Slayer Soundtrack Sunday ~ Alison Krauss

Bluegrass singer Alison Krauss of Union Station sang two songs in different Buffy episodes.

"It Doesn't Matter" appears in the opening episode of Season Two, "When She was Bad" as Buffy's mother drives her to school. Buffy is acting badly towards everyone, but maybe it's because the Master is haunting her dreams.






"That Kind of Love" was included in the episode "Entropy" in Season 6. As the title implies, things "fall apart" once again for Xander and Anya, as well as Buffy and Spike when a hidden camera reveals Spike and Anya doing the hanky panky. But Willow and Tara get back together as this song plays.

Who would sell their soul for love?
Or waste one tear on compromise
Should be easy enough
To know a heartache in disguise
But the heart rules the mind
And the going gets rough
Pride takes the fall
When you find that kind of love

I can't help feeling like a fool
Since I lost that place inside
Where my heart knew its way
And my soul was ever wise
Once innocence was lost
There was not faith enough
Still my heart held on
When it found that kind of love



Though beauty is rare enough
Still we trust
Somehow we'll find it there
With no guarantee
It seems to me
At least it should be fair

But if it's only tears and pain
Isn't it still worth the cost
Like some sweet saving grace
Or a river we must cross
If we don't understand
What this life is made of
We learn the truth
When we find that kind of love
Cause when innocence is lost
There is not faith enough
We learn the truth
When we find that kind of love



"That Kind of Love" appears on Radio Sunnydale UK and "It Doesn't Matter" appears on Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Album (1999 Television Series)

Joss Whedon on the Colbert Show June 20, 2013

Joss on Colbert talking about Much Ado and Avengers II

Much Ado About Much Ado

source: Regal Cinema Poster Contest on Facebook

Joss Whedon's version of Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" opens to a wider audience tomorrow, although skipping many cities (such as my own hometown of Chattanooga). So you may have to drive a couple hundred miles to see it, but if it's popular with general audiences it will surely spread to more theaters.

Theater Listings for June

From ComingSoon.Net

Filmed in just 12 days entirely on location in exotic Santa Monica, Calif., Much Ado About Nothing features a stellar cast of beloved, or soon to be beloved, actors - some of them veterans of Shakespearean theater, some completely new to the form, but all dedicated to the idea that this story bears retelling, that this dialogue is as fresh and intoxicating as any being written, and that the joy of working on a passion project surrounded by dear friends, admired colleagues and an atmosphere of unabashed rapture far outweighs their hilariously miniature paychecks.

Shot in glorious black and white by Jay Hunter, the June 7 release stars Amy Acker and Alexis Denisof as Beatrice and Benedick, the world's least likely lovers headed for their inevitable tumble into love. The supporting cast includes Nathan Fillion as Dogberry, Clark Gregg as Leonato, Fran Kranz as Claudio and Reed Diamond as Don Pedro.

Joss Whedon will appear with Stephen Colbert tonight. I will post the video as soon as it appears.

Set your TV recording device thingie! @JossWhedon will be on @ColbertReport tonight at 11:30pm/10:30pm Central on @ComedyCentral.
— MuchAdoFilm (@MuchAdoFilm) June 20, 2013

Interview with Total Film Magazine:



Whedon has chosen the winners of the Regal Cinema Much Ado Poster Challenge
See all the amazing fan posters Here on Regal Cinemas Facebook

.@JossWhedon has spoken & the #MyMuchAdoPoster contest winner is @dcmjs. See his poster at @RegalMovies theaters! pic.twitter.com/nkfhwe4GDU
— MuchAdoFilm (@MuchAdoFilm) June 20, 2013

Robert Downey Jr. Signed for Avengers 2

Robert Downey Jr. WILL Definitely appear in Avengers 2, which is good news since Director Joss Whedon recently said the movies couldn't be made with him.

Whedon Via Daily Beast

He is Iron Man. He is Iron Man in the way that Sean Connery was James Bond. I have no intention of making Avengers 2 without him, nor do I think I’ll be called upon to do that. I don’t think it’s in my interest, Marvel’s interest, or his interest, and I think everything will be fine. But I know that this is Hollywood and you roll with things. You have to be ready for the unexpected. But I loved working with Robert, and everybody knows he embodied that role in a way no one else can. The day he was cast, I went up to [Marvel Studios president] Kevin Feige and said, “You brilliant son of a bitch.”

