Good Idea, Bad Idea: Paying People for Stories
Good Idea: You are a media company. You pride yourself on reporting, original voices, commentary and opinions. Therefore, you should pay people for these things.
Bad Idea: Pay an estimated $5-8,000 for the exclusive story of Balloon Boy.
To be fair, it is kind of nice to see Gawker fully adopt the mantle of “smart TMZ." Still, sort of sad.
The Coffin Joe series is playing every friday in October at the Cinefamily.
Next Friday, they’re showing Embodiment of Evil and Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind.
It is awesome.
SIMON PEGG weighs in on the FAST/SLOW ZOMBIE debate…and yes, for some of us it IS a debate. CLICK HERE.
Inspired by the game and a shared love of Romero, Edgar Wright and I decided to create our own black comedy. Meanwhile, Danny Boyle and Alex Garland were developing their own end-of-the-world fable, 28 Days Later, an excellent film misconstrued by the media as a zombie flick. Boyle and Garland never set out to make a zombie film per se. They drew instead on John Wyndham’s Day of the Triffids, as well as Matheson and Romero’s work, to fashion a new strain of survival horror, featuring a London beset by rabid propagators of a virus known as “rage”.
My roommate’s brother-in-law pointed out:
at the beginning of Night of the Living Dead, the first zombie runs after Barbara. Hence forth, this entire debate has been planned by Romero for years.
There was no boy.
There was only hype for M. Night Shyamalan’s next film: a remake of Flight of the Navigator.
What a TWEEST.
The Blue Falcon Podcast. →
TEDCONOVERMIND.
I had Ted Conover for a class at NYU. Thanks to him, I actually did legitimate reporting and comprised a rough timeline on the life and works of John Sex.
I still have 8 gigs worth of video, notes, interviews and unpublished material on Sex.
And now, Ted Conover has a goatee. And it is fucking awesome. [don’t forget to watch the video.]
Did you guys know that Diz from Out Of Control works at the newstand next to the Popeyes on the corner of Hollywood and Cahuenga? Pretty sweet.
(via tofuttibreak)
this is the most depressing thing I saw all day long.
I, for one, am thrilled that Know Your Meme has finally explored the GET DOWN meme. I can only hope Billy Herrington is coming up on a future episode.
I take press events as serious as they take the people who attend them.
I take press events as serious as they take the people who attend them.
I guested, along with Jason Shawhan, on Vadim Rizov and the briefly returned John Lichman's most recent HND podcast. We talk Antichrist and Letterman. I'm mostly quiet, although the one time I go off I inexplicably decided to work out a theory I had just pulled from within my ass and hadn't, obviously, given a thorough work-through. Regardless, CHAOS REIGNS (as you well know). →
(via prigge)
chaos reigns, fuckers.
Someone has been nice enough to upload the Fantastic Mr. Fox bit from Antichrist. (And someone else has put up the full scene, too.) You shouldn’t watch this if you have yet to see the film. If you have, have at it, ad nauseum. You’re welcome.
P.S. Don’t have time now to go into it, but I am happily (lowercase) pro on Antichrist. Chaos indeed reigns. (And rains.)
this is the blue ninja from snacky’s.
it is made with mysterious, blue and liquor.
i am fairly confident the “mysterious" is cheap sake and the “liquor" is vodka.
"Now remember, readers: you, too, can make The New Yorker your buttboy. Just act like a cunt and treat Remnick like a putz and don't give a fuck." →
Shad Fest.
Because it’s a motherfucking bag of snakes, Indiana!