Friday, June 07, 2002
Thursday, June 06, 2002
Buffy to Lighten Up: The show's sixth season ended with the death of Tara, the transformation of Willow to evil and the departure of Giles for good.
huh? did i miss something? he's gone for good?
huh? did i miss something? he's gone for good?
i'm feeling especially foul-mooded today, so foul that it's an evil mood. not evil in a 'harm kittens' kind of way (that's waaay too evil for me). it's the type of mood in which the little tiny Arrogant Ass bit emerges to go forth hand-in-hand with the medium-size Contempt for People bit and the great big Potty Mouth bit. tagging along behind is the amorphous Want To Make People Cry bit.
[generic segue: Potty Mouth] the boyfriend has asked me to stop using the f-word. he thinks i use it too much. he's already convinced me to stop waving that naughty second finger at people, and i haven't in a few months (yay me!). i do, however, have to do something, and because the instinct/habit to lift my hand is still there, i now wave my uplifted index finger at people. get a lot of puzzled looks doing that.
[generic segue: Potty Mouth] the boyfriend has asked me to stop using the f-word. he thinks i use it too much. he's already convinced me to stop waving that naughty second finger at people, and i haven't in a few months (yay me!). i do, however, have to do something, and because the instinct/habit to lift my hand is still there, i now wave my uplifted index finger at people. get a lot of puzzled looks doing that.
Wednesday, June 05, 2002
Tuesday, June 04, 2002
Monday, June 03, 2002
from Dark Horizons: Ren and Stimpy (TV): TV Guide reports that Viacom have hired the show's creator John Kricfalusi to create new episodes (starting with a feature-length film) of the series for cable station TNN. The programs will air next year.
i looked briefly for the TVGuide article mentioned but couldn't find it (not that i did more than a cursory scan). still, if true, it's good news. Happy Happy Joy Joy!
Fox has updated it Firefly website.
ok, so the UK is getting the first 11 episodes of Buffy season 6 on video this month. the second half will be released in August. meanwhile, we (the region 1-ers) will be getting season 2 on DVD in eight days. that's EIGHT DAYS, on June 11. go buy it, everyone, so maybe they'll release season 3 in a few months.
Demon Island, a Nicholas Brendan film (really, check the poster). in case you missed, go out and rent Psycho Beach Party. Nick's in it too and i liked it.
i looked briefly for the TVGuide article mentioned but couldn't find it (not that i did more than a cursory scan). still, if true, it's good news. Happy Happy Joy Joy!
Fox has updated it Firefly website.
ok, so the UK is getting the first 11 episodes of Buffy season 6 on video this month. the second half will be released in August. meanwhile, we (the region 1-ers) will be getting season 2 on DVD in eight days. that's EIGHT DAYS, on June 11. go buy it, everyone, so maybe they'll release season 3 in a few months.
Demon Island, a Nicholas Brendan film (really, check the poster). in case you missed, go out and rent Psycho Beach Party. Nick's in it too and i liked it.
woo hoo! good news for us EQers who play pet classes! the Boyfriend and i only yesterday were discussing the very problem of pets taking experience which exacerbates the slow-leveling problem for iksar, who already gain experience more slowly than any other race. he and i have been playing our main characters roughly the same length of time. his non-pet-using halfling is level 52, my pet-reliant necromancer only level 30. also, considering that my iksar necromancer spends most of his time soloing, it's a good thing that i no longer have to try to outdamage my pet. casters suck in the melee damage arena, and i'd rather save my mana for casting defensive root/fear or Get-Me-The-Fook-Outta-Here spells.
one of the local enternewsment broadcasts last night began with "Terrorists could be targeting bridges! The Coast Guard is on alert!" and then went on to describe how the collapse of the I-40 bridge last week has shown the Terrorists how vulnerable our bridges are. is this just a local thing, or are the national news programs saying the same thing?
