I've been hearing about the 11th Star Trek movie. It's still not yet in production, but they are planning it. The movie executives are all sitting around a sterile table on the 30th floor of some building in L.A..
"Alrighty, we've done nothing new with the Star Trek franchise for nearly a year since we killed of Enterprise. The fans are ripe for something new in the series. What kind of scripts do we have?"
"Here's one."
"What's it about?"
"Who cares? Fans don't! I mean, it's STAR TREK!!!!! They're a bunch of geeks. They don't care about how good the story is... do they?"
From a corner. "Um... excuse me, but... um."
"What is it!?"
"Do listen to those podcasts?"
"Pod-what?... Oh yeah, I think there was one of those things led the harrassment about Enterprise. Don't pay attention to that crap! We KNOW our series! So script. Throw me on and let's make the movie!
Star Trek vs Predator. I LOVE IT!"
Nine months later, we get another piece of sh*t from the theatres. If anyone is game for placing a wager, I'd go 10:1 that the script will suck!
Anyone, anyone?
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posted by Marc Gunn @ Friday, April 21, 2006
Once again, it's that time to find out what articles folks find when they are looking for my website. Voila!
Actually, I should clarify. These aren't the Top of April. They are the top ever... articles... Yeah. that's about it. Lots o'traffic come their way. Yay!
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posted by Marc Gunn @ Monday, April 17, 2006
I was curious how people found my website. So I did a check to see the top webpages on my site. It looks like a free music download paradise. Here they are:
Not too shabby. Now I'm gonna look up the OTHER popular websites...
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posted by Marc Gunn @ Monday, April 17, 2006
I can't wait. Just a few more weeks and we start our great adventure.
It's nearly a year since, Andrew and I started playing music full-time as the
Brobdingnagian Bards. I quit my job at the University of Texas because I wanted to be a musician. It took me over ten years to reach my goal, but then something happened I didn't expect.
You see three years earlier, we were at the
Houston Highland Games. There I spent a few moments talking with
EJ Jones and and Jennifer Hamel of the band
Clandestine. They had recently announced that they were breaking up. One of the reasons for it was because they were tired of touring.
EJ told me they would spend two months on the road. It was exhausting. He also said that three was about the longest they could easily handle.
I took their advice to heart. Working with the
state of
Texas, I couldn't do three week or two month tours. Now that I am a full-time
musician, I can. However, the opportunity has never presented itself.
That's all about to change. Come May, we are doing
our first three week tour. I'm excited too. We're driving to
Cassidy's Irish Pub in Corpus Christi to the
Georgia Renaissance Festival. Then we hope to supplement those shows with a couple gigs in Missouri and Nebraska, followed by a grand finale at the amazing
Opus Fantasy Arts Festival in Denver, Colorado.
Grand time for all.
But first, we're heading back to
Long Island for a
Renaissance Festival.
Good times ahead!
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Marc Gunn, BardLabels: scribbles
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posted by Marc Gunn @ Saturday, April 08, 2006
I went shopping today.
This may not sound like anything special, but I NEVER go shopping. I hate it. But I had to return some pants I got for my birthday because I've put on too much damn weight.
Plus, I've wanted to change my *look*. I'm sick of wearing jeans all the time.
Yes, I did get another pair of jeans, but I also bought a pair of slacks. Then I went over to Goodwill and found a couple more cool pair of pants. Almost better than the new pair I got. Goodwill rocks!
Plus, who knows long or if I'll be willing to wear them. So it's a good experiment.
I also got out of the apartment. Yay!
All in all a good day. Sure I spent too much money. But it was necessary.
Now I'm listening to
Bella Morte. Then gonna watch
Moonlighting. Eat dinner. Then out to Fado's Irish Pub to catch
The Tea Merchants in my new slacks.
Oh! And I went to the Gym. Lets not forget that.
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posted by Marc Gunn @ Tuesday, April 04, 2006
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Marc Gunn is an Irish and Scottish folk singer with a strange affinity for Celtic ballads, drinking songs and
cats. He is the lead singer for the
Brobdingnagian Bards. He is also
Celtic music podcaster and promoters as well as publisher of
Celtic MP3s Music Magazine.
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posted by Marc Gunn @ Monday, April 03, 2006
These days, I'm always amazed by our shows. It seems like just yesterday that Andrew and I were trying to figure out how to make our live show better. Now it seems just about every show we do is not only completely original, but a helluva lot o'fun. That's a difficult combination to achieve, but it is also a total delight.
Tonight's show at Mother Egan's was like that. We made a number of new fans, sold more CDs than we expected AND YET I was sick! I've been fighting a sinus infection I picked up on the airplane back from New York. Yet our show still went over great. That's just amazing.
Thanks to everyone who made it out.
Slainte!
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posted by Marc Gunn @ Saturday, April 01, 2006
