Fanboys trailer
Dec 15You know about watching a pot – you watch and watch and nothing, then you go answer the phone and you’ve got water, filthy with spagetti starch spilling over everything. Yeah, same thing with trailers apparently. After months and months of waiting for news on Fanboys, I miss the trailer by a month. A MONTH!
Light on the sick friend angle, but heavy with Free Enterprise-esque fannish comedy. The shots of the van interior that mirror the cockpit shots in Star Wars totally make it for me. And Veronica Mars. And Shatner. And that Ernie’s name is on the credits. And Kevin Spacey. And, like, all of it.
Hot Fuzz
Dec 08
February 16th! Well, for the UK. Bastards.
Time to dust off the old Torrent downloader, I guess. In the meantime, there’s always lots of webby goodness.
Gone with the Blastwave
Dec 08Matt’s being deep ‘n shit, and all I’ve got is a web comic I’d like to spread to the masses. Fuck! How lame am I? Still, it’s a funny comic, particularly if you’ve ever played any first person shooters.
Donald Westlake interview
Nov 21The Onion AV Club has an excellent interview with mystery novelist Donald Westlake.
AVC: One school of thought says that “American crime novel” is essentially a working-class genre.
DW: I think it is. The British were doing [crime stories] first, but the British thing is a very different thing. There, the stories are about restoring a break in the fabric of society. The American thing has never been worrying about breaks in the fabric of society, but about people doing their job, whether it’s police procedurals or criminals or whatever. Yeah, that is working-class. Although there’s another thing—years ago, there was a director who going to make a movie from a Richard Stark novel. It never happened, but in our discussions at one point he said, “You know, you write like a Frenchman.” I said, “What does that mean?” He said, “In American mystery novels, the bank robber robs the bank to pay for the operation for the little girl in the wheelchair. In French novels, the bank robber robs banks because he robs banks. You write like a Frenchman.” I said, “I’ll take it.”
Matt, tell Hockensmith to hurry up on his third book – if the second is out in March, I’ll be looking for something new to read by April.
Ow. Ow. My side hurts. Stitches. Ow.
Nov 20
I don’t know what to say. I can’t stop laughing.
