This song is my second favourite from this album but the most appropriate to this playlist. I enthusiastically encourage you to go and listen to Sing, which is my favourite. And then, when you’re enticed and confused, go check out the rest of the album and its extras. Because this album is a tiny (awesome) post-apocalyptic science fiction […]
June 26, 2013 by Kandace Mavrick
Me: [John Carter of Mars] reminded me forcibly of Flash Gordon. Arkem: He is the saviour of the universe! Me: He has a song and everything. In fact, if you say the word ‘flash’ in any context near Greg C or I we both sing, ‘ah-ah’ reflexively. When I was sick once at about age […]
May 14, 2013 by Kandace Mavrick
I’m going to preface this by saying I liked it. I did. Sort of. Also that there might be minor spoilers below. Okay. So. If what you’re looking for is a movie with lots of explosions and chase scenes — sure, go for it. This movie is your baby. If you were maybe hoping for […]
March 15, 2013 by Kandace Mavrick
For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing:
January 22, 2013 by Kandace Mavrick
As I understand it, this one isn’t so much based on the Warren Ellis’ graphic novel as made up out of whole cloth, but the trailer looks entertaining… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ntPbR_9A9Y
November 13, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
World War Z is book by Max Brooks about the zombie apocalypse, framed as a series of interviews after the fact. Its structure is this brilliant, interlocking thing where each story/interview is complete in itself but the larger story proceeds step by step taking you from the first outbreak to where they are now. It […]
October 16, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
I’ll just leave this here… At today’s Marvel Television Presents panel at New York Comic Con, Head of TV Jeph Loeb announced that Clark Gregg would reprise his role as Agent Phil Coulson in the live-action pilot “Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D.” …. [Joss] Whedon will …. co-write the pilot to “Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D.” with Jed Whedon and Maurissa […]
September 12, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
In case you hadn’t heard: The new Discworld series “The Watch” (AKA CSI:Ankh-Morpork) has been approved by Terry Pratchett and will go into production with BBC Worldwide. The project to film GOOD OMENS is also going forward. — Diane Duane I am… cautiously excited. Because those are two texts that I love and adore so they […]
September 10, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
I like to fly. I do. But I also can’t sleep on planes. This is a problem because there is a point of exhaustion that you pass where reading gives you a headache and you’re too twitchy to sit still and listen to music and your travelling companion (if you have one) is sleeping and […]
November 8, 2013 by Kandace Mavrick
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