{"id":3397,"date":"2009-04-09T18:15:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T22:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3397"},"modified":"2009-04-09T12:34:16","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T16:34:16","slug":"thursday-various-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3397","title":{"rendered":"Thursday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/3407577911\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3576\/3407577911_1e07bfe2fe.jpg?v=0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<ul>    <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/billy-bob-thornton-gets-weird-dickish-on-canadian,26373\/?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=feeds&amp;utm_source=channel_film\">Billy Bob Thornton<\/a>, the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/02\/11\/joaquin-phoenixs-bizarre_n_166229.html\">Joaquin Phoenix<\/a>? A fascinating yet painfully awkward interview with Thornton and his band on CBC Radio just goes from bad to worse &#8212; although host Jian Ghomeshi does a good job of trying to keep the whole thing afloat. I understand Thornton&#8217;s desire to be taken seriously as a musician, not as just some dilettante actor who thinks he can play, but he just comes across as a confused (or rather, stoned) jackass here. &#8220;Would you say that to Tom Petty?&#8221; he barks at one point, angry that he&#8217;s been asked if he&#8217;s always had a lifelong love for music. But you know, yes, an interviewer <em>would<\/em> ask that of Petty. If Tom Petty decided to become a serious actor &#8212; beyond starring as &#8220;himself&#8221; in <em>The Postman<\/em>, say &#8212; it would be perfectly valid to ask him about his music career, and to wonder how that&#8217;s influenced his acting or if acting was something he&#8217;s always loved. It wouldn&#8217;t be insulting, the way Thornton seems to think Ghomeshi is being here.<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gwendabond.typepad.com\/bondgirl\/\">Gwenda Bond<\/a> has an interesting discussion going on <a href=\"http:\/\/gwendabond.typepad.com\/bondgirl\/2009\/04\/there-is-no-chocolate-in-outer-space.html\">food in science fiction<\/a>.<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>So apparently some Amazon customers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2009\/04\/whats-an-ebook-worth\/\">are protesting e-books over $9.99<\/a>. I&#8217;m not so sure that&#8217;s a fair price for <em>all<\/em> e-titles, but I do think pricing is the main thing keeping people away from e-books. (More so for the readers than the books; I personally love my e-book reader, but they&#8217;re a several-hundred-dollar investment right now. That&#8217;s enough to give anyone pause, even before these tough economic times.)<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Oh great. <em>Another<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/scifiwire.com\/2009\/04\/jason-katims-develops-oz-.php\">re-imagining of <em>The Wizard of Oz<\/em><\/a>. I know it&#8217;s a well known and beloved classic, with some immediately recognizable archetypes at its core, but do we really need another new take on it?<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/2009\/04\/02\/grue-some-zork-remake-live-horrible\/\">this review<\/a> of the new <em>Legends of Zork<\/em> game just makes me sad:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s honestly as though someone designed a micropayment system then awkwardly shoved a very crude game on top of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">I have many fond memories of failing to complete the original <em>Zork<\/em> and its sequels as a boy. <\/font><\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Bob Thornton, the new Joaquin Phoenix? A fascinating yet painfully awkward interview with Thornton and his band on CBC Radio just goes from bad to worse &#8212; although host Jian Ghomeshi does a good job of trying to keep the whole thing afloat. I understand Thornton&#8217;s desire to be taken seriously as a musician, &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3397\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-3397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-various"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}