GI JOE: RESOLUTE – Episode 1
April 18th, 2009 | Work
Looks like episode one is up at Adult Swim. In fact, episode 2 may also be there. Hard for me to tell, as I’m outside the US and can’t actually see it. I imagine it’ll be on YouTube soon enough.
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postfix, spamassassin, dovecot and sieve?
jwz - 30 Jul 10
Dear Lazyweb, how do I use both SpamAssassin and Sieve at the same time?
Is the way this works that Postfix writes /var/mail/jwz via procmail, and then dovecot reads from there and moves the messages to ~/mail/ via sieve? I can't even tell.
Postfix main.cf has mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail.
/etc/procmailrc is:
DROPPRIVS=yes
:0fw
| /usr/bin/spamc -u $LOGNAME -x -s 100000000
/var/mail/jwz gets X-Spam-Status headers written into it. So far so good.
/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf (for dovecot 2.0) has:
protocol lda { ... mail_plugins = sieve ... }
Dovecot is managing to read messages out of /var/mail/jwz and deliver them to me over IMAP, with SA headers intact. But it's not running sieve, possibly not even running its own lda, and everything I have googled so far is a twisty maze of illiterate wikis that may or may not be written for versions of the software that is 5+ years out of date.
I thought maybe the answer was to add
| /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d $LOGNAME
to the end of procmailrc, but that let me to discover that:
% cat testmsg | /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d jwz
Exit 75
lda: Error: dlopen(/usr/lib64/dovecot/lda/lib90_sieve_plugin.so) failed: /usr/lib64/dovecot/lda/lib90_sieve_plugin.so: undefined symbol: tried_default_save
lda: Fatal: Couldn't load required plugins
So I guess I have the wrong version of the sieve plugin? I have: dovecot-2.0-0.18_114_rc3.el5 and dovecot-sieve-0.1.17-5.el5 on CentOS release 5.4 (Final)
Is the way this works that Postfix writes /var/mail/jwz via procmail, and then dovecot reads from there and moves the messages to ~/mail/ via sieve? I can't even tell.
Postfix main.cf has mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail.
/etc/procmailrc is:
DROPPRIVS=yes
:0fw
| /usr/bin/spamc -u $LOGNAME -x -s 100000000
/var/mail/jwz gets X-Spam-Status headers written into it. So far so good.
/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf (for dovecot 2.0) has:
protocol lda { ... mail_plugins = sieve ... }
Dovecot is managing to read messages out of /var/mail/jwz and deliver them to me over IMAP, with SA headers intact. But it's not running sieve, possibly not even running its own lda, and everything I have googled so far is a twisty maze of illiterate wikis that may or may not be written for versions of the software that is 5+ years out of date.
I thought maybe the answer was to add
| /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d $LOGNAME
to the end of procmailrc, but that let me to discover that:
% cat testmsg | /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d jwz
Exit 75
lda: Error: dlopen(/usr/lib64/dovecot/lda/lib90_sieve_plugin.so) failed: /usr/lib64/dovecot/lda/lib90_sieve_plugin.so: undefined symbol: tried_default_save
lda: Fatal: Couldn't load required plugins
So I guess I have the wrong version of the sieve plugin? I have: dovecot-2.0-0.18_114_rc3.el5 and dovecot-sieve-0.1.17-5.el5 on CentOS release 5.4 (Final)
Grasshopper Podcast Appearance
Jean Snow - 30 Jul 10
I mentioned last week that I’d be a guest this week on game developer Grasshopper Manufacture’s podcast (Flower, Sun, & Podcast), and the episode (5) is now up and you can download it here (it should be on iTunes too). Check it out if you want to hear me ramble (and ramble) about mostly game-related topics.
Pictured, the Grasshopper conference room — complete with ping-pong table — where we recorded the episode. Big thanks to Grasshopper producer Esteban Salazar for inviting me on the show.
Thor 612 & Spider-man Vs Thor 2 Out
Kieron Gillen - 30 Jul 10
Catching up a little with stuff that happened when I’m away. I’ll talk Generation Hope later, but here’s the two comics I’ve got out this week.
My Thor In Hell and Hel arc continues. Here’s the five-page-preview. Enormous metal seriousness. My dual influences remain I, Claudius and the cover of 1980s Metal albums. Assorted random reviews: IGN. A Comic Book Blog. Weekly Comic Book Review.
