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ladyoflorien) wrote2004-03-10 12:19 am
ladyoflorien) wrote2004-03-10 12:19 am
LotR goodies and Today's Theme for the Day:
Tonight I watched Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes on FX. Ahh, there's nothing better than some good TB cheese, especially when it involves old Charlton Heston movies. Honestly. And I ADORE DANNY ELFMAN SCI FI MUSIC! Not near as wonderful and compelling as Danny Elfman Fantasy music, but still ohso-satisfying.
1. Hahaha, this is from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
andraste_oz's journal from Feb, when Dom was in the Mardi Gras parade which she tried to watch via webcam and all the webcams were down: "The power of Dom's sex0rness BROKE THE INTERNET." *giggles* Once again Dom's threat to cancel the internet pulls through.
And speaking of Mardi Gras, Here's some Dom/Elijah pics. HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, I love the geeky-ness so. All Elijah's pictures are dang funny, but THIS is the one that takes the cake. That picture? I LOVE IT! AHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA!
Note: The Bacchus doubloons? The ones with Elijah's face embossed on them? Freaky as hell.
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2. Theatrical release of ROTK: DVD out May 25th.
Extended Edition of ROTK: DVD slated for November.
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3. DUDE, DOM IS IN SOME NEW AMERICAN SHOW THAT STARTED FILMING YESTERDAY??? WHY DID I NOT KNOW THIS??? SAMMI, IT'S YOUR JOB TO KEEP ME UP TO DATE ON THE DOM!!! SHEEEEEEEEEEEEESH!!! It's apparently called "Lost," but imdb fails to have it listed either by that title or under Dom's projects. Grrr, want to know what's up... Can anybody point me to more info?
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4. The cast of LOTR won for 'Cast in a Motion Picture' at last week's SAG Awards.
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5. At the AOL Moviegoer Awards, RotK won 'Best Picture', Sean Astin won 'Best Supporting Actor', and Eowyn battles the Witch King won 'Most Unforgettable Moment'. Sadly, Elijah didn't win 'Best Actor'.
Yay Sean! But wtf with the Eowyn scene? *sigh* whatever.
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5. You guys may have seen this before, but I hadn't. Tolkien died in 1973.
1
9
7
3
Reverse it.
3
7
9
1
3 rings for the elven kings under the sky
7 for the dwarf lords in their halls of stone
9 for mortal men doomed to die
1 for the Dark Lord on his dark throne.
That's just odd. And kind of creepy. (gacked frombsbnelijah_fan's journal)
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6. More Oscars shots wherein Dom STILL wants to be a rock star and you can see the scars on his hand really well. Oh yeah, I never mentioned that to anyone did I? Okay, well I was surfing some Oscar pics and Hidalgo premier pics when I noticed he had two or three round scars or bruises on one of his hands. They were bugging me as to what they were, but in the second picture from the top in the above link you can definitely tell it's a scar. I wonder what it's from? It sort of looks like something that would be left after removing warts, but I don't recall ever seeing warts or scars on his hands before. Hmmmm. Maybe I just notice too much detail.
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7. Speaking of the Hidalgo premier, here's an article from USAToday. That mustang Viggo is riding is GORGEOUS. Oh my word, I swear to you the only time Viggo is even remotely hot is when he's around his equine co-stars. *dies* I would rustle up those Hidalgo premier pictures I was talking about earlier if I remembered where I got them. But let me just say there was much Dom/Elijah galloping going on with the talking horse toys, which, notably, were speckled with water (as were the boy's suits) which leads me to wonder exactly what kind of sugar-high caffeine-induced trouble they got themselves into that night.
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8. A great New York Times Article:
A NIGHT OUT WITH
Forever a Hobbit: Dominic Monaghan
By JANELLE BROWN
Published: February 29, 2004
LOS ANGELES
Where hobbits go, "Lord of the Rings" fanatics follow. On a Tuesday night earlier this month in West Hollywood, Dominic Monaghan — better known as the mischievous hobbit Merry in the trilogy — found it difficult to walk through a room without fans throwing themselves at him, offering their allegiance and luck at the Oscars.
At Woo Lae Oak, a Korean barbecue restaurant where Mr. Monaghan is a regular, a waiter insisted on telling Mr. Monaghan that the three "Lord of the Rings" films were his favorite movies — ever! — before he would take his order.
