Society for Aesthetic Deletions

Found a transcript of James Marsters' Q&A from GenCon. One of the questions is mine (it's pretty far down, look for it summarized as: DOES HE WATCH MUCH TV OR MOVIES OR READ ANY BOOKS? I had that and another in mind, but when the Passions question came up, I had to ask what else he did if he didn't watch Passions.

Buffy was really good Tuesday night. I can now say I am pleased at how they brought her back.

I'm starting a game on DreamLyrics. I hope I can keep the game going. I get in moods, where I am all excited about running something, and then the excitement fades. So far, it hasn't faded much yet, but it's only been a couple days. See me in a month when it's actually work, and then ask me again. I'll have WEF, ATF, and this new game going. But I do feel a need to have another creative outlet, at least right now.

Watched West Wing last night. Lou got hooked last year, I'm sorta sucked in.

But I was cheesed last night at the end, the whole apology thing. It was mentioned earlier, but unless I missed something, I never saw anyone mention it to Bartlett, so for him to pick that out of thin air and apologize at the end just made me so pissed. It was perfectly scripted, at just the right time to pull everyone together -- it was just too staged. Ah well, maybe it's just the cynic in me coming to the fore.

I much prefer Buffy anyway, and what they're doing this year is just fantastic. I could have dealt with the first two episodes being squished into one; it felt too drawn out to me. But they're still a lot better than a lot of dreck that's on these days.

I have only had three character concepts for my new game, and I'm bummed. I was hoping for more. I still have a few more days until my deadline, but there was such original overwhelming interest, I'm thinking I just suck. My teasers must have been too confusing. I didn't want to give out a lot of details, but if I don't get any more responses, I may have to give out more.

All the Way. This is Loey's Early Bird Review of the episode, which I have started to read after the episode is shown. I don't want to be spoiled this year. But I want the Musical Episode, darn it!

I was so upset at the Old Man Kaltenbach getting killed. In retrospect, too, after the episode. This is the second time something like this has happened to me this year, and I'll be damned if I can remember when the first one was. Need to rewatch some episodes. But it was looking so like he was going to be the baddie, then switcheroo, he's not, just going to cut up some marshmellow squares, with cute little pumpkins on them. Waaah! Just thinking about this again is making me all weepy.

Joey Pants is on Roswell! Well, at least for a few episodes. Playing the latest incarnation of the shapeshifter. I may need to tape it next week while watching Smallville.

Watched "Once More, with Feeling" again today at lunch. It was even better on a second viewing.

The first time I saw it, about half-way through I thought that it seemed familiar to me. I finally realized, at the end, why it did. It reminded me of The Bitter Suite, from Xena. There were a lot of heavy, emotional issues on the table, and a musical helped clear the air.

But with Buffy, while everything is out on the table, there's no reassurance that everything is all right now. Next week should be interesting.

Thanks to Michael, I have all the songs from Once More With Feeling on CD. He found them on a german site, and burned them to CD. He brought it to WEF and I burned a copy of the CD. One of the songs is VERY loud though, so I'm going to try to talk to a guy at work about trying to hook these songs into our sound board and maybe adjusting the levels. Bringing the others up to the loud one's level would be best, because the others are really too quiet. But I've already listened to the whole thing twice at work. Had to stop otherwise I'd be shouting lyrics...and I wear headphones when I'm at the 'puter at work.

WEF went pretty well on Saturday. Dawn even showed, amaze amaze! Unfortunately, people left early, and the co-GM wasn't there, so I don't feel I got a lot done. Not a lot at all. sigh. Well, we'll work on that next month, when Jim also won't be there.

The day after my birthday, this past Thursday, it was 70 degrees in Providence. I was able to go to lunch with a friend and drive to and from with my windows down (blasting WBRU's Retro Lunch). And last night, it was snowing.

There's an old saying...if you don't like New England weather, wait a minute, it'll change.

