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Late-night linkage
Feb. 4th, 2004 12:41 amBlah blah behind as usual blah blah catching up blah blah stupid never-ending winter don't you know I'm solar-powered blah. Okay. Links! Ideally I'll finish either of the posts I started over the weekend (on movie music and last week's JoA respectively) tomorrow, but maybe I'll just spend the entire day watching Relic Hunter instead, as my mother the fangirl has recently purchased the Best (heh) of Seasons One and Two DVD set and is willing to share. Ah, cheesy goodness. Have I mentioned that my mom is muy cool? I might have a weakness for bad TV shows, but at least I come by it honestly.
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gwyn_r has a nicely-written paean to the always wonderful Sean Bean. There can never be too many such posts, as far as I'm concerned. As many qualms as I have about Troy (Ew, Brad Pitt. Ew, Orlando's poofy hair. Ew, those incredibly fake-looking ships...), I cannot wait to see it, if only for the all-too-rare experience of seeing Sean play someone who isn't evil, doesn't die, and likes leather miniskirts. Ooh baby. Doesn't hurt that I've been a huge fan of Odysseus since the long-ago days when my dad used to tell Little Sister and I bedtime stories about the Blue Boat People (his Good Parts Version of the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Argonautika and other gory and interesting episodes of Greek myth. Dad's pretty cool, too). Sean Bean as Odysseus is one of those casting choices that makes me giddy even to contemplate.
Less happily, Bush has decided that sea turtles pose a threat to our national security and must be eradicated like the godless, Communist, pot-smoking, gay-marriage-supporting, French-food-eating terrorists they are. Or possibly some of his rich industrialist buddies bought him off again. Whichever. Details aqui by way oftwistedchick, and thanks to castalianspring for the heads-up and the catchy pro-turtle slogan: "Save the sea turtles! Stephen Maturin would want you to." Yeah! Woo! Okay, possibly too specialized for use on Bush (Does he read O'Brian? Can he read O'Brian? All those big words...), but it would have worked on me, had not David Suzuki already made me into a sea turtle groupie years ago. He's mighty like that. Anyway, save the turtles from the idiot!
That awful-and-bizarre-looking Halle Berry "Catwoman" thing? Peter Wingfield is supposedly in it. Damn. Do I wish that it's a big part, so he'll get screen time and money and maybe some well-deserved mainstream recognition, or do I wish that it's a very small part so I don't feel guilty about skipping it? Hm. I suppose it can't be worse than Halloweentown II. Uh oh, I bet I've jinxed it now. (And then there's the possible new Highlander mini-series, which sounds... well. Sometimes it's just time to let a franchise go, you know? Especially if your new hero's name is almost the same as your old hero's, and the mini-series might share a title with an episode of your old show that was bad, wrong, and annoying. Not that I'm bitter. And I wasn't even a Richie fan.)
And an older link, but I couldn't resist it- wee anklebiters listening to classic rock and punk songs (and Nirvana) and dissing them. Oh, how it pains and amuses me. Cream sounds like vampires? Bob Dylan sounds like moldy old bread? Oh my. Vicious little monsters.
Anyway,
gwyn_r has a nicely-written paean to the always wonderful Sean Bean. There can never be too many such posts, as far as I'm concerned. As many qualms as I have about Troy (Ew, Brad Pitt. Ew, Orlando's poofy hair. Ew, those incredibly fake-looking ships...), I cannot wait to see it, if only for the all-too-rare experience of seeing Sean play someone who isn't evil, doesn't die, and likes leather miniskirts. Ooh baby. Doesn't hurt that I've been a huge fan of Odysseus since the long-ago days when my dad used to tell Little Sister and I bedtime stories about the Blue Boat People (his Good Parts Version of the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Argonautika and other gory and interesting episodes of Greek myth. Dad's pretty cool, too). Sean Bean as Odysseus is one of those casting choices that makes me giddy even to contemplate.Less happily, Bush has decided that sea turtles pose a threat to our national security and must be eradicated like the godless, Communist, pot-smoking, gay-marriage-supporting, French-food-eating terrorists they are. Or possibly some of his rich industrialist buddies bought him off again. Whichever. Details aqui by way of
twistedchick, and thanks to castalianspring for the heads-up and the catchy pro-turtle slogan: "Save the sea turtles! Stephen Maturin would want you to." Yeah! Woo! Okay, possibly too specialized for use on Bush (Does he read O'Brian? Can he read O'Brian? All those big words...), but it would have worked on me, had not David Suzuki already made me into a sea turtle groupie years ago. He's mighty like that. Anyway, save the turtles from the idiot!That awful-and-bizarre-looking Halle Berry "Catwoman" thing? Peter Wingfield is supposedly in it. Damn. Do I wish that it's a big part, so he'll get screen time and money and maybe some well-deserved mainstream recognition, or do I wish that it's a very small part so I don't feel guilty about skipping it? Hm. I suppose it can't be worse than Halloweentown II. Uh oh, I bet I've jinxed it now. (And then there's the possible new Highlander mini-series, which sounds... well. Sometimes it's just time to let a franchise go, you know? Especially if your new hero's name is almost the same as your old hero's, and the mini-series might share a title with an episode of your old show that was bad, wrong, and annoying. Not that I'm bitter. And I wasn't even a Richie fan.)
And an older link, but I couldn't resist it- wee anklebiters listening to classic rock and punk songs (and Nirvana) and dissing them. Oh, how it pains and amuses me. Cream sounds like vampires? Bob Dylan sounds like moldy old bread? Oh my. Vicious little monsters.
