| Michelle Forbes |
[16 May 2008|11:29am] |
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Did anyone catch Admiral Caine on the Lost season finale (pt. 1)?
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[16 May 2008|06:24pm] |
I'm surprised this hasn't been posted yet..
![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) crazyvictoria discovered something amazing. No spoilers! It's about what will happen to BSG after season four. I strongly suggest you check out that link, and prepare to get your mind blown :D
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| Gorillaz Sound System to play Creamfields / Monkey in London / Roundup |
[16 May 2008|08:41am] |
'Gorillaz Sound System' will play the UK music festival Creamfields this year, held on the weekend of 23rd / 24th August. According to the official Creamfields site here the Gorillaz Sound System will feature "eye-popping 360-degree Gorillaz visuals delivered from 20 old school projectors" and "4 DJs in Gorillaz Sound System gear". Gorillaz Sound System previously played the MTV Send Off Party at the Bloomsbury Ballroom in London, UK on 23rd October last year, as reported on Gorillaz-Unofficial.com at the time here.
In other Gorillaz-related news:-
Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's opera 'Monkey' will be coming to London this July. The show will play at London's Royal Opera House. For a full list of the London dates click 'Read More' below. Tickets are not yet onsale and we will have all the information as soon as ticket details become available. Right now fans can sign up for ticket updates from the official Royal Opera House website here.
Gorillaz artist Jamie Hewlett has done a ton of awesome new artwork for a Ford car advertising campaign. There's wallpapers, screensavers and buddy icons to drool over on the Ford website here.
Damon recently played the 'Love Music, Hate Racism' Victoria Park event in London, UK as part of the band known for releasing the record 'The Good, The Bad & The Queen'. Check out some video from the event on Youtube:- General Intro | GBQ Intro | Kingdom Of Doom | Damon Speech | Three Changes | Ghost Town .
( Read more... )
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| More HypaSpace Podcasts (Tahmoh and Trucco) |
[17 May 2008|12:00am] |
HypaSpace have added some more short audio interviews to their website
http://www.spacecast.com/shows_5007.aspx
I've downloaded the podcasts and edited them so it's just the BSG interviews.
You can downloaded the edited versions at the following link http://www.box.net/shared/4e74lbxko8
The newly added files are titled .....
Hypaspace_podcast_2008.05.12_MichaelTrucco.mp3
Hypaspace_podcast_2008.05.12_TahmohPenikett.mp3
NOTE: In both interviews the actors talk about S4 episodes that have aired so far.
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[16 May 2008|01:56pm] |
This is where I've spent most of my time these last two weeks...
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| Episode Review Thread |
[16 May 2008|05:02am] |
Happy Friday, everyone!! :)
Please bookmark this post -- After you've watched the episode, add your thoughts, opinions, reviews, etc. This isn't mandatory, but it's encouraged so that the community isn't flooded with a hundred different posts. As always, this thread will be added to our Episode Reviews page for easy reference.
( Guess What's Coming to Dinner -- Episode Spoilers Within )
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| Comic #826: MISTER HANDSOME |
[16 May 2008|12:00am] |
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http://www.theaterhopper.com/index.php?date=20080516 
I know that the punchline to today's comic is really random. Sorry about that. I just had a lot of trouble coming up with an idea to spoof The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. I didn't read C.S. Lewis's books growing up and I don't have much interest in seeing the movies. I'm just burnt out on all of these fantasy movies with kids who must Save The World!
The genesis of this comic was born out of something actual, though. A friend and I went to see Iron Man last week and there was a trailer for Prince Caspian ahead of it. He made a comment to the effect that it was weird to see Aslan so prominently in the trailer because he's supposed to be dead in the second book. I thought this sound like a good jumping off point. Truthfully, I just wanted to use the line "You can't keep a good Christ allegory down." Maybe I should have used that for the punchline. Instead I decided to make it weird.
I actually had to do a little bit of research on this one because I wanted to make sure what I was referencing was factual. So of course I checked Wikipedia - The Source For All Things TruthfulTM and consulted friends through LiveJournal. I think I gave myself a little wiggle room by framing the question inside Jared's confusion.
I felt the need to be proactive about getting my facts straight because the last time I mouthed off about one of these "beloved" childhood fantasy novels turned into a live action movie, I got my head bit off. People take this stuff pretty seriously.
Then again, who am I to judge. Look how serious I take Iron Man...
Even though I know the comic is ridiculous, I would kind of like to keep Señor Guapo around - and yes, I realized that I spelled his name wrong in the comic. Sorry, I was up late finishing it. I'll fix it when I get home.
Anyway.... Señor Guapo. Would you like to see more comics that feature him? I have a couple ideas that he might be useful for. E-mail me and tell me what you think.
