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Sadly, Paul Bethany and Andy Serkis did not meet up after the Oscars for some hot sweaty monkey love, much to the disappointment of their fans. Ah well. ;-)


However. My scrumptious honeybunny ADRIEN BRODY won Best Actor! Wooohoooo! There is a God, after all. *laughs* Oh Adrien, your speech was so wonderful, and utterly, utterly perfect -- you are so passionate and adorable and poignant, and now the entire world knows what an amazing man you are. Plus you snogged Halle Berry! You cheeky monkey! And what's more, she seemed to really enjoy it too. Hehehe. Well, wouldn't you, if you were her? (God yes. ;-) Further proof of the existence of a Higher Being -- Renee 'mole rat' Zelwegger did not win for Best Actress. HURRAH! No need to stick pointy things in my eyes then. *grins* Unfortunately those were really the other good things about the ceremony; the poor lads from WETA were rushed off the stage and even had their microphone taken away! I hope whomever did that is properly ashamed of themselves for ruining such a special moment. And of course TTT was overlooked in everything it was nominated in, which wasn't much to begin with. *grumbles* But I digress. What did everyone think of Steve Martin's opening monologue? I thought he did a very good job in troubled circumstances, and there were some jokes that were quite obviously written (or at least inspired) by Dave Barry, which was quite amusing. There were a few bombs, but on the whole it was a very admirable performance. I thought Queen Latifah was the most gorgeous person there (apart from Adrien of course ;-), and outshone everyone. But of course all the fashion magazines will be talking about Salma Hayek's hideous top (which they will think is beautiful) and Renee's (*hiss* *spit*) red cling-film dress. But we'll know who the real Queen is. *grins*
To sum up: Adrien Brody = Yum. :)


In other news -- I don't hate Glory of the 80's nearly as much as I used to. So it's official: there really is no such thing as a Bad Tori Song. *grins* (There is, however, a Bad Tori Video -- I'm sure we've all looked on in horror at the crimped hair and sword in The Big Picture. *shudder* ;-)





In the Observer today http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,920286,00.html we learn that...


US intelligence officials said there was now a high volume of back-channel communications with officials inside Iraq. American military officers were trying, often by telephone, to coax their Iraqi counterparts into surrendering.


"Often by telephone" is sort of puzzling in itself. Are they also using homing pigeons? e-mails? long personal letters? And how do you telephonically "coax" your Iraqui counterpart to surrender?

“Hi. Mahmoud? That you? This is Al.”

“Ah. Yes. Hi, Al.”

“So, you thought any more about what I said yesterday?”

“Not really. I’ve been kind of busy. We’re fighting a war, you know.”

“Heheh. Tell me about it. So whaddayasay, Mahmoud – ready to surrender?”

“Not, uh...”

“C'mon, man. You know you want to. Didn’t you get the flowers?”

“Flowers?”

“Yeah. I sent flowers. I dictated the card myself – to a Noble Opponent.”

“That was you? They’re very nice.”

“And the photos? You got the photos of the house okay?”

“The house? It looks lovely.”

“It’s a time share in Puerto Vallerta. We’ve got it for a whole month in September but you’re a general, who has time to go to Mexico and knock back the Coronas by the pool? I guess you know how it goes.”

“Saddam, he’s not big on giving us vacation time either.”

“Well, listen, Mahmoud, you surrender, and I can tell you where you’ll be in September.”

“I have to go.”

“Hey. I hope I didn’t say anything wrong.”

“Not at all. But I’ve got an air force colonel on the other line. He’s been sending me pizza and boxes of candy. He says if I surrender his family are taking me to Disneyworld.”

It's probably not like that at all.



OMG, this just in: I have been mentioned on Dave Barry's Blog! AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!
Except, wait, NO! They've got me as Michael!? Noooooooooooooooooooooooo! *sobs* I AM NOT A BOY!
Godsdammit. This happens to me all the time. They got my name wrong 3 bloody times when I contributed to TheOneRing.net, they got my name wrong on Neil's blog...ARRGHH! It's not that bloody hard y'know! *sighs wearily* Arse.
Well, at least I'm the only person in the world (except for my immediate family of course) with my last name. So they can't take that away from me. And at least I'm there. Sort of. :)


