Maggie's fashion disorder?

"Surely, promoting The Dark Knight was the perfect way for this indie princess to present her quirky personal style as a charming antidote to Hollywood’s cookie-cutter starlets. Instead, she gave us a fashion roller-coaster, sporting a schizophrenic range of looks that made us wonder if she threw them into her bags at random, possibly while blindfolded.
Maggie’s lone hit came at the Stateside premiere, to which she wore a gorgeous black flowered Dries Van Noten gown (above, center), with minimal accessories beyond the kind of shoulders that make us drop and do ten (okay … five) on the spot. -Note from Weirdland (Our collaborator Penny Lane knows Mr. Van Noten's secretary!)- That's the perfect modern, offbeat spin on a classic cut, and a great example of keeping it simple without being a snore.

But it’s sandwiched between two fussy, bipolar flops. Maggie's floor-length blue-and-black Zac Posen is the clothing version of a split-personality soap-opera character: the pretty, generally well-liked sheath fighting to peek out from behind the domineering, overworked, bed-jacket-esque overlay that appeared one day after a bump on the head and started slutting around town ruining their joint reputation. And that vintage black cocktail dress can't figure out WHAT it wants to be. Did she knot a velvet toga over a slip and think a feathered headband would be the magic Band-Aid that patched it all together?
Multiple personality disorder, dressed in Gaultier and Stella McCartney.

Then Maggie threw in a few ill-advised retro curveballs. So while we’d hoped to emerge from the shadow of The Dark Knight’s press onslaught refreshed by Maggie’s off-kilter charm and sassy style, here we are throwing up our hands and saying to ourselves, "I wonder what Katie Holmes would have worn if she'd stuck around?" The only firm statement these looks make is that Maggie favors an updo. And unless she’s hankering for an Us Weekly cover about her bobby-pin addiction, we hope she’ll consider a more all-around cohesive approach to her next summer-movie fashion spree. After all, if you want your clothes to make a statement, it's better if they're not speaking in tongues. —The Fug Girls
Source: nymag.com

Nick and Norah's Blogs

Nick's Blog:
Gender: Male
Sexual Orientation: Straight, surrounded by gays
Location: Hoboken, NJNick's Interests
Books: High Fidelity, About a Boy, Songbook, The Baby-sitters Club (my sisters’), Yugo Owners Manual
Television: The Simpsons, The Daily Show, Arrested Development
Music: Green Day, Death Cab, The Shins, Jeff Buckley, Beck, Where’s Fluffy, Elliot Smith, Sinatra, lots of others
Movies: Waking Life
Interests: Tris Nick's Schools:
Hoboken High School, Hoboken, NJ
Source: www.randomhouse.com

Norah's Blog:
Gender: Female
Sexual Orientation: That question is racist…or sexist…or homo-ist…or something “ist” that’s very wrong and judgmental. Who cares? Love is love. Lust is lust. Or so I’ve heard.
Location: Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Norah's Interests:
Books: Charlotte’s Web, I Capture the Castle, White Teeth, Please Kill Me, Franny & Zooey, Angela’s Ashes, Dangerous Angels, The Adventures of Augie March, Anna Karenina, To Kill a Mockingbird, High Fidelity, Catch-22, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, In Cold Blood, Tropic of Cancer, Harriet the Spy, The Virgin Suicides, The Book Thief, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Sweet Soul Music, Nine Stories, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Tender Is the Night, On the Road, The Man Called Cash, The Diary of Anne Frank, Dharma Punx, The Exes, The Outsiders, Their Eyes Were Watching God, All the President’s Men, The Dalai Lama's Little Book of Wisdom… obviously I could go on forever

Television: My So-Called Life, Wonderfalls, Gilmore Girls, Buffy/Angel, The MacNeil Hour on PBS, C-SPAN, any documentary where they show a surgery in excruciating detail, Full House, The Simpsons, The Daily Show, Daria, TRL (sux), The Office (UK version)

Music: Duke Ellington, The Clash, The Jam, Beastie Boys, Ella, Belle & Sebastian, Minor Threat, Cesaria Evora, Merle Haggard, Green Day, Britney, Rancid, The Raveonettes, Q and Not U, Cat Power, Ash, Johnny Cash, Jimmy Eat World, Fugazi, Tenacious D, Paul Kelly, Fiona Apple, Charlie Rich, Elliott Smith, Ani DiFranco, Elvis Costello, Kirsty MacColl, Le Tigre, Beck, Lucinda Williams, Calexico, Shakira, Curtis Mayfield, Yo La Tengo, Architecture in Helsinki, Wilco, Dusty Springfield, The Shins, Nick Cave, Where’s Fluffy…and a million more probably

Movies: Team America, Rushmore, Jesus Is Magic, Back to the Future, Heathers, Ghost World, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Mad Hot Ballroom, Lost in Translation, 25th Hour, So I Married An Axe Murderer, Boogie Nights, Garden State, Spice World, Say Anything, The Sound of Music, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