I feel a little distracted lately. There's a good reason for it. My dad is going in for open-heart surgery on Tuesday. He's not having a bypass or anything like that. They're going in to fix a prolapsed mitral valve. Basically, one of the valves in his heart is weakened and is letting blood that's supposed to be pumped out seep back into the chambers of his heart. Now his heart has to work twice as hard to do its job. Eventually it would just tire out, so the surgery is mandatory.
I'm a little weirded out by the idea of my Dad having a surgery like this. I won't get into details, but it's highly invasive. He had Cami and I watch a video from the hospital letting us know what to expect. I'm not sure if it helped to prepare me or made things worse.
Anyway, I'll be out of town next week to be with my Dad as he undergoes surgery. As such, there will be no new comics from me next week. Joe, Gordon and I also decided to take a week off, so there will also be no new episode of The Triple Feature.
I encourage you to continue visiting the site, though. I have a couple of great guest strips lined up. A couple of my friends from Boxcar Comics are stepping in to lend a hand. Who are they? You'll just have to come back next week to find out!
So that's what's going on in my world right now. We're confident about the surgery, but we're worried about my Dad's recovery. He's a young guy, so he has that going for him. But 6 to 8 weeks of doing nothing is going to be difficult for him to manage. I appreciate your patience and understanding while I deal with this family health issue.
Take care of yourselves and I will be in touch soon. Have a great weekend!
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| The Banned List |
[16 May 2008|01:36am] |
I've been listening to Radiohead's "Videotape" from In Rainbows over and over again.
This is not something to be listening to four days before my Dad has open heart surgery.
I should probably stay away from Radiohead altogether for the next few weeks.
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| I wrotes a fic! |
[16 May 2008|01:41am] |
So I wrote some Mylar for the challenge going on right now at ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) mylar_fic.
It is entitled: "It lasts for always."
It was written for the prompt "Something permanent, something dark."
It is, in fact, rated R.
It is based on the 5 years gone universe.
I was not ever expecting to write Mylar again, let alone TODAY when I was supposed to be studying for finals.
Oh yeah, and NBC & Timmy own Heroes. Not I.
Read it HERE.
There will be several votes going for the May prompts bring June faster ficathon thing. One for each prompt and then one for each category. So keep watching the comm & even if you don't participate please PLEASE vote :D
xposted like sluts
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| Stress? Fuck it. |
[15 May 2008|10:14pm] |
I had a really stressful afternoon when I came home today. I was going to write this big long post about it. The kind of post that Mitch Clem would read and then comment how I take things so seriously.
Basically what happened is that we got a very aggressively worded but very vague letter in the mail saying that we owed some collection agency $59. It didn't say why. I thought it was a scam. I tried looking it up on the internet, but to no avail. So I called the 800 number on the back and was pretty much abused by the biggest asshole on Earth.
Long story short, I guess we ordered delivery from Pizza Hut back in January and the check bounced. I thought I had overdraft protection, but I found out later after calling my bank that they only cover checks of a certain amount and they didn't cover this one. Pizza Hut sent the check to collections. I never got the two notices that they sent - or at least didn't know what the referenced - and eventually it got to this FINAL NOTICE stage.
I could go into more detail, but it's just going to make me mad again. Fuck it. That loser is stuck in a collections agency. I'm pretty sure I'm doing a little bit better than he is.
The point of the story is that I was stressed, right? Okay, so we have the collections asshole and then stuff starts piling up. Henry's crying, Truman is killing rabbits again in the backyard. All of this shit is hitting the fan at once.
Things settle down a little bit and all of us go into the family room to watch an episode of Sesame Street Cami TiVo'd. Mellows everyone right out.
All of a sudden, I see this little towheaded kid in our backyard. I turn to Cami, "Did you see that?"
"See what?" she asked.
"There was some kid in our backyard!"
So now I'm all unsettled again because if the neighbor kids are coming in our backyard, there's a good chance they're leaving the gate wide open. And if they leave the gate wide open, then Truman could get loose the next time we let him out to take a piss. That happened at our last house and it was not a fun time.
So I go into the backyard to make sure the gate is closed.
No sooner do I turn the corner around the house, but I see little hands closing the fence gate behind them.
FUCKERS!
Okay, fine. They were in the yard. They didn't break anything. Whatever. I'm kind of pissed, but I'm letting it go.
A half hour later we put Henry down to bed. I come downstairs to grab something Henry needs before going to bed and I look out our sliding glass door to see TWO kids standing in the middle of our yard! One of them is handling a toy Henry left out there earlier. The other one is pointing to our back fence like he's surveying the land.
