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So I made it to class last night and wasn't quite as braindead about the new choreography as I'd feared. I also purchased a copy of the last performance dvd out of...well, morbid curiosity really. R- had done a really nice job with the cover for it, and the pics of everyone looked great. Alyne assured me yet again that my goof had been edited out, rather than feeling better about that I felt a bit worse. They'd had to edit my stupidity out. Man.
Anyway, got home exactly 10 minutes too late to see my beloved Dio die on Last Exile, though he did appear briefly as a ghostly voice later in the episode. I need to find a wav of him singing his birthday song, it's almost Charlie-level cute. I also suspect TechTV/G4 is severely cropping these episodes. Grr.
Speaking of which, no new Lost tonight *sad sigh*
Yesterday I also managed to wrap and re-wrap some the last of my gifts and everything's boxed up and ready to go. I'm so efficient this year it's downright scary. Should have time on Saturday to whip off a few remaining Xmas cards and that's it, done.
And now for a mild rant. I never read the Earthsea novels so when Sci-fi decided to butcher them in a miniseries I just shook my head sadly and let it pass. I mean it's the Sci-fi channel for gods' sakes, they're like the anti-Midas, turning everything they touch to shit. It's their specialty. However, this makes me want to rain hot fiery death down on the infidels behind it:
The forthcoming Hollywood adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is to sacrifice many of the film's anti-religious sentiments in an effort to avoid a backlash from America's Christian right.
Director Chris Weitz has upset fans of Pullman's Carnegie-winning books after he admitted in a website interview that the books' Authority - a malevolent but feeble deity - will appear in the planned films as a representation of "any arbitrary establishment that curtails the freedom of the individual".
The fans may not be happy, but Weitz, who made American Pie and About a Boy, reportedly has the full support of Pullman.
Pullman's agent, Caradoc King, told today's Times: "Of course New Line want to make money, but Mr Weitz is a wonderful director and Philip is very supportive. You have to recognise that it is a challenge in the climate of Bush's America."
What the goddamn hell? As one blogster put it, "This is not unlike making the Lord of the Rings trilogy without the Ring. I'm particularly disappointed that Pullman seems to be giving into what sounds like being an emasculation of his books. Honestly, you don't need to worry about censorship when you're too scared to make films in the first place..."
Oh dear, we musn't upset the psycho fundies! I mean it's not like these fucking freaks are going to go see the film regardless, or allow their kids to ("Demons? Did they just say demons? It must be Satanic!"), and if they protest it so fucking what? There have been dozens of fundie backlashes against Disney, but do you see them rolling up the welcome mats to their theme parks?
Being offended is what fundies do, it's their raison d'etre. Without moral indignation they'd all collapse like the soulless automatons they are. Seriously, you'd be doing them a favor by leaving the story alone. They could work themselves into a tizzy, foam at the mouth, start letter writing campaigns and protests and have the time of their lives.
Maybe they'll have two versions of the film, one for the psychos and one for the grown ups. If the latter is only released in PAL that's fine by me, I'll just wait and buy that one. But to actually pay theater prices to see a film where the director and author of the original stories don't have the backbone to defend artistic integrity against a bunch of mad dog Christians...well, I think my money could be better spent elsewhere.
Anyway, got home exactly 10 minutes too late to see my beloved Dio die on Last Exile, though he did appear briefly as a ghostly voice later in the episode. I need to find a wav of him singing his birthday song, it's almost Charlie-level cute. I also suspect TechTV/G4 is severely cropping these episodes. Grr.
Speaking of which, no new Lost tonight *sad sigh*
Yesterday I also managed to wrap and re-wrap some the last of my gifts and everything's boxed up and ready to go. I'm so efficient this year it's downright scary. Should have time on Saturday to whip off a few remaining Xmas cards and that's it, done.
And now for a mild rant. I never read the Earthsea novels so when Sci-fi decided to butcher them in a miniseries I just shook my head sadly and let it pass. I mean it's the Sci-fi channel for gods' sakes, they're like the anti-Midas, turning everything they touch to shit. It's their specialty. However, this makes me want to rain hot fiery death down on the infidels behind it:
The forthcoming Hollywood adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is to sacrifice many of the film's anti-religious sentiments in an effort to avoid a backlash from America's Christian right.
Director Chris Weitz has upset fans of Pullman's Carnegie-winning books after he admitted in a website interview that the books' Authority - a malevolent but feeble deity - will appear in the planned films as a representation of "any arbitrary establishment that curtails the freedom of the individual".
The fans may not be happy, but Weitz, who made American Pie and About a Boy, reportedly has the full support of Pullman.
Pullman's agent, Caradoc King, told today's Times: "Of course New Line want to make money, but Mr Weitz is a wonderful director and Philip is very supportive. You have to recognise that it is a challenge in the climate of Bush's America."
What the goddamn hell? As one blogster put it, "This is not unlike making the Lord of the Rings trilogy without the Ring. I'm particularly disappointed that Pullman seems to be giving into what sounds like being an emasculation of his books. Honestly, you don't need to worry about censorship when you're too scared to make films in the first place..."
Oh dear, we musn't upset the psycho fundies! I mean it's not like these fucking freaks are going to go see the film regardless, or allow their kids to ("Demons? Did they just say demons? It must be Satanic!"), and if they protest it so fucking what? There have been dozens of fundie backlashes against Disney, but do you see them rolling up the welcome mats to their theme parks?
Being offended is what fundies do, it's their raison d'etre. Without moral indignation they'd all collapse like the soulless automatons they are. Seriously, you'd be doing them a favor by leaving the story alone. They could work themselves into a tizzy, foam at the mouth, start letter writing campaigns and protests and have the time of their lives.
Maybe they'll have two versions of the film, one for the psychos and one for the grown ups. If the latter is only released in PAL that's fine by me, I'll just wait and buy that one. But to actually pay theater prices to see a film where the director and author of the original stories don't have the backbone to defend artistic integrity against a bunch of mad dog Christians...well, I think my money could be better spent elsewhere.
