BOP Daily News
October 6, 2005
The spirit of BOP News lives on in
This is So Last Week,
our pop culture week-in-review,
presented in a pleasing quiz form.
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Were you paying attention to last night's episode of Lost? Were you? Huh? Huh? Were you? Then you must have caught the third in the string of prominent literary references that have so prominently featured in the various plotlines. Well ... sort of prominently, anyway. Last season, we saw Sawyer reading both Watership Down (by Richard Adams) and A Wrinkle in Time (by Madelaine L'Engle). Last night, The Third Policeman (by Flann O'Brien) made an appearance. One of the episode's writers, Craig Wright, was quoted in yesterday's USA Today saying that anyone who has read the book will "have a lot more ammunition" in dissecting the show's plotlines. Yes, it's driving us crazy, too, but thanks to Lost, the BOP Book Club is no longer lacking in titles.
In a completely unrelated story, Amazon's overnight sales of The Third Policeman jumped 3,582,687%.
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Every once in a while, an event so monumentous occurs that the very laws of nature must be rewritten. These very rare moments of synergy and synchronicity echo down through history. We speak of historical watersheds like Charlemagne at Roncevaux Pass, Einstein's article on the photoelectric effect, or the Kennedy - Nixon debates of 1960. And now, we have the perfect storm of geek culture -- Peter Jackson has signed on as a producer of the Halo movie. Jackson will employ the massive production facilities at Weta Digital Ltd. and Weta Workshop Ltd. to produce the movie. Hobbit fiends and teenage joystick jockeys unite!
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Have any plans for late January? You might want to break them. The annual Big Day Out Festival of New Zealand and Australia has signed The White Stripes, Franz Ferdinand, and Iggy & The Stooges as its headliners for the 2006 massive musical tour. ANZAC's answer to Lollapalooza (but better) begins in Aukland on January 20, 2006, and moves through some of the best spots of Australia. Other acts include Kings Of Leon, Mars Volta, and Sleater-Kinney. Go find your passport. Now.
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Enough with the snarkiness. We were simply overcome by this next item. Melissa Etheridge -- rock star, talented songwriter, and all-around lesbian icon -- made a surprise visit to a cancer biology class at UCLA. Add "university professor" to her list of acomplishments. She held court for an hour, relating stories about her stirring performance at the Grammy awards in the face of chemotherapy treatments for breast cancer and having to tell loved ones that she might die. Yeah, it was filmed for mtvU, but who cares. We applaud Etheridge's willingness to voice her personal stories for the public good.
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"We're not gonna thank anyone, no no! Not you, not MTV, and not those pixel pushing pindicks at Weta Digital! And Peter Jackson, my precious, who do you think you are, you f***ing hack! Shame on you! Shame on you!"
Previous edition's quote: X-Men
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