Lou and I went to see Ocean's Eleven at an early show today. It was our lucky day...their computers were down for credit card processing, and so they comped us on the tickets, and then on the concession (Lou had gone to buy popcorn while I was getting tickets). So we got the movie, a large drink, a large popcorn, and Raisinettes for free. Lou joked that if he had known that, he would have gotten more!

We only had a dollar each, and the theater didn't have an ATM. Something they might want to think about adding in the future!

But the movie was definitely worth the price (how I usually rate movies)! It would have even been worth the $5.75 they would have charged. Fun, good movie, nothing spectacular, won't win any awards, but something that is worth watching at least once. Vaguely interested in seeing the first movie now, but not enough to make that big of an attempt. I just have a feeling I will like the remake a lot better than the first.

So I saw Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring on Wednesday. I wasn't foolish enough to see the midnight show -- I'm too old to stay up that late, even with a vacation day the next day. 3:00 a.m. is when it would have been over. I'd arranged for a bunch of friends and two co-workers (including my boss!) to go to the 11:00 a.m. show.

It was worth every minute of the wait. And I believe the next two will also be worth the year of wait to see them.

A beautiful feast for the eyes, and for the ears. Tolkien purists will despise it, those who can't get past the rewriting of their beloved god, JRRT. (I heard on Talk of the Nation on NPR yesterday a caller who walked out before they reached the Ford of Bruinen) I can accept the rewrites. I would have liked some things to remain the same, but others I don't mind. Merging Arwen and Glorfindel for one. No, it wasn't Arwen, Warrior Princess. But it was Arwen, Elf Lord.

I want to see it again. I'll even pay full price. It should be seen on the big screen. While I want to own it on DVD (my precioussssss), it will do a great injustice to put it on the small screen. Letterboxing will help, of course.

Little things I loved:

Legolas walking on top of the snow on Caradhras while everyone else was plowing through it;

Bilbo's face when he sees the Ring around Frodo's neck, and asks to hold it;

The Mines of Moria;

Sam running after Frodo as he was leaving alone, and Frodo pulling him from the water;

Gimli's and Legolas' faces as Aragorn invites them to hunt some orc;

I hadn't finished the reread of The Fellowship by the time I saw the movie (too many other things to do and read), but I am hoping to finish before I see it again.

Do yourself a favor. Go see it. Take a walk in Middle Earth. Relax and enjoy it. We can all use a bit of fantasy in our lives right now, and Peter Jackson gives it to us.

This is late, but it's still appropriate, methinks.

Sins of the Father has been shown! Thank the Lord!

FX has been advertising this movie since OCTOBER! Every commercial break on Buffy, which is on twice a night. I was SO ready for this to be over.

Don't get me wrong, I think the movie was important and probably a very good movie. But it was SO overhyped. They're even overhyping the replay next Sunday.

Sorta like the new iMac. It's cool, but not worth a week of hype on the front page of their website.

Supposedly someone got a script and posted a review, which says it kicks serious ass.

We'll see.

Survivor 4.

As some of you know, I sent in a tape for Survivor 3, but was not chosen. Hell, I wasn't even notified that they got my application and tape, other than the FedEx receipt. I missed getting in my application for this new one - totally missed deadline, didn't even see it at all. But after hearing that they are having NO food or fire given to them at all, I'm not that upset. Though spending the winter in the Marquesas sounds like fun.

I also missed out getting on Survivor 5, wherever that is. The deadline is today. I even had a (better) vague idea for my tape. But I never did it. I decided that they'd never accept me for health reasons.

I'm as blind as a bat without my glasses. I can literally see only three inches from my face clearly. And then there is my old C1 Esterase Inhibitor Deficiency, which is not bothering me currently. I think they want fully healthy people.

At least that's what I keep telling myself. I'll have to start making popblog entries for S5 when it begins at the end of this month. I didn't win at the office on 4, but I did have Kim picked, and she was 2nd place. Go me!

