Seven Random Thingies
Apr. 11th, 2005 09:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ealgylden1.) Every time I see the commercial for this week's Joan, I think, "Eek! Frank Whaley! Run, Joan, run! He's going to lurk creepily and not be all that helpful at you!" The thought of a JoA/Dead Zone shared universe is fairly wacky, but fun. I'd hate to inflict Kevin on poor Bruce, but the thought of Will and Walt doing the manly cop-bonding thing is terribly cute. Sarah and Helen, not so much. Helen really needs more friends (aside from Lilly), but I don't think she and Sarah would mesh all that well.
2.) Netflix has the new, really good Little House on the Prairie miniseries on their "sometime in the future, but don't start holding your breath just yet" list. I've been hunting, but so far I haven't found any release info. Even so, I'm going to take that as a good omen. Come to me, shiny DVDs!
3.) It's utterly impossible for me to imagine living in a world where I haven't always known the spoilery twist endings to movies like Citizen Kane, Planet of the Apes, or Soylent Green. I've tried, I really have. But they were already punch lines when I was born, and I can't imagine what it would be like to have seen them without that baggage. Which isn't a bad thing, really, just a... thing.
4.) Those Darth M&Ms are evilly addictive. I definitely need to stock up before they vanish. They're pretty, too. *g* In other Star Wars blather, FSM has something rather interesting today: Doug Adams (of the forthcoming book on the LotR scores) and the Kaplans sharing their first listening responses to the Revenge of the Sith score. OooOOOooh. Spoilery, of course. I haven't heard a note of this yet, so it's interesting to see what established themes they've picked out so far. They're funny, too. I get a kick out of quotes like, "It sounds like an evil version of one of his Olympic pieces" and "AK: Robots are odd so they have odd meters. JK: I think it's because Grievous is from Isengard." Hee! My favorite quote, though, is definitely Jon Kaplan's, "We would like to welcome someone very special to the Star Wars universe. A very special friend that you might know: Moaning Woman!" Ha! And arrrrgh. Every score in the world these days... which reminds me, I never ranted about Horner's Troy score, did I? Eh, some other time.
5.) Something about the ads for Hitchhiker's Guide reminds me really strongly of 5th Element. I don't know how I feel about that.
6.) So I've been following Spielberg's next gigundo television project, Into the West, for a while now, thanks to a great (if slightly odd) cast and a subject that interests me. Well, happily it has a website now, which makes things much easier. The gallery's small but growing, and some of the images there already are quite nice. Plus, there are a couple of pictures of Skeet up, looking rather furry. In a frontier sort of way. Heh. Anyway! I've been bopping around the cast/crew section, figuring out who's related to whom, and it's a trip and a half. So Matthew Settle/John Terry marries Tonantzin Carmelo/Sheila Tousey (yay!), and their kids are Tyler Christopher (who did a not-horrible episode of the 2002 Twilight Zone), Christian Kane and Irene Bedard? Ha! And Skeet and Alan Tudyk are Settle/Terry's brothers, so you've got a gene pool that somehow produces Skeet Ulrich, Alan Tudyk, Christian Kane and Irene Bedard. I could maybe buy Bedard and Sheila Tousey being related, but the rest is just... neat! I'm really looking forward to this, or to the DVD of this, since it'll be on TNT. So much the better, though- no annoying commercials. Keen. Just a few months more to wait.
7.) Who knew Michael Palin was so popular?
2.) Netflix has the new, really good Little House on the Prairie miniseries on their "sometime in the future, but don't start holding your breath just yet" list. I've been hunting, but so far I haven't found any release info. Even so, I'm going to take that as a good omen. Come to me, shiny DVDs!
3.) It's utterly impossible for me to imagine living in a world where I haven't always known the spoilery twist endings to movies like Citizen Kane, Planet of the Apes, or Soylent Green. I've tried, I really have. But they were already punch lines when I was born, and I can't imagine what it would be like to have seen them without that baggage. Which isn't a bad thing, really, just a... thing.
4.) Those Darth M&Ms are evilly addictive. I definitely need to stock up before they vanish. They're pretty, too. *g* In other Star Wars blather, FSM has something rather interesting today: Doug Adams (of the forthcoming book on the LotR scores) and the Kaplans sharing their first listening responses to the Revenge of the Sith score. OooOOOooh. Spoilery, of course. I haven't heard a note of this yet, so it's interesting to see what established themes they've picked out so far. They're funny, too. I get a kick out of quotes like, "It sounds like an evil version of one of his Olympic pieces" and "AK: Robots are odd so they have odd meters. JK: I think it's because Grievous is from Isengard." Hee! My favorite quote, though, is definitely Jon Kaplan's, "We would like to welcome someone very special to the Star Wars universe. A very special friend that you might know: Moaning Woman!" Ha! And arrrrgh. Every score in the world these days... which reminds me, I never ranted about Horner's Troy score, did I? Eh, some other time.
5.) Something about the ads for Hitchhiker's Guide reminds me really strongly of 5th Element. I don't know how I feel about that.
6.) So I've been following Spielberg's next gigundo television project, Into the West, for a while now, thanks to a great (if slightly odd) cast and a subject that interests me. Well, happily it has a website now, which makes things much easier. The gallery's small but growing, and some of the images there already are quite nice. Plus, there are a couple of pictures of Skeet up, looking rather furry. In a frontier sort of way. Heh. Anyway! I've been bopping around the cast/crew section, figuring out who's related to whom, and it's a trip and a half. So Matthew Settle/John Terry marries Tonantzin Carmelo/Sheila Tousey (yay!), and their kids are Tyler Christopher (who did a not-horrible episode of the 2002 Twilight Zone), Christian Kane and Irene Bedard? Ha! And Skeet and Alan Tudyk are Settle/Terry's brothers, so you've got a gene pool that somehow produces Skeet Ulrich, Alan Tudyk, Christian Kane and Irene Bedard. I could maybe buy Bedard and Sheila Tousey being related, but the rest is just... neat! I'm really looking forward to this, or to the DVD of this, since it'll be on TNT. So much the better, though- no annoying commercials. Keen. Just a few months more to wait.
7.) Who knew Michael Palin was so popular?
