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an t be alone in this was oh hey it s one of those sensitive films about young girls coming of age i mean that even sounds like a tv show title where young women experience laughter heartbreak love and friendship all separated by carefully timed commercial breaks nothing wrong with that i hasten to add heck i like a good cry far more often than i should be admitting in public but that isn t here or there so the fact that it s a science fiction western may come as a shock to those of you who didn t dig too deeply and that s my main point the film is a spin off of sorts from a failed television series firefly something i never watched but fans have a passion that will not be dimmed at the imdb show times screen it was quite instructive to see that other films in the theatre i go had a few hundred votes some had four thousand or so but only serenity had over seventeen thousand that s quite a fan base and that s quite a fan base for a film that is let s face it preaching to the converted who is going to dig deep enough to see what this film is about and then go to see it other than me i mean people showing up for a sensitive chick flick are i hope going to be warned away from a pretty violent and sometimes gruesome science fiction shoot out people who are going to look for a science fiction shoot out are i guess watching something else on dvd since they may not be aware of this film but the firefly fan base they re going to be out en mass which turns out to be not much of a mass wouldn t it have been better to call the film something a bit more a propo like urm killer cannibals from space granted that would have tied into the schlock movie crowd like me and wouldn t have alerted the fans of quality idea films that here was something they might like but then the title serenity didn t do that either spoiler alert it s the name of the spaceship for despite the fact that i went to see it it dropped off the charts this weekend who s to blame well it s hard to say the whole set up is so insular that one imagines the fans of firefly and writer director joss whedon are equally to blame he made a film for them and they went to see it no one else was invited oh sure you might say all someone had to do was peruse a few message boards or read the synopsis or what have you and you d know what to expect and be there with bells on but that requires work as noted you ve got to go to the trouble to dig up info on the entertainment in question why put people to work like that why not make it easy for them why not try to tell people what you ve got on offer it might be argued that an arty title is the priviledge of the artist and his right to be true to his vision and i won t argue the point but films aren t just art they re commerce someone gave mr whedon almost 40 million dollars to make a movie wouldn t it have made sense to have as many folks as possible see the result so that if it was a huge success he might make another one the second argument is that such actions might delute the cult it won t be cool and hip man if everyone goes to see it no no it is only for the select few the enlightened ones and i m going to stop there before i get too scowly i don t have much patience with fans who desire that an artist in whatever field remain their exclusive property and if that artist becomes a success he has therefore sold out the surprising thing was i was able to pick up on the story and characters with minimum confusion i may not have had the rich experience a firefly fan might have had but clearly mr whedon was persuaded that potential newbies had to be brought up to speed the exposition was quite cleverly handled so it may be too late if you missed it and that sounds like something you d like if you re a firefly fan you ve probably already seen it and if you re a firefly fan perhaps you can answer a question for me the reavers in the film are a group of completely psychotic space cannibals in the film they appear totally out of control and completely in thrall to their passions howling and rawring all the while they seem to be 28 days later s rage victims of the future how in the heck are they able to avoid killing each other let alone organize how the heck can they fly spaceships standard posted by beckoningchasm posted on september 14 2005 posted under entertainment and culture machines and what they bring thoughts and theories comments 3 comments all that noise all that sound well i finally bought the coldplay cd the one with speed of sound on it i just couldn t get that song out of my head so i went out and got it thus succumbing to i guess peer pressure i did however wait for a couple of months so coldplay s fifteen minutes are pretty much over so it wasn t like i was succumbing to good peer pressure i also bought a doctor who dvd at the same time so it wasn t like coldplay was my only goal defensive aren t i the reason i hesitated so long was that i was pretty sure speed of sound would be the only really good song on it and i was mostly right don t get me wrong the rest of it is at least agreeable and there s a clever re working of the riff from kraftwerk s computer love that s er clever but it s basically u2 sonic mush shaped into some riffs and keening vocals notice i don t say it s u2 like or u2 esque this is basically a u2 record that they didn t make themselves chris martin and bono have very similar voices martin s voice is sweeter but bono s is more powerful but the guitarists for the bands could be evil twins to each other the only thing i can figure is that coldplay must have been really scared by u2 some time in their collective past and they ve been trying to work out some kind of therapy this way that s not really what i want to write about though it struck me that a cd as a container of music is a fixed product one generally has the idea that it should hold a certain amount of music anywhere from 35 minutes at the extreme acceptable low end to over an hour anything less than 35 minutes seems like unused potential at best or a cynical rip off at worst so i imagine that any conscientious band not wanting to appear parsimonious to their fans probably puts some less than stellar material out just so the cd format seems to be a reasonable value to the potential consumer but doesn t this mean that the overall quality of the cd is diluted sure we re consumers but we re also listeners back when vinyl was the standard this good stuff on this coldplay cd would have made an outstanding ep as in play it til the grooves wear out as a cd the sheer length means the excellent track speed of sound and the couple of very good tracks are drowned in a sea of okay not bad noise granted the band members probably think all the songs are great but they re not writing this are they it seems to me that as our entertainment technology continues to advance performers are being asked to adapt not only to the technology but to the changing needs of the consumer so whereas once a recording was the means by which music could be preserved and distributed now a band is the means by which a recording can be produced and sold that s not supposed to be as cynical as it sounds also whereas in the past consumers would seek out bands now the band has to court the consumer this isn t going to be a rant about how music nowadays sucks though it does as i suspect that as every generation passes that s the common complaint from the old to the young the music that we choose is better than what