so, the scene would be: Mr. Terrorist is sitting on his futon, drinking a wine cooler and watching the news. just after the reports on the amazing sunglasses-wearing, tree-climbing terrier and the results of the city-wide poll to determine whether Cheese Nips really are better than Cheez-Its, the bubbly news anchor is suddenly somber during the report that a bridge has collapsed and blah blah blah. Mr. Terrorist suddenly sits upright, and shouts "That's it! We shall destroy their bridges! Without bridges, the Americans will be unable to cross rivers and gorges! The Keys will be cut off from the rest of Florida! People will be trapped on Long Island, and others will have to take the long way to get from Oakland to San Francisco! What a brilliantly diabolical plan, and I must attribute the idea to NewsChannel 5's coverage of that story!"
does it make people feel safer to think that Terrorists are that fucking stupid? the local paper's Calls to the Editor section seems to always have someone complaining that the media shouldn't report Some News because it'll give the terrorists ideas. because, you know, they'd never thought to hijack planes and crash them into buildings until that CNN report on how to do it. damn, we'd better pull Volunteers from the video store shelves right away! geez, let's not report things like this, or the Terrorists may sneak into our country to rent fog machines and turn them against us!
i also like the "What You Can Do In Case of Biological Weapon Attack!" stories. like anyone would know it was happening until too late. "My god! Look at the giant green cloud of bacteria coming our way! Quickly, everyone into your biosuits!"
come on, people! wake up! don't you realize that your kids and grandchildren are going to be laughing at you in the future? this War on Terrorism is the duck-and-cover of the 21st century. heck, some of us have been laughing at you for a while. one day, when MTV wants to show its audience how relevant and cool it is, it'll trot out clips of you buying your gas masks and four hundred gallon jugs of water and your stupid little anti-Osama bumper stickers (because, of course, by laughing at how uncool you were, MTV will be proving how cool it is). it that the legacy you want, to be an MTV joke?
and back to the topic of collapsing bridges : The Mothman Prophecies should be out on DVD tomorrow.
so, the scene would be: Mr. Terrorist is sitting on his futon, drinking a wine cooler and watching the news. just after the reports on the amazing sunglasses-wearing, tree-climbing terrier and the results of the city-wide poll to determine whether Cheese Nips really are better than Cheez-Its, the bubbly news anchor is suddenly somber during the report that a bridge has collapsed and blah blah blah. Mr. Terrorist suddenly sits upright, and shouts "That's it! We shall destroy their bridges! Without bridges, the Americans will be unable to cross rivers and gorges! The Keys will be cut off from the rest of Florida! People will be trapped on Long Island, and others will have to take the long way to get from Oakland to San Francisco! What a brilliantly diabolical plan, and I must attribute the idea to NewsChannel 5's coverage of that story!"
does it make people feel safer to think that Terrorists are that fucking stupid? the local paper's Calls to the Editor section seems to always have someone complaining that the media shouldn't report Some News because it'll give the terrorists ideas. because, you know, they'd never thought to hijack planes and crash them into buildings until that CNN report on how to do it. damn, we'd better pull Volunteers from the video store shelves right away! geez, let's not report things like this, or the Terrorists may sneak into our country to rent fog machines and turn them against us!
i also like the "What You Can Do In Case of Biological Weapon Attack!" stories. like anyone would know it was happening until too late. "My god! Look at the giant green cloud of bacteria coming our way! Quickly, everyone into your biosuits!"
come on, people! wake up! don't you realize that your kids and grandchildren are going to be laughing at you in the future? this War on Terrorism is the duck-and-cover of the 21st century. heck, some of us have been laughing at you for a while. one day, when MTV wants to show its audience how relevant and cool it is, it'll trot out clips of you buying your gas masks and four hundred gallon jugs of water and your stupid little anti-Osama bumper stickers (because, of course, by laughing at how uncool you were, MTV will be proving how cool it is). it that the legacy you want, to be an MTV joke?
and back to the topic of collapsing bridges : The Mothman Prophecies should be out on DVD tomorrow.
