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Jul 25, 2023 16:50

Another excellent details-filled #TheXFiles interview by @[195561691234370:274:Sammensværgelsen – en dansk X-Files podcast] with an important behind the scenes person, David Gauthier — the mechanical special effects supervisor (i.e., practical on-set stuff, not visual/digital effects) for the first five years in Vancouver and again for the second film.

Episodes mentioned:

• early episodes: use of punctured tubes made of plastic bags and smoke machines in the forest, this made the defining look of the show!
• the move from very small studios in the first six episode to Fox’s North Shore Vancouver studios and eventually occupying all of that
• again, how Chris Carter controlled everything and how great it was to work with him + how amazing all the writers were, and Rob Bowman, Dan Sackheim, David Nutter
• “Ice”: freezing and reanimating meal worms
• “Fire”: dealing with fire on set
• “The Host”: how they shot the Flukeman inside the sewage pipes, and in a sewage plant
• “Exelsis Dei”: the flooded hospital room scene
• “End Game”: truckloads of ice for the submarine conning tower scene
• “Soft Light”: meeting Vince Gilligan
• “Paper Clip”: sizes of light trusses for the UFO scene
• “DPO”: lightning made out of steel meshes and lights
• “731”: making a memorabilia out of an old bell from the train wagon they used
• “Piper Maru”: getting the newtsuit from a diving company next door to the studios, effect of the black oil in the eye (of course, the French diver was named after him)
• “Home”: Kim Manners saying he’d never find work again after shooting the teaser
• “Terma”: complexities of the oil well explosion
• “Tempus Fugit/Max”: getting the script ahead of time, constructing the plane, mechanics of the abduction scene, scuba diving with DD
• “Zero Sum”: use of painted pop corn for the bees flying inside a room
• “Gethsemane”: real snow and freezing temperatures in a warehouse for the Yukon camping scenes
• “Kill Switch”: trailer explosion, robots design inspired by NASA
• “Patient X/The Red and the Black”: UFO crash, setting people on fire
• “Folie à Deux”: how the man in suit approach didn’t work
• “I Want to Believe”: shooting Mulder’s car crash in the snow, using fake ice for the surgery scenes
• not involved in the revival, it wouldn’t have been the same after all these years

https://sammensvaergelsen.libsyn.com/website/interview-david-gauthier-special-effects

https://www.facebook.com/Sammensvaergelsen/posts/pfbid0xUyoC2wFnzP5jGFMW35JGhmdUiERpHqsbjqXLLPagtTPfMcqk5cByLBEP3qsvraol

Jul 30, 2023 16:09

15 years already since the release of the second #TheXFiles film, “I Want To Believe”! The show is 30 years old, and it’s hard to believe that as much time has passed between the pilot and IWTB as between IWTB and today… My opinion on that film has not changed much since, there are certainly many things I appreciate — such as the Millenniumistic photography, the Frankenstein aspects of the story, some mythic elements (descent to the underworld), Mark Snow’s music — but the whole thing doesn’t gel. It would have been fine if TXF had made one film every couple of years or so, but as an attempt to relaunch the brand it didn’t meet expectations. Not horrible, not a masterpiece.

Still, I have good memories of winning tickets to the premiere via Spotnitz’s Big Light, attending the July 30 premiere in London, interacting with many fans there from all over Europe, seeing CC/FS/DD/GA up close — and listening to this blockbuster-like remix of the main theme by UNKLE, over and over again while waiting to get in the theatre! (In the meet and greet, CC was asking if somebody from UNKLE was in the audience, I don’t know if they found each other or not.) Let’s celebrate “XF2”!

