July 27, 2005
G4 2 QT?
Tonight at 10pm EST on the videogame channel G4 is the premiere of a Cinematech episode called “Who’s Afraid of Interactive Drama?“, featuring Façade.
Are there any tech-savvy volunteers out there able to record and make a Quicktime movie of the show? (I don’t pay enough money per month to Comcast to get access to G4; plus, it’d be nice to have a digitized version of the episode for the archives.) Any help would be much appreciated!
July 27th, 2005 at 10:08 pm
I’m DVR’ing it now. Not sure if I can get it off the DVR…
July 27th, 2005 at 10:23 pm
OMG. What a terrible show. It’s JUST captured play footage of games. No commentary, no people even. Just game after game after game, interminable minutes watching someone play.
The Facade segment was just on. We saw the characters early in the evening. Then the interactor typed these phrases:
get a divorce
failed marriage
and you guys are ugly
Then Trip told the player (“Warren,” btw) that the evening was over and led him out.
July 27th, 2005 at 10:35 pm
This gives me an idea for a TV show about books in which people simply read books. Silently, to themselves. And they misread them.
July 27th, 2005 at 11:04 pm
This week on The Bindery
While Claire shifts nervously in her overstuffed shabby-chic armchair as she completes the final pages of her murder mystery, Jens flips impatiently through the New Icelandic Cookbook, wondering if fish balls will satisfy Dierdre, whom he met at the bookstore leafing surreptitiously through Austrian travel guides. Meanwhile, Mathilde pages occasionallly through her Hittite grammar, wishing it had been manufactured with a true lay-flat binding, rather than modified perfect binding.
July 28th, 2005 at 1:39 am
TRIP
So! Drinks! What’s your poison? How about a martini?
JENS
fish balls
GRACE
What? She — uh —
TRIP
Um…
GRACE
I don’t —
TRIP
Ha ha… ha ha ha…
GRACE
Ha ha…
TRIP
… never afraid to push our buttons … ha ha…
(Mathilde picks up the advice ball.)
TRIP (interrupted)
Oh that, that’s uh, a little toy I like to get advice from now and then…
(The advice ball reads, “Nu nesumnili hatreski!“)
GRACE
Trip, didn’t I tell you to put that thing away?
TRIP
Yeah, I will, later, after — (interrupted)
JENS
I miss Dierdre.
GRACE
What? What are you saying to me — (interrupted)
(Jens hugs Grace.)
GRACE
Oh… uh… you’re hugging me…
TRIP
Oh, that’s nice Jens, I’m sure Grace appreciates that… heh…
GRACE
(clears throat)
(Claire puts the book on the bar.)
CLAIRE
Oh my God, the butler did it!
GRACE
Um.. yeah…
TRIP
Hey, let me show you this photo I just took on our recent trip to Italy!
JENS
Ever been to Iceland?
TRIP
You know what, I think this evening is over.
(Trip grabs Jens, Claire and Mathilde by their collars, and drags them to the door.)
MATHILDE
hey!
CLAIRE
Trip, were you a butler in college?
TRIP
There’s only so much you can ask us to put up with, you know?
JENS
get a divorce
CLAIRE
failed marriage
(Trip throws them out of the apartment.)
TRIP
We’ll be fine, you just have to go!
MATHILDE
and you guys are ugly
(Trip slams the door.)
JENS
fish balls
(fade out)
July 28th, 2005 at 1:33 pm
lol! did u actually do that andrew or is that fake?