IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that’s playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don’t lie and try to pretend you’re cool …
(I had to shift past film snippets and such but otherwise stayed true to the meme… because I have nothing better to do at nearly 1am, obviously…)
Opening Credits
“Yachts” – A Man Called Adam
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Started by Hemingway and wired, continued by various people, and presented here as a diversion from thinking about the impending nanowrimo: Stories in six words. I will add to this as and when I think of more.
2 lifeforms enter, three lifeforms leave.
Just drive, she said. Smoking. Bleeding.
Had the last laugh. Died funny.
Someone lost an eye. Exit fun.
She kissed he cried they parted.
I’m gunna keep on loving you.
High concept? Just another donkey show.
200 guns, 100 men.
Dissatisfied wife finds love with midget.
Her last words were his trigger.
“I didn’t mean to…” it said.
Unaided flight ”fun”? Not so much.
Superheroes but, you know, grown up.
The kid in burberry buys it.
Final act, nothing resolved, closure MIA?
Studio 60 mid-season turnaround imminent?
… and suddenly, the creatures stood revealed…
“Brevity”, he said, “arsehole of wit.”
“Wash off the blood? What blood?”
I have to eat her all?
“So that’s what humility tastes like…”
You’ve been drive-by queer-guyed!
Added 31/10/2006:
Two dads. No mum. Hilarity ensues.
Two dads. Estranged mum. Hilarity ensues.
6 friends. No others allowed in.
Hippy parents BUT ultra conservative son!
Retard ends up saving the day.
Whole damn journey is homoerotic metaphor!
My stupid dog, the alien overlord?
My drooling dog, the second coming?
Two days to retirement. Already dead.
Ripped it up and started again.
Tonight I experienced a curious and apparently growing trend in youth culture that from now on I’m choosing to call being “Drive-By Queer-Guyed”.
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Studio 60 at IMDB and at Wikipedia.
It turns out I’m way behind the curve. I was waiting until I’d seen a few episodes of this show to decide what I really thought of it, but now, three weeks on, ratings are already failing badly for it, and nearly everything I could say has been said, from the positive:
I have a weak spot for narratives about male friendship that aren’t conventional buddy films … and so I’m naturally predisposed to like Aaron Sorkin’s new series, Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip, given its focus on the working friendship of Matthew Perry and Bradley Whitford.
Steven Berlin Johnson
To the negative:
I’ve watched the first two episodes of STUDIO 60 and I don’t like it.
Lee Goldberg
To the pragmatic stance of Warren Ellis, who speaks at length about it both here, where he examines the pilot, it’s potential and it’s downfalls, and here, where he makes some very valid complaints about the third episode.
For the most part I agree with everything these guys have said so far, and Goldberg and Johnson’s comments sections contain some interesting and valid viewpoints, too (although some of Goldberg’s issues seem preoccupied with certainly stylistic similarities between the production design and general look of this show and The West Wing, which I really disagree with. They couldn’t look more different… Studio 60 looks much darker and studio-lit than The West Wing, and much more jazzy).
However, I’m a little worried that I’m going to end up as a Studio 60 apologist. I’m on episode 3, and I have to say that I’m really enjoying it. I was already concerned that this show would end up playing “Futurama” to The West Wing’s “The Simpsons”… like Futurama, it’s not as easy to pin down as it’s counterpart…
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