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Battlestar: Blood and Chrome casting news!

I'll admit I never got into Caprica. The subject matter didn't appeal to me. As much as I love writer Jane Espenson (I want her career) I just couldn't motivate myself to watch it. Blood and Chrome however sounds right up my alley!

Casting news has emerged, they have cast Adama and his CO.



It's nobody I know or care about but I am excited to see this play out

More info and character descriptions @ EW.com

Firefly Friday

Good News from TV land. Not only did fringe survive it's move to Friday nights, it won it's night AND it had a raised viewership!

By some miracle of magic or science, Fox’s Fringe moved to Friday night and did not go down in the ratings.

The episode — titled “The Firefly” (nicely ironic considering the show’s move to Fox’s infamous Death Slot) — actually improved upon its most recent Thursday performance.


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Fringe, which featured Christopher Lloyd as a guest star, delivered 4.9 million viewers and a 1.9 preliminary adults 18-49 rating last night. That’s right in line with its Thursday season average. Remember, Fox’s Kevin Reilly said if the show maintains its Thursday numbers on Friday, he’d renew it, so let’s hope the drama can keep this up.

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Fringe has to survive... or I will be utterly lost.

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TV Goodness

Close Encounters of the Murderous Kind

Best episode of Castle since "Undercover Lover" X-Files themes, and references and a giant Firefly reference! Sigh, I love Nathan Fillion

All of this really makes me wanna go out and buy the complete series of the X-Files and watch it all again.

And now for something completely different...

EPIC!

Hectic Week

Last night officially wrapped up one of the more nutso weeks in my recent history. Work + Volunteering @ the Cinemania Film festival and trying to have a social life (Mumford and Sons concert + Friends + being interviewed for the Concordian) had left me tired and with and extremely sore back (which is actually getting me worried because it wont go away) so today is a chill day


Cinemania Montreal

Cinemania was awesome! Alot of early mornings (followed by late nights at the resto and then more early mornings) were kind of a killer, but they allowed me to really connect with the event organizers who were all super awesome ladies. I also allowed me to see a bunch of free films ( La Reine des Pommes (2/5), Bazar (3/5) Tout ce qui Brille (3/5) Sommeil Blanc (2/5), L'Enfance du Mal (3/5), Dumas (3/5), Illegal (4/5) and Potiche (4/5)) all in french with English subtitles. Having never volunteered at a film festival before I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed my experience. I'm told not all festivals are as well presented and I totally believe it. i am therefore excited to volunteer again and total wary of it at the same time.




Next on the docket was the Mumford concert. As usual they were amazingly breath taking.
Super big props as well to their opening acts this time around, King Charles and Cadillac Sky.

Caddilac was alot of fun but I cant seem to find them online, and King Charles was actually kind of amazing



He played the entire set by himself with just a guitar, except for the opening song which he did accapella and it actually stopped my heart and made me do a double take while in line for coat check.

But unfortunate by the time Mumford came on the same problem arose as last time: the crowd SUCKED! I don't know what is wrong with people these days but they lack any kind of concert etiquette. Drunks yelling, girls squealing, people interrupting the band. it was so frakin' annoying.

Also the show lasted 3 and a half hours! Which was awesome yet very exhausting.

So good week, glad it's over, back to applying for jobs.

Recent Work

So here is some pro bono stuff I've been working on!

Project Cross Match from Rachelle Hamilton on Vimeo.

For the Unite in the Fight non profit AE and I did this promo for one of their fundraisers. I'm actually really happy at how it turned out considering we shot it in two days and Final cut crashed on me and I had to use imovie (yes imovie) to chop and crop the whole thing together!




And this little number is for the Restaurant le Riverains annual breast Cancer fundraiser, which I again have the honour of taking part in. Great resto, even greater cause!

Here's to a good season boys!

Don't want to get too excited seeing as that's a bad idea, cause they tend to be pretty unpredictable, but hopefully a lot like last season, but with more winning.

Music

After 3 years of being in these guys, I so glad to hear that they are finally on the up! I was lucky enough to experience their "Gentlemen on the Road" tour, and I have to say that they are both gentlemen and extremely amazing live. Lucky for me I already have tickets to their next show in MTL, hope this time the crowd is better (not jokes we got sussshed at the last show, the crowd was balls) and a better opening band (coma inducing music to kill your children to) cause they bring enough awesomeness that it should follow them around as well.


Full EW interview under the cut!


Check out the vids! unlike my other brit obession Florence they make great ones! Woman makes great musicbut her vids (excluding comic love) are horrible

"It's not a dick, it's a duck!"

Ladies and Gentlemen, my vote for the best worst movie ever

The Long Kiss Goodnight




Starring Gena Davis and Samuel Jackson, LKG tell the story of Samantha Cain (Davis) a housewife with amnesia who tries to find out who she used to be.
*Spoiler Alert*
Long story short she turns out to be a government trained assassin who has now become the target of her former employers and must use all of her training as well as the help of Mitch Henessy (Jackson) to survive... you know, that old yarn.

Now just to put it outthere, this movie is pretty bad... who bad you ask? So bad that at one point Davis steal a pair of figure skates, skates down a river to catch up with a car full of bad guys, does a double axle and shoots them all... no seriously.

