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first, some bits of lulz from Harry Potter actors:
via tresca:
Tom Felton doesn't like photo manips much.

From this article:
"I can't wait to perform the Cesarean!" —Robert Pattinson on being excited to perform a C-section on pregnant Bella

Evanna Lynch's opinion of Twilight


Also, for Chuck fans:
via buongiornodaisy - THIS AWESOME SEASON 3 POSTER


Heroes teaser trailer via ontd_startrek ( behind this cut )

and, finally, Lost.
two videos with Jorge Garcia, Nestor Carbonell, and Michael Emerson posted by moosewizard at ontd_lost:

( not sure if they play outside the US, but you can try... )

if you have time, check out the Comic-Con Lost panel videos at ontd_lost


and these Lost fake ads, via buongiornodaisy:

Happy Birthday, toronja

dude why do I take naps until 3 AM

also, I am totally going try and fit in the art of CAPSLOCK in my presentation about the blending of perceptual and conceptual information. Because all you technically perceive is text, but you think that the person is talking and shouting. These inputs share the organizing frame of the comment/response box, I think. Thanks to you guys (you know who you are) for being my intellectual inspiration.


Hey hey they sent me a email about the summer camp thing. My phone interview is in early May. woohoo
If I don't get it, the anthro museum here is still looking for summer interns. Ha ha, would you trust me around all the ancient stuff they have there...that'd be kind of cool


awww cool Chuck last night

and lol ( last night's crossdressing Heroes episode )

Finally, 30 upcoming TV pilots
hey, claennis, Daniel Henney has an American TV pilot.
I didn't know he's going to be in the Wolverine movie too

the shows on that list that look interesting to me:
'Boardwalk Empire'
HBO
Cast: Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, Michael Shannon
Premise: Could this be a 1920s version of 'The Sopranos'? Producer and director Martin Scorsese presents a drama about drinking, gambling and mob activities in Prohibition-era Atlantic City.
that sounds awesome

'Community'
NBC
Cast: Chevy Chase, Joel McHale
Premise: Funnyman McHale ('The Soup') stars as a lawyer who enrolls at a community college after his degree is ruled invalid. Also on board is Chase, playing a fellow student who has been married five times. Given NBC's success with comedies, this could be a nice edition to the community.
hey guys calm down McHale will still be able to do The Soup

'Human Target'
Fox
Cast: Chi McBride, Jackie Earle Haley, Mark Valley
Premise: Valley stars as Christopher Chance, a private eye who impersonates his clients to investigate threats against them, while Haley segues from one comic book role ('The Watchmen') to another.
I haven't read that comic, but dude Chi McBride and Jackie Earle Haley

hey, Heroes was halfway towards awesome tonight. The Adventures of Hiro and Ando took a (okay, really random) turn for the better, and the Sylar-Luke duo makes me smile so wide, not gonna lie.
and lol my mom was like "It's Andy!" when she saw Andy Richter on Chuck



tagged by sharkina: (I will get to those 25 things lists later, Facebook friends)

SUPPOSEDLY if you've seen over 85 films, you have no life. Mark the ones you've seen. There are 239 films on this list plus a bonus round. Copy this list, go to your own facebook account, paste this as a note. Then, put x's next to the films you've seen, add them up, change the header adding your number, and click post at the bottom. Have fun.

I'm going to add "-" for movies I've seen bits of. I've seen so many halves and fourths of movies, due to lack of interest or time or sickness or some other reason. I won't count them in the total tally, though.

( the list of films floating in the American mainstream of the past 5-10 years or so )

the film snob in me urges me to include this:
I've seen 10% of the 1000 Greatest Films
5% of the next 1000 Greatest Films
13% of The Guardian's 1000 films you must see before you die
and 16% of both the 21st Century's greatest films so far
mwahahaha

ETA: I am tired of all these American remakes of horror films! There was the J-horror phase, and more recently we have Quarantine (remake of the Spanish film Rec, which I really want to see), The Uninvited (remake of South Korean mindsmasher of a film A Tale of Two Sisters), and My Bloody Valentine: 3D and Friday the 13th, both remakes of older American films and both starring one Winchester brother. argh
It's a trend in other genres too, but I was sort of raised on horror, so it's very close to my thoughts...yeah, I read Fangoria now and then...

Sorry for posting so many times. I often get like this when I'm nervous about school.

for everyone who watches It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia:
Sylar/Mohinder vid set to "Nightman"
Baby tries to sing "Dayman"
trailer for "A Quiet Little Marriage". ending slightly NSFW. Charlie Day and two other faces you might recognize are in this.

and IASiP is related to Fox vs. SciFi 2009.
You might have heard about the trials and tribulations of a certain show called Dollhouse.

Well, Charlie, Rob, and Glenn (the creators of IASiP) have created a sci-fi comedy pilot for Fox, called Boldy Going Nowhere. video of them talking about it at Comic-Con. According to various entertainment blogs, it seems the most likely of the three sci-fi shows to actually air this year.

