HEY GANG!
Thought it was time for a new look to this ole' thing...
In the future, I might even add a PICTURE of myself, or something...one never knows how fancy-smancy I'll get.
So, to celebrate this new look, here's a new discussion.
All the talk over poor Anna Nichole in the past few days has been a tad disturbing to me. The woman is dead, and yet that actually seems to be an afterthought compared to all the hoopla swirling around. It's enough to make one vomit, imho. The obsession with the private life of celebs has, to coin a well used phrase amongst geeks like myself, "jumped the shark".
SOooooooooo...
What do you consider the most disturbing trend in either;
a) Theatre
b) music
c) film / tv
d) all of the above
Take your pick, and whack a mole!
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The future is NOW! I added a picture! Mikey, ain't you proud of me? I also have actually been programming my ipod too! Holy shit, have I finally come kicking and screaming into the 21st century?
...now if I could only do something about all these damn typos!
yeah...grizzy adams.
Ok...I corrected it!
Hey.
If anyone has an audition notice or show dates they'd like to post, send 'em to me and I'll put them on the front page.
In the theatre, I see more and more use of microphones on actors. Fuck dat sheeit.
Books made into movies before the books or the screenplays are finished. I don't know why that bothers me. It just does.
Celebrity Skin by Hole
What do I win?
Award shows where actors give other actors awards and thank their mommas and the gods and kiss ass. Who gives a f*** as to who is wearing what this year? Barf.
Oh, and dude, if you have an ipod now, I have about 10,000 tunes I have been getting into itunes the past couple of weeks. I think you'll dig some of the new stuff I got. We'll talk trades. Full CDs and compilations, bootlegs, woo-hoo!
You had me at 10,000 tunes!
I agree about actors with microphones. Particularly when they are plainly visible. It destroys willing suspension of disbelief. Worse, I come from an age when actors were supposed to be able to project and hit the back row of a theatre. The theatre's haven't changed, so what's the problem?
Sorry, but no movies have ever been made before a book or screenplay was finished. When you hear stuff like that, it's mostly hype. Books and screenplays are often bought for movies before they are finished, based on an outline or treatment. I even know of one instance where the ending of the unfinished book was changed to accommodate movie notes before it was finished, but it was finished and published before the movie ever started. I doubt there has been any movie started without a screenplay first being finished since the thirties or forties (Casablanca comes to mind). Screenplays get re-written often during shooting, but the movie doesn't ever get finished without a written screenplay.
What I hate are movies that are not complete in themselves and you have to wait for the sequel a year later and pay a handful of cash more to see how the story ends. Latest example: Pirates of the Caribean.
TV: too much reality programming (which, of course, isn't real at all) and far too many commercials. I've pretty much stopped watching commercial TV at all because I can't wade through 7 minutes of show, then five minutes of commercials. No wonder our children are plagued with ADD.
It kind of goes along with yours Tim. I can't stand that anyone Hollywood is more important and gets more news coverage then other worldly or political things that truly are important.
Melinda's leads to another gripe of mine about TV. The 24-hour news channel which feels compelled to covers stories ad nauseam and to a far greater depth and particularly sensationalism than they deserve. You won't hear what's going on in Darfur in depth...but you'll hear all about Anna Nicole Smith's demise, brought on...let's face it...mostly by her own stupidity and excesses; astronaut diapers; or Britney's missing underwear. Where is the priority?
I remember when some golfer died in an airplane crash. It was on the news for three days and his funeral was covered like it was the death of a president or something. Come on! It's maybe sad or unfortunate, but it wasn't a national tragedy.
Walter Cronkite used to be able to give you more depth and coverage in a half hour.
That golfer, btw, was Payne Stewart. And it was pretty big news, but like all celebrity passings, the media dwells on it far too long...
Big news, maybe, but not three days worth...how many times can you say, "Famous golfer dies in plane crash"? And you don't cover his funeral like it was a state funeral of national importance.
Unrelated gripe: that newscasters always feel that they have to have a liberal expert and a conservative expert to comment on a particular issue. And they invariably squawk the party line sound bites and add nothing substantive to the debate other than the usual polarizing combativeness. How about a couple of neutral commentators civilly discussing the issue where we might actually learn something other than bullshit? Or here's a novel idea. How about just reporting the news and letting us make up our own minds without all the commentary? That's another problem with 24-hour news...to fill all those hours, they've blurred the line between objective reporting and editorializing.
Most frightening trend: Justin Timberlake. When did he become relevent to music. Someone please take him out NOW!
Seriously, American Idol is our Frankenstein. Scratch that. Frankenstein couldn't help himself and even tried to appreciate the beauty of a flower and a small girl's head of hair before throwing them both into deep water. American Idol is purposefully drowning us in watered-down schlock. And it metastasizes from TV into our music and film.
