Darin Bradley is all over this page, so I’m going to stop identifying him every time I have to mention him. If you don’t know him by now, you haven’t been paying attention (and judging by our traffic numbers, you haven’t!).
And I’m going to start responding to the things he says over on Suvudu, where he has begun a new blog series about the Pox Eclipse in all its myriad forms.
This first post is just a hello, so we’ll see what happens next. I’m not above a little recreational trolling …
Drollerie Press has announced a new 31-day digital author conference called CoyoteCon. Farrago-founder and novelist Darin Bradley will be a part of a chatroom discussion with Lucy Snyder on May 14 about “The Book Deal and Publishing Process.” Drop by.
3/9 - Law Abiding Citizen
3/10 - Bachelor Party 2: The Last Temptation
3/13 - The Stepfather (1987) | Truth or Consequences, N.M. | Hellbound: Hellraiser II | Bright Lights, Big City
3/14 - Steelyard Blues
3/18 - Renaissance: Paris 2054
3/20 - Up in the Air | Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
3/23 - Rush (1983)
3/28 - Green Zone
- As is so often the case with bad movies, one death scene made all of the very silly Law Abiding Citizen worthwhile. By the way, don’t go to Phildelphia. They apparently respond to terrorist threats by assigning a lone district attorney to the case.
- Sick Boy’s unifying theory of life is confirmed when you consider that the same people wrote and directed Bachelor Party 2 as the original. This made all the more depressing by the fact that the original is such a low point from which to start your decline.
- Terry O’Quinn was a badass long before he played John Locke. (The Stepfather)
- I suppose I was foolish to expect more of Kiefer Sutherland in his directorial debut. I mean … he’s Kiefer Sutherland. (Truth or Consequences, N.M.)
- I’d never watched Hellraiser II all the way through, but the experience of watching it all the way through is almost identical to watching random scenes without context.
- Michael J. Fox as a coke addict and struggling writer is about as convincing as a five year old putting on his father’s business suit. Sutherland movie no. 2 for the month. (Bright Lights, Big City)
- To tell a tale of freedom-loving misfits, you shouldn’t free yourself from having a coherent script. Sutherland no. 3, this time Donald! (Steelyard Blues)
- Renaissance: Paris 2054 provided solid sci-fi and an interesting animation gimmick, but it doesn’t hold up to further thought.
- Tack an unsatisfying ending onto an otherwise unremarkable romantic comedy, and you got yourself a best-picture nominee. (Up in the Air)
- Sunkist soda is the implied villain of Precious.
- Rush was one of nine movies in the Sybil Danning Adventure Video series that I bought on VHS this month. My love for this kind of thing is why I will never be taken seriously by anyone ever.
- If Green Zone has been a little more interesting, it might’ve stirred up some “Why do you hate America!!?!?!?” controversy.
Thursday night at NX35. Opening night. Denton is not a 9-to-5 kind of town, but even the indiest community feels the workday pinch when putting on a ruckus, even one as all-consuming as NX35.
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Rob King, who has some experience with local music, made the trek to Denton, Texas for NX35, a music conferette and cultural explosion. I, however, got sick and missed most of it. Rob will tell you the full story of NX35 later this week.
What I did experience was two febrile nights of venue-hopping greatness, a video dump of which I’m providing here.
For what it’s worth …
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Never mind that NX35 is the most pressing event requiring blogging, here are the movies I watched last month. (Some NX35 content will come once I have Internet at home or go to Starbucks long enough to upload video.)
Moving Pictures:
2/5 - Public Enemies | Stander
2/6 - Running Scared
2/7 - From Paris with Love | The Fourth Kind
2/9 - Stuck | Foul Play
2/10 - The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
2/12 - Edge of Darkness
2/14 - The Wolfman (2010) | Spider Baby
2/19 - Boondock Saints
2/21 - Shutter Island
2/26 - Valentine’s Day
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As committed as we at Farrago’s F.M.I. are to the history of things that aren’t, parallel realities, and the inexorable blending of fact and fiction, it appears as if the Texas State Board of Education is way ahead of us.
Kudos, bureaucrats, for what promises to be the most expansive experiment in unreality ever achieved. If only F.M.I. had the reach and the budget …
January
1/3 - Nine
1/4 - Thankskilling
1/7 - Columbus Day
1/8 - The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
1/9 - Sherlock Holmes | Deranged
1/10 - Equinox
1/12 - Max Havoc: Curse of the Dragon
1/13 - Appaloosa
1/15 - Avatar
1/17 - Under the Yum Yum Tree | Exorcist II: The Heretic
1/18 - Eating Raoul
1/20 - The Seven Brothers Meet Dracula
1/23 - 2012
1/24 - Frankenstein Created Woman
1/30 - Fantastic Mr. Fox
1/31- Legion
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The question about whether zombies can be made sexy seems to be more or less settled, and apparently was even at the time of our initial discussion.
My movie site of choice, CHUD.com, has a snarkier-than-thou update on an upcoming movie adaptation of another in what is apparently a mini-trend of zombie romance novels. Not of the Shaun of the Dead style, but in which the undead are objects of love and lust.
So … there’s that.
Farrago and F.M.I. contributor Mark Teppo may have qualms about self promotion, or maybe he’s just too busy creating quality posts and fiction to bother.
Whichever it is, all F.M.I. readers are required to buy his latest novel, Heartland. If you don’t, you’re forbidden from reading our site any more. In fact, you’re banned from the Internet. Yes, we have that power.
The author has kindly provided a suggested soundtrack to the book, for those of you like me who require a constant influx of stimulus through every functional stimulus-gathering apparatus.
Update: You can also read Teppo’s thoughts on faith and its role in Heartland on John Scalzi’s The Big Idea, posted moments after I posted this.
