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What kind of music should I listen to?
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geeez. this looks complicated. listening to music used to be easy.
Dammit Greg, get with the program. This is how things are in the modern world. Next thing you’ll be telling me you just want to order regular coffee.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4th7ezkEV1qzou5co1_500.jpg)
isay:
What kind of music should I listen to?
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geeez. this looks complicated. listening to music used to be easy.
Dammit Greg, get with the program. This is how things are in the modern world. Next thing you’ll be telling me you just want to order regular coffee.
shorterexcerpts asked: Actually, the song is from the '70s, and may or may not have been in the movie. Catchy as hell though.
Ahh man, the 70’s. Oh for a time machine. Fine, maybe not best Original Song, but it should at least get Best Use of Recorded Music In a Trailer or something.
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“Survivor Type” is coming to LA in August! More details to follow.
The all ten volumes in one slipcased edition of SANDMAN comes out in November! I’m thrilled. You have no idea how long I’ve been asking DC to do one of these. (Er, about 16 years.)
This is going to have to find its way to my bookshelf.
Sepinwall: Can Community work without Dan Harmon? | Hitfix -
The more I read about this, the more upset I get.
“Community” under Port and Guarascio may turn out to be a proficient sitcom (and could, in Sony’s wildest dreams, run for several more years the way that “West Wing” and “NYPD Blue” did without their original voices), but it won’t be… that. And while Harmon’s creative lunacy didn’t help “Community” find a larger audience, it made the handful of people who do watch mad with devotion for a version of the show that may have just ceased to exist.
I think one of the most fascinating things that’s happened here is the full transition of television into an auteur’s medium. Until the 1980s, people didn’t typically know who made the shows they watched. It wasn’t like film, where a director’s name is attached to the title and largely held responsible. Aside from a few notable names (Lucille Ball) shows belonged to networks and studios, created as they are today (to an extent) by a team.
Thanks to the rise of quality television in the 80s and the likes of MTM, Steven Bochco, and David Milch, audiences and critics became more aware of the creators behind shows and accredited them with the quality. Today this has reached widespread practice and full potential in shows like Louie, Breaking Bad, and Mad Men.
All this said, it’s quite apparent that Sony (and to a lesser extent NBC) are operating on a very old standard, firmly planted in the past. Not even the recent past, but one of over 30 years ago. Based on the reports, it seems Harmon may mot have been the best at management, but modern audiences are too savvy to blindly let a show with a distinct voice switch hands. Sony needs to step into the modern era.
This is, unfortunately, much worse news than the move to Friday. The hardcore fans that might’ve moved with the show will probably bail quickly once it becomes obvious it’s not the same show. I tried to rewatch West Wing a couple of years ago and gave up about 5 episodes into Season 5. Did anybody ever see the final season of Gilmore Girls? I managed to make it all the way through that mess, but holy crap, it was a mess.
Men In Black 3 Had A Budget of $375 Million (Including Marketing) -
MIB 3 will go down in history as one of the most expensive films ever produced, and considering how that movie started filming without a script, I suspect that film will be a total peice of garbage. Was anyone demanding a sequel to that film? The fact that Will Smith didn’t do the theme song for MIB 3 is a telling sign of the quality of that film.
Wow, this article is completely disingenuous. It compares the full MIB3 budget WITH Marketing to the John Carter budget WITHOUT Marketing. John Carter was probably closer to 370 Million once Marketing was attached (see here) without the star power (and accompanying salary costs) that MIB had. Textbook definition of bad journalism.
Having said that, I agree with Dan. I don’t think a lot of people were looking for another Men in Black movie.
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“A bride still dressed in her wedding gown was found stabbed to death in the bathtub of her suburban Chicago apartment, authorities said on Monday.” —
Illinois bride found stabbed to death in wedding gown | Reuters
Today, in the Hauntingly Awful.
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Ugghh, this is just terrible. Sad thing is, in situations like this, there’s an extremely high probability that it is either the groom or someone else who wanted to marry her instead.
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so basically NBC is just allowing Community to burn off its last episodes and die.
cool
Actually, that’s a pretty short-sighted view of the situation. NBC knows that Community has not done particularly well on Thursday nights. They also know that Community has a strong, passionate fan base. The audience size that a show needs to be successful on Friday night is a good bit lower than the size needed on Thursday night. That’s the only way Fringe has survived as long as it has on Fox (well, that and the network’s relationship with J.J. Abrams). Community’s numbers on Thursday are not very good, but they’d be a solid win on Friday night. It looks a lot like NBC is hoping that the Community fans will follow the show to Friday and make it viable to continue making the show. Short of a couple million people discovering Community over the summer, this is actually probably the most likely chance it has for continuing past the 4th season.
