Anticipation
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.
About Dave Thomer
Born and raised in Philadelphia. Studied philosophy at Fordham University in the Bronx, where I made many great friends and met my wonderful wife. We moved back to Philadelphia, where I studied philosophy some more and became a teacher. Online and off, I'm looking for ways that we can be better citizens and build stronger communities.