reviving the Chronicles

I have come out of my hiding to blog about the plans for resurrecting the Vampire Chronicles movie franchise. I have a need to articulate my opinion of these developments.

Recently I have gleaned from Bloody Disgusting website that Robert Downey Jr. of Ally McBeal and Ironman fame is in talks to reprise the role of Lestat. Not that I don’t appreciate RD Jr.’s charm and charisma. I mean who in this world can duet with Sting and carry it off? But that is beside the point. Loyal Ricean fans know that the main protagonist of the Vampire Chronicles, Lestat was turned when he was not even 20 and he is blonde. Now imagine RD Jr. being blonde and all and trying to carry off the weight of having to look a twenty something vampire? He is I promise truly a great actor, but not Lestat!

L has to be portrayed by somebody who has an inner insolence and must be really naturally full of themselves. You know who would be perfect?


Combine Ed Westwick’s natural impertinence and cover it with Chace Crawford’s face. CC’s looks would match well if Michelle Pfeiffer were to play L’s mother turned vampire fledgling. Perfect? Almost but not quite.









Tom Cruise was nearly faultless as L. TC is naturally insolent anyway, I think. He taunted Louie to perfection in Interview and the only thing really is TC looks dodgy as a blonde.

So whoever is planning this coup of reviving the Chronicles in film, should I think, take their cue from the mega-successful Twilight series. The demographics of this film make it a win-win from the get-go. Take some teenagers and a vampire-werewolf love triangle story and what do you have? Then you have a whole market of screaming girls who are richer than us adults thanks to babysitting money, piggybanks and allowances, to sell the movie to. See what I mean? Not only is this film series inciting hysteria, but it has successfully revived the vampire genre that sort of slumped since Buffy ended its run.

The Ricean novels are a darker, richer, more melodramatic saga and told in the right way with the right actors in film form might just make them the more epic. But unfortunately this is just me saying this and the powers that be that will make this movie, might just on some dumb happenstance create a total disaster!

It’s hard to write blah de blah de blah

Kind of challenged in the time management department of late, as always, what with juggling a gazillion things to do and cramming basic la lingua español on the side prior to our road trip to the sun-kissed and sea lapped capital of Catalunya. I have a thousand excuses but mostly, truthfully I'm preoccupied with satisfying my inner fashionista alter ego. I’d never be caught un-trendy in Barcelona – that’s a crime! So enough with my blah blah excuses, yes I am guilty as charged. So I’ve been busy indulging my shopaholicness. Kind of lame but never mind, better lame than dowdy right?

gushing over Barack

I watched a documentary about his childhood and the years before he took over the White House. I’m awed with how he is very much like everybody else but he isn’t at the same time. He is the embodiment of greatness. I think this is what a lot of people see in him. He’s just amazing. Like JFK, Denzel Washington and Will Smith put together. He’s so rock and roll. I hope the shine never fades away. It’s sad when they do, but it’s inevitable… think of a shiny penny thrown into the pig pen that GB left behind. Barack is bound to get his elbows dirty and most likely his knees too. And that stink might rub off on him as well. Just everyone try to remember the shiny penny before it got dragged in the muck ok. He was left with a mess to clean up, what do you expect?

can do no wrong

Pink for all her wackiness can do no wrong and so is Calvin Harris in my book. Their new videos are darkly macabre but I still find them fascinating. Pink sort or played out her personal life on video with her string of hits So What (about life after ‘divorce’) quickly followed by the sobering Sober (about someone literally sobering up) and surprise surprise, Please Don’t Leave Me (in a nutshell about a doomed yo-yo relationship). I was a bit surprised because begging someone to stay was the last thing I thought Pink would sing about but she does it with gothic finesse anyway. Love the way Pink was channelling Stephen King’s Misery in the video. It’s obsessive watching. You get sucked in and let-in on the evil goings-on. Same with Calvin Harris’s video of the dark irony of cosmetic surgery, he is a very upbeat Dr Frankenstein, I suppose.

And don’t ask me why I’m drawn to dark ghastly stuff, I’m just allowing my darker half be content and so should you. Look at what happens to people who are too self righteous and condescending. Don’t get hypocrites started or you will end up regretting you even opened your mouth in the first place. Which reminds me, weeks ago while channel surfing, guess what was on TV? Music video of the Ketchup song. So as the sibling singers were gyrating and singing asereje, Mariel was informing me that as a matter of fact, the said dance to the song was the devil’s dance in the Philippines. So I say, “Where on Earth would such conclusion come from? Mariel don’t believe all the non-sense that you hear!” And please tell me whoever started this rumour/fiction, because he/she needs to be shot. Obviously this person has too much time on his/her hands!

