Just found a great interview with Gary Oldman about his role as Sirius Black in Azkaban. (There’s a slight spoiler at the very end if you haven’t read the fifth book.) Some thoughts:

• Gary Oldman “needed the work”? That’s a damn shame.
• He was married to Uma? Uma Uma??
• His kids are named Alfie, Gulliver, and Charlie. I think Charlie lucked out.
• Someone please tell him that Friends is over.
• Whoa, Mo Slater from EastEnders is his sister? I didn’t know that!
• If Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs had been the Beatles, Oldman thinks that Sirius was John Lennon. I’ve never quite thought of them that way before.
• I liked the bit where he said he was all excited about earning money for four more films… until he read the fifth book. Damn.

Overall he comes much funnier and less weird than I expected. I’m getting so excited about this movie!

More from Cannes: Quentin Tarantino and his fellow jurors have taken the unprecented step of publicly defending their selection of Fahrenheit 9/11 as the winner of the Palm d’Or. QT insists that the award was about filmmaking, not politics. Very cool of him. I hope the Australian distributor gets the film out here soon. (The funniest part of that article is the sidebar story that mentions how Tarantino has been doing Irma P. Hall’s voice from The Ladykillers for three days. What a geek!)

Thinking of switching from Movable Type? This blog software breakdown compares several of the most popular (self-hosted) options. In case you’re wondering, GoddessBlog doesn’t do half those things. But then again, I can’t imagine ever needing to use them. (File editor? CSS editor? I’ll stick with FTP and Pico, thanks.)

Horrors! I’m an adultescent! Well, except for the fact that I don’t live with my parents. But the rest of it is regrettably spot-on. I’d like to point out that we recently signed up for health insurance though, which hopefully is the first step in moving out of this hated demographic.

Chicagoist – a new group weblog from the Windy City. I like to keep tabs on what’s happening in Chi-town. The Snook and I have agreed that if/when we move back to the States, that’s where we’d like to settle.

Announcing the Snook-Howard World Tour 2004!
The tickets are all booked for our trip home to Indiana for my sister’s wedding in November. We’re going to be stopping in LA for a few days on the way out and San Francisco for a few days on the way back. Anybody have any recommendations for Vegas or San Fran? We’ve never been either place so any advice or tips would be welcome!

Kirsty has finished a gorgeous new sweater. I love those colors.

Check out this totally hypnotic Flash experiment involving silhouettes of people playing Catch. As you move your mouse, the red ball gets tossed from side to side. Very cool.

Wow. When I first looked at this picture of Harry, Ron, and Hermione at the New York Harry Potter premiere, I honestly thought that was Reese Witherspoon standing in the middle. Upon further reflection, Emma looks pretty but I don’t like her hair that way. Daniel looks handsome. But Rupert… Please, cut your hair and put on some decent clothes. You look like David Charles (the degenerate red-headed hillbilly boy who lived near us in junior high). *shudder*

Are you a Bad Ass? Unfortunately, I am not. I scored a measley 19 points, which makes me a certified wimp (with a “ranking” of “tard”). That’s probably a fair assessment.