So like I said earlier… I’m bored. I had THE STRONGEST CRAVING EVAR for molasses cookies. They sound SO good right now. I even drove to the store to get me a pack. But I didn’t buy them. I know they’re a bad idea and I’m being good. But damnit… they’d hit the spot. Yay for me?
Allow me to dissuade you from buying a particular product: Tylenol PM Rapid Release Formula. I dunno if it’s just me or what but no matter how little of this stuff I take it makes me feel like a weird…possessed…cloud or something, I don’t even know how to describe it. Last night I took two (aka the reccomended dosage for an adult, which generally doesn’t do shit for me because I’m resistant to OTC sleep aids) and like…they don’t work FAST or anything, they still took about an hour and a half to affect me, annnd I took them at like ten o’clock so they shouldn’t be still affecting me but they are (if this doesn’t make sense that is probably why, I feel like I am swimming through jello or something) but they are. I feel all dopey and disconnected and my heart feels weird and slow. I also can’t tell if I’m having hallucinations or I just keep falling asleep with my eyes open and dreaming an exact replica of reality with one or two minor and stupid modifications, like this morning I swaer to god I pulled on the bus stop thing with a THIRD ARM and this information bounced around in my brain like a pingpong ball for a while and then I was like “waaaaaaiiiiiittt don’t I only have two arms though?” and then I looked again and I did in fact only have two. But it was a totally seamless transition back to reality so.
Anyway long story short FUCK THIS STUFF. Looks like it’s back to just sleeping crappily for me.
ps In my stupor I swore I packed an awesome delicious elaborate lunch but it looks like I imagined that too! Goddammit.
Long time no update. Already 2nd week of the quarter, classes are going ok. Speech isn’t as bad as I thought (so far anyway) but the time really sucks, it’s soooo long too. But having it once a week is pretty spiffy. 3D Design is pretty cool, our 1st and 2nd projects are due tomorrow, my 6 sided box came out cool but the dodecahedron .. not so much. Photoshop is good, my teacher knows a lot so I’m hoping to learn more, so far just going over the basics of Photoshop (that should have been done in the first Photoshop class) making brushes, creating layer masks, all that. Photography is a bitch with the length too, only once a week, we get an hour break and I have that class with Ashley, Roxy, and Raul, and we’ve pretty much had the same classes since we’re all Graphic Design majors. Renting out the super cool cameras is fun, first day I got the Nikon D80 - I had no clue how to use it! It has sooo many buttons lol, but the pix come out great.
Enough of that, I’ve applied for a job and I hope I get it, I don’t wanna jinx it yet. That would suck.
It’s finally COLD today. The clouds are icky, looks like it should rain or even snow. Fall is here!
Speaking of TV, I’m loving Heroes, just caught the new episode last night and OMG, West is so friggin’ cute, I don’t want to but I can’t help it, ugh. With all the stuff that may be involving his character (hm hm?) I hope he’ll be sticking around longer, and maybe becoming a regular? That’d be cool. But the flying - SO LAME, I was seriously bawling. Boo hoo for Sylar, but dang he’s lookin’ hot. And the situation with Peter was SO predictable, ugh, I knew it, they couldn’t make it easy like that, NO! Fall in love with the Irish girl, btw does she have powers? I suspect everyone now, even Claire’s dad - those Jedi mind-tricks of his. I’m also suspecting Niki will get in a hefty mess with the Company, and who is Micah staying with? They made a dramatic statement when she opened the door, I wonder. Oh and toe-cutting - not cool, don’t do it again.
I still have Chuck to watch, I saw Pushing Daisies and it was … marvelous … for the lack of a better word. I enjoyed it, Ned is such a cutie. It’s kind of funny too, I just like the whole Walgreen’s-guy narration haha. Reaper is pretty fun to watch as well, gotta love Gossip Girl, they just got picked up for 22 episodes in total, woot.
K, no more TV talk …
it’s been getting colder and i LOVE it. today i have a meeting with some producers (yeah, i’m clinically insane & signed onto ANOTHER film in between now & seattle..shoots the 14-19th and i leave for seattle the 20th, ay papi) and then i’m going to DISNEYLAND ! to renew my pass. holler for a mother fuckin dollar. i’m about to go get some peets & smoke a cig & then run home to get ready.
ps; last night i did sharon’s makeup while i was over (getting high & watching weeds is our weekly ritual) & she is so lovely. oh & here is a picture of one of the lobotomies i did for tsunami beach club..there were about 14 people total with them. more pictures soon !
