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Slice of SciFi #238:  A Conversation With Director Richard Kelly In the News: Halycon will sell the rights to the Terminator franchise next year and Joss Whedon wants to buy them.  This needs to happen Astronomers observed light from a star that exploded 13 billion years ago. Want to spend three days in space?  Start saving your pennies now.  The first hotel in space is on track to open in 2012. This Slice of SciFi show is sponsored by GoToAssist.com/podcast — Get a Free Trial. Movie Talk: Owen Wilson will provide the voice of Marmaduke for the upcoming big-screen adaptation.  At least it s an Owen Wilson movie with a dog that will have a happy ending Ed Norton and Willem Defoe talk about potentially reprising roles in the Marvel Universe movies. Slice of Trivia: This week Kurt in St. George tests the studio crew and your knowledge with some Halloween film clips.    Email your clips to Kurt at Slice of Trivia. Your entries could get picked and played on the show. TV Talk:   While there s no official word yet that we won t get more Defying Gravity, it s not looking good.  Creator and producer James Parrott talks about the plans he had for the next couple of seasons for the show. Interview:  This week, we talk to director Richard Kelly, whose new film The Box hit theaters this weekend. In the Future: Men in Black 3 has found a writer.  Now can they get Will Smith back? There s a story circulating that NBC has told Heroes its time to wrap things up for good. Listener comments: If you have any suggestions or comments, please let us know. (Our Voicemail Number: 206-339-TREK). Keep your comments brief, or funny, and maybe you ll hear your message on the voicemail show! See you next week with fresh new content. Keep Slice of SciFi going and growing. Please donate to help us continue bringing you the best sci-fi and genre related news and entertainment available on the Net and on Satellite Radio. Become a monthly contributor or we also appreciate one-time donations, and thank you. Link: Find the FarPoint Media Island Resort in Second Life Link: Farpoint Forurms Link:  Chillpak Hollywood Hour Promo:  Geekcred Promo: G-Mail Podcast Promo: DragonPage With Class Promo: DragonPage Cover to Cover

Good news, Twilight fans. You have the first official news for the third Twilight installment, courtesy of our own Jen Yamato, FearNet and the New Moon junket.* The magically-coiffed Robert Pattinson has confirmed that Breaking Dawn will begin filming in Fall 2010, and that it's penciled into his schedule for next year. Of course, Dawn remains unconfirmed by Summit. The most controversial installment of the Twilight series, rumors swirl that the studio is hesitant to take it to the big screen. If it is made, it seems likely that it could be split into two films a'la Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Personally, I don't see Summit risking the money they'd make on #4, and they'll find a way to steer around the gorier aspects of the book. But now you know when to look for it, though you still have the madness of Eclipse pre-production to get through. Pattinson also dished on the movie I want to mark on my calender (Sorry, I dig boots and spurs more than vampires), a Western called Unbound Captives. The directorial debut of Madeleine Stowe, it stars Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, and Pattinson. The young heartthrob revealed that it's tenatively scheduled to begin shooting in early 2010, and he sounds enthusiastic for a role that'll be miles away from Edward Cullen. "I'm playing a kid who is kidnapped by Comanches when he was four years old, and he is brought up by them. His mother spends her entire life trying to find me and my sister. When she finds us, we can't remember who she is and can't remember anything about the Western culture she grew up in. I speak Comanche the whole movie. You can't really speak more differently from Edward." [Special thanks also goes to Collider who apparently pried the Breaking Dawn date out of Mr. Pattinson]Filed under: Action, Drama, Independent, Romance, New Releases, RumorMonger, DIY/Filmmaking, Newsstand, Remakes and Sequels, Western Permalink | Email this | Comments

After a live recording session of the Carolina Chocolate Drops at Village Studios, Santa Monica, an impromptu jam with visiting "nouveau oldtime" guests. Blind Boy Paxton, Dom Flemons (of the Carolina Chocolate Drops), and Frank Fairfield.

