Jay Leno Star Trek spoof with Mark Hamill promoting his appearance on Criminal Minds.

Thanks to winesmart for giving me this link.

I love that Hotch knew just who to bring in to deal with these guys. Good delegation. And you know Reid likely does not have GPS. His car doesn’t even have antilock brakes or power steering.

(For those who don’t know/remember, Reid has a circa 1965 Volvo Amazon P130 122S).

gublernews:

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gublernews:

So talented it’s criminal

SUE YEAP, The West Australian May 13, 2013

Matthew Gray Gubler is known to many adult TV viewers as young genius Spencer Reid from the FBI’s serial killer-tracking Behavioural Analysis Unit on the hit series Criminal Minds.

Yet there’s a whole younger generation of film goers and DVD watchers who know Gubler not by appearance but as the voice of Simon in the Alvin and the Chipmunks animated movie franchise.

“Oh yeah, I love that,” Gubler enthused on the phone from Los Angeles.

“I am very fortunate I have done a lot of cartoon work. It’s great kids know me as something else and their parents know me as the weird pale guy who looks at dead bodies on TV. It is nice to span the ages like that.”

Show business was something that always beckoned Gubler, who grew up in Las Vegas and still calls it home when not filming Criminal Minds in Los Angeles.

“I love it all, I love entertaining, I grew up in Las Vegas,” he said.

“I wanted to be a magician when I was a child. Then I found the magic of filmmaking and loved acting in my own stupid movies.

“I sort of pursued filmmaking because I knew it was a more controlled vocation. As a director, you can make decisions and things happen, as an actor you’re waiting for a director to find you, for the right script that you can try out for.

“I like doing it all equally. I have had a great deal of good luck as an actor which has allowed me to accomplish what I studied, directing.”

The New York film school graduate and former model, who has music videos and a handful of Criminal Minds episodes under his directing belt, got his chance to act while working with Wes Anderson on The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou in 2004.

“He is the one who gave me an amazing opportunity of being an actor so I feel a great deal of gratitude and awe,” said Gubler.

“He is my favourite living director and I still can’t believe I was in one of his movies.

“If it weren’t for him, I wouldn’t be on Criminal Minds. He turned me into an actor.”

Gubler, 33, is in his eighth season of Criminal Minds and now switching into the mode of the quirky, super-intelligent Reid is second nature.

“I wanted him to be sort of like Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, to have a timeless out-of-step quality,” he explained. “So the research I did wasn’t necessarily in the crime-ness of it all.

“I studied a lot of people with Asperger’s syndrome and sort of got familiar with their speech patterns, their eye contact and stuff like that and based him on a couple of people I know in real life who are eccentrics I have always thought were compelling.

“So, the way Spencer wears his watch over a sleeve is a shout out to a friend of mine.”

Gubler has directed two episodes this season, adding his own stylistic stamp.

He said that he tried to make his episodes “other worldly” so it was fun and a different type of Criminal Minds show.

“As I have done more and the weird ones I have done have worked, they have let me have more ‘carte blanche’ when it comes to the strangeness. They asked me to do two this year so I guess they like what I am doing as a director.”

He prefers the episodes that are on the stranger side than the ones featuring horrific violence.

“I like anything that has the element of surreal whimsy to it,” he explained.

“I like the episodes with people being turned into human dolls, things that are more imaginative are always exciting to me as an actor and a director.

“If I had it my way, our show would be more like The Twilight Zone meets Twin Peaks.”

The accomplished artist, who began sketching as a way of killing time while waiting between scenes on the set of Criminal Minds, is prolific on social media and his website, matthewgraygubler.com, aka Gublerland.

“I have the best fans in the world,” he enthused. “I love the internet in that, if you love to entertain people, it is just a new form of short entertainment - whether it is like a stupid picture of me eating a burrito while riding on Shemar’s (co-star Shemar Moore) back, whether it is a picture I have drawn or a video or something.

