Red Mosquito

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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do you remember anything specific about how Alex hurt her back? This really seemed to come out of nowhere to us.

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.

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.

tragabigzanda wrote:

wease wrote:Trag,

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do you remember anything specific about how Alex hurt her back? This really seemed to come out of nowhere to us.

No, it came completely out of nowhere.

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.

tragabigzanda wrote:

wease wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

wease wrote:Trag,

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do you remember anything specific about how Alex hurt her back? This really seemed to come out of nowhere to us.

No, it came completely out of nowhere.

Ok. I thought so. Very strange.

All sorts of stuff out of left field this season:

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Alex's back injury
Bradley is gay/bisexual
Isabella hates chip -- she never even worked with him before!
Claire has just completely disappeared
We learn in a flashback that Cory loves Bradley
Mitch is gonna drive off a cliff despite falling for his Italian beauty

Meanwhile we know absolutely nothing about some of the production team members we've been seeing every episode since day 1

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Regarding Mitch driving off the cliff. I don’t think he actively did that. He seemed to be ran off the road (by Alex?) and with all his feelings about the book revelations and everything, he decided to just not fight the flow. As if it was meant to happen, so why fight it?

And of course Cory loves Bradley. That’s been evident from almost the start.

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.

tragabigzanda wrote:

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I agree about your reading of Mitch; but I think they could have spent more time this season demonstrating his despair. He's basically spent the entire time in Italy coming to some meaningful realizations about himself, and falling for the Italian gal. At no point did he seem depressed, and then all of a sudden we get this voiceover montage of all the negative stuff in his head moments before he decides to take his hands off the wheel.

And I don't think it was Alex's car, based on the geography of her approaching the airport, I don't see how that could be the case.

As for Corey and Bradley, part of what made Corey so great was that he seemed like he genuinely cared for Bradley's career, and in getting her viewpoint on national TV. The romantic interest wrinkle kind changes his motivations to some degree, and I think it was just clumsily handled.

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.

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.

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.

VinylGuy wrote:Been diggin the Will Farrell - Paul Rudd show....only saw two eps but its good.