If it's my right to stand and stare across Mars, then I demand that Tony Blair get his arse in gear and commit the government to building an Earth-Mars link to open within the lifetime of the next Parliament. It'd be a better use of my taxes than ID cards, that's for sure!
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) trade body said albums by the likes of Keane and The Streets had helped drive a 3% rise
I think the mere fact that The Streets sell any copies proves conclusively that the UK music industry is in terminal decline!
I mean, Christ. Some chav who sounds like a 15-year-old schoolyard weed dealer whining about his girlfriend, who just talks on his record, can get to number one? Kids today! Never thought I'd say this, but bring back National Service!
Hotdog magazine #36, May 2003. Interview by... well, me!
"Battle Angel is a very real possibility and that's the film that I fully intend to direct, that I will direct - the issue is will it be the next film, or will it be the one after the next film? That's really all there is to it at this point. We've done a tremendous amount of design for the film, we're fine-tuning the script, it's just a matter of time."
Guess the question about when he's going to make it has now been answered. Anyway...
"What I like about it is that when we first meet Alita she's very young, she's sort of pre-pubescent in a way, and she actually matures throughout the story. I like that, that the development of her mind actually affects her physicality. There's a lot of really great things about it, and there's a lot of things - whether the artist really intended it or not - that I read into it, and so I think it'll be a good fusion of what Kashiro created and how I would do things."
Will it be faithful to the original manga?
"No, I don't really think that's possible. Not only is it not possible, it's not desirable. I think it's not possible because the manga is very discordant - it's not internally consistent, meaning sometimes she looks like one thing and has one set of abilities, and at the whim of Kashiro he'll go off on a different tangent. It needs to be fused and focused and given a centralised storyline. But the character will be very, very true to Alita as she is in the manga."
Motorball?
"Motorball might find its way into the second film - I definitely want to do more than one film. I want to create a world and a character that can go through at least one more film, possibly more. And that's not just for the usual financial reasons, it's just that I think there's a possibility for a real mythology here, so I feel that this is a good canvas to do something big that's got more scope."
Firefly was great - as Bender said, "Another great sci-fi show cancelled before its time." Still, there's a movie even if I have to wait for it, and in the meantime, the new Battlestar Galactica series absolutely. Kicks. Ass. Mondays at 8pm have become sacrosanct TV viewing!
What I want to know is, in today's increasingly puritanical, "Think of the children!" climate, how are they going to get around the fact that Dr Manhattan spends most of the story stark bollock naked?
The more countries who can get into space, the more chance there is that the people who get up there will look down and say, "Wow... That planet down there is really something special. We should take more care of it - and the race that got us up here to appreciate it."
First the anti-porn hysteria, and now this, all in one day!
[Escape From LA]
Announcer: "For everyone's enjoyment, we'd like to remind you of the following rules. No talking. No smoking. No littering. No red meat. No freedom of religion. And remember, all marriages must be approved by the Department of Health. Failure to obey these rules will result in immediate loss of citizenship and deportation to the island of Los Angeles. Enjoy the show."
Snake Plissken: "Your rules are really beginning to annoy me..."
And:
Malloy: "The United States is a non-smoking nation! No smoking, no drugs, no alcohol, no women - unless you're married - no foul language, no red meat!"
Snake Plissken: "Land of the free."
Kind of scary that one of John Carpenter's weakest films is becoming the most prescient...
Britain
Canada
China
France
Germany
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Mexico
Netherlands
South Korea
Spain
And now Russia.
Wow. So seven of the eight G8 nations have signed up to something that the US maintains would cripple them? Either the rest of the world is hopelessly naive, or the current US administration is obsessed only with making themselves and their corporate backers grotesquely large short-term profits, and fuck everybody else.
Oh, of course. Because voting with pencil and paper will only make Staples and the local print works a few extra bucks, whereas voting with an expensive machine sees the federal government dishing out huge sums of money to the local authorities to buy them, to the manufacturers to build them, to support staff to explain to voters how they work and fix them when they break (the machines, not the voters), and increased income for restaurants in the DC area to host all those long lunches where the politicians are bribed, uh, 'lobbied' to keep the pork barrel full of fat...
I interviewed Cameron about a year and a half back, and one of the things I asked him about was Alita and motorball. Bad news for you: he said that if motorball was going to feature, it would have to be in a sequel.
Fascinating guy, though. It was meant to be a 40-minute interview, but it ended up being over an hour and a half!
A very similar scheme was proposed recently here in the UK, using GPS to charge drivers what would essentially be a toll per mile.
This being Britain, of course, it would doubtless be levied in addition to the existing car tax and fuel tax (and congestion charges if you drive into London) instead of replacing them. And they'd probably make you pay to have the damn transponder fitted to your car in the first place - and then charge VAT on top of it!
