Eee! That is the most awesome poster. It's so wonderfully old-school; very reminiscent of the original Star Wars poster in terms of style (although obviously it is not illustrated). Unfortunately, it's the Australian poster, not the domestic one. The domestic poster? Not so much a fan.

Serenity also has the most awesome viral marketing campaign I've yet to see. Joss actually got Summer Glau, who plays River, to do these little films to release over the internet. Amazingly awesome. Here's the link to the mirrors. They're all short, about 1-2 minutes long, but it's very important to watch them in the order listed, not in chronological order. Joss is such a magnificent bastard.

For Alyssa, Caroline, and anyone else who might be interested, I made the above banner into a 1024x768 wallpaper here.

So, I went to the Whole Foods Market today for the first time. It's more complicated than that, though, so let me explain. That will take too long; let me sum up: I went to regular Albertson's this morning, but they did not have barley, which I wanted to make a beef and barley stew. So, I came home and googled Whole Foods, and the location provided was about 2.2 miles north of me. I mapped it, did some alterations so I could stick to surface streets, and decided to just ride my bike there. Three miles later, I show up...at the distribution center.

So I biked back home. And let me tell you, when you're not used to biking six miles at a time...yeah. That was fun.

Got back on Google, and it turns out that the actual store is 4 miles to the west of me, in downtown. Thankfully, I could take a straight-shot bus almost completely there, and only had to bike about 6 blocks the rest of the way. It is a very awesome store; insanely crowded, though. I mean, I don't really see the point in buying organic pop or potato chips or, like, candy, but to each his own. They did have barley, though, so that was exciting. I wish I could go there more often, for bulk grains and produce and such, but it is about an hour-and-a-half outing, all told.

I only have class Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, so I get this four-day weekend every weekend. That's awesome. I need to find a job, though. My resume's been up on the UT website for hiring for almost a week now, and it looks as though no one's biting, so I guess I'll have to do an actual search. Sigh.

Ah, my very favorite episode. I finally got the software to screencap this one; would you believe that none of the major cap sites have done this episode? /Maxwell Smart

Bought my art supplies for my experimental media class today. I love buying things; I hate paying for things. It's unfair that the two are so inextricably linked. Anyways, I had to ride the bus, and coming home, not one stop after I get on, the bus breaks down. And I'm thinking, it's going to get hot, we're going to have to wait until a replacement bus gets here, I'm not going to get home for another two hours, JESUS, huh, this is kind of like an Amazing Race Moment (ARM), and those are always fun. Then, about two minutes into my fascinating interior monologue, the driver starts the bus again, turns to us and literally shrugs his shoulders, and we're back on our way.

This is the third Friday in a row I've forgotten to watch Arrested Development. GODDAMMIT. At this rate, I'll forget to watch the season premiere.

I'm very sad about the prospect of watching the Emmys alone. This suddenly occured to me today out of nowhere while vacuuming my bedroom.

Went to screenwriting class this morning, which thankfully is an intro class so's I can get all caught back up. Afterwards, I went to the graduate cinema library, which is great; they have a ton of DVDs and even more on VHS, and we can actually take movies home to watch. This is a large improvement from the USC cinema library, where one had to watch movies sitting in cubicles. So, there's not really any need for me to get Netflix now; the man who buys the movies says that he doesn't necessarily get movies right when they come out, but he has a sense of what people like to watch and tries to order things he knows will be popular. And, he gets various TV shows, so I'll have to check that out.

Then, I went to my experimental media class, which seems cool with regards to the actual media production, and a little flaky when it comes to the grandiose artistic bullshit. (Actual moment today: "Rhyme blue." "Stew?" "No." "Sad?" "No." "Slight constipation?" "Better.") This website is an example of the work we'll be doing, including the website manufacture itself. (See what I'm talking about? Blah blah blah.) I mostly took this class because I've always wanted to make an experimental film, like where you paint on the film stock and such, and that's the end product; but the rest of the projects look pretty cool. For me it will be a case of creating the art and then backtracking the reasons and what-all; some people are left-brained, analytical thinkers, and that's just how it is. I'm all for stretching oneself intellectually and artistically, but I know the way I think and it's not going to change. It's my brain. That's just how it works.