Just one more week that you have to struggle through before the Seattle Geekly podcast returns with our Star Trek themed Episode #42 on December 10. To hold you over I wanted to give you a quick run down on some of the things we’ve been up to before we get to the news. Think of it as kind of a mini version of our Geek Week.
We finally started catching up on Castle thanks to the wonders of DVD. This is another show that is not, on the face of it, particularly geeky but Nathan Fillion has more than enough geek cred to draw our attention to just about any project he is involved in. Castle is pretty much a straight police procedural mystery series with a little Fillion-flavored comedy thrown in. The writing isn’t stellar but so far (we’ve only watched the first eight episodes of the first season) it has been at least competent within the “mystery-a-week” format. There is really only so much you can do when everything has to be wrapped up in a single episode and sometimes the stories can seem a little formulaic. The cast is quite good though and that is what redeems the series for us. Fans of Fillion will definitely want to watch.
This past Saturday we went out and saw Kyle Stevens (of Kirby Krackle fame) play at the Kiss Cafe in Ballard. Kyle had the keyboardist from the Kirby Krackle live band with him for part of the set and they played a number of KK songs including the debut of the Fallout themed “Vault 101″ which will be on their next album. It was a great show, as always. If you aren’t listening to Kirby Krackle as well as Kyle’s solo work you are really missing out.
While at the show, we had a chance to talk with Jim Demonakos, the other half of Kirby Krackle and the organizer of Emerald City Comic Con and he let us in on the inside scoop on a HUGE guest that he is trying to nail down for ECCC. Unfortunately we are sworn to secrecy but suffice it to say that when the announcement is made anyone planning on attending ECCC will go “squee!”.
On the horizon, there is one event coming up on our calendar that I particularly want to hype. You have plenty of time to plan for this, so there is really no excuse for missing it. On December 29 at 7 P.M. The Nectar Lounge in Seattle is hosting a screening of Negin Farsad’s film Nerdcore Rising along with live performances by Beefy, Ultraklystron, Billy the Fridge and Death*Star. This is going to be a night of nerdcore that is not to be missed.
Your Monday news is under the fold
Books
- Star Wars: Death Troopers by Joe Schreiber, designed by Elizabeth A.D. Eno (nominated in the Best from a Series category)
- The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Vol. 9 by Eiji Otsuka and Housui Yamazaki, designed by Bunpei Yorifuji (nominated in the Best from a Series category)
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith, designed by Doogie Horner (nominated in the Best Classics Reimagined category)
- Boilerplate by Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett, designed by Think Studio (nominated in the Best One of a Kind Covers category)
The other categories are Best in Fiction, Best in Nonfiction, Best in Children & Teens, Best in Arts & Comics (which is mostly “art” and hardly any “comics”), Best in Cooking, Food & Wine and Best Famous Faces. Visitors to Amazon can vote for their favorites in the Amazon Best of 2009 Store. Voting also enters you for a chance to win a set of the top vote-getters in each category. Strangely absent in the nominees was the cover for the Zombie Raccoons and Killer Bunnies anthology pictured here.
Comics
Manga
Movies
employs the “found footage” narrative structure that Peli used in “Paranormal Activity” to tell the story of three teens whose curiosity leads them to the notorious Area 51 portion of Nellis Air Force Base in the Nevada desert.
Peli had slightly more than the $11,000 that it cost to make Paranormal Activity to work with on Area 51 which reportedly had a budget of around $5 million
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