So a week ago I blogged about how I was going to put up a new design. Obviously that ended up falling through. I really did intend on putting up a new design! I still have Photoshop open with a few concepts I had started up. There’s one I believe that I’m going to stick to. It’s definitely different from what I’ve done thus far, so hopefully it’ll come out nicely once I start slicing and coding it out.
I ended up getting sidetracked with a side project, MyWHMCS, which is where I’ve been working on customized templates for WHMCS. I ended up getting an order form done, and am about 75% complete with the template for the actual system itself. I think a lot of time will just be spent cleaning up things that aren’t used like icons. I’ll also have to really organize and put out a detailed README file for it, because it’s pretty intricate. I think the only thing that really needs to be combed with a fine tooth brush is the stylesheet. It’s almost 1,000+ lines right now, and I’m not even done coding. I think what I’ll end up having to do is using the same table style (yeah, it’s for data so stfu!) rather than each one having their own styles applied. It’ll definitely remove a BUNCH of coding and ease that load time.
It’s a little later than I had planned on staying up. I’m going with the guys at work to a business expo in the area, and they got seats for breakfast which is at 8am. That means I’ll have to be up around 6:30am to get ready. I am not a morning person, so I wonder if I can pull off getting up early, AND getting ready to be out of the house by 7:45am at the latest. Aruuugh.
All right ladies and gentlemen, we have something that looks legit. A person at unfiction discovered it. It looks like a dog, sounds like a dog and barks like a dog, so it probably is a dog. Go to jamieandteddy.com and click on the picture. It will ask for a password, the password is jllovesth. It will take you to a video that Jamie Lascano (the girl who wrote the caption on one of the pictures on 1-18-08.com) is making for her boyfriend Teddy, who is away.
If you don’t want to do the password stuff, the link to the movie here. Give it a second because Jamie still has the cover on the lens. It will come off, she will speak about how she missed teddy and what not. After, she thinks she turned it off but the camera keeps rolling. She complains about possibly having another bladder infection and requests cranberry pills from another 1-18-08 character, Marlena (I think that’s her name). I am pretty sure that was put in for a reason.
The speculation at this point is that the bladder infection has something to do with Slusho. Anyways, go watch the video and comment on what you think!! Finally we have something!!
hello my fellow cloverfieldian’s. i’m officespacejk, recently given the ok to post here. i’m 31, a capricorn, divorced, my turn offs are stupid people, rudeness, and…well…stupid people. i like long walks on the beach, moonlight interludes…oh, and a good (and broad) sense of humor.
anyway, i was checking out the myspace pages of the cast. i’d already tried to add each of them as a friend, with no luck. decided i’d try to send a message, something slightly goofy enough that it would require thought to write a response to beth…you’ll understand why i chose her in a moment.
message to beth:
Subject: ok, so…
i’m a sucker for big brown eyes.
but i have a question…a swinger…is that from vines or from bedposts?
response from beth:
i think it means that i’m dating here and there, but nothing serious.
so, atleast there are real people reading these. it took about a day to get a response, which i didn’t think was too long, i know i take days sometimes to respond.
i know that this is pretty mild as far as news in concerned, but for fark’s sake, WE NEED SOMETHING!!! i mean, dammit JJ throw us a frickin’ bone here. the natives, we are restless…not to mention we are the one’s providing the pay in your paycheck, don’t piss us off too much. there 4 months until release, and unless something interesting starts happening (more so than adding a sound to 1-18-08.com that sounds like my dad after bad mexican food) we are going to get tired to nothingness and let it all go. 4 months is more than enough time for people to worry about seeing a movie. hell, i have a hard time remembering yesterday…
so, thank you for listening to the voices in my head, and here’s to a long relationship of good times, laughs, and hopefully something useful on this godforsaken movie.
osjk out
J.J.Abrams.net and Paramount Pictures proudly bring you the online giveaway of ‘1-18-08′ Comic Con Posters and Slusho T-Shirts.
