Narnia and Kong vs. Plankeye and Fanmail


After Peter Jackson finished his films of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, he went on to do a remake of King Kong, while others (with the help of Jackson's Weta Workshop) made Lewis's (Tolkien's fellow Inkling) The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I ended seeing both of the movies around the same time and bought both dvds on the same day, and I can't help but notice how each of them seems to have Lord of the Rings as a starting point from which they branch out in different directions.

What this really reminds me of is when Scott Siletta and Adam Ferry left the band Plankeye after their fourth album. While Eric Balmer and Luis Garcia continued on with Plankeye, it was definitely different without Scott's vocals. Scott, meanwhile, goes on with his new band Fanmail, which seemed to take the powerpop elements of Plankeye and push them to the extreme. Both new Plankeye and Fanmail were quality, and had the elements of old Plankeye, but neither were quite the same.

I'm not sure if I had a point to all this.

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