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THE RETURN OF RANDOM LINKSPAM
Castle, a new police procedural/mystery series on ABC. Stars Nathan Fillion as a mystery writer who has to accompany a policewoman played by Stana Katic (the pretty cool Israeli "Wireless" hero in Heroes season 1) to help solve crimes based on the writer's novels.
The trailer. Way to give away, like, the whole pilot.
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Who says middle America isn’t really down with sci-fi and fantasy? When daytime soap operas are so full of genre crack
seriously, I've seen this crazy reality show computer island thing, and then there's been angels and demons, evil twins, witches
Sheesh, no wonder Spike (and maybe Giles) kept watching Passions
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Yesterday, I bought Department of Eagles' CD "Into Ear Park."
Usually soft stuff like that isn't my taste, but the melodies and orchestrations were so pretty...I obtained it not legally several weeks ago. I gave the album one listen. And then I deleted it. Because I had to own the thing. Cherrypicking MP3 tracks doesn't capture it well.
It's a side project of one of the members of Grizzly Bear. While I don't dislike Grizzly Bear, they weren't really the type of band whose songs I'd actively seek out and listen to over and over. Strange, because Department of Eagles also has the 60's melody thing going on. -shrugs-
Department of Eagles on Conan
they were part of one of my fave La Blogotheque vids ever:
the beautiful (beautiful!) sequence starts at 4:47.
7:05 - kicks ball!
here's Part 2, but there's nothing as special as that sequence in Part 1
I've listened to the album twice so far. Should be one of the top albums of the year. It really works best as an album; there are some standout tracks but they're best as a whole.
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Potential disappointments:
12 splash pages that will convince you that Frank Miller shouldn't adapt The Spirit
even if you're not interested in The Spirit, you should really check out those amazing splash pages.
Frank Miller's done some good things. This probably won't be one of them.
I haven't read Sin City, but Miller's earlier work for Batman and for Daredevil was very, very good. I heard about how he destroyed All-Star Batman and Robin, though, but that's in the 2000's already. The last good thing he's written was probably the original 1990's graphic novel for 300, which is less ridiculous than the movie, even though the movie was pretty faithful and Miller was involved.
While Miller's oeuvre and The Spirit comics share some darkness and noirish conventions -although the genre "noir" wasn't seen as such a genre when The Spirit was being published- they have different tones, different ways of being playful with genre, different, well, spirits.
The casting was very good, especially Sarah Paulson yayyyy. But the movie itself, well...
The Spirit trailer.
There are some cool spots, but the whole thing is just...off. "I have eight of everything" come on.
At least 300 had consistent tone and formed its own little world of bombastic proclamations and slo-mo fights and warrior spirit. This is more disjointed and weak and...yeah.
Dragonball live action movie trailer.
lol, not quite as bad as I expected. More boring than anything. It's taking itself too seriously. Even with the 3-episode fights and high space melodrama, Dragon Ball never took itself this seriously. And it was a lot more zany and colorful and weird and fun than the boring action movie this looks like it's going to be.
uh...
Spider-Man: The Musical to arrive sooner than expected
Julie Taymor's webslinging Broadway musical featuring Peter Parker has upped its release date to 2009 instead of the original 2010. Also, set descriptions and a review of the Spidey workshop between Taymor's old cast from Across The Universe, Evan Rachel Wood and Jim Sturgess, have finally leaked out.
from the comments: "Nothing will take away my new-depression blues like seeing the Green Goblin belt out showtunes from a wire harness."
"I actually have an easier time conceptualizing Spiderman 2 as a musical than the original - much more of a character-based piece, rather than depending on action sequences that won't translate to the stage.
Plus, Alfred Molina can FINALLY provide the Doc Oc / Tevye mash-up that I've been imagining since he was cast. ::six mechanical arms do the Fiddler shimmy:: "
lol "If I were a fish-man"
I don't know what to think. At least with Taymor directing, it will look cool.
This horror movie is called "Splinter." It's about a monster...with spikes.
I expect it to be thoroughly mocked in a MST3K or Cinema Insomnia sometime in the future.
For better monsters, check out Zombie Tag!
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cool stuff for your day:
SOMEONE MADE A DELOREAN!
lacks the time-travel feature, but still
Walk with the dinosaurs in Los Angeles museum!
awesome. I wonder if some kids or adults got freaked, though.
Now off to watch Pushing Daisies and do homework.