The third show? Virtuality, Michael Taylor and Ronald D. Moore's next post-Battlestar Galactica project that isn't Caprica.
Click on that link to see the progress of the show.
It's about the crew of the spaceship Phaeton, who seek escape from their important 10-year voyage (and the mission-financing reality show featuring them) in virtual reality environments. But a mysterious green-eyed man is attacking them in their virtual worlds...
so yeah, at its most simple, it's like holodeck malfunction meets Freddy Krueger with a dash of Sunshine.
extremely detailed discussion of the pilot. The script has been getting good word-of-mouth, and Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights, Hancock) directed the pilot.
But of course, Fox wants the two-hour pilot recut.
The cast of characters (with comments culled and sometimes copy-pasted from various blogs, articles, and forum postings)
- Frank Pike, played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (New Amsterdam). The mission commander. Ex-military. Yes, his last name is Pike, Trek fans.
—Roger Fallon, played by James D'Arcy (UK Sherlock). Psychiatrist. Also producer of an onboard reality show in which the crew members are obligated to take part, the price of their interstellar voyage. Often described as a mix of BSG's Gauis Baltar and Brother Cavil.
—Rika Godard, played by Sienna Guillory. Botanist, in charge of the hydroponics. Fallon's wife, though Guillory said that her character is having an affair with someone on the ship.
—Manny Rodriguez, played by Jose Pablo Cantillo. Mathematician and superstring theorist.
—Valentin Orlovsky, played by Gene Farber. Geologist and Rodriguez's partner. The gay couple wonder if they might have been "cast" for the reality show and publicity considerations...
—Kenji Yamamoto, played by Nelson Lee (Blade, the Series). Exobiologist. Married to Alice Thibadeau.
—Alice Thibadeau, played by Joy Bryant. Exobiologist, but with a different specialty from her husband.
—Jimmy Johnson, played by Ritchie Coster. Inventor of the matter/antimatter weapons technology used to propel the ship. In a wheelchair because of a past accident. Coster described his character as "an agent of chaos."
—Julius "Jules" Braun, played by Erik Jensen. NASA scientist, designer of the ship and navigator.
—Adin Meyer, played by Omar Metwally. Ship's doctor. Born in the West Bank, of Israeli and Palestinian parentage, which I'm sure the writers will exploit utilize.
—Billie Kashmiri (Kerry Bishe). Computer expert and geek. Interfaces with the ship's artificial intelligence. Her virtual reality persona is that of a Joan Jett-like rock star who's also a spy. And the rest of the band are spies too.
—Sue Parsons (Clea DuVall). Ship's pilot. An ex-fighter pilot and very much into physical activity. Her virt modules are mainly about extreme sports. Often called by internet commenters as "Starbuck, Jr."
- and the green-eyed man attacking everyone? Played by Jimmi Simpson, who was Liam McPoyle on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
It all ties together!
oh, and Wendy and Lisa, who compose the original score for Heroes, are set to do the soundtrack for Virtuality. Not as awesome as Bear McCreary, but I can see it working.

in random, unrelated conclusion: Aphex Twin videos are really disturbing. argh you Chris Cunningham. "Come to Daddy" wasn't as scary as I thought it would be, though, because those kids' facial deformities do not automatically = scary to me. Suddenly changing appearance, though? that's scary.

I give up I give up…I couldn’t do it…I can’t watch any more TV episodes…internet or otherwise. I give up!

I FAIL AT TV

My rules were pretty strict, though. I had to have seen the episode from the very beginning, with permission made for bathroom breaks and stuff during the episode. So that’s why there’s so few Brothers and Sisters episodes and other shows - I watch them in bits, but I rarely catch the whole thing. Also, news/late night shows like Late Night With Conan O'Brien were not counted.

You see later on that I started to include sports events I watched on TV. This was inspired by padfootie’s monthly recap posts. I wanted to keep a record of them somehow. I didn't write down the Olympics, though, because that would be too much.

Sometimes I would comment on an episode. No comment doesn’t mean no reaction.

via canadian_turtle: the 500 television episode
Episodes in 2008

( My list )

So, for next year...shows to finish/start/try out, in no order
Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles
Little Mosque on the Prairie
Mad Men
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Sons of Anarchy
Extras and Office (UK) series finale
Arrested Development
Green Wing
Mighty Boosh
Avatar
Band of Brothers

and some others

Was that actually a good episode of Heroes I just saw? I only had to bury my head during The Day the Earth Stood Still commercials! My eyerolling quotient was back to Season 1 levels! egads!

