Thu, 25 February 2010
The Show Notes Two horrible, horrible movies; one cool, cool movie ........................ Mentioned in the show and more information ........................ Geo's Music: stock up! ........................ Sign up for the mailing list: Write to Geo! Score more data from the Geologic Universe! Get George's edition Non-Coloring Book at Lulu, both as download and print editions. Have a comment on the show, a Religious Moron tip, or a question for Ask George? Drop George a line and write to Geo's Mom, too! Ms. Information says, "Mno haya lita, Mrs. H.!" Comments[15]
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- Pah! Clearly I am the best minion for the job! I have been peeling grapes since before I could read! The job is mine!
You\'d best concede defeat now, Ben. I\'ve been informed that in accordance with Geologic Records\' traditional principles of free enterprise and healthy competition, the management have asked the two of us to fight to the death for it.
Now you may think that this is very harsh behavior, but let me tell you that the management\'s consultants actually queried the necessity for them to employ a grape peeler at all! - @jaranath: Yeah, I guess you're right. I haven't been listening during the entire process, but I have listened to all of the subsequent Podcasts in which Geo talks about the album. Maybe it's my recent exposure to all of the statements of, "It'll be out soon" that have made me even more anxious.
@Ms. Info: I got a response from Ms. Info. I am awesome! If you ever need another minion, my grape peeling abilities are second to none! - I sympathize, Ben. Yet at the same time I don\'t wanna rush it, ya know? Geo\'s been wearing his musical heart on his sleeve throughout the album\'s production, sharing his excitement with us at each step. I don\'t know what\'s \"normal\" in the music biz, but it\'s given me an insight I hadn\'t had before. It\'s cliche, but I\'m really impressed by the amount of love Geo has poured into this thing. It really has been (again cliche) lovingly handcrafted. I\'m not used to having a sense of what goes into that, of the artist\'s pride in his creation and excitement over sharing it. Oooh kids, indeed.
All of which is to say I\'m happy to wait (fidgeting, but waiting) for that process to finish. Even if I end up disliking the result (yeah, right), it\'s been worth it to watch this thing bake.
That said, I hope the oven dings soon! - Geo,
Was hoping you could help me understand the Shutter Island thing. As far as I can tell, my friend and I are the only two people on the planet who didn\'t like it.
That\'s not to say anything about the actors or even the director. It was shot well, and the acting was just fine. It was the story that gave me problems.
Warning to those who haven\'t seen it, the below may spoil part of the movie for you.
First, I guessed the twist from the trailer. When he talks about there being a 67th patient on the island, they showed a clip of that in the trailer, and it was just too obvious for me. So perhaps I\'m a little too aware of how they like to structure these things. I figured out the twist in greater detail in the scene where he confronts the fake Rachel in the asylum, and she acts like he\'s her husband. I whispered my theory about the remainder of the movie there, and I was pretty much borne out.
So it\'s possible that I\'m too jaded, or just an ass, and felt entitled to be... let\'s say \"unimpressed\" with the rest of the movie, and its climax. So this may very well be post-hoc rationalization convincing myself that I\'m not just being an asshole, and that it really was the movie\'s fault that I didn\'t like it.
That said, the actual twist itself felt like a cop-out to me. Afterwards, I tried to analyze why, and I think I was able to articulate a couple points on that.
1) Your twist shouldn\'t invalidate the story we\'ve seen so far. The twist in Shutter Island is dangerously close to \"... and it was all a dream.\" There are entire scenes that they spent time showing us that have no apparent meaning or importance once the twist is revealed. The confrontation with the \"real\" Rachel in the cave, for instance, sheds some light on this conspiracy that all ends up being a red herring. Well, why did we spend 10 minutes in there? Movies with successful twists don\'t invalidate previous scenes - they just give you a different perspective on - Happy birthday, Geo\'s Mum!
I don\'t know about the rest of you, but I always think some of the best moments in a podcast are when Geo will say something offhand or unscripted that elicits a little giggle from Ms Info. It\'s like the little sprinkle of chocolate on the icing of the podcast cake.
Really looking forward to Trebuchet, the little samples you\'ve been teasing out sound fantastic. On a related note - I live near Warwick Castle in England and they\'ve got the most magnificent replica trebuchet set up in the grounds of the castle. Every week they crank it back and fire off a huge ball of flame across the river. This beast\'s massive - the counterweight\'s the size of a car! - This show was FUCKING HILARIOUS
I haven\'t laughed that hard listening to the show in a L O N G time....that tazering dance instructor had me in tears
and that Ask George could\'nt have come at a better time for me personally...total BOOST
ahhh....
oh and check out the website i\'ve linked to...totally relevant to the Geologic Universe ;D