The concluding party of my two part character-study/fight-comic. Preview here. And no reviews which I can find, but pleased to see that at least some people thought it was funny. Few things make me worry more than writing comedy.
Oh - here’s Seb’s review of the first one, which will give you a taste for it.
Vintage Jantzen: The Pin-Up Powerhouse
Coilhouse - 30 Jul 10
So… any Mad Men fans in the ‘haus? No spoilers in the comments, please, because I’m not sure if Mer and Zo have had a chance to catch last Sunday’s Season 4 premiere. But without giving away any plot points, I just want to ask: what was up with Don Draper pulling a Dov Charney with his horrible Jantzen pitch? Our colleague Copyranter eats this kind of American Apparel shit for breakfast. The Portland-based swimwear company was portrayed as a stodgy, conservative business to whom Draper declares angrily, “you’re too scared of the skin your two-piece was designed to show off.” I guess he (and/or the show’s writers) never saw Jantzen’s Vargas-inspired campaign, which ran in LIFE in 1947 (below). Dear readers, I proudly tag this post “Stroke Material” and present you with my stash of vintage Jantzen advertisements from the 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s. Sun-kissed beauties with Bettie Page smiles and space-age swimsuits – as well as a few clever parodies – after the jump.
Read the rest of Vintage Jantzen: The Pin-Up Powerhouse
Post tags: Advertising, Fashion, Stroke Material, Ye Olde
You're Welcome ...
Kung Fu Monkey - 29 Jul 10
Cinnamon is waiting at PortlandDogXperts.com for someone to rescue her, after her star turn on the Leverage Season 3 finale. The madman Okie is still under contract to the TV show.
Deep Rivers Run Quiet: Ryan Francesconi?s ?Parables?
Coilhouse - 29 Jul 10
Photo by Ben Corrigan.
Ryan Francesconi‘s wonderful music has been lilting around the edges of my life since 1995 when I briefly worked together with him and Dan Cantrell in the Toids, an experimental folk group that riffed off various Eastern European idioms in tandem with Francesconi and Cantrell’s eclectic compositional styles. Back then, Francesconi was one seriously intimidating guitar/tambura/bouzouki shredder! He reveled in playing faster, smarter, better than anybody. He’s a shredder still, and no one can approximate his style… but over the years, wisdom seems to have smoothed over some of the sharper, more Malmsteinish edges of his virtuosity. Lately, the music he makes has deepened into an expression of something far more present, and pure.
Nowhere is this more apparent than on a quietly stunning record Francesconi released earlier this year, called Parables. A series of songs for solo acoustic guitar, it reflects his interest in American bluegrass, Bulgarian folk, jazz improvisation and Baroque lute music. Recorded live (no overdubs!), the music is graceful and green with nods of kinship to everyone from Nick Drake to Herman Hesse to the forests of the Pacific Northwest– which is where Francesconi lives when he’s not trotting the globe.
Speaking of– if you’re a fan of Joanna Newsom, the name Ryan Francesconi is probably already familiar to you, since he’s been one of her key players for several years, leading her live touring performers in the Ys Street Band and arranging/playing on just about every song on her new triple album, Have One On Me. They’re kicking off their summer West Coast tour of the States tonight in San Diego, California. Newsom had this to say about Parables:
“Ryan Francesconi is one of the most awe-inspiring musicians I’ve known. On “Parables,” he distills his many realms of artistry [...] into a beautifully minimalist, poetic, intricate, emotionally realized study of themes, variations, organic counterpoint, and such devastating forays into fractal-metric out-lands that it is nearly impossible to believe he’s picking those strings with just one hand. This is solo music that sounds like an ensemble, an ecstatic and measured reconciliation of West African / Balkan / Baroque / bluegrass influences, which ultimately resembles nothing I know.”
Pick up Parables on vinyl over at Drag City (they’re currently sold out of the CD), or in Mp3 format from CD Baby or iTunes.
Post tags: Events, Faboo, Music, Personal Style
Nick Cave Rewrites The Crow, Cillian Murphy to Star?
Coilhouse - 29 Jul 10
Nick Cave’s participation in the remake of the new Crow has been confirmed, and I’m finally starting to get excited. The Crow, a film based on James O’Barr’s eponymous comic book series, was a sort of holy grail to me and my darque little crew back in the early nineties. Unapologetically dramatic, The Crow had everything an angsty kid could want: love, destruction, hot bloke in makeup, great villains, pretty girls. There was one year when I watched the film at least five times.