After the waiter moved away, Mr. Monaghan, 27, screwed his elastic face into a naughty grin and said, "I paid him to say that."
Mr. Monaghan's friends Shoxwaken Hincks, a musician; Callie Kever, a waitress; Ryan Farhoudie, his personal trainer; and Amy Vasco, who works in marketing, were optimistic about the Oscars. "They've just been waiting for all three movies to come out," Mr. Hincks said. "It's guaranteed to happen this year." (The Academy Awards show is tonight on ABC.)
Mr. Monaghan ducked his head modestly. "The third one is hard to enjoy. It's a real journey. Very stressful and emotional."
He ordered for everyone. "O.K., the rule is everyone is in charge of one dish," he explained, as plates of raw meat and fish began to arrive. "Cook it and make sure everyone gets some." He seized a piece of marinated ostrich with his chopsticks and tossed it on the grill in the center of the table.
The table belched smoke as a round of Hite, a Korean beer, arrived. Mr. Monaghan speared a scallop: "It's a taste sensation!" he announced. Unable to sit still, he tapped out rhythms on the table with his fingers and bounced up and down.
"Hey buddy!" he shouted at no one, in a plausible New Jersey cop accent. He had been practicing his American accent, he explained. He was born in Berlin and reared in Manchester, England, and was an actor on British television before he landed the role in "Lord of the Rings." Since his return from New Zealand, where the trilogy was filmed, he has been living in Los Angeles and auditioning for American films and television shows.
"Some days the accent works, some days it doesn't," he said. "They go, `That was American? We thought it was Swedish.' "
Conversation turned from "best cover songs ever" (the consensus: Jeff Buckley's rendition of "Hallelujah"), to Mr. Monaghan's pet albino snake (the latest in a collection of curious pets, including a leaf mantis and a black widow spider), to tattoo parlors. Mr. Monaghan plans to have Beatles lyrics, possibly "Strawberry Fields Forever," inscribed on his body. "I get tattoos whenever I'm at a transition in my life," he said. "I got one last year when `Lord of the Rings' ended, too."
After the last morsel of meat had been properly charred, Mr. Monaghan took a vote for the next destination: Paris Hilton's birthday party? "The epitome of wack," it was decided. Instead, five cars made a caravan up La Cienega to the Spider Club, a lounge in Hollywood.
The club was half empty, making it easy to claim a V.I.P. table by the D.J. booth. Mr. Monaghan squirmed in his seat, mouthing the words to 1980's songs and smoking Parliaments. He stared at an unlikely middle-aged couple waltzing to "Bizarre Love Triangle," by New Order. "They're slow-dancing to New Order! How do you do that?"
A round of tequila shots arrived, courtesy of the manager — a fan — and a trickle of strangers stopped by the table to proclaim their love of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
"He's always the coolest guy in the room, even when he's with Orlando Bloom," Mr. Farhoudie said.
By midnight, Mr. Monaghan was looking at his watch. "I've got to get up early for auditions," he apologized. On the way out, he was blocked by one last fan, a woman in a feather boa who had to lean in and shout to be heard over the ear-shattering music. "I just know your movie's going to win this year," she yelled.
Mr. Monaghan squinched his eyes closed and crossed his fingers.
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9. Quotes and pictures from TORn's Oscar Party. I RECOMMEND YOU ALL TAKE A LOOK! Some of the stuff was HYSTERICAL! *saves the page to my HD to look on and laugh for years to come*
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10. What is hotter than Billy playing guitar and singing at the TORn Oscar Party? Abso-fugging-lutely NOTHING! OMG OMG OMG! Leave it to Billy to sing THE PROCLAIMERS!!! AAAAHHH *LOVES HIM AND DESPAIRS, EXCEPT NOT!* If you want lyrics, scroll down on that last link. Omg Omg Omg. I had me a TRUE fangirl moment when I listened to that. It was the whole last half in which Billy kept repeating "I love you" that did me in. AJSDLGHKAD#@)$@!!! HOT SCOT SINGING IS BAD ENOUGH, HOT SCOT SINGING THE WORDS "I LOVE YOU" ONCE IS WORSE, BUT HOT SCOT REPEATEDLY SINGING "I LOVE YOU" IN A PROCLAIMERS SONG RESULTS IN SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION OF THE GABBY. @$)AFJSKAD!!!SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
BILLY!
