I Thought You Were Like a Media Junkie or Something

I know, I know. Believe me: I've been watching and reading and seeing and loving all kinds of crap, I just haven't been posting.

I'm going to try and keep with the whole blog thing, but I have to confess: between Yelp and Facebook, all of my Internet itches have been getting scratched lately. And I've been writing, like, actual stuff for work and junk. I'm messing around with a TV pilot on my agent's advice, I'm part of The Vampire Cowboys' Saloon again this year (only this time I'm not a part of a team -- I gotta write all the episodes on my own!), and now I've been wondering if there's another play kicking around in there at all...

So blogging hasn't been my biggest priority. I did update my playtime picks for the first time in awhile, so here's a quick rundown of what I think of all that jazz.

Red Rover
Episode 1: Counting Up, Counting Down... to Murder

As mentioned, here's my attempt at a Saloon of my very own. You might remember that these are the episodic theatre pieces that get put up at Vampire Cowboy's Battle Ranch in Williamsburg the first Saturday of every month. They like genre-smashing, so my piece is a Children's Educational Program/Murder Mystery. You'll be in for some laughs and some gore and some contemplation of "nothingness." Check it out! Dominic D'Andrea is directing.

Heroes Webisodes

Interesting. I'm withholding judgment until Season 3 starts to air. Just look back at my posts, and you know that I HATED Heroes sophomore slump. It wasn't until those last 3 or 4 episodes that anything worth happening happened. I'm just hoping they learned their lesson; this Echo fellow at least seems interesting, right?

Hamlet 2

Fuck what you heard. I loved it. It doesn't bother with plot or meaning like so many comedies these days, it just says: LOOK AT ALL THIS FUNNY SHIT AND LAUGH. And so you do. Or I did. I think current comedy is trying to have relevance outside of its usual domain. This one doesn't, and it is a relief. That doesn't mean it means nothing -- it just doesn't try to be a drama or romance or anything but fun, get what I'm saying?

Yellow House by Grizzly Bear

Woozy, oozy, stylistically eclectic yumminess. Like The New Pornographers chilled out distant cousins.

X-Force / X-Statix

Peter Milligan is and will always be my favorite comic book writer. Anyone who could come up with Shade, the Changing Man deserves my everlasting praise. He's been doing lots of more mainstream stuff, but these books were a great mix of mainstream and madness. It reminded me of those later years of Shade with George in the coffee bean, Noel the magic step, and the heartless Mad, Mod, Poet God. Reading the run of Shade is a bit of a commitment I might undertake again soon, but right now it's super "heroes" I want.

Plus, I totally think it's worth bringing Vivisector back from the dead and seeing what a relationship between him and Northstar would be like. A pompous ass and a pompous prick... I imagine all kinds of sparks would fly.