Schoolhouse Rock will be coming to DVD in July. Yay! Have to get a pre-order for that in soon.

I have the icky videos that put Cloris Leachman and a bunch of singing and dancing kids between the segments. If I want to watch one, I fast forward past those as quickly as possible.

And bonus! It will have a new segment written by the show's original creators! Woo-hoo!

Courtesy of ***Dave.

I'm so glad my old boyfriend gave me Remo Williams books to read and showed me the video. I missed this movie when it came to the theater, though I did want to see it.

Chiun gets the best lines. I watched it this morning while home sick. Very busy weekend made for very tired Julia, and tired Julia's get sick much quicker.

I did get to see Mamma Mia yesterday, which I will write up for a review for my pop culture blog soon. It was a lot of fun, very much a wacky romantic comedy musical, and if you have even a single fond memory of any Abba songs, treat yourself and see it on tour.

I'll also have more on the Letter Blog Game later today, for those who asked.

You can take a look at it here. If you have a problem viewing the link, refresh and/or cut off "index.html" from the end. Worked for me after a bit.

Looks like they downplayed the romance angle in this one, playing up the action. You get to see Mace Windu use that lightsaber his action figure came with.

Doesn't surprise me. Try to hook the chicks early, 'cause you know the geeks will see it anyway.

And is it just me, or can anyone not see this Jedi without thinking of Andy Dick at the Oscars from a few years back?

LotR:FotR DVD news

Scroll down on the page to get to it.

So now, the decision is:

August 6 - buy two disc set.

November 12 - buy 4 disc set.

Or wait until all three movies are out and buy mega-box set, which you KNOW will be released.

Or just buy every one as it comes out.

I'm going to see it again, hopefully this weekend. Saw it on Sunday, thinking that they'd already switched the last reel out. D'oh! But it was still good to see it for a second time. I was more moved by some scenes than I had been before.

This is a very interesting article on the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon from one of its designers/developers.

You want to know why Eric the Cavalier was so whiny? They made him that way. On purpose. And he always had to be wrong, in the end.

This is a cartoon, my friends, that I used to set my alarm for on Saturday mornings, because our local stations would show it, but only at 6:30 a.m. And I was so enamoured of it -- BEFORE I was into RPGs mind -- that I had to watch every episode. Even if I'd already seen it.

And of course, today I'm still haunted by Uni the Unicorn (who was voiced by Frank Welker, THE hardest working voice-over actor in the business. Go on, take a look at what he's done. Any place where there's an animal sound to be produced in a movie, HE's the guy they use. And I'm not just talking animated stuff, but ANYWAY...).

Lou's playing FFX, as I've noted here before. The main female character is named Yuna. But one of the other characters calls her Yunie. This wouldn't be a problem save one thing...they actually use VOICE actors in FFX, to deliver the lines as they are also typed on screen.

Any time I heard Rikku call her Yunie, I want to make that annoying nasal bleat that the frelling unicorn did, and I wonder where Bobby the Barbarian is.

Enough tangents. The original link is...

Courtesy of Ginger.

My Amazon package arrived today! Four romance novels, Diplomatic Immunity (which Lou will read first, probably starting tonight), and the FFX Soundtrack!

I will be ripping the latter in a few minutes, as soon as I rip open the plastic packaging.

Gee, this now, a Chow Yun Chat with Anne tonight, Spider-Man with Jack and Lou tomorrow (after a nice breakfast at Percy's), Rilla and Gevrok stuff with Jack and Lou for the rest of Saturday, and Sunday is relaxation, baby, and more FFX playing!

Had to redo a bunch of stuff last night (razza-frazza) because I did some stuff out of order, and never got the Aeon's Soul. Stupid me.

I talk about this game enough, I figured it's time I share some of the music with you.