Remember how in the early nineties, rumours abound about certain songs how they inspire you to become followers of satanic cults? The most popular of these, Queens’ Bohemian Rhapsody. It’s bonkers, really. Some school mates I know even played an inverted tape of Queen’s hit to listen to the apparent satanic verses. What a load of BS. Seems to me that people who propagate these scare-fests are themselves obsessed with sex and are over compensating for that via and all out media war on anything suspiciously dark in nature.

So going back to Pink and CH, move over PCD’s, I have a new 3-minute obsession x 2. And since these 2 can’t do no wrong, who has done wrong lately that I can bitch about? Hmm… nobody else but 2 KT P’s… KT no 1, saying having swine flu is trendy… and since she thinks so, can we at least make her the poster girl for swine flu? She’ll probably catch it with kissing all the girls? And KT no 2, for going out, getting drunk and flashing her 2 gigantic cosmetically enhanced assets while 3 children and husband are at home. Girl, we know you earn most of the dough but you are giving us ladies a bad name. It’s just not right when you’re a mother and you’re flashing in public… just plain wrong!

neighborhood

With the onset of British summertime, we all have to get up an hour early. It doesn’t get dark till about late 8-ish and establishments are inundated with a plethora of youth. All the hyper-mania, pent up during winter, is released upon the innocent citizens of our neighbourhood. Full on spring is just around the corner and apart from unwanted midges and insects, comes terrorists disguised as children, armed with an arsenal of ‘deadly’ weapons, like eggs, stones, water-guns, etc. Street corners are amassed with hooded characters fresh from the pages of Sin-City. You have to look twice behind you when you hear footsteps. Hmm don’t you wish it was winter again?

Pinoy trivia

We watched Mission Impossible a couple of weeks ago and Moira was saying that Tom Cruise looked young so I said I think that movie was shown before you were born, to where I added, from out of nowhere, ‘as far as I know nung pinalabas yan nanunuod pa ako ng Palibhasa Lalake’. They looked at me funny as if I’m an alien or something. But its true, its one of the silly TV shows I used to watch as a teenager, why on earth I don’t know now. It was really up there in the silly points, but maybe its saving grace was that the intelligent, sort of posh, Cynthia Patag was in it as the bizarre daughter of Gloria Romero. And need I say that Richard Gomez and Joey Marquez moved on to be political heavy weights? Guess having a weekly TV food fight helped in the campaign trail. By the way does anybody remember TODAS and Brod Pete of Bubble Gang? Wazzup?

What’s with bjork and lily?

Do you get Bjork and her electropop madness? Try as I might and the music fan that I am I can’t. I must be Bjork-resistant, not withstanding her swan-murder dress, included.

Oh Lily! Why oh why? Your new video is hideous. Don’t know if I should square dance and say Yee-ha. You are putting the fear in me. Not sure if this song is going to grow on me. I might keel over first.

music collection

With the arrival of my new computer, I have been consolidating my files that have been everywhere because I didn’t have a PC to call my own but rather I have been using hubby’s and the children’s, so my files are like here there and everywhere. And like I mentioned before I have tons of music. Irregardless that a radio DJ I’m not and for what purpose I keep all these files I can not logically explain but I still keep them and still continue to amass any song that tickles my fancy. I have a 6-minute obsession with Pussycat’s Jai Hoi featured in Slumdog. This track is so Bolly. And going back to my ever growing music archive, I have so far copied and archived about 4 DVD discs together with my original music files, generated an html playlist and ha-ha laughing to myself, it will take me 1188 hours (or 49.5 days) to just listen to these files. Still adding.

notebook glove

Pretty please someone buy me a notebook glove for my tiny pc?

too true

I have come across this today and it's only too true.

... when you're in a hole - STOP digging!!!

day 118

Do you prefer receiving expensive gifts or ones that come from the heart?

music and siesta

Can somebody start a petition to the House of Lords to make Siesta compulsory in Britain and whilst you’re at it can you also include a law making all public places required to play alternative rock music in random play? Better yet, have a music hour dedicated to U2, Red Hot Chilli and The Killers, you know like earth hour? Also did anybody hear about Eli Buendia having a heart attack? This news is ancient but I’m having a delayed reaction like, OMG don’t keel over yet, I haven’t seen your band play live yet!