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| Sunday, October 16th, 2005 | | 7:14 pm |
Say Goodnight, Gracie. FINALLY. http://www.patchworkearth.net has its bLog up and running. So this is likely the last time you'll be hearing from this screenname, kids. But not to worry, you slaves to LJ. Even if you're too lazy to visit my site, I've got you covered. http://www.livejournal.com/users/patchwork_rss/Thanks muchly to Indy for getting the feed up for me and my seventy UNpaid LJ accounts. Signing out. | | 12:56 am |
'Nother tech question
Anyone know an easy way to convert m3u streaming files into nice, usable mp3s? | | Wednesday, October 12th, 2005 | | 9:25 pm |
| | Sunday, October 9th, 2005 | | 12:40 am |
HELP GODS DAMMIT!
I can't get my installation of Moveable Type 3.2 to work right! Where are all you braintrusts when I need you?!?! | | Friday, April 22nd, 2005 | | 3:59 pm |
Phil asked me to post here, so here's one.
Okay, for those who haven't been following along, I'm in Chicago, there were some bumps regarding my my stuff, but it's all here now, and we're finally online. Busy looking for work, though I saw Kung Fu Hustle last night and it was extraordinary. Most everyone online who wanted to know where I was knows already by now, though, so I'm gonna skip past all that crap.
Survey question for the audience! What works of fiction, any medium, do you wish you could... I dunno, re-edit, I guess. I don't mean changing the plot, just re-compiling to have a version which you'd prefer to what's available. Know how there are like 1100 Army of Darkness DVDs, each one slightly different? Maybe you want one definitive one. Another simple example would be if you, like myself, are a huge Kill Bill fan and you wanted an edit that puts the two films back together, adds the deleted scene, and puts in both of the title quotes rather than one or the other--we might actually see this one in the future, crossed fingers. I dunno, maybe I think about this as a writer, considering how I'd do it, or maybe it's just as a fan who's gotten greedy? Either way, I think about it sometimes. Like how I wanted scenes restored to Donnie Darko, but I felt the Director's Cut went over the top.
Now, when a creator has a particular vision, and they create a version they find definitive, I have to respect that. I do not, however, have to agree with it. It IS the policy that has given us ET without guns, Han shooting first, and all the cliche bad director's edits. Once you release something to the world, you do give up a certain amount of control over your creation. It becomes something in the mind of your fans, and while their opinions only mean so much (or should only mean so much), that's the nature of art.
Anyway, here's two that I wish I could make/see: Copies of the earlier Cerebus volumes that restore all the little side-stories to their place in continuity (size of the volume be damned), for a definitive collection, and...
And I was watching the TV finale of Evangelion, and I was thinking how I'd really like there to be one definitive DVD that contains the "Requiem" cut of the movies, that puts the two together, restores the live action segment that Anno originally filmed (because the script for that killed me)... but also inserted as much of the TV finale as possible, because while I do think the movie's a far superior ending, there was a lot to like in the original TV finale episodes... much of which could be worked into different parts of the film.
Anyway, am I the only person who thinks about this crap? And if not, are there any works that you'd like to see new edits/releases for? | | Tuesday, April 5th, 2005 | | 11:27 am |
| | Monday, April 4th, 2005 | | 6:45 am |
| | Sunday, April 3rd, 2005 | | 7:54 am |
Back online, it is at last... for now, anyway Warren Ellis and Phil Jiminez's censored Hellblazer story, "Shoot." http://kabukivice.com/shoot/shoot.htmRead it before it's too late. I was pretty bitter when they made such a shitty movie out of "Constantine." Everyone who's read comics with the character has a slightly different image of him. This is one of the two stories that I always, always think of when someone mentions John Constantine's name. Now, you tell ME that Keanu Reeves could deliver that. | | 4:42 am |
http://morsehellhole.blogspot.com/That's where I'm moving in a week. Immerse yourself in, er, neighborhood culture. Um. The comics are gone, now. Furymun took them this past morning. End of an era, huh? | | Saturday, April 2nd, 2005 | | 6:13 am |
Whoa, props to Rach-mun on the find... http://chronos.ws/I'll be looking this over later. Very interesting. | | Friday, April 1st, 2005 | | 6:14 am |
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The grandpappy of all Sprite Comics turns five years old today. http://www.bobandgeorge.com/Say what one will about the sprite comic genre as a whole, when David Anez did it, it was a novelty, and he still does it better than all of his knock-offs... and while parts of his story have fallen flat, he's very clever, and keeping a daily comic running over five years is a massive undertaking... particularly when he took on dozens of subcomics, fancomics, and a massive community. He should be praised for that if nothing else. So happy birthday, B&G. Here's to five more. Maybe you'll have all of the holes explained by then. | | 3:51 am |
| | Thursday, March 31st, 2005 | | 3:28 am |
Gave into a Meme 1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me." 2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions. 3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions and leave the answers as comments on my LJ. 4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post. 5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions. Pierce interviewed me. ( The Questions and Answers ) | | 12:46 am |
Tonight's South Park
Best. Episode. Ever. | | Wednesday, March 30th, 2005 | | 6:32 pm |
Look! A Guide to Comic Mega-Crossovers!And on that note... ” ‘For a bulky segment of a century, I have been an avid follower of comic strips — all comic strips,’ [Dorothy] Parker wrote. ‘This is a statement made with approximately the same amount of pride with which one would say, ‘I’ve been shooting cocaine into my arm for the past 25 years.’ ” - Here-- Guy 1 has a sword in an online game. Guy 2 sells Guy 1's sword online. Guy 1's proportionate response. | | 5:12 pm |
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I had my cards read tonight ( ... ) | | 1:15 am |
Eva Sequel! Well, aheh, sort of. Heh. Dashed all around Boston today. Picked up "Scott Pilgrim Vol.1" and "Teenagers From Mars," which were both awesome and will be reviewed on the CD site soon enough, and bought my ticket. I'm leaving next Saturday. So now we know when that will be. Much to do before then. Speaking of comics... I posted this to both Sages and CDF, and I'm finally posting it here. I don't think I need to comment on it more than that, as it speaks for itself. Will post more shortly. I'm *WAY* Behind on posts, and I've been catching up and laying tracks all night. | | Monday, March 28th, 2005 | | 4:26 pm |
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