Is it bad that when I looked at the first two shoes, I immediately thought of those towns' football teams? haha
and hey, canadian_turtle, they named a shoe after Emmen!
but yeah, nice shoes with reasonable heels. Too bad the prices aren't reasonable for my budget...

culled from io9:
Review of Marvel's "Secret Invasion" event
And no, I haven't read any of the issues. But I did find a term in the comments for what I have: "event fatigue."
Robot Chicken clip: Joss Whedon and Ron Moore want to kill Seth Green!
Bad science can lead to good stories!
as long as it makes sense to the people in the story, it doesn't have to make sense in real life
IT'S A GODZILLA MENORAH!
Coming to your TV: Flash Forward, in which everyone sees a vision of the future
Starring PotC's Jack Davenport, as well as John Cho and Joseph Fiennes.
Davenport will play Lloyd Simcoe, a man trapped in Northern California, who needs to reach his son in the hospital when the black outs occur.
NOR CAL FTW
I find it really amusing that this is airing after Lost. And that the surname of the author whose book this is based on is "Sawyer."

cool Hungarian short film about time travel in WWII


many flisters seem to be watching one Scandanavian movie or another, so, how about a Swedish short film?
via charlidos: Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers, the home invasion tale you can dance to.

hey hey, Heroes is back!


I enjoyed the premiere, even though it wasn't consistently interesting and even some of the awesome things don't totally hold together under some prodding. But it was a fun ride. I can somewhat understand other people getting too confused and frustrated, but jump the shark comments already? (I had gone over to TWOP to look for a certain quote about Sprint, and there's where I got all the negativity.)

one thing one commenter noticed:
One thing no one has mentioned: the color-coded scenes are back!!!!! New York is blue again! ...and other locations that would spoil the unspoiled have their own distinct colors. It was a nice touch, and I didn't realize it had been missing until I saw this comment.

oh my gosh Lost deleted/damaged footage scene
They reshot it into a more concise form in the episode, but...DANIEL FARADAY JUST LOOK AT HIM

found via...a Kaniel (Kate/Daniel) thread. I KNEW IT WOULD BE GOOD FOR SOMETHING
- - -
also, via canadian_turtle:

Heroes S3 trailer!


apparently there are other ones being shown on NBC too.

from my comment on gossy16:
"oh my gosh I was all sleepy and my brother was like NEW HEROES TRAILER and I tried to look at the TV through my sleepiness (argh you, 4th of July, for exhausting me) and there was Claire and HRG and Peter I think staring at a desert landscape and AIEEEEE
I've seen the one with Sylar though. I can't wait till September TV!
September school can definitely wait, though."

yeah.

check out these math/history/astronomy/geology/more academia random quote icons. great stuff, including the icon above.

( the music collage I made. Obsession, in four parts. Giant pics yes. )

also, does anyone know what happened to La Blogotheque's Take Away shows? suddenly they're not there anymore. waah

ETA: via gossy16: OH MY GOSH AMAZING TEASER TRAILER FOR HEROES SEASON 3

Is it bad that when I read “Possible Tornado rips through Atlanta,” I thought “Possible Tomato?” And pictured it too. bad bad me.

logovo1 posted these links:
LJ Ad butler
how you can remove ads from LJ accounts

some of the best recent webcomics that weren't about the late Gary Gygax:
Horton hears Cthulhu
You’ve been Ringrolled.

Video time!
padfootie posted this video of Adrian Pasdar flying. In a plane, of course. Excellent choice of music.

Want something super bizarre: Watch World War II as reenacted by food
It kind of cracks me up that the assistant animator is named Adam Levine.

hannahstarr posted a cute vid of a dancing walrus.

cleolinda linked to two new "epilepsy-inducing" Speed Racer trailers.
ack they've been taken down. But I found this on Youtube, check it before that's gone too...

And two music videos.
One of them’s a pretty, mostly black-white animation vid for Shiina Ringo's "Karisome Otome (Tameikesannoh ver.)," one of the songs from the movie Sakuran. The song itself is a pretty, punchy little tango pop song.
The black cat is Shiina Ringo’s alter ego symbol thing.


I have been playing this next video over and over for the past three? four? days.
Buraka Som Sistema (feat. M.I.A., Puto Prata, DJ Znobia, Saborosa) - “Sound of Kuduro”
The sound is fast and furious, and should appeal to those who like their dance music grimy and baile funk-ish.


What is Kuduro?
Kuduro isn’t world music. Well, not the kind of world music that finds its way onto Later with Jools Holland or a Damon Albarn album. This is the raw, uncompromising sound of the streets of Luanda, Angola. Meaning ‘hard ass’ or ‘stiff bottom’, it combines traditional Angolan Kilapanga, Semba and Zouk with Western house and techno.
( related links here )

Finally...
the past Sunday, we were eating at Chevy's. They usually play a bunch of current Spanish language pop, but I was suprised to hear ABBA singing "Mamma Mia!" in Spanish. I heard another one of their Spanish songs on the radio a while ago, and it's kinda weird yo.
And then what played next at Chevy's? A 60’s folk pop-style version of “Float On.” In English, mind you. Interesting.