My Meme Is Legion
Posted on | January 15, 2009 at 9:32 pm | 1 Comment
I haven’t posted in awhile. Too much time spent at the gym getting buff, I guess. But here’s a few odds and ends.
Firstly (via ADS), for every blog that posts the new Neko Case song, she’ll donate $5 to the Best Friends Animal Society. So, here’s my contribution. It helps that the song is really good. Even though I’m a big New Pornographers fan, I haven’t always been entirely keen on Neko’s solo output. But I’m not very much into country. I have to say I really like this one though. It’s uptempo, which always helps, and doesn’t sound all that country. So, here we go. Listen and enjoy.
Neko Case “People Got a Lotta Nerve” (Middle Cyclone, 2009)
Yummmm…. Neko.
Secondly, way back in this entry, I was complaining about how the synchronization of Microsoft Outlook to the iPhone Contacts was causing many people’s birthdays (including my own) to show up as one day off in the iPhone contact information (but curiously not in the iPhone birthday calendar events created from the contacts). Well, Apple is claiming it’s not their fault (see this Apple Discussion Board thread), but at least now they have a workaround. I tried this and it works. Whew! Now I no longer celebrate my birthday on the wrong day.
Thirdly, tonight’s episode of Smallville featured the first (live action*) appearance of DC Comics staples The Legion of Super-Heroes (referred to only as “The Legion”), those super-powered teens from the 31st century. I have to say that even though the usual TV-liberties were taken, it was incredibly faithful to the comics. (Or at least as faithful as anything in the weirdo Smallville universe can be.) This is not surprising, since the episode was written by DC Comics writer Geoff Johns. It was odd to see founding Legion members Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy, and Lightning Lad in the “flesh” for the first time:
The actors did a pretty good job, although the Lightning Lad character was a bit too “gee whiz” youngish. It included a lot of bits of Legion lore to make us fanboys swoon, such as the Legion Flight Rings, the real names of the heroes (though only Lightning Lad was referred to by codename), costumes that at least call to mind costumes from the comics (which were always changing anyway), references to other planets, an actual Legion enemy (Persuader with his Atomic Axe, although they didn’t mention he was a member of the Fatal Five), mentions of other Legion members (including Brainiac 5, which tied into the main plot of the episode), lots of talk about the future destinies of the Smallville-ites, and even a quick reference to the Legion of Substitute Heroes, which only the really geeky among us would get. Mix it all in with Superman enemies Brainiac (including the first use of the three-circle Brainiac insignia from the comics and Superman animated series) and Doomsday, and you’ve got pretty much the most superheroic, comic-centric episode ever of the show. It even beat out the proto-Justice League episode from a few seasons ago. Kudos.
* – The Legion has previously appeared in animation, including it’s own two-season Saturday morning series a few years ago. I believe they also appeared in an episode of the Justice League Unlimited animated series and the old Superman animated series as well.
Latre.
Songs That Came Up On The iPod While Exercising:
- “The Snake” (Frank Black)
- “Colleen” (Ted Leo)
- “The Fundamental Blues” (Bill Nelson)
- “Henry” (Bif Naked)
- “Downed” (Fig Dish)
- “Down by the River” (China Drum)
- “Modern Woman” (Dogs Die in Hot Cars)
- “Nevermind” (Ecotour)
- “High Time” (Icicle Works)
- “Blatant Dis” (Poster Children)
- “1234″ (Helicopter Helicopter)
- “Fool for the Taking” (Gin Blossoms)
- “Look Like Shit” (Lauren Hoffman)
- “Imbusteros” (Calla)
- “The Same Mistakes” (The Records)
- “Twlight” (Elliott Smith)
- “From A Voice Plantation” (Guided By Voices)
- “The Hardest Thing” (Poi Dog Pondering)
- “Knight Rider” (Of Montreal)
- “Crash Into June” (Game Theory)
- “Woman With Reason” (Steve Kilbey)
- “Sing About Me” (Papas Fritas)
- “Mark of Excellence” (Mind Reels)
- “Listen” (The Wondermints)
- “Some Way Some How” (The Features)
- “Suburban Homeboy” (Sparks)
- “In The Wilderness” (Mercury Rev)
- “Crash Into June” (Game Theory)
- “Atlantic” (Keane)
- “ABC” (The Pipettes)
- “Petrol” (Ash)
- “American Music” (Violent Femmes)
- “Nose Over Tail” (Alkaline Trio)
- “The Heat In The Room” (Bill Nelson)
- “That Must Be The Way” (Uncle Green)
- “Anybody’s War” (Icehouse)
- “Chips Ahoy!” (The Hold Steady)
- “So It Goes” (Broken West)
- “Sob Story” (The Bolshoi)
- “Blue Flowers” (Pleasure Thieves)
- “Death or Glory” (The Clash)
- “Tony The Beat” (The Sounds)
- “Nowhere Now” (Econoline Crush)
- “I Want None Of This” (Radiohead)
- “Bust” (The Connells)
- “Sleepwalk” (Ultravox)
- “Alright” (Blake Babies)
- “Sleeping Through Heaven” (Game Theory)
Pet Peeve of the Day: Canker sores.
Poignant Search Term Of The Day That Led To This Blog: prius locked out engine running”.
Videogame(s) Played Since Last Blog Update: None!
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One Response to “My Meme Is Legion”
January 15th, 2009 @ 11:47 pm
If I ever meet friends from the future, I hope they bring hyper-pizza.