In other other news...trianne and jrivka are trying to convert me to the Dark Side, as can be evidenced here. Yes, that's right -- they're trying to turn me into a SLASH WHORE. But I shall not submit! Never give up, never surrender! That's my motto. (Well, no, not really. It's actually more like 'Hobbits + Donuts = Bliss'. *giggles* ;-) I am the incorruptible Nevvie, and I will never bow to their will. Not unless its a really good story anyway. *grins and winks playfully*

Comments

[sillypants.livejournal.com]

EEEEEEEE! I was so surprised to see Adrien Brody gor best actor... that's WONDERFUL! I hadn't realise how incredibly lovely he was until The Pianst (I originally found out about it because my scrumptious honeybunny Thomas Kretschmann was in it... but OH, it was such a brilliant film... /gush. I couldn't be happier :).

But if you become a slash whore, you hang out with me!! :D

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

You mean I don't get to hang out with you anyway? *lip wibble*

Re:

[sillypants.livejournal.com]

Oh! of course :) It's just that you'd get to hang out with me in a slash whore capacity too :) (see, I never would have thought of running around typing 'OMGtheyaresoinlove' as a mood lifter, but as it turns out, it really is :D).

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

Well, I suppose more of you is good, no matter what sense it is! *tackleglomp* :D

[jrivka.livejournal.com]

But we'll know who the real Queen is. *grins*
To sum up: Adrien Brody = Yum. :)
now, wait.
is adrien brody the real queen? ^_^;

and WE WILL GET YOU BWAHAHAHA. or something. <3.

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

HA!

He could be the queen, I suppose. He certainly has better taste in hats. ;-)

The maniacal laughter frightens me not! I will resist you, foul temptress that you are!

Oh, but c'mere and give me a hug first. *squeeeze* :D

[jrivka.livejournal.com]

hats, indeed. -snickers-

-glomps- wheeee!

oh fantastic, nevvie. now my brain is trying to picture him in ballgowns.

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

*LOL*

I have a picture which may help you with that...





Just imagine his head, on that body. Bwahahaha. :)

[laizeohbeets.livejournal.com]

you know whose else had terrible dresses?

jennifer love hewitt, anastacia, and eve.

*shudders*

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

I'm very glad I didn't see any of theirs then. Ugh.

[fropi.livejournal.com]

Heehee...love the Neil Gaiman bit, lol. I think we all need to laugh a little about things now and then, even if it's serious stuff ;)

must agree with you that:
a) Big Picture video is atrocious (as are most of YKTR photos, etc.)
b) Glory of the 80's has not been a long time favorite but it is growing on me too
c) Hobbits + Donuts = Bliss (yes! yes! yes! so true!)

Oooh and I love your new piccie...Adrien Brody....Mmmmmm yum :)

*squishes*

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

*happy hobbity hugs* Wheee!

Neil is always good for a laugh, then a sombre moment, then a laugh again. Le sigh. :)

[inblackink.livejournal.com]

You know what always gets me about that Glory of the 80s video? If I'd had seen it on MTV back at that time, I would have run out to buy that album. Yes. Yes. I was a "metal chick." *shudders* I owned Vixen's album, fer chrissakes! I would have luuuuvvved Tori back then, as I do now anyway, but I would also have had one really rare vinyl in my possession. Damnit. Oh well! :)

[meretia]

::dies:: You ought to be a negotiator. You really ought. Can't do any worse than the lot currently working on Shrubby's tantrum.


Sadly, Paul Bethany and Andy Serkis did not meet up after the Oscars for some hot sweaty monkey love, much to the disappointment of their fans. Ah well. ;-)

That's 'cos Andy's saving himself for me.

Well come on, someone had to say that, or something like.

I didn't watch the Oscars. I never do. It's the last lingering pretension from my snotty!socialist phase. But for once I'm fairly pleased with who won what.

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

*snorts* You are so cute. *tickles* :D

If Andy's saving himself for you, Paul is going to ditch that anorexic witch and come for meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Hehehehe. :)

[meretia]

::laughs:: I don't know from cute, so much as shameless female chauvinist.

Paul is going to ditch that anorexic witch and come for meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Hehehehe. :)



Yes! And we shall commit such aewsome acts of hedonism upon the pretty actors as to forever make ourselves reptations as...um...things that nice girls don't normally want reputations as.

