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# Links for 2008-08-29
WorldChanging: Paper from Wheat, not Wood
✴English Grammar 101: All You Need to Know
✴Takashi Miike’s Sukiyaki Western Django reviewed. – By Grady Hendrix – Slate Magazine
✴Watchmen, Tintin, and…Drakmar?
✴Mad Magazine’s War on Bush collection – Boing Boing – Mozilla Firefox
✴0xDECAFBAD – UbiquityCommands
✴Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / My love-hate relationship with fantasy
“I hate it because I have read too much of it and the new stuff isn’t different. I hate it for giving me the exact same fix over and over.” <- This ✴ -
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# Blood and Souls
If you don’t know the name, then this post is worthless to you.
Anyway, Michael Moorcock is just about the only fantasy author whose work I am prepared to read these days – he and Robin Hobb and China Miéville and let’s face it, China goes to bed every night praying fervently that Balo will descend and Remake him as Moorcock. My complete inability to make any headway in converting my story ideas to pixels has sent me back to reading books again – Brave New World, Stand on Zanzibar, and Elric of Melniboné
There’s been noises about Elric having being optioned by Hollywood for years now; certainly Moorcock has been answering questions about it on multiverse.org for awhile now, including casting threads – presumably not that perennial fantasy movie thread favourite Sean Connery as Elric or even Smiorgan, please! – and various casting threads, threads on who not to cast. There’s a lot of casting talk. The best one though is a question on who will be chosen to forge Stormbringer, which reminded me of an interview with Moorcock in an old British gaming magazine – either GM(Games Master) or its later incarnation GMI – in which he mentioned some Yorkshire blacksmith – read, spotty fan with delusions – who had queried Moorcock for secrets on runeblade manufacture since he was clearly an Initiate.
Last week I heard that the option is actively being exercised again, by Universal, and a script had been written for a live action movie.
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Oh Cino, who art in cafés, please oh please, if it is true, let it not be Elric of Melniboné novella they are adapting, but The Dreaming City.
Elric of Melniboné, chronologically first but written eleven years after The Dreaming City, is Moorcock after he grew up and settled down a bit. The Dreaming City is pulpy and the prose veers towards purple, but it is punk; it is Moorcock kicking out at Tolkien years before Epic Pooh
They’d never show Elric watching the southern barbarians being tortured by his servant Doctor Jest. They’d certainly never show Elric summoning his demonic patron, Arioch. They’d probably also never show Elric sentencing his cousin Yrykoon to eat the traitorous captain at the celebration feast.
But maybe, just maybe, if the film The Dreaming City, they’ll depict Elric leading the assault against his own capital city, fighting and ultimately killing his cousin Yrykoon, accidently killing his cousin and lover Cymoril, abandoning his own allies to the dragons and then, right at the end, throwing himself in the sea to retrieve Stormbringer, the demonic, sentient and soul-eating sword he has a parasitic relationship with – Elric is the parasite.
Yes sir, I’d like to see Hollywood make that movie.
Remember, that battle cry is “Blood and souls. Blood and souls for my lord Arioch!” Let’s not namby-pamby it up at the last minute, eh.
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# Links for 2006-06-28
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# Links for 2006-06-21
- An iPod under Linux ✴
- Constitution of the Confederate States of America- what was changed? ✴
- AJAX Remote Desktop Viewer
hmm….yeah ✴ - Recommended Eclipse reading list
I don’t actually use Eclipse anymore because it is a little too hungry for my moderately powered computer. I would probably use it on my desktop though. If I wasn’t too busy playoing WoW ✴ - Ten tips for new Ubuntu users ✴
- Kopi Luwak
I wonder. I wonder if D would buy it for me. I wonder if I would drink it :- ) ✴ - Wasted West ✴
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# Links for 2006-03-04
- YouTube – Real Life Simpsons Intro
mmmmm. Obsessalicious ✴
- YouTube – Real Life Simpsons Intro
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# Links for 2006-01-10