Aug 05, 2023 13:23

#TheXFiles 1997 soundtrack Songs in the Key of X is out in vinyl!

https://www.facebook.com/EnjoyTheRideRecords/posts/pfbid021Qh9WDS8KUrWTJ9hKh1hEsbirbhQTvbyzcPAcko9y3x7vRqVVq1L9bWC4hC8S6Hpl

Aug 09, 2023 21:49

Here’s a new and different #TheXFiles podcast, “Fandom X Archive”, dedicated on chronicling the early days of the XF fandom! A deep dive in the early to mid 1990s, with alt.tv.x-files newsgroups and the like… I love such academic/fannish stuff, somewhat due to nostalgia! In part, I developed Eat the Corn’s interview database as an archival resource to support such endeavours.

https://aliensupersoldier.com/?p=1839

Aug 18, 2023 18:02

One thing I like in #TheXFiles is the cinematic atmosphere, and this is what these little “no context” videos provide: short clips from episodes not focused on the actors but on these moments between when the plot happens, a still camera fade in or a moving crane shot, when we linger on a setting, a forest, an object, a mood…

Season 4:

Full playlist with seasons 1-7: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ5SdDogH5i2ly4Vrzll6XZTmQji0CNsb

Aug 24, 2023 14:40

#aphextwin’s ambient electronic track “Windowsill” sounds…quite a bit like #TheXFiles main theme. And sure enough I checked, this track was released some 6 months after the TXF pilot aired, in March 1994!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selected_Ambient_Works_Volume_II

Aug 29, 2023 23:07

Before #TheXFiles there was the #twilightzone! @[100057694884330:2048:Frank Spotnitz] talked to the @[100064733644766:2048:Rod Serling Memorial Foundation] about how TZ was a big influence on TXF and on pretty much anything on television in the past 60 years, and how we should celebrate Serling’s unique brand of humanistic storytelling. Interview runs from 2:06:50 to 2:51:50. What’s *your* favourite TZ episode? (And yes I’m pretty sure it was not the Dusky Realm.)

https://www.facebook.com/RSMemorialFoundation/videos/3499712833614340

Sep 01, 2023 19:56

A new interview with Dan Sackheim by @[195561691234370:274:Sammensværgelsen – en dansk X-Files podcast]! He was a producer and director at key moments of #TheXFiles: he helped set the tone of the show from the very beginning and he produced the first movie. He is quite candid and you can hear his love and respect for Carter and the show. Highlights:

Launching TXF:

• Carter was playing softball with Michael Duggan [later a writer/producer in Millennium s3], Duggan set up a meeting for Carter to first meet Sackheim.
• Carter was convinced to hire Sackheim when he referred to Errol Morris’ documentary “The Thin Blue Line”, which had inspired Carter when he was thinking of the visual identity of the show.
• Carter was concerned that the director of the pilot episode was not creative enough, he wanted a producer with a sense of visual acumen.
• Sackheim remembers that during the shooting of the pilot, a key grip fell into a grave hole and broke his leg.
• Shooting Deep Throat, Conduit, The Host (which he finds silly)…
• Learning from Carter the importance of visual storytelling, the importance of telling a story from a point of view.

Fight the Future:

• He read the script on Carter’s computer when Carter was trying to convince him to produce it, he accepted in exchange of him and Carter developing Harsh Realm!
• It was the first movie he was producing, he doesn’t know why Carter chose him! He learnt on the spot, made mistakes.
• Only 8 weeks of prep was very challenging.
• Memories from shooting FTF: David frustrated at Martin Landau missing his lines during the alley scene, using fake ice, improvising with the prosthetics of the aliens, shooting inserts with the second unit, David frustrated shooting the scenes with the bees (“the bees have a better union than I do!”), they ended up using CGI bees and could have done shooting without real bees (!), the ice stage was under hot lights and the ice was melting, there were negotiations with the “Independence Day” producers to allow to show Mulder peeing below the poster, they nicknamed the Antarctica base “Ice Station Zebra” [after the 1960s espionage thriller].
• There were conversations that if there was going to be a sequel then he might direct it.