WHOOP!
*THUD*
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11. As if that wasn't enough to make anyone drool, wet themselves, and faint off into oblivion (not necessarily in that order ;)), we have Billy singing 'Hit Me Baby (One More Time)' on Sharon Osbourne. The infamous sound-clip finally surfaces on my friends page. And I die of squee. I want to lick lick lick him from his head to his toes.
Note: Try the link in the Comments section to get it to work.
*proWr*
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And having nothing to do with anything,
Oh good. I've always wanted my own evil band of Attack Gerbils.
rotflmfao, okay QVC (Home shoppers network) Is selling "Boyds Bears & Friends." But I of course read it as "Boyds, Bears, & Friends." So I'm all like "DUDE, I CAN BUY ME A BOYD??? HALLELUJAH! COME TO MOMMA BILLEH!!!"
Today's Theme For The Day:
"Get your hands off me you damn dirty human!" (BEST PART OF TB's WHOLE FREAKIN PotA REMAKE! EHEHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *coughs up a lung*)
1. Hahaha, this is from
andraste_oz's journal from Feb, when Dom was in the Mardi Gras parade which she tried to watch via webcam and all the webcams were down: "The power of Dom's sex0rness BROKE THE INTERNET." *giggles* Once again Dom's threat to cancel the internet pulls through.And speaking of Mardi Gras, Here's some Dom/Elijah pics. HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, I love the geeky-ness so. All Elijah's pictures are dang funny, but THIS is the one that takes the cake. That picture? I LOVE IT! AHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA!
Note: The Bacchus doubloons? The ones with Elijah's face embossed on them? Freaky as hell.
---
2. Theatrical release of ROTK: DVD out May 25th.
Extended Edition of ROTK: DVD slated for November.
---
3. DUDE, DOM IS IN SOME NEW AMERICAN SHOW THAT STARTED FILMING YESTERDAY??? WHY DID I NOT KNOW THIS??? SAMMI, IT'S YOUR JOB TO KEEP ME UP TO DATE ON THE DOM!!! SHEEEEEEEEEEEEESH!!! It's apparently called "Lost," but imdb fails to have it listed either by that title or under Dom's projects. Grrr, want to know what's up... Can anybody point me to more info?
---
4. The cast of LOTR won for 'Cast in a Motion Picture' at last week's SAG Awards.
---
5. At the AOL Moviegoer Awards, RotK won 'Best Picture', Sean Astin won 'Best Supporting Actor', and Eowyn battles the Witch King won 'Most Unforgettable Moment'. Sadly, Elijah didn't win 'Best Actor'.
Yay Sean! But wtf with the Eowyn scene? *sigh* whatever.
---
5. You guys may have seen this before, but I hadn't. Tolkien died in 1973.
1
9
7
3
Reverse it.
3
7
9
1
3 rings for the elven kings under the sky
7 for the dwarf lords in their halls of stone
9 for mortal men doomed to die
1 for the Dark Lord on his dark throne.
That's just odd. And kind of creepy. (gacked from
bsbnelijah_fan's journal)---
6. More Oscars shots wherein Dom STILL wants to be a rock star and you can see the scars on his hand really well. Oh yeah, I never mentioned that to anyone did I? Okay, well I was surfing some Oscar pics and Hidalgo premier pics when I noticed he had two or three round scars or bruises on one of his hands. They were bugging me as to what they were, but in the second picture from the top in the above link you can definitely tell it's a scar. I wonder what it's from? It sort of looks like something that would be left after removing warts, but I don't recall ever seeing warts or scars on his hands before. Hmmmm. Maybe I just notice too much detail.
---
7. Speaking of the Hidalgo premier, here's an article from USAToday. That mustang Viggo is riding is GORGEOUS. Oh my word, I swear to you the only time Viggo is even remotely hot is when he's around his equine co-stars. *dies* I would rustle up those Hidalgo premier pictures I was talking about earlier if I remembered where I got them. But let me just say there was much Dom/Elijah galloping going on with the talking horse toys, which, notably, were speckled with water (as were the boy's suits) which leads me to wonder exactly what kind of sugar-high caffeine-induced trouble they got themselves into that night.
