tonight tonight tonight.... whoa-oh!
so i saw serenity with charles tonight, and was reminded of my affection for joss whedon's tone in writing. damn i wish i could write like that, not exactly like him, but so balanced and imbued with humor and sentiment and intelligence and brattiness. oy! it slays me. that and his obsession with the female messianic monster character in his movies. jeez, could he be more trans-generic! seriously, folks, this movie has so many facets of genre and style, i don't want to enumerate them, because it's about as many as buffy had, and that fact is a good one. i enjoyed serenity, a good watch, fun, smart, cute, sweet, scary, disturbing, i can almost understand why jimmy has already seen it a babillion times. almost.
then i took the E train one stop from 42nd street to 34th street and sauntered over to the hammerstein ballroom for one of the best concerts i have ever seen. i will need to process this show a bit more before i say anything else except: I LOVE BECK. have for over 10 years, will for alot more it seems, because he's a showman. a musician, a stylemonger, makes me shake my ass and shed a tear because he's that good. almost the best show ever, had i not seen bjork in 2001 with my father at radio city. that's the best because it's bjork. but for b's he's up there with a couple other shows, so for consistency in awesomeness i give beck the "holy crap! that was a freakin awesome show!" award.
and now i eat a donut and contemplate the duration of this phlegm in my chest. disgusting, but somehow tolerable with the concert buzz i still have going.
fuck! that was such a good show. oh, man! with the dude on stage cutting the dvds together to create the visuals on the screens, and one dude doing the running man half the time and the other half banging a can or carrying a huge boom box, and the rest of the band moving around between instruments or eating dinner while beck plays an acoustic set, only to break into table percussion to accompany him, and the beck the beck with his voice and his lyrics and his smooth dance moves and banjo. no wonder his last name's almost the same as mine. if only every show were as good as that one.
if only every day off were as good as today. thai food on the couch, a good flick, and some ass shakin tunes. damn i'm tingling still.
then i took the E train one stop from 42nd street to 34th street and sauntered over to the hammerstein ballroom for one of the best concerts i have ever seen. i will need to process this show a bit more before i say anything else except: I LOVE BECK. have for over 10 years, will for alot more it seems, because he's a showman. a musician, a stylemonger, makes me shake my ass and shed a tear because he's that good. almost the best show ever, had i not seen bjork in 2001 with my father at radio city. that's the best because it's bjork. but for b's he's up there with a couple other shows, so for consistency in awesomeness i give beck the "holy crap! that was a freakin awesome show!" award.
and now i eat a donut and contemplate the duration of this phlegm in my chest. disgusting, but somehow tolerable with the concert buzz i still have going.
fuck! that was such a good show. oh, man! with the dude on stage cutting the dvds together to create the visuals on the screens, and one dude doing the running man half the time and the other half banging a can or carrying a huge boom box, and the rest of the band moving around between instruments or eating dinner while beck plays an acoustic set, only to break into table percussion to accompany him, and the beck the beck with his voice and his lyrics and his smooth dance moves and banjo. no wonder his last name's almost the same as mine. if only every show were as good as that one.
if only every day off were as good as today. thai food on the couch, a good flick, and some ass shakin tunes. damn i'm tingling still.
posted by cheffy boots @ 12:22 AM
3 Comments:
At 7:17 AM,
Devo said…
Y'know, I kinda liked Serenity, too. Only, I thought it was as if Joss heaped a few cups of Wrath of Khan, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Matrix, Buffy, Star Wars, A Fistful of Dollars and perhaps a pinch of Clockwork Orange into a blender and hit puree. But then the power went out, and instead of finishing the job later, he dumped his half-blended mishmash of plots and characters into the film reel. It wasn't a "bad" movie, but that's just cuz it was a blatant rehash of a whole load of GOOD movies! It's hard to go wrong with a formula like that. Especially when you've made a career out of enslaving fanboys with mediocre sci-fi soap operas like Buffy and Firefly. One thing i will give Joss is that he certainly did his legacy more justice than the atrocious X-Files movie did to the X-Files show.
Bottom line: the critical esteem that Serenity is garnering has far more to do, in my mind, with the pathetic state of cinema today than it does with any merit on Joss Whedon's part. He's not a bad filmmaker/director/writer, but in a more competitive market, he's surely be tossed out with the chaff rather than gobbled up with the grain.
At 1:35 PM,
cheffy boots said…
good points, all of them, devo... yes joss knocked it off from the best movies, but i'd rather see serenity than saw 2. or any of that shit they're shoveling into the cineplexes. however, if more interesting movies get made by joss because of the popularity of serenity, then bully for him. bully for me. bully for you devo, too.
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