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Lama nggak ngeposting gara-gara banyak kerjaan + update mendadak google PR yang bikin sedikit dag dig dug + adanya suspended di salah satu blog wordpress yg dipakai buat review…ah akhirnya saya sementara ini menunda dulu kontes berhadiah domain dan buat forum jual beli domain di thedomain.tv berhubung timing yang kurang tepat.
Meski demikian, blog ini PR nya naik dari 0 ke 4..huehuehuehue

Baiklah, daripada pusing dan pening..mari kita membahas program satu ini.

Setelah ditolak hampir sebanyak 5 (lima) kali di mbahnya program paid review PayPerPost, akhirnya blog saya diterima juga. Seneng? Pastinya duonk. Sebagai engkongnya program paid review, saya kira siapa pun pasti mengidam-idamkan blognya agar diapprove oleh PayPerPost. Maklum, PayPerPost (PPP) terkenal dengan jumlah job dan tawaran penghasilan yang cukup menggiurkan. Ibaratnya cpc, PPP itu google adsensenya.

Berhubung sampai hari ini saya sudah mengerjakan kurang lebih 11 job ditambah personal experience plus informasi-imformasi lain yang saya cari tahu mengenai program ini, maka saya memberanikan diri untuk membahasnya sebagai lanjutan dari rangkaian pembahaan program paid review menyusul smorty dan sponsoredreview yang sudah saya tuntaskan sebelumnya. Mudah-mudahan ga salah ya.

PayPerPost biasa disingkat PPP adalah broker paid review yang sangat kredibel, merupakan bagian dari big company-nya online earning for blogger. Kenapa saya bilang begitu? Ya, karena hal ini sangat jelas terlihat di halaman opportunity mereka dengan jumlah advertiser/job yang selalu diatas angka 150 ekor buah. Wow.

All right, mari kita mulai dari bagian awal supaya ga ngalor ngidul.

Cara Kerja

Saat ini PPP memperbolehkan setiap blog mengambil 3 job setiap harinya. Jadi kalau misalnya kamu punya dua blog yang diterima di PPP, maka kamu bisa mengerjakan 6 job sehari dengan nilai rata-rata per job $5-$20. Meski demikian, untuk menambahkan blog lain ke dalam account PPP, kamu diharuskan sudah memiliki 10 buah job yang disetujui oleh mereka terlebih dahulu.

Mengapa tadi saya bilang PR itu penting? Di bagian ambil mengambil job inilah PR akan berbicara banyak. Setiap advertiser memberikan persyaratan kepada blog yang ingin mengambil job dari mereka. Persyaratan ini meliputi PR, wilayah asal blog, dan sebagainya. Sampai hari ini, dengan blog PR 4, saya tidak pernah kekurangan job karena hampir semua unavailable opportunities itu disebabkan oleh PR (4 keatas) dan wilayah asal blog. Kebanyakan dari para advertiser hanya memperbolehkan blog-blog dari Amerika Utara, Eropa dan Australia saja yang bisa mengambil job yang mereka tawarkan. Bayangkan jika kamu hanya memiliki blog PR 0 + blog boleh numpang (blogspot/wordpress) + berasal dari wilayah Asia = Niscaya, kamu kelak bakal jadi fakir job di program ini. Pokoknya percuma deh misalnya kamu nantinya diterima oleh mereka.

Oh iya, biar ga lupa, saya mau kasih informasi mengenai warna di halaman opportunities. Ada 4 warna yang mereka pakai untuk mengindikasikan sebuah job. Putih berarti normal job dan job tersebut bisa diambil. Hijau berarti featured job dan job tersebut juga bisa diambil. Abu-abu berarti job tersebut bisa diambil, hanya saja advertiser belum menambahkan dana mereka sehingga tidak bisa diambil untuk saat itu. Sedangkan yang terakhir merah berarti job tersebut ga bisa kamu ambil.

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QB’s Heisman formula? Just win baby

Reaching title game, not amazing stats, key to capturing trophy

Though he did catch a respectable number of passes — 45 — last season for the Thundering Herd, Marshall wideout Darius Passmore is hardly a viable Heisman Trophy threat in 2008. Instead, Passmore, or at least his surname, serves as a 21st century guidepost. A declaration. A Heismantra, if you will.

Pass more.