---
8. A great New York Times Article:
A NIGHT OUT WITH
Forever a Hobbit: Dominic Monaghan
By JANELLE BROWN
Published: February 29, 2004
LOS ANGELES
Where hobbits go, "Lord of the Rings" fanatics follow. On a Tuesday night earlier this month in West Hollywood, Dominic Monaghan — better known as the mischievous hobbit Merry in the trilogy — found it difficult to walk through a room without fans throwing themselves at him, offering their allegiance and luck at the Oscars.
At Woo Lae Oak, a Korean barbecue restaurant where Mr. Monaghan is a regular, a waiter insisted on telling Mr. Monaghan that the three "Lord of the Rings" films were his favorite movies — ever! — before he would take his order.
After the waiter moved away, Mr. Monaghan, 27, screwed his elastic face into a naughty grin and said, "I paid him to say that."
Mr. Monaghan's friends Shoxwaken Hincks, a musician; Callie Kever, a waitress; Ryan Farhoudie, his personal trainer; and Amy Vasco, who works in marketing, were optimistic about the Oscars. "They've just been waiting for all three movies to come out," Mr. Hincks said. "It's guaranteed to happen this year." (The Academy Awards show is tonight on ABC.)
Mr. Monaghan ducked his head modestly. "The third one is hard to enjoy. It's a real journey. Very stressful and emotional."
He ordered for everyone. "O.K., the rule is everyone is in charge of one dish," he explained, as plates of raw meat and fish began to arrive. "Cook it and make sure everyone gets some." He seized a piece of marinated ostrich with his chopsticks and tossed it on the grill in the center of the table.
The table belched smoke as a round of Hite, a Korean beer, arrived. Mr. Monaghan speared a scallop: "It's a taste sensation!" he announced. Unable to sit still, he tapped out rhythms on the table with his fingers and bounced up and down.
"Hey buddy!" he shouted at no one, in a plausible New Jersey cop accent. He had been practicing his American accent, he explained. He was born in Berlin and reared in Manchester, England, and was an actor on British television before he landed the role in "Lord of the Rings." Since his return from New Zealand, where the trilogy was filmed, he has been living in Los Angeles and auditioning for American films and television shows.
"Some days the accent works, some days it doesn't," he said. "They go, `That was American? We thought it was Swedish.' "
Conversation turned from "best cover songs ever" (the consensus: Jeff Buckley's rendition of "Hallelujah"), to Mr. Monaghan's pet albino snake (the latest in a collection of curious pets, including a leaf mantis and a black widow spider), to tattoo parlors. Mr. Monaghan plans to have Beatles lyrics, possibly "Strawberry Fields Forever," inscribed on his body. "I get tattoos whenever I'm at a transition in my life," he said. "I got one last year when `Lord of the Rings' ended, too."
After the last morsel of meat had been properly charred, Mr. Monaghan took a vote for the next destination: Paris Hilton's birthday party? "The epitome of wack," it was decided. Instead, five cars made a caravan up La Cienega to the Spider Club, a lounge in Hollywood.
The club was half empty, making it easy to claim a V.I.P. table by the D.J. booth. Mr. Monaghan squirmed in his seat, mouthing the words to 1980's songs and smoking Parliaments. He stared at an unlikely middle-aged couple waltzing to "Bizarre Love Triangle," by New Order. "They're slow-dancing to New Order! How do you do that?"
A round of tequila shots arrived, courtesy of the manager — a fan — and a trickle of strangers stopped by the table to proclaim their love of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
"He's always the coolest guy in the room, even when he's with Orlando Bloom," Mr. Farhoudie said.
By midnight, Mr. Monaghan was looking at his watch. "I've got to get up early for auditions," he apologized. On the way out, he was blocked by one last fan, a woman in a feather boa who had to lean in and shout to be heard over the ear-shattering music. "I just know your movie's going to win this year," she yelled.
Mr. Monaghan squinched his eyes closed and crossed his fingers.