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Dear Friends,
Well, it’s been quite a weekend. Someday, long from now, I will even have an emotional reaction to it, like a person would. I can’t wait! But before I become blinded by this “emotion” experience, there’s a few things I’d like to say. Well, type.
People have told me that this matters, that my life is about to change. I am sure that is true. And change is good — change is exciting. I think — not to jinx it — that I may finally be recognized at Comiccon. Imagine! Also, with my percentage of “the Avengers” gross, I can afford to buy… [gets call from agent. Weeps manfully. Resumes typing.] …a fine meal. But REALLY fine, with truffles and s#! . And I can get a studio to finance my dream project, the reboot of “Air Bud” that we all feel is so long overdue. (He could play Jai Alai! Think of the emotional ramifications of JAI ALAI!!!!) What doesn’t change is anything that matters.
What doesn’t change is that I’ve had the smartest, most loyal, most passionate, most articulate group of — I’m not even gonna say fans. I’m going with “peeps” — that any cult oddity such as my bad self could have dreamt of. When almost no one was watching, when people probably should have STOPPED watching, I’ve had three constants: my family and friends, my collaborators (often the same), and y’all. A lot of stories have come out about my “dark years”, and how I’m “unrecognized”… I love these stories, because they make me seem super-important, but I have never felt the darkness (and I’m ALL about my darkness) that they described. Because I have so much. I have people, in my life, on this site, in places I’ve yet to discover, that always made me feel the truth of success: an artist and an audience communicating. Communicating to the point of collaborating. I’ve thought, “maybe I’m over; maybe I’ve said my piece”. But never with fear. Never with rancor. Because of y’all. Because you knew me when. If you think topping a box office record compares with someone telling you your work helped them through a rough time, you’re probably new here. (For the record, and despite my inhuman distance from the joy-joy of it: topping a box office record is super-dope. I’m an alien, not a robot.) So this is me, saying thank you. All of you. You’ve taken as much guff for loving my work as I have for over-writing it, and you deserve, in this our time of streaming into the main, to crow. To glow. To crow and go “I told you so”, to those Joe Blows not in the know. (LAST time I hire Dr. Seuss to punch my posts up. Yeesh!) Point being, you deserve some honor, AND you deserves some FAQs answered.
” —In which Joss Whedon says, “Thank you,” and makes nerds everywhere start the day off crying.
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I would watch his Air Bud reboot.
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I would angrily demand a sequel to his Air Bud reboot, even when it under-performs.
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“It’s awesome that Palmer’s Kickstarter has done so well — but look at what it’s entailed. It’s entailed time, effort, planning and work both backward and forward in time. That currently $439,000 isn’t a windfall for her; it’s a marker of what all that commitment to the work has earned.
If you’re one of the people looking at her Kickstarter money with stars in your eyes and awesome plans of your own in your head, ask yourself first: Have you put in the time? Earned the credibility? Scoped out the financial balance sheet? Made the commitment to fulfill every single thing you have promised?
Palmer has. If you haven’t — on any of this — be aware that your results, shall we say, may vary.”
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John Scalzi explains the ups and downs and behind-the-scenes of how you do a successful Kickstarter and what the money means. Whether you’re interested in Amanda’s Kickstarter or not, this one should be required reading for anybody interested in how it works, what it is, and what you want to do if you want the same results… (via neil-gaiman)
Very good article on the realities of kickstarter. I’ll throw in some numbers of my own from a much smaller project than Amanda Palmer’s project, the Survivor Type Kickstarter. We asked for $2500.00 and our friends and fans graciously committed 2873.00. Of that, we had a couple of defaults (meaning their credit card did not clear), one of which was for $200.00. So we actually brought in about $2600.00.
$2600 - 5% kickstarter fee - 5% amazon credit fee = 2340.00.
$2340 was our actual cash that we brought in and had access to use. But…
Cost of goods (t-shirts, poster, bumperstickers, etc) was about $600 for everything. Give or take, I don’t have the exact number in front of me.
That leaves us with $1740.
And then shipping, which was literally the biggest mistake we made. I under budgeted for shipping terribly - it was the mugs and posters that cost so much. The mugs because of weight and wrapping material, the posters because those mailing tubes are actually really expensive to buy.
Total packaging and shipping outlay was easily $250. Maybe a hair more.
So $1490. A little over half of what we took in, we were able to use to actually make the movie.
And I’m grateful, because every little bit helps, and that was still a significant portion of the budget. I will absolutely be using kickstarter again, but I know what kind of rewards to stick to and which ones to avoid, particularly at the lower levels.
But the article is right, you have to treat it and run it like a small business.
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