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| Thursday, September 29, 2005 11:12 AM |
| Giant Squids of Mercy |
 by Fëanor |
- Thanks to Yagathai for the link to this Halloween thingamajig. But no thanks to my FL for this terrible haul! One piece of candy?! :p I do find it pleasantly amusing and appropriate for some reason, however, that George gave me a dead frog.
| My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul |
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| feanor1138 goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as werepigeon. | | babyraven gives you 19 dark blue mint-flavoured gummy worms. | | dje2004 tricks you! You lose 1 pieces of candy! | | feanorsgrrl gives you 16 purple peach-flavoured pieces of taffy. | | grrm tricks you! You get a dead frog. | | harrytheheir tricks you! You lose 1 pieces of candy! | | kheara tricks you! You get a wad of paper. | | mouserobot gives you 3 pink evil-flavoured nuggets. | | pinkhairedcyn tricks you! You lose 34 pieces of candy! | | sarcasmoscorner tricks you! You lose 1 pieces of candy! | | vis_major tricks you! You get a wad of paper. | | feanor1138 ends up with 1 pieces of candy, a dead frog, a wad of paper, and a wad of paper. | | Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern. |
- Cool and funny dual interview with geek Gods Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon, via sarcasmoscorner. I particularly like the story Gaiman tells at the very end about the Klingon bodyguards.
- You may remember a post I did a while back that discussed possible titles for the next Batman movie. Well, Cinematical has posted a similar discussion today which includes two semi-official possibilities--Batman Strikes and Batman Attacks. Of the two, I prefer Batman Strikes, but neither are terribly inspired.
Cinematical also mentions here that Liev Schreiber might appear as Harvey Dent (the DA who eventually becomes the super villain Two-Face). That would rock.
- I didn't bother watching any of the trailers Cinematical links to in this post, as I'm not particularly interested in any of these movies. I'm only linking to this because it made me aware of the chilling, sickening, horrifying fact that there's going to be a sequel to the recent, wretched-looking Steve Martin family comedy Cheaper by the Dozen, to be entitled (since we're discussing sequel titles) Cheaper by the Dozen 2; now there's some imagination for you. Unsurprisingly, the film will feature funny man of the moment, Eugene Levy, who I think must now be contractually obligated to appear in every American comedy film.
I think I'm going to go vomit now.
- I really enjoyed Defective Yeti's post today about eating nasty, sugary kids' cereals. It made me want to finally go out and try a box of those new chocolate Lucky Charms.
- Aawwurgh. That's the sound of sickened dread I'm making in my head because the reviews of Serenity are coming in, and they're...kind of mediocre. Noooo. Don't fail me, Joss! Hopefully these critics are just crazy and stupid. Anyway, I still plan on burning through the last DVD of "Firefly" and then heading out to the theaters to see Serenity one of these days.
Regardless, in honor of "Firefly" and Serenity, I offer up this list of incredibly filthy Cantonese profanities and their English translations. (I apologize for the sleazy and annoying ads--and I warn you to by no means install whatever ActiveX control it is they're talking about, as it's almost certainly spyware--but this page is the only resource I could find for this sort of thing.)
- Thanks to Sarcasmo for the link to this great re-edited, re-narrated, re-scored Quicktime trailer for The Shining. It's apparently the winner of a contest wherein entrants were asked to alter trailers for existing movies to make them look like completely different movies. And it does indeed succeed quite admirably at this task. I particularly like the use of Peter Gabriel's "Solsbury Hill."
- Speaking of cool Quicktime videos, check out this music video for a song called "Deep Sea Diver" by some band called Grizzly Bear (via Salon's Audiofile). It's an eerie little animated film that depicts a surreal kind of war between deep sea divers and weird underwater creatures. It's quite lovely. And the music's not bad, either.
- Audiofile also features links to both the original and the re-recorded MTV version of Weezer's video for their new single, "We Are All on Drugs." The videos are both just kind of funny and silly; nothing to write home about. What's interesting about them are the differences. In MTV's version, the song is called "We Are All in Love," and the chorus has been changed accordingly. However, whereas they went to the trouble of re-recording the audio, they did not bother to re-do the video, so all the people in it are still clearly lip-synching to the words "on drugs," and the video is still clearly about everybody being on drugs. This makes an already rather surreal video even more surreal, and actually seems to me like a vaguely subversive comment on the censorship itself.
- Jesus crap! Superman Returns is up to over 320 million bucks now! They're going to have to break every box office record in the book just to break even! (UPDATE: Thanks to ST for pointing out that they've updated the post to say that that figure is probably in Australian dollars. It's still a lot of damn money, though.)
- Used to be it was easy to keep up with Dracula Blogged. The journal entries were coming at a rate of about one every day or so and they were relatively short. But now the action is picking up and there are something like six long posts to read every day. It's really tiring me out! Still, this is where the book starts to get really exciting and really seriously messed up, so I'm enjoying it.
- Awww, it's Michelangelo Antonioni's birthday today! Happy birthday, Mr. Antonioni!
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