The Browncoats Prayer

OUR JOSS,
Who art in Hollywood,
Whedon be thy name.
Thy ideas come, and will be done
On film as they are in Comic Books.

Give us someday a little more Serenity,
And deliver us from Reality Television.
For thine is the Wit, the Wisdom,
And the Imagination

Forever and ever,

AMEN.

Indeed. There is nothing to add. Found here, via a link on Whedonesque.

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Hell, yeah!

A 20” replica of my ship. That’s, what? ‘Bout half a metre or so, right? Must look bloody gorgeous, really.
And as if that wasn’t enough, it’ll be signed by God himself (= Joss Whedon). Shiny!
Now that I know it exists (or will shortly exist anyway), how am I ever supposed to live without one, gorramit?

I need $549, pronto.
Being poor sucks. Big time.

Just. Can’t. Stop. Singing. This. Song.
This tune just crawled inside my head and took up permanent residence there. It’s gorram awful, I think I might be addicted. LOL
But the thing that really worries me is that I feel like I might be developing a slight crush on Jayne now. If I could knit, I would even make myself one of these silly hats… How sick is that?

For all of you have never seen Firefly (poor bastards), here is the scene from the episode Jaynestown (do I have to mention that this is one of my favorite eps now?) were this song was sung. I think, the dialogue in this scene is just priceless (well, just like in the rest of the series…). My favorite part was always Simon: “No, THIS must be what going mad feels like.”
The only thing that always bugged me is that you can’t hear all of the song.

And while I was trawling YouTube for more things Firefly, I stumbled across this little gem (which is apparently hidden on the DVDs as well - can’t believe I didn’t find that yet): an a capella version of the complete song sung by Adam Baldwin himself.
With his hat.
Just one word: classic.

I find it admirable that he can actually sit down in front of a camera and just belt out this silly song with so much passion. And he’s really got a quite passable singing voice, too.

And, yes, I want one of those hats! For when I go to London to the Serenity-screening in June. I just ordered my ticket today and I’m already counting the days…
To paraphrase one of Wash’s quotes:
“A woman walks down the street in that hat, people know she’s not afraid of anything.” LOL

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I have been spending this afternoon designing t-shirts with quotes from Firefly, Serenity and Slither. And some with Chris Garver’s signature, because it just looks so pretty.
All in all I ended up with more than 40 different shirts. And that’s only one kind of shirt for each quote! If I had used different fonts, different colors, different types of shirts, I could have made hundreds.
After a while it became obvious that my absolute favorite colors are chocolate-brown and khaki. No big surprise there, but I really had a hard time adding even dark-blue and black shirts - which I actually quite like to wear. In the end I got wild and even added some bright orange ones. Would I ever be crazy enough to actually wear one of these? Well…I just might.

Of course, I’m never gonna be able to buy all of these. Even considering I am wearing t-shirts more or less every day, I really don’t need more than, say, 15 or so.
But I certainly had fun imagining myself walking around in them, because to all people who have never heard of any of these movies most wouldn’t make any sense at all.
And that’s exactly how I like my t-shirts. I have a hard time deciding which one I like best, but I think, the upper one does come pretty close.
At least now I can be sure of never running out of new shirts to order anymore.

I officially have a new obsession. And it’s all Nathan’s fault.

Ever since I saw “Serenity” I have been hanging around Nathan Fillion’s MySpace page, getting to know likewise obsessed people and having fun. And for a while now all they could talk over there was Nathan’s new t.v. show called “Drive”. If you wanna know what’s it about, check out the official Fox site and the unofficial fan site (I can’t believe there is already a thriving fan community out there for a show that has been on air for exactly 2 days!).
Well, what with that show being produced by Fox, who we all know were responsible for cancelling “Firefly” and are therefore the enemy of good television, I had originally decided to boykott it. Which would have been easy, because it won’t air here in Germany for - well, probably ever. Plus, I am usually not really interested in car races and such, and I can’t really spend an hour drooling over a muscle car or something.
But, of course, resistance was futile in the end. How could I ever resist watching anything with Nathan in it? Stupid even to try, really. Besides, the show was created and is written by Tim Minear (who worked together with Joss Whedon on Firefly and Angel, and is therefore by association a good guy - never mind, it’s all a bit complicated for outsiders). And so, thanks to modern technology and the wonders of the intenet, I was able to watch the first three episodes today.

And what shall I say? THEY ROCK! Absolutely friggin’ fantabulous. And not only because of Nathan’s presence. Because, you see, there is actually a pretty good story goin’ on here. It was described as a cross between The Amazing Race (only better) and LOST (only not on an island). And that’s actually true. There is way less racing involved than I feared, but the bits they had were actually cool. And just like with LOST they have a great cast, lots of characters you get to know slowly, each with their own secrets. And then, of course, you have the shady organizers of The Race, who nobody knows anything about.

Well, granted, the storyline may have some logical holes you could drive a truck through, but hey, it’s television, not rocket science. From the point of entertainment value this show is definitely right up there with LOST and HOUSE in my book. Plus, it’s got Nathan Fillion in it, so what’s not to love?
So there go my Monday nights.
Why isn’t it Monday yet, goddammit?

I just discovered Placebo.
Well, not just right this minute - it was a week or so ago. But the thing is, meanwhile I got five of their CDs and I am wondering how they could escape my notice for such a long time?
I mean, of course I had heard of them before, I probably even heard the odd single now and then in the radio (usually without realizing it was them, because they fucking never mention what they are just playing nowadays). But it wasn’t until I heard “The bitter end” and “Song to say good-bye” repeatedly (and I mean, like a few dozen times or so), that I started to get interested in finding out what else there might be to find on their CDs.
Well, surprisingly, there was plenty. Surprisingly for me, because I rarely find a whole CD of anybody worth listening to - much less 5 of them. Of course, here too, there was the odd song that I didn’t care about (”Taste in men” for instance), but or the most part they’re really great.
So great, in fact, that my playlist at the moment is made up entirely of Placebo songs. And I have been looking for a concert I could go to - which shows a very great deal of obsession on my part, because I am not a big concert-goer per se. So, is it fate that they are actually gonna do 4 concerts in Germany this summer?
Funny, that.

Seen it.

Wanted it. Badly.

Got it.
Love Amazon.

There’s something about a fragile little girl who majorly kicks ass when she has to, that I just can’t resist. (Buffy, anyone?)

And then of course, there’s him. Nothing better than a sweet guy with big guns.
And blue eyes. Reminds me of someone else as well.

Can you say “obsessed”? Well, I can.
And now that I’m hooked, this is next:

If there’s a God of T.V., his name is Joss Whedon.
How could those bloody morons at Fox ever be stupid enough to cancel this show after a paltry 14 episodes? You better hope I never get to meet any of you guys…