Month: July 2006

From The Thin Place by Kathryn Davis:

Is there anyone who watches the sun go down and thinks they’re seeing the world move? Anyone who looks at the night sky and thinks they’re seeing galaxies racing away from the world and from each other, going slower and slower but never stopping, the universe growing colder and darker as the stars burn out one by one?

And:

Songbirds were singing: robins and warblers and phoebes and wrens. The white-throated sparrow. Maybe even a bobolink or meadowlark, though there were fewer of them than before. Theirs is a kind of music that lightens the human heart, and there is no telling what we’ll do to one another when it finally stops.

Wax Banks on the language of Deadwood:

Whenever people talk about Deadwood they talk about the show’s dialogue, and no surprise: the baroque syntax, the casual juxtaposition of ‘shocking’ profanity and a kind of Victorian eloquence, the emotional heft of even the most compact exchanges, all sum to arguably the most distinctive dialogue style in TV history, an art of speech uniquely American and weirdly untheatrical.

Via Whedonesque.

Uh oh:

Bryan Singer told fans at Comic-Con International in San Diego July 22 that he intends to direct a sequel to Superman Returns for 2009. “I haven’t concluded a deal to do it yet, which is always iffy,” Singer told a crowd of several hundred fans. “But my intention is to do it. My intention is to do it for 2009. And it would be sort of like, where this one sort of introduced the characters and the universe to some degree, which required some measure of reintroduction, because it had been several years since it had been around, this one, the next one, enables me to get all Wrath of Khan on it,” a reference to the second Star Trek film.

One, there are people reading the Sci-Fi Wire who need the Wrath of Khan reference explained? And two, well…Singer’s not a bad director, and he’s not an idiot. Let’s just hope he learns from his mistakes. I’d really hate for Superman: Yup, He’s Still Around to just be more of the same.

Addendum: Apparently, he also wants to release a different version as an IMAX film within a year. It’s like trying to right a sinking ship when it’s already halfway underwater.

The Friday Random Guess 10 — same as it ever was, same as it ever was:

  1. Just get him off the streets so he don’t get bucked
    “Super Agent” by Public Enemy, guessed by Eric
  2. You never had the head for all that bigger-picture stuff
    “Re Your Brains” by Jonathan Coulton, guessed by Kim
  3. Let me whisper some things for you to keep
    “Genetic” by Sonic Youth, guessed by Eric
  4. I laid myself out, I was so tired and I started to dream
    “Get Off of My Cloud” by the Rolling Stones, guessed by Kim
  5. There’s meltdown in the sky
    “Livin’ on the Edge” by Aerosmith
  6. Never could be mine, no matter how I try
    “Here Comes My Baby” by Cat Stevens
  7. Tell my friend, poor Willie Brown
    “Crossroads” by Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck (or others), guessed by Eric
  8. Gather your wits and hold on fast
    “The Acid Queen” by the Who, guessed by Kim (almost by Betty)
  9. Is this what suits our weakened pride?
    “Blood” by Sons & Daughters
  10. And when the wind blew, she knew he was listening
    “Painters” by Jewel

Best of luck! Remaining answers to last week’s will be posted sometime this weekend.