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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI
« on: October 22, 2015, 01:03:10 PM »
The Ex is one of the few "elder statesmen" bands I haven't seen/ would definitely see.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Vinyl: the show
« on: October 22, 2015, 12:48:37 PM »
Girls is a good example of a show shot on location in New York that looks and feels phony as shit, and it takes place in the present day. Goes to show what it's worth. This show lives or dies by its writing and direction; it seems to have that going for it, granted.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Vinyl: the show
« on: October 22, 2015, 12:42:46 PM »
In the immortal words of Jack Nitzsche: "It's punk rock, who gives a fuck, right?" *snorts rail of coke.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Vinyl: the show
« on: October 22, 2015, 12:39:38 PM »
That's exactly my point, Vinnie. Money isn't synonymous with merit. The wealthiest city in the world needs money? Frivolous impulses are always behind the money in Hollywood etc. This isn't about where it should be filmed, this is about whether the world will be better off for having another expensive set piece. May seem trivial, but I for one can think of some better uses for that scratch.
Whatever, have fun. Never mind. I did like Scorsese's No Direction Home Dylan doc. Senescent or not, he knows rnr. Maybe this'll actually be good. Maybe user:Vinnie will be the next Jonah Hill.
Whatever, have fun. Never mind. I did like Scorsese's No Direction Home Dylan doc. Senescent or not, he knows rnr. Maybe this'll actually be good. Maybe user:Vinnie will be the next Jonah Hill.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Vinyl: the show
« on: October 22, 2015, 12:01:33 PM »
Also, if you think the people who made that city what it was would live there now with the same result, you are out of your element. NYC is a theme park for an era that no longer exists. Which I guess makes for good TV backdrop.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Vinyl: the show
« on: October 22, 2015, 11:52:10 AM »What was the last good Scorcese production? I saw the Departed in the theater and can only remember inhaling Long Island iced teas and laughing at the accents.
Actually good or just entertaining? If the former, probably Goodfellas.
The last thing anyone needs is hours and hours of painfully slow TV on this subject. What people want is a different matter.
Maybe y'all are just desensitized but I still wince at ludicrous amounts of money being thrown around to tell a story that's already been told to people who didn't care to listen in the first place, all for self-congratulatory ends like induction into a glorified prestigious piss factory like HBO's roster. I love The Sopranos, Wire, Game of Thrones as much as the next parrot but this is TV as bowel movement. Which is all TV, but call it what it is. I'm happy for all involved but I probably won't watch. The production values are sure to lead to mass embrace of the content, but do we really need this, or is it another way for the people who "cut their teeth in the industry" to feel important again by rehashing the same stories from thirty years ago in a digestible format? TV is TV is scatological preoccupation. If not this, it'd be something else. But this scene has had its heyday and I don't see it being enlarged to a broader breadth and relevant context these days, like say Straight Outta Compton or the MC5 doc. I do see a lot of payola in the form of merch and blu-rays. Prove me wrong though, Gods.
Edit: I lied. Not happy for all involved.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Vinyl: the show
« on: October 21, 2015, 10:54:57 PM »
Few things just occurred to me. New York is one of the most expensive cities to film in. It's not a particularly unique-looking city on a micro level, that is, there are many, many streets in Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, etc. that look pretty much identical to New York streets. The neighborhoods where this will be taking place have gone through complete visual upheaval, squelching any claim to authenticity a show like Boardwalk Empire may have had with its setting in Brooklyn. In fact, it may have been cheaper and more logical to film anywhere else. If they start scouting based on who looks weird and punk in New York, this is going to be one cornball affair.
Edit: Boardwalk Empire was pretty vain mise en scene as well, as it's set in Atlantic City. I have so much spite for television.
Edit: Boardwalk Empire was pretty vain mise en scene as well, as it's set in Atlantic City. I have so much spite for television.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Vinyl: the show
« on: October 21, 2015, 10:03:03 PM »
There are no stupid questions as long as it's in the service of good, visceral acting.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Vinyl: the show
« on: October 21, 2015, 10:01:41 PM »
What Arturo described is like method acting research. To act like a person who knows what a record is, you must first think like one.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Vinyl: the show
« on: October 21, 2015, 09:43:07 PM »
DJs, people in bands, label heads, writers, zine makers, comic book artists, models, lawyers, comedians, journalists, artists, talkers, hustlers, financiers, your boyfriends and girlfriends, and other people of note in NYC, heed the casting calls, play Iggy Pop's groupie on this show or Bowie's hairdresser. Would be a nice punchline to cosmic joke and make people really happy.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Vinyl: the show
« on: October 21, 2015, 09:22:30 PM »
New Yorkers of major or minor TB lore better stay tuned in to the casting calls for this.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Vinyl: the show
« on: October 21, 2015, 09:21:00 PM »
It's filmed in New York? Oh boy.
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Music Shit / Re: No Wave
« on: October 21, 2015, 08:00:46 PM »
Though Puerto Rican Ghost is awesome.
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Non-Music Shit / Vinyl: the show
« on: October 21, 2015, 07:56:10 PM »
http://youtu.be/WBPQ0v86BUA
Wonder yet inclined to doubt this'll be any good. Creative personnel and source material are definitely rich. I'm not concerned it'll ruin music or anything, but how will we live with ourselves if this blows up? Thoughts?
Wonder yet inclined to doubt this'll be any good. Creative personnel and source material are definitely rich. I'm not concerned it'll ruin music or anything, but how will we live with ourselves if this blows up? Thoughts?
