Barry Lee Dejasu 06-30-2008, 07:34 AM
Remember Richard Kelly's (Donnie Darko) much-bashed 2006/7 film Southland Tales, with Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Sean William Scott? Did you see it? Did you not like it? Or are you like me and haven't seen it at all?

Well, here's something you might not have known - Richard Kelly wrote three graphic novels as prequels to the film, and they came out not long before its release. I wonder if part of the problems (mainly the confusion over the plot) that many felt the film had stemmed from just not getting the "whole" story.

I've been waiting for quite a while now for today, June 30th, 2008. You know why? Because that's when the Southland Tales story arc begins taking place. It goes from TODAY, to July 4th, 2008. I'm going to read each book and see the movie on their corresponding days, in the ultimate geek fashion, to get the whole experience that is more than a once in a lifetime one, but one-time, period. Even if I end up disliking the books and/or the movie, this is an experience that nobody will ever be able to partake in again, EVER. Anniversaries be damned - this is something special and unique.

I'm quite pumped - and if I'm the only person on the Repairman Jack Message Board (or anywhere else in the world, for that matter) who is doing this, then I'm even more honored. This is just plain fun!

*Erkel laugh and snort*
Mike Hanson 06-29-2008, 10:17 PM
I checked out "WALL-E" Saturday morning (and yes there were a
WHOLE LOT of very young children there).

My abbreviated non-spoiler report?

It is the BEST movie of the Summer!

A wonderfully inventive and moving film (so absorbing that all the
little kids quickly settled down as their eyes opened wide, mesmerized
by the wonder unfolding before us all on the big screen).

The simplicity of the no-talking first act communicates perfectly to
both child and adult (reminiscent of some of Charlie Chaplin's best
work), while the hyperkinetic and artfully subversive second and third
acts constantly leave you on the edge of your seat.

To the cynical techno-nerds, the CGI palette and patina of this opus
is frighteningly detailed with haunting moments of urban decay.

Never quite over-the-top or preachy with it's eco-message, this prescient
cautionary tale delivers with all four rocket drives at full thrust.

I give WALL-E, FIVE out of five cans of diet cherry vanilla Dr. Pepper!
Mike Hanson 06-29-2008, 08:43 PM
You are NOT going to believe this!

I was in Wal*Mart today and all of a sudden two
huge guys came up to me and asked me why I
took that bottle of cologne. I don't even use
cologne! What cologne were they even talking
about?

They searched my cart and asked to search my
pockets. I told them, "hell no! WTF? I didn't steal
any frigging cologne." They told me I had to go
into the back and wait until the cops came and
they would have a police officer search and pat
me down.

They wouldn't take "no" for an answer (I'm a
pretty hefty guy but these yokels looked like
AFL linebackers), and so I walked to the back
of the store with them.

It was a small room filled with hangers and old
metal shelves. They told me to wait in there until
the cops came, then they left. I looked up and
saw a medium sized window that was easy to open.

I kid you not, I pulled a chair over under it and stood
up and opened the window. I reached and pulled myself
up and almost out when suddenly...a guy came back
in and grabbed hold of my leg and started pulling it
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
JUST LIKE I'M PULLING YOURS!!!!!!!

BAH HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Sorry. Lost my mind for a moment there... Sad

p.s. I stole this from a friend at Zoetrope.com...she says she first heard
it from a boyfriend back in 1977 (though I think he may have used Sears,
Ames, or Woolworths as the setting for this bit of hijinx).
Dirt Devil 06-29-2008, 04:13 AM
Hey all, just got done reading Secret Histories which was another great Jack book. Although Jack has not yet become the Repairman Jack we know today, some of his first fix-its are in this book. Great to get to meet the family again and what he does to his brother Tom over and over again is hilarious. You also get a great sense of where Jack gets the values that he will carry through his adult life from.

Although all of the books in this series always have major tie-ins to other books, this one seemed to foreshadow so much... but mostly I was thinking of one of my favorite scenes from crisscross where the Dormentalist church is planting the pillars... The cube relic is similar to what the columns were doing? There was also a human sacrifice which was similar. Did anyone else think this?

The big R makes an appearance towards the end, but I am curious as to who the new lodge leader will end up being? Is this a character that we will meet in the next 2 prequel books or is this someone we already know? Does this end up being one of the church leaders later? Do you think that this is the older hippy guy who "founded" the church whose name escapes me? Sounds like I need to read Criss-Cross again... That same guy who has the invisible yard?

Can't wait for By The Sword!
Lysistrata 06-27-2008, 04:25 PM
:yikes: By the Sword Spoiler

There is a reference to a stain, "a purplish blotch", which appears on Darryl's left shin (in Thursday, paragraph 6). His leg has been "itching since last night". Last night was the time when he was watching Dawn's hotel.

What can be the meaning of that stain? There was the stain in Infernal which was taking its host... elsewhere. The katana could have similar properties and give such a stain, but Darryl had not touched it yet.

The only special thing Darryl did was to approach Dawn. Could it the reason the stain appeared, maybe because the baby she is carrying sends oDNA loaded kickers elsewhere? (or mark them)

The real Naka Slater also has a stain, but he explains Jack it is a family trait, the Slater stain. Then again, he could be lying for some reasons.

Has anyone an idea?
Chevron 06-27-2008, 01:55 PM
Hi,

Just found this and I couldn't resist putting it on here (I hope someone else hasn't done this already!)

It would seem that Repairman Jack is a fictional character invented by F. Paul Wilson, who is a fictional character invented by an author famous for writing children's books...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/F-Paul-Wilson-Si...8&sr=1-182

Can't say I'm surprised the book is 'currently unavailable'.
Libby 06-24-2008, 09:09 PM
Has any one else seen this 80s classic? I LOVE it!!!Big Grin I think it is amazing. I have never seen anything like it, and the music is nice. "You remind me of the babe" "What babe?" "The babe with the power" "What power" "The power of voodoo" "Whodoo?" "You do" "Do what" "Remind me of the babe" ect...And the Bog of Eternal Stench is great.Big Grin
Legion 06-24-2008, 07:09 PM
I was shopping abesbooks.com when I searched for By the Sword. I stumbled across what looks like a Mass Market ( paperback ) copy for sale already in Germany. Is this legal? If not FPW should know.

I may be wrong but see for yourself.

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDeta...D0%26y%3D0
law dawg 06-24-2008, 03:51 PM
My friend (and recent FPW convention co-speaker, as well) has optioned his first book, Rain Fall, as a movie. It will be advertised during the upcoming Bond film. It's filmed mostly in Japanese (as the setting is in Japan and the "protagonist" is half-Japanese). Gary Oldman is cast as a CIA agent tasked to bringing in John Rain, our protagonist hit man.

Here's the Japanese site: http://www.rain-fall.jp/ Kenji? What it all say? Wink
Here's a write-up about Oldman in the movie:http://www.beyondhollywood.com/gary-oldm...rain-fall/

Looks to be good, and the advertising in the Bond flick can't hurt....
Libby 06-24-2008, 02:51 PM
I am watching Rush Hour 3, and it turns out that you were born in Tokyo, but were orphaned, and adopted into China as Jackie Chan's brother, and now are one of the leaders to an undercover crime organization. And you didn't even tell us!!!!(:p)
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