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:Oh heavens Lenny

malice wrote:I think I'm going to have to look into scalzi's work. I just spent 20 minutes scrolling through various book descriptions on Amazon for this guy and im baffled how ive missed reading any of them. I almost exclusively read science and speculative fiction yet don't own a thing by him.

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:

washing machine wrote:Didn't the Coen Bros literally meet Cormac when making that one movie?

Not sure if they met? But the dialogue in the film is verbatim from the book; I can only think of one sequence that was executed differently (and more effectively) in the film.

Leonard, are you also enjoying our dark comic western?

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:

washing machine wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

washing machine wrote:Didn't the Coen Bros literally meet Cormac when making that one movie?

Not sure if they met? But the dialogue in the film is verbatim from the book; I can only think of one sequence that was executed differently (and more effectively) in the film.

Leonard, are you also enjoying our dark comic western?

I was just making a funny. Or trying to. I just picture them meeting over white russians and talking about the script, with Ethan and Joel saying over and over again how they'll keep this and that like it is and Cormac grimly nodding in agreement.

Ha, I don't get the impression that McCarthy is an easy-breezy conversationalist.

tragabigzanda wrote:

washing machine wrote:Didn't the Coen Bros literally meet Cormac when making that one movie?

Not sure if they met? But the dialogue in the film is verbatim from the book; I can only think of one sequence that was executed differently (and more effectively) in the film.

Leonard, are you also enjoying our dark comic western?

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:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

washing machine wrote:Didn't the Coen Bros literally meet Cormac when making that one movie?

Not sure if they met? But the dialogue in the film is verbatim from the book; I can only think of one sequence that was executed differently (and more effectively) in the film.

Leonard, are you also enjoying our dark comic western?

i am...i only slightly see the cormac influence, but not far in it i thought it would make a good coens' film...i could see tarantino doing something with this too

i'm only about halfway thru as this medicine i'm on is keeping me groggy during the day

Oh you're way further than me, don't spoil anything!

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.