Y2K Music Curse
Good article about the realities of signing onto a traditional record label. tl;dr version: artists need to pay everything back. It’s especially hard when you are a metal band trying to nudge your way into the already-limited fanbase, which is what I went through in the bands I was involved with in the mid-90s. the 90s were a bad decade for newer metal bands. The only outfits getting play in the mainstream were the ones already established in the 80s, and the newer metal bands we nu-metal. The Internet, from Napster to mp3.com and onwards, changed all of that, because folks had immediate access to music and noticing metal bands were doing some interesting things all along.
Global Consciousness Project Dot
This all seems interesting, though I don’t understand even the half of it. Right now it’s green, fyi. All systems nominal.
The Story Of Marvin Heemeyer’s Revenge And His Killdozer
What happens when local politics screw with a normal working Joe to the point of breaking. The Killdozer itself looks straight out of a post-apocalyptic movie set.
‘SpongeBob’ and ‘Transformers’ Cost U.S. Taxpayers $4 Billion, Study Says
So strange to read it phrased as if taxpayers are on the hook for it. It’s like saying Wal-Mart customers will have to endure increased prices because someone keeps bags of Doritos for a dollar less at the Kwik-E-Mart. How ridiculous is it that it’s cheaper for a studio to pay the salaries of a few dozen lawyers and accountants and whatnot, than to pay the actual taxes if they kept the production stateside?
‘Brilliant’ or Totally Phoned In? David Hockney’s New Design for the London Tube Is Sparking Merciless Mockery Online
Hand-drawn or distressed art, done well, isn’t bad. I came from the punk rock scene, which originated the distressed style by accident because of the way DIY screenprinted band tshirts would always have those little imperfections between them. Jake Bannon made the aesthetic into a living. But this logo…ouch.
Guardians of Cloudia – Forgive Us ad
What a bizarre apology and advertisement. The comments and some quick research reveal that a Chinese studio created the game, but there’s no Han people in the ad; that one woman could be east Asian, but the video is too small to tell. Yes, I know they could be non-Han Chinese nationals, but that’s highly unlikely.
No, the Woke Won’t Debate You. Here’s Why.
An introductory dismantling and examination of what drives critical theory…theorists? Someone who is a few levels above the Twitter normie posting a BLM image. Someone ensconced in academia or doing corporate consulting/badgering.
Dr. Fauci cashes in on COVID with book release on ‘TRUTH’ and appearance in Disney-backed documentary despite flip-flopping on mask-wearing and Wuhan lab theory
Not sure how much Fauci is getting paid for this, but I am sure it’s going to be in the millions. The book sales won’t recoup nearly the amount he is paid for it; another money laundering deal. I will admit more people will probably read it than most other political nerds’ books…like a few dozen more folks. I just wonder, like with other stories of this kind: what’s he getting paid for?
British Library could relabel original manuscript of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales to include references to previous owners’ links to the slave trade
Or they could just go away.
Want To See Your Book Become A Movie? It’ll Take Perseverance And Patience.
An author crowdsourced his readers to act as agents to get his book made into a movie. Interesting. I wouldn’t want Pale Blue Scratch turned into a movie unless I had complete dictatorial control over it, but have someone talented do all the actual writing and directing. That’s not a lot to ask, is it?
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In numerical order: (1) It’s long past time to destroy the entertainment establishment. (2) It’s just an algorithmic toy that means nothing. It’s not too different from that idiot some time back who pretended he could predict the future based on what folks on the Net were talking about. (3) The issue is not justice, but the nature of people responding to conflict. Too many bureaucrats refuse to recognize that favoring one guy over another can have severe consequences. (5) Like all art criticism, it’s the arrogance of elitists who dare to believe they know what ought to inspire us. And if we aren’t inspired, it’s we who are all wrong. (7) I can’t recall the name of the radical activist who wrote the book, but back in the 1970s it seems his whole point was that leftists should never give any scintilla of moral credit to their opposition. There is no allowance for the opposition to be misguided or mistaken. Leftists start with the assumption that different = morally evil. (8) Fauci is a major figure in the elitist Great Reset planning. (9) Given the way the world at large is today, I’d be aghast if someone wanted to use my story ideas, because I have every reason to expect they would never understand any of it. There would be no way to avoid them getting it all wrong.
Regarding #7, might you be thinking of the concept of repressive tolerance found in “A Critique of Pure Tolerance” by Herbert Marcuse and others?
I believe it’s more like Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” or something like that, less cerebral than Marcuse, et al. Then again, it may be taken from their ideas, since their book is older. The thing was to demonize the political opposition consistently, and I seem to recall Alinsky made it a firm doctrine, and he had a couple of other major figures in on it.
I remember Alinky’s name being said because of a supposed connection to Obama, when he was president. I don’t know how real of a connection it is, though.
If I had money to burn, I’d totally make a movie of one of your books, Ed 🙂
I remember that story of the killdozer. It’s the kind of dream machine most of us secretly want to take down unyielding petty dictators and bureaucrats. But of course we shouldn’t have it because one can only really only go big with it, and then it’s over: suicide or prison. And a machine like that might be better put to use taking out a criminal gang or something that the justice system can’t touch.
Vigilante justice would’ve made Heemeyer even more popular with normal folks, though he lived in a small town. It’s not likely there were well-known criminal syndicates there (except for the government…heh).