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Vote in the People's Choice Awards!

please try and make them less fail
I think it voting's limited to the USA, though
VOTING IS NOT LIMITED TO USA
YESSSS EVERYONE GO VOTE


lol if Christoph Waltz or Melanie Laurent or Sharlto Copley or IB or D9 win that would be FANTASTIC
ooh Star Trek people too
lol Muse at the People's Choice Awards would be great, even if this latest album isn't my favorite of theirs...get the Twilight fans on that voting


Nov 10 for second voting

Some on my flist might find this list encouraging: 11 Famous People Who Were in the Completely Wrong Career at Age 30
hey, never give up, folks.


I just finished The Hunger Games, and I did think from time to time that, if done right, it could be a great movie. And sure enough, the movie rights have been picked up. One person's not so sure that a film adaption would work- although I think a good script, cast and director could get that "deception" angle right without narration.


Here is an interesting visual comparison between Lost and Star Trek XI

via starwars_eu:
Lego minifigurines! Mara Jade and Kyle Katarn.


finally, some Engrish Funny.


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what's even more hilarious? That's a a karaoke song list.
I can figure out that "I Want You (feat. Fat Joe)" is also on the list.

to_boldly_rock is now open for business!

Go check out the comm! we have fic, a new cover for the YEOMAN RAND REMIXES, new songs for the Tribbles and Chekov, and much more!



also, for your RP needs, go to epic_trek!
the capslock queen geekfreak03 await you there.

24-HOUR PARTY OVER AT ONTD_STARTREK

I was in from 12:30 AM - 3:30 AM, and then 9:30 AM to now (with breaks for food and brother using comp and other things)


also, THE BERKELEY MEET-UP POST IS UP

lol everyone getting high on my pens

Happy Birthday, ohdearyme!



Oh hey it's the first time in a long time that Star Trek entered a dream.
old school Trek

so I was watching this talent show? for school? and Worf was part of a dance crew. I don't know if they were on ice or some other special surface, because I remember thinking the moves were too hard for me. So the spaceship interior looked a lot like a mall, and outside a store I saw someone carrying a guitar case, and then later on I was carrying a guitar case? Later on, for some reason, I needed to report to the Captain and find the bridge, and I was lost and I didn't know where the command bridge level was. I was wandering in a level that looked like Valley Fair's Nordstrom when I ran into Riker. He was lost too. So we went down the escalator and entered a level that looked like a typical mall, slightly gray. We managed to run into Captain Sisko, who was very nice and willing to help lead us to the bridge. But somehow my mind shifted to a video game someone was presenting, something about zombies (or just dangerous people pretending to be dead) on a sailing ship. There was a shark outside the ship I didn't see but dream-remembered.

before Trek entered the latter parts of my dreamtime, I was in a mix of my university and a sort of theme park. The industrial San Jose/Campbell/Berkeley street mix city showed up in my dreams again, and I really wanted to get to those little Asian restaurants I visited in two earlier dreams. But when I started walking, I realized I couldn't go there and get my pearl tea because class was going to start soon. Argh, most of the time whenthat hybrid place shows up in my dream, I don't get the pearl tea and food I wanted. grr.


I blame ontd_startrek for dredging up the TNG and DS9 that showed up in my dream, and for getting the lyrics in my post title stuck in my head (I barely watched Enterprise, what?)

lol Kanye West:

FRESH ASS PICTURE!!! YO WHY CAN'T ALL PAPARAZZI PHOTOS BE THIS GOOD? WELL OBVIOUSLY BECAUSE MOST CELEBS JUST AREN'T RIHANNA LOL! ... BUT ON THE REAL, THIS PIC IS HARDCORE. PEEP THE PERSPECTIVE SHOT OF THE CITY IN THE BACK. SOMETIMES THE PAPS OVEREXPOSE THE LENS OR HAVE THE FLASH TOO HIGH TAKING ALL THE EMOTION OUT OF THE MOMENT. THIS MOMENT IS CAPTURED IN TIME NOW. I LOOK AT OUR CURRENT SUPERSTARS LIKE LEGENDS IN THE MAKING... LIKE JUSTIN IS THE NEW MIKE , BEYONCE'S THE NEW TINA TURNER, GAGA'S MADONNA, JAY IS SINATRA... WAYNE IS HENDRIX, THOM YORKE IS ROGER WATERS, THESE ARE THE CHAMPIONS AND SHOULD BE DOCUMENTED AS SUCH. THAT SAID, IT WOULD BE DOPE IF THE PAPS OPERATED WITH THE SAME INTEGRITY AND ATTENTION TO THEIR CRAFT AS THE LEGENDS THEY PHOTOGRAPH..... GOOD JOB ON THIS ONE!
05.20.2009
the picture he's talking about.
The shot of the city in the back is quite nice.