Now, I haven’t actually seen it in over ten years, for fear that it won’t hold up. I’m told it doesn’t. Still, the concept of a shiny new remake of my childhood/adolescence favorite is an uncomfortable one. Nostalgia and Brandon Lee’s death on the set veil The Crow in shimmery, inviolate mystery, and, had it been anyone other than Nick The Stripper doing the re-write, I would have probably shunned it. As things stand though, I think there’s reason to get at least a little fired up, especially with new rumors of Cillian Murphy possibly signing on to play Eric – almost as weird as casting Brandon Lee! If only Stephen Norrington could be replaced… Yes, then I can almost picture it. Until we know more, let us remember The Crow that once was. I leave you with a question: who would you cast as the ideal Eric?
The Crow is available on YouTube in its entirety.
Post tags: Comics, Fairy Tales, Film, Stroke Material, Surreal, Uber
Igor Oleynikov
Coilhouse - 29 Jul 10
A patchwork biography of Igor Oleynikov: Growing up in Lubertsy, Russia ? a small town outside of Moscow ? his entrance into the art world was at the Russian animation studio Soyuzmultfilm in 1979. Since 1986 he has been illustrating children’s books and has done 25 to date.
Children’s book illustration is a lot like veterinary school ? the common misconception being that medical school has a much higher barrier of entry, and yet the opposite is true. Children’s book illustration is a notoriously difficult nut to crack.
Oleynikov’s work is testament to the talent involved in the field. His paintings are lush and yet his tones are muted just enough to give everything a dream-like quality. In addition, they possess that air of danger and foreboding so often found in literature for young readers. Really, I could look at these all day. See more after the jump and even more here, here, and here.
Read the rest of Igor Oleynikov
Cthulhu Cthursday: Arkham ? shit, I?m still only in Arkham
Ectoplasmosis - 29 Jul 10
When I found this last weekend, I watched it obsessively a number of times. It just seems right. Not exactly a vision of prophecy, but for a myth of collapse it will do?
Apocalypse -Cthulhu- Now by Cthulinos [Youtube]
Apocalypse Now intro – In case you’ve forgotten the visual pun [Youtube]
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I’m outside the US too but I saw the clip you posted the other day from Youtube and I am very interested to see more.
Just watched it. Since when was G.I. Joe this awesome?
Also, that ninja is hardcore.
It is parts one and two.
And I am simply blown away so far. NEED MOAR!
It’s excellent!
Nice to see this finally having watched and waited for it.
Totally fresh.
Um…that was kinda awesome. Kudos, man, ku-freaking-dos. That whole ninja scene was bad-ass.
You killed Bazooka, you bastard!
:)
As always Warren you have done outstanding job with this material. I think your G.I. Joe characterizations may even eclipse what you’ve done recently with Astonishing X-Men. I am always excited to see anything you have written and anxiously await the further episode of G.I. Joe you have penned.
Very Cool!
More more more
-R
Fantastic! It’s like a bit of my lost childhood evolved and came back to me!
You are fuck god of GIJOE!
Three-for-three so far.
I’m looking forward to the next seven.
Wah-Hoo! [Sgt. Fury would so love this!]
i’m already hooked
Yeah, cool. First GI Joe cartoon I ever watched I must admit (they were ACTION FORCE on this side of the Atlantic and I missed whatever the jump-on point was). I liked it. What will Larry Hama think? In fact, now that I think about it… W.W.L.H.T? Bet you he’d be into it.
niiiiice….
Brilliant it’s got HAARP in it.
Nobody else is going to talk about how awesome Cobra Commander was? Cause that whole scene rocked like freaking crazy.
Good LORD that was great. I loved the show back when I was a kid, and this hits all the right notes for me now as an adult. Good job, and I look forward to lots more of this in future.
GI Joe is this awesome since Warren Ellis butt-flossed the writing.
That was a fair bit of not-too-bad. Ep. 3 was a bit flat, but I guess all narratives need transition and exposition.
The first two fondled some of my least-well-socialized brain-bits in a naughty way, though, and that’s right nice.
The adultswim.com viewer is a lot sharper than the YouTube footage, if you have the choice. They have the first two chunks up, third’s on YouTube only.
Wait… wait… Something’s missing.
Where’s the PSA? I NEED to KNOW what HALF the BATTLE IS!