TXF s5+ and Harsh Realm:

• In early seasons things were malleable, by the time he returned in s5 things were very fixed.
• Shooting Kitsunegari, SR819 (having to play marriage therapist between Mitch and Arlene!)…
• He spent a lot of time in the editing room during s6-7 and for #Millennium and #HarshRealm. [He also directed the excellent MM episode Closure]
• He recut IWTB with Carter, Spotnitz and the editor, it was a small budget. [He is uncredited, first time I hear of this!]
• He was asked to join the revival, but didn’t want to do what he had already done.
• A change in the Fox network hierarchy resulted in Harsh Realm being cancelled.
• In 2013, he, Carter and Spotnitz discussed rebooting Harsh Realm (!) — it would have been a different show, but they couldn’t agree on a common vision, on how to make the virtual stakes real. [This is the first I hear of this, and I would have loved it if this would have been made!…]

https://sammensvaergelsen.libsyn.com/website/interview-dan-sackheim

https://www.facebook.com/Sammensvaergelsen/posts/pfbid02a69G2UyTGEfarSaaTCih7Qq4ybaSuaRJjcBr9tg9xa3Yc4YQ6tkJqSmdKoFmuKEQl

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May 29, 2023 18:44

The first interview ever with Brad Follmer, courtesy of @[100064600333206:2048:The X-Cast\: An X-Files Podcast]! He was Chris Carter’s assistant on #TheXFiles from mid-season 7 (the first episode he is credited in is First Person Shooter) to season 9, and he is credited as staff writer in season 11. Unfortunately the sound quality is not good, but here are the key takeaways:

• The first episode he watched was X-Cops, preparing for an interview to get a job on the show; he still hasn’t watched the entire series.
• Cary Elwes’ character was named after him. Elwes used to call on the phone: “This is Brad Follmer calling, is this Brad Follmer?”
• He remembers Burt Reynolds being on set shooting the casino scenes for Improbable. After shooting, Reynolds sent Carter *half* an award he got (People’s Choice Award for Evening Shade).
• The Mulder family (Carter’s mother’s family) were dairy farmers. Carter knew what time every Starbucks in LA West Side opened and he was always the first one in the office every morning.
• David Duchovny (unclear if it was him because of the audio?) used to call to ask for scripts to auction off, he gave Follmer the nickname Bartleby, from the Herman Melville short story about a clerk who says when asked to do tasks: “I would prefer not to”.
• The Lone Gunmen pilot (the one about a plane crashing into the WTC made 6 months before 9/11) was being prepared around the time Carter and Spotnitz were called on a CIA outreach program to discuss potential national security threats with Hollywood writers, but because of scheduling they couldn’t attend.
• Wade Allen was Carter’s personal trainer, Carter thought that Annabeth Gish could do some training, and that’s how she met Wade, they later married.
• Shooting Requiem: Carter was very secretive about the ending, he wrote the last pages the day of the shooting, he was driving to the shooting with 3 copies of the last pages of the script on a Friday night, to Big Bear mountain, a 2-3 hours drive from LA but with traffic, with the crew waiting.
• Carter’s research question for The Truth: what’s the government’s most secret facility?
• Carter’s research question for Fight Club: what are other nicknames for the boxing ring, like the squared circle? Via his mother, Follmer found Mohamed Ali’s trainer Angelo Dundee to ask!
• Follmer and Gabe Rotter did write the script for an episode for season 10, initially as a back-up in case Carter didn’t manage to do his 3 episodes – about fungi causing zombies (audio unclear?). They boarded it, they wrote a draft, then Duchovny was going to be available only for limited days so they rewrote it, then Anderson was going to be available for less days so they rewrote. Things were very close to Carter directing it, they tried to shoehorn it to be produced as a 7th episode. When season 11 was made, there were other ideas, so it was never made.
• Since the revival, Follmer has worked with Carter, one has helped the other in projects, and he has worked with Gabe Rotter and Ben Van Allen on various projects that haven’t materialised yet.