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

I'm sure they'll say we're excellent. *smug grin* :D

[meretia]

Well, yes. That goes without saying.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

No such thing as a bad Tori song? I must confess...I have never liked and will never like Professional Widow. Yes, it's killer playing and a nifty instrument, but I hate the song and never listen to it. So s'all a matter of opinion.

People keep trying to convert me to slash also. I read a bit of it now, but am still not a fan. A few people are after me to write it. Not bloody likely! *gryn* (and Harry/Draco is, by and large, a stupid pairing!)

Very much liked Steve Martin. He rocks. Queen Latifah looked amazing. Personally I think the sexiest person there that evening was Mickey Mouse, but then, I am a sick monkey. *gryn*

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

I love Mickey, but his 3-Dness kind of spooked me a bit. ;-)

I hated Professional Widow for years, but now I think it has merit, mostly as a song I listen to when I'm really angry. For some reason it calms me down. *G*

Harry/Draco is rather stupid. I know that in every RomCom the couple who hate each other end up shagging, but they're on such fundamentally opposing sides that would never happen. But I think we're in the minority here about that. ;-)

[lady-aquila.livejournal.com]

Uhmmm... I have a confession to make here..! I did have a period when I read slash, mainly classic Trek but some HP too. I'm not a big fan though, because very often it's either just sex, sex and sex ( described in painstaking detail ) or it's too angsty/sentimental even for my taste. So I'm not against slash as a concept. I even started writing a Harry/Draco story where I tried to keep Draco in character because it's so pathetic the way he falls in love with Harry and then suddenly is a poor misunderstood good boy, in most slashfics. I actually did it more for the characters/relationship than the sexual attraction. Never finished it. Can't see an Aragorn/Legolas relationship, though. I think Legolas should go for Arwen and leave Aragorn to me instead! ;-P

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm certainly not against slash in concept, it's the material I usually can't stand. Lately I've been proven wrong by my wonderful friends here on LJ, but most of the time I find it to be poorly written, inconceivable garbage.

And don't worry my sweet, you're not making any horrible confessions! There's nothing wrong with reading slash, it just isn't to everyone's taste. *smooch*

[siriel.livejournal.com]

hm. I'm almost entirely new to HP slash, but I must say that H/D appeals to me. At first I felt the same way -- that the pairing made absolutely no sense. But I'm in the middle of a fic that's changed my mind.

It has to be well done, though. The author has to give a plausible reason *why* Draco, who is so one-dimensionally evil in the canon, would be appealing to and attracted to Harry. The fics I've seen that are successful in this generally set the time as a few years after canon, which gives both characters time to mature emotionally. Also, Draco is generally depicted as having gone through some sort of worldview-changing experience.

eep. Does this make me a slash whore?

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

Being a Slash Whore is, I'm reliably informed, a state of mind. If you think you are, then a Slash Whore you be. *grins*

I think that's just the main problem I have with slash, and fanfiction in general -- the lack of plausibility for the characters to behave the way they do. That, and the mind-numbing tedium of so many of the stories out there...;-)

[meretia]

I never have been much into fanfiction, mostly because I went from my "pretentious, politically radical high school kid" phase to my "slightly less pretentious writer-artiste bitch" early college years about the time I found out about it. I don't look down on people who write it anymore. That's just obnoxious and snotty. But I don't write it myself, and I probably never will. I'm of the opinion that the author who created a character is the only one who can get that character exactly right, so I'm uncomfortable trying to do so. I'm not averse to reading it, though. I have found some stunningly beautiful works of fanfiction over the years, and the bad stuff is too funny to be believed.

Slash irritates me more. To me it just smacks of that pre-teen habit of snickering at anything the slightest bit suggestive. I mean, some times good friends are just good friends and that's all there is to it. I don't mind it if it's an element of a good story (believe it or not, I found a Smeagol/Deagol slash that amazed me, mostly the romantic relationship was barely part of the story), but the ones that are all about the relationship bug me. Particularly the ones that have rivals falling for each other. I'm sorry, but I just don't believe that Harry and Draco are going to stop hating each other just because the author wants them to snog.Probably it's because I'm so jealously possessive of the characters in my writing, but as an author it would piss me off to see people taking that degree of liberty with my creation (see? I'm still not completely done being a snobby bitch of a writer).

But then, the decree making me the person who gets to decide what others can or can't write about seems to have been lost in the mail. There are probably people out there who hate my writing too, so I should just leave well enough alone.

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

>some times good friends are just good friends and that's all there is to it.

