Russell T. Davies’ Emails
From: Mark To: Russell T. Davies CC: Subject: New Torchwood Episode Attachments: tw_episode.zip (148 KB) Russell, Thanks for agreeing to check out my outline of a story for your Torchwood series. I’ve attached a zip containing the episode in Word format and plain text in case you’re one of those crazy anti-Microsoft people. The brief summary is: an American family visiting Stonehenge accidentally discover that the circle is a portal to parallel Earths thanks to an old piece of alien technology in their camper van, one ends up kidnapped by druids, and the Torchwood group investigate. Features chase scene and heart-wrenching decision by Captain Jack at the end because I know you like that sort of thing. Looking forward to hearing how you liked it (or not). Regards, Mark From: Russell T. Davies To: Mark CC: Subject: Re: New Torchwood Episode Hi Mark That’s really well done for a first draft. I’m still reading it now because I cannot change the font size down from 72 pixels in my copy of Word and I have to sit twelve feet from the monitor. A techy person from the BBC is coming over tomorrow to look at it. You have managed to capture most of the personalities really well and I think we’d certainly like to explore fitting your story into the next series. There are a few changes I’d like to suggest if you don’t mind. Some of these changes will be necessary due to other upcoming stories and the surprise in store for the start of season 2 but others are just to flow with the series feel. Can you expand some of the background story around the American family at the start? Try to add some unimportant, real-life sort of scenarios into their trip towards Stonehenge. Perhaps Thomas and Mike could have a lovers quarrel and then make up? Although Gwen and Owen are a couple now they won’t be in the next series (don’t tell anyone ;)). Can you rewrite their scenes as Gwen and Toshiko please. And Toshiko will only have one arm. I think it’s the left one but I’m not sure so try not to be specific. I.e. don’t let her drive or fire catapults. I’m not keen on Jack’s alien contact for details on the device. We’ll be changing his name from Gamma D’Agruz to Omega B’Ahmerz unless you’ve got any objections. There’ll be more once I get to the end of the second act. Thanks again, RTD. From: Mark To: Russell T. Davies CC: Subject: Re: Re: New Torchwood Episode Attachments: tw_episode2.zip (151 KB) Russell, I’ve made a few changes in the...
Awful Music Videos
This is a post about awful music videos. The good thing about the rise in streaming video sites these days – apart from the increased exposure of the world to the inanity of teenagers with webcams – is that this particular post can not only talk about music videos that are truly, desperately terrible, it can link to them as well. Hell! It can embed them! What a wondrous age we live in! Let’s get on with it … The Buggles – Living In The Plastic Age Really quite probable video pitch: "I’m drawn to the word plastic. I’m thinking: plastic! And lots of it! And rubber gloves!" "Rubber gloves? They’re not plastic." "Trust me, they’ll look plastic on film. And it’s futurey, just like the whole idea of the song: living in the plastic age. Futurey." "It’s about modern living, not future living." "Futurey living." "Ookaayy. Look, fine, plastic sounds good. What else?" "You’ve used sparklers to frighten old people at Halloween, right? Picture this: superimposed sparklers using seamless blue screen technology! That’s an expensive special effect. Very futurey." "Superimposed sparklers and special effects are two phrases that don’t go together. Fine. I guess we can afford it. That all?" "I’ve got a job lot of tinted safety goggles. Can let you use them in the video for cost." "Why?" Shakin’ Stevens – You Drive Me Crazy Official record of video idea discussion: "Look ‘ere boyo! I’m sick and tired of being portrayed as someone grannies love. I want a harder edge. I want danger! I want class! I want people to envy me and say ‘Oh, that Shaky! He’s so rugged and hunky!’ Do I make myself clear?" "Okay. Try this: glamorous women all over the place! Not a granny in sight!" "I like it! Can we afford it?" "Photos of glamorous women all over the place!" "That sounds cost effective. That’s the style taken care of. What about the rough, chiselled edge?" "The story to this is: you’re a house intruder! Maybe a mansion intruder!" "That does sound scary and manly. Boys you’ve excelled yourself! Anything else?" "Steve Davis is very popular. I think we can work a snooker table into the video storyline somewhere." "I feel a number one coming on!" Sister Sledge – Frankie Let’s transport ourselves back to whenever the hell they thought up this awful video idea: "Listen girls, long-lost, forgotten love … I like it, it’s what I would have come up with. We’re thinking along the same lines. That’s good. But … harassing someone at every stage to try to get them to remember you? That’ll be a little tough...