May 30, 2023 15:24

[SPANISH] Estos primeros 12 a 16 números del cómic, de Stefan Petrucha (yo digo Petruka, no sé) y Charlie Adlard, fueron unas de las primeras cosas que encontré como fan de #TheXFiles, y todavía quedan siendo unas de mis cosas favoritas que produjo la “marca” TXF! En éste podcast se habla mucho de esos, y de varios detalles sabrosos de cómo se hicieron. Es verdad que se adelantaron con muchas cosas que hizo la serie después (Tunguska, Unruhe, Field Trip…yo añadiría Demons y José Chung con lo del control de la mente y de no saber que era la verdad y que no).

https://www.facebook.com/AguanteMulder/posts/pfbid02h2h53WvjEUrbAQtaMNgDsSNeKaDhBNHjvWJLFVpvvrx1WnUHaUUoZUvrbZstFHhgl

May 31, 2023 14:01

Sad news – John Beasley, Emma Hollis’ father in 3 episodes of Millennium, has passed away. I also knew him from some episodes of Treme.

https://tvline.com/2023/05/30/john-beasley-dead-cause-of-death-everwood-irv-harper-dies/

Jun 08, 2023 15:44

Frank Spotnitz was interviewed following yet another “whistleblower” story in the news related to UFOs secrecy in the US intelligence. (Actual revelation? Fake news? Useful idiot? True believer? Who knows?)

The site needs a VPN to be seen by European visitors… Here’s what it says:

“The X-Files” producer Frank Spotnitz told NewsNation’s “Banfield” he’s a skeptic of the military whistleblower’s secret UFO claims but he would “love to be convinced.” Spotnitz said the claims could have a positive, profound effect on humanity. “Aliens are like trying to prove there’s a God. If you could, that would have profound effects on everything,” Spotnitz said. “It would change our understanding of each other. … It might bring us closer together because there’d be this other threat that’s not human. We’re always looking for the bad guy, but in this case, it wouldn’t be other people, it’d be someone else out there.” Spotnitz also revealed that he’s still in touch with Chris Carter, producer for “The X-Files.” Spotnitz said that Carter is less skeptical than he is about the recent claims.

(Thanks Adam Silva)

https://www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/ufo-claims-could-be-positive-x-files-e-p/

Jun 19, 2023 21:09

25 years since the absolute #TheXFiles summer blockbuster, whose tagline became the title, “Fight The Future”. 25 YEARS! Here’s the trailer, hard to describe the excitement when this first aired on TV and I recorded it on VHS.

Some trivia:

• the trailer was originally released 21 November 1997, well in advance and barely after principal photography had finished! In theaters, it premiered with… “Mortal Kombat” (lol) and “Alien: Resurrection” (https://groups.google.com/g/alt.tv.x-files/c/Ma4PJv2f8rE/m/JuZM7qgJsYkJ)
• the music used toward the end is from the soundtrack to… Baz Luhrman’s “Romeo+Juliet”, by Nellee Hooper/Craig Armstrong/Marius de Vries, track “Escape from Mantua” (https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ_Wiuwz67I)
• the trailer saw the debut of the modified TXF logo, allegedly because “20th Century Fox” and “Fox TV Studios” wanted to differentiate their products.

Jun 29, 2023 19:38

A nice interview with Chris Carter (CC) from last week, with #TheXFiles Diaries, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the release of the Fight the Future (FTF) film.

https://xfilesdiaries.libsyn.com/127-fight-the-future-with-chris-carter

Some well-known stories, but also some new information, summarized here [plus my comments]:

• Dori (CC’s wife) and Mary Astadourian (Ten Thirteen vice-president and CC’s assistant) were in the Hawaii trip together with CC and Frank Spotnitz on Christmas 1996, when they came up with the storyline for FTF [who took notes, I wonder? :D]
• The FTF story was the only story they developed for the film, that’s all they had time for
• CC is happy that FTF was made on budget, Fox was scrutinizing them carefully, all the more because James Cameron’s Titanic was going way over budget!
• The feature and TV business branches of Fox didn’t talk to each other: the second unit (was shooting ice scenes) got news that the movie was greenlit before CC knew of it!
• CC watched Mission: Impossible as a kid, that’s where he knew Martin Landau from
• Strughold, Bronschweig, Kurtzweil: the movie’s German names are just a coincidence [so much for reading into that…]
• CC’s grandfather (Carl Gerhard Busch) was German
• Throughout the series, CC didn’t like the way that DD ate sunflower seeds
• The almost kiss in the middle and the mouth to mouth scene at the end, there was no intended correlation, these were coincidences [so much for reading into these two scenes rhyming…]
• DD kind of contributed with the idea of a love triangle between Mulder-Scully-Fowley [and CC ran with it!]
• CC confirms that the Well-Manicured Man committed suicide [because he was done for, and to give Mulder a head start – if anyone was still doubting that]
• For those wondering about Washington DC geography: when Mulder tells the taxi to go to Arlington, he’s heading to another bar
• During the construction of the geodesic domes in the ice field, a worker spent the night in one of them, and he says that there was a polar bear around
• Mark Snow’s wife is the one whose whistle can be heard at the end of the IWTB soundtrack
• The Foo Fighters were going to play at the FTF premiere after-party but they cancelled at the last minute
• Mulder peed *below* the Independence Day poster (not *on*), this was done as an appreciation of the movie [my life is ruined!]

Jul 18, 2023 18:04

A mini-#TheXFiles reunion at the WGA & SAG-AFTRA strike picket line in front of Fox studios today, where the series was shot! #WGAstrike #SAGAFTRAStrike solidarity! David Duchovny, Annabeth Gish, Rob Bowman, John Shiban, Steven Maeda, Daniel Arkin, Tom Schnauz and more were there — with slogans like “the residuals are out there”! Here’s an interview with director Rob Bowman: “I’m here to support my brothers and sisters in the Writers Guild. If somebody compliments something I’ve done, I always say, ‘I get my inspiration from the script.’

+ more here:

https://www.givememyremote.com/remote/2023/07/17/the-x-files-reunion-wga-sag-aftra-strike-david-duchovny-rob-bowman/
https://deadline.com/2023/07/actors-strike-david-duchovny-x-files-reunion-rosario-dawson-hilary-duff-1235440044/
https://tvline.com/news/david-duchovny-picket-sign-the-x-files-the-residuals-are-out-there-strike-1235014917/
https://twitter.com/possumlives/status/1681049151654748160

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May 06, 2023 20:11

A nice little interview with @[100057694884330:2048:Frank Spotnitz] from a month ago.

Midway through he talks about the experience of being in #TheXFiles writers staff. It sounds both like a dream job and like a nightmare, you gave it your all or you’re out. I can understand why those who lived through it have a devotion to the captain of the ship Chris Carter and feel a very strong bond with each other. And I can also understand why the writers group were seen as a sort of single gentlemen’s club:

• Spotnitz and Carter first talked toward the end of the first season. Mid-season 2, Spotnitz was recruited directly, straight out of film school, not as freelance, but to come on staff, to replace the best writers who were leaving (Morgan and Wong)!
• Carter “was a very demanding boss, it was a very competitive environment”. “It was exactly the show for me, having watched #startrek and The #twilightzone as a kid, I got it.”
• In 3 years he got from staff writer to executive producer, from the bottom to the top.
• The best things about Carter were “his ruthless intelligence and his incredible ambition”. “It could not be good enough, he demanded everybody give their best, if it wasn’t enough you’d leave [at] 11 at night.” “For 8 years I lived and breathed The X-Files.” The obsessed writer in Milagro was him, “I spent more time thinking about these fictitious [sic] characters than any real person in my real life.”
• Carter demanded and insisted, and that’s why all those writers did all this good work. “It wasn’t always fun, it was certainly stressful.”

https://www.spreaker.com/user/10740198/eyewitness-history-frank-spotnitz-with-a

May 12, 2023 21:03

@[100050989916643:2048:The Companion] has an exclusive #TheXFiles reunion discussion between @[100057694884330:2048:Frank Spotnitz], Robert Patrick and Annabeth Gish! (Well, the actual recording was made in July 2022 and was available to Companion patrons – more TXF and other content is available there!).