I am nearing the part in Final Fantasy X where I get to participate in all the side quests, before going off to finish the game. I have been party spoiled (my own fault), but I have managed to not tell Lou.

This is the opening credits music. I think it's just beautiful and somewhat sad. Now that I have made it to the part of the game wherein the opening credits scene takes place (a departure from other FF games), I must say it is a perfect fit.

I will post more about this game when it's over, possibly on my Pop Culture blog. Hmm...reminds me, I should do a Spider-Man review...

Just caught the teaser trailer for The Matrix Reloaded. Excellent quality vid...beautiful images, makes me want it NOW.

Oh yeah, and he's back.

I watched it through once, then went through it frame-by-frame. Why do I have to wait for 2003??

Oh yeah, because they've gone through about thirty cast changes, or at least thirty attempts to get some great Hong Kong action stars to be in it, and they all saw the script and walked.

Plus, the Wachowski brothers decided they didn't need Woo-ping Yuen. (rolling eyes)

[though, IMDb notes that he's listed as the "action choreographer." Maybe they did get him back?]

Anyway, this will tide me over while I hide from the AotC spoilers.

I have seen it.

I enjoyed it.

More later when I've had time to digest (and maybe see it again...this weekend?), and read everyone else's reviews/comments/spoilers.

While I compose my thoughts and ideas for an Attack of the Clones review, I'll give you a little music to bounce your day through.

Ukulele de Chocobo, from the Final Fantasy IX soundtrack.

This is bright, and bouncy, and is the music played when you ride your chocobo around the countryside.

Enjoy!

Seclusion Has Left Lucas Out of Touch is a good article on why Attack of the Clones has failed to capture audiences like the first trilogy did.

It's not the first to make the argument that Lucas should leave the directing and acting to others. The Self-Made Critic pointed it out in his review of the movie, now on the website. (I get the reviews early in email)

I hope that George takes these commentaries, criticisms, reviews, what-have-you to heart. Write the story for III, Mr. Lucas. Then give it to another writer, and let another director helm your project.

Please. Before it's too late.

Courtesy of ***Dave and Brunching Shuttlecocks' Self-Made Critic, respectively.

Hell Yeah!

Tomorrow, starting verra early in the morning (well, not that early), 7:00 ET, Farscape is running non-stop until 6:00 a.m. Saturday morning.

Within this 24-hour marathon, are hours 3:00 p.m., 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m., and 6:00 p.m., which compromise the last four episodes of Season 3. Hour 4:00 is the one I missed taping.

Yay!

My tape should be back tonight, which means I can rerecord the end of Season 3 on its proper tape, all episodes in order. And then come home, watch a few hours, and then go back and watch the missed episode (I get out of work at 4:00).

Go me! Go Farscape!

Who's your Daddy? D'Argo, tell him who his Daddy is!

Can I get a Hell Yeah?

Figured it was time for some more FFX music. I give you two of the saddest (I think) songs in the soundtrack. I have actually played through the first song, but the second one will come at the end, I know it will, just by its name.

Maybe I find these songs so compelling because I know their background. I'd be really interested in knowing what others think, hearing them out of context.

So, we have Revealed Truth and Someday the Dream Will End, for your listening pleasure.

These are from the third and fourth discs, respectively.

Two Towers Teaser Trailer was leaked out early, and available for download from mirror sites.

Enjoy!

Courtesy of Slashdot.

Update 06/27/02: Removed file and link to the trailer on my site.

The Digital Bits says:

Also, ADV has announced the DVD release of a Farscape: Season One box set to street on 10/29 (SRP $149.98). The set will feature all 22 episodes on 11 discs, packaged in 6 keep cases with a newly-designed slipcase box. Extras include episode commentaries, conceptual drawings, video profiles. Note that these are the same discs already available individually.

I have just the first two DVDs, now I can get a complete set in one box. Yay!

From the BBC come an article which states that Spielberg was refused an opportunity to direct a Star Wars episode by Lucas.

