Apropos of nothing in particular: two of my favourite music videos ever, both from one of my favourite movies ever: a song on chromatology and a song on epistemology. Damn, this movie just oozes coolness. It’s like Ayn Rand without the crazy.
Or for a change of mood, check out these haunting clips (here, here, and here) from a much darker movie, also one of my favourites. This film oozes bleak! But in a cool way.
Live-blogging tonight’s episode ….
So the Bionic Woman is a Rules Girl? How totally lame. Bring back Sarah Corvus!
At least we’re seeing some pretty stock footage of Paris.
Addendum:
Well, things just took an upturn – Leoben walked in!
Addendum 2:
Not enough Leoben! Too much boring subplot with Jaime’s kid sister!
Addendum 3:
Good, more Leoben. (Though when he hit whatsisface it looked wretchedly fake.)
Addendum 4:
Hey, whatsisface references actual obscure comic book and superhero! Geek point!
Addendum 5:
It was cool to see Leoben, but he didn’t get to do anything especially distinctive. (Ditto for appearances in previous episodes by Tyrol and Lampkin.) And there weren’t enough scenes of Paris. And they can’t seem to decide whether this spy outfit is dark/creepy/edgy or kinder/gentler/touchy/feely.
Bionic Woman is the show I watch because I can’t watch Galactica ….
Good news for Joss Whedon fans: he’s finally coming back to television, with a show titled Dollhouse, about
a young woman who is literally everybody’s fantasy. She is one of a group of men and women who can be imprinted with personality packages, including memories, skills, language – even muscle memory – for different assignments. The assignments can be romantic, adventurous, outlandish, uplifting, sexual and/or very illegal. When not imprinted with a personality package, Echo and the others are basically mind-wiped, living like children in a futuristic dorm/lab dubbed the Dollhouse, with no memory of their assignments – or of much else. The show revolves around the childlike Echo’s burgeoning self-awareness ….
(More info here. Conical hat tip to William Gillis.)
Hmm, this plot sounds a lot like the “Lila” story in the first issue of Jack Kirby’s OMAC: One Man Army Corps:
Now that’s a disturbing image.
Lila was a robot – one of a series – who was sold purportedly as a sex toy but who was actually programmed to assassinate the buyer. She seemed to be developing the beginnings of an independent personality when OMAC, who had been romantically interested in her, found out she was a robot, freaked out, and destroyed her along with all the other robots. At least that’s how I remember it – haven’t read that comic in years.