Podcast: https://share.transistor.fm/s/a502d03e
Video: https://www.thecompanion.app/the-x-files-doggett-reyes-reunion-video/

As usual, a summary of what was said:

This is the first time they all meet since show ended, approximately.

FS: in preparation for this interview, it’s the first time he rewatched s8-9 episodes in 20 years.

The casting process:

• RP didn’t audition, he met with CC and FS, and read for the network with Rick Millikan.
• AG auditioned with Rick, then tested for the network; she was nervous, remembers CC didn’t want her to wear a belt and liked the pants she was wearing specifically, and the adjective for Reyes was “sunny”.

Shooting TXF:

• RP remembers joining a juggernaut, FS was very calming, there were a lot in the fanbase who were not happy.
• RP wanted to work in network TV after working on The Sopranos.
• AG remembers the production was a family, it was a machine of chaos and beauty.
• FS: they consciously crafted characters to respond to fans’ expectations that this is not M&S.
• RP: Doggett is his favourite character he’s played, close with Scorpion.
• AG: Doggett was a harbinger of new masculinity, tough but with a heart of gold.
• FS: “all TXF characters were emotionally repressed”.
• AG: in all characters there are restraints.
• FS: CC had said you don’t write the emotion in the script, you let the actors play the emotion.
• FS: with new characters there were new opportunities, storytelling changed in the final 2 seasons, the show took a Twilight Zone feel.
• FS: while making Alone he realised that directing is the best job, he had the same experience with Daemonicus.
• Thanks are given to Tony Wharmby, John Shiban, Vince Gilligan, Michelle McLaren.
• Kim Manners wanted to direct John Doe so bad, but schedules resulted in Michelle McLaren getting it.
• RP remembers meeting DD in his trailer.
• FS: in William’s birth scene, “Reyes is like sister to Scully”.
• AG: in conventions, everybody asks her to do whale songs. She doesn’t speak Spanish, she learnt some for John Doe.
• RP & AG remember the long working hours of the “Fraturdays”.
• FS remembers his wife Melissa was responsible for AG meeting her husband Wade (Allen), RP remembers himself introducing them. Wade was RP’s “krav maga guy”, he was a production assistant on TXF.
• RP’s son Sam was born during his first episodes on TXF. He remembers shooting Within/Without in the desert in Borrego Springs (they say it’s the same place as William’s birth place [actually no, but The Truth was also filmed there]), his wife Barbara was very pregnant, it was very hot. He remembers calling Michelle McLaren to say he would miss shooting because she was delivering. He remembers Barbara shooting Release.
• RP has been friends with Lance Henriksen since 1989.
• FS: CC was the first to arrive and the last to leave. Kim Manners poured his heart and soul in it, he never got jaded.
  There was no ad libbing on TXF, everything was scripted. There were read throughs during lunch with the cast. There was even ADR during lunch breaks.
• AG: TXF had money and time, so they could rehearse a bit, it is not the case any more in modern productions.

Favourites:

• RP: Via Negativa
• AG: 4D, Audrey Pauley
• FS: Via Negativa was inspired by a dream where he squeezes toothpaste and blood comes out, and he didn’t know what was reality any more. He loved Redrum, 4D, Audrey Pauley, Release.

The original ending and the original plans:

• FS: remembers shooting The Truth, Reyes’ monologue “was my last gift to TXF”.
• AG: there was a lot of frustration then.
• FS remembers a New York Times Magazine articles 2 weeks after 9/11 saying that TXF was no longer “in” but “out” and ratings were down. When the show ended there was a planned movie franchise, they had planned multiple storylines with Mulder, Scully, Doggett, Reyes; but the CC/Fox lawsuit dragged for 5 years and after that Fox wanted no aliens, only a small monster of the week movie.
• RP remembers shooting in Stage 7 (Scary Monsters?) and CC came, he wanted RP to be the first to know they were not returning, RP was devastated, if they were not cancelled he would have done it forever.