"I've asked him. He won't let me do one," said Spielberg in the interview.

But Lucas, please! Follow these instructions! For the sake of everyone who loves the Star Wars franchise!

Courtesy of Slashdot.

Once More, With Feeling

Looks like a September release from Rounder Records. Coolness.

Courtesy of ***Dave.

Buy One Book, Get Twenty-Two Free

The books to which the article is referring, if you don't click on the link, are the Honor Harrington series by David Weber.

Well, I can tell one Husband is going to be very happy. Not that we don't have all of these in paperback or hardcover already, but...

Me, I got about to the fourth book before the infodumps put me off entirely. Just can't stand books where the narrative breaks so that the author can spend paragraph after paragraph explaining some cool tech bit that he's written/discovered/created. Just tell me the damned story already!

Courtesy of Slashdot.

Farscape To End

"...Unfortunately, despite our best efforts to reach a broader audience, Farscape has been unable to grow beyond its core fan base. That, coupled with the extreme and growing cost of production, has led to the difficult decision to end the series at the conclusion of season four."

I can name three or four people who have just started watching it this year or late last. This is just so much frelling dren.

Courtesy of Farscape Lives' Livejournal.

Looks like John Kovalic is a fan of our favorite cancelled show.

Tachyon TV takes on the Farscape Cancellation in a brilliant parody, Crackers Do Matter.

Please read with a sense of humor, please.

While we may have to wait until October 9 for Birds of Prey, you can see the animated Batgirl, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, and Catwoman on Gotham Girls.

Five episodes so far, five more to come!

Flash required to view.

David Kemper and Richard Manning discuss the cancellation, our efforts and where to go from here

That's it, Pat, Betsy, Kevin. I'm not going to loan you the tapes any more. Watch it on your own.

Damn. I had a Nielson book at one time. For a month, when I was living in Providence. We were supposed to write everything that we watched down in a book though - no box to automatically keep track of the shows we watched.

I will watch in January. Even if nothing ever happens, they will be the best 11 episodes ever.

I have faith.

In MOV format and in Real Player format.

Editing work calendar to include December 18 as a holiday.

Courtesy of Slashdot.

New Wallace & Gromit shorts are coming!

View Soccamatic or download it, courtesy of BBC News.

Courtesy of Slashdot.

Wishing I was in Toronto right now...

Tanya Huff, a wonderful Canadian science fiction, fantasy and horror writer, is giving a talk at the University of Toronto on Oct 21.

I love to say that I gamed with Tanya once. A friend from my CIS days, Caroline Julian, knew Tanya and her partner Fiona Patton (now an author in her own right) and invited them to sit back in on a session with us when I was up visiting Carrie for the weekend.

Tanya patiently worked on a quilt while we gamed. She was very down-to-earth, and a great person. Fe was much more outgoing, though I'm sure a lot of that had to do with Fe's young knight character.

She's a great author (Fe's books I have, but they're a bit harder for me to get into) and one I highly recommend.

Courtesy of BoingBoing.

The Remote Controllers is a great article at the New York Times (free registration required) about Television Without Pity, and its impact on TV shows.

"...I don't overreact to the boards, but I pay real attention to messages that are thoughtful. If you ignore your customer, you do so at your peril.''

I just wish the Angel reviewer liked Wesley. He's SO much more interesting than the boring Angel. *sighs*

Pitchfork: Top 100 Albums of the 1980s

I have none of the top 10 albums. I've heard songs off of some of them, but I do not own the albums in any format.

Of the top 20, I think I had Purple Rain, #12, but don't have it anymore. I'm certain that was vinyl. Michael Jackson's Thriller (#27) was in the house, but I think it was my sister's. I have #30, U2's The Joshua Tree, on tape.

I just recently (within the past year) purchased #38, The Cure's Disintegration, on CD along with their greatest hits CD. While I love The Violent Femmes, the eponymous #36 was my brother's. I bought Hallowed Ground specfically for Country Death Song.

