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| Four Colleges in Five Years Kung Fu Monkey  Commenter Jon H for the win on Palin:"She's going to transfer to the governor's office of a couple other states, and eventually rack up enough credits to complete the term."... [ Read more ] Happy July 4th!! By Ken Levine Hello from San Diego where I am on the road with the Dodgers and the Manny Ramirez traveling circus. From here we fly to New York then Milwaukee. A travelogue will follow. But for today, a holiday question that could save your life. Why the hell do people buy home fireworks?How many fingers and eyebrows do they have to lose? How many trailer parks have to burn down before they learn?What parent in his right mind with children would set off something called a 12 inch “strike force missile”? Or a “Mad Dog”, “Bazooka Bear”, “Titanium Cracker”, “Dragon’s Wrath”, “Big Mama Jama”, “Brutal Force”,“Nuke Power”, “Pull String Grenade”, “Assorted Color Ammo Smoke”, “Caliber Blast”, “Car Bomb”, “Big Earthquake”, “Jumboshell Fountain”, “Pyrogyro”, “Cracker Jack in a Box”, “Deadly Fire”, “Battle of New Orleans”, “Pay Back”, “Mucho Grande – small” (isn’t that an oxymoron?), “Air Raid”, or of course the ev... [ Read more ] July 3rd, 2009 Edgar Wright - MySpace Blog ... is here.... [ Read more ] Video Review: LETHAL WEAPON (1987) ReelViews New Reviews Part of the 1980s retrospective series.... [ Read more ] Manny's back By Ken Levine Dodger slugger/goofball Manny Ramirez ended his 50 game suspension for violating baseball's drug policy Friday night in San Diego as the Dodgers begin a nine game road trip. I'm on that trip and will break in at any moment if there is important Manny news ... like he needs to tie his shoe. Every reporter not covering Michael Jackson is here. It's a media frenzy. Must get back to the game. Manny just walked to the Gatorade bucket. From San Diego and then New York and Milwaukee, this is your intrepid blogger/Dodger Talk host, Perez Levine.... [ Read more ] Night Music: Moon Wiring Club warrenellis.com Go here, my little badgers of delight, and click on the bit that says MP3 JUKEBOX. And be enthralled by the spectral and uchronic sounds of the Moon Wiring Club, whom I have described before as "like a gang of mad people were put in charge of a time machine." It is very definitely night music. Especially if, like me, you spent your childhood staying up late on Friday nights to watch old horror films. G’night.... [ Read more ] Written by on Jul 4th 2009 July 2nd, 2009 Edgar Wright - MySpace Blog ... is here.... [ Read more ] The Hangover (2009) Dan's Media Digest The morning after the night before... Oh, it's yet another so-called "bromance" about thirtysomething man-boys. This one from Todd Phillips, who tackled similar fare in Old School and Road Trip. This time, three guys decide to celebrate their friend Doug's (Justin Bartha) marriage with a night of... This is a preview. Continue reading at danowen.blogspot.com... [ Read more ] On Whitechapel Tonight (3jul09) warrenellis.com On my internet knocking-shop tonight: * The Self-Portrait Imagethread (Jul 2009) - always good for a laugh. Currently featuring less close-up photographs of stubbly and confused-looking young men than usual. * I’d Like To Politely Ask For Help With My Webcomic - help this person out? * The July 2009 Book Club …actually, it occurs to me that I really have to find time to sweep the place out again…... [ Read more ] Written by on Jul 3rd 2009 Wow. That Album Really DID open THE GATE Kung Fu Monkey Sarah Palin is resigning in an incoherent mess and Al Franken is a US Senator. Even as a progressive, I am kind of freaked out at the strong evidence that someone, somewhere, cut a deal with Satan.... [ Read more ] Q: "Future of the spec script market?" Go Into The Story From a recent Open Forum post, Luzid offers up the first question:Okay, here's a biggie -- what do you think the future of the spec market is, given the dispiriting reports from Life on the Bubble?I think it will be the same as it has been since spec scripts first appeared on the scene about 4 decades ago: Some times the market will be hot, other times the market will be cold, and most of the time it will be some place in the middle.There are several contributing factors to the 'heat' of the spec marketplace:* Whenever there's a new head of production for one of the major studios, invariably that studio will make a big splash in the acquisition marketplace. Just last week, Paramount, which recently went through a massive management shake-up, outbid a number of studios to acquire a big-ticket pitch "License to Steal". Seeing as management changes occur at studios every 18 months or so, that's a built-in jolt for the spec marketplace.