Month: February 2008

Of Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain (which I saw last night), Keith Phipps writes:

Which I think is about right. I don’t claim to complete understand it, but I’m also not sure I have to understand it.

Friday, at long last! I am so not used to working five-day weeks. Because of holidays, doctor appointments, and a couple of vacation days, I never had a full week in all of January. And that came on the heels of the Christmas holidays, when I was out the better part of two weeks. That was so much more fun than this.

Anyway, because it’s Friday, here’s that little thing I do:

1. “Ring on the Sill” by Cowboy Junkies
   She’s thinking of the siege to come
2. “American Car” by Mike Doughty
   I want to run away and join the office
3. “Tennessee Jed” by the Grateful Dead
   Rich man step on my poor head
4. “An Evening in Paradise” by Jimmy Scott
   Your kisses were like the first spring flower
5. “Old Man” by Neil Young, guessed by Kim
   I’m a lot like you were
6. “Indoor Fireworks” by Elvis Costello & the Attractions
   We play these parlor games
7. “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” by Bobby McFerrin, guessed by Thud
   You might want to sing it note for note
8. “Last Dance” by Neil Young
   I chase the backbeat from behind
9. “Mike’s Song” by Phish
   And the orange juice is cold, cold, cold
10. “Woman” by John Lennon, guessed by Kim
    Please remember my life is in your hands

You guess the lyric. Here are last week’s answers. It also occurs to me that I never got around to posting answers to the week before that. As always, best of luck!

Sometimes spam just baffles me:

Actually, I think I left the Fatty Arbuckle scandal in my other trousers. But nice guessing.

“With a hunk like John Barrowman, a girl likes to dream,” notes this letter to Sci Fi Weekly.

Oh man, is she going to be disappointed.

Then again, she’s living in a weird alternate universe where Torchwood is only just starting to be about sex, so maybe Barrowman isn’t gay in that dimension either.

I guess it makes sense — her character has been ridiculously under-served this season and a poor fit in her current role since day one — but I think I’m still disappointed that Amanda Tapping is leaving Stargate Atlantis.

She’ll stick around as a special guest star for several episodes, but then so will Paul McGillion, and his character was killed off last season. It’s disappointing because, on paper at least, Tapping seemed like a really interesting fit for the show. Not necessarily a good fit, of course — at least not in the way the writers eventually envisioned it — but it could have worked. It was certainly high-profile enough within the fan community, but now it just feels like miscalculated stunt casting. Tapping has barely even been on the show this past year. (Seriously, compile all her scenes and I doubt you’d even squeeze together one episode.) I kept thinking what they really needed was an episode that focused on her and her specifically, but I guess we’re not likely to get that now.

Which is a shame. Because the Stargate SG-1 Samantha Carter was pretty cool.

Oh, and yeah, I went with the lame pun in the title of this post. This is Sci Fi Channel news, after all.