Links from ye olde friends list this morning ...

[apocalypsos]

Carrot Top went out and got buff, and IT'S THE MOST TERRIFYING SIGHT EVER. There are pubes and it is horrifying. As blackgarden pointed out, if you are going to tempt nightmares and look at those Carrot Top photos, following it up with these photo of Jake Gyllenhaal will makes you feel better.

theohara gives us a pretty good list of how to fuck up a fanfic summary or opening and keep people from reading.

Christopher Walken is not running for President. Am I the only one who realized it was a joke from the beginning? 'Cause I'm starting to think so.

Premiere just released its list of the Most Overrated Moview Ever. And here they are ...

2001: A Space Odyssey -- Oh, THANK you. To this day, I just don't get that movie.
A Beautiful Mind
American Beauty -- Okay, this and A Beautiful Mind suffer from the same thing. They're good, but they're sort of only good for one viewing and then you're done. I think that's why I don't own them on DVD. I've seen them, but thanks.
An American in Paris
Chariots of Fire
Chicago -- I liked it, but OMG YES. Don't even get me started on how The Pianist could go to the Oscars that year and be told it has the best actor, the best director, and the best screenplay of the year, and yet this was the best picture. Buh?
Clerks -- I love Clerks, but yeah. It's frivolous, for crying out loud. It's a snarky, stupid movie and to hear some people talk about it, it's fucking Citizen Kane.
Easy Rider
Fantasia
Field of Dreams
Forrest Gump -- See, this and Field of Dreams suffer from the same thing for me. I like 'em, and I could watch 'em over and over again, but that's with the full realization that they're not the flailing classics everybody makes them out to be.
Gone with the Wind -- Again, seen it once, and I'm good now.
Good Will Hunting
Jules & Jim
Moonstruck
Monster's Ball -- Urgh. Liked it when I first saw it, and now you couldn't get me to watch it if you paid me. And if I got to slap Halle Berry afterwards.
Mystic River -- Meh.
Nashville
The Red Shoes
The Wizard of Oz -- Hee. I can remember showing my brother the Dark Side of the Rainbow thing. He was amazed and highly amused. :)

In a semi-related comment, I'm not sure I want to go see The 40-Year-Old Virgin. On one hand, it looks funny. On the other hand ... oh, please don't be my future.

From IFILM, The ABC of Sex Education for Trainables. "Trainables" being some sort of mid-seventies slang for the mentally handicapped. Hell, I don't know. Don and Mike watched it on their radio show about a year or so ago (although obviously not all of it), and it sounded creepy and terrifying even then (it was made in 1975), but watching it on IFILM just ... GYAH. I think I lost it when a roomful of people started yelling other names for the penis.

And now, your moment of Zen ... Jude Law naked. Note to celebrities: You know how you're outside right now? Well, don't get naked here and this won't happen.

Comments

[valerie]

*fans self*

Oh Goddess. Jake is sex on legs.

[wtfbrain.livejournal.com]

OH GOD MY EYES! THAT IS THE MOST HORRIFYING THING EVER!

*ogles Jake Gyllenhaal pictures as therapy*

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. *swoons*

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it. I can't decide if it's his face (which wouldn't be so bad if it were, say, your best friend's face instead of Carrot Top's) or his muscles (which are buff yet terrifying) or his stupid hair (which is honestly very pretty, but way too girly) or the pubes.

No, wait. It's the pubes. GYAHGYAHGYAH. *scrubs eyeballs with bleach and Brillo pads*

[shadowcat]

A lot of people on my list didn't get that it was a joke and one even tore into me about letting my head be turned by a star-studded actor when I didn't know anything about his platform...*shakes head*

Carrot Top... NO! NO! *bleache and SOS pads*

Ooooh...Jake! And Jude Law...

[wtfbrain.livejournal.com]

The pubes are definitely the worst. But the face/head/hair/body combination, which looks like someone had fun with Photoshop but didn't bother with, you know, matching proportions and stuff.

GYAH, indeed.

[eleniangel.livejournal.com]

MY EYES ARE BLEEDING!

[killerweasel.livejournal.com]

I seriously need to think before clicking on scary pictures like that. Gah, not awake enough to deal with creepyass Carrot Top from hell. *shudders*

I think a lot of people were really hopeful about the Walken for President thing because the usual choices tend to suck ass and they're tired of our country going to hell in a hand basket.

I mentioned it to my brother and he laughed saying if it came down to Walken or Hillary Clinton, Walken would probably win.

Who knows, maybe he'll get a lot of write-in votes.

