From: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org (stillpt-digest) To: stillpt-digest@smoe.org Subject: stillpt-digest V4 #112 Reply-To: stillpt@smoe.org Sender: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk stillpt-digest Tuesday, August 6 2002 Volume 04 : Number 112 Today's Subjects: ----------------- b/faith returns? [meredith ] b/misc. ["David S. Bratman" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 22:32:56 -0400 From: meredith Subject: b/faith returns? Hi, MINOR SPOILER ALERT News is surfacing from this weekend's San Diego ComiCon, where Joss was on a panel. He supposedly confirmed that Eliza Dushku was able to make room in her schedule to appear on both _Buffy_ and _Angel_ in the upcoming season. Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth ============================================== Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series http://www.smoe.org/meth/muzak.html ============================================== ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 23:31:55 -0700 From: "David S. Bratman" Subject: b/misc. First, Berni came home today with "Food Chain", a collection of BTVS graphic short stories, i.e. a comic book. Visually it's a lot better than the previous BTVS comics I've seen, but I still don't know why comic book artists have such a hard time drawing real people (i.e. actors) so that they look like themselves. I found it easier to tell who was speaking from the style of the dialogue than from the art. Leafing through, so far all I've read in full is the story of the kleptomaniac mice, which I thought was pretty good. I apologize for not keeping track, but is this the (recently) impending BTVS comic of which there was positive mention on this list a while back? Or was that something else? Second, I wish to report having seen John Sayles's film "Sunshine State", his Florida film. Not anywhere near as coherent or penetrating as "Lone Star", his Texas film, but fairly enjoyable nonetheless, and interesting to this list for the minor presence of Marc Blucas as a wanna-be pro golfer who's nervous about freezing up in the clutch. He's only in a couple of scenes, and does reasonably well, though whether he's credible as Edie Falco's boyfriend is another matter. I had to go to Santa Cruz to see this film (30 miles over a twisty mountain road), but that's not why I went there. I was there for a concert in the Cabrillo Festival: Marin Alsop conducting a concert consisting entirely of music by Christopher Rouse. (Who, on this being proposed to him, said, "Are you sure you want to do this?") A small but enthusiastic audience, and Donald would have enjoyed himself. Of course they played Phantasmata and Phaeton, his showpiece works, but they also played a remarkable song cycle in Hindi, titled Kabir Padavali (sung by soprano Valdine Anderson, very admirable particularly for her phrasing), and for me the winner was a fairly quiet (very quiet for Rouse) orchestral work called "Envoi", his Death and Transfiguration, really stunning especially in the Transfiguration part - which mixed elements characteristic of minimalism and aleatoric music most effectively. Infinitely better than the Richard Strauss work that inspired it. Next week at the Festival, Corigliano's Second Symphony. Which I hope I like better than his First. ------------------------------ End of stillpt-digest V4 #112 *****************************