Random stuff

[apocalypsos]

-- They're canceling Guiding Light. Witness my complete lack of surprise. The stories lately, as much as I've seen of them, have sucked (with Reva's cancer-filled medical history and age, her uterus shouldn't have a fetus in it, it should look like the wasteland in the opening scenes of The Terminator), but what really made me never want to watch again was when they switched away from normal filming to the handheld camera bullshit.

-- Squeeze bacon!

-- I know I pick on Taylor Momsen's hair and addiction to microscopic skirts -- God knows she might as well wear them while she can -- but every time I see a picture of her, I wonder how much higher it would have to be for me to see her shamecave.

-- 6 Historical Villains Who Were Actually OK Guys

-- OH GOOD LORD. They're making the Anita Blake books into a TV show?! Nobody tells me anything. Hmph.

-- Oh, and guess who might be replacing Zac Efron in the Footloose remake? Chace Crawford. I still don't approve of remaking it, but I'd rather have him than Zac Efron. Zac Efron just strikes me as soooo wrong for that role.

-- Paul Bettany's starring in the adaptation of the comic book Priest, about "a warrior priest (Bettany) who turns against the church to track down a murderous band of vampires who have kidnapped his niece." Okay, Paul Bettany + that plot description = me, sexually gratified, at least for the moment.

-- My laptop has been acting really wonky so I'm restoring the damn thing from scratch. Thank God for my netbook, is all I'm saying.

-- I only wrote 11k words last month. Which, hey, is still about 2k more than I wrote the month before but I'm still way behind where I'm supposed to be right now. This month, I'm just going to try and get a thousand words a day. That's it. I should be able to do that much, even if I have to spread it out over two or three different stories. It's not like I have anything else to do, right? *sigh*

-- The internet is taking too damn long to give me the new episode of PR Canada, but I spoiled myself with Wikipedia anyway. OH THANK FUCK. I don't know what Jason was doing this episode, but it couldn't have been worse than the way Crazy Bug Eyes has behaved all damn season so far, so I'm glad it's Sunny-Jessica-Jason. As long as Sunny and Jessica were there, though, I'm happy.

-- Also, thank God for you, Bryan Fuller. THANK GOD FOR YOU. I miss Pushing Daisies like crazy (and now I crave pie), but the last couple of episodes have definitely been better than the rest of the season.

Comments

[kanedax.livejournal.com]

I personally want the Tauntaun sleeping bag. The organ-patterned interior's key.

Have you read Chris Sims's reviews of every Anita Blake comic book? Fantastic stuff:

http://www.the-isb.com/?cat=91

(I would highly suggest ignoring today's content. Apr 1 changed the site into a Tarot fansite. Disturbing doesn't begin do describe...)

[fyrdrakken]

Amusingly enough, clicking on ThinkGeek's info for the Tauntaun sleeping bag today produced a note about how due to overwhelming response they're contacting LucasArts to ask if they can really make it. If not, people may have to try to sew their own (or find fabric-savvy people to commission them from).

[kanedax.livejournal.com]

that is the greatest thing ever

[foxxydancr.livejournal.com]

....I am disturbed by the word "shamecave".

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

What, you never saw that Daily Show clip?

[foxxydancr.livejournal.com]

I am a grad student and live in a cave made of books, sadly. :( Some day, I'll get to watch fun stuff again!

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Thank God for Comedy Central putting pretty much everything on their website. :D

[ysabel.livejournal.com]

 

[leaveoutalltherest]

I think Taylor's legs would have to STOP at some point in order for you to see the shamecave. My gods, I am so damn envious of her and Stacey Keebler.

Also, I am alternately horrified and fascinated at the Blake movie. Like I said on my journal, I want to know who is going to play Jason. There aren't a lot of 5'3" hot blond guys who could pull him off. Or Nathaniel. JC. Asher... shit, they're going to have to CGI half the cast.

[witchofthedogs.livejournal.com]

with Reva's cancer-filled medical history and age, her uterus shouldn't have a fetus in it, it should look like the wasteland in the opening scenes of The Terminator


I'm having a worse than shitacular day and this made me giggle like a crazy woman.


Thank you.

[valerie]

Well, if this season of PRC follows the pattern of the first season (and PRAus), Jason's totally finishing in third place :P

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

It's funny looking back at Sunny's track record now, considering that he was literally in every single top group and won half of the challenges. He's NEVER done bad. EVER. It's a little surreal, actually.

[tiptoe39.livejournal.com]

When my sister was nine or ten and she was obsessed with guiding light, my mom once told her it'd been canceled, as an april fool's day joke. this timing is almost too good. :( still, rip, GL, I remember when you were awesome.

[agent-mimi.livejournal.com]

Aw, I remember "Guiding Light" from when I was a kid. Total sentimental attachment to it and Y&R, which were the soaps mom watched every day, so I got into it too. Even my husband watched the Tom & Margo & Mr Big storyline back when he was in high school.

