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.
What are you currently reading?
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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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Re: What are you currently reading?
Chronic City which I really didn't like. And Motherless Brooklyn which was fine but ultimately underwhelming.
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I'm still under the impression that Chronic City was just some sort of stoned in-joke between Lethem and his friends.
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Both of you should read Gun, with Occasional Music. It's got all the markings of a first novel, so it's definitely not perfect, but it was written by the young Lethem who Older Lethem can't stop exploring in all nearly all of his later fiction and essays, so it has this really pure and genuine thing going for it that is absent in everything else. It's by far the funnest thing he's ever written.
dimejinky99 wrote:I could destroy any ai chatbot you put in front of me. Easily.
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I'm happy to give the guy another shot. I want to like him the way so many of my friends do. When I do pick up another of his, I'll make it Gun.washing machine wrote:Both of you should read Gun, with Occasional Music. It's got all the markings of a first novel, so it's definitely not perfect, but it was written by the young Lethem who Older Lethem can't stop exploring in all nearly all of his later fiction and essays, so it has this really pure and genuine thing going for it that is absent in everything else. It's by far the funnest thing he's ever written.
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Nice. I'd love to read your thoughts on him if for no other reason than to hear what a film guy like you has to say about his ideas and influences regarding film and literature, which he obviously loves.
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And they say that a hero could save us
I'm not gonna stand here and wait
I'm not gonna stand here and wait
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enjoying this one so far...has a princess bride vibelennytheweedwhacker wrote:
And they say that a hero could save us
I'm not gonna stand here and wait
I'm not gonna stand here and wait
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Just finished
Found it kind of eerie, given recent events, that at towards the end the 'villain' is plotting to blow himself up at a concert using a suicide vest with ball bearings etc at a concert mainly attended by teenage girls
Now I'm reading
Found it kind of eerie, given recent events, that at towards the end the 'villain' is plotting to blow himself up at a concert using a suicide vest with ball bearings etc at a concert mainly attended by teenage girls
Now I'm reading
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Hmm, I forgot about that. I hope he doesn't do a "Rage" and pull it from market too.
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Loved that book, but the library (at the time) only had up to book 2 so I couldn't finish the series. THat was ears ago so I'm going to re-read them all now since I have a new library with interlibrary loans!
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We should read them together and start our own book clubbune wrote:
Loved that book, but the library (at the time) only had up to book 2 so I couldn't finish the series. THat was ears ago so I'm going to re-read them all now since I have a new library with interlibrary loans!
Clouuuuds Rolll byyy...BANG BANG BANG BANG
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Oh shit, we were gonna do that last fall weren't we? Sorry, I totally forgot about that.E.H. Ruddock wrote:We should read them together and start our own book clubbune wrote:
Loved that book, but the library (at the time) only had up to book 2 so I couldn't finish the series. THat was ears ago so I'm going to re-read them all now since I have a new library with interlibrary loans!
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BECAUSE THE FILM CLUB WENT SO WELLdurdencommatyler wrote:Oh shit, we were gonna do that last fall weren't we? Sorry, I totally forgot about that.E.H. Ruddock wrote:We should read them together and start our own book clubbune wrote:
Loved that book, but the library (at the time) only had up to book 2 so I couldn't finish the series. THat was ears ago so I'm going to re-read them all now since I have a new library with interlibrary loans!
McParadigm wrote:lol
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Simple Torture wrote:BECAUSE THE FILM CLUB WENT SO WELLdurdencommatyler wrote:Oh shit, we were gonna do that last fall weren't we? Sorry, I totally forgot about that.E.H. Ruddock wrote:We should read them together and start our own book clubbune wrote:
Loved that book, but the library (at the time) only had up to book 2 so I couldn't finish the series. THat was ears ago so I'm going to re-read them all now since I have a new library with interlibrary loans!
match point.
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*looks at stack of books that is at least a foot and a half tall*E.H. Ruddock wrote:We should read them together and start our own book clubbune wrote:
Loved that book, but the library (at the time) only had up to book 2 so I couldn't finish the series. THat was ears ago so I'm going to re-read them all now since I have a new library with interlibrary loans!
Sure. That's what a queue is for, right?
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bune wrote:*looks at stack of books that is at least a foot and a half tall*E.H. Ruddock wrote:We should read them together and start our own book clubbune wrote:
Loved that book, but the library (at the time) only had up to book 2 so I couldn't finish the series. THat was ears ago so I'm going to re-read them all now since I have a new library with interlibrary loans!
Sure. That's what a queue is for, right?
Clouuuuds Rolll byyy...BANG BANG BANG BANG