Month: April 2005

The world spites me at every turn! Sneak previews of Serenity NEXT WEEK in select US cities: Seattle, Austin, Sacramento, Boston, Altanta, Chicago, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver, and “The Portland of Oregon”.

Why the lack of East Coast-love? The closest city to Philly is Boston, 6 hours away. And I have no car, plus exams and a 10 page paper due the next day. Ugh, if only this was held a week later! I would be back in Dallas, and I could have made the 3 1/2 hour drive to Austin!

Tickets reportedly available on Fandango, and selling like hotcakes hotcakes filled with money an advanced screening of Serenity!

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Note to self: Disabling all IK may prevent IK from working. Durr.

“Is that their mission statement? ‘For the greater niftiness of all’?” -Ko, re: my description of The Alliance

Okay, so… trailer. Still EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEing madly, but some things made me pause. Spoilers for the content of the trailer, wusses. I haven’t read anything spoilerish about the actual movie, so you’re safe. Oh, and more screencaps here, courtesy of the illustrious Megan!

The Sketchy:

Sound. In space. Firefly was one of a handful of sci-fi offerings that didn’t have sound in space. After Firefly, I grumble at my passionately beloved Star Wars for having sound in space. I don’t care if it’s not what the audience is used to, or if it gets awkward. That’s why we have background music! Please, Joss, don’t do it! (Edit: Someone on the boards assured me that the studio execs okayed Joss’ “no sound in space”

The Fabulous:

Mal shoots first. I love you, Joss Whedon. *grins and pokes George Lucas with a flan*
Yay, Wash still has his dinosaurs!
River could kill people without her brain.

The Quoi:
Why does River appear to kick Simon in the face? It’s such a pretty face.
Disappointed at the lack of Kaylee and Book. I’ve been convinced by the flans that the trailer does not reflect the film in that respect (and that it does indeed retain more of the Firefly feel than the trailer lets on, rather than being a more traditional, mainstream sci-fi).

LJ user satansicons is awesome. Serenity trailer caps! 93 of them!

Great gravy, I love Mozdev’s “Down them All” feature. Got everything in two effortless clicks! Mozilla is love. Those still using IE have a slight problem with their brain being missing.

Oh! And you can d/l the “large” trailer here or here.

Cult of Lincoln presents: The Quotable Gearhart.

I think I get the words “presumptive” and “presumptuous” mixed up in my head. Every time they called Kerry the “presumptive nominee”, I kept imagining him coming into my house without knocking and saying “What’s for dinner?” –Ko

Ko: You are such a dork, Cellie.
Me: Who is more dorkish? The dork or the dork who hangs out with her? … And I just quoted Star Wars, so I think I answered my own question.

Ko: Perhaps I should take my posters down, as to avoid doing any more schoolwork.
Me: Perhaps you should.
Ko: I’ve done 7 pages of review in the past day. But I’ve written down phrases like “diffusion of responsibility”, so I feel as though I’ve accomplished something, at least.

HAPPY HAPPY BIRFDAY TO KEEF!!!! One of my oldest online friends is 21! (We met on an Animorphs mailing list. His Animorphs mailing list. The same mailing list I met Renata. Yeah, I know.)

Now go buy some cheap booze and hookers!

Just got back from a really productive seven hours in the lab. Stuff I accomplished:

• Edna no longer has freaky points of skin poking out of her face, and is generally intact.
• Edna is re-attired, and looks utterly hilarious. I’ll probably change some colors around, but I’m still just so entertained every time I look at her.
• I learned that I’ve been rigging IK handles backwards all along.
• I learned how to fix joint/IK issues so that my elbows bend the right ways, and how to limit joint range of motion.
• Edna is totally rigged!
• Edna’s skin weights are tolerable.
• I learned about “baking”, which I will implement later. The number of puns on this

And all that in 5 hours! The rest of the time I was working on remodeling and rerigging my rat for its walk cycle.

Then I get home to the Serenity trailer! My verdict: GUH. Further analysis when I can stop watching it over and over on repeat long enough to form actual sentences.

Quote of the Day:

“Some times I wish your mom would just say something really vulgar and crude, just so we know she’s human. I think your mom is… Glinda the Good Witch, come to life. I keep expecting her to arrive with an army of munchkins, with a big froofy dress and a wand. Your mom seems like the type that could pull off a wand.” –Ko

*facepalms, giggles madly* I’m having issues with weighting Hattie’s skirt, so I decided I would put Edna in pants instead. I started getting silly, keeping her belled sleeves and adding ridiculously belled pants. I thought it would be funny to keep her in white, then give her a big gold belt buckle. Then I realized: Oh my god. She’s wearing Elvis’ jumpsuit.

I think I’ll keep it this way, as an homage to Bubba Ho-Tep.

(Some of you might notice the banner on the bulletin board. I feel no shame. The first time I heard that name, I thought it sounded like a retirement home.)

The Frustrating: Went to office hours. Was perfectly on time. Josh arrived an hour and 15 minutes late.

The Good: The problem I spent an hour angsting over last night? When he finally arrived, he resolved it in 5 minutes.

Back to animating! *makes zooming noises*

Just went to the Universal Pictures website to see if they had the trailer for Serenity up yet. Why do they have the Wicked poster up next to the Serenity logo? Are they considering… oh, I daren’t hope. That would just be too awesome for words. Come on, studios! The world wants MORE MUSICALS! Maybe after Idina finishes Rent… Okay, back to work.

(Oh, and the answer was no, it’s not up anywhere yet. I imagine it’ll be up here first, though.)