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.

tragabigzanda wrote:All caught up on WeCrashed. Great episode and we’re really enjoying it, but does anyone else get the sense this show has a misogynistic lense? Rebekah is portrayed as a vindictive cunt while Adam is portrayed as a swashbuckling entrepreneur. The one flashback episode didn’t do enough to garner much empathy for Rebekah, so now she’s the girl you love to hate.

Yay or nay?

Rangi Guy wrote:Started Severance last night

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:

dad wrote:wife and i have recently started The Wire. i never watched it, and have heard endless takes on how good it is.

it took a few episodes, but we're liking what we're seeing.

ooh boy, just wait until the vampires show up

tragabigzanda wrote:

Mickey wrote:I truly cannot fathom watching that show and thinking "How come Adam gets to look so cool?"

it's not that I think he looks cool -- he looks like a sociopath. But I think the show endeavors to make him somewhat sympathetic, while it bends over backwards to make Rebekah look completely horrid. But I welcome an alternative view of this.

Mickey wrote:I mean, even the fact that Rebekah gets some dad flashback stuff. We actually don't get a real origin story for Adam, just the somewhat made-up one he delivers to Masa. That to me feels like a decision NOT to exculpate Adam's behavior.

Mickey wrote:A number of very smart Marxists I know watch and love Billions. I dunno though. Seems kinda interminable. And there's no accounting for taste