And So To Bed
May 15th, 2006 | brainjuice
I just read a draft of Aaron Sorkin’s STUDIO 60 ON THE SUNSET STRIP and it is so finely balanced and perfectly judged that I’m about ready to kill myself. Good night.
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Complete Plan B Archive
Kieron Gillen - 09 Feb 10
The whole run of Plan B magazine has been released as a single 670Mb PDF. That’s 46 issues of some of the finest music writing of the decade. And a lot of posturing pretentiousness too. It’s like two of my favourite things for the price of one. Or none, as it’s a free PDF.
If you’ve any interest in music in the 00s, or music full stop, this is a great thing to just have on file. You’ll discover a new band every time you browse it.
Hell, it’s even worth getting if you’re one of the games journalist sorts. For the first 10-20 issues or so, I was doing games stuff for it. And Quinns and Mathew Kumar too, who I bullied into contributing. Very much written for the non-gamer about games which get pretty much no coverage, we had fun trying to decode the concept of Outsider Games.
Whole thing here. Go gets!
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Coilhouse - 08 Feb 10
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jwz - 08 Feb 10
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"Inflection Points" Presentation
Open The Future - 08 Feb 10
For those folks who are interested, here's the Slideshare version of the presentation I gave last week at the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute annual meeting. I was asked to talk about foresight thinking, as the event theme was "The Big One of 2056: What Went Right?" a look at a fictional 7.8 quake in the SF region that was handled as well as they could imagine possible.
My goal was to offer a bit of reassurance to the audience that there is some real utility to thinking about the future, and to spell out (in a cursory way) the kinds of big picture issues they should keep in mind while looking ahead forty-six years.
Inflection Points
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By and large, it was a successful talk. The post-talk questions were engaged, with little push-back, and I'm told that the overall response from the audience was quite positive.
The talk was video recorded, and I'm told will eventually be available to the public. I'll link when that happens.
Yeah, I read that too. It’s chock full of the Awesome. -Jack
The early draft IS fantastic. It was nice to see a promo for it on the last West Wing.
After reading it, I started regarding it as one of my favorite series, despite not actually having SEEN it yet.
[...] I read the early draft of the Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip script that’s been floating around the internet tonight (inspiration from Warren Ellis). For those of you just joining the Studio 60 bandwagon, it’s the new show from Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing, Sports Night) that’s debuting on NBC this fall, all about the exploits of a SNL-type show that’s past it’s prime (is that redundant?). [...]
This is definitely the show I am most looking forward to next season.
I haven’t read it, but I bet the first season will be fun & breezy and the second season will be a titanic shitstorm during which the plot will spiral into the scuppering asshole of mutual loathing and perscription drug abuse between the entire cast of characters.
It’s Sorkin’s trademark.
Is there a link to the script on the net somewhere?
Found It
Yes, hooray for Google.
I’d like to see that on the air; however, given that what I found was “an early draft” there’s no telling what the actual pilot will look like.
But I agree with Michael Sullivan above; if they can keep the edge this draft had and be genuinely satirical without being self-indulgent, this could be one of my favorite shows too.
The draft I read made me feel both like worshipping at Sorkin’s computer and hitting him in the head so he stops making everybody else look ill. Lots of Sports Night in it, which is understandable and awesome.
“Good, ’cause I’m pretty stoned right now and I can’t really remember what I said.”
Sorkin, you magnificent bastard. I cannot wait.
Don’t worry, Warren: Americans don’t like “finely balanced and perfectly judged,” so the show will no doubt die after a good four to seven episodes.
The good stuff seldom lasts in this country.