question?

dudes. Important question.


What toothpaste do rich people use? Do they have special pump dispensers or something? I can't imagine someone like Blair Waldorf soiling her dignity with pushing the ends of the Colgate to the top.

random thought I had while brushing teeth


oh, and I heard that today is both video game day (argh I don't know the official title) and chocolate shake day.

I CALL CROSSOVER

"Well, if you can't find common ground with a dictator, I don't know who can."

I didn't get to watch internationals today, but...

HAT TRICK FOR KLOSE
FINALLY
I ALWAYS BELIEVED
GOOD THING I DIDN'T SEE IT
OR I MIGHT HAVE CRIED

German NT tied 3 - 3 with Finland. Oh well. At least it wasn't a loss. AND KLOSE FINALLY SCORED AGAIN

AND OOH OOH
THEO HAT TRICK FOR ENGLAND

France won their game. phew. But with England getting better, I'm becoming scared that the thing I said about "France being the new England" might be coming true

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via lost_tv:
Lost S4 bloopers!
I think these are just promo ones, because it promotes the DVD and Blu-ray sets at the end.

and fans of Team Awesome (Desmond and Sayid), there's one clip you should not miss
Lol Captain Gault is funny

speaking of that captain:
Ex-Lost thesp Grant Bowler -- he played the swarthy freighter captain who was shot and killed in last May's finale -- is dropping anchor at Ugly Betty.
source

are y'all okay with casting spoilers? I won't say what the characters do, just who's playing them. Nothing plot-wise has come out about them yet, so as long as you just scan and not click on the link, you should be fine.

And, the two new people joining the cast of Lost are...
Zuleikha Robinson
(Rome, The Lone Gunmen, New Amsterdam)
she was also the awesome princess in Hidalgo who got to ride off into the desert sun yay

the second person, along with some Freighter Four stuff, and help with name pronunciation
Saïd Taghmaoui! That's an odd pic of him in that EW link.

he was Saïd in La Haine! (THE WORLD IS OURS!)
he was also The Iraqi torturer in Three Kings. The one who asked why America messed up Michael Jackson.
he was also in Vantage Point with Matthew Fox. My mom just saw the ad in a DVD and I pointed him out.
It'd be cool if he kept his French accent for this role.
More and more movies with two Lost people in them. Like, I knew Michael Emerson was in Saw, but I forgot that Ken Leung played the detective there

lol both of the new people were in Hidalgo.
I was really iffy about these characters when their descriptions came out, but the casting looks awesome, so now I'm kind of excited whee

La Haine -related sidenote: the director went on to a disappointing career, making Gothika and currently complaining about what Fox did to his newest, Babylon A.D. He's not the only director complaining about Fox.

seriously, if I could, I would give him my imaginary dream pet project Battle Royale miniseries to direct. La Haine impressed me that much, with how he handled teenage/twenty-something characters and created a very kinetic movie.

Back to Lost:
via gossy16: Ana-Lucia to return for one episode
as long as it's a useful appearance, I'm okay.

Dan Faraday fans might want to check out this filming report

ooh look at this casting call:
There's Solanga, a Filipino male in his 50s, who's the village doctor in a small rural community. He has some vices, but also has some medical skills. And he speaks "relatively good English with an accent."
yay a Filipino character! They didn't do too well with the half-Puerto Rican (well actresses. Ana and Nikki. Not sure about the characters' ethnicities, though Ana-Lucia was probably either Mexican or Salvadoran.)
Come on, one of my ethnic halves has got to have some good rep on this show

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very interesting thoughts about film noir.
Starts back in the Renaissance, with chiaroscuro, and traces influences through German Expressionism and pulp fiction.

And Peter Lorre is in two of the pictures used yay
those "French guys" the article mentioned coined the term "film noir" in the 1960s, just in case you're confused.

I found out that the site Movie Zeal recently finished its film noir month. I really like their choices.

from the article for Rififi, directed by Jules Dassin (my fave film from him is Night and the City though)
"In any language, Dassin seemed to have a knack for directing actors playing bad people so that you could sympathize with them."
-Without compromising their badness.

found this via linkage: Jean-Luc Godard said, "At the time, Rififi fooled some people. Today, it can’t hold a candle to [Jacques Becker’s 1954] Touchez pas au Grisbi, which paved the way for it, let alone [Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1956] Bob le Flambeur, which it paved the way for.”
psh I was so bored with Touchez pas au Grisbi I stopped watching after 20 minutes. I haven't gotten to Bob le Flambeur yet, though, and I do like Melville, and I know that it's because of Rififi that he had to delay making Le Cercle Rouge until 1970.

okay I'll stop rambling.

finally, via cleolinda: Guillermo del Toro to probably direct every other horror movie in the next ten years.
I can't wait to see what he does with At the Mountains of Madness. We need a good, big Lovecraft movie.

there's always somebody taller

random activity links:

via silverence: Make your own font!

ganked from claennis: COOKIE BROWNIE COOKIES!

ninja-swiped from kiratollan:
Jigsaw puzzles!
my times:
big purple flower
7 mins 39 sec
Snake 6 mins 26 seconds
Beijing street
6 mins 42 seconds
Bundle of stuff on a truck
7 mins 12 secs
City under lightning
8 mins 55 secs
red-orange flowers
5 mins 28 seconds

various "create your own playlist" sites: (you do know Muxtape is...not currently operating, right?)
Mixwit



and the promo one for that upcoming Nick and Nora playlist movie
promotion