Max linked to a good article about the current European culture of fear. As an American currently living across the pond, I definitely think that the “irrational fears” are worse over here than at home. Sure, Americans distrust the government, but the British distrust everybody. Back home in Indiana, the only thing I really feared was a car accident (whether from a drunk driver or hitting a deer). Here, though, we fear the trains, we fear the beef, we fear the cell phones. We have the disasters to back it up, too! Personally, my big current one is that “deep vein thrombosis,” seeing as how I’m flying to Sydney in less than two days. My doctor advised that I take half an aspirin and move around a lot, but after reading that article I think I’m going to be jogging laps up and down the aisles. (What about alcohol? Alcohol thins the blood, right? Bring on the cocktails!)
Month: March 2001
HOLY COW! The Harry Potter movie trailer is available online! You’ve gotta see this thing… For now, you can only get it in a streaming version from the official site, but Entertainment-Rewired Magazine is going to have a downloadable version soon here. Go check it out, and read the rest…
Was that not amazing? According to AICN, the score was done by John Williams (of Star Wars fame). I really hope they manage to keep that dark, eerie feel through all of it. It looked more like a Tim Burton movie than a Chris Columbus one! Everything looked amazingly like how I had pictured it from the book. I loved the editing too, jumping from the letter to the train to the Great Hall. I really, really hope that the film lives up the quality of this trailer. *fingers crossed*
For brigita: AICN says that the Scooby Doo movie will suck big time. Apparently Access Hollywood is doing a promo (Quicktime 2MB clip) that gives us our first glimpse at the characters in costume. It ain’t pretty. Freddie Prinze Jr. looks positively ridiculous in that blond wig, and they’re apparently so ashamed of Matthew Lillard as Shaggy that they don’t even show him from the front. And, as AICN put it, Sarah Michelle Geller looks like a “fetish dream” of Daphne.
If you’re not willing or able to download that clip, here are three images I managed to grab. They’re linked to bigger versions, but if you wanna put them on your web page, please please please save them to your own web space. I don’t want another bandwidth debacle.
Slashdot links to a very interesting Boston Globe story about researchers who were able to pinpoint the exact time and location that a Vincent Van Gogh painting was done, mainly by using astronomy. Cool. You can see the original painting online here and the ensuing Slashdot comments are here.
“Hi, I’m Chandler. Could I BE anymore on drugs?” An open letter to his fellow cast-members from Matthew Perry. Hilarious.