for more lolz, of a New Trek meets footballers variety:
Star trek: Liverpool.
with narration by Xabi Alonso!
Shpashe: De final frrontierr
Dheshe are de voyageshe of the Shtarship, Enterrprishe
Itsh 5 yearr misshion
To exshplorre shtrange new worrldsh
To sheek out new life and new shivilishationshs
To boldly go wherre no man hash gone before

ETA: I forgot that we already have Xabi Alonso, Jedi Knight

Saw Star Trek. My mind wasn't blown, but it was still lots of fun. There needs to be an accent-off between Chekov and Scotty and that subtle Southern-ish thing Karl Urban did for McCoy.
oh, and someone needs to make a manip with Lost's Jack and Sawyer and Dan's notebook, with the text,"Damn it, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a physicist!"

yes, Lost is still on the brain, and I keep on spamming ontd_lost with more fake Lost songs.
more of the Lost dance musical can be found here and this tribute song for dead characters was inspired by the 30 Rock finale.
An example: In the comments for the first link, amarettosours and I were talking about West Side Story and how Mr. (Tom) Friendly could probaby only find love off-island. It resulted in this:
Guys are the best in Ame-ri-ca
Short or long-tressed in Ame-ri-ca
Rustle and rest in Ame-ri-ca
I only love in America

These Other males are all just straight
Great guys yet at times it does grate

that I'm the only one like me
in island soci-e-ty!

(chorus)

I SERIOUSLY DON'T KNOW WHERE ALL OF THIS IS COMING FROM

Went to Borders while doing errands some time afterwards, and when I saw a copy of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies I totally grabbed it and ran like new!movie!Chekov to bring it to my mom, who was already in line for the cashier. En route, I knocked over some books and had to stop to pick them up. yeah.

So now I own Pride and Prejudice and Zombies! I need to finish The Antigua Stamp (by Robert Graves, so good) and these other library books first, though. As well as those free audiobook files of Pride and Prejudice. I'm sort of half-listening to them, and I hope that experience gives me this dreamy confused nostalgia thing when I read the text altered in the zombie mashup novel.

lol Jimmy Kimmel asking Thomas Kretschmann "How many Nazis have you played?"

"Well, I'm a German in Hollywood...maybe 5, 6, 7 times...but I can say that I've played a captain more than a Nazi"


hey hey everyone please go to the show promotion meme

roadrunner1896 did Slings and Arrows, and croakvegas did Generation Kill.

Show support for these and other shows!


lol when I bought the latest issue of Sci Fi magazine with Battlestar Galactica on the cover, a fellow female student next to me asked "are you a fan of Battlestar Galactica?" and then we were pretty much January! January!
and then at the counter the guy asked me if I was a sci-fi fan and we talked about the star trek movie

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subtle__sarcasm put together a short but sweet post on the passing of Star Trek's Majel Barret Roddenberry.
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finally...

NEW LOST PROMO IS SUPER CRAZY
IS SOMEONE ON FIRE WHOA SHOOT I WATCHED IT AGAIN SOMEONE IS ON FIRE!
Also, why does everyone grab and shake Faraday in anger sheesh first Desmond then Jack and now Sawyer just because he’s a skinny thing

Haven’t had time to do this lately, but…

LINKSPAM 3000: RETURN OF THE LINKSPAM’S SON’S PUBLICIST

Bay Area
Hair and mushroom mats help clean up oil spill
Toyota apologizes to Great City of Fresno, bow before its name
Cal’s band subject game to its geekery.
The above performance, from the recent UC Berkeley versus Washington State football contest features tunes and bitmap band formations from Tetris, Super Mario Bros., Super Mario World, Mortal Kombat and more.
We rule.
Oh, and Wikipedia to moves to San Francisco!