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

I knew the Walken for President thing was a joke. That's why you didn't see it on my LJ. I hoped it was true. If it had turned out to be true, then I would've posted.

The Carrot Top thing?

OMFG! THE WRONGNESS! THE WRONGNESS!

If you value your eyes and your mind, do NOT LOOK!

THE GOGGLES, THEY DO NOTHING!

[ficangel.livejournal.com]

*shudders* Jesus. There are some people who are just not meant to be that buff, and I'd say that includes 99.99% of the human race. Took a double shot of Jake and Jude to get the bile out of my throat.

*snickers at Jude* Yeah, honey, you're not an exhibitionist at all. Find me five other sane people on the planet who change clothes on the patio.

okay

[kormantic.livejournal.com]

Carrot Top used to live around here (he may well still) and while he is tragically fugly, and also appears to be wearing pancake and pink lipgloss in these hideous photographs, I once came across him in the park, where he was sitting in the grass and reading a book. He looked just mellow and personable and yes, shirtless, and I was like, Dude, he has really nice arms. No swooning, but he has just lovely, natural arms. So. I feel a tiny bit badly for him, because laws, the love gods really kicked him in the nads with that clown face.

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

I always treated the Walken '08 thing as 'If it ain't true, it should be.'

[wyldkyss.livejournal.com]

I'm confused.

People thought the Walken thing was serious?

[palmetto.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much my reaction. o_O;

[sethrak.livejournal.com]

::periodically wanders over here because of all your lovely Metaquotes. Also, penguins. Squee! And Boo! Squee!::

I feel faintly dirty now. I haven't seen Jake Gyllenhall since October Sky and the commercials for Day After Tomorrow. (Sadly, the DAT DVD we rented was a piece of crap and kept skipping ahead ten to fifteen minutes worth of screentime.) I'm used to thinking of him as young adorable nerdboy Homer Hickam.

When did he get so damn HOT?! ::fans self:: I noticed from time to time you fangirl over him, but I thought that was just because you had a thing for cute nerds. ::ogles second photo shamelessly::

[loopychew.livejournal.com]

On the other hand ... oh, please don't be my future.

Note to self: Adopt Jake Gyllenhaal appearance and move next door to trollprincess quicksmart.

[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

Um... why does Jossip say the Jude Law has a small penis? Now, I agree that "he's no Tommy Lee", but then again, neither are roughly 90% of the men worldwide. Maybe more. Even so, Jude looks like he has a respectable piece, especially considering that it's (apparently) flacid.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

From IFILM, The ABC of Sex Education for Trainables.

Creepy. Yuck.

[stone-princess.livejournal.com]

My boy and I were discussing the Walken thing last night, wondering if we were the only folks who realized it's a joke, as well.

[denial-girl.livejournal.com]

I really did not want to see those pics of Carrot Top and Jude Law. I didn't. And yet, I clicked. WTF is wrong with me?

The only movie I really object to being on that overrated list is Gone with the Wind. I get sucked into watching that every time it's on.

[jim-smith.livejournal.com]

Carrot Top went out and got buff, and IT'S THE MOST TERRIFYING SIGHT EVER.

Gah! Carrot Top pubes!

There are pubes and it is horrifying. As [info]blackgarden pointed out, if you are going to tempt nightmares and look at those Carrot Top photos, following it up with these photo of Jake Gyllenhaal will makes you feel better.

Antidote? Where where?

Gah! Jake Gyllenhaal pubes!

Dammit, trollprincess, why do you hate my eyes so much?

[ampersand.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was gonna say - it isn't porn-star size, but neither is it a "teenie weenie" like they're claiming.

[glitter-ninja.livejournal.com]

Someone I sort of know on Usenet claims to have gone to high school with Carrot Top and said he didn't look nearly as, uh, "odd" as he does now. That was back in the no-eyebrows phase of CT's appearance, though, and that was seriously freaky. Almost as freaky as the Joe Piscopo With Makeup phase he's in right now. Gah.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

Who the hell is this "Carrot Top" guy, anyway? I take it he's not from Pratchett.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_redpanda_/]

First thing I did when I saw that Walken site was investigate. Suspicious WhoIs + no other news articles in the news "directory" = thin hoax. :)

[bishounenhuntrs.livejournal.com]

Dear Carrot Top,

Have you lost your freaking mind, boy?

Wondering, Steve

[midnightbex.livejournal.com]

My brain is now permanently scared for life after clicking on that Carrot Top picture. Oh dear GOD.

But Jude Law's tiny penis well made up for it I think. Oddly enough.

[fyrdrakken]

Do yourself a massive favor and see Donnie Darko. (The director's cut, by preference.)