I posted a spam last night on my journal
showing the spotlight on John and his sexy legs.
And i figured I would post here for
all my fellow whores to drool over ;)


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I remember reading a part in John Lennon: The Life where, around the Help!/Rubber Soul era, he called himself "fat". He was depressed and the such, and so I decided to look at a few pictures of the Help! era. Honestly, I don't see it. I know he was once regarded as the "fat Beatle" by some senseless reporter, and then fell headfirst into starvation. I'm still looking, and I simply do not see it! Maybe it's because I love that meat on his bones, or maybe I'm just biased. Do you other whores find him to be "fat" around that era? You can't know for sure by simply looks, of course, but still, it saddens me so. Any comments on this? :/
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Does anyone know what music video I am talking about?

A young woman - blonde - has two humps on her back. She decides to go to a party, and hides the two humps by wearing a coat. At the party, she catches the eye of a young man, who dances with her. Another young woman, jealous, pulls at her coat and strips her off it, revealing the two humps. The crowd stares, and she is embarrassed. A man touches the humps, and suddenly, something appears to grow from them. The crowd is bewildered, and the growth turns out to be a pair of angel wings, and the young woman takes off and flies away.

Video is probably mid or early Nineties.

This has been driving me mad for months now, so I'd love you forever if you could help. I don't remember much about this movie, so forgive the very vague description. I'm trying to recall the name of an animated movie I watched in the late 90s/early 2000s, though the film itself could have been a lot older.

There was a girl, who at some stage falls asleep and dreams about this magical place. I think it was a castle? She might have been a princess there, and I feel as if she was rescuing someone? This might be wrong. I really can't remember much, but there was definitely a dumbwaiter in the kitchen, possibly with crocodiles/aligators at the bottom. There was also a boy, maybe a prince? At the end, the girl wakes up and sees the boy in real life. That's about all I remember.

I know this isn't much to go by, but yeah. Any help would be appreciated. :3

(It's NOT Alice in Wonderland, Howl's Moving Castle, or Little Nemo, just before anyone suggests them.)

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Vaguely medieval-esque world. Girl and her younger brother - girl is early to mid teen-ish, brother is maybe seven? Their parents died. The kids are running scared because they have "talents" - pretty sure the girl can communicate with animals and I know the boy, we find out later, is a persuader and can get people to do things for him if necessary. (At one point he "persuades" his sister to eat meat (or possibly human meat, at any rate, she was squicked out) because he needs her to look after him. I think he gets gradually more self-interested and sociopathic as time goes on.)

I don't know if children with talents are killed or taken away to be "educated", but the two of them have the sense to not want any of that. Some of the people with talents are used in wars... I think there's one kid used to burn people up?

At some point in the past there were dragons, now believed to be all extinct. The kids get to some guy's castle (he wears gloves all the time) where they find out that "every child born in this castle has a talent". He has one son. This leads us to think the talents are genetic in origin, but the big reveal is that he has a dragon living in his castle and their scales do something to the water that mutates babies. The local governments are implied to have known this, and the extermination of the dragons is thought - by the few who know enough to realize this - to have really been a cover for ultimately eliminating the birth of children with talents, and the everlasting wars are a cover to keep talented children occupied (and hopefully killed) in battles so they can't do anything crazy like take over.

There may have been a romance between the guy in the castle and the girl, and they have to flee the castle by the end of the book. I think there may have been supposed to be a sequel, but I don't know if there ever was. I certainly never read it. The little brother chooses to be left behind in the castle, but his sister (who has been persuaded to take care of him his whole life) isn't too concerned, realizing that he's got the one talent that can keep him safe and alive no matter what.

Specifically, baaaaaaaby Moorhens!

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Various Japanese bands cover Beatles classics

Anyone know the name of the album?

THanks in advance!

Spoiler alert.

This one reminds me a whole lot of Neal Asher's runcible books, Tony Daniel's Grist books, John C. Wright's Golden Age books, Walter Jon Williams's Aristoi universe. Far future, people (and aliens) are all over the universe; some have modified themselves to be pretty alien. Technology is available to carry a unit (one character has a necklace) that will record you, such that if you die, you can be re-made from the recording. A married pair of the characters are in a war on a planet; one dies, one is saved and tries to find his partner's unit but can't. You spend time with those roles reversed (you thought the other one was going to die). Someone, possibly him, is sent on an assassination mission. Another (captured?) personality is loaded up into his brain, to keep him from sabotaging the attempt. The personality ends up sabotaging the attempt himself. Another character in a completely different part of the universe finds out the attempt, is destroyed in doing so, is re-created from the unit and tries to warn people, only to find out that it is one complete galactic rotation later, and his unit has been floating in space and only just now recovered by the same place he was on before.