Ah, #46 (can you tell I'm browsing backwards?). XTC's English Settlement. My brother had this one, and this was my first intro to XTC. Love this album. My sister and I would listen to it all the time.

Well, that's the top 50. Wonder how many of the rest I'll have. *counts* Looks like 4. If I count in my siblings albums again.

Not buying any REM really didn't help my count. Then again, I'm not a critic, and I listened to and bought a lot of pop, which (with the exception of Duran Duran's Rio) doesn't seem to have made this list.

I'd like to see them do the top 100 songs of the 80s. Then I'd probably have a better ratio!

From the Wall Street Journal - If TiVo Thinks You Are Gay, Here's How to Set It Straight

Mr. Iwanyk, 32 years old, first suspected that his TiVo thought he was gay, since it inexplicably kept recording programs with gay themes. A film studio executive in Los Angeles and the self-described "straightest guy on earth," he tried to tame TiVo's gay fixation by recording war movies and other "guy stuff."

"The problem was, I overcompensated," he says. "It started giving me documentaries on Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Eichmann. It stopped thinking I was gay and decided I was a crazy guy reminiscing about the Third Reich."

Courtesy of Slashdot.

In a recent post on her OTHER LiveJournal, Cassie Claire said:

Most overrated story of mine: The Very Secret Diaries. Is that even a story? I guess it is. I just can't believe that anything which took .05 seconds to produce and was mostly written drunk could be that good...

I know some of my readers hate fanfic to death or beyond, but if you can stand it, do read her Draco Trilogy. I'm dying to talk to non-fandom people about it. And she's right. It has gotten SO much better as it's gone along.

I still need to read Chapter 11. I hear it has a surprise/controversial ending. *chuckles*

CNN.com - Gibson to appear in new 'Mad Max' film

It'll be called "Fury Road," at least according to this article on CNN. It'll be interesting to see what sort of flick this will be, considering how "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome" ended.

Courtesy of Slashdot.

ScoopMe! - ...And to All a Good Night

I want to be Zoﾎ, and I want to marry Wash. Or the other way around. Whatever. I love this couple.

And here, I would like to think that I am sorta Zoﾎ, and I do know that I did marry my very own Wash.

Another reason to watch Firefly, oh yeah.

Oh, and to complete the ME (that Mutant Enemy, not *moi*) love...

I have to rip someone a new asshole for the image of Cordy and Connor humping that has left scar tissue in my brain and caused this uncontrollable twitching in my eyes.

Yeah, what was up with that idiocy? Did they not replace Cordy with the real? Is she a pod-Cordy? Gaaaah...

Courtesy of Doyce.

Return of the King 2003 Calendar

Such pretty pictures. Spoilers, maybe. No Éowyn spoilers, though I can understand that. The pic of her is good, but not good RotK Éowyn. But Frodo with the phial of Galadriel is just plain cool.

Courtesy of ***Dave.

EDITED 1/14/03: Someone posted the LJ to TORN. Needless to say, her bandwith went through the roof. All entries are friend/locked only now. So I've removed the links from this entry.

Some people are very lucky folks. They get "For Your Consideration" DVDs. And just what do you think they are considering, hmmm?

How does it feel to have an arrow aimed at your head?

More caps can be found at her livejournal, often behind the cuts.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has been scheduled for a June 21st release date in Britain, Canada, Australia, and the US.

*checks off date on calendar*

Now if only Amazon would update their page for pre-orders...

I will post a more coherent review here later tonight when I get the chance to organize my thoughts. And maybe rewatch the episode and take notes.

But DAMN! if this isn't a great show! All new direction from here on out.

Doyce? Did you watch it? Please say you did...

The Letter Box is a campaign to make sure that JKR and WB understand that the Harry Potter novels aren't just for kids.

