Go Johnny go! ;)

From Hollywood Reporter:

March 09, 2006

'Walk the Line' tops DVD sales, rental charts

By Thomas K. Arnold

"Walk the Line" power-walked into the top spot on both the DVD sales and rental charts the week ending March 5, easily beating a slate of high-profile competitors.

On VideoScan's First Alert, the Oscar-lauded Johnny Cash biopic, released on DVD by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, outsold second-ranked "The Lady and the Tramp," from Buena Vista, by a nearly two-to-one margin, while third-ranked "Pride and Prejudice," from Universal Studios, sold about 20% as many copies as "Walk the Line" its first week in stores.

The film also was a big hit in rental stores. "Walk the Line" generated an estimated $9.2 million in rental revenue its first week out, according to Home Media Retailing's video rental chart. That's nearly 50% more than second-ranked "Yours, Mine and Ours," a Paramount Pictures comedy that came to video after a respectable $53.4 million theatrical run.

"Yours, Mine and Ours" debuted at No. 4 on the DVD sales chart, while the previous week's top seller, Sony Pictures' "Rent," slipped to No. 5.

Two other newcomers to the First Alert Top 20: Universal Studios' "Ice Harvest," a crime spoof that grossed just $8.8 million in theaters, bowing at No. 6, and the complete fourth season of "Charmed," from Paramount Pictures, debuting at No. 12.

Oscar buzz helped lift Lionsgate's "Crash" back up to No. 13 from No. 18 the previous week, and that was before the drama's surprise best picture win.

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Today you could have thought it's April, judging from the weather! In the morning it was snowing like in deepest winter. Then towards noon it stopped, the clouds disappeared and the temperatures rose towards spring, if not early summer like heights! Then towards the evening fog crept in from the lake!


As some of you know, I'm not much of a cook (OK, not much of a housewife in general) so I don't experiment a lot. However tonight I felt like something different so I cooked some pasta and for the sauce chopped up a Paprika (red pepper) and some cherry tomatoes, fried them with some olive oil, added cream and ground cheese (Grana Padano, hmmm!) and some garlic salt, pepper, ground paprika, nutmeg, basil and origano... and wow, it turned out really well! I think next time I'll try the same with crème fraîche instead of cream, as a variation. I must admit I'm pretty proud of myself! :D


And I also made another wallpaper. OMG how could I resist when I found those pictures... (the last one, which fit in perfectly and really made the set complete, today). I started last night - and by now I really should know better than to start putting together the pictures for a wallpaper less than an hour before midnight. Because of course I couldn't resist to start dabbling with them, and well... um, let's say it was about 1 1/2 hours a little bit later than midnight until I went to bed! However I think I'm starting to get the hang of the whole textures and brushes thing, which is great! But enough babbling about it, here is said wallpaper, and yes it's snaggable - not like there are more than one or two people on my flist who are into Joaquin... ;)

( cut because it's not 100% work safe )

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Oh friggin' hell!

It's not enough that the "minimise my inclusion in search engines" option is worth shit (Google's blog search robot certainly doesn't seem to recognise whatever LJ does to discourage them from including my LJ, so I had to complain to Google and have them take me off their list manually). No, it's also possible for external sites to automatically get a feed of the newest pictures that were posted to LJ. Like this one. Which is one thing - but it means they actually hotlink the pictures. I only noticed because I happened to look at the 100 latest visitors list in my site stats, and found that the wallpaper I just posted (the file is on my website, not Photobucket or Imageshack) had been hotlinked by at least half a dozen such sites! Now I have plenty of bandwidth and it's not much that gets used, but for others this might be a problem. Besides, hotlinking is just plain fucking rude! So if you want to prevent Livejournal from giving others automatic access to the latest pictures you posted, follow the advice that the webmaster of above site kindly provides (and you can ignore this if you only post friendslocked):

To opt-out entirely, go to the command console and type "set latest_optout yes" (without the quotes) and hit execute. You must be logged into LJ to do this.