Jesi

Serenity in 2000 words! Very funny.  And true, too.

Hah! Great link, Lycaon. Indeed, pretty accurate. I just love the "FANS SEEING THIS AGAIN BECAUSE JOSS WHEDON IS OUR MASTER: Whedon, you bastard!" That shit cracked me up, because, well, I was saying the same ruttin' thing.

Any of you into listening to podcasts can pick up The Signal through the iTunes music store or online at www.serenityfirefly.com - It started back in June and has gone through 13 episodes. Generally last about an hour in length and carries like a radio talk show, discussing different elements of the show, podcasting interviews with the cast and crew, highlighting music and dialog from the show and the movie, and even has a section that teaches you a phrase a week from the chinese dialect of the show. For example today I learned "jen duh sh tyen tsai", which means "An absolute genius", featured in The Train Job (Kaylee uses it to describe Mal and his plan to rob the train). It's entertaining and engaging and took up very little space on my iPod, and doens't take but about 1/2 hr to download all the episodes through the iTunes music store (if you use 4.9 or above - the version that recently started supporting podcasting.) Definitely check it out!

>can't stop the signal...

..done.  I cant wait...not often i see a fantatsic movie & get rewarded for it.

 

IMDB shows it as taking 4.9 mil this weekend, clearing 17.6 total so far....what was the goal again?  I can go throw another six bucks at it sometime....and DVD sales oughta be phenomenol, i hear Firefly is gettign sales again.

the goal is $80M. Now I don't know what the international figures are gonna be - I know Australia gave it $1.7M opening weekend and that's with ZERO advertising. That's just word-of-mouth grassroots efforts by the Aussie Browncoats - you guys RULE! The UK should be getting some pretty good figures though, 'cos from what I'm understanding there's like 20-ft high banners adorning buildings, underground stations, trailers playing everywhere, they're really pushing this flick over there. Elsewhere... who knows. I know in some countries the flick hasn't even been released yet and won't until november, december, even January of 06. DVD sales will soar, too, I'm sure, but being as they're from different production companies, I sincerely doubt that the DVD sales will help push the Big Damn Sequel. 'Course it won't HURT, but at this point I'd rather have someone drop $40 on buying tickets than buying DVDs.

Nick, I'm really glad you enjoyed the show and the movie - I had a feeling it would be right up your alley, as I said in your PM. Personally I've never been one to get into scifi OR westerns, OR works by Joss Whedon (sorry Joss) but the bizarre mating of the two themes under Joss' command (his 'unique vision' as the trailers say) made for a show that is VERY easy to get addicted to.

Nick, I owe you cookies. PM me with your flavor of choice and I'll be sure to send them down to ya.

Mmm, a Wallace & Gromit trilogy.    The only problem with that'n is that it takes five years to make each movie. 

Anyone on this board goes to see Serenity again this weekend and I'll bake you a dozen cookies.

*nods*

...As if the prospect of a sequel or even a trilogy ISNT ENOUGH INCENTIVE.

Trilogy, O Trilogy

I want my trilogy

Don't stop at one

Don't stop at two

Gorram it, give me three!

Trilogy, O Trilogy

Is what I want to see

Someday I'll own a box set

Of that BIG DAMN TRILOGY!

They said we couldn't do it

They said our show should die

They took our love, they took our land

They cancelled our Firefly

But one thing they didn't reckon

'Bout our fan psychology

Is Browncoats carry Greenbacks

And we want our TRILOGY!

Trilogy, O Trilogy

I want my trilogy

Don't stop at one

Don't stop at two

Gorram it, give me three!

Trilogy, O Trilogy

Is what I want to see

Someday I'll own a box set

Of that BIG DAMN TRILOGY!

They say the best things in this ‘verse,

Always come in threes,

Musketeers and stooges,

LOTR DVDs.

When a show’s got ships and shepherds,

The Alliance and Blue Sun,

And Gina and Jewel and Morena and Summer,

It’s too pretty to stop at one!

Trilogy, O Trilogy

I want my trilogy

Don't stop at one

Don't stop at two

Gorram it, give me three!

Trilogy, O Trilogy

Is what I want to see

Someday I'll own a box set

Of that BIG DAMN TRILOGY!

