April 06, 2005

I Like Pissing Off The Readership, Yes I Do

Next up: permanent gig on The Soul Mass Transit System.

URGENT!! ATTENTION ALL AUSTIN FAN-PEOPLE!! (via the Austin Actors website and my own personal observations while in Downtown Austin this morning):

The feature film "Revolver" would like to add more male & female extras age 21-35 for the techno nightclub scene with Sarah Michelle Gellar shooting downtown this Wednesday NIGHT, April 6th from approximately 4pm to 4am. The pay is the standard $75/12 hours. Anyone in the right age group who are interested and available should call the casting office [number on the website].

Of course, I won't be anywhere near there (although the prospect of seeing Sam Shepard tearin' it up on the dance floor would be exciting). And I have a confession to make and an ulterior, comment-generating motive to reveal: unlike Friends, I have not been able to totally avoid catching episodes of Buffy The Vampire Slayer or Angel. And Joss Whedon's writing (think Aaron Sorkin mixed with two middle schoolers: a bitchy mallrat and a basemented D & D player) invariably makes me want to end my life with a ka-bob to the temple. And the acting is worse, although Firefly was tolerable.

Further, the prospect of him writing and directing a Wonder Woman movie fills me with the opposite of anticipation (dread) and the opposite of a boner (Dame Judi Dench). If you want to weigh in on the casting, go here, and at least pile on the doofus who suggested Angie Harmon. Aside from being the worst actress since Sarah Michelle Gellar, she's also one of the token grade-Q celebrities picked up for the Republican National Convention.

Enough stream-of-trollishness. Have fun at The Element with your gas money and brush-with-fame memories!




Posted by Norbizness at April 6, 2005 12:27 AM
Comments

I, too, have never seen an episode of Friends.

I take slight issue with your dismissal of Joss Whedon, not because I actually enjoy his writing, but because you seemed to negatively compare him to Aaron Sorkin (at least slightly), and there is no hack alive more dangerous to the mind and damaging to the soul than Mr. Sorkin. I am not a violent man, but I would like to set fire to his laptop and dance around its charred remains.

Posted by: Alex at April 6, 2005 03:51 PM

And he's like to shoot up with his own charred remains. I get a little itchy with his Mamet-lite, but never suicidal.

Posted by: norbizness at April 6, 2005 03:56 PM

Angie Harmon? Meh. The other, better L&O Veteran, Jill Hennessey would be better. Why not go on a limb and go for Vivica Fox?

Posted by: Vestal Vespa at April 6, 2005 04:37 PM

Hey now Whedon rocked the small screen, I mean really outside of HBO's Whedon's writing was easily in the upper echelon's of his chosen medium ( His run on X-Men is ok too), now while this may better serve to indict television as a whole, name another writer/creator (not on HBO, where the quality is just so much higher its not really fair to count it as TV, wiht the exception of Sex in the City and Arliss both of whihc seriously lack for humorous content) so creation so consistently hit the right notes:
I come up with Cris Carter, Matt Groening and Mike Judge, after that I really don't see anyone

Posted by: Socraticsilence at April 6, 2005 04:39 PM

GODDAMN YOU, NORBY!!!

Seriously, why not audition?

Posted by: teh l4m3 at April 6, 2005 05:39 PM

The Element looks awesome! They even have that Usher song! And is that bartender..? No way! He's pouring a drink by holding the bottle completely upside down! I thought that was just a special effect they did in the movie 'Cocktail'.

Posted by: drew at April 6, 2005 06:10 PM

I'll see your Angie Harmon and raise you one Shannyn Sossamon.

Posted by: Cleetus X at April 6, 2005 06:14 PM

Excuse me, but Mutant-X is the only Tv series truly capable of melting picture tubes with it's breathtaking badness.

Posted by: vachon at April 6, 2005 06:39 PM

Socraticsilence makes an understatement; Whedon's run on Astonishing X-Men is the best X-Title Marvel's had since 1994/1995. The man knows how to write comic books.

Besides, if I was behind the Wonder Woman movie, she'd keep having her costume torn off.

Posted by: ChrisV82 at April 6, 2005 11:02 PM

Vachon, I see you one Mutant X and raise you Cleopatra 2525.

Joss Whedon is awesome.

Posted by: at April 7, 2005 06:37 AM

Are you trying to hurt me with your remarks about my beloved Buffy? I think I want to cry now.

Posted by: Amanda at April 7, 2005 10:04 AM

Hanging out on IMDb message boards? No wonder you're in such a bad mood.

Was it the blinkered pig-ignorance of the majority of the posters or their lack of anything approaching English skills that set you off?

Or was it someone pimping Colin Farell for James Bond?

Posted by: Pete at April 7, 2005 01:11 PM

ChrisV82 -

Don't make me get all comic-booky up in this bitch.

Anyone with any sense at all knows that Grant Morrison's run on NEW X-MEN was the stone cold titness.

Anything else is just jerking around.

Posted by: thedarkbackward at April 7, 2005 08:22 PM