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.

durdencommatyler wrote:Walk the Line is great.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:I'm watching the Freddie Mercury one because of Malik

bada wrote:I LOVE Queen but I don't have much interest in this....but I'll probably watch it if it falls in my lap one day.

bada wrote:There have been several over the years that I've really enjoyed till the end when I have start fighting back the tears.

bada wrote:Days of Our Lives and The Great Pretender are good ones. The A Night At The Opera episode from the Classic Album series is good too.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Interesting article about the shadow of 2001:A Space Odyssey. It's being shown in the theaters again this year for the 50th anniversary. I'm not sure there is another movie that impacted me as much as this did when I first saw it.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/s ... gQodMxoC8g

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.