*bows down in a we’re-not-worthy manner*
You killed off Bludd, Bazooka and 10 million Russians in five minutes. That’s damn fine work right there. Loving every minute of it. Now we just need you to start writing the comics, and maybe a movie sequel… after you give us another Desolation Jones adventure.
Well done, Mr. Ellis. Well done, indeed.
I didn’t think your writing style would translate over to animation. I was wrong. That was very, very good. What do we have to do to get a series out of this?
Never saw the original G.I. Joe series, so I can’t make any comparisons.
Resolute looks rather intense.
Nicely done! Why do I feel that the movie should have been written and produced by you? I don’t think I’ll even see the movie. I saw the trailer and I felt a little of my childhood die, painfully.
Keep up the great work with everything!
Great Stuff! I hope to see more! Looks impossibly good.
Holy Crap!
More, please, Sir! *grovel grovel*
I love it, but I gotta say: ‘Threat yet perpetrated’? Really? You went with that? Much as I love you guy, that’s terrible. But the ninja was bad ass. And I dig the chick that knows five ways to kill a city of ten million sans nuke. I know this was written and cut many months back but, just fyi, there are loads of people just like me that want every thing you touch to be excellent. So far, so good. Carry on.
I think I was just striken with a fanboy boner.
Not all that into GI Joe but those first two episodes were very fun. Looking forward to the inevitable ninja battle.
Wow. You even worked HAARP into it.
Hope the fanboys google it…
My only gripe is that they didn’t get you to pen the feature film.
G.I.Joe Resolute looks incredible.
G.I.Joe The Movie looks like shite.
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I heard about this project while visiting family in the States during the holidays, and only briefly saw the toys while doing some Christmas shopping. I was a bit worried about how things would shape up, but I’m happy to see my worry was for not! This IS G.I. JOE, or at least what it should have been. Thank you very much.
I hope this becomes extremely popular ’cause Hasbro needs to commission you for some more work! Only next time, it should be twice as long, though I wouldn’t complain if were even longer than that.
Till next time, Yo, Joooooe or Cobraaaaaa! (Take your pick)
Chris
Two minutes of ninja bad-assery. Thanks Warren, can’t wait for the showdown.
Holy cock that’s awesome.
Do you take requests? Please do he-man next.
Great stuff. G.I. Joe was the first comic I ever bought, so I have that nostalgic fondness for it, but it was never this good. Mr. Ellis, you have done it again.
chris beckett
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so beautiful….so beautiful…….should…have…sent…a poet
GI Joe: Resolutely Cool…
The first three “episodes” of Adult Swim’s GI Joe mini-series/movie have been recently been posted to Youtube. G.I. Joe Resolute is all kinds of crazy, as I suspected from the trailer, and Warren Ellis’ does an amazing job of u…
I’ve been wanting to watch snake eyes ice a bunch of cobra fodder for years. that shit was cold blooded, thank you Mr Ellis.
Warren, holy crap dude. Snake Eyes is fucking harsh. Nice work sir. :)
Thank you for giving GIJOE new life, Mr. Ellis. It’s been needing this for a long time. Hasbro tried, so many times, to reinvent something that just needed to be updated and you hit the nail on the head. Hopefully, Hasbro will commission you for more outstanding work. I hope the feature film can capture 1/4 of what you’ve done. I’m not holding my breath, though…..
Hi,I read on a forum that there are some haters out there, Resolute rocks. Haters are outnumbered. Liked what you did with Snake eyes. The wingsuit scene rocked. Couldn’t wait more to see the rest. Thank you.
This is very cool, the Snake Eyes scene is fantastic. Shame the film makers didn’t take their cues from you.
With the success of this project, maybe you can convince the producers to make GLOBAL FREQUENCY into a animated series!
My first G.I. Joe issue was #2 based on seeing the comic book tv advertisements in the early 80s.
G.I. Joe and Warren Ellis??!!? Together? Are you kidding me? What?
Ellis is writing script for a new (adult) G.I. Joe cartoon.
I became a fan of your comic book writing skills during your Stormwatch run.
I guess Hasbro never read Warren Ellis’ work on Stormwatch. Ellis likes to upset the status quo by killing off characters.
Mr. Ellis…
THANK YOU!!!! Resolute was awesome. Please don’t kill Duke or Scarlett.
Hasbro good choice in selecting Ellis to script the cartoon. Try not to panic too much at his ideas. It’s going to a ride.
Hasbro, I think you all should buy advertisement time in movie theather to promote the cartoon leading up to the live action movie.
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