Red Mosquito

Simple Torture wrote:P.S. I want a hypeman who has a bullet in his brain who just says, "Yup! Yup!" to every statement I make.

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.

Simple Torture wrote:I was just talking the other day in the movies thread about how much I enjoy stories about con-men; now here comes this new podcast, which sounds promising. I'll be listening to the first episode today!

When we hear about confidence games, we think, “never me.” Welcome to The Grift, a show about con artists and the lives they ruin. Best-selling author and New Yorker writer Maria Konnikova takes us to the darker side of human nature and deceit. Ten stories about card sharks, cult leaders, art forgers, impostors, and more. Why do we fall for them time and time again?

http://www.panoply.fm/podcasts/thegrift ... GqSSKCgKm2

The Argonaut wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:I was just talking the other day in the movies thread about how much I enjoy stories about con-men; now here comes this new podcast, which sounds promising. I'll be listening to the first episode today!

When we hear about confidence games, we think, “never me.” Welcome to The Grift, a show about con artists and the lives they ruin. Best-selling author and New Yorker writer Maria Konnikova takes us to the darker side of human nature and deceit. Ten stories about card sharks, cult leaders, art forgers, impostors, and more. Why do we fall for them time and time again?

http://www.panoply.fm/podcasts/thegrift ... GqSSKCgKm2

Meh, it didn't grab me. I won't be listening

tragabigzanda wrote:Have done the first 4 eps of S-Town. Meh. John was the best part so far, but of course he's not around for the whole series. The rest of it is entertaining enough, but I hate the host: he is, at the very least, pretty boring; and at the worst, guilty of the educated liberals' fetishization of poor white trash that has become so popular in modern media...I got real angry when he described John's Sherman Williams tshirt as "something he probably got for free when he bought a can of paint."

bodysnatcher wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Have done the first 4 eps of S-Town. Meh. John was the best part so far, but of course he's not around for the whole series. The rest of it is entertaining enough, but I hate the host: he is, at the very least, pretty boring; and at the worst, guilty of the educated liberals' fetishization of poor white trash that has become so popular in modern media...I got real angry when he described John's Sherman Williams tshirt as "something he probably got for free when he bought a can of paint."

I have 2 episodes left. I've been enjoying it so far, but yes, the part that annoys me the most is the underlying tone of educated liberals' disbelief and surprise that "there are people like this?" These are the type of people I grew up around. To me, the story is less shocking, and more of an homage to my homeland It weirdly scratches a small homesick itch I've always had since moving away.

durdencommatyler wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Have done the first 4 eps of S-Town. Meh. John was the best part so far, but of course he's not around for the whole series. The rest of it is entertaining enough, but I hate the host: he is, at the very least, pretty boring; and at the worst, guilty of the educated liberals' fetishization of poor white trash that has become so popular in modern media...I got real angry when he described John's Sherman Williams tshirt as "something he probably got for free when he bought a can of paint."

I have 2 episodes left. I've been enjoying it so far, but yes, the part that annoys me the most is the underlying tone of educated liberals' disbelief and surprise that "there are people like this?" These are the type of people I grew up around. To me, the story is less shocking, and more of an homage to my homeland It weirdly scratches a small homesick itch I've always had since moving away.

Same. Except that I never felt the "educated liberals" thing that so many have critiqued about the show. I thought they did an excellent job of addressing that up front and then focusing on other stuff. Brian is such an empathetic guy. I really didn't feel that the way others did.

numbers wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Have done the first 4 eps of S-Town. Meh. John was the best part so far, but of course he's not around for the whole series. The rest of it is entertaining enough, but I hate the host: he is, at the very least, pretty boring; and at the worst, guilty of the educated liberals' fetishization of poor white trash that has become so popular in modern media...I got real angry when he described John's Sherman Williams tshirt as "something he probably got for free when he bought a can of paint."

I have 2 episodes left. I've been enjoying it so far, but yes, the part that annoys me the most is the underlying tone of educated liberals' disbelief and surprise that "there are people like this?" These are the type of people I grew up around. To me, the story is less shocking, and more of an homage to my homeland It weirdly scratches a small homesick itch I've always had since moving away.

Same. Except that I never felt the "educated liberals" thing that so many have critiqued about the show. I thought they did an excellent job of addressing that up front and then focusing on other stuff. Brian is such an empathetic guy. I really didn't feel that the way others did.

Maybe it's because I'm from the northeast but I don't understand this critique that the show was condescending about the South or whatever.

numbers wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Have done the first 4 eps of S-Town. Meh. John was the best part so far, but of course he's not around for the whole series. The rest of it is entertaining enough, but I hate the host: he is, at the very least, pretty boring; and at the worst, guilty of the educated liberals' fetishization of poor white trash that has become so popular in modern media...I got real angry when he described John's Sherman Williams tshirt as "something he probably got for free when he bought a can of paint."

I have 2 episodes left. I've been enjoying it so far, but yes, the part that annoys me the most is the underlying tone of educated liberals' disbelief and surprise that "there are people like this?" These are the type of people I grew up around. To me, the story is less shocking, and more of an homage to my homeland It weirdly scratches a small homesick itch I've always had since moving away.

Same. Except that I never felt the "educated liberals" thing that so many have critiqued about the show. I thought they did an excellent job of addressing that up front and then focusing on other stuff. Brian is such an empathetic guy. I really didn't feel that the way others did.

Maybe it's because I'm from the northeast but I don't understand this critique that the show was condescending about the South or whatever.

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.

VinylGuy wrote:The great Walter Hill is with Maron and with BEE...both of them are great chats, with very good info in his work and career.

If you have to chose one, the BEE one is just priceless.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:The great Walter Hill is with Maron and with BEE...both of them are great chats, with very good info in his work and career.

If you have to chose one, the BEE one is just priceless.

I actually thought the WTF was much better. Hill seems to be a better interviewee than conversationalist.