EW Inside Movies

Picture a big pile of money in that metal hand.

Robert Downey Jr. has reached a two-picture deal with Marvel Studios to appear in The Avengers 2 and The Avengers 3 — but notably

He reportedly earned more than $50 million for The Avengers, and although his multi-picture contract with the comic-book moviemakers was fulfilled by Iron Man 3, everyone involved was moving forward as if a deal for more films was inevitable.

“I’d go start another one tomorrow, but it’s not tomorrow,” Downey told EW when Iron Man 3 was debuting. “And there are a lot of other considerations. But I also don’t like the idea of leaving people hanging or leaving people in the lurch.”

Slayer Soundtrack Sunday ~ Band Candy

The episode "Band Candy," season 3, episode 6, has some hilarious moments as Buffy's Mother Joyce and Mr. Giles eat some magical chocolate candy and revert back to their teenage years, creating a Freaky Friday role-reversal situation for Buffy. Giles channels his inner-Spike as he seeks to impress the bad-boy crazed Joyce, and they make out (and more) while listening to old records. Soon they are joined by Principal Snyder, turned back into a teenage Geek by the candy, and he also wants to woo Joyce by doing some rockin' Tae Kwan Do maneuvers. It's all quite a bit of fun until they realize there are several small babies stolen from the local hospital by the Mayor and the Mr. Trick gang of vampires.

All the role reversals are great fun, and Buffy has to be the adult voice of reason for once.




Cream "Tales of Brave Ulysses"
One sad note - Giles listens to this song again in Season 5 "Forever" when Joyce dies.







Four Star Mary (Dingoes Ate My Baby) ~ Violent



The Kingsmen "Louie, Louie"



Christophe Beck (Soundtrack) "Sugar High"

What If The Avengers Had Been Made in 1978?

Ah, What if? Luckily someone clever had this idea and made the "1978 Movie of the Week Trailer" complete with a jazzy soundtrack and Paul Lynde as Loki, LOL.

How Joss Whedon Juggles His Time

From How To Be Prolific - an Interview with Joss Whedon by Ari Karpel of Fast Company

. . . surprisingly, Whedon advises getting the fun stuff done first. “Some people will disagree, but for me if I’ve written a meaty, delightful, wonderful bunch of scenes and now I have to do the hard, connective, dog’s body work of writing, when I finish the dog’s body work, I’ll have a screenplay that I already love. I used to write chronologically when I started, from beginning to end. Eventually I went, That’s absurd; my heart is in this one scene, therefore I must follow it. Obviously, if you know you have a bunch of stuff to do, I have to lay out this, all this dull stuff, and I feel very uncreative but the clock is ticking. Then you do that and you choose to do that. But I always believe in just have as much fun as you can so that when you’re in the part that you hate there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, that you’re close to finished.”

I cut in, asking if he’s read David Allen’s book, Getting Things Done. “I did not get that done,” Whedon says, with a straight face. “I told him, actually, because he did a little talk at someone’s house and I did tell him, ‘You should write a second book called Finishing This Book.' But it has been enormously helpful, even in the baby steps version that I embrace. I still use the phrases.” Such as? “ ‘Next actions’ is one of the most important things that you can say in any endeavor."

. . . *SNIP*

“I read The Killer Angels. It’s a very detailed, extraordinarily compelling account of the Battle of Gettysburg from the point of view of various people in it and it’s historical. It’s historically completely accurate, and the moment I put it down I created Firefly, because I was like, ‘I need to tell this story. I need to feel this immediacy. I so connect with that era, the Western and how tactile everything is and how every decision is life or death, and how hard it is and how just rich it is, and how all the characters are just so fascinating.’ But so I should be on the Millennium Falcon. Now, if I only watched sci-fi I would have just had the Millennium Falcon part, which has already been done, but finding that historical texture, it literally, I put the book down and started writing Firefly. And that was my vacation from Buffy, which was two weeks. I got two weeks every year, and in that vacation I read, in 14 days, 10 books. My wife and I saw like nine plays, and that’s all we did. We just filled the tanks.

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EVERYONE NEEDS SOME TOUGH LOVE.
"This comes from Kai, my wife, who produced the film. She [quotes from] Rio Grande: ‘Get it done, Johnny Reb.’ It’s like, don’t make excuses. There aren’t any anymore. If you’re talking about it, you should be doing it ...

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