Spook's Cowboy Bebop Blog

I thought this was exciting! Sakamichi no Apollon television anime was confirmed on Friday, and it will reunite Shinichiro Watanabe and Yoko Kanno. Anime News Network has the full story and even a link to the promotional video. Check it out!

This is going to have a jazz soundtrack,and we all know how well Ms Kanno does jazz. I’m going to be watching out for this one!

Thanks to Pureblood-3 for the alert!

It’s now 2012, another year closer to 2071 and the events depicted in Cowboy Bebop. I’m pretty sure the Earth should have been laid waste by now because of the gate accident, but we won’t let a little thing like THAT stop us now, will we?

I’ve discovered that I am no longer compelled to watch Death Note all night every night and am finally able to get back to my first love, writing Cowboy Bebop fan fiction. I located the story I have started on my hard drive and am staring at it like a cave man at an iPhone. I’ll figure out where this is going and get this thing out there for you all to read and critique. Just going by how thing have gone with so many of my previous fics, I think I should just start typing and see what comes out.

This one was started Memorial Day weekend last year (OMG almost eight months ago!), which was a difficult time for me personally, so it was going to be really dark. Not sure how dark it’s gonna be, but we’ll find out.

I hope everyone reading this had a fabulous holiday season and enjoys all the best for this new year just born.

God bless, and I hope to have this thing done for you soon!

I found a link today that made me happy, an article about one of my favorite movies, the John Frankenheimer-directed Seconds.

I provided the link above in case anyone else has seen the movie and is interested in reading a very cool article about it. If you HAVEN’T seen it, I think you want to. It’s… bizarre. “Haunting” is another very good adjective for this film staring Rock Hudson. For Star Trek geeks like me, it also has Salome Jens, who played the female shape shifter in Star Trek: Deep Space 9 during the Dominion War story arc.

What does this have to do with Cowboy Bebop you ask? I will refer the reader to the final paragraph to the article, which I will quote here where Mr. Frankenheimer makes statements very similar to what I’ve been saying about a recurring theme in Cowboy Bebop.

Despite Seconds’ commercial failure, it remained one that Frankenheimer was particularly proud of. “This picture means a lot to me for many reasons,” he once said. “One of the reasons it means so much to me is that this movie says something that I firmly believe in. That, in life, you are the result of your experiences. The result of your past. Your past makes you what you are today. [emphasis mine] If you take away your past, you don’t exist as a person. And that’s what he tried to do, and that’s why it doesn’t work. And by your past I mean your mistakes as well as your triumphs, whatever they are.”

I love being in such good company, and I’m all but convinced that this theme is a good part of what drew me to both Seconds and Bebop.

Ok, this isn’t making a whole lot of sense to me. Going to have to read it again in the morning. Joshua Long’s production company is being sued by investors, and somehow the Cowboy Bebop live action movie is said to be involved. Read the full article here.

The plaintiffs’ lawsuit alleges that the e-mail, among other correspondence, is “full of misrepresentations and omissions, and was an attempt to induce the plaintiffs to make loans to Instavision. Instavision was not producing Cowboy Bebop with 20th [Century Fox].”

Is this article confusingly written? Or is it late and I’ve been drinking? I’m going to have to see if there is any more out there that has been written about this issue. Sigh.

Someone tweeted this blog posting I have to share: http://geekout.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/07/corgis-are-%E2%80%98the-new-cats%E2%80%99-of-internet-culture/.

Apparently Ein is a popular name for corgis and we’ll no doubt be seeing a lot of corgies on the internet (if we aren’t already).

I’d love a corgi, but I’m up to my armpits in cats (don’t ask) and I doubt a dog would survive for too long in my house.

Pureblood-3 asked for pics. Here ya go, honey.

As you can see, I don’t exactly have mad photography skillz.

Here, the wings are folded up. They don’t stay very well.

The second one with the wings deployed looks much better I think. You can’t see that the red frame around the pod isn’t seated right. Looks like I will have to translate that text after all.

I haven’t put together that many models – last one I did was a Battlestar Galactica Viper (the original series) and that needed gluing. I’m sure someone else would do a much better job of it than I did, but I had great fun putting it together.

One of these days I may get a second one, just to keep in the box. Yeah, I’m made of money.

Some message boards are having fun trying to come up the perfect casting for the live action Cowboy Bebop movie. I’m not into it, personally. I prefer to be surprised by unknown or lesser known actors. Plus I feel quite strongly that Spike is Japanese (seeing as how the character was modeled after Yusaku Matsuda, late Japanese actor), but most of the suggestions are coming up with Caucasian actors. Meh.

I found this site with some interesting choices I hadn’t thought of before. Take a look at Comic Book Movie .com’sposting’s choices. Other than Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Spike, the others are suggestions I hadn’t heard before.

I should say too that if they HAD to cast a Caucasian as Spike, JGL would have to be it. Man, if they could get Christopher Nolan to direct….