Exactly.

I admit to being highly pretentious and looking down on fanfic writers too, until I found out ashfae wrote the most incredible stories, and she introduced me to a few other great writers (all about Ranma 1/2) so I couldn't do that anymore. That was 5 years ago, and until very recently, I pretty much still assumed most everyone was rubbish, and I had seen the only exceptions. Some of my LJ friends write beautiful stories, so now I have to accept that there are good fanfic authors lurking out there, and I had previously only been exposed (with a few exceptions, as I said) to the the worst of them.

I still find that most of the truly awful authors like to write slash. But then, so do some of the best. It's all very confusing. *G*

BTW -- I still haven't left my incredibly pretentious stage. I suppose it's about time I did, neh? ;-)

[meretia]

BTW -- I still haven't left my incredibly pretentious stage. I suppose it's about time I did, neh? ;-)

Bah. By no means. "Pretentious" is a word coined by people threatened by our high standards.

But Livejournal was the first place I met good fanfic writers, as well. Lisaofdoom made a post a while ago encouraging people to go read a story one of her friends wrote, so I did. It was quite beautiful. She's quite a good writer herself.

Since then I've tried to be more open minded about fics. Most of them have at least something I like about them. Even if it is with some of them that they're so bad as to be funny.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Harry/Draco is rather stupid. I know that in every RomCom the couple who hate each other end up shagging, but they're on such fundamentally opposing sides that would never happen. But I think we're in the minority here about that. ;-)

Oh yes. It took me years to get into HP fandom, because everywhere I went I found H/D fanfiction, and it was all bloody boring. It's not the clicheness of it all, or the fact that it'd never happen; I'm a sometimes Ron/Draco fan, and that'll never happen either. But Ron/Draco is fun to read, it's usually snarky and sarcastic and overwhelmingly entertaining. Whereas Harry/Draco is usually overwhelmingly maudlin, angstful, predictable, angstful, boring, and did we mention the angst? Oh, good, we did. You'll note that I don't have much patience for gratuitous angst. *gryn*

Which isn't to say there aren't exceptions; I've found a few really good Harry/Draco fics (Aja and Francis Potter just to start with). But in generally I think it's an effing dull pairing. Which means it's really irritating when you realize that about half of all the Harry Potter fanfiction there is, is Harry/Draco slash. Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

[queeniefox.livejournal.com]

What is a mole rat exactly? Renee's dress was nice at the front but the back was dreadful. However, as I've said to you already my problem with her is that she never smiles. Ever. I watched the remainder of the Oscars that I videoed last night and even when they read out her nomination she still looked miserable. If I had her money I'd laugh all the way to the bank.

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

This is a Naked Mole Rat:






I think that's a rather good picture of Renee, don't you? *grins impishly*

[queeniefox.livejournal.com]

Ha! The resemblence is uncanny!

[akira114.livejournal.com]

I thought Steve was hilarious throughout! I loved it when he did that 'Brady Bunch' thing on the screen with people filling in the boxes of who he'd slept with. Stitch! LOL

*hugs*

Akira

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

HA!

Yes, that was the most amusing bit of the evening. That and calling Jack Nicholson gay. *smirk*

[akira114.livejournal.com]

Hee hee hee!!

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Sadly, Paul Bethany and Andy Serkis did not meet up after the Oscars for some hot sweaty monkey love

Ah, but you don't actually *know* that for sure, now do you? ;) Come to think of it, I don't know who Paul Bethany is...

Of course, I have never heard of slash. I don't know what that is. *cough/splutter* Excuse me, I'm practising for Milton Keynes.

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

You are SUCH a bad liar dear. *smirks* (Especially since you're using that icon. ;-)

Paul Bethany is the stunningly sexy man who played Chaucer in A Knights Tale. And spent most of it totally naked too. Wheeee!
The film is a loathesome piece of rubbish really, except for the bits with Chaucer. Mmmm. He's witty and sexyyyy and utterly brilliant. Mmmmmmmmm. :)

[siriel.livejournal.com]

I have been mentioned on Dave Barry's Blog!

The Monday entry? What the heck is this, anyway?

*wonders if it would make any more sense with audio*

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

Its an absolutely appalling Flash animation, accompanied by an atrocious punk song -- 'I dont want a relationship, I just want, BANG BANG BANG!' etc. I'm sure Dave loved it. :)