Gia Milinovich
Gia Milinovich (born 11 July, 21 years ago, always 21 years ago) is a television presenter, new media producer, author, multiple world record holder, religious icon, and the only woman in Britain – as of this week – to have her memories stored for later reincarnation. Her mammaries too. She has been leader of the New Ra Movement since 2002 following a bust-up with the Pope and is acknowledged as one of the most powerful voices in European policy-making thanks to a career built on the back of high-profile blackmailing. Contents Family Background Early Life Religion Catholic Faith New Ra Movement Career Technology Family Background Gia was born in Hibbing, Minnesota 21 years ago. Always 21 years ago. As the daughter of former members of the Serbian secret police both she and her family had a great deal of sensitive information on local celebrity Bob Dylan who had toured her ancestral country on numerous occasions and failed to take adequate precautions against bugging devices. The Milinovich family, seeking to distance themselves from their part in unsuccessfully resurrecting the corpse of Hitler (still kept on the living room mantelpiece) and the subsequent tin mine flooding disaster, persuaded Dylan to introduce Gia to his media contacts and Gia’s affair with the world of broadcasting blossomed. Early Life Regular hospital visits during her teen years confirmed that Gia had inherited the Milinovich family traits of: an enlarged brain with fully-intact racial memories, two enlarged bosoms, a third knee, fliptop head. This combination allowed her to learn at a far faster rate than her fellow classmates, excel at kneeling, and get higher marks from the male teachers for some reason. Gia graduated from the University of Minnesota with degrees in all the sciences at age 13. Her high intelligence and keen insight caught the eye of her Biology professor, PZ Myers, who informed the U.S. Military as the terms of his continued freedom dictated. Gia was abducted and experimented upon for a number of years in an attempt to delve into the secrets within her mind. Gia finally escaped with the aid of an interne at the base lab (Sarah Jessica Parker) who helped Gia hide inside a delivery robot. Fearing for her life she made her way to England as navigator on a top secret new type of flying craft. The craft was subsequently hotwired from its landing place in Romford, taken for a joyride, and set alight. Religion Gia’s trauma at the hands of the military probably drove her to find religion when she reached London although she claims to have always been drawn to belief in a deity of some...
Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Baby Photos
All this fuss over Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie having baby pictures. Brad and Angelina with baby picture. Awwww. It’s only recently that Angelina became interested in human babies. Years before she met Brad and had a child with him she was more interested in other sorts of newborns and offspring. In the photo below you can see the beautiful Miss Angelina Jolie with pictures of her various babies. There’s a monkeylet (young monkey), a baby squirrel, and a kitten. And, if you look carefully, two decidedly adult...