It pains me to know that there are people in the 'Verse that don't get into this series and its movie. But I refuse to give up hope that enough Browncoats will be able to successfully introduce friends and family to Serenity and Firefly that it can continue in some form or another.

On that note, now that the Big Damn Movie got made, let's try for a BDT - the Big Damn TRILOGY!

Nahh, fuck that, go watch Firefly again. ;)

Or, hey, maybe someone will wanna make a TV show out of it.

Hey, great idea!

FINALLY got to see Serenity tonight after much drama and trauma.

Three words, my lovelies, three words indeed:

Oh. My. God.

The graphics, the action, the wit, the humor, the language, the shock factor - it was like a breath of fresh air - and then it got kicked violently out of my chest.

I have to see it again before I post a real review, but I will say this: Joss out did himself a thousand times over. He really made some ballsy moves with this flick. I've read around the web that people that screened this flick went through a rollercoaster of emotions and left the theater feeling numb. And I have to say those statements are spot-on. I saw it with a newcomer to the 'Verse and she enjoyed it. DJ and I will see it tomorrow night (his first time, my second). I really hope and pray that this movie will go beyond it's $80M ceiling so that we can have more Serenity goodness in the future.

Can't stop the signal.

Hondo's Firefly theme?  i wanna hear bout this...

I just meant my personal theme - the banner, the icon, the member title, etc. Though wouldn't that be shiny if there was an actual board theme out there?? Hmm...

48 hour rule...ok, it's only been 47 hours technically, but I can't wait. I thought of one that would be difficult. See if you can get this one.

 

i had visions, i was in them

i was looking into the mirror

to see a little bit clearer

rottenness and evil in me

fingertips have memories

mine can't forget the curves of your body

and when i feel a bit naughty

i run it up the flagpole and see who salutes

(but no one ever does)

 

well, maybe it's not that hard, you've probably heard it before too...

Flagpole Sitta' - Harvey Danger

Now I've got that ruttin' song stuck in my head.

It just ain't the same, always unchanged

New days are strange, is the world insane

If love and peace is so strong

Why are there pieces of love that don't belong

Nations droppin' bombs

Chemical gasses fillin' lungs of little ones

With the ongoin' sufferin' as the youth die young

So ask yourself is the lovin' really gone

So I could ask myself really what is goin' wrong

In this world that we livin' in people keep on givin' in

Makin' wrong decisions, only visions of them dividends

Not respectin' each other, deny thy brother

A war is goin' on but the reason's undercover

The truth is kept secret, it's swept under the rug

If you never know truth then you never know love

Just got done with the comic - not sure what Jax was fussin bout; its not the show, but id love to see more of this if i cant get that.  Also, set things up for the movie, i think - got some great people doing the cover art, too.

 

RA - you see these things?  I can send em to you if not....there's even an ad for action figures, thought you or SB might dig that.

DJ's not lyin'... You thought my "graphic fanatacism" was bad before? Let's take count:

1) I bought a Blue-Sun tee shirt (gotta wash it ... again ... and once the other issues of the comic come in the mail I'll take some photos)

2) I started two fanfics (that I have not and probably will never finish and no you can't read them because they're humiliatingly bad)

3) I went nuts and bought all 3 variants of all 3 issues of the comic

4) I have the theme song on my iPod and in my iTunes list on regular rotation

5) I have a "SERENITY" countdown widget on the computer

6) I use common phrases from the show (ex. "Hey Jess, how you doin today?" "Shiny, you?")

7) *looks around* oh yeah, the Firefly theme for Hondos. Can't forget that.

...Yeah, I'm an unabashedly obsessed dork.

Sadly I don't think I'll be getting the action figures. the Mal figure is "eh" and the Jayne figure just looks retarded - Doesn't look anything like Adam Baldwin and the expressions are just stupid.