I've watched a few episodes (I know people who are obsessive about it) but never got into it. Maybe it's the level of technology that puts me off. Whenever I've seen it, the cops seem to be using miraculous sci-fi 'whatever hardware' that would put Jack Bauer and CTU to shame - and they're out saving the world, not merely catching some low-rent murderer or safecracker!
But then, I never got into Alias either, so I may not have typical Slashdot tastes. Jennifer Garner's just too hard-faced and bony for my liking...
Sometimes I wonder, 'Are there really still enough people out there greedy, naive and stupid enough to fall for spammers, phishers and 419ers and make them millionaires?
Then I think, 'Oh, wait. Human beings. Guh.' And I get depressed. Because I'm one of them, which makes me just as vulnerable to some new scam that has a bit more intelligence behind it...
It was predicted that Star Trek: The Next Generation would be too "highbrow" for the American audience and would fail miserably (this from some of the folks at Paramount, no less.)
Well, Paramount's certainly got no worries about Star Trek being 'highbrow' these days...
Money spent on defense projects doesnt just dissappear, it goes to the American contractors building arms, who then go buy their personal stuff in American stores.
I don't have Live (and have no plans to get it - I already have more than enough procrastination fodder like Slashdot too easily accessible), and I don't have any mates who'd want to play multiplayer. Since I've read reviews that say the one-player game can be completed in 10 hours or so (as opposed to the solid week of GTA:SA I just spent completing the main missions - and that was still only 65% of the game), with a cliffhanger non-ending at that, is Halo 2 going to be worth rushing out to get on its UK release, or should I wait and pick it up used on eBay?
The paper that tried to directly influence the United State Presidential election [cnn.com] and called for the assassination of the President [upn33.com].
Once again, for the hard of thinking...
The piece that 'called for the assassination of the President' was not a leader column, not an editorial comment, not a news story. It was written by humorist and comedian Charlie Brooker in his weekly TV preview column, Brooker being the creator of TV Go Home, which should give you an idea of his style of humour.
The Guardian did make a mistake in putting the column up on its website where, out of the context of the youth-oriented, anti-establishment Guardian Weekend supplement, it was given the same weight as any other story and so could be jumped on by sneaky or obtuse Bush supporters as another example of the Guardian's left-wing evil.
If you actually read the piece, Brooker never says "Bush must die!", instead listing several infamous assassins and wondering where they are when we need them. Not the same thing, and perfectly in keeping with his often brutal style of comedy. Yet more FUD about the Guardian from the hard right.
Besides, why shouldn't a non-US newspaper try to influence the result of the US election? It's not like the US hasn't tried (sometimes with bullets rather than words) to influence the results of many other democratic elections around the world to benefit its own interests...
Slashdot Mirror
"I'm bored today."
[KLA-CHAK!] "Activating weapons systems! Target located! Preparing to terminate!"
"I'mnotboredanymore! AAAAIIEEE!"
If it's my right to stand and stare across Mars, then I demand that Tony Blair get his arse in gear and commit the government to building an Earth-Mars link to open within the lifetime of the next Parliament. It'd be a better use of my taxes than ID cards, that's for sure!
You know what they're doing tonight? The same thing they do every night. PLOTTING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
I think the mere fact that The Streets sell any copies proves conclusively that the UK music industry is in terminal decline!
I mean, Christ. Some chav who sounds like a 15-year-old schoolyard weed dealer whining about his girlfriend, who just talks on his record, can get to number one? Kids today! Never thought I'd say this, but bring back National Service!
No Suicide Express? No Mega Apocalypse? Monty On The Run? Delta? Rambo? Lightforce? Thing On A Spring? The Ocean loaders?
Guess I'll just have to make do with the remixes
"Battle Angel is a very real possibility and that's the film that I fully intend to direct, that I will direct - the issue is will it be the next film, or will it be the one after the next film? That's really all there is to it at this point. We've done a tremendous amount of design for the film, we're fine-tuning the script, it's just a matter of time."
Guess the question about when he's going to make it has now been answered. Anyway...
"What I like about it is that when we first meet Alita she's very young, she's sort of pre-pubescent in a way, and she actually matures throughout the story. I like that, that the development of her mind actually affects her physicality. There's a lot of really great things about it, and there's a lot of things - whether the artist really intended it or not - that I read into it, and so I think it'll be a good fusion of what Kashiro created and how I would do things."
Will it be faithful to the original manga?
"No, I don't really think that's possible. Not only is it not possible, it's not desirable. I think it's not possible because the manga is very discordant - it's not internally consistent, meaning sometimes she looks like one thing and has one set of abilities, and at the whim of Kashiro he'll go off on a different tangent. It needs to be fused and focused and given a centralised storyline. But the character will be very, very true to Alita as she is in the manga."
Motorball?