* Impending work stoppages, especially with the WGA, c... [ Read more ] Zen Pulp: The World of Michael Mann, Pt. 2—Lifetime subscriptions: Michael Mann's honor-bound individualists The House Next Door By Matt Zoller Seitz______________________________This is the second in a five-part series of Moving Image Source video essays on Michael Mann, whose new film, Public Enemies, opens July 1. Part 2 will be posted on Friday, with parts 3, 4, and 5 to follow next week. To read a transcript of the video's narration, click here. To read the author's review of Public Enemies at IFC.com, click here.... [ Read more ] Idiocracy A TV Calling This is like a joke with multiple layers.... [ Read more ] Rewind warrenellis.com So. BBC TV’s ROBIN HOOD gets cancelled. ITV’s PRIMEVAL and DEMONS get cancelled. ITV also declares that it will not run drama series, aside of course from soaps, before 9pm. BBC’s response? A teenage-themed prequel to the thirty-year-old ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES comedy workhorse, and, for the fourth time, the loathesome and archaic children’s book JUST WILLIAM will be adapted for television. Why not put up a sign outside Broadcasting House saying YES TAKE THE LICENSE FEE AWAY FROM US WE’RE NOT GOING TO PUT UP A FIGHT IT’S A FAIR COP GUV and then have the cast of TORCHWOOD sit around it crying? (They’ve had enough fucking practise.) (John Barrowman on TORCHWOOD’s reduction from 13 episodes to 5 as it moves from BBC2 to BBC1: "I felt like we were being punished. Other shows move from BBC3 and 2 to 1, and they don’t get cut. So why are we? It felt like every time we moved we had to prove ourselves.") I don’t even like... [ Read more ] Written by on Jul 3rd 2009 Ideas I'm Developing: DEAD MAN'S PARTY - pt. 4 (The Ladies) DISContent Assassins come in all shapes and sizes but they are all marked somehow...Even new world assassins have kept to the code of identifying one's self to other clans.The world has changed quite a bit in the last 100 years, yet in some ways and layers not a bit.DEAD MAN'S PARTY :Prey, you're invited.... [ Read more ] Ideas I'm Developing: DEAD MAN'S PARTY - pt. 3 DISContent Perhaps too extreme and ridiculous with this one... but there is one in every crowd isn't there?Even a crowd of assassins....... [ Read more ] Ideas I'm Developing: DEAD MAN'S PARTY - pt. 2 DISContent ... [ Read more ] Telegraph article by me the pen is mightier than the spork Just a reminder that tomorrow's Telegraph TV Magazine (it comes with the newspaper) features an article by me, all about the Torchwood Children of Earth writing process, with a few other random digressions. I believe it'll be mentioned on the front cover, which is very exciting.And another reminder that the new series starts on Monday at 9pm on BBC1, although I'm sure you all probably know that by now. Yes.... [ Read more ] Variant cover artwork johnaugust.com Since you released “The Variant” independently, how’d you get the nifty cover art? – Michael Washington D.C. The image comes from stock.xchng, a photo by Marja Flick-Buijs of the Netherlands. I did the type myself. The face is Myriad. Because Amazon scales the artwork incredibly small for some views, I fattened the type used on the Kindle version so that it would remain legible.... [ Read more ] Written by on Jul 3rd 2009 There's one in every class Bamboo Killers Wednesday was the first day of school. Right at the beginning of first period, this gang chicka galumphs into my room shouting "FUCK!" at the top of her lungs. Then before the bell rang she left. Then about 15 minutes later she came in, sat down, and talked loudly to the girl beside her."Yes?" I said."I wasn't