[xzombiexkittenx.livejournal.com]

re: the antia blake thing
IFC is targeting the movie to its core audience of men 18-34 and plans to air it next year.

Wut?
Marketing: Ur doin it wrong.

[fragilistikal.livejournal.com]

Re: Anita Blake....

IFC is targeting the movie to its core audience of men 18-34 and plans to air it next year.

Uhm? This sounds like wank just waiting to happen.

[xzombiexkittenx.livejournal.com]

I was almost wondering if it wasn't like, "haha, april fool's..."

I mean, can they really be that dumb? Do they have ANY idea who reads those books? Hint: it's not 18-34 yrold men.

[fragilistikal.livejournal.com]

They might be trying to Queen of the Damned'ing it?

They figure (women) fans will already watch, so they can sexify it to target the guys? Of course, that just means men get another crappy sex-fest they don't care about and the women (fans) get pissed off in the form of mass protest. Either way, it's publicity for...ITC? A cable channel I've never heard of.

[jya-bd-cp-ttgb.livejournal.com]

*glances out the window at the weather* Raining. Yep, my grandmother is bawling her eyes out in heaven over GL. *sighs* It's on in the mornings here instead of the afternoon because of that asswipe Dr. Phil and I stopped watching after I kept falling asleep in the middle. My last full episode was in the old style of shooting - I think they'd just brought in Gus's ex-wife and kid? About three months later I turned it on so I could watch while I ate -- about fell out of my chair with the horror of the new cameras and never watched since.

Longest running daytime serial in history and they royally fucked it. Didn't even use lube for Goddess'sake.

RIP Guiding Light. You were my favorite immediately-after-school show. I still remember Lujack. I still remember Billy being hypnotized. I still mourn for the Four Musketeers - R/M/B/P. I remember the first time Reba died so the actress could work on MacGuyver. *raises a glass* See you on SoapNet! Salud! *slams the Coke shot*

*moment of silence*

In other news, http://community.livejournal.com/lkh_lashouts/ is the place to go for Anita Blake books/movie news. They were talking about this a few weeks ago.

Anyone on my flist remember the meltdown I had over the Vampire Diaries on The CW? Yeah, same day I found out about Anita. Excuse me while I go have another freak out because I still haven't figured out how to tell my niece that her father will never let her watch VD for the same reasons she can't watch GG-90210.

*wanders off*

[aquila1nz.livejournal.com]

Huh, the Guiding Light I've been watching clips from for the last two months is some of the best TV I've ever seen. They've spent the last fourteen months slowing building a storyline where Gus' ex Natalia and Olivia have gone from hating each other to reluctant allies, to roommates coparenting Olivia's daughter, to realising they are falling in love. It's classic soap pairing building of the kind you just don't see anymore. The writing on this storyline is wonderful, and Crystal and Jessica's acting has been pitch perfect. And they've done it without fanfare, unlike the betrayals of fans hopes that we've seen watching same sex storylines on AMC and ATWT.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Otaliafan

Anyway, that's my 5 cents. I'm pretty much gutted by the cancellation.

[meril.livejournal.com]

My only remark about GL, and I know it can't happen because the older stuff wasn't kept--
--what would 72 years of DVD sets look like?

[aquila1nz.livejournal.com]

I'd love for it to be picked up as a web series, just because the idea of it moving through mediums like that is just so cool.

[meril.livejournal.com]

The difficulty would be in getting the little old ladies of America to start watching it on the Internet.

(I have relatives named after GL characters. My grandmother said the radio broadcast helped her learn English. I don't know how to tell her it got the big red X.)

[aquila1nz.livejournal.com]

Email the show owners and tell them that. It's not over til they cant find anyone else to pick it up.

http://community.livejournal.com/passion_perfect/1376181.html

[gruyere.livejournal.com]

-- OH GOOD LORD. They're making the Anita Blake books into a TV show?!

For what, the Spice Channel?

[random-serious.livejournal.com]

Re: Bettany movie. Finally, someone has listened my my prayers and/or stalkerish project pitching. Bettany was one of the very few things to make Da Vinci Code tolerable, so we know he does religious well. That and I'd watch him in anything. And vampires.

[kopernik.livejournal.com]

The GL cancelation wasn't a shock - they've been talking about pulling the plug for at least a decade, or so it seems to me - and I stopped caring about it when the mob storylines started and stopped watching entirely a few years later, but it was the first soap I ever really loved (I was watching ATWT pretty regularly before that) and at its height it was the best soap I've ever seen. I still have not recovered from their firing of Michael Zaslow, and the spiral the show's been in since then feels a little like retribution.

And I'm STILL sad. Stupid show. Stupid CBS.