Zut Suit Riot

mr-dalliard: Time travel in movies This is rad.

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:28:46 -0400

Time travel in movies

This is rad.

So much to talk about in the new Catching Fire trailer! District...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:12:00 -0400

So much to talk about in the new Catching Fire trailer! District 11 riots, Plutarch Heavensbee sounding like he’s playing both Katniss and President Snow, the Katniss/Gale kiss…! Check out my shot-by-shot analysis and join me in flailing.

Two weeks until my buddy Dylan Marron’s awesome looking...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:43:12 -0400

Two weeks until my buddy Dylan Marron’s awesome looking show Ridgefield Middle School Talent Nite! Co-ed dance to follow. Spread the word and bring your inhalers.

April 1st
Glasslands
$10 general admission
21+

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Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:09:18 -0500

skipperjovi: ambiguousfangirl: Jennifer Lawrence, Disney...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:56:12 -0500

skipperjovi:

ambiguousfangirl:

Jennifer Lawrence, Disney princess

But she got right back up again, like the others, with a little help from Wolverine.

Whoa! Love it.

Watch me analyze the shit out of these two new Catching Fire...

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:19:00 -0500

Watch me analyze the shit out of these two new Catching Fire posters on Tor.com. Because my favorite part of the second book (pre-Games, at least) is Katniss and Peeta totally playing Panem with their star-crossed reality TV engagement.

alenalane: Inks for the first 2 pages of “The Distorted Mirror”...

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:21:00 -0500

alenalane:

Inks for the first 2 pages of “The Distorted Mirror” — coming along slowly but surely.

OH HEY LOOK HOW AWESOME MY COMIC LOOKS

I <3 everything Alena does.

Pop culture has passed into an incredibly self-reflective and...

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:01:00 -0500

Pop culture has passed into an incredibly self-reflective and meta phase. We can’t watch a TV show or political debate without immediately reacting through GIF form and then scrutinizing our reaction. We’re compelled to interrogate the highbrow and especially the lowbrow works that capture our attention. But it gets boring and one-dimensional to use the same medium that we’re discussing in our analysis. We’re constantly turning our opinions over and over, seeking out the smart new angle that someone hasn’t thought of. Enter this new breed of musical.

We’re lucky that many of these productions have tested the waters in New York City, where you can stage an outrageous parody for even just a weekend. In the past year, I’ve taken in four shows that probe the boundaries of good taste and challenge the books, actors, and even religious institutions they mock. Last Christmas, I joined the throngs of theatergoers laughing so hard they were crying at Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s The Book of Mormon. Since the, I’ve also giggled my way through song-and-dance parodies of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series, its offspring Fifty Shades of Grey, and the ‘90s thriller The Silence of the Lambs.

Whether each show’s attack is sweet or snarky, there is indeed that sense of tribute that Yankovic mentioned—cheeky nods to the genre of musical theater itself, or a hat tip to the impact Clarice Starling or Anastasia Steele has had on pop culture. In fact, 50 Shades! The Musical pokes fun less at Ana’s whirlwind romance with Christian Grey, and more at the way Americans have gobbled up E.L. James’ erotic fanfiction.

“I think anything that is so popular that everyone knows about it, you can start to home in on certain details,” said Emily Dorezas, one of the 50 Shades co-writers. “That’s why, as soon as the presidential election starts, everybody can laugh at the same things about the different candidates. Fifty Shades of Grey is just this brand that doesn’t go away. Even if you know nothing about it, you know everything about it. Part of what we’re doing is making fun of the phenomenon of it. [Audiences] can laugh at that because they’ve seen it in their house, with their wives and girlfriends.”

Pop-Culture Parody Musicals Are as Meta as We Get

Photo: Carol Rosegg

Garrett Hedlund and the five other guys I can see playing young...

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:15:38 -0500

Garrett Hedlund and the five other guys I can see playing young Han Solo in the newly-announced Star Wars standalone film.

The Sparrow is 400 pages and spans nearly fifty years. On trial in Rome, disgraced priest Emilio...

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:09:00 -0500

The Sparrow is 400 pages and spans nearly fifty years. On trial in Rome, disgraced priest Emilio Sandoz narrates in flashback the events that led up to the Stella Maris crew assembling, reaching Rakhat, and making contact with the alien species (plural) there. We the audience have to learn about the Runa and Jana’ata as quickly and exhaustively as the crew does; on Earth, there’s the Jesuits and the mafia to contend with.

To try and cram this into a two-hour movie—even stretching it to three hours—would necessarily cut key developments. Since The Sparrow is headed for television, however, each episode could be bookended by the frail Sandoz trying to make his peers understand why he made the decisions he did. Each season could be the standard twelve episodes with a year in-between.