The United States and its captive commonwealth
Brilliant comparison of presidential candidates to hip-hop stars.
Noooo pet massacres in Puerto Rico
MySpace faked by enemy's parents drives 13-year-old to suicide.
There are no words.

world news
Winds halt cleanup of Russian oil spill. With this and the spill polluting My Bay -sniff- (okay it wasn’t pristine before the spill, but still!) environmentalists call for ban on bunker fuel
Spain v. Venezuela: The Dance Remix
Quake in Chile kills 2, 7.7 on the Richter scale.
Don’t want to trivialize the tragedy, but I just have to point out: Of course the San Francisco Chronicle article is the one that puts the Richter scale measure in the headline.
6 dead after Hamas fires on Arafat rally
Monkeys on rampage in New Delhi
an explanation (and slight condemnation) of the Foreign Language Oscar rules

go Gunners go!
Arsenal Ladies nominated Team of the Year
Via [Bad username or site: gunner girls @ livejournal.com], from before the Reading game: When Reading host Arsenal tonight at the Madejski Stadium, Ibrahima Sonko will come face-to-face with long-lost cousin Bacary Sagna for the first time.
Awwwwwww….
We had to go lunch with mom that day, so I was only able to watch the game right up to Flamini’s goal. Aw noo I missed Rosa’s little kick celebration thing with Mathieu. This is why we have Youtube.
yaaaaaaaaaaaaay
Hee Arsene. Aww Rosa. DON’T GO TO INTER
And yay Ade scored Arsenal’s 1000th goal! And #1001 for Hleb!
Cesc interview: "I like to sit around the house and watch my favourite TV programmes - Lost, Prison Break, Desperate Housewives but I really like playing football on my X-Box…I'm happy to play wearing just my boxer shorts and it's good to log and play against other people who don't know who I am and see how good they are or how good I am."

other soccer stuff
Toronto FC’s fans are fantastic! Seriously, you guys are an inspiration.
Opinion: The Champions League, sorry the Tri-Nations, just isn't working
Becks cooks for Gary Neville.
Link and translation via misssamjones: Jose Mourinho vs. little kid
“Apparently, José pulled a 12 year old's hair and ears, because the little insulted José's daughter quite badly. Daughter and boy are classmates. But José apologized and wrote letters to the school and to the boy's parents.”
But let’s get serious: Another footballer dies from heart attack.

actors and actresses
James Marsters learns how to leave Spike behind
Russia! Magazine Presents Actor Viggo Mortensen With 'Best Russian Accent' Award
Katee Sackhoff interview
Kristen Schaal, who plays the cute/crazy fan on Flight of the Conchords. Check her out in this Funny or Die video. Also, FotC on NPR.
Fabio v. George Clooney: FIGHT!
Ellen Page says: "I think people who grow up surrounded by that self-important, self-indulgent, surreal lifestyle forget that the majority of the world could give a rat's ass."
Natalie Portman, director.

music is where the insane go to play
“Dance” with Rick James, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Prince, & Rod Stewart.
KISS’s Gene Simmons says: “They’ve got freckles. That’s a crook.”
David Bowie to play King of Atlantis on Spongebob
Mathematical breakdowns of hip-hop lyrics. GEEKS PWN THE WORLD, YO.
Christmas with Queens of the Stone Age!
The furor over “musical miscegenation.”
From the comments: “Strange days when Playboy publishes more insightful articles than the New Yorker.”
Heavy Metal coloring book!
Sufjan Stevens says “Rock is dead.” He then writes orchestral suite about the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Here’s a preview. Here’s Sufjan as a pumpkin. Here he is, giving a tour of the BQE. Some BQE MP3s. A review of the BQE performance. And a Christmas song exchange contest!
Here’s how it works: write an original Christmas song, record it, and email the song to Asthmatic Kitty. They’ll pick a winner who will then trade all legal rights to their song for all legal rights to Sufjan’s song. All entries are due by midnight on December 1 and the winner should be announced around December 15.

the realm of the less insane music items
Help choose who gets on a label.
Muse celebrates Halloween in Vegas
Caetano Veloso explains his musical influences
Former Sleater-Kinney guitarist Carrie Brownstein has a new blog on NPR’s site
I would rather discuss and examine what it is that people actually consume than to tell you what you should be listening to. There are already plenty of great blogs and online resources that tell us what the best new music is or that unearth rarities and lost classics. Though I might occasionally review a piece of music, I would rather explore the contexts and the ways in which we enjoy or maybe even despise it.
She’s doing a fine job so far. Check her comic skills in Thunderant’s Feminist Bookstore.
And, because I know my flist: Sondre Lerche performs on Late Night. Also, watch his live appearance at Amoeba Music in SF.

