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I just got back from the preview screening of Corpse Bride, which was AWESOME. Beyond awesome. Jaw-droppingly awesome. The characters were delightful, the music was fun, and everything that seemed cheesy in the trailer wasn’t. In fact, my main criticism is that the stop-motion animation was TOO good, and I fear people will just assume it’s CG. Looking back, I’m actually annoyed with how good the animation was. It didn’t feel like stop-motion at all. Despite the subject matter, it’s less of a younger brother to Nightmare Before Christmas, and more of a distant cousin. While totally charming in itself, it didn’t have the charm I associate with stop-motion.

And I should just shut up and realize that this movie is not–nor did it ever claim to be–Nightmare Before Christmas, and not hold it to weird, arbitrary standards and get on with my life.

(Of course, in the same vein as “This movie is not Nightmare Before Christmas“, I came in my Sally costume. They even gave me a copy of the CD for dressing up, so go me!)

Back to the movie. The music was fun, but as I was expecting more bizarre, quirky, simple songs in the style of Nightmare, I was slightly offput by the more showtune-y style. I have no problem with showtune-y, but the songs just didn’t feel… what’s the word? Burtonesque.

And reading over what I’ve written, I don’t think I get to say anything else until I’ve had a good night’s sleep and I can talk about something other than it’s lack of Nightmare-osity. The movie is EXCELLENT, and it deserves more than that. So it’s back to Psych homework for me until I can learn to behave myself in polite company.

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Is it really, really sad that in the first preview track of the Firefly soundtrack I listened to, I noticed that one of the instruments was missing in comparison with the televised version? Of course, in my defense, it was a pretty prominent instrument, but still. Geek! Unclean!

I’m so sick of Fox still treating Firefly like some redheaded bastard stepchild. Thousands of us have begged and pleaded for months, nay nears, for a Firefly soundtrack, and they don’t trust the fans enough for an actual CD release! Look at the DVD sales and tell me this soundtrack wouldn’t be one of its hottest sellers! They could be making a mint by embracing the show and taking advantage of a desperate fanbase, but instead, with a total lack of fanfare, they just grudgingly eke out a selection of tracks Greg Edmonson recorded years ago, and what they do release is choked with DRM so thick that Mac users can’t even play the songs with the current version! And anyone that can download it will have to burn it to CD and rip it back to their computer if they want to play it on an iPod or any other WMA-unfriendly device. And apparently the Fox store only takes credit cards with American addresses, effectively eliminating the international market. Do they want fans to be forced to resort to piracy? (Hey, just like our heroes!)

And as a final insult, “Hero of Canton” isn’t included. There’s no coming back from that. Of course, it’s possible that they coulde only include stuff Greg actually wrote, and he didn’t write “Hero of Canton”, or for that matter, River’s dance in “Safe”, which one would fully expect to be on a Firefly soundtrack.

Lots of fans have reported difficulty downloading it, but have had more success following these instructions. Personally, I’m going to wait a few days to see if Fox looks like it’s going to make any concessions to our demands. Feh. In the meantime, I’ll content myself with Sneaker98’s ripped-straight-from-the-DVDs complete Firefly score.

(P.S. Firefly soundtrack! EEEEEE. Ugh, the music from “Out of Gas” kills me dead. I love this show and I love this music. I can’t wait to hear these new tracks in their entirety!)

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Happy Birthday to: DeeDee, Sam, Natalia, Kell, Rebecca, Faith, and MY MOMMY! So many amazingly cool people born in such a short time increment… clearly, it must have been something in the eggnog at your conception. You enrich my life with your brilliance, wit, literary and/or artistic talent, and dazzling white teeth. Thank you for being born! *mass hug*

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Topping my list of “homework that makes you cry” is Question #4 in my Psychology of Perception class: Describe the first letter of this sentence using methods of introspection on the sensory experience. Fortunately, my answer only has to be a 1/2 to 1 page, as opposed to 1 1/2 pages, as I first read. I can totally BS a page.

Anyway, I just noticed the typo in the entry three posts down, wherein I gripe about the gaping “hope” in our ceiling. I’m really entertained. I didn’t know hope could gape. You learn something new every day!

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Hey! Got a couple minutes to make me unbelievably happy and grateful? Go to this website, sign up (no worries, you can choose an option where they don’t send you any spam), and take a one-question quiz. We can both get an iPod Nano (slight catch, but still worth it), and I’ll love you forever!

Five minutes, tops! Here’s that link again.

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Oh! You know how I wrote that post the other day, griping about how no one would fix the gaping hope in our bathroom ceiling because there was no leak. We just got our wish granted the hard way. The guys directly above us were cleaning their shower yesterday, and part of that water found its way through our ceiling. Fortunately, the leak is directly over the toilet, so it’s not nearly as messy as it could have been. Maintenance assures us that they’ll send someone by soon. Now that we’re on the “emergency” list, hopefully that will be within the next few days, rather than the next few months.