I knew we were in trouble when news programs began to measure their Nielson ratings. That's when everything got out of hand. No more objective reporting. No more covering the meat and potatoes. Everyone wants the desserts. And that's why we get Fox and CBS at war with each other, news coverage of celebrity deaths ad nauseum, Dateline predator stories over and over again.
I'm rambling now. Peace out.
If the "desserts" everyone is wanting are sexyback and love crazed, diaper wearing astronaut stalkers, i will take a second helping of veggies please.
TV/FILM- How many hours of gratuitous violence against women and torture can the television zombies soak up. It seems that some variation of CSI/LAW & ORDER WHATEVER is on 24/7. And they all deal with some serial killer/psycho who has, guess what, abducted another woman, kept her in some cave, and tortured and raped her. Lets spend another hour dissecting how he did it.
What kind of sick people actually ENJOY that kind of stuff?
I miss a good old entertaining happy ending.
That LAZY MOM character hit it right on the noggin! She's pretty smart...
Maybe this is kind of a catch-all item. I am sick of celebrity worship in general. Do people not realize that A) celebrities comprise only a fraction of any given field- singers, actors, etc. :AND: B) celebrities are just people. Some of them are fantastic artisans and wonderfully talented practitioners of their respective crafts. But even some of those are assholes. I'd like to thank the British press for introducing us to the annoying practice of combining two celebrities names into one damned moniker to shorthand our adualtion, adoration and iconoclasm- e.g. Bennifer, Brangelina or TomKat. What a crock of shit.
You know what else is a crock of shit? Justin Timberlake. (amen, Darren) That nimrod ranks right up there with George Bush in terms of my deep and abiding loathing.
Correction: that should read "British tabloid press".
It also should read "adulation"... and "fucking nimrod".
From Monica Hayes, via the DIVA master:
Southern Miss just won the Irene Ryans. Kacey Musick and Langston Darby will be at the Kennedy Center in the company of 15 other pairs from the nation.
As if that weren’t enough, Gary Garrison (Executive Director of the Dramatists Guild of America and our playwright in residence at USM earlier this month) awarded memberships to the five students in the region he said were “the real deal” and two were USM! Sal Manino and Lauren Turner were on stage when he concluded, “Ladies and gentlemen, this is the future of American Theatre right here.”
HOW BOUT THEM GOLDEN EAGLES???USM RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PARIS HILTON ( I believe she has been in all three catergories at some point)
or any trend of celebrity that is based on anything other than talent.
L, I believe we have a winner with Paris! LOL- I think she HAS been in all three catagories!
btw- check out the front page for a bulletin on a FREE Josh Branham gig tonight at O'neals!
Would love to come see Josh work. Alas, I am rehearsing Tartuffe.
there isn't one post I don't agree with...and here's a little more...scheduling is a joke...for instance, LOST..what is a season anymore? why do shows go off the air, only to return...please...no consideration of the viewer,..the constant movement of shows to different nights tumbled in with new times...hardly worth keeping up with...reality TV... (wife swap??)
You know it dawg!
of course you do, rick.
Don't even get me started on the LOST season....
for those of you who grew up/spent time in the nashvegas area. bad news. it was announced today that starwood was closing up for good. the 07 concert season, consisting of two shows so far, has been cancelled. r.i.p. starwood. X- what should we do this summer? wretch
How the hell can they close down Starwood???
How bizarre! Guess we'll be heading indoors...
So here's the Starwood story for any interested parties:
http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070213/BUSINESS01/70213055
I'm very saddened by this. Not only did I see tons of concerts there, but I also was on staff for three years while I was in Undergrad...Man, this sucks!
I wonder if this is the beginning of a trend for these concert sheds? What with the touring business taking it on the chin of late, might we begin to see more venues closing up shop?
Oh well... I guess when that happens we'll all be downloading our concert fixes from itunes and you tube! Ain't technology and progress grand????
I think it's an absolute TRAGEDY and a true statement as to how freaking ridiculous the music industry has become, that a guy like Timberlake is considered LEGITIMATE in this business. If ever there was a manufactured superstar it's him, yet in this age of AMERICAN IDOL type instant stardom, this poser looks like he's paid dues in the industry...WHAT dues? The frickin Mickey Mouse Club???? (sigh) It just makes me wanna puke...
Yeah, D , I prefer the indoor venues also. But in the summer time, I had some great fun up on the hill at Starwood.
Bonaroo also has Tool playing this summer, so I might have to actually break down and go! And I'd really like to see the Police live. Never got to see those boys back in the day...and WHAT? You too good to be my DAWG????
btw- Rick 8 for the love of all that's holy, gimmie a call! (at home or the office) We got bizness...
Tim, your children are absolutely beautiful...
Thanks...but despite the fact that it feels like two or three kids most of the time, I only have the one. That's just photos of him at different stages.
ahh..I thought so but, didn't want to leave one out in case I was wrong...well he sure is sweet!
Gracias'!
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