Re: Stephen King's The Dark Tower
Posted: Fri January 13, 2017 4:01 pm
Whitey McTeeth wrote:Is this anything like the one with the cemetery of pets? I always forget the name.
Whitey McTeeth wrote:Is this anything like the one with the cemetery of pets? I always forget the name.
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.
That's the one!tragabigzanda wrote:I think it was called Billy and the Clonasauruses.
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:There's a new King-centric podcast:
http://consequenceofsound.net/podcast-e ... -1-carrie/
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.
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.
First of all, this was totally my idea. This should hire me to work on it.tragabigzanda wrote:I'm just using this as a catch-all King thread. Anyway, I'm intrigued by this. Would even plunk down for a Hulu subscription if it looks any good. Hopefully Ace Merrill is a regular.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-f ... ulu-977498
IMMA HAVETA PULL THAT OUT TONIGHT AND CHECK ITtragabigzanda wrote:IIRC, he mentions it during the narration.
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.
Heh. Sorry about that. I was at work and they use all caps and I didn't realize it until I was finished. So it wasn't yelling. It was laziness.tragabigzanda wrote:Stop yelling at me! And I could be wrong. I haven't read the novella for like 20 years, so the movie has mostly supplanted my memories of the story.wease wrote:IMMA HAVETA PULL THAT OUT TONIGHT AND CHECK ITtragabigzanda wrote:IIRC, he mentions it during the narration.
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.
...the best seller list for 18 months!tragabigzanda wrote:I think it was called Billy and the Clonasauruses.
yeah, i read 11/22/63. Its a masterpiece...that one and Lisey's Story are perhaps my favorites from him.tragabigzanda wrote:Yea, that trilogy does look good. If you haven't read 11/22/63 yet, I think it's one of his very best. Revival is not quite as impressive, but it's one of the better ones since his car accident turned him into a Garrison Keillor/Edgar Allen Poe hybrid.
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.