Current Mood: hopeful

There is a short story I can almost remember.
A group of people are trapped on a boat in the middle of the ocean, with no hope of rescue, and little water.
One of the stranded tells them all that he has a way out... he can help them all create a world. He has been searching for this path for years, and has found out how to use it.
He hypnotises them, controlling the creation and becoming a sort of god to this reality. Unfortunately for him, he is also not entirely in their created world; he still feels the effects of the real world, and is slowly going mad with thirst.

Can anyone help me find out what it's called?

1. Found! Being of Two Minds

I read this probably mid-late 90s. It's an older kids or young YA novel. An American girl and a boy (crown prince) from one of those backwards nations where a monarchy is actually important for more than just looking pretty share thoughts sometimes. They have shared seizures - if one of them has a minor one, they know the other just had a major one and is sharing their body right now. (That sounds a LOT pervier than it is!) They have auras before their seizures. The boy's uncle is scheming good-naturedly to remove him from inheriting the throne for the good reason that he thinks the seizures have made him stupid and a risk. The kids are in touch with each other through the method of writing notes or speaking aloud when they know the other one is seeing through their eyes, and they're thrilled that the boy's family is coming on a diplomatic visit to the US because they plan on actually meeting up in the flesh. They're like 13 - they seem to think of themselves as a cross between penpals and siblings, not as romantic partners or anything like that. They suspect other people may have had this problem in the past, but pride themselves on being smart enough to not be locked up for absolute insanity.

And they DO meet up, and shake hands, but there's a kidnapping plot and they find their little episodes get worse when they're not halfway across the world from each other and... I have no idea what happened next. SO frustrating, it was actually an interesting book.

2. FOUND! Mara, Daughter of the Nile

An Egyptian slave in the time of the Pharoahs, and she finds herself embroiled in intrigue and politics, getting paid on all sides to... something about the Pharoah. She's supposed to spy on this foreign wife of the Pharoah, and manages to convince her to go along with the main plot (the one we're supposed to root for) on the grounds that if she does, when the current Pharoah is deposed she'll be sent home. We see some scenes from the foreigner's point of view, she's very amused by the fact that the slave obviously has a sweetheart and is clearly lying about the sweet nothings he's saying by periodically turning to her and saying "Oh, he just said your customs are interesting and asked after your family" or whatever. (But we know he's not actually saying sweet nothings, he's giving her instructions as to her spying, and threatening her, although I think he never intended to carry anything out because awww they're so much in love ♥.)

Santa, what have you DONE?!

There was this cartoon I used to watch On Demand that's no longer available On Demand and I can't think of the name of it. It was admittedly for young children but I watched it because I thought it was cute and funny. It was computer animated and revolved around the adventures of a pig and his little sister, and I'm 95% sure they were British. There were also other animals, I'm pretty sure there was a duck, and maybe a cow? There was also a sarcastic sheep who wasn't really friends with the pig/other animals, he had his own stand-alone sections of the show. Also he was the only one of his flock who could talk. I seem to remember in the opening credits the pig and I think some of the animals were riding in a wagon (the kind that you pull along, like a Radio Flyer).

EDIT: Found! Jakers! The Adventures Of Piggley Winks.

I'm looking for this music video I watched like two years ago, so I don't think it's all that old. I think it was a metal/screamo band or something like that? From what I remember, the video was of this "goth-ish" girl at school and she's surrounded by cheerleaders and other "preps" that are making fun of her and stuff. Then I think the guys from the band show up at the school and all Hell breaks loose. Like, demons start attacking the cheerleaders and the "goth" girl is controlling them or something?
I don't think it was a Slipknot video, because their masks kinda scare me lmfao, but it still might be them.
Thanks in advance :)

EDIT: Found! It was Hard Rock Hallelujah by Lordi

There's lots going on in the fannish world. The Middle-earth Fanfiction Awards end in a few days, at 11:59 PM (GMT) on New Year's eve. HASA is back after a major site re-design, and there are some spiffy new features. And the There_n_Back 2009 Advent Calendar has attracted some very nice submissions all worthy of reading. And there is other stuff going on as well - too many to mention specifically, actually.

I just wanted to take a moment to thank all the people involved and to draw attention to their efforts.

