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Post by Skinwalker on Dec 16, 2004 19:50:38 GMT -5
he's a character on The O.C. and no i don't watch it but he's played by Adam Brody and i can relate to his character a lot during the few times i did watch. anyways he's making geekdom kinda cool. hehe
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Post by irol on Dec 16, 2004 19:53:16 GMT -5
Ahh.. I think I know who that is from magazines and stuff. I never watched that show before..
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Post by Skinwalker on Dec 16, 2004 20:40:41 GMT -5
well i did watch it, well just the summer eps a yr ago, but it got really huge, and then i was in the real OC all the time cuz thats where my fiancee lives and stuff, and plus gotta love The OC for Disney hehe, but not much into teen shows anymore, well unless they're sci fi related like oh say Smallville, but no more OC or One Tree Hill kinda teen stuff anymore. anyways yeah u probably saw Adam on magazines he's becoming really popular with girl fans, p lus he is pretty funny and the only reason to watch, its on tonite but i probably won't be wawtching though.
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Post by Skittles on Dec 16, 2004 21:29:27 GMT -5
I started watching that when it came out, but it got so boring. And, oh, is Adam Brody so hot.
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Post by Skinwalker on Dec 16, 2004 22:38:34 GMT -5
yeah Adam is cool, too bad he's doing a show like that, oh well lol wish he was on something that i acutally liked to watch. he has a small role in The Ring actaully, and he did an ep of Smallville too, he was funny in Grind, great skateboarder movie btw.
and umm, that show is so huge here, that theres this one sign here that ppl were mad over cuz its shines wicked bright at nite nad it was coming thru these one ppls apt and houses and stuff, its this huge lighted billboard and it changes pics and stuff, i've seen it, pretty cool but not if its keeping ppl awake and stuff, which is not of the good.
and they had this huge party here for the show last yr at this place at the beach, cuz they film it at our beaches in LA, isntead of the beaches in The OC, though the OC is like right next to us anyways. anyways, wow did we get off topic of Joss or what? but i wonder if Joss secretly watches the OC, hehe.
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Post by Skinwalker on Dec 16, 2004 23:27:00 GMT -5
from buffy.nu
Joss Whedon’s Absence Leaves a Vast Wasteland From Msmagazine.com - 2004-12-16th
Roni sent a link to Annalee Newitz’s latest column, the beautifully titled, “O Joss, My Joss.”
Newitz begins with the Joss Whedon blues, a lament familiar to all Buffy, Angel and Firefly fans: “It’s been almost a year since the last drop of Joss got wrung out of TV, and still I can barely stand to turn on the damn thing.”
Let it be said that at least Buffy and Angel had long runs; The lone season of Firefly, on the other hand, was broadcast out of order and nixed before given a fair chance (another grudge to hold against Fox). But why doesn’t the brilliant Whedon have networks fighting over his complex creations? Newitz cites oft-repeated concerns that Whedon’s alternative worlds are in fact too alternative for our reality-obsessed culture, or perhaps “fantasy and science fiction are just too retro 20th century”:
In the 21st century, audiences want to see "real" people dealing with "real" issues - you know, like being stranded in a multimillion-dollar mansion with a bunch of craven anorexics trying to marry a mousse-headed twit. Or being forced to live under surveillance while rooming with Vanilla Ice. Or trying to win the respect of Donald Trump, Richard Branson, or Tyra Banks. [...] If reality banished Joss from TV, then I’m convinced reality is going to ruin pop culture. There was more truth in a single episode of Buffy or Firefly. than there is in the entire two-year run of The Swan. I don’t want to sound like Theodor Adorno bashing on Georg Lucaks, because I was always partial to the Lucaks side of that debate. But if the point of pop culture is to feed our imaginations - and I’m sure even the most cravenly commercial masters of the mainstream media like Steven Spielberg would agree with me here - then losing Joss is a harbinger of terrible things to come.
People need overtly fictional stories in order to escape from the grind of reality. At its best, fiction reminds us not to trap ourselves in the narrow kinds of thinking that make us believe that we must look like beauty contestants to be happy, or that people will always betray each other to survive.
With that I couldn’t agree more. Overall it’s a persuasive column, though I think Newitz’s shot at the "cookie-cutter plotlines and beefy male stereotypes" on Lost is overkill. Not that I don’t have issues at times with the male gaze (bikinis = liberation? how groundbreaking!), but the castaways’ back stories so far have been brilliantly done. The success of this series is likely to inspire television networks to greenlight more complex and challenging fare.
