setting fire to the tourists

First, a very happy belated birthday to bananadetective!

News from aroundfremont:
Pizza robberies
I feel sorry for the guy who got robbed twice in one shift, but…I couldn’t help but laugh at him as well. Bad bad ninja.
Gnarls Barkley is hosting a haiku contest. “The poem can be based on the following themes: Solitude, Pineapple, or some mixture of both.”

Bit of the Premiere interview with the very cool Cillian Murphy. I was actually skimming through that issue, but I didn’t notice him until I rechecked it later. Probably because he had facial hair in the magazine picture, and Cillian + beard = aack. But now I must read that article.
Found cool facts on his IMDB page a while back.
For example: He plays (drums, I've heard) in a Frank Zappa-influenced band called 'Sons of Mr. Greengenes'.
( Cool cat Cillian is. )

Side note: While Cillian will only return as The Scarecrow in the Batman movie to be made after The Dark Knight, Katie Holmes will not return at all! Rumors say Maggie Gyllenhaal will replace Holmes as Rachel Dawes.

Thursday night TV:
Smallville - The unwelcome return of Lanaville, which was totally made up for by the Clexy invite scene. -me dead from slash-
Supernatural was pretty good, if too quiet. Something about the pace was too slow and quiet for this show. But there were some great scenes, and Demon!Sam was very interesting.

I just watched The Descent and that movie made me scared and sad at the same time. When the cave monsters started jumping on the protagonist, I screamed "Get off her!" and then burst into tears. Maybe my cold was partly to blame. Anyways, the movie inspired me to get some screen caps and make some icons, including my new bloody scream default icon.

Check out my new rotation of icons here! I’m still keeping Peter Lorre and the TheoRobin Arsenal one for now.

( various soccer thoughts )

I was cruising the net for info on Heroes, and I found out that Jimmy Jean Louis, who plays the Haitian, is really from Haiti. He used to work as a model and dancer…which is kind of funny, considering the character he plays now
Via the TWOP forums: This article makes me just angry.
It starts out with the idea that shows like Lost or Heroes that deal with the supernatural are a sign (though exactly not a cause) of social decline. ( Which is interesting. A strange but interesting topic. )

Oh, I am forever grateful to ella_ventic for transcribing the episode commentaries for the latest Heroes episode, “Distractions.”
First part
Second part
Third part
Fourth part
Fifth part

( favorite quotes from the episode commentary: )

On TWOP, sandia_gal posted:
“I noticed in the Run preview clips that Sylar is wearing Converse Chuck's”
Haaaaaa…yay!
In response, terebi said:
“Oh, dear Lord, I am going to have to call an ambulance in advance. OK - nerd glasses, Clark Kent hair, plays well with Mr. Muggles, and now Chucks?”
I know.

Some LostSquee! thoughts:
The Wookie trick!
Shooting the knees is back!
Canonical mpreg?
Jacob, Edmund Burke is the name of a philospher I must look up now
And I still can’t get over that Techno Torture Room of Doom.

Some good links about writing, from lamisantropa:
good summary of Politics and the English Language
The Sokal Hoax

From the demented Brits who brought you Shaun of the Dead: Hot Fuzz


Finally, via cleolinda:
AMC is doing an all-day Best Picture marathon on February 24th from 9:45 am to 11:00 pm in all of its theaters. It's $30 for an all-day pass.

ETA: I just finished the last episode of Spy and yay Nicola won! She was such a cute, nice Scottish girl with a real passion and talent for spying. Congratulations!