sound, fury, etc.
Remember how you used to play RBI Baseball and Tecmo Bowl on NES? Remember how awesome it was that they had *real* players in the game and you could be like “Boom! You just got smoked by Roger Clemens, beeyotch!!” (if your Mom wasn’t around)? Remember how every single player except for *one* is retired now? Goddamn…)(&#@^#@$!!! You kids get off my LAWN!!!
p.s. Did people say “beeyotch” back then? At what point did that become a thing to say?
(via kottke)
A B-side, a demo and a single:
Pavement - Wanna Mess U Around
Jeff Buckley - Your Flesh is So Nice
Graham Coxon - I Can’t Look At Your Skin
The flesh made word, as the fella once said.
Normally I just throw out everything I get in the mail that isn’t a hand addressed envelope, a postcard or a package (Yes, this includes bank statements, phone bills, and DMV reminders. Isn’t that what the internet is for?) Anyway, this bit of minimalist happy fluff from AmEx caught my eye though:
I saw it and I was just like… Oh they did *not* just appropriate that term for their nefarious ends, now did they? Turns out they did! Not only that, but they slapped a big old (SM) up on the side of it too… What balls! Try checking out some prior art next time guys! At any rate, I assume this means we’re cool if I start using “Don’t Leave Home Without It!” to advertise my line of TSA-friendly sex toys, right?
I’m thinking of getting into the “EZ-Break Ceremonial Glass Items” game. Seems like a much easier business to insure than the whole “Nevr-Break” end of things.
In the news:
Many economists see McCain better for stocks: poll
Is it just me, or isn’t that a bit like saying, “Many search engine experts see Microsoft better for linkspam: poll”? Not that I’m comparing the stock market to spam (although based on the contents of my Gmail junk filter, maybe I should) but I guess I’m just wondering if what these economists are reacting to is their impression that Obama will treat our economic problems as structural and attempt to initiate a serious, long-term effort to actually *solve* them, whereas McCain, being a bit older and less invested in life, the universe and everything, will just keep on patching shit up until he dies. In the early days, it must have been hard for Google to turn away people who wanted to trade cash for pagerank, but I’d assume that these days they’re pretty content with the choices they’ve made.
(from skymall… the real one, not the fake one)
I’d describe this as less “best of both worlds” and more as a pretty hard bargain. Ugh. Really. The more I think about this thing, the more depressed I get. I think the only thing to do is put on Dignified & Old by The Modern Lovers really loud and rock out for a bit. Also, you should probably look at this image for comparison’s sake:
UPDATE:
Related incidents, perhaps??? What is going on out there people?! It’s like a freakin’ Country Bear Jamberoo or something! Dogs and Cats, living together, etc. etc. etc…
You all read my big rant about preserving new-media ephemera last week right? Of course you did, it was like six pages long! People love that kind of shit. It’s why the internet was INVENTED and don’t let any punk kids or wild-eyed old scientists tell you any different. Anyway, not 10 days later and I’m reading this issue of Entertainment Weekly (which I seem to be subscribed to for some reason, possibly an un-announced Christmas present from my Mom? Who knows…) and so, buried deep in the bowels of the ”Movies” section, there is a little 1.5-inch writeup of this film called August, starring Josh Hartnett (bear with me a moment, I swear I’m not wasting your time here) and what to my wondering eyes should this film be about, but the collapse of a tech startup in the summer of 2001.
So, I had two intial reactions to reading this little EW blurb:
After a bit more consideration, my head just kept getting more and more twisted around the situation. First of all, I had no way of knowing whether my initial excitement about this film was at all justified. I mean, I’ve seen some fantastically horrible depictions of all things ”tech” in film and who was to say that this was going to be any different? I was still a bit intrigued though, and so my options are what… Wait for it to come out in some limited-engagement showing in SF & go pay $12 to experience a potential train-wreck, or…
Reader, I bit-torrented it. It just felt like the right thing to do. And you know what, it was! If there is a more appropriate movie to download & watch on your laptop screen, in the dark, at your desk, on a Friday night, then I’d very much like to know what it is. The whole experience was just slighly surreal, I can’t think of a better way to put it. The entire time I was watching this thing, I was just dumb-struck by thoughts of like… WTF? Did these people not even “get” their *own* goddamn movie? Because unless I’m mistaken (and I hope that I am) *nobody* is going to see this movie… *nobody* is going to hear about it… and it’s not going to make *any* money. The whole situation is just ridiculous & unnecessary & asinine.
Look, I’m not saying this is a perfect film, or a staggering work of heartbreaking genius, or anything like that. It drags a bit in the middle & the romantic sub-plot is somewhat under-developed, but, oh come ON… You can’t tell me that there isn’t a small but significant army of navel-gazing fuckers out there that would just eat this shit up and they are never even going to *know* about it. As I said, I could be wrong about this, but I doubt it.
So what is August all about? Let me share with you some notes I took (by alt-tabbing over to notepad.exe from VLC) while watching it:
So yeah, it’s like that. The overall plot arc is about whether the company (which is called “Landshark” btw) is going to make it through the lockup period after their IPO without having to get a second round of financing. It’s a comedy, it’s a tragedy, it should be taken with a very large grain of salt, and it’s ultimately fabulous. The following review on IMDb probably speaks for the reactions of most people who *will* somehow end up seeing this film:
Perhaps its because i don’t really know anything about the stock market and my ignorance in that area relates to how much i enjoyed the film, maybe if i knew anything about stocks i would have enjoyed the film as much as some of the other people who have commented…but i didn’t. I am a fan of josh hartnett and thought the acting was good i just don’t think he and the rest of the cast had anything to work with. Perhaps if there was more information about there struggling company as well as more general background info i would have spent less time staring blankly at the wall and more time staring at the film.
i wouldn’t recommend this film to someone like me who knows nothing about wall street but then again i wouldn’t recommend this even if you worked on wall street, without more background i think this film has greatly reduced its target audience which could have been potentially every one to a small percentage.
Right. Exactly. A small percentage. And as we all know, there is just no damn way to make any money off small percentages now is there?
In conclusion, let me just say… L2P nOObs!!
Thank you, that is all.
Ok, fine I’ll post an excerpt of the first few minutes so that you can get some idea of things without having to subject yourselves to the abysmal trailer that somebody got paid way too much money to put together.
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