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By: CR

CR — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:11:46 +0000

You were right to give Sweeny Todd the miss. When we lived in Hampstead, till recently, we’d see HBC every once in awhile lunching etc. After I saw the movie, and heard her singing in it, these HBC sightings became very awkward affairs for me. Gawd. How awwwwful.

And of course the hope would be that once, yes, Sony manages the yoga, the films would get a lot better. Better and better and better until we were all sort of low moaning from how good they are. I actually think that might happen.

By: patrick j. mullins

patrick j. mullins — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:22:30 +0000

“the dawning sense that music and tv programs and films too exist as non-commodities, items to be freely shared rather than bought and sold. ”

I haven’t paid for a film in 2 years, but there’s another weird aspect: People do still want to pay for these giant things like ‘Batman’ and ‘Mamma Mia’. But since I can get almost all DVDs (or occasionally still have to use a vhs) at the Public Library, I’ve become so picky that I won’t even watch things like the above two for free–too expensive in terms of time. I wouldn’t watch Sweeney Todd, and the other night turned off SpiderMan3 after 30 minutes. There is just more than enough shit to shovel without having to watch these horrors.

By: Patrick J. Mullins

Patrick J. Mullins — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:03:44 +0000

This is really good too. And reminds me that, during my Hothouse Freak Promenade today, I passed, as I often do, noticing that I’ve gotten into the routine of this particular route without especially finding it esthetic, the building that takes up all of the block between 15th and 16th Streets and is the Google Headquarters for about a year and a half, maybe two. It goes all the way between 8th and 9th Avenues too. If I hadn’t read about it when they moved in, I’d never know it was there–it’s designed to completely ‘cook its employees’ into a charmed, weakened condition, I gather, so that they want to stay inside it all the time; and it wants no strangers from the vulgar streets at all. This is a building in which you can’t even go in and almost look at the directory of offices. Occasionally, an employee is seen outside taking a cigarette break, but I was surprised that these always look crabby and disgruntled (media lies, I guess, more media lies, they probably hate it as much as I would). And then AOL moved its headquarters here even more recently. I used to think, from reading the media studies people, that such businesses wouldn’t still be looking toward prestige addresses for their central offices, but I didn’t know about these new hells. Krugman wrote the most ridiculous piece about 2 years ago about this phenomenon of CEOs moving back to New York, while leaving all the underlings in cheaper real estate elsewhere–and he was making a case that this meant New York ‘was in the best shape it had been in a long time.’ Well, I hardly see that the enjoyment of the CEO’s to have old-style 90s power lunches has much added anything but more dishevelled Hothouse Freaks (more like the guy today in the suit than my sort of HF, though) to the pavement. Now that I continue to think of it, that one today reminded me of ‘American Psycho’, except he seemed to by trying to put it across without being able to do it.

“We download free; the artists are paid by the state; Sony finds a way to fuck itself for trying. ”

This is all a true utopia, and the euphorias, which ought never be left out, will come of how Sony manages the yoga.