The Runa and Jana’ata wouldn’t suffer, either, since there could be entire episodes devoted to characters like the merchant Supaari VaGayjur. Consider the Battlestar Galactica season 2 episode “Downloaded,” where for the first time we see what happens to Cylons after they die. Suddenly, Number Six went from a sex symbol and saboteur to almost human. Most importantly, parsing out Sandoz’s story over the course of a season or two would preserve the horror of the novel’s emotional payoff.

Why AMC’s The Sparrow TV Show Is Divinely Inspired

cineffect: I can’t, you guys. I…I can’t. bahahaha. I...

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:23:36 -0500

cineffect:

I can’t, you guys. I…I can’t.

bahahaha. I can’t, but I also can, but also… haha.

thepharaoh: Doctor Who Meets Disney | Karen Hallion YES YES...

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:44:25 -0500

Adventure in the Great Wide, Somewhere

Come Away With Me

You Coming, Blondie?

Escape The Dark Forest

Who's This, Who's This?

Part Of Every World

thepharaoh:

Doctor Who Meets Disney | Karen Hallion

YES YES YES

This makes me wish I had any drawing talent and could’ve thought this up. Swoon.

A Completely Subjective Do's and Don'ts Guide to Freelancing

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:27:09 -0500

airgordon:

On October 15, 2011, I moved back to my adolescent bedroom with $300 to my name; on October 1, 2012, I moved into a Bushwick apartment I’d recently signed a lease for, once more a proud, productive member of the American economy. In between, I freelanced extensively for a number of publications, usually on a daily basis — my math is very shaky, but I estimate I published somewhere between 200,000 and 400,000 words in that time span, some of them terrible, some of them not-terrible, but all of them paid for. Over the last year several people have burnished my ego by telling me I’m the only one amongst our age group whom they know to be making a full-time go of the freelance thing, which is sort of hilarious/terrifying because I fell into it accidentally and had never taken the time to think about how I’d gotten to this position. Here is my stab at some of that thought process, though I’m sure I’m forgetting plenty.

(DISCLAIMER: Things I have been wrong about include the long-term viability of Kreayshawn, the candidacy of Francois Hollande, the importance of chemistry between the 2012-13 Los Angeles Lakers, the subversiveness of Odd Future, etc. I am wrong a lot, and if anyone reading this has found a better way to do the things I’m writing about, great! Please chase that. But this has generally worked for me, and thus I will share it with you.)

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This has been so insightful.

Love love her.

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 20:59:42 -0500

Love love her.

seanhowe: IRON MAN’S INTERVENTION, STARRING THE AVENGERS As if...

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:58:52 -0500

seanhowe:

IRON MAN’S INTERVENTION, STARRING THE AVENGERS

As if I can’t have a drink
or two in the morning,
before risking my life
for people who don’t
know my name.

As if I can’t enjoy
a bottle of Chianti
and a smooth woman
when I’m not disarming
warheads in mid-flight
over the Atlantic.

As if the bottle of Johnnie
Walker you found, half-
empty, in my briefcase
implies I’m not capable
of defending New York
from shape-shifting, green
men from another world.

A man at Starbucks shoved
me during morning rush.
I stumbled over chairs,
fell. With my suit—
my marvelous iron prison—
I could pop his head with a flick
of one finger. But without it,
I’m just a man lost in the city.

Meanwhile you walk
down streets with a cowl
or cape the only difference
and you’re transformed—
the man underneath as real
as the one slamming villains
into concrete. You think
I need a drink to get in
the suit. But you’re wrong.

I need it to get out.

—Gary Jackson

blameaspartame: wrong dang movie As long as they still include...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:57:18 -0500

blameaspartame:

wrong dang movie

As long as they still include a rendition of “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” I will probably still cry.

theinevitablezombieapocalypse: Survival Tip: Surviving the...

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:40:03 -0500

theinevitablezombieapocalypse:

Survival Tip: Surviving the zombie apocalypse is be hard on everyone. Don’t forget to talk about your problems with other survivors.

zombieapocalypsesurvivaltips:

Zombie apocalypse survival tip #23

I have a friend who’s currently training to handle first responders’ PTSD. A similarly levelheaded person would be a good fit for the zombie apocalypse, where almost everyone is a “first responder.”

crushabledotcom: PERFECT! Brilliant.

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 22:09:02 -0500

crushabledotcom:

PERFECT!

Brilliant.

ROBOTS OR DINOSAURS?

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:44:15 -0500

ROBOTS, natch.

irockitumblr: Stefon’s guide to NYC YES. Except, this will...

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:26:38 -0500

irockitumblr:

Stefon’s guide to NYC

YES. Except, this will never be as good as SNL because we don’t get to watch Bill Hader start breaking.