Castle, a new police procedural/mystery series on ABC. Stars Nathan Fillion as a mystery writer who has to accompany a policewoman played by Stana Katic (the pretty cool Israeli "Wireless" hero in Heroes season 1) to help solve crimes based on the writer's novels.
The trailer. Way to give away, like, the whole pilot.
- - -
Who says middle America isn’t really down with sci-fi and fantasy? When daytime soap operas are so full of genre crack
seriously, I've seen this crazy reality show computer island thing, and then there's been angels and demons, evil twins, witches
Sheesh, no wonder Spike (and maybe Giles) kept watching Passions
- - -
Yesterday, I bought Department of Eagles' CD "Into Ear Park."
Usually soft stuff like that isn't my taste, but the melodies and orchestrations were so pretty...I obtained it not legally several weeks ago. I gave the album one listen. And then I deleted it. Because I had to own the thing. Cherrypicking MP3 tracks doesn't capture it well.
It's a side project of one of the members of Grizzly Bear. While I don't dislike Grizzly Bear, they weren't really the type of band whose songs I'd actively seek out and listen to over and over. Strange, because Department of Eagles also has the 60's melody thing going on. -shrugs-
Department of Eagles on Conan
they were part of one of my fave La Blogotheque vids ever:
the beautiful (beautiful!) sequence starts at 4:47.
7:05 - kicks ball!
here's Part 2, but there's nothing as special as that sequence in Part 1
I've listened to the album twice so far. Should be one of the top albums of the year. It really works best as an album; there are some standout tracks but they're best as a whole.
- - -
Potential disappointments:
12 splash pages that will convince you that Frank Miller shouldn't adapt The Spirit
even if you're not interested in The Spirit, you should really check out those amazing splash pages.
Frank Miller's done some good things. This probably won't be one of them.
I haven't read Sin City, but Miller's earlier work for Batman and for Daredevil was very, very good. I heard about how he destroyed All-Star Batman and Robin, though, but that's in the 2000's already. The last good thing he's written was probably the original 1990's graphic novel for 300, which is less ridiculous than the movie, even though the movie was pretty faithful and Miller was involved.
While Miller's oeuvre and The Spirit comics share some darkness and noirish conventions -although the genre "noir" wasn't seen as such a genre when The Spirit was being published- they have different tones, different ways of being playful with genre, different, well, spirits.
The casting was very good, especially Sarah Paulson yayyyy. But the movie itself, well...
The Spirit trailer.
There are some cool spots, but the whole thing is just...off. "I have eight of everything" come on.
At least 300 had consistent tone and formed its own little world of bombastic proclamations and slo-mo fights and warrior spirit. This is more disjointed and weak and...yeah.
Dragonball live action movie trailer.
lol, not quite as bad as I expected. More boring than anything. It's taking itself too seriously. Even with the 3-episode fights and high space melodrama, Dragon Ball never took itself this seriously. And it was a lot more zany and colorful and weird and fun than the boring action movie this looks like it's going to be.
uh...
Spider-Man: The Musical to arrive sooner than expected
Julie Taymor's webslinging Broadway musical featuring Peter Parker has upped its release date to 2009 instead of the original 2010. Also, set descriptions and a review of the Spidey workshop between Taymor's old cast from Across The Universe, Evan Rachel Wood and Jim Sturgess, have finally leaked out.
from the comments: "Nothing will take away my new-depression blues like seeing the Green Goblin belt out showtunes from a wire harness."
"I actually have an easier time conceptualizing Spiderman 2 as a musical than the original - much more of a character-based piece, rather than depending on action sequences that won't translate to the stage.
Plus, Alfred Molina can FINALLY provide the Doc Oc / Tevye mash-up that I've been imagining since he was cast. ::six mechanical arms do the Fiddler shimmy:: "
lol "If I were a fish-man"
I don't know what to think. At least with Taymor directing, it will look cool.
This horror movie is called "Splinter." It's about a monster...with spikes.
I expect it to be thoroughly mocked in a MST3K or Cinema Insomnia sometime in the future.
For better monsters, check out Zombie Tag!
- - -
cool stuff for your day:
SOMEONE MADE A DELOREAN!
lacks the time-travel feature, but still
Walk with the dinosaurs in Los Angeles museum!
awesome. I wonder if some kids or adults got freaked, though.
Now off to watch Pushing Daisies and do homework.