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Yogi Bear and Boo Boo are bringing sexy back -- and that image should make you ripe for nightmares tonight. If you doubt me, look to Variety, who reports that Dan Aykroyd, Anna Faris, and Justin Timberlake are set to go to Jellystone in Yogi Bear, which Eric Brevig is directing for Warner Bros. Aykroyd will be voicing Yogi, and he really is the most obvious choice to play the picnic basket thief. He's funny, he sounds gruff, and if it was live-action it would be a very terrifying thing to see. So thank goodness this is being done as a CG / live-action hybrid. Timberlake will be voicing Boo Boo. Yep. The man who wants to love your mother, put his d*ck in a box, and who will cry you a river will lend his vocal talents to playing Yogi's diminutive sidekick. In this update of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, expect Boo Boo to be a lot more of a smart aleck. (I was going to say "sassy," but I think that would be a far different Boo Boo.) Though Faris has done voice work before, it sounds as though she might be one of the live action elements to this unholy hybrid. Variety says she's set to play a documentary filmmaker. Presumably she discovers the tourist robbing bears, and makes a film of them. Or she has to help them preserve Jellystone against evil developers. Either way, she'll have to talk to big rubbery CG bears, and it might be kind of weird. What would be even weirder is if one or both bears fell in love with her, so let's hope she falls into the arms of whoever plays Ranger Smith. Shooting is expected to start in New Zealand next month.Filed under: Animation, Comedy, Casting, Warner Brothers, Family Films, Newsstand, Remakes and Sequels Permalink | Email this | Comments

After heaps of buzz and praise, and our own Eric Snider saying: "it's compelling and artistic, punctuated with warm humor and masterful performances, and ultimately triumphant and hopeful," Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire is finally hitting theaters today. It's a harrowing look at one girl's traumatic young life of being pregnant with her second baby (by her father), abused by her mother, and struggling with illiteracy and obesity. In other words, a movie that demands you to think and feel -- to be touched beyond the 110 minute span of the film. Naturally, that made me think about movies that haunt us. It can be for any number of reasons -- because of a film's thought-provoking power, how it's filmed and presented, the way it latches on to pain in our own experience, unsettles our own belief systems, angers us, or challenges us. Whether it ends sadly, or with hope. Whatever the reason, certain films seep into us and refuse to leave, whether it be for a few fleeting post-credits moments, or a week, month, year, or lifetime. Upon leaving Requiem for a Dream the first time, my friend and I couldn't get the music out of our heads. We couldn't stop repeating the same thoughts as our brains tried to process them. Even if I don't see the film before my eyes, the music brings back every feeling, every moment of tenseness. As the credits started moving in Dogville, I couldn't shake the last powerful moments out of my head. It took a while to shake the gooseflesh from my arms, and every time I let my mind slip back, there's a brief jolt of shocked memory.Filed under: FandomContinue reading Discuss: The Movies That Haunt You Permalink | Email this | Comments

The upcoming The Danish Girl is one of those independent, edgy films that has all the right elements for something brilliant, but it's subject matter is so tricky that it could end up becoming a farce. Based on David Ebershoff's novel, The Danish Girl is the story of the world's first post-operative transsexual, Einar Wegener, and his wife, Greta. Tomas Alfredson is set to direct, Nicole Kidman has long been attached to play Einar, and Variety reports that Gwyneth Paltrow has stepped in to play Greta. She's stepping in for Charlize Theron, who originally held the role, but has dropped out for unspecified reasons. The story takes place in 1920s Denmark. Greta* was a portrait painter, and needed a model. She asked Einar to step into a dress, stockings, and heels, and created some kind of awakening in Einar. In women's clothes, her husband became an outrageous character named Lili. The paintings of Lili became extremely popular, few realizing a man had stood in for them. Lili than took on a public life of her own, and Greta often introduced Lili as her sister. Eventually, Einar / Lili decided to commit to gender reassignment surgery, a dangerous and experimental procedure at the time. Greta stood beside her husband until his transformation was complete, and then their marriage was declared null and void by the King of Denmark.Filed under: Drama, Gay & Lesbian, Independent, Casting, NewsstandContinue reading Gwyneth Paltrow Joins Nicole Kidman in 'The Danish Girl' Permalink | Email this | Comments

After a live recording session of the Carolina Chocolate Drops at Village Studios, Santa Monica, an impromptu jam with visiting "nouveau oldtime" guests. Blind Boy Paxton, Dom Flemons (of the Carolina Chocolate Drops), and Frank Fairfield.