Strike two.
I throw open the sliding glass door and shout to them, "Can I help you boys with something?!"
They whip their tiny heads around and are now frozen in fear.
"Did you lose something back here? A toy, or something? What are you doing back here?"
No response.
"If you two are coming back here, we're going to have a problem. Because if you leave my gate open, there's a good chance my dog is going to get loose. So unless you want me to wake you up at 10 o'clock at night so you can help me find him, you don't have any business being back here."
"We were just looking around," one of them said sheepishly.
"Well, guess what? This isn't your yard and there's nothing here for you to see. The next time I catch you back here, I'm telling your parents."
They slinked back toward the gate and closed the gate door behind them.
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I take no great pleasure terrifying children. I know it was just youthful curiosity that led them into my backyard. The neighbors just built this new swingset/fort contraption and now they have a clear line of sight into our backyard anyway. So why not take the next step and wander around a bit?
But for these two, it was a case of wrong place wrong time. If I had been a little less stressed out, I might have played it for laughs. But as it was, I wanted to wring their necks.
I've had a run in with these two in the past. Last summer they were throwing shit over the fence into the yard while I was mowing. The fact of the matter is that these parents don't watch over them at all. I almost hit one of them backing out of the garage before Henry was born. The parents were sitting out in their driveway in lawn chairs drinking beer when it happened. They gave me this half-hearted wave as if to say, "Thanks for not killing him!" I almost had a stroke.
Anyway. I'm less stressed now and I think it's kind of funny to tell the story. But, yeah. When my blood was up earlier, it was a bad scene.
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| It's In The Spaces |
[15 May 2008|10:09pm] |
it's in the spaces where we admit defeat.
kate. general. hints of jack/kate.
pg. 222 words.
spoilers for 4x12 aka tonight
here
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| Five People Who Never Shot Nathan Petrelli (Until Further Evidence To The Contrary) |
[16 May 2008|04:52am] |
Title: Five People Who Never Shot Nathan Petrelli (Until Further Evidence To The Contrary)
Author: Adeline (gossy16)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: probably just what the title says, y/n? ;D
Word count: 1,000 (It's just a happy accident! ^^ )
Spoilers: None beyond Volume 2.
Disclaimer: I don't own Heroes. Yet.
( "they come snapping at your wheels" )
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| reaction post! |
[15 May 2008|09:02pm] |
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GO!
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| Nature shrugs her shoulders |
[15 May 2008|06:17pm] |
Does anyone have that quote of Bjork, where she's talking about how people think we're so great and have it all together, but really Nature just shrugs her shoulders and deals with us, and puts us all in our place? She said something about that once, because she's from Iceland, and how Nature can kill.
I was trying to find it on the internet, but I wasn't quite sure where to search, really. googling: bjork, nature, shrugs, deals? anyone have a better idea?
I just have been thinking a lot about this lately. The earthquake in China. The Olympics quickly approaching. Bjork whispering "Tibet" and then Tibet uprises, and then you have this massive earthquake which comes from out of nowhere, killing so many people, no reason. And wasn't the epicenter close to Tibet? It's like Nature saying "take it down a notch, you're all lucky to even be alive!"
I know it seems like a bit of a stretch, and I'm not that much of a mystic, normally. And I'm not really saying I believe it was Bjork's foot-stomping, earth-intruders song which started the foreshadowing of the earthquake (s) to come, that would be way too wacky to presume.
But it is a bit ironic that China is trying its best to just put its best face forward and make itself seem so "together" and perfect for its international guests, for the Olympics. And then this happens. This really heavy blow, in their backyard. It just seems like too much, NOT to notice some connection there. And yet, there is no reason. Nature just does what it does, regardless of who's made their nests on her crust.
It also sort of reminds me of that crazy cartoon God-like figure in Wanderlust who's digging the trenches for the rivers, and laughing at her as she goes off the edge of the waterfall. Like "take that! ...I decide, not you."
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[15 May 2008|06:56pm] |
Title: Your No Damsel, So Don’t Act Like One
Fandom: Heroes/Smallville
Rating: PG-13
Ships: Lois/Sylar
Word Count: 739
Summery: He’s a distant memory, not a good one that lays warm and safe in your head, or a bad one that sticks to you like superglue and never lets free, it a strange one that’s not good or bad, just somehow there waiting to be opened up.
For: 7_crossovers
Prompt: 2. Damsel in Distress
Disclaimer: Not mine
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| More BSG Live Videos |
[15 May 2008|06:42pm] |
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These came from G4 again. They play 'Fight Night' and 'Roslin and Adama' this time.
EDIT: Oops! Silly me, I forgot the link! it's here.
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