Yeah, that’s true – I weigh too much. I don’t feel like I do but that’s the plain truth as evi­denced by the scales. Effec­tive imme­di­ately, I’m more aware of what and when I’m gonna eat. I’d really like to blame it on the mas­sive amounts of junk food and beer I con­sumed over the last months but that’s not all. I was get­ting com­pla­cent and pre­ferred con­ve­nience. In other words: I’ve grown lazy.

To change all that – and to con­se­quently lose almost 30 pounds in the process – I have to do some­thing. More exer­cise and less junk food sounds like a good start to me. Then, there’s the issue of eat­ing just before get­ting to bed. That absolutely has to stop. Last but not least, I have to drink more water dur­ing the day. I’m really thank­ful for my dis­ci­pline and that’s exactly why I know that I will suc­ceed. Read more…

Thanks to my friend Dave – still only a reader and no poster on this blog – who con­tacted me today I now know more about the upcom­ing movie than ever before. I don’t wanna lose more words than nec­es­sary, so here we go: The movie is called The Incred­i­ble Hulk and it’s some kind of sequel to the first movie. ‘Some kind’ because we got our­selves a whole dif­fer­ent cast this time around.

Edward Nor­ton is Bruce Banner/The Hulk and Liv Tyler will star as Betty Ross. As far as the plot is con­cerned, it almost seems like a fresh start if you catch my drift. A slate wiped clean. But still … it seems to con­tinue where Ang Lee’s film left off. Any­way, go check out the known facts if you’re nosy. Be warned, though: Seri­ous spoil­ers ahead! Any­way, let’s hope they did a good job with the Abomination.

Unbe­liev­able! I almost missed this one, can you imag­ine? Any­way, first things first. I already wrote about FarScape a while back. The execs from SciFi canned the show and left the fans hang­ing in the air with a major cliffhanger. Even though it had good rat­ings. And now they’re gonna bring it back? At least sort of, we’re talk­ing webisodes here. Well, that’s a mys­tery to me but who am I to judge. Any FarScape is way bet­ter than no FarScape. And that’s it, as far as I’m concerned.

Still, let’s take a closer look. Over at Gateworld.net I found the first piece of infor­ma­tion which sent me into the depths of the inter­net, look­ing for more infor­ma­tion I could get my hands on. So, SciFi announced that there will be 10 webisodes of FarScape, set to be released on SCIFI.com. At Comic Con 07 Brian Hen­son him­self told the audi­ence that there will be “at least 10 webisodes of Next Gen­er­a­tion Farscape”. In addi­tion, they were talk­ing spin-offs or movies but there has only been some devel­op­ment as far as the webisodes are con­cerned. Finally, SciFi has whipped up a site where you can “be first to get news about the web series”.

Sounds good? Well, take it with a grain of salt: Each episode is antic­i­pated to run for 3 to 6 min­utes. “The char­ac­ters, crea­tures, pas­sions, con­flicts and barely con­tained lunacy of the ‘Farscape’ uni­verse have never stopped. We just haven’t had a win­dow into that uni­verse lately to see what’s cur­rently hap­pen­ing there. Well now we do. And it ain’t calm, and it ain’t pretty, and it ain’t like any­thing any­one is going to expect. But it is totally ‘Farscape,’” promised O’Bannon, exec­u­tive pro­ducer. Accord­ing to his words, the webisodes should stay true to the orig­i­nal and be dif­fer­ent on the same time!

I don’t know what to think. The peo­ple in the SciFi forums are quite excited about all this. Even though I feel quite enthu­si­as­tic about the “come­back” it sounds a lit­tle shal­low to me. And who knows what they mean when they talk about it not being “like any­thing any­one is going to expect”? To my mind, SciFi is try­ing to see where the new trend of webisodes is going. Change isn’t going to slow down and you has to explore the pos­si­bil­i­ties of dig­i­tal dis­tri­b­u­tion, dig­i­tal con­tent, and, of course, new mar­ket­ing vehi­cles. Let’s hope they don’t screw it up.