Giant fire-breathing R2-D2

[jere7my]

No, it's not a Magic: The Gathering/Star Wars crossover; it's the three words that describe why you should watch the Junkyard Mega-Wars "Night at the Movies" episode. ILM vs. Jim Henson's Creature Shop vs. KNB (who did the F/X for Evil Dead and Tremors, among other things). Brilliant! Possibly not the best thing to watch when I feel like I missed the boat on being an F/X technician, but I suppose I'm feeling more energized than bleak now. It'll be on again Sunday 2/29 at 3PM.

I can also recommend 28 Days Later, which I finally watched on DVD. It's a very good, very British zombie movie, though I'd probably classify it as post-apocalyptic rather than zombie. People behave stupidly more often than I'd like, but it's got a solid plot, real characters, and a genuinely scary tire-changing scene. Possibly good as a double feature with 12 Monkeys, and not just because of the numbers. Shot on no budget by the director of Trainspotting, Danny Boyle. Winner: best graffiti, revealed in a slow pan upward from the last word to the first:

THE END IS
EXTREMELY
FUCKING
NIGH

Comments

[franzeska]

You could always go watch F/X as well. *cackles*

[echo-eriol.livejournal.com]

Hey, I just added you to my friends list :)

I'm so glad you got an lj, because, what with me moving in the fall, I don't know how I would have kept in touch with you otherwise.

I hope things are going well back in the states.

I saw Anthony Stewart Head in Pirates of Penzance a couple weeks ago, and ::sigh:: there were far too few people who understood the sheer brilliance of that experience.

'Willow' will be performing in a stage version of When Harry Met Sally, and I'll be there to see that too. The theater really is probably the best thing about being in London . . . that and the morris dancing at any rate.

cheers!

-shoshana

[zorblak.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I love Pirates. I assume that Tony Head is playing the Pirate King? That's almost worth flying to London for.....

[echo-eriol.livejournal.com]

yea . . . he was the pirate king! he did in the style of david brent from the office, and he was truly incredible.

Jeremy!!

[flammifera.livejournal.com]

Dude, I totally didn't know you had an lj...hi! ::waves excitedly and gives j7y a big hug::

OK, sorry...it's just always nice to 'see' you, either in real life or over the internet. :)

Say hi to Kendra! I'm sad I didn't get to go to a job talk by her on campus -- heh, we started out with 4 candidates coming to talk, and 2 of them withdrew, so now William is hounding us to get our comments/thoughts in by *tomorrow*. But first I have to go research my paper on dog imagery in the Agamemnon...

Re: Jeremy!!

[jere7my.livejournal.com]

Hi there, cutie. :)= I've only had the LJ for about a week, so you didn't miss much. We really ought to see each other more often, methinks. Will you be around for Alumni Weekend, and/or at Pinewoods?

Yeah, we really wish we could have come to Swarthmore to give a job talk, too. Who are the two remaining candidates?

Good luck on the puppy paper....

Re: Jeremy!!

[flammifera.livejournal.com]

Hey yourself. ::perky grin::

Will you be around for Alumni Weekend, and/or at Pinewoods?

Hmm...sadly, no, I don't think for either. :( I had hoped that this would be my year to go back to Pinewoods, but see this entry for what I might be doing instead. Nothing's at all certain yet, but I'm optimistic. But it means no Pinewoods. :( Silly traveling to other countries...

The two remaining candidates were Annalies Wouters and Mira Seo. Actually, I just got an email from William tonight -- they offered Mira the job and she took it. Once she came to campus, that outcome was highly probable. ;)

But yeah, very sad Kendra didn't come, but I think they really needed a Latin poetry person...ah well.