Seven of the past eight Heisman Trophy winners have been quarterbacks, and that trend will likely continue this season. Once running backs seemingly owned the bronze bust. From 1972-1983 the award was strictly the domain of running backs, and if Gerard Phalen of Boston College had not been so sure-handed in 1984 — it was he who hauled in Doug Flutie's prayer as time expired at Miami — that streak may have extended longer.

Whereas the 1970s and early '80s were the RB era, a time when iconic coaches such as John Robinson (USC) and Woody Hayes (Ohio State) produced multiple Heismans from the tailback slot — it was Hayes who grumbled, "Three things can happen when you attempt a pass, and two of them are bad" — the 21st century is so far a passer's fancy.

The irony is that the most prolific passers have not been taking home the Heisman this decade — the ones with the highest-ranked team have.

In 1999 Wisconsin running back Ron Dayne won the Heisman. All the Badger back had to do to earn his bust was finish his career in Madison as Division I-A's all-time leading rusher. Dayne gained 6,397 yards in four seasons.

To win the Heisman as a running back, you have to post massive yardage. To do so as a quarterback, you simply have to win.

During that 12-year running backs run (1972-1983), for example, no pretenders won the award. From 1976-1983 all but one of the seven Heisman Trophy winners was also that season's leading rusher in I-A: Tony Dorsett, Earl Campbell, Billy Sims, Charles White, George Rogers, Marcus Allen and Mike Rozier. Memorable figures, those. The exception was Georgia's Herschel Walker who in 1982 had a lower yards-per-game figure than Oklahoma State's Ernest Anderson. Walker, few will argue, was the most devastating rusher college football has ever seen. The only dispute concerning Herschel was why he did not win the award twice.

It was an era in which the Heisman was bestowed on the most prolific rusher in America. And if that back happened to also play for a national championship-caliber team (all but Rogers played in a New Year's Day bowl), well, that was a function of what the most successful programs did offensively at the time. It was a FedEx Ground era in college football.

This decade? Seven of the eight Heismans have gone to quarterbacks. And whereas the yardstick on rushers has always been yardage — six of the top dozen all-time rushing leaders have won the award — the standard for
Consider these five names: Chris Weinke, Eric Crouch, Jason White, Matt Leinart and Troy Smith. All five quarterbacks won the Heisman this decade, though none of them are anywhere near the top in all-time or single-season NCAA passing records lists. None of them led the nation in passing the year they won the award. What those five had in common was an appearance in the national championship game the year they visited Manhattan in December.
A sixth quarterback, Carson Palmer of USC, never made it to the national championship game, but at least in NFL scouts' (and Fantasy Leaguers') eyes, he's by far the best Heisman winner of the bunch. The seventh, Florida's Tim Tebow, played in the national championship game the year before he won the trophy.

The oddity is that passers, with apologies to the Houston slingers of the late '80s-early '90s, have never been more prolific than in this decade. Hawaii's Timmy Chang (2000-04) is the sport's all-time passing yardage leader (17,072) while his successor, Colt Brennan, holds the NCAA record for most touchdown passes in a season (58). Neither won the Heisman, and only Brennan was even invited to the ceremony.

‘Batman’ star denies assault allegations

Bale out on bail after being questioned about incident with mom, sister

LONDON - The darkness around Batman has deepened: While audiences were shattering weekend box-office records in the U.S., Christian Bale was in London, where his mother and sister reportedly leveled assault allegations against the star of “The Dark Knight” that have yet to become clear.

Bale said the allegations were false Tuesday, hours after the Wales-born actor was arrested, questioned by London police and released on bail. The 34-year-old actor spent four hours talking with authorities but was not charged.

British media reported that Bale’s mother and sister told police he assaulted them at the Dorchester Hotel in London on Sunday night, a day before attending the European premiere of “The Dark Knight.” The Sun newspaper said the complaint was filed by sister Sharon Bale and mother Jenny Bale.

“Christian Bale attended a London police station today on a voluntary basis,” read a statement from Bale’s lawyer, Simon Smith, of the London-based firm Schillings. “Bale, who denies the allegation, cooperated throughout, gave his account in full of the events in question, and has left the station without any charge being made against him by the police.”

