Music, Movies, and TV
Serenity, I hope?
A friend dropped me the URL of what is supposedly going to be a pre-screen of the soon to be released film “Serenity“, a movie built from the ashes of the show Firefly. I filled out the relevant bits and mashed submit. As far as I can tell, I’m in: two tickets for 3 days before the official release. I can hardly wait.
I have managed to drum up workplace excitement for the movie by passing my copy of the Firefly DVD set around. Without exception, each person came back and said, “Why the hell did Fox cancel this show? It’s awesome!” Nice work Fox. Excelent market research. Just at my work, I can point you too about $500k worth of household income who (a) didn’t hear of your show due to sub-par marketing and (b) would’ve watched it and been exposed to your advertisers.
This all goes back to a point I’ve made many times. There is a fundamental problem with surveys and Neilson ratings: they only measure the portion of the populace that likes to do surveys! I don’t, and neither do my friends. But, man, are we worth marketing to. So figure out how to measure us.
In my ear
I have new Etymotic 6i in-ear headphones. They rule. It is going to take a little bit of time to get used to having earplug-like inserts in my ears, but I really am amazed. The amount of detail I’m hearing from my MP3 sources is unreal, and CD’s are jaw-dropping. Plus, they’re white so I can maintain my iPod “white supremacy” ‘tude.
Is it just me, or are white ear-buds some sort of badge of coolness these days? I found them to be awful, and chucked them into the back of the closet and stuck with my old reliable Sonys. They’re nothing fantastic, but at least they manage to block some surrounding sound and I don’t have to constantly put them back in my ears at the gym. Stupid ear-buds!
Thing that make you go “hum”?
Everyone and your brother is about to mail you about the next big internet meme: DOKAKA. Be sure to grab the Smells Like Teen Spirit cover.
Why? Because it’s crap!
I have to wonder if Hillary Rosen watched the Grammy’s (I didn’t). Did she notice that one artist from a small label walked away with most of the awards, including ones for technical excellence? For all her whining about how the MP3 has killed the music business, she seems to be ignoring the actual product. Maybe, just maybe, people would buy CD’s if there were anything out there actually worth paying $18 for instead of the crap I currently see on shelves. If the recording industry was actually producing good music, doesn’t it make sense that the Grammy’s would’ve been more hotly contested?
Muadib is a DJ
I have to wonder if Fatboy Slim actually intended to make a Dune reference in his track Weapon of Choice. “Walk without rythm, and you won’t attract the worm.”?
MP3’s: Finally not painful
After hating it for several years, I finally had a positive experience with MP3s. Downloaded Media Jukebox, dropped a CD in, and had MP3 in a short time. No glurks, no failed tracks, no lockups. And all it took was a rediculously overpowered PC. Granted, now I see that my major aversion to MP3s was my past woes in creating them. I can finally see how handy it would be to have my giant CD collection randomly accessable. Time to go buy a couple of gigantic cheap hard drives….
K&D all night long
Wow. Kruder & Dorfmeister last night. I danced from about 9:30 to 3:00, at which point I finally started cramping. But, man, was that fun. A better, and more sweaty workout, than spending hours on a bike.
Hokey
I just realized that the chorus from the new Limp Bizkit song “Rollin’” is a vaguely disguised version of the “Hokey Pokey” concept:
Move in, move out / Hands up, hands down
Back up, back up / Tell me what you gonna do now
Breathe in, breathe out / Hands up, hands down
Back up, back up / Tell me what you gonna do now
(That’s what it all about!)
Big Fat Load
I just recently bought Metallica’s Load CD. I only got it so that I would have a “complete” collection. I listened to it on the way in to work. Now I’m wondering: when did they go from writing riffs to hooks? Those sneaky, subtile bastards. I guess I can’t blame them for wanting to sell more albums, and what I think is worthwhile just doesn’t sell. I started out being annoyed at Metallica, now I just feel out of date/obsolete.
