What's your birthday color?
http://www.pantone.com/birthdaycolor/bdaycolor.htm
Mine is "Peach Bloom." I'm not sure if I agree.
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Downloading is inevitable. The trick is to make downloading safe and piracy-free.
Ask software companies- they don't avoid downloads. They make sure those downloads can't be distributed for free.
Music guys, look at the software industry. Then realize that you ARE software, smarten the hell up, and stop being idiots who sue college kids just because everyone can easily copy your vulnerable product using mass-produced consumer technology.
Ask software companies- they don't avoid downloads. They make sure those downloads can't be distributed for free.
Music guys, look at the software industry. Then realize that you ARE software, smarten the hell up, and stop being idiots who sue college kids just because everyone can easily copy your vulnerable product using mass-produced consumer technology.
OK, more college students being sued across the nation by our music industry:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/04/28/downloading.music.ap/index.html
I say fuck the music industry. I say we boycott them.
This is absurd. College students sharing songs, being sued for $3000 each.
Feeling like your art is being compromised, being stolen, is one thing. I understand that concern. But never in a history of popular art that spans centuries can I remember a ritualized suing campaign taxing middle-level consumers of a product for abusing product rights in this fashion.
I know there are people who are pirating internationally, who pose a much greater threat to the music industry than these highly-visible, scapegoat students. The music suits choose to string up their potential consumers, thus guaranteeing the birth of a generation of young adults hell-bent on the music industry's destruction.
Better be careful, RIAA. Abuse them today, and they'll come back when you're old to spit on your grave.
If you're a major-label artist, I feel pity on you. You've come into a system that sucks and is guaranteed to be overhauled in painful fashion.
Make it clear: I oppose piracy. But this is not the way to fight it. Be like Apple, not like the profiteering shits you clearly are.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/04/28/downloading.music.ap/index.html
I say fuck the music industry. I say we boycott them.
This is absurd. College students sharing songs, being sued for $3000 each.
Feeling like your art is being compromised, being stolen, is one thing. I understand that concern. But never in a history of popular art that spans centuries can I remember a ritualized suing campaign taxing middle-level consumers of a product for abusing product rights in this fashion.
I know there are people who are pirating internationally, who pose a much greater threat to the music industry than these highly-visible, scapegoat students. The music suits choose to string up their potential consumers, thus guaranteeing the birth of a generation of young adults hell-bent on the music industry's destruction.
Better be careful, RIAA. Abuse them today, and they'll come back when you're old to spit on your grave.
If you're a major-label artist, I feel pity on you. You've come into a system that sucks and is guaranteed to be overhauled in painful fashion.
Make it clear: I oppose piracy. But this is not the way to fight it. Be like Apple, not like the profiteering shits you clearly are.
Tuesday, April 27, 2004
Last night I spoke in a demon voice and acted in a scene by myself, taking my own orders on what to do next.
It was an improv assignment. Inner Demon Voice.
The scene worked out well, even though I had no idea what was coming next. I tied in a twist ending, even.
Instinct is good. Instinct makes us smarter and stronger than contemplation, often.
Good improv lesson: don't think. Do. Right now. Logic works itself out. It's true for writing.
Give it a try.
It was an improv assignment. Inner Demon Voice.
The scene worked out well, even though I had no idea what was coming next. I tied in a twist ending, even.
Instinct is good. Instinct makes us smarter and stronger than contemplation, often.
Good improv lesson: don't think. Do. Right now. Logic works itself out. It's true for writing.
Give it a try.
Monday, April 26, 2004
All these emails from strange names would make a great basis for characters in a play.
Mesolithic E. Mainlines has got to be a classic character. I see him in an Ignatius J. Reilly type of mold. What a weird world we live in! Mysterious missives from strangely-named characters urging you with aphoristic advice and trying to sell you "cheap meds."
If someone tried to argue that we weren't living a science-fiction life straight out of Philip K. Dick, I think this convinces otherwise.
If I win the Pulitzer Prize based on these characters, I'd like to thank Spam.
Mesolithic E. Mainlines has got to be a classic character. I see him in an Ignatius J. Reilly type of mold. What a weird world we live in! Mysterious missives from strangely-named characters urging you with aphoristic advice and trying to sell you "cheap meds."
If someone tried to argue that we weren't living a science-fiction life straight out of Philip K. Dick, I think this convinces otherwise.
If I win the Pulitzer Prize based on these characters, I'd like to thank Spam.
I never knew I had so many friends! But "Buy Cheap Meds" has many employees, apparently, who send me daily messages in an attempt to win my admiration and respect. They share words of joy and contemplation.
The latest from Dunked G. Turbulent:
Howdy!
In dreams and love there are no impossibilities.
We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.
The latest from Dunked G. Turbulent:
Howdy!
In dreams and love there are no impossibilities.
We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.