This may be kind of a long shot because I know there are probably a ton of these, but a few months back I came across a girl's blog that mostly reviewed makeup... mostly MAC, but some other brands as well. She posted a ton of swatches so that you could see how the colors looked on skin. I remember she had so many swatches that it seemed like she bought nearly ALL of MAC's new stuff once it came out. I liked going to her blog because she was pale like me so I could get a feel for how some eyeshadows and blushes would look on me.

If anyone has any idea, please let me know. :) And just do you know, It's not Doe Deere. I don't remember ever seeing the girl's face on the blog I'm thinking of. She only ever posted pictures of makeup and swatches.

Thanks!

I want to look up a crime that happened but I don't know the names of anyone involved and Google isn't helping.

It was a more recent one, probably the last 10 years. A teenaged girl started having an affair with her teacher and I guess they got into a fight at a park (?) and he held her or put her in a headlock to calm her down, accidentally suffocating her. He then got scared so he put her body in the woods and put a shoelace around her throat so cops would think she was murdered.

Police found about the affair and questioned him like 4 days later and he admitted to everything and led police to her body. The only thing is, when they got there she was still alive after 4 days with a broken neck. She survived and now has speech problems due to the lack of oxygen to her brain from her time in the woods.

I'm looking for the archive of a blog written by a woman who worked in a video store (in California, possibly?) with a very large porn collection. She wrote hilariously about the different kinds of customers that came in, with a few repeat characters. I think she was about 30 years old because one of her issues was that most of the other employees were much younger than her, mainly college-aged. In the end, she quit after the store was bought by a larger chain and the entire management changed. I think the blog was written around 2003-2004, though it could have been earlier.

Thanks in advance!

I'm trying to remember a Young Adult novel:

A 15-year-old boy goes on a vacation with his family. They stay at a house with 2 older women who are sisters: one nice one, one mean one. He is told he can't go up to the 3rd floor of the house. Later he sees a beautiful girl in the window of that house and finds out she is the crazy niece of the two aunts and she's locked up because she's crazy. The boy finds a way to get up to her room, they start a relationship over the summer, but when he later breaks up with her she tries to kill herself.

2 Short Stories in Children Sci-Fi Anthology
-The story I remember better is about a drug that increases a person's intelligence. The society gave the drug on a small group of people first as a test, and then to everyone. For some reason the main characters in the story are immune to the drug. Their parents are in some type of support group, at least a magazine or something is mentioned. The kids want to prove they are just as good as a the smart people so they create a plan to disrupt some government, Madagascar's I think.
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Found! "Was It A Dream?" by Guy de Maupassant
-It wasn't very long and in a supernatural/ghost anthology
-The plot is that a man is going to see his fiancee's grave. For some reason the skeletons come out of their graves and start writing on them. One man writes that instead of being a good husband, he was a horrible one. The man's fiancee writes that she got pneumonia (?) when she was walking to see another man and that is why she died. I think the guy faints in the end.

A Children Fantasy Story
-The premise is that the "real" world reflects a magical world. The main character is a girl and a boy from the other world talks to her through a mirror. The boy mentions he could see her through the bathroom mirror, but didn't watch when she was taking a shower or something (I remember this creeping me out). He takes her to the magical world.
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Found! "The Obnoxious Jerks" by Stephen Manes
-The characters go to a really strict school. Part of the dress code is that guys must wear pants and girls have to wear pants or knee-length skirts.
-A group of guys make some kind of club. One of the things they do is wear skirts to school to protest. I remember that they had trouble finding skirts to wear. They got them from a used clothing store and there were only ugly skirts. One of the skirts had palm trees on it.
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HEY....
Happy Belated Boxing Day everybody!

I am posting a request because I desperately need an image and cannot find it.

It is of Hamburg era paul, and I think it is drawing. (though I could be mistaken, it could be a photo....) He is sitting in a cement room, against the wall, sort of curled up, with his knees to his chest.

If I remember correctly, it is suppose to be a representation of him in prison after the condom incident.

I would be eternally gratified and indebted to anyone who found me this picture.


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For a cold, dreary, snowy day, I bring you some warm, bright, shiny, happy Beatles!



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My friend's cat Holly; I suspect she decided that her species required representation along with the camels, cattle and lambs.

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My mom was telling me about a book she wants both of us to read. I guess it's about a mother and daughter who own an inn, or bed & breakfast? And characters from novels come to life there? She mentioned _Little Women_ as an example of the characters who came to life. Any ideas? Of course she can't remember title or author. She thinks it came out in the last two or three years. We're in the U.S.