Bits and pieces

[fredericks]

• Has anyone seen those Kate Bush ads that play in the wee hours of the morning promoting her new CD? First off, way to pull a Michael Jordan and come out of retirement Ms. Bush. I can't help but cringe at how hokey both the ad (which she most likely had no input on) and the video clips featured in the ad (which she most likely had major input on) are. Bush has added a few pounds and instead of embracing her venture into "pleasantly plump" territory gracefully she's gone the Stevie Nicks route by wearing lots of layered clothing and scarves. In the video said scarves are waved around in a rhythm gymnastic-like way. Say cheese, Ms. Bush. And the voice over for the ad states at least three times "[Kate Bush] has been a major influence on artists during the last decade", and I keep hearing "step the frak off, Tori Amos - the originator's back in town". The tone is embarrassing, even though the message is truthful.
  
  
• Tyra Banks? worst talk show host ever. It's a talk show all.about.her. Her "interview" with Naomi Campbell was nothing more than a blabfest for her to get some most likely imagined drama off her chest. I was forced to watch it while at the beauticians this afternoon. Of course they didn't watch the news, but kept it on UPN. Come on, my black peoples.
  
  
• I rustled up some frozen dumplings this evening. The brand name? Ling-Ling. I instantly flashed back to
  

  -"Don't hate the playa, babe; hate the game."
  -"Screw rooooooooou!"

  
  And then I sign onto LJ and I see that the scrumptious snacktastic has pointed me towards some great "Drawn Together" icons. She's read my mind, she has. *cyber-love*!
  
  
• I've been stoking myself up for the Narnia reveal tomorrow at the World of Disney store by watching the first trailer. I like the first one, not so much the second one. It's the talking that kills it. When I hear Aslan speak in my head the voice is nothing like, say, Liam Neeson's. More along the lines of their first choice, Brian Cox...or the classic choice, James Earl Jones. Enough of my quibbling, though - I will go and I will take pictures. Lots and lots of pictures. I need a reason to use all the photo space I'm paying for here.
  
  
• Mom gave me a winning lotto ticket for $80. Yay! Now I can pay off half of my bills!
  No sarcasm there, either. My mom is often neat and periodically awesome. This is one of those periodic times.
  
  
• SHAWESOME. Come on - I've seen/heard no one using it since my first attempt to inject it into the lexicon. I'm a little hurt.
  

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Comments

[rwarner.livejournal.com]

OK, so I wasn't hearing things....that is Liam Neeson doing Aslan's voice. What is with him and the "mentor" roles lately...I mean, Qui-gon, the role he was in Batman Begins before the end reveal (nice side-stepping of spoilers, eh?) and now this? He's not old yet...least, not *that* old anyways. :)

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

mean, Qui-gon, the role he was in Batman Begins before the end reveal (nice side-stepping of spoilers, eh?)
Yes, very nice. I nod my head in the general direction of your superior steppin'. *grin*

Well, I wouldn't say he's playing an abundance of mentor roles, just that he manages to snag the meaty non-main character roles that just happen to be guiding figures in a couple of big name movies. He's not old! just "seasoned". The seasoned look makes for a hot actor, methinks.

Do you think his voice works for Aslan? I can't be the only one who's jarred by the juxtaposition.

[rwarner.livejournal.com]

Can't say as I can really have much of an opinion, being as all I have seen of him speaking is real short snippets in the new trailer. James Earl Jones would be the right timbre, but I'd just be thinking "Mufasa" if they used him. If they do it right, Liam can be a good Aslan...I mean, when I first heard that they picked Mikey to be Samwise and Sallah for Gimli, I was like ehhhhh, but we all know how well that turned out. So I have hope.

It's been ages since I've read The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe....trying to decide if I want to read it again before or after seeing the movie. I've had bad experiences with (re)reading books immediately before seeing the movie....