An Interview With The Sugababes
Today we’re lucky to have all-girl group action at neOnbubble in the form of all-girl group The Sugababes. They’ve undergone a few changes in line-up over the past few years but have kept a strong fanbase in the United Kingdom, Kazakhstan, and elsewhere. Girls, ladies, babes; first question: What do you think happened in the first few instants after the Big Bang? KEISHA: I’m pretty sure Mutya and Siobhan were in the band at that time, probably mostly in some exotic quark form. Amelle and Heidi would not form for some time until the initial expansion had slowed and larger building blocks of subatomic matter started to coalesce. HEIDI: I’ve never been a fan of the Big Bang theory; after all, what is a theory? It’s something you just can’t prove isn’t it? I also don’t like the accepted standpoint that the universe is even expanding like some balloon. My belief is that we’re in a giant Dyson Sphere created by Egyptians that protects us from the void beyond the universe – the limits of which are only just beyond Pluto – and stops us going mad by projecting a starry, galactic nightscape on its inner shell. The red shift is explained by the failing projection system and it also explains why we’ve never been contacted by aliens: the universe is too small! AMELLE: Hello. I believe in aliens. Are you concerned about climate change and the fact that carbon emissions keep rising in Britain year-on-year? KEISHA: We’ve always been concerned about ecological issues ever since Siobhan’s personal carbon emissions began to affect recording sessions. That’s a joke. It was more a methane-sodium soup cloud. HEIDI: You state that emissions are rising as a fact but, really, what is a fact? It’s faith in something because of evidence, isn’t it? Well, evidence can be planted or simply misinterpreted. How do we know that carbon emissions aren’t actually falling but having a knock-on effect on trees which are producing more less oxygen to compensate, affecting the balance of nitrogen in the atmosphere and destabilising the gyros in the carbon detectors? Think about it. AMELLE: The aliens could secrete CFCs through their retinal membranes. We should concentrate on uploading viruses to their motherships. Norway and Japan just love to hunt whales. What’s wrong with them? KEISHA: Siobhan left the group during our Japanese tour and I always wondered whether her decision to leave was more because of the barbarity of our hosts’ country’s slaughter-loving lifestyle and less my constant taunts about her ginger hair. I hope it was the former; I can finally get some closure and stop seeing my therapist....
Hottest Sci-Fi Babes. Ever!!!!
There comes a time in every man’s life when he sits down and compiles a list of the 10 hottest babes of science fiction. It’s not something we can help and, since it’s a pleasurable experience, it’s not something we care to consider controlling either. For me that time has come now. I’m not the first man to do this and I won’t be the last and I won’t pretend that every other man will agree with this list 100% either. But most will. Because it is that good. 10 Character: LaliariActress: Missi PyleTV Show/Film: Galaxy Quest Oh, that’s not right. But it is. Tentacles. Hot. 9 Character: Princess ArdalaActress: Pamela HensleyTV Show/Film: Buck Rogers In The 25th Century It was very difficult being a woman in the early 80s series of Buck Rogers. How any of them kept from rolling around in hysterics while the corset-wearing, white spandex-apparelled hero tried to hold everything in while sometimes conveying both of his emotions (smiling and not quite smiling) in a single scene beggars belief. Still, the show did feature a string of ladies for Buck to rescue or with whom he could enjoy romantic interludes. Everyone remembers Wilma, of course, but everyone with a functional libido remembers Princess Ardala more. She wasn’t as wet as Wilma, her spaceship was bigger, she was a Princess for freak’s sake. And can anyone say "scantily-clad lust kitten"? Well, I’m thinking it anyway. 8 Character: GuinanActress: Whoopi GoldbergTV Show/Film: Star Trek Hairy girls are not hot despite what the Germans think so it’s a step in the right direction that Whoopi has no eyebrows. More importantly, though, is that Guinan runs a bar. Can you feel your temperature rising? Yes, that’s the alcohol at work. 7 Character: Martian GirlActress: Lisa MarieTV Show/Film: Mars Attacks! What can I say? I like girls with big … hair. Ack ack ack ack ack. 6 Character: LyekkaActress: Louise WischermannTV Show/Film: Lexx Lexx just oozed sexuality so it would be almost impossible to omit it from any list of science fiction babes or hunks. For the ladies there was Stanley Tweedle and for the manlier sex we had a procession of lovelies to salivate over. I could have picked Zev and her blue pubic hair. I could have picked Xev and her lips to die for. But when it comes to selecting the hottest of the hots it simply must be the luscious Lyekka. She’s a man-eating vegetable in nearly anatomically-correct female form. She can’t get pregnant, can handle herself in a fight, and will be happy with an occasional watering and a fresh growbag every now and then....
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