A woman thought to be Bale’s sister Sharon told reporters “it’s a family matter” from her home in Corfe Mullen, 110 miles southwest of London. A man who answered the door at the home of Jenny Bale in nearby Bournemouth said she did not want to comment.

The reports surfaced just days after “The Dark Knight,” which co-stars Heath Ledger as Batman’s nemesis the Joker, took a record $158.4 million at the box office in its opening weekend. Ledger, who took the iconic villain to a deeply disturbed and diabolical place, died earlier this year of an accidental drug overdose in New York — a circumstance that has only added to the movie’s brooding mystique.

Asked Tuesday whether Bale had been arrested, a London police spokesman did not refer to him by name but said: “A 34-year-old man attended a central London police station this morning by appointment and was arrested in connection with an allegation of assault.”

The spokesman requested anonymity because he is not authorized to be identified under police policy. British police do not name suspects who have not been formally charged.

The force later said in a statement that the man had been released on bail pending further inquiries and told to return in September. It did not specify the date.

The Sun said police did not question the actor Monday because they did not want to interfere with the premiere of the movie. The next scheduled stops on the film’s European premiere tour were Madrid, Spain, July 23; and Tokyo on July 28.

In the sequel to “Batman Begins,” Bale reprises the role of wealthy playboy Bruce Wayne and his crime-fighting alter-ego Batman, a brooding vigilante superhero still scarred by the murder of his parents.

In his destructive battle of wits with the Joker, Batman pushes his own ethical boundaries, and ultimately is forced into the shadows. Winding up what may be the darkest — and most critically acclaimed — superhero movie ever, Bale’s Batman truly becomes, as coined by Bruce Wayne’s butler Alfred: “The Dark Knight.”

Bale first made a splash as the child star of Steven Spielberg’s “Empire of the Sun” in 1987 and as an adult has made his name with intense screen roles. His earlier films include “American Psycho” and “The Machinist.”

Bale is the youngest of four children and is the stepson of Gloria Steinem. Her assistant said Tuesday that the author and feminist leader was at a writing retreat and unavailable for comment.

Bale’s current project is playing John Connor in “Terminator Salvation,” scheduled for filming this week in New Mexico. The film “will continue to shoot with Mr. Bale when he has completed his International tour for ’The Dark Knight,”’ said Lee Anne Muldoon, unit publicist for the movie.

A records check turned up no criminal record for Bale in the Los Angeles area, where he’s lived with his wife, Sibi Blazic, and their young daughter.

You don’t have to break the bank on furniture

10 Tips: The economy may look bleak, but your home doesn't have to

With gas and food prices rising and the economy stalling, it can be hard to keep up with routine bills and expenses, let alone expenses that are extra or unexpected. But what if you really need to furnish a room or section of your home at a time like this?

It’s easy enough to find yourself in such a predicament whether you’re just starting out or you’ve been established for years.

Don’t worry, though – the following tips can help you consider your options and save some of your hard-earned cash.

1. The Internet is your friend. Rather than blow hour after hour of precious weekend time visiting furniture stores on a potentially fruitless search, do some shopping around online first. You could compare the prices and details of similar pieces of furniture at 10 to 12 different stores in a matter of minutes.

2. Reflect on ways to spend nothing, or almost nothing. Don’t necessarily turn your nose up at the idea of scoring free or low-cost pieces of furniture from other people who live in your area. You could find exactly what you’re looking for via Web sites such as Craigslist (check out the “free” link under “for sale”), The Freecycle Network, Sharing Is Giving, Freecycleamerica.org, ReUseIt Network and FreeSharing.org. Here’s something to remember, though: When visiting all of these Web sites with the exception of Craigslist, try to have an eye toward giving as well as receiving. Also, don’t try to trade or swap through these sites; the idea is to give stuff away with no strings attached.

3. Check out the goods in person. As convenient as it can be to shop at home, it’s still important to be careful about buying furniture solely on the basis of a tiny thumbnail image on the Internet. If at all possible, try to inspect the actual furniture before you buy so you can see its overall finish and appearance. Another benefit of examining the furniture in person: You could avoid exorbitant shipping fees that way.

4. Remember warehouse stores. Places like Costco and Sam’s Club aren’t just for bulk purchases of dog food, diapers and artichoke hearts, you know. You often can find surprising deals on high-quality furniture at warehouse stores and literally save hundreds of dollars on the purchases you make.

5. Be alert for deals. If you’re in the market for furniture, get in the habit of scanning the ads in your Sunday paper, in your mailbox and in the windows of stores in your area. Stay on the lookout for going-out-of-business sales and same-as-cash financing deals with zero-percent interest for six to 12 months. (Note: If you finance a furniture purchase in this way, be absolutely sure to pay it off in full in the time you’re given to do so.)

6. Think ahead before you buy. You may fall in love with the look of a certain piece of furniture, but take a moment to read the care instructions. Reflect on how the piece will hold up after a few encounters with your small children or pets. If it’s likely to be trashed in mere days or weeks, don’t buy it.

7. Examine the construction. For units such as bookcases, tables and entertainment centers, determine whether the items are prefinished or made of unfinished wood. Bear in mind that sanding and finishing a shelving unit can take a great deal of time and effort. Also think twice before buying “wood grain” laminate or particle board that looks fake, and watch out for sloppy corners on moldings and doors that don’t align properly.

8. Measure, measure, measure. Before you do any shopping – and certainly before you bring a piece of furniture home – be sure to measure the area where you want the furniture to go so you can be confident that it will fit well and it won’t overwhelm or underwhelm the room. With shelving units, remember to write down the dimensions of the items you want to store on the shelves.

9. Plan ahead for transportation. Make sure you have the capacity to transport big, heavy items home or have the store deliver them for you – hopefully for a fee that isn’t too hefty. Also, if you decide you don’t want to keep the item, will you have to lug it all the way back to the store yourself?

10. Eyeball the warranty carefully. Make sure you understand what it does and does not cover, and get the details of any agreement in writing. For instance, if a salesperson verbally raves about a fabric-guard guarantee that sounds fabulous, make sure the details of that guarantee are clearly spelled out in writing.

Rap, rock, classical — music to Obama’s ears

Democratic nominee says ‘Maggie's Farm’ among campaign-trail favorites

WASHINGTON - Bob Dylan. Yo-Yo Ma. Sheryl Crow. Jay-Z. These aren't musical acts in a summer concert series: They're artists featured on Barack Obama's iPod.

"I have pretty eclectic tastes," the Democratic presidential contender said in an interview to be published in Friday's issue of Rolling Stone.

Growing up in the '70s, Obama said, he listened to the Rolling Stones, Elton John and Earth, Wind & Fire. Stevie Wonder is his musical hero from the era. The Stones' "Gimme Shelter" tops his favorites from the band.

The Illinois senator's playlist contains these musicians, along with about 30 songs from Dylan and the singer's "Blood on the Tracks" album. Jazz legends Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Charlie Parker are also in the mix.

"Actually, one of my favorites during the political season is 'Maggie's Farm,'" Obama said of one of Dylan's tracks. "It speaks to me as I listen to some of the political rhetoric."

In the song, Dylan sings about trying be himself, "but everybody wants you to be just like them."

Several musicians on Obama's iPod support his bid for the White House, including Bruce Springsteen. Earlier this month, Dylan told a British newspaper that he believes Obama is redefining politics in the United States and could deliver change to a nation in upheaval.

"I've got to say, having both Dylan and Bruce Springsteen say kind words about you is pretty remarkable," Obama said. "Those guys are icons."

Obama said he hasn't met Springsteen, but the two have talked over the phone.

"Not only do I love Bruce's music, but I just love him as a person," Obama said. "He is a guy who has never lost track of his roots, who knows who he is, who has never put on a front."

And did he address him as the Boss?

"You've got to," the candidate said.

Asked what he thought of rap, Obama said the genre has broken down barriers within the music world, though he's concerned about his daughters — Malia, 9, and Sasha, 7 — listening to it.

"I am troubled sometimes by the misogyny and materialism of a lot of rap lyrics," he said, "but I think the genius of the art form has shifted the culture and helped to desegregate music."

He said hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and rappers Jay-Z and Ludacris were "great talents and great businessmen."

"It would be nice if I could have my daughters listen to their music without me worrying that they were getting bad images of themselves," he added.

Obama appears on the cover of the magazine, which endorsed him for president in March.

