While Steve Winwood seems to enjoy negative attention, I merely have strong opinions about things I hate, and resent any criticism to those opinions, and I get easily carried away... it's the internet. I'll chill on the slurs/namecalling, sorry y'all. Sorry Gabe. Sorry comic-book bro. Sorry to that other dude.
that "we are the world" remake was horrible. but its just a reflection of the differences between pop music in the 80's and pop music now. I tend to think that.. the 80's fcking ruled... and even kids today that weren't even born in the 80's fcking love the 80's. I don't get it. Its weird. But I think it boils down to being racist against blacks and their dumb music, and the 80's was a great decade for "white" music.
But that's racist. Its just a theory.
She actually needs someone else to write those lyrics? Man, she can't even suck on her own, she needs an entire team behind her to suck for her. I think she bites beats from a handful of early electro-pop pioneers, Uffie and LO-Fi-Fnk... but the electro scene is very superficial.. pretty much everyone acknowledged she was a cheap Uffie knock-off, but thought it was sufficiently poppy/harmless... now that she's a "thing" perpetuating American pop-star zeitgeist... she deserves to die.
Look at this Steve Winwood faggot clammoring for comment board status. Dude don't even try to start with me, you're in over your head. If you idiots think I'm just some vulgar clown that uses the word faggot over and over you're in for some epic comment board pwnage.
Nah, you can have it Steve Winwood, loser-bro.
Maybe I should just stfu and keep my opinions to myself. I hate comic book films. And I'm starting to hate America. Just want to move to Europe and hate everything in private.
"Whatever holier-than-thou hang-ups you have that keep you ignorant of the potential of the medium is a strike against you, not me."
I didn't start this argument, you couldn't let me have my little blip on a comment board disrespecting the art form you've devoted your life and career to, because you're desperate for acceptance/respect. Its not coming, and comic books are irrelevant, deal with it. You're an adult now. Sorry bro.
whatever. comic books/graphic novels = worthless
hey you enjoy them, and so do a lot other people. a man has a right to disregard the artform you put so high a value on, andI will be missing out on nothing, repeat, NOTHING, at all in terms of culture.
im just a guy that doesn't like comics. I will never look at anything you listed there. Never. Whereas i could list a ton of novels i've read, and if you dismiss them in place of graphic novels/comic books, you're the dude that looks like a childish faggot living in a fantasy world. So, step to that.
Back to Treme. (doesn't need an endorsement, Treme being Treme is enough of an endorsement)
whatever man. I'm here, on planet earth, thinking about things that happen... on planet earth, devoid of superhero's, marty mcfly's, batmans, and iron mans. go on an epic rant defending comic books as an art form... while 210,000 gallons of oil per day are making their way into the gulf, get batman to work on that, comic-book-faggot.
i'm reading.
all comic book films are worthless, completely ethnocentric, glorify the military industrial complex, and a symptom of a generation out of touch with reality.
watching Treme on HBO. Later, nerds.
Americans aren't used to seeing realistic portrayals of violence in media/news/entertainment. I don't like seeing this, Afghanistan and Iraq are going just fine... I'm just a victim of the great American disaster. I just want to forget I saw in that video. M.I.A., paper planes was good. It was on the soundtrack to Pineapple Express, it was about two dudes smoking pot and getting into a wacky adventure. AMERICA.
Has Kevin Smith ever made a good movie?
1. Clerks (mediocre)
2. Mallrats (mediocre)
3. Chasing Amy (terrible)
4. Dogma (terrible)
5. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (terrible)
6. Jersey Girl (terrible)
7. Clerks 2 (terrible)
8. Zack and Miri Make A Porno (terrible)
9. Cop Out (terrible)
Man are those a lot of bad movies. Smith apologists are splitting their heads trying to defend this guy.
You forgot one thing about Chasing Amy.. the YELLING. it's like every time they fight, Joey Lauren Adams does the entire scene YELLING in this high pitched unbearable squeal. it was the worst acting of all time. reaffirming the old Mr Show sketch.. "All acting is, is jumping up and down and yelling and screaming a lot."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn7xe_TLoxw
LOLZ.
They posted this on gawker, I guess they're smarter over there, because there's at least 5-8 people that agree with me. Videogum = a million sadfaces :(
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"Sagan's message in this clip is almost obscured by hollywood's unwarranted self-importance.
Why is it that people can only find meaning in random movie clips?
ADD much?"
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some poignant words rather ruined by the choice of images. Trying to work out where the clips come from, or how the hell they fit the ideas soon distracts from the words themselevs.
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I don't care for the use of cinema to get the point across, historical footage would have suited the purpose better, but I suppose it works for some. The music and narration, however, are timeless.
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I'm sorry, but I don't get teary-eyed over movie clips. It could have been so much more powerful if they used all real people and events.
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I hate this crap. (Though I love Carl Sagan.)
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Honestly, I don't like this version. The music is too loud, and I think that people probably pay more attention to the movie scenes than to the words - especially if they haven't heard them before.
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Actually, I think hearing these words through the lens of Hollywood's images lessens their impact.
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The grandeur of Sagan's words are lost in the latter half of this video as it falls upon the hackneyed emotions of cinema. The narration is what drives this piece, and instead it becomes a game of identifying the film clip. Far better to lay Sagan against b-roll of real people, real moments, than the artifice of narrative film.
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Gawker FTW. Sorry this really wouldn't be necessary if I wasn't downvoted.
I really don't understand your point here taking an unrelated quote from a different section of the book to show how I feel the part that was used in the video, and the part im commenting on has an underlying tone of nihilism and critique of the human condition, which i think is lacking in the video.
to reply to both of you - after watching this video, i didn't feel like the earth was that bad of a place. sure sometimes we go to war with each other, but I felt pretty happy about being alive and had no impulse at all to wonder about anything beyond the planet, or the universe, i just felt good. The hollywood clips tended towards the idealized fantasy of what life is like and not what it actually is like so much to the point where, hey, I'm on earth and I'm alive, and I'm in love, and I can watch all of these awesome movies.
That's not The Pale Blue Dot, y'all.
glad to see the videogum group think is in full effect. just stating my opinion, we're all adults here, we can have a discussion y'all. we don't all have to agree. lets up the level of discourse.
that being said, im glad you asked sinkfloridasink -
theres an inherent nihilism in The Pale Blue Dot, that is missing in tone/spirit. it keeps the viewer sqaurely placed on earth involved in all its drama with literally no visual representation of the vastness of the universe. instead we shots of crap hollywood movies glorifying the human condition in spite of the main thesis, that all the drama on earth is ultimately, meaningless. think it misses the point completely. its like The Pale Blue (cliff notes edition)
Time for me to dust off my screenplay about talking candy, Snickers, Starburst, 3 Musketeers, a pack of Skittles, and maybe some Pop Rocks.
They all go to Las Vegas and Snickers wins a Jackpot, but borrowed the quarter he won the jackpot with from some Starburst.. and they fight and get into adventures. Its really funny.
- Larry David
the "david after dentist" t-shirt looks like some half rate threadless.com design. who would wear that trash. I mean like excuse me, hansel, have you ever heard of hair gel? He's a model I'm sure he's heard of hair gel. Earth to brent I was making a joke.
Wait what was I talking about again
I like how auto-tune has evolved to the point where you can only understand 3 out 4 words now. That's one less word describing some hoe-bag reverse cowgirl'ing him. Thanks, autotune.
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