Interests: Jordan Catalano, Joe Strummer, Tres Cool, the future of the United Nations, tikkun olam, global warming, Coke vs. Pepsi (Coke), Memphis vs. Nashville (Memphis), Angel vs. Spike (Angel), pie vs. cake (pie), song lyrics, song lyricists, Brown University, kibbutzim, borscht, trust, college radio, satellite radio, pirate radio, Amnesty International, Judaism, the Olsen twins, the revolution probably will be televised, Lloyd Dobler, reading and listening to tunes, corporate hippies, Hideous Becomes You Norah's Schools:
Friends Country Day School, Hohokus, NJ: left cuz no C., no me
Sacred Heart School, Tenafly, NJ: Jewish valedictorian/Catholic girls school, mazel for me
College: Undecided. Toss up between Brown University or pulling up weeds on a kibbutz in South Africa.
Source: www.randomhouse.com
Read this excerpt from "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist"
Read an excerpt from "Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List"
Excerpted from Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan. Text copyright © 2005 by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan. Excerpted by permission of Knopf Books for Young Readers, a division of Random House, Inc.
All rights reserved. Listen to their Awkward date

Donnie Darko, Animated Clocks

“What the beginning, end or warp of time represents and means, is beyond me. In dreams, we go to a place, which runs on a different time clock. In this dreamland, time is not linear. The past, present and future are all one.”- Interpretation of "The persistence of the memory" Dalí's painting by Cathy Lo. Source: interpretation.scene360.com"Richard Kelly decides to go for the surrealist, so hippy-hop onto the train folks. This one’s bound for Dahli-wood.

There are no melting clocks in Donnie Darko, but this movie’s got plenty of weirdness in its own right. To say nothing of the movie’s constant references to metaphysics, time travel and what Joss Whedon calls “The Sky Bully.” Source: chosis.coldfusionvideo.com
"Near the end of the movie, when the clock strikes midnight, the movie claims October 30 1988 (SIX HOURS REMAIN)

Which, seems wrong. I would argue 7 hours until the end of the world, but that “Six Hours Remain” may be until the start of the end or something. See at the beginning of the movie Frank the bunny calls Donnie out of his room, the clocks read midnight and the date given is, October 2 1988.

Frank has donnie walk to the golf course and then tells him that he has 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds left (28:06:42:12), assuming about 18 minutes to walk to the course, this places the end of the world around 7am.So the ambiguity is that at midnight on October 30th the movie says 6 hours left when Frank and the sequence of events indicate 7 hours are left and the website says fuckall. (”I will not be afraid!”) Why does all this matter? I wanted to create a clock that gave the countdown to October 30th on the hour of the Collapse of the “tangent universe”. But since I’ve been trying to figure all this out I’m now up way later then I wanted to be and I’m probably not going to make this stupid clock tonight. I’ve found only one other site confused about this, and they didn’t care. I guess they weren’t trying to make a clock". -Francis
Source: www.roborooter.com

Darko 28 Days Wall Clock
28 days... 6 hours... 42 minutes... 12 seconds. That... is when the world... will end.
Source: www.cultclassicts.com

"Nick & Norah"'s Infinite Playlist Trailer

"This quirky comedy is about two loners who on a whim suddenly start dating as they head off on an evening adventure through New York City. Well, that's the best I can describe quickly, because it's actually about Norah asking Nick to be her boyfriend for five minutes and the ensuing adventure when they try and leave in Nick's piece of crap car. This actually looks pretty fun so I'm not going to start picking apart the story and the cast, instead, I'll just sit back and enjoy. In actuality, Michael Cera is always great and Kat Dennings looks like she'll hold her own as well, so why not? Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist is directed by indie filmmaker Peter Sollett, of only Raising Victor Vargas previously, while the screenplay was written by newcomer Lorene Scafaria. The film is based on the novel of the same name written by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan. Sony Pictures will be releasing Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist in theaters everywhere on Octoberd 3rd". Source: www.firstshowing.net

Dreams come true

Talking about defuncted sites, you'll remember that fansite dedicated to Sarah Roemer, which was linked here with Weirdland. I hope that in the future someone constructs a new site devouted to Sarah, who thanked me personally (via email) for making my fan-videos for her.

And Sarah has not been the only actress in thanking me for my video-making skills, being Nora Zehetner

the queen of the down-to-earth stars (you know that Youtube removed some of my videos and my account twice, later my hard-drive collapsed and sadly I lost some of my most beloved videos because I hadn't made any security copy. Sigh.) Well, Nora sent me words of support (I was upset because her videos had been deleted and I had to re-upload them) but Nora was so understanding and lovely, her messages really lifted up my spirit when I was feeling so down. Thank you, Sarah and Nora!
And thank you to each musician, actor, actress, writer and director who supported me or replied me!
I hope you reach all your dreams, you know that some say "Be careful what you dream for..." but it's not applicable for me. Now I know that's is the best thing that can happen to you. You helped me when I was going through a nightmare.

"Life is never easy for those who dream”
-Robert James Waller.

Farewell to Wetforwent

Bye, Bye, WFW!!
I'm very sad after reading this fellow site dedicated to Wentworth Miller is saying goodbye in these final days. I'll miss you, WFW!!

Wise teeth

I had my wise teeth removed, but my front teeth had already juxtaposed slightly, if you remember what Michael Cera told David Letterman about his jaw, my jaw suffered for a while, too. Anyway, this didn't affect his delightful gamosmile, before the wisdom teeth troubles:and after dental surgery: