June 2003 Archives

The full Joss Whedon interview that I mentioned last week is now up.

FilmForce: An Interview with Joss Whedon

Any agenda beyond what the film itself is trying to say [annoys me]. My biggest concentration [in college] was gender studies and feminism. That was sort of my unofficial minor. That was what all my film work was about, but at the same time, somebody bringing the knee-jerk feminist agenda to a text can be the most aggravating thing in the world. Especially if you're a feminist, because you're like, "You're the person that everybody makes fun of. You're the reason why we've got no cred."

A pretty interesting article, in that is doesn't seem like its only goal is to get a few sound-bite quotes and advertise talk about his next project.

A grim fairy tale.

Today, oneword sez 'bang' to me.

BBC - Firefly schedule released - Corrections from Joss.

Important and a little confusing, especially since Britain will see the airing of three episodes no one's ever seen.

1 through 7 are my best guess. From there on the order is official*.

Ep 1&2 - Serenity
Ep 3 - The Train Job
Ep 4 - Bushwhacked
Ep 5 - Shindig
Ep 6 - Safe
Ep 7 - Our Mrs. Reynolds
Ep 8 - Jaynestown
Ep 9 - Out Of Gas
Ep 10 - Ariel
Ep 11 - War Stories
Ep 12 - Trash (unaired in the U.S.)
Ep 13 - The Message (unaired in the U.S.)
Ep 14* - Objects In Space
Ep 15* - Heart Of Gold (unaired in the U.S.)

*Update: I'm with Seki on this -- Heart of Gold should clearly be the last episode, so I'm swapping it with Objects in Space. Be advised that that's not the official order -- according to TPTB, OiS is last. :P

The Matrix's Agent Smith Plush Doll

Update: It talks :)

Oneword prompts a walk down memory lane.

With whom must I engage in [oral service of choice] to get this?

Okay, I don't actually want it. I'll admit that. I do, however, want to see one work.

Posting this mostly so I can go find it later: The Dark Tower - Official Web Site: the Dark Tower stuff is easily my favorite King stuff, and I'm stoked that he's finally written the last three books of the series. (And, I gather, gone back and rewritten the first book, which is being rereleased sometime this summer I think. Cool.)

I fiddled with this one word a little bit, so it's not quite the same as the original I posted to the site itself. I wanted to get the character names right, and that required a bit of research.

one word -- in which I do not write the thing I need to write for my grandmother's birthday. Bah.

one word finds me in a cynical mood today.

Last night, I got the new sprinkler working where the old one hadn't been functioning correctly for about a year, watched the Animatrix DVD (which does a great job of actually making Matrix 2 better and which I highly recommend for a number of other reasons), got to see a REALLY FUNNY Firefly episode ("Trash") that I hadn't before (which may have my new favorite Firefly quote, ever), did four and a half miles at the gym, and watched a bunch of Brimstone episodes on tape -- one of which had the guy who played Jubal Early from Firefly's Objects in Space.

Of course, I didn't get any frelling SLEEP, but it was a good night.

Neil Gaiman lists part of the original Comics Code

1) No comic magazine shall use the ord "horror" or "terror" in its title. 2) All scenes of horror, excessive bloodshed, gory or gruesome crimes, depravity, lust, sadism, masochism shall not be permitted. 3) All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated. 4) Inclusion of stories dealing with evil shall be used or or shall be published only where the intent is to illustrate a moral issue and in no case shall evil be presented alluringly nor so as to injure the sensibilities of the reader. 5) Scenes dealing with, or instruments associated with walking dead, torture vampires and vampirism, ghouls, cannibalism, and werewolfism are prohibited.

Cripes. That's everything on my shelf. (Except for Bone, which would probably be banned for the title alone. Top 10 (thanks to ***Dave and Randy for showing me that) is probably the funniest, most light-hearted romp I've read in years, except for the pedophilia rings, blatant racism (from a lead character, even), difficult questions about alternate lifestyles, alien porn death conspiracies, my favorite character getting killed by drug-addled power-mad leaders-of-the-people.

Downloading one of the three unaired episodes of Firefly right... now.

So I was digging through my videotapes tonight, and I was reminded of a really good show I liked a lot.

Doomed, though.

See, it was a genre show. Great acting, really good cinematography, a concept that hadn't really been done before, and a lot of really talented, dedicated people working on it.

But it aired on Fox. They put it in a crappy time slot and, get this, aired the episodes out of order -- ruined the continuity of the thing. Show only aired about thirteen episodes before Fox cancelled it.

Firefly? Nah. Brimstone.

Third oneword, which seems to deal with something that happens before the other two -- apparently, I'm (a) writing this in reverse and (b) in a Douglas Adams mood.

Another one word, sort of related to the last, I guess.

one word

I've got The Ring and Road to Perdition on DVD, finally. Those as were asking are now free to check it out of the Testerman Lending Library.

Unrelated: caught the end of the second Harry Potter movie when I got home last night (Jackie and Justin had put it in) and reinforced my opinion that it lies somewhere between the first HP and ... let's say the Dungeons and Dragons movie. What a disappointing piece of crap.