Friday, January 17, 2003
I spent most of yesterday sitting at the foot of the brick wall, rubbing my jaw, making sure I hadn't lost any teeth. Today I have to climb, like it or not, doubt be hanged.
Any day now, the CD that will accompany Trilobite: The Writing of Threshold will be back from the printers and ready to go out with the book, when it gets back from the printers. It's truly an amazing disc and will, I remind you, be available for sale on my website and the NYARLATHOTEP website. Recently, Thryn (Kathryn, Spooky, etc. — she has many names, that one) and I listened to an early mix of the disc again and I'd forgotten how good it is (and Derek assures me the final product is light years better, with many more tracks). It makes as fine a "soundtrack" for Threshold as any I could imagine (excepting, perhaps, a Graeme Revell soundtrack with contributions by Brian Eno and David Bowie). I eagerly, impatiently await it.
There's not much else to say just now. The snow storm didn't happen, but it's frelling cold out there. I'm cooking gumbo with crawfish for dinner guests tonight. Last night we watched the vastly underappreciated Plunkett and Maccleane (1999) again, and then dozed to Pitch Black (one of my "sleep movies"). I keep picking up William Blake. I've been browsing a book of H. R. Giger that Spooky brought down with her from Rhode Island. Yesterday I listened to Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man's out of season for the first time and was suitably impressed.
Tonight is Farscape, remember? Thanks to Kale, who, having read my rather strident post of yesterday, posted the following to my discussion phorum:
"One thing that drives me nuts about the SciFi channel is that they give you the times in Eastern Standard Time, and you're not sure if it'll be the same time in Pacific, or will there be a three hour time difference. From my experience last week, it will air at 5 pm and 9 pm PST in Los Angeles. "
And my response was:
"Okay. This had me utterly perplexed, because before I made the blogger entry yesterday, giving the times coast to coast, I double-checked with sci-fi.com and tvguide.com. I just checked with both again and they still say 8 p.m. and 12 a.m. for PT. So, at tvguide.com I clicked Dish Network instead of cable and, low and behold:
Farscape, 5 p.m. and 9 p.m.
So, there's a different time if your provider is Dish Network (which I've never even heard of). We have DirectTV, and it airs Farscape the same time as regular cable. But I'm East Coast. So, my guess, the three hour delay from ET to PT for Dish Network follows, simply, from the three-hour time difference. This would mean that, for some reason, Dish is picking up the eastern feed, not the western feed."
Anyway, those of you not on the Dish Network, see the entry from 1/16/03 for local times. Otherwise, it's tonight, the Sci-Fi Channel, 8 pm and rerun at 12 am. "Terra Firma." And if you're not convinced to give an hour of your time, try reading one of the essays that I wrote about the show back in September. I'll even provide the hassle-free link: Crackers Do Matter: Why Farscape Is Worth Saving. Maybe that'll tilt the scales.
Now it's time to work. Where did I put that damned chainsaw . . .
"And mutual fear brings peace . . ."
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