I was given the first HP novel some years back by Lou when I was panicking at our friends' house in North Carolina, as on Thanksgiving morning my upper lip swelled to, what seemed to me, to be enormous proportions.

HP helped distract me from my problems, well mostly. But I never bothered to go back and pick up the others for a long time. Just over a year ago, I read some Harry Potter fanfic, and that got me hooked to read the rest of the series.

Of all the people I know, more adults have read the HP stories than children. Most my nieces and nephews rarely read. My bookclub chose the first book as one of their choices last year.

Some of you may think that Ali's overreacting. You're entitled to that opinion.

But me, I'm writing my letter.

Buffy to end, but spinoff possible

Well, if Reuters has it, it must not be rumor, right?

I think it's best if it ends after this year. I have to applaud SMC for leaving, and not dragging it out another year.

Oh, and spoiler alert! Willow's supposed to show up on Angel. WB also hasn't announced it'll pick up Angel for a 5th season, but I think that WB'd be stupid to not. (then again...)

Oh, and Alias was picked up early for another season. Whoo!

''Daredevil'''s Jennifer Garner gets a spin-off

Sorry, Paula. Looks like she'll even be the dark Elektra too.

It's a terrible shame when shows like Firefly and Farscape get cancelled, and shows like Are You Hot Or Not? and Scare Tactics get made.

So, until Fox gets off its ass and shows the last three filmed and post-produced episodes of Firefly, you can go here and read the script for Heart of Gold, courtesy of an eBay auction winner.

Courtesy of Doyce.

Firefly Fans have the gag reel! Three mirrors currently up, and probably on Kazaa or Limewire or elsewhere as well.

Quicktime 6 needed to play it.

Firefly screen caps

They're just byootiful, too. Jaynestown! Objects in Space!

Am nowt downloading program to pull things off my ReplayTV, for caps and encoding of my own. I would need a faster connection, tho, this wireless is just so slooooow. If I was doing that. Which I'm not.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - American Cover

And just for completeness, the Brit Cover.

I must admit, I think I prefer the Brit covers to the US ones.

Farscape fans, have you seen this morning's UserFriendly?

I am planning on having a "last episode" fest this weekend. Just so you know. I have everything since "A Constellation of Doubt" saved to the ReplayTV. Have to get ACoD to tape, and then the rest to another tape.

*whimper*

Realized as we sat down to watch the last few eps of Farscape Saturday night, or at least start to, that we had seen the first episode of the We're So Screwed trilogy. So we watched the last two Saturday and the final episode, Bad Timing, last night after our game.

And I must start out with this: *blink* *blink*

Academy Award(R) Winning Animated Feature 'Spirited Away' Set to Open in Theaters Across the Country This Friday

And that should really be REopen. It was already released, just very, very limited. 151 screens, I think.

Courtesy of Slashdot.

I hereby absolve the SciFi Channel for cancelling FarscapeThe Invisible Man.

SCIFI.COM | Roar

Must. Clear. Space. On. ReplayTV. Tonight.

And, that was Heath Ledger? Where was my head? Why did I not recall this??

Ain't It Cool News

No release date yet, but Fox Home Entertainment will be releasing. It sports the entire season, including the unaired eps, in 16:9 glory and, most likely, in the "correct" order. With lots of goodies.

Squeeee!

The Two Towers Special Edition Length Confirmation

According to an interview in the Official Lord of the Rings Fanclub Magazine, Peter Jackson has confirmed that The Two Towers Special Edition will come in at a whopping 222 minutes in length, a total of 43 minutes added to the film (that's 24% more movie!). Nearly all of this new footage will consist of character scenes, including a good deal of Treebeard expansion and Huorns at Helms Deep.

So, do we have a release date on this yet?

I still haven't recovered from the switch to Daylight Savings Time.

I have a cold.

And Tuesday marked the 7th day of gaming in a row.

