I know I’m only about the nine billionth guy to blog about this, but the synchronicity is worth it, so bear with me.
I was flipping through the Music Choice stations on my digital cable, and one of them was playing Sick of Myself by Matthew Sweet, from 100% Fun. I distinctly remember when I bought that album (the first time), because I’m pretty sure it was the last time I didn’t know that one of my favorite artists was working on a new project well in advance. I just went into the record store one night, and bam, there was a new Matthew Sweet CD. An unexpected gift. Well, one that I had to pay for, anyway. But it got me thinking a little bit about the release-date-knowing, web-site-reading, from-Amazon-preordering entertainment culture of today.
And then I did some blog surfing and discovered that Joss Whedon has announced that he won’t be working on the Wonder Woman movie after all – he just couldn’t come up with a direction that he and the studio both liked. Whedon announced this on the Whedonesque fan site, and the comments thread to his posting contained a lot of people upset, because they had built up their expectations and were really looking forward to a Whedon Wonder Woman movie. There are some folks who are finding a bright side, though – now Whedon has time to work on the other movie project he’s announced, a film called Goners. Whedon is still polishing the script to this movie, but it apparently has earned many devoted fans since it was first announced.
And the cycle begins anew.