The Deej and I are gonna try to hit up AMC Pleasure Island up at Disney on Friday night since we're gonna be up there anyway, because I sincerely can't wait much longer for Serenity. But, I definitely want to go see it with a big group of fellow Browncoats. I'm generally available on weekends, as is DJ. So ya'll work out your schedules and lemme know, and I'll make the trip. *nod*

I'd love to do it this weekend except 1) I have a special-needs kitty I'm babysitting and 2) we're probably gonna have a funeral to attend, which was obviously unexpected. So we won't make it for the premiere but maybe a re-viewing is in order next week? We'll keep ya posted.

right right... *stretches, yawns, cracks knuckles, gets to work*

I'm totally down for going down there for a Serenity showing. However, sadly, it won't be opening night, and it'll have to be on a night where I can crash on someone's couch (I'll offer to make breakfast the next morning!) Dj's not big on traveling long distances in the car but I'll see if I can work on him

Mal definitely knows how to hold his own. He's a lot smarter than he is strong and he uses that to his advantage. Like in the "Train Job" episode, the guy in the bar starts talking shit about the Browncoats being a bunch of no good cowardly pisspots who all deserve to die. Mal says "Say that to my face" and puffs all up like he's gonna stir things up, and instead of Mal getting his ass handed to him, Zoe sneaks up and plants the butt of her sidearm in the guy's forehead. "I just wanted you to face me so she could get behind you. *SMACK*. Classic.

i think RA's graphic fanaticism mightve done it

*takes a bow*

Seriously? I've *NEVER* been so into a show as I am with Firefly. I don't know what it is about it, but I'm glad that my "graphic fanatacism" helped to convert another soul to a highly underappreciated series.

it'd be a bit big in size but you could make the canvas size either 800x600 or 1024x768 (average native res.). In photoshop all you'd have to do is open the image, stretch the CANVAS (not image) size to whatever rez you want, then paint the remaining background black. I'd do it right now but I just rolled out of bed.

Hm... This will be challenging. Myspace's layout makes it difficult to have a large image as a background without having some kind of conflict. By themselves the image AND your myspace are pretty kickass. But together they're going to pose a problem. I knocked down the saturation on your background and tested it against some white text, but in the live environment of Myspace, with the table boxes and such, it may still not work. Part of the problem your page faces right now is that people post images like they're going out of fuckin' style on MySpace comments. Something to maybe try is to take the image I redid and make it into a static background. Also, take off the white background in your tables, and make the table border width zero. Finally, ake all your text and make it white, as I've found that shows up best over this image. Obviously play with it to make it your own layout. lemme know if I can do anything else for ya.

If you want I can knock down the brightness, make it darker so that white shows up better, it might help.

No, that's definitely surgical scarring... The rest of her is gorgeous but whoever did her boob job needs to be put back in doctor school for a while.

When yer midters are done, watch, you will enjoy. I mean come on, if Jacks and I can agree on something it has to be good, or possibly the spawn of the devil, one of the two.

 

As for lines, me and gunsmith tend to use the special hell a whole lot.

Hah! I brought that one out a couple days ago at work, about people who abuse/neglect animals. It was beautiful.

I'm using gorram alot myself. And that gorram theme song is stuck in my head too. Did you listen to Joss Whedon rough original recording of it on disc 4 of the DVD?

I use "gorram" and "shiny" a lot, though I have to say ta ma de (the chinese characters won't work on the board, i don't think) which loosely means "fuck me blind!" (exasperation) and wo de ma ("mother of God!") have to be my favorites so far.

And let it be known, DJ suggested that we call the car Vera. I just happened to agree with him ;)

I was skeptical of it at first because I wasn't a fan of Joss' other creations, but when I started watching, I realized that I was being silly and that it was a fantastic show. I'm now incredibly upset it's off the air, but, on the same note I'm glad they're making it into a movie. Needless to say I was instantly obsessed. DJ will attest to this. We finished the series in a few days time, and since then, I've been all about the Firefly stuff. I bought a "Blue Sun" tee shirt, and take delight in saying things like "a mite whimsical in the brainpan", "No power in the 'Verse can stop..." and making comments laden in chinese (translations compliments of the Firefly Pinyinary). I have the theme song on my iPod. I want to try to find an animation of the burn-through "Firefly" logo, and God help me I want to make/get a window decal that either has the chinese symbol for "Serenity" and/or one that says "can't take the sky from me". And I know it's 26 days until Serenity. *waits not so patiently*

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No Excuses - Alice in Chains

You can change your friends

Your place in life

You can change your mind

We can change the things we say

And do anytime