talking to you," she said."But you were talking.""Mumble mumble mumble," she said."What?""Mumble mumble.""Look, can we just skip past the part where you try to take control and then I have to fight with you and just be cool now?""I'm leaving this place anyway so I ain't trippin.""Okay," I said.So a little time goes by and then she leaves the room."You done?" I asked."Yeah I'm done." And then she disappears out the door.Here's the thing. This girl showed her hand entirely too early. By walking into the room all contrary and immediately trying to assert that she's more powerful than me, she showed exactly what she was looking for. She wants to piss me off. If she can piss me off, s... [ Read more ] Cablevision and the Supreme Court johnaugust.com In January, I wrote about Cablevision and the Infinite TiVo, a plan by a cable operator to shift recording of TV shows from users’ boxes to a central server: Cablevision wants to offer DVR as a service instead of a device. Rather than recording 30 Rock on the box attached to your TV, the show will be recorded at Cablevision’s headquarters. Then, when you want to watch it, Cablevision will send the show to your television. If it works right, it should feel just like a normal DVR. Only without the cost of the DVR. I thought it sounded great if you were a consumer, or Cablevision. And pretty damn bad if you were a copyright holder, or someone who produced content. Like, say, a screenwriter. Cablevision’s RS-DVR is back-door video-on-demand. They’re trying to offer the networks’ output to their customers on their own terms, without paying any additional fees. The U.S. Supreme Court disagrees. Sort of. Today, it refused to hear an appeal on the Cablevision case,... [ Read more ] Written by on Jul 3rd 2009 Variant cover artwork johnaugust.com Since you released “The Variant” independently, how’d you get the nifty cover art? – Michael Washington D.C. The image comes from stock.xchng, a photo by Marja Flick-Buijs of the Netherlands. I did the type myself. The face is Myriad. Because Amazon scales the artwork incredibly small for some views, I fattened the type used on the Kindle version so that it would remain legible.... [ Read more ] Written by on Jul 3rd 2009 Instrumentation warrenellis.com I discovered today that, through the very good technology house Expansys, an unlocked iPhone 3GS costs pretty much a thousand pounds per unit. Which is a bit strong for something that only learned how to do MMS five minutes ago. But. A thousand pounds per unit actually forces you to recontextualise the iPhone a bit. That’s not a mainstream consumer street device anymore. That’s a digital instrument. That is something very different from a mobile phone. That’s something you don’t dare carry around in your pocket because it costs a thousand pounds. And if you do carry such a thing around in your pocket, you are either a wilfully conspicuous consumer of a piece with the people who used to lug mobile phones around when they came in briefcases or you are some kind of scientist performing science on the street with a digital instrument or else why would you be carrying around a device that costs a thousand pounds per unit? Perhaps iPhone 3GS users need a bumper stic... [ Read more ] Written by on Jul 3rd 2009 Ideas I'm Developing: DEAD MAN'S PARTY DISContent ... [ Read more ] People in Glass Houses Shouldn't Be... Complications Ensue: The Crafty TV and Screenwriting Blog My friends Lara Azzopardi and Julia Cohen's pilot is airing on the CBC:Throwing Stones is a half-hour drama (with a healthy dose of comedy), about the lives of five remarkable working class women who belong to a local curling club in Winnipeg. Starring Academy Award winner Patty Duke, Lolita Davidovich, Caroline Neron, Barbara Radecki and Stephanie Anne Mills, directed by Mario Azzopardi (ZOS: Zone of Separation), written by Lara Azzopardi and Julia Cohen. Produced by Original Pictures and Curling Productions. Airing Wednesday, July 1st, at 9pm EST.Great cast! Alas, it didn't get picked up. But it sure looks like fun.For bonus points, analyze what you think did or didn't work, in the comments.... [ Read more ] | |
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