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.
Last Monday I started a summer English class so I’ll be working on writing for that a lot and probably won’t have the energy or time to write much here for the next 5 weeks. Hopefully I’ll improve my writing skills while I’m in this class. Unfortunately I have a few reviews I want to write that I probably won’t get to, but there’s a good chance I can at least start them and will have something to post a few days after my classes end.
Other unfortunates: I’m almost 100% that I won’t be going to Comic Con this year, which is a bummer - I was really looking forward to meeting R.K. Milholland, Jennie Breeden, and Felicia Day (with the rest of The Guild)
Even more unfortunates: one of my a-hole friends decided he’d be just that and give me a copy of WoW two days before I started my class. Well, I’m not addicted, but I can see it being a horrible timesink which is not good with the start of my English class. Bugger.
I’ve been putting this entry off for a while, not because I dislike this game but because I can’t really think of anything that I really need to say about it other than: If you like Penny-Arcade then you’ll like this game.
As has been said many times before, the fighting mechanics play a lot like the Mario RPGs - what comes to mind (probably because I’ve played it most recently) is Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga.
Anyway, I’m not being very creative today and I didn’t take any real screenshots from the game, so I have nothing to show off but I assume by now that anyone interested in playing the game has already bought it and played it (maybe multiple times) and if you haven’t played it and not sure if you’d be into it there’s a demo download which I highly suggest (purchasing a keycode will unlock the game.)
Well it looks like I completelyglossedover this part when I was writing the post about the 40’s Minutemen - there will be the Black Freighter (the pirate story line) webisodes and compilation DVD!
I’m overjoyed that they’re actually shooting this and releasing the webisodes and DVD, but I’m really hoping that they release the Black Freighter on the Watchmen DVD, or that it’ll be something on the Special Edition otherwise I will be very sad - and there will be two spaces taken up for Watchmen related DVDs on my shelf.
In one of the coolest promotional ideas I’ve seen to date, Penny-Arcade’s Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins (better known as Gabe and Tycho, respectively) and PvPs Scott Kurtz teamed up with Wizards of the Coast in anticipation of the release of the 4th edition of Dungeons and Dragons to play a game - and they recorded the audio. You can either download it from the linked site or put the RSS URL into iTunes and have it download automatically every time it comes out!
A few nights ago I got together with some friends and a bottle of Stoli, in celebration of my friend Chris’ 24th birthday, to watch Indi 4 - and I’m so glad there was a bottle of Stoli. I told myself I was going to hold off on a review until I re-watched the original three, but I thought it would be more fair to do a review of the movie with my initial review and (if I find myself feeling any different) I might do a followup review.
There was a post on “Ain’t It Cool” news with a picture of the original Minutemen (like in the comic) in a 1940 lineup - check it out. Man, that is badass! I do have very high hopes for this movie, and I hope that I’m not let down by it. I know they’re leaving out one plot-thread (the pirate comic, for those who’ve read it) and that doesn’t so much bother me because it just added commentary to what was happening in the main comic. Hopefully they’ll film those parts and release it in something like fear.net did with the “30 Days of Night: Blood Trails” shorts.
Since my class ends today I will have time to tool around with this site over the next couple of weeks. I wanted to post here a few things I’m hoping to implement so I don’t forget and so people know that I’m actually doing things while I’m not posting (I also have a Twitter feed that gets updates frequently to let people know what I’m up to as well. Gotta love microblogging.)
Saw the trailer on myspace of all places (bleh) and the only reason I checked it out was because of the frozen image of Bill Murray on the trailers thumbnail. (link is to City of Ember website, not myspace - I will never purposefully send anyone there) First thing I thought of while watching this trailer was the Fallout series.
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