'Out Of Gas'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Has there been anymore news about DVDs recently, or are we still in the "likely, but they need to sort out cheaper music - keep making noise" phase?
They're working on replacing the songs now. It's all shaping up very quickly, apparently.
They're still sorting out the Comic Con thing, but they want to show "Lovesick Ass" and "Cocktail Bunny" (the same episodes they plan to show at The Knitting Factory's June screening).
There's an article in Bitch (No. 24 I think) about product placement and promotion on tv. In part it talks about reality as hour/half-hour commercial. I thought this part though was something we'd talked about.
""The biggest of all the myths promoted by reality tv is that these programs exist simply because the public demands them, as "proven" by ratings. It's not nearly that simple: Behind Survivor's long-term , landscape-shifting impact was the relentless promotion of the series by CBS's parent company, Viacom. To generate buzz, more than 100 affiliate radio stations ran segments, including dozens of drive-time interviews with Burnett (which folks could listen to while driving past Viacom-owned billboards for the show), while 16 of CBS's tv stations and Viacom's MTV and VH1 covered Survivor as if its ins and outs were news. Eventually Entertainment Tonight and a slew of other infotainment programs jumped on the bandwagon, interviewing booted contestants (after they had appeared on CBS's Early Show, of course), a practice that has become de riguer for broadcast tabloids and respected news outlets alike."
There's more, but that's the basic point.
I love Bitch. That is all.
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t Poking head
They're going to show "Firefly" in Israel! In a distribution larger than "Nilly lends Jon-and-Fiona's tapes and later her shiny DVDs to anybody she trusts enough with them", I mean! In, like, a real channel with real subtitles in an actual Israeli TV schedule that will be in the papers!
They started translating it and everything! And the translator doesn't know what to do with "shiny" (he posted on an Israeli TV site, that's where I saw it - it's the same person who makes the subtitles for AtS). And they're making him translate the Chinese, too. And, apparently, they'll show the episodes in order, and include the unaired-in-the-USA ones.
It's going to be on a plus package for a cable package, which means that you have to not only pay for cables (which, for example, I can't afford), but also to add a sum for that special package. But still, people here will be able to watch it (I will probably be completely horrible to be around, recommending to everybody and the like), and to talk about it, and I think it increases the chances of the movie to get here, significanly (don't spoil my hopes with realism and facts, please). Yay!
[Edited to apologize for the embarrassing abuse of the exclamation point. I have no excuse other than my genuine joy at the news]
I have no excuse other than my genuine joy at the news
What more excuse do you need?
What more excuse do you need?
For punctuation-abuse? Among Buffistas?
[Edit: In second thought, you're right - the one thing that could work is enthusiasm about a Jossverse show.]
In rare occasions, fervent exclamation point use is warranted, Nilly. I'd say punctuate away, dear!
fervent exclamation point use is warranted
Thanks, Lilty. Also, I probably should have posted this in the "Firefly" thread. Or UnAmerican. Hmm. Silly brain.
I couldn't sleep last night, so I watched Serenity and The Train Job. Nodded off at the end, right around the part where Adam says it'll be "an interesting day" when the money is good enough to turn on Mal.
Which reminded me that it'll be an interesting day when Tim admits I'm right and he's wrong.
I'm so stoked about Firefly in Israel.
Allyson is with me! Yay!
You know how it's like, when you have a movie on tape, and still you can't not watch when it's on TV, even when you know you can put the tape inside the VCR at any given moment and watch it? That's like what I feel now, only without the actual showing of anything yet. It's the preview of that.