that new Star Trek movie
Cast news, some from a while ago:
Via canadian_turtle: Eric Bana to play villain, Chris Pine to play Kirk. Simon Pegg is Scotty, John Cho is Sulu, Winona Ryder to play Spock’s mom. Chris Hemsworth to play Kirk Sr., House’s Jennifer Morrison to have a role. Bruce Greenwood to play Capt. Pike. Shatner not in movie.
And, via logovo1: Edward Gorey meets Star Trek!

if they mess up these films I will hurt someone
Remaking High Noon?
Live action Akira to happen after all?
The Descent director to follow up with Doomsday
So far we know that Doomsday will be a gritty futuristic action thriller that stars Rhona Mitra, Malcolm McDowell, Bob Hoskins and the awesome Sean Pertwee. So far so good. The story deals with a Britain that's been walled up and infected for three full decades -- until someone has to re-enter the danger zone for a very important reason.
Wolfgang Petersen’s Ender’s Game?
Pegg and Frost to take on America in new movie
Danny Boyle prepares for Slumdog Millionaire

other movies
Ricky Gervais' movie sounds interesting.
First look at James McAvoy and Angelina Jolie in Wanted. From the director of Night Watch. Seems different than the Wanted comic.
Cloverfield’s title to be…Cloverfield?
aack poster
Hey, y’all: The Eye is a remake of a Korean film, not a Japanese one.
Batman director says: pollution was not the enemy!
Tom Cruise: Eye-patch-wearer, enemy of Hitler.. Bryan Singer what have you done,! And oh, hi, Kenneth Branaugh.
Paul Giamatti to be in Philip K. Dick biopic.
Michel Gondry and son to work on animated film. Wouldn’t it be cool if Gondry directed the Philip K. Dick movie?
Cate Blanchett ready to reteam with Edgar Wright, voice Mrs. Fox
Cillian Murphy and Al Pacino in Dali and I: The Surreal Story. Surreal indeed.

First pics of Maria Bello from The Mummy 3. Here’s her character’s IMDB page.
Rec from never_evil: Penelope. It looks like a tolerable!cute romantic comedy. Stars Christina Ricci, James McAvoy, Peter Dinklage, and Reese Witherspoon. I checked the IMDB page, and hey Nick Frost is in it too! Comes out in Feb in US.
Of course: Hamlet 2.

projects gone before their time
No more Polanski’s Pompeii
No more Halo movie. I agree with the article’s view: It really is a shame, and I hope people from Universal and Fox read this, because this dude Neill Blomkamp would've made an amazing Halo film, unlike any video game adaptation out there. Just check out some of the things he says about his vision: "I wanted it to feel like the most brutal, real version of science fiction in a war environment that you've seen in a while. And Universal was on board with that. I don't really remember what Fox thought about it, but Universal seemed down with it. It would have been cool, it would have been a unique take on things, science fiction in a dirty, organic way."
Really, watch Blomkamp’s short films on Youtube. He does fantastic work with realistic sci-fi.

WGA and other strike-related news
handy chart about episodes of all shows. Via logovo1: another.
Via cleolinda: How the strike will affect other workers
writer defends Ellen's character
Damon Lindelof: “Mourning TV”
British writers warned not to break strike
Dogs can strike too!
'Scrubs' Creator Refuses To Bow to Strike Pressure
Some soap writers cross picket line
Joss on strike
More on the Broadway stagehands strike
Should comic writers unionize?

Phew, that took a little less than forever. Had to save the advertising and Heroes sections for a later date. Hope you all enjoyed that.

Many links via cleolinda.

Hihihihihihihihihihihihihihi! The internet connection in my room is bad right now, so I’ll just take the time to type up a post.

Yesterday I had such a gigantic headache that I couldn’t even read, much less go f-listing. But today I’m okay. Had lunch and hung out with my great friend KellyLoki. The fishies in the Cupertino library aquarium are very soothing to watch.

Now…IT’S LINKTIME!!! Bwhahhahahahahahahaha…no lj-cut here! Suffer!

So many TV and movie links, especially from Comic-Con…
Because I happened to wear a Batman shirt today (with my yellow flower-and-ladybug Converses!), I’ll put Batman first.
All the crazy Batman viral marketing things from San Diego
Oh my gosh Dark Knight teaser trailer click this now. He sounds like the Joker!