Friday, May 31, 2002
Superhero Hype, one stop shopping for all your superhero movie information needs:
no Ethan Embry as Nightcrawler. instead, it's Alan Cumming.
and Aaron Stanford, who SHH says will be Pyro, is quoted: "The thing is, the character of Pyro is so completely different. In the comic book he's this Australian ex-pulp novelist professional criminal and in the movie it's a very different character."
i don't think i can like someone who speaks like this: "I think everyone loved Wolverine, you know what I'm saying?" ick.
on The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen [source]: Our League source advised us that the inclusion of a Yankee character "was because the studio wanted an American (character) to break up the all British thing." But why take such a radical departure from the original Mark Twain creation by making him a police detective? Our source explained that since "Twain's sequel was called Tom Sawyer, Detective" it makes sense that when Sawyer grew up "he'd be an All American cop." feh! wanna get terroristicalous on a studio exec for that!
no Ethan Embry as Nightcrawler. instead, it's Alan Cumming.
and Aaron Stanford, who SHH says will be Pyro, is quoted: "The thing is, the character of Pyro is so completely different. In the comic book he's this Australian ex-pulp novelist professional criminal and in the movie it's a very different character."
i don't think i can like someone who speaks like this: "I think everyone loved Wolverine, you know what I'm saying?" ick.
on The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen [source]: Our League source advised us that the inclusion of a Yankee character "was because the studio wanted an American (character) to break up the all British thing." But why take such a radical departure from the original Mark Twain creation by making him a police detective? Our source explained that since "Twain's sequel was called Tom Sawyer, Detective" it makes sense that when Sawyer grew up "he'd be an All American cop." feh! wanna get terroristicalous on a studio exec for that!
Thursday, May 30, 2002
via Dark Horizons:
item 1: Looks like the reports of Ethan Embry joining the cast were premature. Variety reports that Alan Cumming has signed to play the shadowy blue-tinted teleporting mutant Nightcrawler when shooting begins in Vancouver on June 17th. The news of Aaron Stanford as Pyro is correct however, whilst Ian McKellan said in a recent interview about what we can expect: "To ensure my compliance with this understandable constraint (the lengthy legal disclaimer), each page of my script is over-printed with my name. Not wishing to spoil anyone's enjoyment of the sequel, let alone risking incarceration in a Fox-ey plastic cell, I intend to obey my orders, I'm afraid".
item 2: "Encouraged by the success of the UK tour he [Andrew Lloyd Weber] wants to fast tracked "Sunset Boulevard" for production [into film]... Edward Norton, Robert Downey, Jr and Hugh Jackman are wanted for the male lead"
(Hugh Jackman can have any role, whether he he fits it or not, as long as he has at least one extended half-naked scene)
item 1: Looks like the reports of Ethan Embry joining the cast were premature. Variety reports that Alan Cumming has signed to play the shadowy blue-tinted teleporting mutant Nightcrawler when shooting begins in Vancouver on June 17th. The news of Aaron Stanford as Pyro is correct however, whilst Ian McKellan said in a recent interview about what we can expect: "To ensure my compliance with this understandable constraint (the lengthy legal disclaimer), each page of my script is over-printed with my name. Not wishing to spoil anyone's enjoyment of the sequel, let alone risking incarceration in a Fox-ey plastic cell, I intend to obey my orders, I'm afraid".
item 2: "Encouraged by the success of the UK tour he [Andrew Lloyd Weber] wants to fast tracked "Sunset Boulevard" for production [into film]... Edward Norton, Robert Downey, Jr and Hugh Jackman are wanted for the male lead"
(Hugh Jackman can have any role, whether he he fits it or not, as long as he has at least one extended half-naked scene)
Wednesday, May 29, 2002
holy shit! why didn't i subscribe to that rag? i want it!
