Red Mosquito

Biff Pocoroba wrote:The behind the scenes workings of SNL fascinate me like no other show. I would love to shadow Lorne for a week and sit in with the writers for another.

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:

spike wrote:

Biff Pocoroba wrote:The behind the scenes workings of SNL fascinate me like no other show. I would love to shadow Lorne for a week and sit in with the writers for another.

you should check this out: https://www.amazon.com/Live-New-York-Un ... 0316735655

I'll attest that this book is fantastic. The Taschen book is pretty awesome too.

spike wrote:

Biff Pocoroba wrote:The behind the scenes workings of SNL fascinate me like no other show. I would love to shadow Lorne for a week and sit in with the writers for another.

you should check this out: https://www.amazon.com/Live-New-York-Un ... 0316735655

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:

Monkey_Driven wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

spike wrote:

Biff Pocoroba wrote:The behind the scenes workings of SNL fascinate me like no other show. I would love to shadow Lorne for a week and sit in with the writers for another.

you should check this out: https://www.amazon.com/Live-New-York-Un ... 0316735655

I'll attest that this book is fantastic. The Taschen book is pretty awesome too.

I still need to read this. I read his ESPN book a couple of years ago and it tickled my fancy.

I didn't know he did an ESPN book. The SNL book is really just a bunch of interviews edited together to create a detailed, free-flowing narrative of the show's history.

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.