Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:wtf does that Netflix exec mean by "outerwear"?

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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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a little arcade fire should lift him right uptragabigzanda wrote:That guy looks crabby. Turn that frown upside down, amirite?
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tragabigzanda wrote:wtf does that Netflix exec mean by "outerwear"?

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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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What is ADR?Simple Torture wrote:That's good to hear; I liked Season 4, too, but the overuse of ADR and stand-ins was noticeable and distracting.lennytheweedwhacker wrote: based on their facebook status update it appears the characters will all be filmed together this time
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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So do they kill George Sr. and Oscar off screen or what?
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Yeah, this sucks for this show. Such a funny characterSimple Torture wrote:So do they kill George Sr. and Oscar off screen or what?
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I really think his non-involvement could sink the whole project.E.H. Ruddock wrote:Yeah, this sucks for this show. Such a funny characterSimple Torture wrote:So do they kill George Sr. and Oscar off screen or what?
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Season 5 has already been shot.
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he's being replaced by christopher plummer
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please don't patronize meBurtReynolds wrote:that was a good joke, Lenny.
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no for real. I let out a single "heh"lennytheweedwhacker wrote:please don't patronize meBurtReynolds wrote:that was a good joke, Lenny.
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that's good enough for me...i guess i won't off myself tonightBurtReynolds wrote:no for real. I let out a single "heh"lennytheweedwhacker wrote:please don't patronize meBurtReynolds wrote:that was a good joke, Lenny.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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i meant to binge watch season 4 but never got around to it
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I liked season 4 but I'm excited to see the remixtragabigzanda wrote:Hurwitz has apparently "remixed" Season 4 in hopes of putting a new spin on what was arguably a clunky delivery of a good concept.
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