Now That's Sixy!
Feb 12I forgot to mention another especially thoughtful gift I received on my birthday, which is a copy of the Playboy featuring Six. My friend knew I would want it for the article, I’m sure. Tricia looks quite fantastic — not too airbrushy — but why oh why did they not put her in some sort of awesome sci-fi setting? Like maybe a pseudo-cheesy Buck Rogers kind of thing? Is that too on the nose, maybe?
Cheezit! The cops!
Feb 12In honor of the Police reunification performance at the Grammys last night, and especially because no punches were thrown, I’d like to share my favorite Police tune, as performed by my favorite non-Police band, The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets;
Dilemmas, Solutions
Feb 08I know you have all been on the edge of your seats since I announced my dilemma re: whether or not I should just give in and buy a brilliant Lea Hernandez Prickle bunny. Basically, I “solved” this one by dropping copious hints to a certain someone and also by having a big birthday (rhymes with “schmirty”) that required that someone to buy me presents. Thus, Husband Jeff heroically ordered me the last Prickle of the first wave, Happy Birthday to meeeee! I can’t wait to see what she looks like cozying up to Icebat and Gloomy Bear.
OK, so now a New Dilemma, suggestions most welcome. Husband Jeff and I just moved and it was all very painful and annoying and many of our happy fun activities just kind of fell off the map for a while. One of those activities is regular comic book buying, and now I’m way behind. Do I take this opportunity as a clean slate: ie, forget about the issues I’ve missed, re-evaluate my pull list and start anew with just a few titles? Or maybe use this time to convert to trade paperbacks, which has been discussed a few times in my household? Or attempt the arduous task of catching up on everything, which feels a bit like a chore at this point? I just don’t know! I feel bad that I’m so behind on Civil War, especially after Matt’s stirring post. On the other hand, there is something liberating about heading into the comic shop with fresh eyes, almost like a new customer, and deciding which titles I actually want to commit to. My nice friends gifted me with Hi De Ho currency for my schmirtieth birthday, so at least I have some seed money.
Tank Girl to return. Hooray!
Feb 08Having tripped into Tank Girl accidentally, while visiting the UK, well prior to her arrival on North American shores (and super well before the movie. sigh. The movie…) I became a life-long fan of Jamie Hewlett, and an on-again, off-again fan of Tank Girl. Loved it early on, enjoyed it later, not quite as into it near the end. Then she went away.
Now, 12 years later, Alan Martin, the series co-creator and writer, if bringing her back. Hewlett is apparently fantastically wealthy from Gorillaz, so, Australian Ashley Wood has been tapped. The coolest thing about the new series, thus far, besides the use of Wood, is Martin’s comments on her new look;
What was alternative, upsetting, anarchic, and just plain odd-ball back then has since become common place. Mainstream media smothers us daily with punky chic, and modern day babies can be seen sporting spikey hairdos and Travis Bickle T-shirts. The uniform of the cultural revolutionary has been sold to The Man.
So how to rebel? How give the finger to the fashion fascists? Normal is the only way ahead. Dress like a high school teacher from the mid-eighties, or pick clothes from your boring aunty’s wardrobe. The only way left to rebel is to dress like you’re not rebelling.
I’m not sure I’m completely convinced that this is the case, but there does seem to be a fairly clear deliniation between a world with and without Suicide Girls, and one could argue it was roughly the time Lori Petty shaved her head into a mohawk. I any case, I’m keen to see how this pans out.
Hey, Asshole, My Water Just Broke
Feb 08I must belatedly comment on the brilliant casting of Jessalyn Gilsig as Claire’s biomommy on Heroes. Gilsig was so damn brilliant as crazy Gina on Nip/Tuck, I can’t believe FX hasn’t yet created some edgy/trashy show just for her, wherein she plays a boozy, foul-mouthed competitive racecar driver or maybe a profanity-spewing drug addict/accountant. Oh, well. Their loss is NBC’s gain, and how cool that her power is shooting flames out of her fingers, which is seriously the superpower I have always wanted!
And now I’m afraid I have to turn around and chastise the net or the powers that be or basically whoever creates the Heroes promos. Nathan being Claire’s dad was a fantastic reveal, but it would have been EVEN BETTER if they hadn’t teased it to all hell and showed that shot of a besuited man sitting down at a desk. Because from the way they teased it, we knew it had to be someone we already knew. And who else on the show can claim a torso that is always nattily decked out in a suit? (Sidenote: I once had the opportunity to meet Adrian Pasdar and he was dressed just like Nathan. A friend speculated that he simply never leaves home without his trusty suit. It’s like his Adrian Pasdar Uniform.)
In any case, I guess this means an end to all those moony-eyed Claire/Peter Petrelli fanfics, right? Right?!