"Motorball might find its way into the second film - I definitely want to do more than one film. I want to create a world and a character that can go through at least one more film, possibly more. And that's not just for the usual financial reasons, it's just that I think there's a possibility for a real mythology here, so I feel that this is a good canvas to do something big that's got more scope."
Oh, wait...
"MWUUUHAHAHAHAHAAAA!"
[Punt]
*Thwoop!*
[CHUDCHUDCHUDCHUD... SPUT]
Firefly was great - as Bender said, "Another great sci-fi show cancelled before its time." Still, there's a movie even if I have to wait for it, and in the meantime, the new Battlestar Galactica series absolutely. Kicks. Ass. Mondays at 8pm have become sacrosanct TV viewing!
What I want to know is, in today's increasingly puritanical, "Think of the children!" climate, how are they going to get around the fact that Dr Manhattan spends most of the story stark bollock naked?
The more countries who can get into space, the more chance there is that the people who get up there will look down and say, "Wow... That planet down there is really something special. We should take more care of it - and the race that got us up here to appreciate it."
[Escape From LA]
Announcer: "For everyone's enjoyment, we'd like to remind you of the following rules. No talking. No smoking. No littering. No red meat. No freedom of religion. And remember, all marriages must be approved by the Department of Health. Failure to obey these rules will result in immediate loss of citizenship and deportation to the island of Los Angeles. Enjoy the show."
Snake Plissken: "Your rules are really beginning to annoy me..."
And:
Malloy: "The United States is a non-smoking nation! No smoking, no drugs, no alcohol, no women - unless you're married - no foul language, no red meat!"
Snake Plissken: "Land of the free."
Kind of scary that one of John Carpenter's weakest films is becoming the most prescient...
Britain
Canada
China
France
Germany
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Mexico
Netherlands
South Korea
Spain
And now Russia.
Wow. So seven of the eight G8 nations have signed up to something that the US maintains would cripple them? Either the rest of the world is hopelessly naive, or the current US administration is obsessed only with making themselves and their corporate backers grotesquely large short-term profits, and fuck everybody else.
Which could it be?
Oh, of course. Because voting with pencil and paper will only make Staples and the local print works a few extra bucks, whereas voting with an expensive machine sees the federal government dishing out huge sums of money to the local authorities to buy them, to the manufacturers to build them, to support staff to explain to voters how they work and fix them when they break (the machines, not the voters), and increased income for restaurants in the DC area to host all those long lunches where the politicians are bribed, uh, 'lobbied' to keep the pork barrel full of fat...
Fascinating guy, though. It was meant to be a 40-minute interview, but it ended up being over an hour and a half!
This being Britain, of course, it would doubtless be levied in addition to the existing car tax and fuel tax (and congestion charges if you drive into London) instead of replacing them. And they'd probably make you pay to have the damn transponder fitted to your car in the first place - and then charge VAT on top of it!
But then, I never got into Alias either, so I may not have typical Slashdot tastes. Jennifer Garner's just too hard-faced and bony for my liking...
...another thing gone wrong with the world, and nothing I can do to stop it.
Then I think, 'Oh, wait. Human beings. Guh.' And I get depressed. Because I'm one of them, which makes me just as vulnerable to some new scam that has a bit more intelligence behind it...
Well, Paramount's certainly got no worries about Star Trek being 'highbrow' these days...
Stuff that's marked 'Made in China'!
Wait, so you're saying that the name 'Tom Clancy' doesn't guarantee 100% realism in matters military and political?
...does that mean that Ashcroft will have to come back?
I don't have Live (and have no plans to get it - I already have more than enough procrastination fodder like Slashdot too easily accessible), and I don't have any mates who'd want to play multiplayer. Since I've read reviews that say the one-player game can be completed in 10 hours or so (as opposed to the solid week of GTA:SA I just spent completing the main missions - and that was still only 65% of the game), with a cliffhanger non-ending at that, is Halo 2 going to be worth rushing out to get on its UK release, or should I wait and pick it up used on eBay?
Once again, for the hard of thinking...
The piece that 'called for the assassination of the President' was not a leader column, not an editorial comment, not a news story. It was written by humorist and comedian Charlie Brooker in his weekly TV preview column, Brooker being the creator of TV Go Home, which should give you an idea of his style of humour.
The Guardian did make a mistake in putting the column up on its website where, out of the context of the youth-oriented, anti-establishment Guardian Weekend supplement, it was given the same weight as any other story and so could be jumped on by sneaky or obtuse Bush supporters as another example of the Guardian's left-wing evil.
If you actually read the piece, Brooker never says "Bush must die!", instead listing several infamous assassins and wondering where they are when we need them. Not the same thing, and perfectly in keeping with his often brutal style of comedy. Yet more FUD about the Guardian from the hard right.
Besides, why shouldn't a non-US newspaper try to influence the result of the US election? It's not like the US hasn't tried (sometimes with bullets rather than words) to influence the results of many other democratic elections around the world to benefit its own interests...