Supernatural, with a dash of Watchmen
All SPN links stolen from logovo1: Supernatural pics from Comic-Con, and Jensen Ackles talks about his favorite episodes. Now I hear his real Texan accent!
Check out this article about why the show’s so great to watch. Oh, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan to be in Watchmen. I cannot believe how promising the cast lineup sounds. I can so see them in the roles. Now, lets see how the movie turns out…

Lost
Lost via Springfield
New orientation vid, for the Orchid. I wonder if it’s a con exclusive or not.
Pop Candy report from Comic-Con, regarding Lost: “The next season will also incorporate flashbacks and flash-forwards, which will be a nice change of pace.”
It’s been on news headlines, so I think it’s safe to mention that Michael will return to the island.
Via lost_tv: The Lost Video Game! hee flaily Jack. Made by Ubisoft, the French company that brought you the Rayman Raving Rabbids, the best Zidane headbutt parody ever, and coming soon, the Heroes video game.

Heroes
You might have heard about this, but: A Tale of Two Spocks: Zachary Quinto AND Leonard Nimoy to be in J. J. Abrams’ Star Trek. Get your Zock icons here.
Ninja-swiped from [Bad username or site: fantastic pants @ livejournal.com]: Heroes season 2 preview from Comic-Con. Very shouty and aack Pasdar beard and Japan and people cheering the Sylar appearance…Peter’s w/ amnesia, I think…I saw Sark and Maya and Maya’s brother Alejandro and is the princess taking sword lessons and why did everyone go “ooh” when Claire did something?
Via yaiyah: Thomas Dekker (Heroes, Sarah Connor Chronicles) has a music Myspace. The music’s classified as “Bluegrass / Death Metal / Healing & Easy Listening .” And he’s got CocoRosie as a friend.
Fun from fantasticpants: Heroes feel pretty!
Great Sylar motivation posters. Need more motivation?
Heroes Season 2 promo pics - Spoiler stuff under the main photos and a ton of white space, so if you’ve got your scroll under control you should be okay.
This is coolest promo pic. Are they standing on China?
Still of Maya and Alejandro, two new characters
ETA from heroes_alerts: Fantastic general article about Season 2
Kring also admitted that the storylines in season two will run in Central America, Mexico, Japan, Egypt, the Ukraine, Haiti, Lithuania, and other countries, so expect a worldwide season.
aww...this can be either very awesome or very not. But I trust them.

Bunch of stuff snagged from cleolinda:
Various pics from Comic-Con…ooh WETA booth… Doctor Who, the altheometer from Golden Compass, and lots of movie stuff…
Golden Compass 5 minute trailer. Yay the daemon effects!
Rowling answers more questions.

Until an official title comes, I’m calling it Cloverfield.
Yes, there are 4 posters?. You can stop wondering.
Cloverfield news and poster. People keep on going crazy over new photos.
So far, named “that movie”. And J.J. wants a Godzilla. Did he cut the trailer himself?

TARDIS-verse
More Torchwood hints from John Barrowman
Tony Blair wanted for Doctor Who cameo

Everything Else
Via subtle_sarcasm:
Two part Anthony Stewart Head interview. Some great quotes:
Oh! REAPER went?! I auditioned for the Devil in that. I loved that.
Yeah. I’ve seen all of HEROES
When asked about the Giles Doll: What’s that? Oh My God! Oh My God! How cool? That’s so cool. I want one. Is anybody buying Giles?
I just started to working with a lovely guitarist that used to work with Seal and we might put out a little EP and see how it goes down. yay
The Viva Laughlin clips look mildly interesting.
The Babylon Fields pilot (zombie romantic dramedy with Amber Tamblyn) got good reviews.
Check out one list of the Top 25 pilots
Grey’s spinoff drops Merrin Dungey, adds Audra McDonald. I like both Dungey and McDonald. But neither one, and not even Tim Daly (!), will get me interested in Private Practice. Sorry.
Ren and Stimpy live?
And finally, remember when I got all hyper about Slings and Arrows?
Well, I forgot to add that the show also has Mark McKinney (Kids in the Hall, Studio 60, SNL from 1995 to 1997, Sports Night), and Paul Gross, who played Constable Benton Fraser on Due South from 1997-1999.
And I hope that I can get to reading Macbeth before I get my hands on the second season. Because it’s help me see all the parallels and stuff. You don’t need to read the plays to enjoy the TV show, but it’s fun. What other TV show can get you to read Shakespeare? Besides Wishbone.

Enough links for you?