On the revival:

• RP: Joel McHale’s monologue in My Struggle 1 was “right on”, it was a precursor to today’s world.
• FS: “the revival was tough for me”, he wanted to do it but he couldn’t get involved.
• RP was asked in the revival and he wanted to do it but he was contractually engaged elsewhere.
• AG was happy to go back, but her role didn’t make sense, “I didn’t understand what I was doing”, FS was missed.
• Reyes smoking Morleys in her first episode then turning to the dark side in the revival: that was not in FS’s mind at the time, but certainly CC thought about that in the revival. Reyes was conceived to be more relaxed and human as a character.

On where they are now:

• AG imagines Doggett and Reyes still “orbiting each other”, but not together.
• RP: TXF had values, the country is looking for that kind of leadership.
• FS: today, Reyes would be high up in the FBI hierarchy. Doggett would have left the FBI in disgust. Reyes would like Doggett back. Season 12 would start with Doggett being called back.
• FS: all 4 characters had integrity. “There’s a hunger for values, things that unite right and left”. What TXF stands for is relevant right now.

May 17, 2023 15:08

YES! “#TheXFiles: The Official Archives Volume II: Extraterrestrial Activity and the Syndicate” by Paul Terry Cellarscape will be out 21 Dec 2023! Can’t wait to see mythology-related props up close!

“A fully authorized, richly illustrated inside look at the case files of Mulder and Scully’s encounters with extraterrestrial activity and the Syndicate.
Following the revelations of the cases declassified in The X-Files: The Official Archives: Cryptids, Biological Anomalies, and Parapsychic Phenomena comes this vital second volume of top-secret X-files. The X-Files: The Official Archives: Volume II: Extraterrestrial Activity and the Syndicate details Agents Dana Scully and Fox Mulder’s close encounters with alien beings and exposes the secrets of the shadowy Syndicate. Featuring UFOs, little green men, and the conspiracies to hide them from the public, these richly detailed and painstakingly re-created case files open up the X-Files universe like never before. These vital cases served as the backbone to the cult television series and provided a powerful throughline and emotional lifeline for Agent Mulder. Now, through archival imagery and unredacted reports, fans can experience firsthand the thrills of some of the series’ most beloved episodes, including “Deep Throat,” “Jose Chung’s from Outer Space,” “Fight the Future,” “Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man,” and many more.”

(no image yet – this is Volume 1)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/X-Files-Official-Archives-Extraterrestrial-Syndicate/dp/1419771396/

May 22, 2023 17:06

[SPANISH] Soy un gran fan de la música de #TheXFiles. En éste gran podcast se habla en detalles del soundtrack que se estrenó en 1996, “Songs in the Key of X” y fue un gran placer escuchar todo eso — Nick Cave, Foo Fighters, Soul Coughing… Pero NO se habla en bien de la música monumental de Mark Snow. Así que no voy a hacer la promoción de este episodio que se puede escuchar aquí:

https://www.facebook.com/AguanteMulder/posts/pfbid02A4jQFsx62yH1oKpkyaXkkLEXWAtHCiaQsdb27UDEjfTQYWEuzfrVtxzMDoCJtTSFl

May 23, 2023 13:24

[SPANISH] Sigue el podcast Aguante Mulder sobre la música de #TheXFiles, esta vez sobre la música de las dos películas, sobre todo “The Album” de Fight the Future (con Filter, Foo Fighters, y sobre todo mi favorito, el instrumental de Noel Gallagher, Teotihuacan!) pero también con las algunas canciones de I Want To Believe. De nuevo, se habla poco de Mark Snow, pero es un placer escuchar una discusión sobre estos productos derivados.

PD: en Eat The Corn analizamos la explicación de toda la mitología por Chris Carter al final del CD de FTF aquí: https://www.eatthecorn.com/1013-the-truth-revealed/

https://www.facebook.com/AguanteMulder/posts/pfbid02N4cqVH81c5j2wK3riBr6pKUk3Pe6qqo9eVm1vmLHmK3PH78Nf9DZqASYysSjPrPPl