While I’m not as stoked for this as I was for the second coming of TRON – and was somewhat disappointed – doh! – I have to say, this looks pretty good. Now to avoid watching any other trailers to avoid spoilers for just over a year……
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Cream vocalist and bassist Jack Bruce dies at 71
Sad – my favorite member of Cream has passed away. I generally respect Clapton but excepting Cream and a bit of his early solo stuff, can’t generally stand his career since. Ginger Baker has already been discussed in these pages – apparently he has a new solo record out too – but what a freak.
But Jack Bruce, arguably the brains and certainly the key songwriter in Cream, has sadly passed. My favorite quote from him was when he said “People ask me – do you care that Eric Clapton gets all the fame from Cream? I say no, because I get all the money!” 🙂
R.I.P……May you have reached your White Room in harmony and rest…..
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Saw Guardians of the Galaxy yesterday afternoon – good movie! It really wasn’t at all what I expected, but entertaining nonetheless. And despite the Marvel pedigree, not really a superhero movie either, actually – more like a weirder version of Firefly (swashbuckling ‘western in space’ story) with bits of Star Wars (space dogfights complete obvious copy of, some of the plot elements are also very ‘anakin vs luke’ and The Fifth Element (the orb they are seeking, a lot of the production design, spaceships, etc.) thrown in.
And two nits (spoilers?) – if Chris Pratt’s character has the Sony Walkman with him playing classic tunes (on cassettes that lasted apparently 20+ years, hmmmm) – where does he get the AA batteries to power it? 🙂 Also, who the heck is Thanos and why does he spend his time just floating around in a big ‘space chair’ (cartoon image of same here) – kinda silly – but then again, I never understood why the original Baltar did it either?
And given that GOTG were a pretty obscure comic to begin with – they only appeared a few times in the 70s – Marvel obviously felt comfortable going in a completely different direction. Here’s what the originals looked like:
Anyway – entertaining movie, good actors and smart-a** dialogue – definitely all the great elements of a lazy Saturday afternoon matinee… 🙂
Other voices:
Rotten Tomatoes
Roger Ebert.com
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I’m on a John Scalzi kick – catching up his past several books I hadn’t got round to reading yet. So after the recent Human Division read, I just finished Agent to the Stars, actually his first full-length novel that he originally published for free, but then later after he’d had some success, his publisher found the book online on his site and asked to publish it.
Pretty good story, engaging even if a bit predictable. And as seen in later books, he’s not above scatological humor by any means – this may have been where it all started. And there are other funny bits in here, if you like your pop culture references. But I liked the characters, too and it’s definitely an interesting premise, even if it seems to have been inspired in part by The Simulacra and The Star Beast in parts, with a bit of Clans of the Alphane Moon thrown in (one of the main characters here definitely reminds me of Lord Running Clam in the earlier PKD book).
But none of that is bad stuff, and it’s an entertaining read. Check it out – you can still read it online here.
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The original Lord of Kobol has passed away – R.I.P.
‘Knight Rider,’ ‘Battlestar Galactica’ creator Glen Larson dies
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saw this in passing on YT – then looked up the episode elsewhere and watched it. You ever watch something thinking it’s going to be funny and then you wish you had that time back? This is arguably the only really good joke in the episode, and it’s the last 30 seconds…..but gotta love that ‘bane’ voice though…..respect his authoritah! 🙂
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