"Music kind of sucks. Nobody's into being a musician. Everybody's getting their mogul on. You've been so infiltrated by this corporate mentality that all the time you'd spend getting great songs together, you're busy doing nine other things that have nothing to do with art. You know how shitty Stevie Wonder's songs would have been if he had to run a fuckin' clothing company and a cologne line? ... Rap sucks, for the most part. Not all rap, but as an art form it's just not at its best moment. Sammy the Bull would have made a shitty album. And I don't really have a desire to hear Warren Buffett's album - or the new CD by Paul Allen. That's what everybody's aspiring to be."
On Nov 7, 10:33 am, Tom Hanks With The Aids <tehMottJu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Music kind of sucks. Nobody's into being a musician. Everybody's > getting their mogul on. You've been so infiltrated by this corporate > mentality that all the time you'd spend getting great songs together, > you're busy doing nine other things that have nothing to do with art. > You know how shitty Stevie Wonder's songs would have been if he had to > run a fuckin' clothing company and a cologne line? ... Rap sucks, for > the most part. Not all rap, but as an art form it's just not at its > best moment. Sammy the Bull would have made a shitty album. And I > don't really have a desire to hear Warren Buffett's album - or the new > CD by Paul Allen. That's what everybody's aspiring to be."
> - Chris Rock tells the new issue of Rolling Stone
What does it mean when Chris Rock makes a coherent, sensible statement about the coporatization of music to a burned out magazine that has become the living embodiment of the corporatization of music? I'm glad he said it. Maybe there was nobody else to say it to.
"This is a very foolish strike. The amount of economic upside over the length of the contract coming up is not worth giving up the present benefit of producing even the 20-plus shows that are on, say, ABC. It's shortsighted; it's not there yet. People like myself are trying to figure it out and, basically, create an industry. The only people that are playing in this are the established media companies that feel they have to, cause they don't want to be left behind; the young, up- and-coming entrepreneurs who are doing it because this is their way in; and then, people who can afford to dabble in it because it's "interesting." It's a completely misguided strike. And I'm pushing way up ahead. I did "Prom Queen," I'm doing one called "The All-for- Nots" [a documentary-styled comedy that follows indie- rock bands on tour]. I'm shooting a third one that we're selling the rights in Japan and dubbing it for France. But you know, at the end of the day, the amount of economic profit that we could all make together could maybe get us through a day at Starbucks. It's just not worth it."
- Former Disney boss Michael Eisner, on the writers' strike to Advertising Age
"After the divorce, I was a physical wreck. I wanted to die. I was ready to kill myself. I was not taking care of myself at all. I would wake up and cry and vomit."
- Ryan Phillippe tells the new issue of Man About Town about his split from Reese Witherspoon
"If this strike lasts longer than three months, an entire season of television will end this December. No dramas. No comedies. No Daily Show. The strike will also prevent any pilots from being shot in the spring, so even if the strike is settled by then, you won't see any new shows until the following January. As in 2009. Both the guild and the studios we are negotiating with do agree on one thing: this situation would be brutal."
- Lost co-creator and head writer Damon Lindelof tells The New York Times
> On Nov 7, 10:33 am, Tom Hanks With The Aids <tehMottJu...@gmail.com> > wrote:
> > "Music kind of sucks. Nobody's into being a musician. Everybody's > > getting their mogul on. You've been so infiltrated by this corporate > > mentality that all the time you'd spend getting great songs together, > > you're busy doing nine other things that have nothing to do with art. > > You know how shitty Stevie Wonder's songs would have been if he had to > > run a fuckin' clothing company and a cologne line? ... Rap sucks, for > > the most part. Not all rap, but as an art form it's just not at its > > best moment. Sammy the Bull would have made a shitty album. And I > > don't really have a desire to hear Warren Buffett's album - or the new > > CD by Paul Allen. That's what everybody's aspiring to be."
> > - Chris Rock tells the new issue of Rolling Stone
> What does it mean when Chris Rock makes a coherent, sensible statement > about the coporatization of music to a burned out magazine that has > become the living embodiment of the corporatization of music? I'm glad > he said it. Maybe there was nobody else to say it to.
I'm not sure if you're inferring that Chris Rock is usually an idiot -- if so you're clearly not familiar with his HBO show or his records. He's a sublime stand-up comedian, thinker and social observer. His movies suck, but then, so did most of Richard Pryor's.
Jason "We are NOT going to close schools on Biggie's birthday" Todd
> "This is a very foolish strike. The amount of economic upside over the > length of the contract coming up is not worth giving up the present > benefit of producing even the 20-plus shows that are on, say, ABC. > It's shortsighted; it's not there yet. People like myself are trying > to figure it out and, basically, create an industry. The only people > that are playing in this are the established media companies that feel > they have to, cause they don't want to be left behind; the young, up- > and-coming entrepreneurs who are doing it because this is their way > in; and then, people who can afford to dabble in it because it's > "interesting." It's a completely misguided strike. And I'm pushing way > up ahead. I did "Prom Queen," I'm doing one called "The All-for- > Nots" [a documentary-styled comedy that follows indie- rock bands on > tour]. I'm shooting a third one that we're selling the rights in Japan > and dubbing it for France. But you know, at the end of the day, the > amount of economic profit that we could all make together could maybe > get us through a day at Starbucks. It's just not worth it."
> - Former Disney boss Michael Eisner, on the writers' strike to > Advertising Age
> [Image via WENN
So in 20 years, online revenue won't be as sizable as dvds are today?
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