I'm famous!

Go to the latest issue of curtain rising magazine and guess who you'll find?
Me!
And what am I holding?
...a chicken.
I supose I might want to get some headshots done, some time in the future.

Slaney: You are your own boyfriend.
Me: You’re right. I really am. All I do is kill zombies on the X box and ignore myself.

I want to shoot myself in the head. Instead I will take off my pants.
--Sushi

You can't take the sky from me.

When you are freaking out about your play there is nothing better than a firefly marathon on scifi. Thank you scifi.

Boom!

I was rewatching Independence day (aka the best movie EVER) the other day and you know the scene where the crop duster guy flies his airplane into the heart of the space ship and causes the entire thing to explode? Well, does that ever actually happen in real life? Like, where if you shoot just the right thing everything falls apart? It happens all the time in sci fi movies, Star Wars IV and VI both use it.
But I think the closest we come in our world is this:

Which required a lot of time and planning and well placed explosives set up by this one implosion corporation that is just this one family and the only way you can join is if you marry into the family and yes this is totally true my family watched a documentary on them.
Which is cool.
But not as cool as just shooting the one special place in the king dome. Sad.
*I did a lot of research (“research”) to find just the right video to accompany this post. You should go waste your life on youtube too.

Women kicking ass on television

I would really like either "the sara connor chronicles" OR "the bionic woman" to be good. I can live with one being bad. But both?

"What's that sound in your heart?" "Murder."

I went through a serial killer phase in middle school, as I am sure most mildly disturbed children did. Me and my friend Betsy would read Helter Skelter, and mindhunter and watch the X-Files. We didn’t want to be serial killers we were just extremely fascinated. This was also the period of my life where I wanted to be a coroner. We would stay up until dawn discussing Zodiac and Green River and work ourselves into a hysteria. It didn’t help that Wayne Nanc was from Missoula or that Bestsy mom had known one of Ted Bundy’s victims. Years later, long after Betsy and I had stopped being friends, I thought of her when they finally caught the green river killer.
Anywhoo here is my round up of the best Serial killer movies.
6. Scream
Okay, so it’s not a “thriller” but it was the first horror movie I ever saw (and it traumatized me greatly.) It totally fulfills the serial killer requirements: methodological murder, and tormenting of victims.
5. Se7en Fulfills the genre requirements of serial-killer-being-obscenely-smart. Also totally paved the way for Saw with its focus of bizaro deaths. Its remembered for being incredible gross and graphic but what I found most powerful was when they only showed bodies through photos. Its coy is a very weird and effective way.
4. M Fritz Lang’ moody, take on how the criminal underworld fights back against someone too deranged, even for them. Features on of the most tense chase sequences ever.
3. Zodiac Not so much about a serial killer as it is about people obsessed with serial killers (see! I can relate!) It’s violence is brief but so effective and it really captures the paranoia of the time.
2. Silence of the Lambs
I don’t really need to say anything. Everyone has seen it and every one agrees that it is great. It IS great. It would be the greatest. Except:
1. Memories of Murder Ever since I saw this Korean movie by the guy who directed the Host I have been trying desperately to convince people to see it. First of all it is beautiful, the cinematography is stunning. There are lots of shots in rain and wind and wheat that I don’t actually know HOW they were able to get. Second: a lot of the tropes of Serial killer movies, the search for DNA, the pristine crime scene, etc. are flipped on their head by the lack of technology in 1970’s Korean added to the ineptitude of a rural police force that has never encountered a serial killer before. A foot print is run over by a tractor, for instance. Third, like Zodiac, it charts the madness of the people pursuing the killer but I find that it does it in a much more heart breaking way. See it. Please. Its amazing. (Also that poster is just bizare)

You must read this:

Can you survive in space with out a space suit? Slate says yes! http://www.slate.com/id/2171522/nav/tap3/
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Yes I recognize that I am a giant nerd.
I am increasingly thinking that my next play should not be about class warfare on a new england college campus but instead should be about a mission to mars. Because right now I get WAY more excited talking abut space than I do about class warfare. Though god knows I loves me some class warfare.
I guess someone, somewhere is gearing up to propose a manned mission to mars because there have been all these AWESOME articles coming out about how that would be feasible.
I LOVE SPACE!
Also, please agree with me that the Mars rover is the cutest thing ever?