Month: February 2007

The Friday Random Guess 10, the “I’m Off to Maryland for My Sister’s Birthday in a Few Hours” Edition:

  1. “White, Discussion” by Live, guessed by Kim
    I talk of freedom, you talk of the flag
  2. “The Sound of Silence” by Simon & Garfunkel, guessed by Eric
    Take my arms that I might reach you
  3. “I Can’t Be with You” by the Cranberries, guessed by Eric
    I wanted to be the mother of your child
  4. “Bye Bye Baby” by Janus Joplin
    I get the feeling I could chase you clean on in the ball
  5. “The Gift” by the Velvet Underground, guessed by Eric
    Waldo Jeffers had reached his limit
  6. “Allison Road” by Gin Blossoms
    Birds fly by A.M. in her bedroom stare
  7. “The Last Thing You Should Do” by David Bowie
    Catch the last bus with me
  8. “The Ghost of Tom Joad” by Junip (orig. Bruce Springsteen), guessed by Eric
    Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag
  9. “‘Tis of Thee” by Ani DiFranco, guessed by marissa
    It’s called criminalize the symptoms
  10. “All I Really Want” by Alanis Morissette
    I’m consumed by the chill of solitary

Guess the song and singer, win no prize — it’s just that simple.

I think I’m going to take my laptop with me, but I may still be incommunicado until Sunday. All of last week’s answers are posted here.

As always, good luck!

Interesting:

Warner Brothers is in the process of acquiring a spec script for a Wonder Woman film by newcomers Matthew Jennison and Brent Strickland, despite already having a deal with Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon to write and direct a film based on the DC Comics character, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Sources told the trade paper that the purchase is a pre-emptive measure intended to keep the script off the market and to protect itself against any legal action prompted by similarities between the two scripts. The Jennison-Strickland script is reportedly set against the backdrop of World War II, while Whedon’s script is set in the present day.

How’s that sort of deal work? “Fellas, we wanna buy your script…to ensure that it never gets made.” “Hooray!”

Update: The script may end up getting produced after all. Joss Whedon is no longer attached to the Wonder Woman movie.

At the bottom of this story about Aardman’s decision to split with DreamWorks, there’s this little preview of things to come:

Crood Awakening, co-written by John Cleese, which had been scheduled to be the fourth joint film by the two companies, will now be solely a Dreamworks project.

The film, about a prehistoric genius who invents fire, is not expected to be released until 2010.

Interesting. Of course, the IMDB lists his co-writer as Kirk DeMicco, whose biggest credit to date looks to be 2005’s barnyard comedy Racing Stripes, which may not bode well.