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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 by chris carter the creator of the x files i ve always liked the x files even in the later years when everyone on the show seemed to stop giving a damn i always watched hoping they d pull themselves up more fool me eh millennium was produced during the years when x files mania was at its peak since carter had created a big success for fox it seemed logical that they would open the vaults for him and allow him a free hand to create the show of his dreams well i sure hope his dreams aren t anything like millennium because this is the most depressing show i ve ever seen it s pretty much the most depressing thing i ve seen in my life now don t get me wrong the production is very well done the acting is superb and there are some interesting stories and ideas overall it s the very model of a high class television series but there s absolutely no hope at all in it the whole world has been drained of life and people are basically just shambling corpses waiting until someone comes along and tells them to lie down and be buried of course the x files could certainly be dark and some of their episodes were pretty grim but the overall foundation of that series was that of a basically good world being invaded by evil all that was necessary was for good people to fight the good fight and evil would be vanquished perhaps not permanently and perhaps with high losses on the side of good but the world was not yet lost good was something that people were willing to fight for and the fight proved that the bonds between human beings are shared by us all the soul of the show s world was a human soul the invading forces were just that an invasion an encroaching alien shadow in a world still in the light the world may be teetering close to tumbling into hell but it isn t there yet there s time to right the balance millennium s world is a much darker place here it is quite apparent that the world is lost that it is a planet of crawling evil now that we are all already dead and in hell the sunlight and smiles are just fading masks on a party that has long ago turned into a wake the world is hewn from darkness and terror and blood and any struggle against these forces is going against the natural order ie it s a futile fight against forces that cannot be defeated so fighting for good is something that people do simply because there s nothing better for them to do even then they don t believe in what they do the rot is set in the tide cannot be stemmed all we can do is watch as things fall apart and the center cannot hold and mere anarchy reigns from his high throne and laughs the only thing we can do is hold ourselves back from becoming involved allow our souls to die and perform the only remaining sign of corporeal animation laugh along with chaos surrend...