. . . Said the Joker to the Thief

All right, because I know it's been weighing heavy on everyone's mind I, thanks to everyone's favourite Goonie, now have information to share about the cover of Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" from the season finale of BSG.

The man responsible for scoring/rearranging/whatever the tehmical term is is Bear McCreary and the singer is his brother Brendan, known professionally as Bt4. The guitar player was Steve Bartek from Oingo Boingo (bet you never thought you hear that name again, eh?) . . . actually if you go to Bear's site and check out his Blog entry about it there's loads of information that I didn't read beyond who was the singer . . . now to go 'find' me a copy of this song.

And the BSG fanboys (I know who I are . . . I mean who you are, yeah that's the ticket) will be happy to hear that Starbuck has won the Chicago Tribune's Best Character on Television fan voting contests. Never underestimate the Internet voting power of pasty basement dwellers.

And because July 4 is quick approaching I know everyone is eagerly awaiting the release of the live action Transformers Movie . . . well I don't have the movie, but here are the posters, well they're more like teaser posters, but pretty good none the less. In other Transformers news according to this article none other than Mr. Hugo Weaving aka Agent Smith (from the Matrix) aka Elrond (from LotR) will be voicing Megatron in the movie. Although Weaving has a very distinct voice right now I'm thinking that I'm going to be expecting him to say "Mr. Anderson" at the end of every line . . . I know half the time in the LotR series of films I was expecting Elrond to do that or at least say "Mr. Baggins".

Since we're talking LotR, here's some news for you. It looks like Tolkien Jr has finished his Dad's last unfinished book. I hope Jr is brilliant because his Dad was an amazing writer responsible for some of the best fantasy stories of the last century and is basically the father of modern fantasy . . . and a strong influence on the shaping of the Dungeons & Dragons game . . . especially back in the red book days (I think I still have my red books somewhere . . . I'm sooo-oh cool). I probably won't bother trying to read this book, I loved The Hobbit and the LotR series, but I tried to read some of his other stuff (the Silmarillion especially) and couldn't do it. Too much of a mental work out I suppose.

And one final note, since Holy Week (feel free to insert your own Palm Sunday joke here) is coming and Easter is right around the corner, I thought I'd share this little tidbit. Did you know that according to Des Pascha Comutus, written in 243 CE, Jesus Christ's birthday was March 28. It later became the familiar December 25 after Rome changed it in 336. See other entries on the Church yoinking pagan holidays for their own.

That's more than enough for now, I got some real world stuff that needs doing.