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teddogRick Green? Is a cool guy in real life.
I got to help interview him today. We were dissing the quality of the first season of Prisoners of Gravity together. I didn't speak up too much, but I was honestly in awe for most of it and generally felt like a nervous wreck. I was totally made of fail. D:
There are things said in that interview that are... big and interesting things! Like...
- How he got the job hosting the series.
- The reasons why the first season Prisoners of Gravity is "lost" (I now feel bad for digging it up).
- The future of History Bites.
- The possible future of Prisoners of Gravity.
- Some goofy bits with Rick Green acting as Commander Rick. If they keep the full opening... OMG... it's SO over the top. Rick also did the "Prisoners of Gravity" rant from season one.
As soon as it's posted, I'll be linking it. This was the secret thing I was working on, although word had gotten out a couple of days ago. It was also one of my big life goals - those who know me know that Rick Green was my media hero since grade 5 and one of the reasons I decided to chase an education and job in media. Not to recreate his stuff, but to do cool crap like what he did and still does. :)
I've also been welcomed into the staff of This Week in Geek. Heaven help me, I have no idea what I have done.
How did this happen? A couple of weeks back, I got an email from Mike, one of the hosts, thanking me for my site and asking me if I wanted to involved with the interview. Turns out that he had visited my site waaaaay back when I was probably back in high school and was shocked at how much it had grown. So, this somehow spun off into me actually being on the phone during the interview. 0_0
I'm still pretty dazed.
I got to help interview him today. We were dissing the quality of the first season of Prisoners of Gravity together. I didn't speak up too much, but I was honestly in awe for most of it and generally felt like a nervous wreck. I was totally made of fail. D:
There are things said in that interview that are... big and interesting things! Like...
- How he got the job hosting the series.
- The reasons why the first season Prisoners of Gravity is "lost" (I now feel bad for digging it up).
- The future of History Bites.
- The possible future of Prisoners of Gravity.
- Some goofy bits with Rick Green acting as Commander Rick. If they keep the full opening... OMG... it's SO over the top. Rick also did the "Prisoners of Gravity" rant from season one.
As soon as it's posted, I'll be linking it. This was the secret thing I was working on, although word had gotten out a couple of days ago. It was also one of my big life goals - those who know me know that Rick Green was my media hero since grade 5 and one of the reasons I decided to chase an education and job in media. Not to recreate his stuff, but to do cool crap like what he did and still does. :)
I've also been welcomed into the staff of This Week in Geek. Heaven help me, I have no idea what I have done.
How did this happen? A couple of weeks back, I got an email from Mike, one of the hosts, thanking me for my site and asking me if I wanted to involved with the interview. Turns out that he had visited my site waaaaay back when I was probably back in high school and was shocked at how much it had grown. So, this somehow spun off into me actually being on the phone during the interview. 0_0
I'm still pretty dazed.
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Date: 2007-08-23 09:51 pm (UTC)Maybe its the comic book store that needs to change? I mean, I'm not one for mainstreaming my niche interests but I've never found the comic book store scene appealing. Holt Refrew meets Grey Region? I kid but actually I found Silver Snail to be much more approachable then say Comic Connection in Westdale however still there is something If you really want such fandom to become broader in appeal though there are things that will be lost. I sure I've ranted to you about the changing state of video games. Anyways its a difficult line to walk as much of these fandoms are a little too geeky (or introvertedly appealling) for the average Joe. So do you want status quo as a niche or to dilute and possible change just to appeal?
That's why we should open a gaming/geeky interest store. But we would do it with flare, style and sense of posh while still allowing those men of great girth to ogle Emma Frost or whoever.
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Date: 2007-08-24 12:06 am (UTC)At the same time, it's not all fault of the store. The manga problem is rooted in the fans and their sense of entitlement. The public, well, I can't really speak for them. I believe it's caused by both sides, although everyone points their fingers at each other; we aren't the most welcoming bunch and everyone on the "outside" thinks we're strange. The girl issue IS one rooted in the fan community. In a bad situation, everyone either stares at you, assumes that you know nothing or assumes that they have you already figured out.
Case in point: the HMV on Yonge has a decent anime section at good prices, depending on what you're looking for. I stopped in a couple of weeks ago to pick up a DVD from their basement-o-geek. The guy at the cash chatted a bit with me... and then started pushing yaoi on me. Heaven bless the fanbrats but I have no interest in romance stories of any colour. I wasn't even giving off any "fangirls vibes" or anything! I was picking up The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, which is closer to yuri then anything else. -_-
However, it's not everyone and every store that's the problem. While I was at 401 Games, I was treated the same as the male customers and was even asked by a clerk to help explain the local geek stores to an older tourist couple.