The Serenity of a Firefly

"Captain Malcom 'Mal' Reynolds is a former galactic war veteran who is the captain of the transport ship "Serenity", Mal his crew of hired transporters, Mal's ensign Zoe Warren, Zoe's husband, pilot Hoban 'Wash' Washburne, muscular former combat soldier Jayne Cobb, young engineer Kaylee Frye, former Alliance medical officer Simon Tamm, his teenage sister River (Both on-the-run from the Interplanetary government "The Alliance"), the beautiful "companion" Inara Serra and religious man Shepard Book do legal or illegal jobs (smuggling, protecting, guns-for-hire, robberies) as the Serenity crew travels across the outskirts of Outer Space for food, money, anything to make a living on, as The Serenity crew tries to stay under the radar of The Alliance and pulls dangerous jobs in the Alliance controlled star systems." Written by Daniel Williamson

If you want to talk about gems in television, you can't do it without mentioning the precious jewel that is Firefly. Have you ever watched a show and felt a connection to the characters involved? Have you ever stressed out wondering if they were going to be okay? Have you known that two characters were so in love and wanted them to finally get together? Well, Firefly had all of that. Plus, space ships, guns, crime, and witty one liners. What could possibly be the most overlooked piece of genious, created by Joss Whedon, has a dedicated following by fans known as Browncoats. Named after the independent resistance depicted in the show. This is a show that had heart and soul poured into it on every episode. A cast of extremely talented actors and actresses that make you love them from their first scene and on. If you don't identify with one of the 9 main characters, you identify with another. We can see a little bit of ourselves in these characters as well as out world. 500 years into the future and we still have the same problems. Politically, economically, and environmentally. This is rare for a show. We have good television shows today, but if your favorite show were to be canceled without notice, would you fight for it? Firefly fans did. They fought hard. Emails, letters, phone calls, websites, anything that they could do. Unfortunately, Firefly did not survive. Two years later when the firefly's light was dim, it once again shined bright with "SERENITY." One of the few movies to rise out of a dead television show. Once again delivering that long remembered feeling of being a part of something special. To this day, the fans of this groundbreaking show are hosting parties, organizing clubs, and converting others into the Browncoat ranks. Paying tribute to that captains who aims to misbehave and the pilot who is a leaf on the wind. Please give Firefly a look. I can personally guarantee it will be worth your time. We browncoats would love to share it with you and chat it up with you anytime. This is something you'll feel proud to be a part of.

"Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down. Tells ya she's hurtin' before she keels. Makes her home."- Cpt. Mal Reynolds.

Diet of Hollywood

For those of you who don't really understand how Hollywood works, it tends to follow a formula. What it will do is take the structure of a great movie from a certain genre and swallow it. While that story is traveling down into the bowels of Hollywood, it gets sprayed with digestive juices. Mainly dissolving the parts that make the story great. Hollywood then prepares for its big release. It braces itself firmly. Prepares for the final push. Then with hardly any effort at all, Hollywood craps out its ever so familiar stool. A sequel.

RIP Music

What happened to the music industry? Why haven't any guitar hero's risen up to rock our socks off? It seems like every piece of new music that's coming out is a reprise of some other band that's not even 3 years old. Singers with voices that sound like a cartoon character suffocating. Power chords constantly with no interesting guitar licks. Drums with the same fills over and over and over, it's ridiculous. I understand the difficulty of writing a new song that has an interesting sound and makes sense, having written quite a few myself. When was the last time you heard a song that became so huge it was listened to for multiple years? Do you really think Britney Spears and Green Day are going to become timeless like Journey or Zeppelin? Come back to me in 20 years and sing a Spears song. Heck, in 20 years you could possibly still sing me a Led Zep song! My theory is that every 100 or so years music begins thriving again. Guitar hero's will rise up and songs will be written with such genious that they become immortal in a lack of a better word. This will hopefully happen around 2055. Till then, man will forget about rock n roll show and all that jive. For now, music is dead, waiting for its day to be resurrected.

Indie's & Small Budge

I'm the kind of movie fan who doesn't always go for the huge budget, big blockbuster, 10 million dollar ad campaign flicks that are constantly spewed at us every other month. I take much pleasure and have much respect for the small budget movies. Why? Because the essence of film is creativity. Down to its very core. Huge studios will usually solve their problems by spraying them down with their giant money hose, while crew's with small budgets are forced to find new ways to weave around their problems to have the same outcome as a 50 million dollar movie. Some great movies with small budgets include the "El Mariachi Trilogy," "Grosse Point Blank," "Resevoir Dogs," and "Underworld." These are just a few of my personal favorites that display true filmmaking talent. So my question to hollywood: Why waste your money on half decent, expensive, problem solvers instead of utilizing your crew's special talents which they are trained to use. Recycle your sets, use less crew, use more THOUGHT in your work.

Flick's, Tv, and Music

If anybody is reading this blog, it will be concerning my thoughts and opinions on film, television, and music. So stay tuned if you want to hear my ramblings. I myself am interested in careers in these fields.