That being said this movie features such gems as

"Die screaming motherfucker"

"The last time I got blown, candy bars cost a nickel"

"I never did one thing right in my life, you know that? Not one. That takes skill."

"Mitch: Oh, shit! Ah, that hurt like shit!
Samantha: I know. That's why I distracted you first. Same principle as deflowering virgins.
Mitch: Huh? What? Virgin - ? What?
Samantha: Read it in this Harold Robbins book. Guy bites her on the ear. Distracts from the pain. Ever try that?
Mitch: No, no, I sock 'em in the jaw and yell, "Pop goes the weasel.""

"Alley Agent: Good evening, pretty lady. How 'bout some company?
Charlie: No thanks. I'm saving myself 'til I get raped."

And of course




All in all a must see for any bad movie night.

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I still can't believe this is happening in my life time

Two of my most favorite things!

The first pictures have surfaced from the production and I am INTO IT! No but seriously the would have to royally frak the dog to mess this one up for me!


Cowboys & Aliens


In other fun news the cast photo and confirmation of Joss directing and writing Avengers has officially come out of ComiCon, the only disappointment is no Mr. Nortan, but honestly, Mark Ruffalo suits me just fine! Man I wish I was there!

Adventure Weekend/Sunday

Another successful adventure Sunday this weekend with Tara and Gaël! Gaël had the brilliant idea of hitting up the beach and therefore we ventured out to park Jean Drapeau, spiked punch, sunscreen and chips in hand. Gaël built sandcastles, I read and Tara tanned (using the most bizarre tanning lotion I have ever seen, basically it induces an allergic reaction and apparently that's supposed to help you tan...)

The castle was mostly successful as was the tanning. The highlight of the day came when a couple of FULLY dressed tourists tried to go for a swim on the one part of the beach your not supposed to use and proceeded to basically have sex in the water. They were then kick out of the water by a lifeguard with washboard abs, so they headed to the picnic tables to strip off theirs clothes and finish there.




This weekend also marked the beginning of the Jazz Festival here in MTL. So Grace Tara and I headed out to the Festivities to watch opening act Brian Setzer and his orchestra light up the night. I was unfortunately too late to catch hometown favorites the Hellbound Hepcats play but I told that both of their shows were a riot. As expected the place was PACKED but we did manage to get within 100 feet of the stage and were able to better see the screens and tell that there were in fact people on stage. later that night Duke and Tristan met us for beer and we spent the rest of the night watching the show from there n their handy dandy TV screen.




So all in all it was a fun and cheap weekend! Which is good cause this week is moving week and it promises to be hell!

Current Inspirations

Vintage clothing, Vintage blogs (StrawberrykoiVintage, blooming leopold), Southern Goth, Norse mythology, Modcloth.com, Burlesque (Blue light burlesque Montreal), Peter Pan colors, sewing my own clothes and online job application site.

This man changes my life and inspires me daily

I hadn't seen this yet. Love these people, and I love that he brought them all up o stage with him. He's just that kind of guy. Whedon, call me! I want a job!

SAVE DOLLHOUSE!

Birth- O- Ween

Here's a ticket I designed for the 5th annual Birth- O-Ween celebrations. Every Year a friend of mine throws a birthday/halloween party (get it?) and the theme this year was comic book super heroes. People stretched the theme pretty far and it ended up being an awesome night, open bar, nough' said!

The ticket was hard because we first established that we wanted a long vertical strip with three panels. But when we finally found the image we liked (which took forever!) we had to reduce it to two. Also the original image has them all touching. So I had to duplicate the image, and then photoshop the girls out of the first panel and the weird dude out of the second panel. Then I had to duplicate the background and edit in all of the thought bubbles. Next we chose a font (very important), then designed a simple back to the ticket and VIOLA! Instant awesomeness (that took the better part of 4 hours).

Thanks again to Summer Jordan and Jon for the opportunity and from Pappy for the awesome blog, that I stole the photo from.

one of the best shows you're not watching

From the mind of Joss Whedon

Out For A Walk..... BITCH!

One of the greatest Buffy Moments

This one goes out to my homies in... well where ever you are

This ones a shout out to my home girl Kelly in Germany who apparently reads this blog to catch up with my news, and little lady I hate to break it to you, but my life is DULL! I mean it's not that it sucks or anything, far from it I'm quite happy, But my life consists of a very dull, wake up, eat work, eat, see my boyfriend, maybe once in a while we'll go on a date, get some ice cream... Oh and then I scramble around trying to finish my homework, that I haven't done, cause I'm absent minded to the point of mild retardation. I also still watch and unseemly amount of X-files (One season left and I'm dreading it cause it's going to suck!) and I'm trying to get into True Blood for the second time, but as hard as I try I still think it's gross and the main characters are stupid.
Um Megan's wedding is this weekend, gots me a sexy dress, an overpriced wedding gift (OMG buying it was a nightmare! the staff at Sears SUCK!) and a hot date who may or may not be there, because I may or may not be there, because that night at work is gonna be HUGE! And it is also rookie party so Duke is gonna spend some time doing that. Hopefully I make it there before 1am and be able to see the happy couple. Oh also Liv is at camp, Rik still hates me, Lynn and Garry are chill.
Work is nice making decent money, it's not golf course crazy and the food is good, and Allison doesn't sound a thing like Lise.
If I missed something lemme know!