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One of the things least appealing about modern life is how easy it is to drown in all the trivialities and superficialities. Perhaps I've getting curmudgeonly, but it's the little things that annoy. Such as the ubiquity of advertising.
For example, I'm watching the All Star game and the camera lingers on someone vaguely familiar. And it's Billy Bob Thorton. Big whoop, I think. And so you'd think that would be it, right? No. The announcers do a commercial for his next movie! This was planned; there was nothing inadvertent about it. So now I'm wondering: did Thorton go to the game for love of the game or pimp his movie? And since when did we sign up for commercials outside the alloted 2, er, 3, er, 4 minutes between innings?
In the past ten years corporations have gotten really good at simply not leaving any profit on the table. Bleeding you the way the gov't does. Like having both an income tax and a sales tax, movie houses have discovered the profit in both having a fixed price at the gate and an extra tax within by making you sit through twenty minutes of commercials. The correct consumer response is to avoid going to movie houses. So you buy DVDs and soon they'll have commercials you can't skip through.
My friend Ham o' Bone begins filming his movie, or at least two "shorts" of seven minutes long, next week. Which is probably what prompted a dream last night in which I was looking for stuff to film at a local grocery mart. I was looking for something meaningful to say amidst a tide of Tide - but everything seemed washed of meaning. I wonder if decreasing patience with trivialities is the definition of a religious fanatic? Or is it the definition of the spoiled & impatient?
I was under the impression that Bone was going to show these film "shorts" to various & sundry movie people with short attention spans (i.e. those would rather watch film than read scripts). But he's going to try to get it independently funded by doctors, lawyers, Indian chiefs (to the tune of at least a million) and get the movie made on his own. But there's the problem of distribution. And how will he advertise---
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