun in these coldish days = flinchattacks and massaging my temples

got home around 6:30 PM. Took Tylenol and napped until 8:45ish, but got pissy when parents asked about dinner

bad mood bad mood. Catch a bit of pop-up Lost for some lolz and Faraday, though.

go online - find out that I was failbot and didn't figure out that Arsenal went to penalties. But sooooo happy they won. Penalties vid here. aww, Pat Rice is squeeing around 1:40

also, lol : Clive Owen leaves own movie premiere for Liverpool match haha
and via claennis:
“ Sometimes on a day off I go to the Krispy Kreme doughnut shop. When we play at home, I go there after the game and it’s like a doughnut party! Everyone is eating doughnuts inside their cars - it’s like a disco! „
Cesc Fabregas, everybody.

so now I'm happy. I've been jumping around and eating clementines.

LET'S PARTY LIKE IT'S A DOUGHNUT PARTY


random other stuff:
lol Ed Westwick you creep
Best total Lost picspam ever (I like navras_rheya's too, but this is just epic

So awesome and Canadian!
from the comments: Poutine: How do you Canadians eat this stuff

Thanks to everyone who has already submitted questions to the character question meme. If you haven't, what are you waiting for? I NEED EVEN MORE CRACK



Hero pilot in New York plane crash is UC Berkeley visiting scholar


cleolinda:
Jaw-dropping line of dialogue in NSFW comic
oh my gosh. haha. whoa.

Cowboy Bebop with Keanu Reeves is set to go
:(

also, that trailer in the article cannot get across the cool of this show. The title sequence does a much better job.



Empire's list of 23 buzz films at Sundance
nekare, it has Rudo y Cursi
orangecrackers, it has 500 Days of Summer
greenet, it has Dead Snow
claennis, it has that movie.
Also includes a movie directed by John Krasinski, and another movie based on a Nick Hornby novel and starring Peter Sarsgaard and Emma Thompson.


The 1000 Greatest Movies
based on 1,825 critics/reviewers' and filmmakers' top-10 lists, culled from many sources. Additionally, we have also factored in over 900 magazine polls, film institute polls, and many other polls of interest. The net effect of all our fine-tuning over the last twelve months is that a total of 96 films have debuted or re-entered our list and, of course, 96 films have dropped out.
Criticism of the list


Some movies I tried and didn’t bother finishing (maybe one day, Robert Bresson) or didn't have time to finish.
There are two movies on these lists I will never watch: Salo and Irreversible. I just don't think I can stomach them. This is coming from someone who's watched Cannibal Holocaust. I think the moralistic/exploitation/B-movie tone helped me get through that.

My progress on the list. 7 %!

They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? also compiled this list of the 21st century’s most acclaimed films
I've watched 16 %!
the criteria

There's also 250 quintessential noir films, of which I've watched 4%.


Some months earlier, I posted a link about how Ricky Gervais was going to write and direct a movie about a world in which no lies are told...until now.
This Side of the Truth is in post-production now, and the cast list is crazy:
Jennifer Garner, Jonah Hill, Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Patrick Stewart, Rob Lowe, Christopher Guest, Jeffrey Tambor, Fionnula Flanagan, Stephen Merchant (!!!yay!!1), and even Jimmi Simpson (Liam McPoyle on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Lyle the Intern on David Letterman, and a small but important role in Zodiac, among other things)

Since you've got the funky NZ time going on...

Happy Birthday, never_evil!


I'm taking a break from big project right now to bring you all some prime Robert Pattinson/Twilight crack

all links via cleolinda.

cast premieres "exclusive" clip
the best part is at 0:45:
"All right SHUT UP! AHAHAHA!"
lol is rpattz venting?

Seriously, the fans made him cry.
some quotes:
And – you know, just the whole thing, having a bouffant haircut and stuff, doesn’t – it’s not really that intimidating.

in paranormal stories, you have a zombie. Zombies aren’t that interesting. It’s like, whatever.
OH I’M GOING TO SLAP HIM NOW lol. even if it's part of his analogy.
or send a pack of zombies after him. haha are they interesting now?!

You've probably heard about the Twilight mall riot in San Francisco.

lol the Hot Topic on Telegraph in Berkeley has a big rpattz pic, and I have to keep myself from cracking up when I see it.

The fabulous Entertainment Weekly interview
After the panel, the shaken actor bruised some tender hearts when he likened the sound of the collective squeal to something one might hear when entering ''the gates of hell.''

''Why are we here?'' he wonders, looking around at the uptight crowd. ''I feel judged!''

his dashboard caught on fire. haha

''I have very, very low expenditures, but still I manage to spend it all. I guess Hot Pockets are more expensive than I thought."

rpattz, always be famous. Then we can hear your crack for all time.
although I might need to send some chipmunk ninjas to be your guards. Or at least some inconspicuous sunglasses and a wig. or something.


But Rob isn't the only one getting the weird attention.
"I had a woman ask me if I could hold her baby for a little while because she really wanted Rosalie to hold her baby."


back to zombies: Quantum of Solace director to take on "World War Z"

signs that you are in Berkeley:



the details:



also



finally, found in a bathroom stall


ETA: There was also that time when I found out that deer run very, very fast.