You can win 1 of 15 posters and t-shirts. How can you get your hands on both or 1 of the 2 items? It’s simple.
Here are the rules
Since we don’t know much about the film other than the sound of monster and the teaser trailer, it’s time to imagine what it could be.
To enter your chance to win, you will write up 1 page version of how you think the story will flow from beginning to end along with a sketch of the monster. Now I know we are not all good in sketching like myself but do have an imagination to come up with ideas and stories.
The story, sketches or drawings or whatever that format it may be, will be posted on this thread.
You are allowed to tell your story in video format as well using YouTube or similar site. How? Be Creative
How Winners Will be Picked:
1) Top 7 Best Stories and Best Sketches will win t-shirt and posters. So that means each winner will walk away with poster and t-shirt.
2) The runner ups will be selected for poster or t-shirt.
Remember, this is a serious contest and open to anyone and everyone. No spamming.
Anyone who comes to the board to post nothing but jibberish or steals other people’s work (believe me there are ways of finding out) will not only be kicked off the contest but also the board.
Deadline is September 20th, 2007.
Enjoy and Good Luck.
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To view the original thread, you can visit the JJabrams.net original original thread. Good luck if you guys decide to go ahead and participate! Also, thanks to John for sending this in, we appreciate it!
After weeks of waiting for anything to come up about Cloverfield, the followers got what they wanted, sort of. It was discovered that a roar had been added to the 1-18-08.com website. After 6 minutes, a long roar would commence and leave some people wetting themselves. Prior to that, it was clear that some of the loyal following began to get bored with the movie and, in some cases, people just ‘dropped out of the race.’ I find this completely understandable. JJ Abrams’ decision to show this teaser 6 months in advance was a brave one. How could he add to the hype for half a year and at the same time, keep everyone intrigued? Well, it has been almost two months and that question still has yet to be answered.
In the beginning, there were updates on a consistent basis, which in turn made it possible for sites such as this one to grow in popularity. Waking up, getting on the computer, and going to all the Cloverfield blog sites has become a routine of mine. It has come to the point that stopping this routine would be equivalent to blasphemy. I have spent hours and hours researching, posting, theorizing about this movie along with thousands of others. In some message boards it is becoming hostile. Some kid who may have just seen the trailer comes on the message boards having just figured out the pictures on 1-18-08.com flip, writes about it and gets verbally attacked for his tardiness. It is a shame that things are getting to that point. Movies are a form of entertainment that lead to brilliant discussions and debates, not verbal abuse. It is not just newcomers to the movie that get yelled out, no, even veterans of this quest to find more are attacked. Why are they attacked? Well, they could have been researching and come up with a theory that, in their mind, is entirely plausible. Even though it might be feasible, if it sounds stupid or doesn’t make sense in the context of what was seen in the trailer, they are called out.
Of course, this cannot be entirely blamed on the people who post the abuse. JJ Abrams has said that there are a lot more websites dedicated to this movie, but we haven’t found them yet. He chooses not to give ANY hints and leaves us in the dark. So, we find any phrase in the teaser, type it in, and hope it’s a website. Nowadays, there is a lot more viral marketing and it will only continue to grow. All kinds of games are marketed online and because of that, some of those websites are mistaken for websites for Cloverfield. A prime example was ethanhaas. People were so sure that it was related to the movie, especially because of the skyline in the background gradually becoming destroyed. In the end it turned out to be for a game called AlphaOmega. This may seem like common sense to must people but don’t assume anything. That is probably one of the best pieces of advice I can give someone.
Anyway, although the roar might suffice for a week, things will begin to get nasty again. We cannot simply eat these crumbs JJ gives us. We are a hungry people. I don’t think we need official things on consistent basis more so than hints on a consistent basis. That way, it keeps us thinking and on our toes. It actually might be better to give hints rather than official sites or what not.So, in conclusion, JJ if you’re out there somewhere reading this think about your marketing process right now. Do you really think it is safe to assume everyone will stay with this movie for the entire 6 months? In my opinion, I do not think driving people to the point of insanity is the way to go. Dropping hints consistently will get the job done, I believe. Keep in mind that I can give you all the advice in the world for marketing this movie, but it is your duty to these loyal fans to follow through and give them the best damn monster movie of all time.