So the NYMag entertainment blog posted this video from a press junket asking the Twilight cast who would the cast be if it was an 80s movie (it's on my tumblr, and hilarious mostly because R Patz is never not trolling) and hey, I can't sleep so why not post ( Read more... )

So a little while ago I was opining about lists and voting and all that shite and talked about the whole 1000 greatest rock songs countdowns on classic rock stations and how everyone knows what's going to be at the top, and it's really the lower numbers that are interesting ( Read more... )

As always I've been entertained by the best-of-the-year and best-of-the-decade lists that have been rolling out over the past six weeks or so. I'm not going to make a list of films or music, having consumed such a small portion of either of them. But television is a different story. So in alphabetical order, the ten shows I most enjoyed watching ( Read more... )

One-Hit Wonders of the 2000sI've been thinking a lot lately about not only lists and our obsessions with them, particularly as the '00s come to a close and we're deluged by lists of the best whatevers of this low dishonest decade. There was that list of top 50 worldwide grossing films that everyone was talking about last month; EW has declared 15 ( Read more... )

Umberto Eco says that we make lists because we don't want to die. How cool is that? I love a list, obviously.

There's been a lot of conversation about the 50 Top Grossing Films of the Decade, much of it centering around how few of these films are original screenplays-they're mostly either based on a book/comic/ride at Disneyworld, or a sequel. ( Read more... )

longtimegone asked for ( five songs to put on her iPod for a Clio playlist. )

Okay y'all, there's like, some woe around the whole HBIC thing (though do go vote for your favorite lady) so I thought I'd zig instead of zag. There's a lot of celebration of the HBIC and the kick-ass ladies and all that, and I love them too! But I thought I'd make a post about the other ladies I love. So I ask for you to think on:

NICE GIRLS ( Read more... )

Okay, people, it's grey outside and my cat is skittish and I need to take in my laundry and make some lunch and I need some more awesome from many different places so tell me:

What is making you happy today?It can be a story, a picture, a video, a song, a quote, a person, a thing, ANYTHING ( Read more... )

First, delux_vivens is doing a roll call at deadbrowalking:

Let's make it really clear, people. If you identify as a POC/nonwhite person and you read or watch scifi or fantasy, give yourself a name check in this thread. I am particularly wanting shoutouts from people who do not live in the US and who have still managed to read genre fiction.

Second, a picspam about why ( Read more... )

Sometimes I get a little wistful, even woeful, when it seems like the big new thing isn't really my thing. And oddly, on the other side of that, I'm very shy to be like, "I like this thing that isn't the big thing" for a variety of reasons that at the end of the day aren't that interesting.* So instead, and as a sort of answer to a conversation ziggy1278 ( Read more... )