My friend Chris got me out to see Serenity last night. After being skeptical for the first half hour, it grabbed me and made me gasp that this was it, truly good science fiction. The strong characters, the cultural pastiche, the incongruous technology, all cast for telling basic morality tales about the real conflicts between people struggling to believe they are doing the right thing. Everything was complex and multi-faceted, and yet there was still the thrill of Buck Rogers, the wild west and kung-fu fighting. All from a movie based on the failed TV series Firefly. But it was written and directed by Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy, who is a very smart guy. He just finished up an excellent year-long on X-Men and is now poised to bring Wonder Woman to the silver screen. And after seeing Serenity, I can't think of a better person to do it. He writes good, strong, and complex women that can kick some ass.
Friday, October 07, 2005
My friend Chris got me out to see Serenity last night. After being skeptical for the first half hour, it grabbed me and made me gasp that this was it, truly good science fiction. The strong characters, the cultural pastiche, the incongruous technology, all cast for telling basic morality tales about the real conflicts between people struggling to believe they are doing the right thing. Everything was complex and multi-faceted, and yet there was still the thrill of Buck Rogers, the wild west and kung-fu fighting. All from a movie based on the failed TV series Firefly. But it was written and directed by Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy, who is a very smart guy. He just finished up an excellent year-long on X-Men and is now poised to bring Wonder Woman to the silver screen. And after seeing Serenity, I can't think of a better person to do it. He writes good, strong, and complex women that can kick some ass.
Thursday, October 06, 2005
Shooting in the Mission
No, not that. Will Smith's movie The Pursuit of HappyNess starts shooting on my street this weekend. They're going to restrict parking on the block, which should suck. But I guess they're going to park some vintage 80's cars, which should be sort of cool. I gues it's based on the true story of Christopher Gardner.
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
Parton in the Park
I was at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass this weekend and saw Dolly. Not a show I ever would have thought I'd see, but well worth it. I was quite impressed by how genuine she appeared to be.
Korea to Canada: Trans-Eurasia Journey Home
Was looking at this blog this morning Trans-Eurasia Journey and wishing I was in Mongolia. What a trip! Love to do it myself someday.
Monday, October 03, 2005
Insadong Memory Map
Tonight I'm feeling a little homesick for Seoul, so I made a memory map of Insadong. Saturday night I was talking with this Korean-American woman who was planning her first trip back since she was two. Just talking about it made me want to start planning my next trip back myself
Thursday, September 29, 2005
Will Smith in the lower 24
Will Smith to Live, Shoot Movie in SF
So Will's going to be shooting around the bock from me. They've been working on set-dressing York St and 24th this past week. Haven't taken any pictures yet, but I will. It's sort of odd to see them constructing a false wall in front of the side of a building.
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
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