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Eesh. At least Paula had SOME musical background. Now we're just headed for Ellen overload, and that nasty road that Project Runway went down when they had LINDSAY LOHAN judge. Lindsay Lohan. A fashion contest. Lindsay Lohan. Good Godtopus I have lot all my respect for that show.

her sex tape has already been leaked.

Of course it has. Anyone in the least bit surprised?

I loved the Cathy Griffin / George Takei thing. I just wish she'd taken it further.

I love Ellen, but why would she be a good judge on Idol? She doesn't have any musical experience. Is she judging on showmanship? Oh, no. Ellen, just stick to your show and your quirky dancing.

Love the new Pajiba heading!

Ellen has the same musical background as the rest of us peons, which is why I think she got the spot. She'll offer the "everyday" man's point of view.

And yes, she will likely get up and dance if she likes someone, which is what Paula did often. I'm really looking forward to AI. I am not ashamed.

I'm trying to figure out whether that "Six Pack of Unexpectedly Awesome Filmmakers" thing is tongue-in cheek. I hope it is, but I feel like if it were done better I wouldn't wonder.

Ellen, Kate, Kurt, who gives a fuck people. MILLA JOVOVICH IS FUCKING NAKED!
Have none of you seen The Fifth Element? I've been wet dreaming about her for more than a decade now.

Milla:"Big Badda Boom?"
Me: Oh yeah baby, Big Badda Boom, just let me get the towel and mop laid out first...

"I hate those games by the way…your time could be better spent learning a REAL GODDAMN INSTRUMENT"

I never understood this thinking. Does that mean I shouldn't play racing games, and instead learn to rive a race car? It's about having fun and playing pretend, for god's sake. Goddamn musical purists, take the fun out of everything. Stop taking yourself so seriously.

Re: the best book-to-film adaptations, where the fuck is The Godfather? It's a textbook example of how to adapt a novel! Not to mention Blade Runner and Jaws, which actually improve their source novels.

Good god, that Norton antivirus commercial is hilarious. "Would you like to allow Dokken to have its way with your chicken?" As Mrs. Shields would say- "Poetry, sheer poetry!"

And George Takei should be considered one of the new seven wonders of the world, or, at the very least, a national treasure.

I don't get the new layout. Doesn't this pigeonhole us as trekkers/trekkies? I'm one of those to some extent, but I don't think we all are. The old layout celebrated our diversity of pop culture loves.

It's sort of like whenever I go to the store to buy a CD or DVD - well, I don't do that much anymore, but back when I did - and then I have this obsessive-compulsive urge to buy at least one other item so that the person working the cash register does not pigeonhole me as a fan of just that one musical artist or type of movie with no other interests.

In response to something related to this specific post, I wish American Idol were dead.

the 25 best novel-to-film adaptations

What, no English Patient? But that's the favorite film of all time for the Pajiba Overlords.

To Kill a Mockingbird is an easy one, it's one of the best films ever made.

Re: the best book-to-film adaptations, where the fuck is The Godfather? It's a textbook example of how to adapt a novel! Not to mention Blade Runner and Jaws, which actually improve their source novels.

I imagine the response to this is that both the novel and the film must be considered classics, and The Godfather and Jaws were both widely viewed as mass market trash. Not saying that's my opinion, as I've never read either of them, but I have seen a lot of mockery directed at Mario Puzo and Peter Benchley over the years.

That wouldn't explain Bladerunner, except the Phillip K. Dick novella is probably considered one of his lesser works and the film flies under the radar a bit compared to big, blustery epics like Moby Dick.

1. The 6 unexpectedly awesome filmmakers was just...perplexing. Was this guy high?

2. The 25 best literary adaptations was just...perplexing. Did anyone figure out what prompted the order? Was it based on the quality of the film, the quality of the book, or the quality of the translation to film? It is stated it was the best translations reordered by the quality of the film, but that makes the order presented terribly suspect. And there is the question of what makes a good adaptation--one that hews closely to the source or one that strays off in its own direction. And do we give extra points for improving upon the source material? To Kill a Mocking Bird is the best adaptation I have seen, but the book was so good as well. On the other hand, The Silence Of The Lambs was a great movie made from an OK book. And The Godfather is the best film of all time and it was made from a borderline bad book.

My first thought on seeing Milla's pictures was "I didn't realize her nipples were so deliciously dark."

That ass! Oh my godtopus, that ass.

Tracer, if you master Kurt's songs on expert mode you get the unlockable shotgun. And the unlockable syringe, which you should probably use first.

I can't believe some of you give a shit one way or the other if some dumb interweb troll thinks we're all Trekkies. I'm completely ambivalent about Star Trek, but I saw the new movie and it was big and loud and shit blew up and there was fighting and aliens and who seriously cares if someone landing here by Google-related accident gets the vapours because there's one of those... uhh... Star Trek Bluetooth doodads up on the header? BSlim's been hatin' on the new Star Trek movie for months now and we've all been ignoring his ass. If it doesn't matter what a Pajiba institution thinks about what's on the banner, why the fuck should it matter what the goddamn Spambot thinks about it? Quit being such pussies, y'all.

Katherine Heigl had to adopt. All homonculus her are unable to have children biologically.

Wait. It only took Xtreme a mere 7 minutes to go hit the bunk
*and* get back to post another note?
{the 1st comment btw, brilliant}

It's Milla J for cripes sake!! Linger awhile.

I've always thought she was The Hotness. Dayum.

Re Courtney Love and Nirvana. I recall reading recently that Love claimed that Cobain's "estate" was valued at over $500,000,000. Really?? Seriously, if that's the case, then the Beatles estates must be valued at around $500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

Any non-snarky info on this would be appreciated.

Fair warning--unabashed Philip K. Dick geekery follows.

"That wouldn't explain Bladerunner, except the Phillip K. Dick novella is probably considered one of his lesser works..."

Not so. First of all, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is a novel, not a novella. Your mistake is understandable, though, since the vast majority of PKD adaptations have come from his short stories and novellas. Furthermore, Electric Sheep is considered one of his seminal works, along with Ubik, Radio Free Albemuth, The Man in the High Castle, A Scanner Darkly, and Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Maybe others. Dude wrote a lot. Of the films based on his work, only A Scanner Darkly has been particularly faithful. OK, at all faithful. That's not surprising, though; Linklater is a huge fan. You know that scene at the end of Waking Life where the guy at the pinball machine tells the Dreamer about PKD's visions? That's Linklater playing himself.

Re: the best book-to-film adaptations, where the fuck is The Godfather? It's a textbook example of how to adapt a novel! Not to mention Blade Runner and Jaws, which actually improve their source novels.

Totally agree with you regarding omissions, but (surprise!) not that Blade Runner improves on Electric Sheep. It's certainly as good, in its own way, but it's so completely different as to be incomparable. It's like saying O Brother, Where Art Thou? improved on The Odyssey. Well, maybe not, but you know what I mean.

Christ, I'm sorry. There are very few authors I get nitpicky about. If anyone claims that Gus Van Sant's Even Cowgirls Get the Blues improves on Tom Robbins's novel, I might have to choke a bitch.

gatesong, are you a fella or lady? Doesn't really matter, I suppose, but that geekery made me a little hot.

Milla's sense of WHOA!

*bunk*