---
9. Quotes and pictures from TORn's Oscar Party. I RECOMMEND YOU ALL TAKE A LOOK! Some of the stuff was HYSTERICAL! *saves the page to my HD to look on and laugh for years to come*
---
10. What is hotter than Billy playing guitar and singing at the TORn Oscar Party? Abso-fugging-lutely NOTHING! OMG OMG OMG! Leave it to Billy to sing THE PROCLAIMERS!!! AAAAHHH *LOVES HIM AND DESPAIRS, EXCEPT NOT!* If you want lyrics, scroll down on that last link. Omg Omg Omg. I had me a TRUE fangirl moment when I listened to that. It was the whole last half in which Billy kept repeating "I love you" that did me in. AJSDLGHKAD#@)$@!!! HOT SCOT SINGING IS BAD ENOUGH, HOT SCOT SINGING THE WORDS "I LOVE YOU" ONCE IS WORSE, BUT HOT SCOT REPEATEDLY SINGING "I LOVE YOU" IN A PROCLAIMERS SONG RESULTS IN SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION OF THE GABBY. @$)AFJSKAD!!!SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
BILLY!
WHOOP!
*THUD*
---
11. As if that wasn't enough to make anyone drool, wet themselves, and faint off into oblivion (not necessarily in that order ;)), we have Billy singing 'Hit Me Baby (One More Time)' on Sharon Osbourne. The infamous sound-clip finally surfaces on my friends page. And I die of squee. I want to lick lick lick him from his head to his toes.
Note: Try the link in the Comments section to get it to work.
*proWr*
---
And having nothing to do with anything,
Oh good. I've always wanted my own evil band of Attack Gerbils.
rotflmfao, okay QVC (Home shoppers network) Is selling "Boyds Bears & Friends." But I of course read it as "Boyds, Bears, & Friends." So I'm all like "DUDE, I CAN BUY ME A BOYD??? HALLELUJAH! COME TO MOMMA BILLEH!!!"
Today's Theme For The Day:
"Get your hands off me you damn dirty human!" (BEST PART OF TB's WHOLE FREAKIN PotA REMAKE! EHEHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *coughs up a lung*)
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In the Mardi Gras pics, Dom looks sort to me for some reason. OOOH RotK in May.... That means I can bring the whole trilogy with me to London.... That Tolkien death year thing is FrEaKy.... You are looking too hard at his hands. And what's with Dom kissing guys? Do you have Hidalgo pics that I could see? Saes? Hmmm... Paris's birthday party? That would mean Dom and Nick in one place! To quote you: WHOOP! THUD! *pushes Paris off the roof* The Hit me baby link wouldn't work when I tried to save it? Could your please send it to me? *irrestable pout* Attack Gerbils? LMFAOROTF (Sorry the way you said that just amused me greatly. LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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He looks what?!
OOOH RotK in May
Does nobody remember me ALREADY SAYING THIS like a month ago???
You are looking too hard at his hands
No, it's literally the very first thing I noticed. I know I always say this but it's true and nobody seems to believe me, but when I look at pictures the person in the picture is always the last thing I notice. I always notice the other details first. So the three scars were just the very first things I saw. I swear it, but of course I always point out stuff like that to you in almost all the pictures you send to me, so you should know this.
And what's with Dom kissing guys?
I think it's just a foreign thing. Guys kiss guys by way of greeting pretty much everywhere but in the states, because we're all paranoid bigoted self-consumed idiots here. But there it's no big deal to give a fellowman of the same sex a kiss of greeting.
Do you have Hidalgo pics that I could see?
Did you not read what I said? No. I don't remember where I found them. They were in the goodies post that I lost when my computer crashed, remember? If I remembered the link, I would have posted it here.
Paris's birthday party? That would mean Dom and Nick in one place!
Except the article clearly said that they decided it was "the epitome of wack" so they never went. Gosh, am I the only person alive that reads things thoroughly anymore???
The Hit me baby link wouldn't work when I tried to save it?
Did you try the link in the comments section like I told you to? The first link on the page does not work, the second link does. If you did not try the second link, then you should do that.
Now, if you don't start paying closer attention I will sick my Attack Gerbils on you, damn it.
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Short
Does nobody remember me ALREADY SAYING THIS like a month ago???
That sounds vaguely familiar....
so you should know this.
Aye love, I should. But should is the key word in that sentence.
Did you not read what I said?
I did read what you said. But I thought you saved some to your hardrive you could have sent.
Gosh, am I the only person alive that reads things thoroughly anymore???
Yep
Now, if you don't start paying closer attention I will sick my Attack Gerbils on you, damn it.
ACK! NOT THEM! JACK! Save me from the Attack Gerbils!
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Oh. Okay, that makes more sense.
I did read what you said. But I thought you saved some to your hardrive you could have sent.
I don't think so. Maybe one or two. Not sure.