Oh, it ridiculously was offensive! That was the idea. Good taste was never a concern in the making of Silence!

I liked Evil Dead. But it works because it’s so over the top to begin with. To me, the tone of Star Trek doesn’t really sing because the characters are pretty emotionally reserved. The elevated parts of Star Trek is in the fantasy and environment of the setting—that actually could open it up to being an opera (plus,…

The thing about Ibsen is that all of his characters are so emotionally repressed. It isn’t even a case like Strindberg or Chekov where the characters live their emotions in the subtext (this actually lends to Chekov singing very well). Ibsen’s characters are so reserved—even to themselves—and there’s such a dearth of…

Both of those are natural fits to musicalize. The showbiz element of Roxy Hart made it easy to turn into a musical—performance was a part of the story, so it was easy to give it music. Little Shop of Horrors was fodder for campy songs. Both of those source materials sing.

Yeah, there’s a revival Carrie that’s having a good run in Los Angeles. It’s had a cult following since it set the bar for Broadway flops in the late 80’s, so there was interest. The revival played up the theatricality to a Cirque-du-Soleil level, and that padded the book and score enough to make it work. The…

I’m sure that’s what Shatner’s thinking! But, my gut’s telling me Star Trek: the Musical! would be one destined to close in previews.

Asking as a playwright and librettist: what will songs add to Star Trek? Somethings don’t need to be musicalized—Somethings shouldn’t be musicalized (e.g. anything by Henrik Ibsen). A Star Trek musical sounds as misguided as the musical of Stephen King’s Carrie (Yes, that actually happened. Blood and all.)

Flesh Without Blood is pretty great. I agree that vocal reverb trail phasing sounds spookily amazing with headphones, and the guitar layered over gives it a touch of organic warmth to contrast the iciness of the synths.

...But I keep on waiting, anticipating,

Mozgov is not cocksucker!

Absolutely. In the replay it’s pretty obvious that he pushes off and jumps toward Bridgewater after he goes into the slide.

This made me sick. When Bridgewater gets hit, his left arm raises up in the classic “fencing sign.” That’s a red alert for a concussion and an injury to the brainstem.

This is terrifying. Nicely done!

Looking at this from an epidemiological point of view, the types of injuries we’re seeing, rather than the overall number of injuries we’re seeing, could be indicative of something.

The History Channel was right!

Certainly not US military personnel at an American base located in the UK...and you’d also have a hell of a time explaining to them the concept of an “air force.”

Noted.

Having an actor pushing 80 be your star in an action film is a pretty big risk. But, if there’s an actor who could pull that off, it’s Harrison Ford. Ford’s one of those actors (George Clooney also comes to mind) who’s actually gotten hotter as he’s aged.

Putting it into perspective of how gigantic that picture is: at the tip each of those tiny, squiggly, worm-like fingers emerging from the three main pillars is a star that is/was being born. If they had grown into full stars, their radiation would have eventually blown away the molecular dust cloud surrounding them,…

Red Right 88, The Fumble, The Drive...