could i BE using any more tags?

[elapses]

Happy Birthday captaincatapult!!! Oh Annnnnnna, you light up my life in a million different little ways. You're going to make such a wonderful adult now that this birthday has sort of kind of really actually made you one (oops, adverb vomit). Thanks for being born!


Today was convocation! This semester is officially 100% over, and I am so unbelievably glad. I MISS SCHOOL, and having silent conversations with the kid next to you when class is really boring, that last glance at the equations you wrote down on a notecard before you walk into a classroom to take that damn midterm, skimming because you don't feel like reading, having things to whine about!!! I'm sure this is falling on deaf ears because you're all finishing up finals and CANNOT WAIT TO GET OUT, but I cannot wait for fall academia.

But! Summer should be great too.

ANYWAY, this was a really nice week. For a lot of little reasons -- this part of spring always makes me unbelivably happy because the TREES! ARE SO PRETTY! and the air smells nice because of that, and I love my sister, and I have suuuuuch amazing friends who like to think about people as much as I do (it's funny how transient college makes my social sphere -- this week I'm losing a lot of people to their homes, but I'll see them next fall, but my best friends! are flying home!) and just music and smoothies and shopping and crappy soft serve ice cream. Life is so NICE sometimes, you know?! Not for any big reason! Just nice!

I also figured out how to torrent things (24.1% of Outrageous Fortune season 3, HA!) and I am unreaaaaasonably proud of passing this important internet rite of passage.

Plus, OHMYGOSH, television was phenomenal this week. AND SO! A kind of mini picspam.


Monday









(Ohmygod the song. I cannot stop listening to it.)




















Thursday







(In retrospect, I didn't actually even like this one that much, exactly? The Michael stuff was awkward, but in a been-there-done-that, kind of unfunny way. There were a number of moments I reallyreallyreally loved, heh, but as a whole it didn't work for me.)








(This makes two phenomenal episodes in a row! Oh my god, the parodying of the Bush administration? I was CRYING LAUGHING. It's too bad this was the finale so we can't make it a threefer!)

Is anyone else kiiiiiiiiiind of annoyed about this whole ~internet release date~ for the XF2 trailer? They were going to be on the big screen! Looking large and pretty! In front of Iron Man! Pulling it and putting it on IGN is so... anticlimatic.

Comments

[tendre-posion.livejournal.com]

Don't get me wrong, I still really want to see the trailer, but like elapses said, this movie is getting the back door treatment instead of the red carpet treatment we all want to see it get. Most of the promotion being done for the movie is by us. We're the ones 'spreading the word' , putting banners on websites, flailing on journals, buying the magazines. It just annoys me that CC and crew have spend basically NOTHING out of their promo budget.

[inlaterdays.livejournal.com]

I agree completely. I wanted to see posters, press kits, the whole nine yards.

[tendre-posion.livejournal.com]

I think CC and co should hire US to promote this movie. because whatever team he has hired (or in all likelyness, NOT hired) we can do so much better. I would be putting up posters EVERYWHERE. sending copies of the trailer to every tv station and telling them to play it. I'd be putting massive posters on the sides of buses all around the city. Making sure that every cinema in this country had multiple copies of the poster and put them up.
Basically shoving this movie in everyones face

[elapses.livejournal.com]

Waaaaaaait, I don't get the Hamlet reference in your icon?

But yeah, that's exactly it. I feel like the only people they're currently appealing to is fandom -- with Paley, Wondercon, NY Comic Con, etc -- which is great, but even the hardcorest of hardcore fans can't keep a movie afloat at the box office. There's a fanbase who doesn't care enough to look up spoilers on the internet, and what, exactly, has been done to reach out to them?

The fact that Iron Man was apparently so great (I haven't seen it yet) is kind of like salt in the wound? I mean, damn, that was our spot.

[tendre-posion.livejournal.com]

:D don't worry about Hamlet.

I mean sure, i'm going to see the movie as many times as my bank permits me to, and the only way that my friends outside fandom know about this movie is because of ME. I keep telling them about spoiler pictures, and OMFG MSR TO THE MAX. But they wouldn't have known otherwise because Fox is doing JACK SHIT to promote this movie to the general public.

Iron Man was fantastic, I saw it last weekend. the trailer would have been PERFECT in front of it. But instead we got, Narnia and SpeedRacer. and some other movie I can't remember. Probably one the one that took XF2s spot.

[elapses.livejournal.com]

BUT IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE!

To be fair, there ARE posters hanging in almost every movie theater (at least here?), so at least, theoretically, someone might be able to find out that the movie exists, but it's nooooot enough.

[tendre-posion.livejournal.com]

IT'S MULDER. DOES IT HAVE TO MAKE SENSE?

I have not seen ONE poster hanging in a cinema here. Which makes me sad D:
Fox and co need to pull out ALL FUCKING STOPS to promote this movie.