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.

tragabigzanda wrote:

Kaius wrote:I hope you feel good about all of those starving key grips, tragadoucheza.

Ha. I WAS a starving key grip for some years (technically, an audio engineer). I do not feel bad for any of them. The entertainment biz is filled with lecherous businesspeople turning out garbage at the expense of the A/V crew. The small amount of "high art" productions are either done for the love, or are able to secure independent funding. For every Richard Linklater, there are a hundred Michael Bays, and I don't give a shit about the latter.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:BAY IS A GREATER ARTIST THAN THAT HACK LINKLATER

tragabigzanda wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Strat wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Strat wrote:GUys, just cut the cord, get apple tv, and a friends direct tv login info. Good to go.

Lenny, did you just call me?

I've only spent a little bit of time with Apple TV, but I suspect it's a ripoff...

We pay for internet only, plus Amazon Prime. We borrow log-ins for HBOGo, Netflix, FX, and Xfinity (this one is surprisingly great), plus the PBS app is free; and we occasionally rent movies from Google Play.

Internet is $100/mo, and the Prime membership works out to $5.58/mo. So for $105.58/mo, we have access to all this media, and we're really only missing out on sports and live news. Does Apple TV trump this?

My interent is like $68/month and I have direct tv credentials so i can log in to Fox Sports, NBC sports live, hbonow, hbogo on apple tv, and then I pay for netflix and hulu. Then of course access to applestore and all that good stuff.

So you're paying a little under $100/mo and have access to more live stuff than we do; yet your DirectTV log-in in presumably subsidized by a friend or yoga student. It's listed at $20/mo, so in theory you'd be paying just a little bit more than us, and would have access to live stuff, yet no free shipping from Amazon. This sounds like a net wash to me.

Lenny, I'd say go with either the Stip or Trag plan, depending on your preference for live tv vs. free Amazon shipping. Either way, you don't need to be paying $180/mo for your content. I'll even ask my mom if you can borrow her Netflix log-in, if you promise to post a flattering pic of her in the Hot Girls thread.

sports, conan on tbs, and wrestling on usa are the only things i would truly miss on cable...slingtv does have espn and tbs, plus an additional sports package, but the data limit thing has me concerned

i do have netflix streaming already, so i've been thinking about cancelling cable completely and adding hulu plus

We did a Hulu trial and were very underwhelmed by the offerings. The Criterion Collections were great, but it was otherwise slim pickings.

Strat wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:BAY IS A GREATER ARTIST THAN THAT HACK LINKLATER

You just couldn't help it, could you?

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.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Strat wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:BAY IS A GREATER ARTIST THAN THAT HACK LINKLATER

You just couldn't help it, could you?

NO

AND THERE ARE NOT HUNDREDS OF MICHAEL BAYS

HE IS SINGULAR

YOU FUCK

tragabigzanda wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Strat wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Strat wrote:GUys, just cut the cord, get apple tv, and a friends direct tv login info. Good to go.

Lenny, did you just call me?

I've only spent a little bit of time with Apple TV, but I suspect it's a ripoff...

We pay for internet only, plus Amazon Prime. We borrow log-ins for HBOGo, Netflix, FX, and Xfinity (this one is surprisingly great), plus the PBS app is free; and we occasionally rent movies from Google Play.

Internet is $100/mo, and the Prime membership works out to $5.58/mo. So for $105.58/mo, we have access to all this media, and we're really only missing out on sports and live news. Does Apple TV trump this?

My interent is like $68/month and I have direct tv credentials so i can log in to Fox Sports, NBC sports live, hbonow, hbogo on apple tv, and then I pay for netflix and hulu. Then of course access to applestore and all that good stuff.

So you're paying a little under $100/mo and have access to more live stuff than we do; yet your DirectTV log-in in presumably subsidized by a friend or yoga student. It's listed at $20/mo, so in theory you'd be paying just a little bit more than us, and would have access to live stuff, yet no free shipping from Amazon. This sounds like a net wash to me.

Lenny, I'd say go with either the Stip or Trag plan, depending on your preference for live tv vs. free Amazon shipping. Either way, you don't need to be paying $180/mo for your content. I'll even ask my mom if you can borrow her Netflix log-in, if you promise to post a flattering pic of her in the Hot Girls thread.

sports, conan on tbs, and wrestling on usa are the only things i would truly miss on cable...slingtv does have espn and tbs, plus an additional sports package, but the data limit thing has me concerned

i do have netflix streaming already, so i've been thinking about cancelling cable completely and adding hulu plus

We did a Hulu trial and were very underwhelmed by the offerings. The Criterion Collections were great, but it was otherwise slim pickings.

was it hulu plus or just the regular? i thought i had been told in the past that hulu plus had a very good catalogue of shows, both old and new

Just the regular. I thought the only difference was the commercials, but maybe I'm wrong?

E.H. Ruddock wrote:OF COURSE THERE IS ONLY ONE BECAUSE THERE COULDN'T BE 100 DIRECTORS THAT BAD

E.H. Ruddock wrote:OF COURSE THERE IS ONLY ONE BECAUSE THERE COULDN'T BE 100 DIRECTORS THAT BAD

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:OF COURSE THERE IS ONLY ONE BECAUSE THERE COULDN'T BE 100 DIRECTORS THAT BAD

I HOPE BAY DIRECTS AN OCARINA OF TIME MOVIE

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i'll say this about bay, the first transformers wasn't the worst movie i've ever seen

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i'll say this about bay, the first transformers wasn't the worst movie i've ever seen

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i actually never saw the other ones

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i actually never saw the other ones

don't