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.

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.

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:but you've never seen Chasing Amy?! That's his best one, and the only one besides Clerks (the original) that I think still holds up really well.

I did really enjoy his live reading of his Hit Somebody script, I wish he'd wrap that up in the audio sphere. It was great for the drive from Spokane to Missoula.

bune wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:but you've never seen Chasing Amy?! That's his best one, and the only one besides Clerks (the original) that I think still holds up really well.

I did really enjoy his live reading of his Hit Somebody script, I wish he'd wrap that up in the audio sphere. It was great for the drive from Spokane to Missoula.

Yeah, I know. I've seen bits of it but never the whole thing.

So the Cats trailer came out today. I can't watch it but I've been somewhat eagerly anticipating it just because of the talent involved. Twitter reaction is...mixed? so I'm a little less eager to watch the trailer. I'll still watch it because I'm still interested in what that much talent put together.

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:

oasisfan35 wrote:

bune wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:but you've never seen Chasing Amy?! That's his best one, and the only one besides Clerks (the original) that I think still holds up really well.

I did really enjoy his live reading of his Hit Somebody script, I wish he'd wrap that up in the audio sphere. It was great for the drive from Spokane to Missoula.

Yeah, I know. I've seen bits of it but never the whole thing.

So the Cats trailer came out today. I can't watch it but I've been somewhat eagerly anticipating it just because of the talent involved. Twitter reaction is...mixed? so I'm a little less eager to watch the trailer. I'll still watch it because I'm still interested in what that much talent put together.

Chasing Amy and Clerks both need to be dedicated viewings to get the most out of them and I agree they are the two that still hold up, though for different reasons possibly.

To me Mallrats is the only other bit of his work that I have seen and enjoyed but even that thought is probably drenched in nostalgia. I am a big Zevon fan so I do want to see Hit Somebody turn in to something... definitely something that includes David Letterman and preferably includes Denis Leary in some way.

Oh man, I could see Letterman or Leary in the dad role really well. Did you listen to his live reading? It's the best thing he's done in years (both the writing, and his performance of it).

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:Just a heads up that he did two separate episodes, then combined those into a more tightly edited single episode -- you should seek that one out. He also said he was going to do like 4-5 more episodes until he had read the whole thing, but he must have lost his script on the way to the marijuana store.

bada wrote:That Top Gun trailer was a lot of call backs to the first film and the typical 'that's really Tom Cruise doing X' money shots. The music threw me right back to '86.