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Track list for Serenity soundtrack! Beware, spoilers.

Meanwhile, I’m annoyed, because I appear to have left my Sally boots at home, and I was planning to wear the costume again to the screening Wednesday. Guess I’ll wear my other all-purpose, all-fandom boots, worn as Zoe, Vetinari, miscellaneous Jedi, a Mary Sue, etc etc etc. Or maybe my jazz slippers (Aldonza, Andromache) would be more fitting…

It’s sad when a large percentage of my clothing is associated with cosplay. :D

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I am so entertained. In immitation of the popular Summer of Spike community, a bunch of fen have gathered together to form Fall for Spike, with one major difference: no Spuffy allowed. And not because it’s one of most common ships, and they want to give other pairings the spotlight. It’s because of the alley scene in Dead Things. “Because all of Spike’s other relationships are so healthy, ” Barb notes.

I love it, it’s wank waiting to happen. Hmm, “wankbait” is a good word.

I leave you with a giant pink Italian mountain-bunny from the year 2025.

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*laughs* The clip answering the question “who’s at the door?” in the season finale of Veronica Mars has been leaked. (If the video doesn’t work, try it with VLC) Now the question remains: Are they kidding?

First off, from the promo, unless the scene with Logan was a flashback (which it can’t be, because it was day), it’s pretty much impossible for Logan to be the one at the door. So we ask ourselves: Would Rob Thomas–the man who scripted two alternate endings for the season in the event the fandom figured out the identity of the killer–let the answer to the biggest VM question on the net get leaked?

The answer: heck yes, just not the correct one!

I heard somewhere that Joss Whedon, in an attempt to throw a wrench in the spoiler factory, filmed two alternate endings for the last scene in Buffy season 6: one in which Spike got his soul, and the other in which he gets his chip removed. That way, no one involved with the show could say for sure which scene would be used. I’m not sure if this story is actually true, but I definitely wouldn’t put it past Joss to try it with such a major reveal.

Therefore, I stand by my guns. I don’t like it, but I’m convinced that Duncan is behind the door, despite the 307-ers protests. Of course, if the 307 theory is true, I will be utterly overjoyed at the sheer geekiness of the writers, and won’t mind at all that I was completely and utterly wrong. Viva los fan speculation!

(Hey, wouldn’t now be a good time to preorder the VM DVDs on Amazon? Out October 11th!)

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This link may be of interest to Rent fans. :D Yes, the post is friends-locked, but just join the comm temporarily and you’re golden. Let this hold you off until the CD comes out on the 27th, when you will all buy the soundtrack from a legitimate source and respect your creators, yes?

I’ve only listened to a few tracks so far, and while I’m irked at the cutting of lines and the general mishmash, I refuse to pass judgement until I see how it’s integrated with the visuals and context and such.

(I love Rosario Dawson as Mimi so far! And I can’t wait to hear Mahandra Tracie Thoms as Joanne…)

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YESSSS!!! The Corpse Bride screening is at 7, but the movie is just over an hour, so I’ll still be able to make the season premiere of Lost at 9! Oh, life is so good right now.

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Aww, one of my advisee kidlets got a role in “Cabaret”! She’s one of the Kit Kat girls! And I got tickets to a pre-screening of Corpse Bride on Wednesday! And Anansi Boys comes out tomorrow! Life is great.

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(contains spoilers for Wonderfalls and mid-season 1 Lost)

Last spring break, Chungy needed to catch up on Lost episodes, so we had a marathon at my house. One of the episodes we watched was “All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues”, in which Jack and crew go off in search of the kidnapped Charlie and Claire, and they find Charlie hung from a tree. I knew Chungy would be glancing at me every so often for clues of what would happen next, and if it was going to be good or bad, so I made myself tear up when they found Charlie’s body, so that Chungy would conclude that he was, in fact, dead, rather than knowing that it would all be okay in the end, and that Jack would bring him back through the power of brute force.

That sentence was far too long.

Anyway, Ko and I watched the rest of Wonderfalls today, Aristotle be damned. Because I didn’t want Ko to have any idea that it all turned out right in the end, I decided to toy with a friend’s brain once again! As Ko agonized over the Jaye/Eric/Heidi triangle, I responded to her complains in a bitter tone, subtly hinting that Eric and Heidi would be together in the end, and that I was as annoyed with the finale as she was. It made it all the more squeeish when our OTP was preserved, and all ended happily.

In sum, messing with people’s expectations is fun! And that’s all I have to say about that.