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.

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:at that price it's a tough gamble to take.

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:RMing has sucked for me today. No surprise given the pile of shit in my PMs this morning. An earnest guy can't rebound from a start like that.

BurtReynolds wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:RMing has sucked for me today. No surprise given the pile of shit in my PMs this morning. An earnest guy can't rebound from a start like that.

Don't worry about it. Most RMers are like Ryan Gosling minus the charisma.

You, know, I’m so glad I didn’t get cast on S.N.L. I'm way better off because I host it now. That’s a million times cooler and more fun because to be a castmember there or a featured player or writer is a perilous, difficult, grueling office job — like the worst kind of office job, a 12-hour-a-day job with no end in sight. As a host, you have dinner with the cast and you hang out with Lorne. You get the best of that guy, and he’s a great New York institution. As a host, you get to just sit next to him and watch him do a thing that very few people do anymore. Spending a week there is one of my favorite things I get to do.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:If I were more interested in CK's work, I'd probably be more inclined to shell out. This series sounds intriguing, but I don't follow CK's stuff in general.

Still, in any case, $31 for a digital series is likely more than I'm willing to pay. I still have trouble with the concept of paying to "own" something with no physical copy. It's a weird psychological block.

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:

durdencommatyler wrote:I mean, I'm an idiot when it comes to digital media, though. So maybe they don't do that because it's so easy to rip that content? Maybe people would "rent" it and then just keep and/or distribute it. Maybe that's why.

In the past, Louis has let you purchase a standup set from his site, and it comes with several codes, I think 2 for downloading the thing, and 3 for streaming. And he encourages you to share with your friend. My buddy and I have purchased and swapped everything else he's posted on his site before, excluding stuff wasn't already available on Netflix.

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:

durdencommatyler wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:I mean, I'm an idiot when it comes to digital media, though. So maybe they don't do that because it's so easy to rip that content? Maybe people would "rent" it and then just keep and/or distribute it. Maybe that's why.

In the past, Louis has let you purchase a standup set from his site, and it comes with several codes, I think 2 for downloading the thing, and 3 for streaming. And he encourages you to share with your friend. My buddy and I have purchased and swapped everything else he's posted on his site before, excluding stuff wasn't already available on Netflix.

I'm not sure but I think that's because, again, that stuff was produced in conjunction with other institutions/backers/producers/HBO/etc... and H&P is entirely Louis CK. I mean maybe there are other producers involved or backers but isn't the whole thing his production company and no one else? Maybe that's why. He invested a shit ton into this project from what I understand. But who knows. Maybe he's just trying this out and figuring out what's best moving forward.

Also, those other projects have all been stand-up concerts, and he already makes a hefty income on the ticket sales; adding a couple of cameras and editing it into a film is just easy money after the fact.