Buffy Xbox game. i want it!
a ranking of shows for the end of the year. why is anyone still watching Friends? it's crappier now than it was 5 years ago, and it was crap then. Everybody Loves Raymond? feh. is that Inside Schwartz at 15? how in the hell? the show sucked and it was cancelled! and for the love of all that is holy, what about the cesspool of suckage ranked 4th and 5th? (hehe, just kidding! you know i'm just asking for a good ol' Alabama whoopin'! i didn't watch either, so i can't judge them).
Buffy Xbox game. i want it!
a ranking of shows for the end of the year. why is anyone still watching Friends? it's crappier now than it was 5 years ago, and it was crap then. Everybody Loves Raymond? feh. is that Inside Schwartz at 15? how in the hell? the show sucked and it was cancelled! and for the love of all that is holy, what about the cesspool of suckage ranked 4th and 5th? (hehe, just kidding! you know i'm just asking for a good ol' Alabama whoopin'! i didn't watch either, so i can't judge them).
Tuesday, May 28, 2002
via Dark Horizons:
item one: The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Ethan Embry has scored the role of 'Nightcrawler', the teleporting blue-skinned mutant in the upcoming "X-Men" sequel. 'Nightcrawler' and 'Pyro' are the only new mutants in the next chapter, 'Pyro' was also recently cast with newcomer Aaron Stanford ("Tadpole") scoring the part. (i thought Pyro was one of the students in the first one)
item two: MTV apparently re-iterated rumours that Natalie Portman has signed on to be a part of the new scenes being filmed for Episode VI: Return Of The Jedi - she'll shoot scenes during the production of Episode III which'll then be reinserted to the DVD release of 'Jedi.' (oy? i didn't know they were shooting new scenes for Jedi. i wonder if it's gonna be one of those badly edited and dubbed things)
LUKE
Leia... do you remember your mother? Your
real mother?
LEIA
Just a little bit. She died when I was very
young. [begin dub by voice actor Brian Cummings]Wait. She's not dead. She's right over there![/dub]
AMIDALA
Hi!
LUKE
What do you remember?
LEIA
Just...images, really. Feelings. [dub]And that she
lives here on Endor in the Ewok tree city[/dub]
AMIDALA
Yoo hoo! I'm right over here, playing Space
Chess with this Ewok! And I'm winning!
LUKE
Tell me.
LEIA
(a little surprised at his insistence)
She was very beautiful. Kind, but...sad.
(looks up) Why are you asking me all this?
He looks away.
LUKE
I have no memory of my mother. I never knew
her. [dub]Until now![/dub]
AMIDALA
Yes, Luke, I am your mother!
item one: The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Ethan Embry has scored the role of 'Nightcrawler', the teleporting blue-skinned mutant in the upcoming "X-Men" sequel. 'Nightcrawler' and 'Pyro' are the only new mutants in the next chapter, 'Pyro' was also recently cast with newcomer Aaron Stanford ("Tadpole") scoring the part. (i thought Pyro was one of the students in the first one)
item two: MTV apparently re-iterated rumours that Natalie Portman has signed on to be a part of the new scenes being filmed for Episode VI: Return Of The Jedi - she'll shoot scenes during the production of Episode III which'll then be reinserted to the DVD release of 'Jedi.' (oy? i didn't know they were shooting new scenes for Jedi. i wonder if it's gonna be one of those badly edited and dubbed things)
LUKE
Leia... do you remember your mother? Your
real mother?
LEIA
Just a little bit. She died when I was very
young. [begin dub by voice actor Brian Cummings]Wait. She's not dead. She's right over there![/dub]
AMIDALA
Hi!
LUKE
What do you remember?
LEIA
Just...images, really. Feelings. [dub]And that she
lives here on Endor in the Ewok tree city[/dub]
AMIDALA
Yoo hoo! I'm right over here, playing Space
Chess with this Ewok! And I'm winning!
LUKE
Tell me.
LEIA
(a little surprised at his insistence)
She was very beautiful. Kind, but...sad.
(looks up) Why are you asking me all this?
He looks away.
LUKE
I have no memory of my mother. I never knew
her. [dub]Until now![/dub]
AMIDALA
Yes, Luke, I am your mother!