Though for die-hard RPG nuts it'll have been a red letter week with the release of Bioware's Dragon Age: Origins, it hasn't been enough to wean me off my daily regimen of pushing further into the Borderlands and compulsively playing through the two levels that make up the Left 4 Dead 2 demo (above, now fully released to the public) with each character, hoping for just one more scrap of rarely-triggered dialogue to more fully flesh out just who these characters are that I'll be spending most of the winter with. But it's without any facetiousness that I admit that there's one game release this week that's particularly pricked my ear: Lego Rock Band [Harmonix/TT Games, 360/PS3/Wii/DS] The Lego version of Harmonix's staple has taken its fair share of heat from purists for the unconventional pairing, but for a version of Rock Band targeted toward the youngest among us -- which is, it should be noted, LRB's central goal -- Lego seems just about the least offensive toy-aisle license for potential pairing, especially taken with the lightly chaotic and perfectly parodic tone TT Games has brought to its own Lego series to date (Star Wars, Batman, Indy Jones). LRB caters to the youths with an added Super Easy difficulty and other low-failure-rate options, shortened versions of certain tracks to keep the attention deficit constantly hammering away without wading through intro/outros, and a selection of family friendly songs honestly no less recognizably Rock Band (including, even, the series' first Vampire Weekend), and includes the ability to export all the tracks back to Rock Band 2 (for an additional charge) if your plastic-rock goes only so far. [And as a side note: on top of the console releases, I'm just as intrigued by (but have not had a chance to play) the DS version, which promises to bring Harmonix's classic multi-track single player experience established by its original PS2 games like Amplitude down to size, as it did with Rock Band Unplugged for the PSP, and did in lesser form with EA Mobile's iPhone version -- as seen in action here.] But the real reason I haven't had as much time as usual to make my way further through the bigger names is that, if you hadn't heard the faint eruption in the distance, the Independent Games Festival has unleashed the record 300+ strong list of entrants in this year's competition, which means (being a judge) a thorough playthrough of as many as my machine can handle. If you want a more compressed guide to start doing the same yourself, Tale of Tales has provided a YouTube/Vimeo playlist to see as many in action as are available on the video services, and UK outlet SavyGamer is laboriously compiling direct download links for all currently released games in one place here. Interestingly, one game that'd caught my eye just a day or two before the list was announced is one that presumably came out of hiding just to make that list: Rocketbirds: Revolution by Ratloop, creators of last year's "draw your own level solution" game Mightier. As you can see in the video above, the premise is quite easily summed as classic roto-scope-ish PC games like Out of This World, Blackthorne or Flashback meets Oddworld, done up gorgeously and playable online in Flash, with a wickedly darkly comic militaristic bent. Before you make your way through the rest, stop there first. Previously:Please release me: Borderlands and Bomberlands, Hook Champ and ... Please release me: Rock Band iPhone, Small Worlds, Eufloria ...

(Watch video: YouTube, Dotsub, or download MP4.) A quick little goodie from Boing Boing Video. Last night, I sat in on a live recording session at Santa Monica's Village Studios with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, described as "African-American string band revivalists." They were amazing: I have never been so emotionally moved by someone playing a musical jug (and banjos, fiddles, cow bones, and kazoos). Their performance was witnessed by a handful of music biz folks and oldtime music enthusiasts, and made me feel deeply homesick for Appalachia (I'm also craving cornbread and butterbeans today - there's a song for that). The Chocolate Drops have a new record coming out in 2010, and Boing Boing will be all over it like gravy on grits. If you dig R. Crumb, Smithsonian Folkways recordings of pre-blues and pre-bluegrass banjo music, and love folks who bring new life to authentic American music, you will flip out. So, the video above: after the Drops' performance and recording session ended, Dom Flemons (of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, seated in center in the video), Blind Boy Paxton (seated at left in the video), and Frank Fairfield (seated far right) sat down together and jammed pure, sweet magic for a spell. I wasn't prepared with a proper camera or crew, but I grabbed my iPhonetraption out of my pocket and got to shootin'. I hope you enjoy it as much as everyone in the room did. Pure magic, these guys. (Special thanks to Joe Henry; Jeff Greenberg of Village Studios; Tom Osborn, Warner Bros. Records; David Bither, Nonesuch Records, and to Boing Boing Video's tireless editor, Eric Mittleman.)