[devoosha.livejournal.com]

You are so dead on about the Tyra show. I had never seen it, not being one to indulge very much in 'talk-show' types...but a couple of weeks ago, I saw a promo about how "Tyra experiences life as an overweight woman". Now...I'm all about people getting a new view on life by living in someone else's shoes...and especially love when perpetually beautiful skinny women get to see what my daily life is like by putting on a fat suit and enduring a day out in public. I thought "Hey...this should be good". She totally made the show all about her and how awful things were...not even giving the two overweight women she had on her show, who endure 'all' she went through that day every day of their life any time to talk.

The annoying thing she did was get set up on three blind dates with guys. Instead of handling herself as any normal woman would, she dealt with the surprise and disappointment the guys obviously had at dining out with an unnattractive overweight woman and was completely aggressive with them, demanding how they felt with her being a 'big girl'. Now...not to defend these guys, because you could tell they didn't want to be out with a 'big girl'...but she put them on the spot and basically humiliated them...which is not my ideal way of turning the negative feelings toward the overweight into positive feelings.

Whew...didn't expect a Tyra rant today! :) Sorry I rambled.

[livia-daemon.livejournal.com]

hahaha! I just commented on the same Tyra episode - we must have posted around the same time. Tyra is such a jerk.

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

Bwah! That's hilarious and so telling. I'll make sure to avoid Ms. Bank's show in the future.

I'm actually not a fan of the whole "thin woman wears a fat suit for a day" because it generally ends up being a piece about how crappy the thin woman felt about having to wear a size 18-20 instead of how overweight individuals are frakked over by society.

[livia-daemon.livejournal.com]

Did you hear about that stunt Tyra pulled? She wore some kind of suit for a day that made her look obese and walked around the city. Of course, she got looks and was laughed at because people are jerks. She then had obese people on her show and she spent most of the episode crying about how terribly she was treated. The obese women comforted Tyra. At least she got to take off the suit at the end of the day.

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

At least she got to take off the suit at the end of the day.
Shyeah, like she even made it a full day with the suit on. Heh. Tyra comes across as such a shallow self-centered woman.

[living-kindness.livejournal.com]

I have seen those Kate Bush ads. So glad I'm not the only one seeing the extra poundage and supreme cheese factor of them. I was like, what? Is this commercial for real? Holy cow.

That episode of Drawn Together was crazy. Ling-Ling is hilarious. I've always loved him. Periodically, I'll just burst into Ling-Ling's battle song and hit someone.

I never saw the shawesome entry. Perhaps I shall use it. Muahahaha!

Also, can I get your address again? I gots stuffs to send your way and I never see you on AIM anymore to ask. Aw.

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

Periodically, I'll just burst into Ling-Ling's battle song and hit someone.
Damn. I need to watch the show more often. I don't even know what Ling-Ling's battle song is!

Oh! I watched Wonder Showzen last night, they showed it on Comedy Central during the wee hours. It was the episode with the letters and the numbers, paying an homage to Romeo and Juliet. Oh man! 8 and J are in lurve! And they showed the love scene in a montage. I think I laughed so hard I nearly peed my sleeping clothes. I hope they show it more often.

I'll e-mail you my addy if you give me your e-mail address.

[living-kindness.livejournal.com]

I was watching Wonder Showzen! I got so excited it came on but I had no one to tell. Aww.

Ling-Ling into battle go! *some other words* Kill kill kill kill, die die die!

ticaralina@gmail.com

[sibyline.livejournal.com]

I've been stoking myself up for the Narnia reveal tomorrow

When I first read this, I thought it said, "I've been stroking myself up..." Tells you where my brain is. SHAWESOME.

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

When I first read this, I thought it said, "I've been stroking myself up..." Tells you where my brain is.
::note to self - Get sibyline a gift certificate to Babes in Toyland for the holidays::
And to tell you where MY brain is, on re-reading my entry I did a double-take and had to make sure I hadn't typed "stroking" in error. 'Sides, watching that trailer over and over again is the equivalent of mental masturbation at this point.

