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Just saw a commercial for these new "limited edition" Mtn. Dew bottles.
The tagline proclaimed, "six cutting-edge artists..."
Exactly how cutting-edge IS it to sell your art to a huge corporation for the purposes of mass-reproduction?
Now, I know that every artist wants their stuff seen. But, selling your art to a corp for the express purpose of selling a product to the masses doesn't seem "cutting edge" to me. 
Seems rather mainstream, actually.
And yeah, I can't s... Read More

(Them's some real good flix, ya'll--check 'em out, if you ain't)
Ok, here's why I think so (that we're in rapid decline)
a) MILLIONS are being spent to follow a possibly-irretrievably effed up former "pop" star around (Wherefore art thou, S.hitney?) AND the "coverage" of her desperate race towards self-immolation makes the "real" news sometimes.

b) Paris Hilton actually has fans. WTF does she even DO except travel, flaunt her money in the faces of people who struggle every day t... Read More

Ok, this is a different aspect of the blog I just posted about actors in commercials.
Actors shilling for pointless product is annoying and disappointing, but what really hurts my heart and disillusions me is when musicians liscense their songs to commercials.
Pete Townsend said, in response to criticism of this, that the music was his to do with what he wanted and basically, to hell with the fans.
I beg to differ. Musicians need to realize and/or take seriously that they truly... Read More

I am sick to DEATH of well-established and otherwise "respected" actors doing commercials. Now, I mean no offense to anyone who likes these actors and who doesn't care about their commercials, I'm just saying...
It totally takes me out of a movie. Watching Chicago, all I could think (beside the fact that Zellweger was distractingly way too skinny) was Zeta-Jones and her phone service commercials. I really wanted to get lost in that flick, and I was unable to, because my mind kept going to th... Read More

I love "bad" things. Like, bad tv movies (sometimes only a laughable woman-in-perile Lifetime movie will do), and bad older movies (love all the 70s Linda Blair flicks, and stuff like Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill!), and lots of bad television (Pirate Master, anyone? It's HORRENDOUS and I love it). There's a certain dangerous undertone to many bad movies. Like, even though the story is ridiculous or incoherent, and the acting is horrible, there's some kind of a rebel, edge-of-the-norm feel.
On... Read More