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.

epilogue wrote:satire is probably the wrong word. parody.

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.

Mickey wrote:

epilogue wrote:satire is probably the wrong word. parody.

Somewhere between parody and pastiche. It's parodic when the voiceover says something like "if you do nothing, then you risk nothing, which is risking everything." It's pastiche when the subsequent scene is played straight. Satire, for me, requires an objective, something more salient than an awareness of the vacuousness of a set of formal tropes. This is less Mel Brooks and more Scary Movie. Look, women do be spilling wine on TV shows, they do be staring at their neighbors and forming sinister conclusions. For me this isn't compelling enough to sacrifice four hours of my life.

tragabigzanda wrote:Mickey be trying to double dip on his “be spilling wine” joke after it caught a little heat.

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.

BurtReynolds wrote:Tried watching Battlestar Galactica a couple of times and I find it unwatchable garbage. I don't get the hype.

JuanHamm wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:Tried watching Battlestar Galactica a couple of times and I find it unwatchable garbage. I don't get the hype.

This is how I feel about The Expanse. I watched an episode and it was pure garbage.