Shawesome. Heh. Thanks for placating me.

[sibyline.livejournal.com]

ummm, yeah, i don't need any more stimulation, mental or otherwise.

"Drawn Together" icons,

[sh-y.livejournal.com]

great idea!

Gotta make some myself...

Just finished 40 "Silent Hill" icons, so this'll have to wait till the next weekend.

God if I wasn't in love with my job I'd quit to make LJ icons :).

Re: "Drawn Together" icons,

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

God if I wasn't in love with my job I'd quit to make LJ icons :).
Shyeah, because that's a totally lucrative endeavor. *grin*

I'd love to see your Drawn Together icons when you make them. The one I used was made by someone else. I don't have Photoshop or any manipulation software - I've made maybe three of the icons I use.

I see.

[sh-y.livejournal.com]

Join my and [Bad username or site: orcabee / @ livejournal.com]'s icons community, [Bad username or site: unrivaled_icons / @ livejournal.com] if you feel like, it's new and we invite only our close friends, you can see most of my icons there. We'd be glad to see you as a member :).

Of course, any of those I used or use are made by me. I'll try to make some "Drawn Together" icons this week, I love the show, thank you for the idea, actually. BTW, I do photoshop for the living, among the rest :).

Your current icon is dead, I assume that your images server makes wish better - you should save them on your PC and upload by Browse...

:).

Re: I see.

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the offer! I'd join your com, but I don't make icons; would it still be okay? Most of what I have I've culled from various comms. and given credit to the respective parties when known. You should check out a few of those people and ask them to join. They're all amazing artists.

And my icons are dying periodically due to the server issue. Loading of LJ in general is being problematic for me.

Yes,

[sh-y.livejournal.com]

of course it will be OK.

We're inviting only close friends or those who we know as nice people for now. Crediting is a must, and you can't use icons that somebody else's already using - those are our rules. We just started :).

We'll be happy to see you on our members list, most of our members don't have photoshop currently, we're all about having a great time, period :-D.

[djinuper.livejournal.com]

I love Kate Bush, but haven't heard any new stuff of hers in quite awhile.

I think I'll have to see this ad for her new stuff for myself I hate to think she's gotten all stupid and cheesy.

The narnia books were some of my favorites growing up so I've been kinda reluctant to see the movie...But maybe I will check it out anyway. I just got so annoyed when everyone was up in arms over the story being too christian... I grew up on it and I'm not standing in a lake dunking people and saving them;)

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

I think I'll have to see this ad for her new stuff for myself I hate to think she's gotten all stupid and cheesy.
If you can do a Google search for the ad I'd highly recommend it. Then again, you live in my area! I caught them on either Channel 9 or Channel 11 after 11PM. If you're ever up for no real reason at that time tune over and see if you can find the cheese.
I like her enough to give blame more to the record company than to her. I'd hate to think she's found it impossible to age gracefully.

I just got so annoyed when everyone was up in arms over the story being too christian...
You know, I had no idea it was an allegorical tale until the press started reporting about how it'd go across well in the Red States. I read it when I was younger too, and simply figured it was a straightforward "good vs. evil" yarn.
I want to see what they do to modern the roles of the girls in the movie. I re-read the whole thing recently and found myself annoyed with the fact that Lucy and Susan did little more than nurse people and weep over whatever the hell was going down.

I grew up on it and I'm not standing in a lake dunking people and saving them;)
At least, you're not getting caught doing it. *grin*

[djinuper.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you found me out, I'm a closet dunker, or would that be thumper.

You know, I do seem to remember it bothering me a little too about how the girls were portrayed, although I did think of Lucy as a strong character when I was young. Hmm....Maybe I shall go back and read it again now.

[snacktastic.livejournal.com]

Yay, When I saw you had the icons, I had this fear that you had mysteriously got the link and had not read things through. Glad you like them!