Finally I am finishing up with this; busy week at school with finals coming up on Thursday.
With Dr. Horrible I wanted to wait until I had seen all three episodes before I said anything about the series - I imagine most people have already seen this, but if you have not doitnow!
There’s also a primer comic introducing you to Captain Hammer on myspace of all places, written by Joss’ brother Zack and put out by Dark Horse. Read that as well.
Short review because I’m tired:
Let me just say that this is possibly the funniest, and saddest, musicals I have ever seen - the first two acts are extremely funny (I would say the bulk of the fun songs are in the second act) and the third has the darker sense of humor I relate to the 7th season of Buffy. Neil Patrick Harris is absolutely amazing as a super-villain and Felicia Day is amazingly expressive. Nathan Fillion also plays a awesome stupid/stuck-on-himself superhero.
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How great this mini-series was makes it more difficult to have to decide between it and the Ghostbusters panel on Friday at Comic-Con, sadly I think I’m going to have to go to the Ghostbusters panel - it’s the main reason I got everything set up for SDCC in the first place.
Hopefully there is a Dr. Horrible or Mutant Enemy booth and I will be able to get a copy of the DVD (signed by the main cast?) while at the con.
Just wanted to make a post pointing out that a teaser trailer for Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog! is out now! Okay, enough exclamation points! No, seriously, that’s enough.
Dr. Horrible’s is a web series being developed by Joss Whedon (Buffy, Angel, Firefly) and starring Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie Howser, M.D., Starship Troopers, How I Met Your Mother), Nathan Fillion (Buffy, Firefly, Slither), and Felicia Day (Buffy, The Guild, Hotel Erotica Cabo… sorry, Felicia, just kidding! She really needs to have that removed) in a musical style, sing-along… blog.
The music and singing, none of which is displayed in the trailer, is undoubtedly great. Why? Oh, I have to support my statements now? Crap, alright, does everyone remember the musical episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer? Joss Whedon is no slouch when it comes to music, and he tends to surround himself with people who can sing and are great at it - except Alyson Hannigan, apparently, but no worries, she’s still awesome all the same. I can only imagine Joss getting some of the best vocalists he could think of working with on a project that’s touting itself as a “sing-along blog”… so yeah, that good enough for you?
To be honest I hadn’t heard much about “Love, Janis“: The Musical; only a few things here and there, mostly on KPIG radio when the show was already really close. One of my buddies told me he had an extra ticket to the show on the 19th at Cal Poly - and I love Big Brother and Janis Joplin so I was really excited about the opportunity to get to go.
The show kicked off with a short introduction and went right into “Piece Of My Heart” (which is a little overplayed, but still fucking rocked.) There were two girls who played Janis Joplin, one was a narrator of her writing and the other was the singer - who also ended up helping out in the narration, and who also served as a visual show of the duality of Janis Joplin’s personality, she was the on stage personality. I wish I had found out the name of the singer because her voice was… amazing to say the least.
At a lot of the shows my buddy Kevin and I go to we end up being either the youngest or close to the youngest - we saw the Kingston Trio in Carmel-by-the-Sea a few years ago we were almost the youngest people in the crowd, save for a 7 year old that we were informed looked “none too happy to be there”, but because of that and a woman we met there (who ended up being the fiancée of one of the Trio) we got to meet the guys after the show. Of course, I really thought Janis was far from exclusive to the older crowd that these kind of events seem to generate. It was a very well put together show, with great narration and excellent singing.
I heard about this a few months (almost a year?) ago and thought it could be a cool idea, and it was even really hot that Scarlett Johansson thinks enough of Tom Waits and his music to do an album of all covers of his songs… but you hear that reverb/echo/synth sound to her voice? That’s the same shit they did to Cher when she could no longer keep on key to save her life.
NIN’s first full free album, The Slip, was released a couple of days ago and I’m just getting around to listening to it for about the 3rd or 4th time so I figured I’d give it a short review.
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