“I love the fans and I like the idea of hopefully brightening someone’s day with a stupid sentence about nonsense.”

Via Cyndili

Matthew Gray Gubler and his mother Marilyn promote Set Sail with Saks.

toyboxboy:

Reidxmaps | 8x21 Nanny Dearest

For the people who follow for the CM stuff, sorry about the Star Trek and comic book stuff that leaks in. I mean to reblog to another blog and somehow mess it up. 

fleurcrowns:

#i wonder how he felt when he cleaned the dust from his face #and realized it was the last time he would ever touch his home planet

I was irritated with them for killing off Spock’s mother. I felt it wasn’t necessary— but then I was attached to the old series not, this AU version. It was still entertaining though.

I know that feeling. Seriously, the first few months are the worst. You feel like the pain will never go away. It never does, but it starts to get a little easier over time. Years later it still feels recent.

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AJ Cook (@ajcookofficial) : “@Vangsness: @pagetpaget @ajcookofficial Release the Kraken.

So, this is what I got in a private message and I don’t know what the person was trying to say. I mean, I think I do, but I really don’t get it.

and u ll only support mathew for being pay less or the guys in general? how can u understand utter bullshit?

I *think* the person is accusing me of something, but I’m not certain. It had me scratching my head and laughing at the same time. What? I can do two things at once!

I guess I can’t understand utter bullshit.

I don’t normally share PMs, and I didn’t put the person’s name, but I just found this amusing.

sherifindlay:

Finally!  Thank God!

amandaonwriting:

The Disturbing Origins of 10 Famous Fairy Tales

by Emily Temple (reblogged from Flavorwire) 

Sleeping Beauty
In one of the very earliest versions of this classic story, published in 1634 by Giambattista Basile as Sun, Moon, and Talia, the princess does not prick her finger on a spindle, but rather gets a sliver of flax stuck under her fingernail. She falls down, apparently dead, but her father cannot face the idea of losing her, so he lays her body on a bed in one of his estates.
Later, a king out hunting in the woods finds her, and since he can’t wake her up, rapes her while she’s unconscious, then heads home to his own country. Some time after that, still unconscious, she gives birth to two children, and one of them accidentally sucks the splinter out of her finger, so she wakes up. The king who raped her is already married, but he burns his wife alive so he and Talia can be together. Don’t worry, the wife tries to kill and eat the babies first, so it’s all morally sound.

Little Red Riding Hood
If you can believe it, the Brothers Grimm actually made this story a lot nicer than it was when they got their hands on it. In Charles Perrault’s version, included in his 1697 collection Stories or Fairy Tales from Past Times: Tales of Mother Goose, there is no intrepid huntsman. Little Red simply strips naked, gets in bed, and then dies, eaten up by the big bad wolf, with no miraculous relief (in another version, she eats her own grandmother first, her flesh cooked up and her blood poured into a wine glass by our wolfish friend).
Instead, Perrault gives us a little rhyming verse reminding us that not all wolves are wild beasts — some seduce with gentleness, sneak into our beds, and get us there. The sexual undertones are not lost on us — after all, the contemporary French idiom for a girl having lost her virginity was elle avoit vû le loup — she has seen the wolf.

Rumpelstiltskin
This story is pretty simple: a miller’s daughter is trapped and forced to spin straw into gold, on pain of death. A little man appears to her, and spins it for her, but says that he will take her child in payment unless she can guess his name. In the Grimm version, when the maiden finally figures out Rumpelstiltskin’s name, he reacts rather badly: ‘The Devil told you that! The Devil told you that!’ the little man yelled, and in his fury he stamped his right foot so hard that he drove it into the ground right up to his waist. Then he took hold of his left foot with both hands and tore himself in two.” Ick.

