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Browncoat Required Reading

POSTED BY: SERGEANTX
UPDATED: Monday, May 17, 2004 15:45
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Sunday, May 16, 2004 7:25 PM

SERGEANTX


I was feeling nostalgic and found this:

http://www.keithmpire.com/firefly/index.html

I remember those slow agonizing weeks as winter approached, thinking that they couldn't really toss something this good aside, they couldn't possible just let it go. *sigh*

SergeantX

"Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, cause dreamers always chase but never get it." Aesop Rock

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Monday, May 17, 2004 5:09 AM

BROWNCOAT1

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.


I remember reading this back in December of '02. It still tugs on the ol'heartstrings.

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."


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Monday, May 17, 2004 6:51 AM

SOUTHERNMERC


Gyah! I'm all teared up reading it again.

Jayne: "See, Vera? You get dressed up, you get taken someplace fun!"

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Monday, May 17, 2004 1:33 PM

DARKJESTER


A few tingles runnin up my spine reading that....


MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."

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Monday, May 17, 2004 3:45 PM

ZOID



SergeantX and fellows:

I read the linked article, unlike others, for the first time. (Gawd, as I write, Darth Hayden is now whining about how he slaughtered the Tuskans!) (Sorry for the disjoint; I'm watching SWII:AotC on HBO Family, whilst writing)

Since the author brought up Brad Pitt and "Se7en" -- and since my brain is full of twists and culs de sac -- I'll take this opportunity to hijack the thread briefly.

Before becoming an apostle of Firefly, I was an avid proselytizer for my favorite Pitt film, "Fight Club", likewise directed by David Fincher. My acquaintances and I would trade 'clubisms' in the same way we now deal out Fireflyisms. You know, laughing knowingly as we instruct the bewildered waitress to bring "clean food, please" or just snickering annoyingly because the soup of the day is clam chowder, and chanting "His name... was Robert Paulson" mysteriously, whenever we heard someone coming up the stairwell. By the way, Pitt refers to the new recruits for Project Mayhem as "Space Monkeys", first time I'd ever heard that term, and well before Mal's use in Firefly.

For those who haven't seen it: Do. Just heed the following warning, as found on http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/trivia :
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After the copyright warning, there is another warning on the DVD. This warning is from Tyler Durden, and is only there for a second (NB: So you'll have to pause the DVD at just the right moment). "If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don't you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all who claim it? Do you read everything you're supposed to read? Do you think everything you're supposed to think? Buy what you're told you should want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned.......Tyler"


I'm not an anarchist; I've got kids and the collapse of civilization is contrary to their well-being. But what I value most about "Fight Club" is that -- while it's only a thought piece -- the spirit it embraces scares the living bejeezus out of rich, powerful people in the real world.

Anything that scares the elitists in Washington D.C., on Wall Street, or in Hollywood is fantastic, in my book... As Tyler says to the police commish,
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...Look, the people you are after are the people you depend on. We cook your meals, we drive your ambulances. We connect your calls, we guard you while... you... sleep. Do not... fuck with us.


And if you're looking for a tie-in to Firefly, to get back on track, how about this for a BlueSun analogy:
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When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.


Was it space monkeys? Or Reavers?


Respectfully,

zoid
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"My God. I haven't been fucked like that since grade school."
Helena Bonham Carter, 'Marla Singer', from "Fight Club"

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