Earlier this year I attended WizardWorld mainly for the opportunity to hear Whedon speak. I never did get around to writing anything back then, but I dug out my notebook for these highlights:
— Audience member, referring to the pink backpack Whedon brought with him on stage: “What’s with the girlie backpack?”
“Dude, have you got something against girlies?,” responded Whedon, to much laughter. He continued:
“I am a girlie man. I stand before you today to tell you that I am a girlie American. And if you don’t know that about me, I can’t believe you got this close.”
— After Buffy had been on television for two or three seasons, Whedon pitched the idea of an animated Buffy-style series and was told a male character as strong and cool as Buffy would have to anchor the show, or boys wouldn’t watch.
“Raise your hand if you’re a boy,” said Whedon. The overwhelmingly male crowd complied.
— Many Buffy viewers never got over the death of Tara, Willow’s girlfriend, and blamed Whedon to succumbing to the cliché that lesbians in a happy relationship must be pulled apart -- punished, as it were, for their bliss. Whedon was asked about this and replied that he planned on bringing Tara back from the dead (via a reality-altering wish Buffy would get to make), but behind-the-scenes discussions with actors didn’t work out.
We were also treated to a trailer for the upcoming Serenity movie. Let’s just say those of us in mourning will have some redemption next year -- though we’ll now have to wait until Sept. 30.
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Post by Skittles on Dec 17, 2004 10:53:49 GMT -5
Oh, yeah. Forgot about him being in the Ring. And I love grind. It's such an awesome movie. I went with my friends to see it the day before school started last year, and the only other people in the theater besides us four was two guys and a couple. It was so great cause then we could be as loud and obnoxious as we wanted to.
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Post by Skinwalker on Dec 17, 2004 19:18:06 GMT -5
so ur one of those noisy teens i have to deal with when i go see teen movies huh, i shoulkd have known lol. lucky the teen girls i dated weren't bad with the screaming lol, but yeah its cool soemtimes, makes the movies more fun. especially at teen horror movies, like during my teen yrs during the whole Scream, I KNow What You Did Last Summer, Urban Legend phase that stuff was fun.
anyways yay i loved Grind, and it had 2 guys i had jus seen in horror movies, one from Wrong Turn anod one from remake of Texas Chainsaw. and yay Adam of course, oh and that guy from AmericanWerewolf inParis.
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Post by Skittles on Dec 17, 2004 21:37:40 GMT -5
it's not cause it's a teen movie or anything. I'll talk during any movie. I just talk alot. And when something happens in the movie I have to talk to Tara (blinkbreaking, if you don't remember) about it. We jsut talk alot. Like at the game tonight, I didn't even watch the game. I just talked the whole time. ;D
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Post by Skinwalker on Mar 17, 2005 18:58:30 GMT -5
from Cinescape
It's official. Joss Whedon has been hired by Warner Bros. and Silver Pictures to write and direct the new "Wonder Woman" feature film.
Joel Silver and Leonard Goldberg will produce the film which is of course based on the DC Comics character created by William Moulton Marston.
No cast has been named yet.
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Post by Skinwalker on Oct 8, 2005 14:14:16 GMT -5
in case anyone wanted to know, he's gonna guest star on an ep of Veronica Mars in Nov. should be kinda fun to see Joss do some acting for a change.
turns out he's a huuuuuuuuuuge fan of the show in fact he even wrote a review of it in the new issue of Entertainment Weekly. cool to find out stuff celebs like to watch.
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Post by Skittles on Oct 8, 2005 14:20:04 GMT -5
That's awesome! I've never watched the show, but I wanted to. Maybe it's a good time to start.
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Post by lolo on Oct 8, 2005 14:21:30 GMT -5
That's neat. You'll have to keep us posted on the date. I still haven't seen that show yet, I don't know what I'm always watching when it's on. o.O
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Post by Skinwalker on Oct 11, 2005 11:17:55 GMT -5
ditto i never have watched it but i do need to rent season 1, if Joss is a fan then u know it must be good. yeah i'll keep u guys informed of the date.
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Post by Skittles on Oct 11, 2005 13:56:55 GMT -5
Alrighty. And thanks much.
By the way, you serious have to let us know when you change your name. Haha. I got confused today.
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