Heh. I'd take responsibility for them, but I rest them squarely on the author's shoulders.

I saw the book in the store today and I almost bought it. But I really want to see the movie first, because reading the book would give too much away. Hopefully, I'll be able to get to the movie this week so I can get caught up on all the whitefont before all the good discussion goes away and anything I have to say is banal and "we know that!"

Aronovsky made The Fountain old-school: without any CGI.

It's really pretty.

Aronovsky made The Fountain old-school: without any CGI.

You're fucking kidding me. Wow. I'm looking forward to it.

One of the director's first concepts for the script, Handel says, was a dramatic juxtaposition: "I remember Darren saying, 'How cool would it be to cut from a battle scene in some historical period to a man traveling alone in space for an unknown reason?'"

Okay, he sounds just like me. Hee.

Aronovsky made The Fountain old-school: without any CGI.

About time it came out! I've been waiting for it since Rachel Weisz showed up on the Daily Show with a pixie cut.

Aronofsky and Watson are planning an adaptation of Flicker, Theodore Roszak's novel about a critic who sees subliminal portents of the apocalypse in B movies.

I've read this book! Interesting choice. I'm going to love seeing them recreate the early film society days at the beginning of the book. Also the finale will be fascinating.

Oh, hey david--funny thing happened at the record store today. I got a store rec from a guy I met at the M. Ward show last night (which was one of many, many awesome things that happened that night, which included M. coming back for a *second* encore and finishing off his two-hour set by calling for a piano player from the audience; and everyone was like, uh, I don't play piano! so we were all shuffling around for a couple of minutes until even I was thinking about raising my hand, and I haven't played piano for eight years, until someone volunteered and came onstage to do the riff for M. It was great.) and checked it out today, and I was looking for the cds you had reccomended before. They didn't have any of them, and the Post-punk chronicles was sadly out of print. But he looked up the Rhino Records one for me anyway, and was like, "Left of the Dial?" And I already own that! I got it this summer! So apparently I'm in the know and I didn't even know it.

(If I were going to be a nitpicky curmudgeon about this sort of thing, I'd point out to Mr Aronofsky that his "not CGI" movie is still full of digital effects shots, unless I'm meant to believe that all the composite work was done optically. Which I don't, because the article mentions the post-house that did the digital compositing.)

(Not that I'm not looking forward to the film, because it is so pretty, but dude, it's not like you did the whole thing with optics and back-projection. The techniques you're using are distinctly not "old school.")

One of my friends has a personal grudge against Aronofsky for stealing work and making self-aggrandizing claims in the past. Apparently, his buddy and Aronofsky wrote a short together that became Aronofsky's first film, but Aronofsky refused to give the friend o' friend credit for his work because A's an auteur, even when someone helps him.

OK, if you are ready for another movie quiz, this one is really well done and pretty. [link]

Curse you, Raq!

I have 38/50, and I'll be damned if I can figure out the rest. I'm only slightly certain I've figured out which are the twelve remaining discrete images. There's a bundle around the staircase in the center of the painting, and I'm not 100% which are seperate clues, which I'm sure makes them harder to parse.

Dear Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy,

Thank you so much for the fantastic character notes and set pieces! They really served me well and helped to advance my own plotlines in a cleverly dry observational way. I look forward to working with you again soon!

Love,

Stranger Than Fiction