Brendan Fraser: Invisible action hero

A rarity in Hollywood, the leading man who doesn’t leave indelible marks

Brendan Fraser came to my apartment last night. He was on a Papa John’s pizza box. More accurately, an ad for his upcoming movie “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor,” was on the box. It covered the whole box, too. The box flap read, “Awaken someone’s appetite!” and there’s a big photo of floppy-haired Brendan wielding two old-timey wooden swords.

Lots of people get their noses bent out of shape by marketing like this. They find it intrusive. They like their pizza boxes to be boring. Not me. I appreciate that in this context, my appetite for pizza is analogous to a sleeping, undead corpse; the box is the tomb to be opened; and the pizza is… OK the pizza is also a sleeping, undead corpse. It falls apart if you think about it too hard. The point is that it made me go, “Oh yeah, Brendan Fraser’s in a new movie.”

And then I realized, “Oh yeah, Brendan Fraser is also in this week’s ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth.’”

And then I ate the pizza and threw out the box and forgot that he’s got any movies coming out at all. And that is the mystery appeal of Brendan Fraser: his ability to slip in and out of your consciousness like a cardboard pizza box. How does he do it?

If Will Smith or Tom Cruise had two potentially huge movies coming out this summer in a one-two punch like that, especially if one was the third film in a monstrously money-making, pizza-box-embossment-worthy franchise and the other was a tech-heavy, 3-D family movie about being sucked down into a giant sinkhole, you’d never stop hearing about it, them, their families, their shaving habits, their charities, their travails, their recent purchase of an island or castle or baseball team or family of endangered manatees, their wacky religion, their disavowal of being connected to a wacky religion, all of it. You’d be saturated.

Contrast this to the only media I’ve seen all week about Brendan Fraser: a photo op of him hoisting some unknown kid in the air. In this picture, Brendan Fraser has a wet spot of undetermined origin on his T-shirt.

And that’s it.

The stealth star
This is a man who knows a weird secret of Hollywood, the one where, if you play it right, you can recede into the background and still make jillions of dollars in huge movies and walk around mostly not-bothered by anything and not turn into that much of a lunatic freak. You can win by being invisible.

The proof: he’s done the “Mummy” movies, but do you remember what he did in them? He was in “Looney Tunes: Back in Action.” Got any favorite quotes from that one? The answer to both of those questions is no, you don’t. Because he understands that those movies weren’t about him. He got out of the way and let the cash roll in.

He’s a funny actor who got his start playing endearing morons in stuff like “Encino Man,” “Airheads” and “George of The Jungle.” His best movie, Bill Condon’s “Gods and Monsters,” showed he was capable of leaving Paulie Shore territory and playing a lug who thinks (he keeps making small indies that few critics love and fewer ticket-buyers see), and his moments in the award-winning-but-dopey “Crash” were few.

But it’s the big tentpole summer films where he’s cemented his status as That Guy in That Movie We Saw That One Time, The One That Had The Rock Being The Scorpion King. I don’t want to accuse him of being generic. I don’t know that he’s that easily reducible. But he’s so incredibly accessible and on-screen affable that he becomes simply another cog in the blockbuster machine — the most well-paid cog, but still. He knows his place.

He’s the inverse male version of Nicole Kidman, the person who makes big studio projects that tank and who shines in small, strange movies like “Birth.” And he’s the anti-Brad Pitt, a man who, while apparently made of super-magnets that draw all of life on Earth into rapt fascination every time he hoists Maddox onto his shoulders, has no game when it comes to opening weekend box office. Fraser makes hits. And then he disappears.

Nice guy finishes first ... quietly
I live in Los Angeles and I have some friends who work in TV and movies. They do all that crew stuff. And they talk. I’ve heard great stories about high-strung weirdo actors. But I’ve never heard a single thing about Brendan Fraser, save for some Rogaine-related speculation about his hair. (And when Nicolas Cage beats you to crazy rug-land, you kind of have to pursue the undetectable route or risk being seen as a copy-cat.)

I imagine he shows up on time, learns his lines, treats everyone nicely and is totally professional. I hear he warmly welcomes the fan on the street and seemingly just stays home with his kids when he’s not running from other-worldly creatures in front of a green screen.

He’s not gadding about shirtless with Lance Armstrong or roping Posh and Becks into a blinding display of public paparazzi dazzlement. When he wants to blow off steam he shows up for a one-off episode of “Scrubs” with his bloody hand nailed to a board. Then he plays Gay Chicken (that’s the game where two straight guys pretend like they’re going to kiss each other and the first one who backs out loses) with the male cast members.