If you pay attention to any piece of news, you no doubt have heard SOMETHING about health insurance over the last few months. Coincidentally, in the midst of potential health care reform, it is open enrollment for many individuals covered under employer sponsored health plans. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

I have a question for you, do you treat your health like a bank account? So now you may be thinking what has health and bank accounts got to do with each other. Well when you put money into a bank account, it gains interest, which makes it a small investment. So why is it that we don t tend to treat our health the same way? isn t our health a investment surely, it must be if we invest in our health we are making a good investment just as if it were a bank, and we were depositing money each day. We could apply this to food and exercise. So much is society these days we tend to focus on wealth rather than health, we seem to be so obsessed with how much money we are earning and we never seem to have enough. So why is it that we don t tend to treat our health the same way? isn t our health a investment surely, it must be if we invest in our health we are making a good investment just as if it were a bank, and we were depositing money each day. We could apply this to food and exercise. So much is society these days we tend to focus on wealth rather than health, we seem to be so obsessed with how much money we are earning and we never seem to have enough. But which is better? having enough money to get everything you need rather than what you want, and being healthy at the same time, if you don t invest in your health then you are more likely to become ill even if you don t feel unwell at this particular time. We do need balance within our lives and I think having enough money and good health both go hand in hand, what is the point of being poorly if you can t enjoy your money in a way it becomes meaningless. Why Invest in It Well as we have seen above when you invest in something it s an investment, so if you start treating your body like a bank and invest in it right, then just like money when you invest it wisely you can make more money. So if you look after your body then you will reap the rewards here are some of the things you may experience, a better self-image, feel better, less health problems, less visits to the doctor. If you could buy those things in a shop or where shares what would you say they were worth? Because I would guess you wouldn t be able to put a price on them it would be far too expensive. The reason I am using this analogy is and this may not apply to everybody, is when you have good health it s so easy to take it for granted, and having money can be very much the same. If we have had no money for along time, it s something that we can tend to forget about very quickly, and our health is the same more often than not we forget what it is like to have good health. Food As Deposits So now we have to use the analogy of the body is a bank, if we invest wisely we do well, so if we eat junk food or food that is no good for us this is like small change. Even though we eat it isn t a very good investment and in the financial world it would be considered a risk, if you eat food like this they will not be much return after a long time. You may feel tired, have headaches especially if you are eating a sugar laden diet. And if you continue to keep making these deposits in your body bank, then long term you may have a body bank crisis this could range from anything to diabetes, heart problems, poor immune system function, high cholesterol levels etc. so the interest that we gain from living like this is not good at all. Healthy Food As Deposits If we put good food into our body bank then this is more of a wise investment, and is more like investing thousands of pounds or dollars. If you do this you will feel better have high energy, and be investing in a good health investment within your body bank. You are far more less likely to become unwell so often, have heart problems, have poor immune system function, and all the other problems associated with eating a poor diet. No Exercise As Deposits If you don t exercise at all then at the same can apply as far as your health is concerned, not exercising at all is like putting no money in your bank account so you get very little interest. And the results of this are feeling tired, you may suffer from depression, or anxiety, if you have a bad day at work and don t exercise there is no where to get rid of your frustration so you just carry it around in your body bank. Were it does very little, so if you don t do any exercise you won t get a very good long-term investment, in your body bank and just like money your health becomes that instead you lose your investment because you didn t invest wisely. In your health from the start Exercise As Deposits If on the other hand that you decide to start investing in your body bank with exercise, then over a period of time your interest will turn into, feeling great, having more energy, feeling positive, and a overall feeling of well-being. So if you invest wisely as regards to exercise just like money grows, so will you and your health. Now let me ask you a question have you ever thought as your body as a bank. If you look after your body bank you will have a great overall return and will have may made a very wise investment. So do everything you can to look after your body bank and you will get lots of interest back which equates to good health. And your body bank manager will thank you. Post from: Weight Loss Blog (Lose That Tyre)

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In this show, I take you with me on our final summer parish pilgrimage.  I do a sound seeing tour of St. Joseph s Abbey in Spencer, MA.  St. Joseph s is a Trappist monastery, one of the largest communities in the United States.  They are known for their Trappist Preservers, vestments and incense.  Come join me as we see the beauty of God s grace in the hills of Spencer.  I borrowed the picture for today s episode from the Abbey s blog, so please check it out! - Music: Start Over Again by Darrell Smith - St. Joseph s Abbey Spencer, MA - Abbey Blog - Holy Rood Guild -  Trappist Preserves cast (at) iPadre (dot) net Feedback line: 206-202-1231 Subscribe to Feed | Subscribe in iTunes

I have just returned from my annual retreat and have a great sound seeing tour to share with you.  I have a prayer request for your, but more in this episode.  Feedback, Marriage and annulments. - Music: I Live in Awe of You by Flatland Music - Eileen George Meet-the-Father Ministry cast (at) iPadre (dot) net Feedback line: 206-202-1231 Subscribe to Feed | Subscribe in iTunes