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Aug. 24th, 2007 03:25 pmWhoo boy friends, there is a LOT on the internet this week I’d love to tell you all about. Work has been awful busy lately, so my posting has been quite lax. Miss me? Here are a few things I must share RIGHT. FRAKKING. NOW.
1. Stephen Colbert has removed his wrist cast, and is auctioning it off for charity.
2. For any of your STAR TREK (ORIGINAL SERIES) fans out there – I was practically moved to tears this morning by the excellence of this brand-new Fan/Pro hybrid episode, “World Enough and Time" (free stream). Pros in Hollywood saw what a group of East Coast fans had been doing with their STAR TREK: NEW VOYAGES episodes, and decided to collaborate on this new ep. It was written by two former ST:TNG writers, one of whom stepped up to direct as well, and features George Takei as an aged Sulu, with cameos by TOS actors Majel Barrett Roddenberry and Grace Lee Whitney. What fun! Thanks to modern technology, this has an almost identical look and feel to the original – on a shoe-string budget. If you can get past the new actors (and a pretty awful accent on Scotty), it’s a wonderful thing.
3. The New Pornographers record came out this week. I saw them play a gig here in NYC the other night. Luuurves them so. Their entire new album is streaming on their MySpace page.
<3 <3 <3
4. Tell any of your friends who haven’t kept up with the super-awesome show MAD MEN, that AMC will be marathoning it next weekend!
5. Most excellent trailers this week: the first one for Todd Haynes' I’M NOT THERE, and a “red band” (R rated) one for The Coen Brothers' NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. The IGN posting of the former offers the best quality, though you can get it on youtube. The official site of the latter requires you sign in with an official US ID name, birthdate and zip code to prove you are 17 or older. IT’S WORTH IT. (Make sure you enable pop-ups for the NO COUNTRY site.)
6. Apparently the Battlestar Galactica sketch is going to be on ROBOT CHICKEN this weekend (as soon as tonight on the web site)...voiced by Katee S. & others. W00t! And for added extra-awesome flava, Joss will voice something in this ep too. *glee*
LUCKY #7: T.G.I.F. PEOPLE!
1. Stephen Colbert has removed his wrist cast, and is auctioning it off for charity.
2. For any of your STAR TREK (ORIGINAL SERIES) fans out there – I was practically moved to tears this morning by the excellence of this brand-new Fan/Pro hybrid episode, “World Enough and Time" (free stream). Pros in Hollywood saw what a group of East Coast fans had been doing with their STAR TREK: NEW VOYAGES episodes, and decided to collaborate on this new ep. It was written by two former ST:TNG writers, one of whom stepped up to direct as well, and features George Takei as an aged Sulu, with cameos by TOS actors Majel Barrett Roddenberry and Grace Lee Whitney. What fun! Thanks to modern technology, this has an almost identical look and feel to the original – on a shoe-string budget. If you can get past the new actors (and a pretty awful accent on Scotty), it’s a wonderful thing.
3. The New Pornographers record came out this week. I saw them play a gig here in NYC the other night. Luuurves them so. Their entire new album is streaming on their MySpace page.
<3 <3 <3
4. Tell any of your friends who haven’t kept up with the super-awesome show MAD MEN, that AMC will be marathoning it next weekend!
5. Most excellent trailers this week: the first one for Todd Haynes' I’M NOT THERE, and a “red band” (R rated) one for The Coen Brothers' NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. The IGN posting of the former offers the best quality, though you can get it on youtube. The official site of the latter requires you sign in with an official US ID name, birthdate and zip code to prove you are 17 or older. IT’S WORTH IT. (Make sure you enable pop-ups for the NO COUNTRY site.)
6. Apparently the Battlestar Galactica sketch is going to be on ROBOT CHICKEN this weekend (as soon as tonight on the web site)...voiced by Katee S. & others. W00t! And for added extra-awesome flava, Joss will voice something in this ep too. *glee*
LUCKY #7: T.G.I.F. PEOPLE!