Moviegoers get wound up over ‘Watchmen’

Can ‘300’ director Zach Synder capture the graphic novel’s complexities?

The Watchmen are coming. But who will watch the Watchmen?

When it soared through 4,366 theaters during its record-breaking opening weekend, “The Dark Knight” also delivered the first wide-screen peek at a live-action superhero movie that even diehard comic fans worry is too eccentric, unwieldy or dense for the big screen. Based on the Hugo award-winning graphic novel “Watchmen” by Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons (with help from Neil Gaiman), the film by director Zack Snyder (“300”) will be released on March 6, 2009.

The “Watchmen” trailer treated viewers to a deliberately paced montage of sizzling lightning, hushed rain, an owl-shaped ship emerging from a river, a raven-haired woman in a skin-tight yellow and black costume descending a staircase and a glowing blue man.

For fans, the question is: Can the movie fulfill the novel's vision and entertain a wider audience? Other moviegoers are asking: What the heck was that?

Internet traffic about the “Watchmen” movie increased eightfold during “The Dark Knight’s” opening weekend, according to Google Trends. But whether that’s a growing fan club or a perplexed audience looking for answers is unclear.

Certain superheroes, like Spider-Man or Superman, need no introduction thanks to decades of TV shows, coloring books, Halloween costumes and, yes, even underwear. But Moore wanted the Watchmen to be something else, a superhero story for grown-ups with serious literary heft.

The series won the 1988 Hugo Award — the first graphic novel to win the highest honor in science fiction, joining “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury, “Dune” by Frank Herbert and “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” by J. K. Rowling. Time put “Watchmen” on its list of the top 100 novels in English since 1923, with classics written by Faulkner, Hemingway, Orwell and Steinbeck.

“I wouldn't care if it was done with Crayons,” said Avril Dannenbaum, 52, a lifelong comic book fan in New York. “This is such a significant part of comic book history, not to mention the roller coaster of getting it produced — I’d go see it no matter what. As I told my 11-year-old son, without ‘Watchmen’ you wouldn't have had the movie ‘Hancock.’”

A story rooted in the Cold War
In an alternative 1985 America, the “Watchmen” superheroes are real, but almost all lack superpowers and have retired. The United States and the Soviet Union are in a nuclear standoff, and a conspiracy is at work to stop or discredit the masked heroes and start World War III. The masked adventurers wrestle with their personal and moral issues as often as the so-called villains. Time is running out. Their mission is to watch over humanity … but who is watching the Watchmen?

The movie “seems moody and atmospheric, which can be a point in its favor if they live up to it,” said Rhiannon Held, 23, a comics fan in Seattle. “The graphic novel seemed dated. I’m much younger. The world politics stuff didn’t speak to me.”

But 20 years later, “Watchmen” sales are still going strong. If you set aside Japanese-style Manga comics, “Batman: The Killing Joke,” also written by Moore and fueled by Batman fever, and “Watchmen” were the No. 1 and No. 2 selling American graphic novels between April 6 and July 13. From 2001 to July 13, 2008, bookstores and online retailers sold about 173,000 copies, according to Nielsen BookScan.

Sven Patrick Larsen, chief operating officer at Teshkeel Comics, has no doubt the film will be successful with a mainstream audience if given a chance.

“If you look at the track record for the ‘Watchmen’ … in Amazon and other places then it has to be considered one of the most mainstream graphic novels ever published,” Larsen said by e-mail. “… That being said, I have no idea how one film will be able to completely encompass Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ incredibly complex vision.”

The novel’s gritty, realistic interpretation of superheroes, multilayered storytelling, ensemble cast, cinematic-style art and explorations of themes including authority, responsibility, optimism and nihilism continue to inspire writers and artists. The book directly or indirectly influenced many of today’s pop culture hits: “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Heroes,” “The Incredibles,” “Lost” and Neil Gaiman’s comic book series “The Sandman.”

Fans can get ready for the movie
For now, people can watch “Watchmen” in other ways. The first of 12 animated chapters of the original book and the song in the trailer (“The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning” by Smashing Pumpkins) are on iTunes.