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:So the headline is "Olivia Munn is likely pregnant with John Mulaney's baby"

But really what i want to talk about is: This is one of the rare celebrity gossip things that actually moves my needle. Like I have a knee jerk reaction and opinion, as if I know either of these people.

Maybe it's because I'm a huge fan of Mulaney's comedy? Maybe it's because we both identify as addicts, I feel some misplaced sense of familiarity with his life?

In any event, my real question is: Why do we have the pseudo-relationships with celebrities? And are they 100% bad, or is there maybe some good in our cultural connections to famous people none of us know?

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:So the headline is "Olivia Munn is likely pregnant with John Mulaney's baby"

But really what i want to talk about is: This is one of the rare celebrity gossip things that actually moves my needle. Like I have a knee jerk reaction and opinion, as if I know either of these people.

Maybe it's because I'm a huge fan of Mulaney's comedy? Maybe it's because we both identify as addicts, I feel some misplaced sense of familiarity with his life?

In any event, my real question is: Why do we have the pseudo-relationships with celebrities? And are they 100% bad, or is there maybe some good in our cultural connections to famous people none of us know?

tragabigzanda wrote:So the headline is "Olivia Munn is likely pregnant with John Mulaney's baby"

But really what i want to talk about is: This is one of the rare celebrity gossip things that actually moves my needle. Like I have a knee jerk reaction and opinion, as if I know either of these people.

Maybe it's because I'm a huge fan of Mulaney's comedy? Maybe it's because we both identify as addicts, I feel some misplaced sense of familiarity with his life?

In any event, my real question is: Why do we have the pseudo-relationships with celebrities? And are they 100% bad, or is there maybe some good in our cultural connections to famous people none of us know?

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.