Last night it was dinner and Bulletproof Monk, which was fun. I was displeased at some of the editing choices during the fight scenes, but the rest of it made up for it. And Seann William Scott did better than I ever thought he would.

Game tonight, and then we have the entire weekend off of gaming. Inconceivable! But well needed.

It was 85 degrees yesterday, and today it is 36. Lou said he was able to watch the cold front come in and the temps dropped at least five degrees while he sat out front waiting for me to come out of work.

I've been thinking of starting a meme. Of course, now I've forgotten what it was I was going to do.

Jack has his 17" PB in hand, or so his away message tells me. Just in time for him to head to NYC with it. (He says it's "Tiny, yet huge.")

The Sluggybot (on Y!M and AIM) is hysterical.

I'm nearly caught up with UserFriendly since NaNoWriMo. Then I can start in on Sluggy. Woefully behind. Woefully.

Our cast iron skillet arrived from Amazon yesterday, and with it the two Berlin CDs (80's nostalgia, anyone?), and two DVDs: Roughnecks - The Starship Troopers: The Klendathu Campaign, which marks the full set that we have now. Have to reserve some time to sit down and watch them all; and 100 Girls, which Lou and I caught on cable a few months ago. It nearly made Lou late for his game, because he wanted to see how it turned out, so I Replay'd it so we could watch it, and then bought it for him on DVD. Very underrated film, I think. Not as much as, say, Can't Hardly Wait, but still rewatchable.

Still haven't gotten Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets yet, but maybe that'll be a WalMart pick this weekend.

Current Music: More Shouting / Bloke In A Dress from the album "Unrepeatable" by Eddie Izzard

The new Hulk trailer is out.

I have to admit, you really can tell the Hulk is CGI. That doesn't mean I won't go see it, of course.

::sings quietly, "Doc Bruce Banner, pelted by gamma rays, turns into the Hulk..."::

[Edited to include the MP3 version of the original song. Is it Pelted or Belted? You make the call!]

Alias - The Complete First Season

September? I have to wait until September?? ::wails::

EXCLUSIVE: THE TWO TOWERS DVD ANNOUNCED! Menus, video, and more!

I'm still waiting for November, though. Maybe a rental.

Oh. My. God. (spoilers below)

I can't handle this sort of thing. Squeeing over X-Men 2 at the beginning of the weekend, living and enjoying the high and starting to fall into another fandom...

And then to have it all come to a screeching halt, watching the last two episodes of Alias this season.

Is J.J. Abrams that much of a masochist? Yes, yes he is.

I had no one online to discuss the episodes of Alias with as they happened. So I took notes. I found myself yelling at the TV screen during the first hour, and decided that I'd write down the timestamps and my reactions to the second hour.

It rambles. It is fangirly screaming. But it was me for two hours last night, ending with me drained and spent, and too worked up to get to sleep right away.

Damn. What the FRELL is he trying to do to us??

Other than the above and below....I. Have. No. Words.

RUMOR only, alas

(ROTK) is indeed, far and way better than both Fellowship and Two Towers. It was a 4 hour, 20 minute cut of the film. Feeling that he has proven audiences will gladly sit for 3 hours of quality cinema, Peter Jackson will try to leave the film's 1/6 of a day total time as is.

So, my iTrip arrived on Friday. Too bad I was already on my way to The Black Road and couldn't use it, but I expect it will start getting more use now.

Unfortunately, it looks like it was designed for use with the original iPods, that didn't have covers for the FW port. So I'll either have to turn it to the side or force the cover to be open a bit more than I would like. *sighs* Also got a FW power adapter, though it's unnecessary in the Matrix, as it has the power converter. But we'll be taking the van to North Carolina, which doesn't have the converter and will be the place where we'll be likely to use an iPod for the longest period of time.

The Black Road was a lot of fun, even if I did see my husband in all the game slots he played in, and I did game with almost the same group the entire weekend. :) This is my last year being