came before and better than what will come after twas ever thus no what i want to talk about is the impact of recording technology not just on how music is experienced or how it is created but why it is possibly created the way it is and the ways in which it is thought about by the listener i suspect that before the invention of recorded sound music was less tied to any kind of restriction if you wanted to write an opera cycle that lasted several days you could do so without let or hindrance likewise if your song was only a few seconds in length there were no rules to say that couldn t be done having your music performed for an audience was a different matter but i digress most composers and performers didn t do these extreme things because popular music is for the most part a functional art form people want to dance or feel beloved or feel blue feel smarter than everyone else or otherwise be entertained the music had to fit a certain need in order to become popular in the first place while wagner s marathon works are respected they re not as widespread as many other simpler forms of music when recorded sound became popular the limits of music at least commercial music changed a song couldn t be longer than what a wax cylinder or a 78 rpm disk could hold there was no medium capable of greater length and i think over the course of the decades the recorded sound object the record began to shape music to reflect its own image originally a dance band for example would simply shape its performance to the length of the party where it was playing if the party ended early they d stop and go home if the party went longer than expected they could play more songs or play longer versions of the songs they knew i think the first audio recordings were basically promotion for a band the band could have a record played on the radio and people would know what the band sounded like and if they liked what they heard they d go to the live show the record was an advertisement for the concert my own opinion is that this was the norm for a long time people bought records not for the records themselves but because they liked the concert for one reason for a long time records didn t have the same audio quality as live performance concerts were also right there and then probably more fun than a tinny recording that had to rely on memory for most of its effect but when records became audibly equivalent to live performance and began to surpass that via overdubbing compression effects etc i believe the balance shifted suddenly records were no longer the enticement to a live performance the live performance was now the enticement to go out and buy the record that must have seemed odd to those bands that realised what was going on they just wanted to at this point in the century rock and roll but their wings were being fitted to a different flight path playing music sure sure as long as the lp sells as the recording process and the resulting lps continued to be refined i imagine that bands began to tailor their aims more and more toward the physical record and less toward what the record was supposed to document the band s own performance after all most bands at first aspired to a song on the radio ie one side of a 45 rmp record the other side could be and usually was anything two to three minutes at most just enough for radio play the rest was the party when the lp became the standard suddenly more was required of bands they had more minutes to fill pete townsend tells how he wrote a quick one a ten minute song cycle because his producer told him he had ten minutes to fill to complete the album townsend was a consumate professional though and very talented so that ten minutes wasn t just band noodling that wasn t always the case of course insert your favorite meaningless jam band here but respect me and my kind if we say but wait about our favorite prog rock outfit to say nothing of tangerine dream since this is getting too long let me wrap up here the era of the lp gave way to the era of the cd and bands were under even more pressure to fill those minutes which leads us to coldplay and an excellent ep turned into an okay cd there may be hope on the horizon the advent of the ipod and downloadable mp3s have made a conceptual leap in what is expected of music these days it s still tied to recordings rather than live performance but it seems to know that there s a need out there that bands can only sporadically fulfill suppose coldplay decided that what they wanted to go back to was the era of the 45 rmp record the song on the radio or in this case the song on the ipod they could put all their resources into making that one song really really great and not bother with the attendant cd it s still a matter of terminal nostalgia which our species seem can t seem to shake since the advent of the recorder but at least it s a step forward for the consumer at least he or she doesn t have to listen to hours of drivel to get to the good stuff which of course varies from consumer to consumer one man s drivel etc this might mean a whole new era of composer consumer relations one actually based on music and not product or it might not never underestimate the ability of marketing to undercut everything still i should do something with that ipod shouldn t i before it does something with me standard posted by beckoningchasm posted on march 14 2005 posted under entertainment and culture thoughts and theories following up too closely unbelievable as it may seem i actually left out a bit in my several million word post about millennium not sure how that happened but here s the thrilling conclusion ironically the very success the show s creators have had with creating the perfect hopeless atmosphere has cost them what they most wanted carter and others have said they wanted the show to be scary well you can t have fear unless you have some hope you have to have something to lose your life your family your freedom etc in order to feel fear if you have nothing to lose it s not fear it s fate consequently while the show is grim depressing and grotesque it is never frightening at the end of season one frank s wife catherine is abducted i m sure the producers were hoping i was saying oh my god i have to find out what happens to her but i wasn t i was saying oh well catherine nice to have known you pity you re dead can that be the reaction they wanted probably not but that s what the show managed to get from me you have to have some hope for audience sympathy and when you abandon all hope ye who tune in here what are you left with you re watching bodies going through motions like chess pieces sometimes a piece is removed from the board does anyone care standard posted by beckoningchasm posted on march 11 2005 posted under entertainment and culture thoughts and theories been down so long it looks like up to me do you like depressing art the background to this question is simple i recently had the opportunity to buy the first season of millennium and i went ahead and did so i hate to shatter your illusions but i buy a number of dvds sight unseen based usually on the reputation of the creative forces behind them sometimes i buy them because i think oh a giant monster story that d be cool other times because the cover is shiny and attractive so millennium i only knew two things going in 1 it starred lance henriksen who is pretty much always worth watching as some kind of psychic cop and 2 that it was created 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