Cinderella
Here, Perrault is much nicer than Grimm — in his version, the two cruel stepsisters get married off to members of the royal court after Cinderella is properly married to the prince. In the Grimm story, not only do the stepsisters cut off parts of their feet in order to fit into the glass slippers (surprise, surprise, the blood pooling in their shoes gives them away), but at the end, they have their eyes pecked out by doves. Just for good measure.

Snow White
First of all, in the original 1812 Grimm version of this tale, the evil Queen is Snow White’s actual mother, not her stepmother. We don’t know, but that makes it a lot more terrifying to us. The Disney version also left out the fact that the Queen sends the huntsman out to bring back Snow White’s liver and lungs, which she then means to eat. And the fact that she’s actually not in a deep sleep when the prince finds her — she’s dead, and he’s carting off her dead body to play with when his servant trips, jostles the coffin, and dislodges the poison apple from SW’s throat.
Most notable, however, is the punishment the Grimms thought up for her. When the queen shows up at Snow White’s wedding, she’s forced to step into iron shoes that had been cooking in the fire, and then dances until she falls down dead.

Hansel and Gretel
The version of the story we know is already pretty gruesome — the evil stepmother abandons the children to die in the forest, they happen upon a cannibalistic witch’s cottage, she fattens them up to eat, they outwit and kill her and escape. The Grimm version is basically the same, but in an early French version, called The Lost Children, the witch is the Devil, and the Devil wants to bleed the children on a sawhorse. Of course, they pretend not to know how to get on, so the Devil has his wife (who tried to help the poor kids earlier in the story) show them. They promptly slit her throat, steal all the Devil’s money, and run off.

Rapunzel
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair. Well, in the Grimm version, she does, a little too often, to a prince, and winds up pregnant, innocently remarking to her jailer witch that her clothes feel too tight.
The witch, not to have any competition, chops off Rapunzel’s hair and magically transports her far away, where she lives as a beggar with no money, no home, and after a few months, two hungry mouths to feed. As for the prince, the witch lures him up and then pushes him from the window. Some thorn bushes break his fall, but also poke out his eyes. For all this extra bloodshed, however, there’s still a happy ending.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears
In this tale’s earliest known incarnation, there was no Goldilocks — only the three bears and a fox called Scrapefoot, who enters the three bears’ palace, sleeps in their beds and messes around with their salmon of knowledge. In the end, she either gets thrown out of the window or eaten, depending on who’s telling the tale. Interestingly, it has been suggested that the use of the word “vixen” to mean female fox is how we got to Goldilocks, by means of a crafty old woman in the intervening story incarnations.

The Little Mermaid
We all know the story of the little mermaid: she sells her voice for a pair of legs, flops around for a bit, then wins her prince’s heart, right? Well, not exactly. In Hans Christian Andersen’s original tale, she trades tongue for legs all right, but part of the deal is that every step will be nearly unbearable, like walking on sharp swords, and the day after the prince marries someone else, she’ll die and turn into sea foam.
Hoping to win the prince’s heart, she dances for him, even though it’s agony. He claps along, but eventually decides to marry another. The mermaid’s sisters sell their hair to bring her a dagger and urge her to kill the prince and let his blood drip onto her feet, which will then become fins again. She sneaks up on him, but can’t bring herself to do it. So she dies, and dissolves into foam. Later, Andersen changed the ending, so that the mermaid becomes a “daughter of the air” — if she does good deeds for 300 years, she can get a soul and go to heaven. Many scholars find this rubbish.

The Frog Prince
Traditionally the very first story in the Grimm Brothers’ collection, this story is simple enough: the princess kisses the frog, out of the goodness of her heart, and he turns into a prince. Or, if you’re reading the original version, the frog tricks the resentful princess into making a deal with him, follows her home, keeps pushing himself further and further onto her silken pillow, until finally she hurls him against the wall. Somehow, this action is rewarded by his transformation into a prince, but it’s not even the most violent. In other early versions, she has to cut off his head instead. That’s rather far off from the traditional kiss, don’t you think?