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You know, I've seen "Serenity" three times now, and I really cannot afford to spend the money on yet another showing, but the ticket raffle is making me think about going again. Universal sure knows how to appeal to the shallow prize-grubber in all of us me, doesn't it? Hmmmm.

Firefly meme: When you see this on your f-list, quote Firefly in your own LJ. Or, sumthin'.

Oh, just go SEE SERENITY on Friday, dong ma? :-)

(Gacked from ... everyone, apparently.)

Zoe: Preacher, don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killing?

Book: Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps.

From the Universal boards:

On Wednesday, August 24th, there will be a 6 PM press screening of Serenity in New York City. The screening will take place at Loews Lincoln Square (1998 Broadway, at 68th StreetNew York, NY 10023) All Browncoats in the area are invited to come, however only the first 300 Browncoats there will be admitted, free of charge. We also ask that Browncoats do not begin to congregate at the theatre before 4:30 PM.

So some guy named "Norris" on the Universal boards posted this gem that he put together:

http://triacelive.uw.hu/pictures/firefly_southpark_full.jpg

My favorite is the Jayne one. Orange hat!!

Official Serenity Movie Poster.

Compare this to an earlier draft version. Note that the much-maligned "floating heads" are gone, and the look on River's face is much more composed (someone on the official Serenity site compared it to early Sigourney Weaver).

I like this much better than the earlier draft.

Huh, I just realized for the first time that Summer Glau may be left-handed. In this poster anyway, her trigger finger appears to be her left forefinger. Hmmm. People who've been to cons -- does she sign her autographs left-handed? (I know Joss does!) Some people on Whedonesque said she's right-handed and that the gun is just held that way for graphic design reasons.

Dear Big Damn Whedon Fans:

It's been all over Whedonesque for days, but I know some of you don't read it every day, so voila:

Sydney, Perth and Adelaide and Melbourne.

Plus, the World Premiere in Scotland at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on August 22nd!!

It's nice to see screenings outside the U.S. at last.

http://whedonesque.com/?comments=7105

Also, tentative good news about the likelihood of UK fan screenings: http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=11076

Hope this makes all you lovely people across the pond happy happy. :-)

Hey there OS X Tiger users. I've made my first Widget. (As you can see, this Serenity countdown widget was my inspiration.) It isn't all that spectacular, and I don't want to spend a ton more time on it, but I'm hoping some of you can make small suggestions that would improve it a bit more with fairly minimal effort. ;-) Download it at http://carole.fates.org/FireflyQuotes.wdgt.zip. Please 1.) don't give out the URL to random folks not on my f-list, and 2.) give suggestions/constructive crit. here in the comments. Thanks.

P.S., Important Debugging Notes:

Note that the eventual point is to display a new quote every day for 60 days, counting down to the release date of the movie on September 30th. On that day the zero-th array member will display a quote from Joss: "We have done the impossible, and that makes us mighty!"

However, for debugging you'll notice that the quote is currently keyed to the second-hand on your watch (er, digitally), since seconds are also a convenient 60-parcel amount. This allows you to see all the quotes, pretty much -- out of "order" of course, since iterative displays of your Dashboard will show quotes counting up the array instead of down.

We have 39 days to debug this puppy, so let's get crackin'! (Here's hoping for my sake that Universal doesn't up the release date, although part of me hopes they do.)

( Major spoilers for Serenity, do not click unless you've seen the film!! )

UPDATE, a thought I just had:
( (More SPOILERS: A speculation... )

People who went to the May 5th screening or know something about it --

So is it true that we'll have to fill out Surveys of some kind that Universal is passing around? What kind of questions does it ask, if so? How long does it take to fill out? Will they provide pencils? Will they want their pencils back? :-)

I've never been to a preview screening before, so I am very excited, unfinished soundtrack or not.