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[alonewiththemoon]

This morning I walked to my office in skinny leg pants listening to the Damned's Smash It Up thinking about how I was going to see the new Indiana Jones movie tonight.

Thank goodness it only seems like 1988 and isn't actually 1988, that was a rather stupid time of my life when I lost sight of things that were important.  My own best interests, for example.

Today is going to be a caffeine and sugar kind of day, I can tell.  I don't sleep very well in the spring.  Plus I got sucked into reading the second Buffy season 8 trade paperback last night and had to finish it before I could sleep.  I quite enjoyed it and liked the future set up at the end.  Nice to see one of my absolute favorite characters ever getting some more screen time--or page time, I guess that would be. 

New user icon--my dad, in his semi-retirement, is going through all the boxes and boxes of family photos and scanning them.  He sent me this one.  You can't really make it out in the icon, but my hands are absolutely filthy.

Comments

No Future For You

[silas7.livejournal.com]

I've been waiting to pick that up for about five months now!

I liked it a lot, they stayed true to her character, and really nailed her character. It's tough trying to be good, when everbody paints you as the bad guy and won't give you leave to change.

Bully for Giles in this book, too.

[kambriel.livejournal.com]

How cool about all the old photos getting scanned :) It's a really cute photo and I'm looking forward to hopefully seeing more of them in the future!

[shnells.livejournal.com]

where did you go see indiana jones? we saw it at the boston common. i was kinda disappointed with the movie.

and ah the damned :) i like just can't be happy today.

[alonewiththemoon]

We went to the Fenway--it's a lot more convenient for me after work than the Common is. I didn't have particularly high expectations, but I enjoyed it (perhaps because I didn't have high expectations). I was excited to see Marian again, she was an important formative influence on me ;-) There were things in the film that seemed a bit jarring at first, but then made sense if you think about Indiana Jones being pulp fiction. When it's set in the 40s, the movies reflect the themes of 40s pulp fiction, and when it's set in the 50s, it reflects the themes of 50s pulp fiction.

Plus I enjoy watching Harrison Ford chew the scenery.

Re: No Future For You

[alonewiththemoon]

gee, think the book has any basis in anybody's real working relationships? :)

Dushku is more than just the show's leading lady; she's also one of its producers. And, according to Whedon, that's no vanity title.

"That was part of her deal," Whedon said. "When we sat down to lunch--and I had no intention of creating a show for her--she said, 'I have this deal. I'm a producer.' And that's because Eliza wants to protect herself. She wants to start shaping her career. Like Echo trying to find out who she is, Eliza has been [too]. I have seen her doing this. We've had a lot of these lunches over the years, [in which she talked about] trying to take control, and gradually, over the years, [she's done it]. It's very hard for an ingénue to do that."

Whedon added: "I said, 'Oh, wow, I've come up with a show, and I’ll do it with you, but you have to know, though, this thing about you having a producer credit; I'm going to make you earn it. I'm going to want your input. I'm going to want ideas. I'm going to want you to help me work out certain problems. This is our show.' She and I came at it from a very similar aesthetic view, a very similar political view and a great mutual trust. So, to me, it's an essential part of what the show says about people and about her, that she should be a producer."