| | rant 230: you say goodbye, but i say
Why hello, Xanga. It's been a long time since I've posted here. Well, a long time in internet time. Two weeks. In internet time people live and die in six months. Like Susan Boyle, everyone's favorite middle-aged cat-woman who's just like, amazing, even though she's a cat-woman so I'm going to waste minutes of my life watching her sing and do follow-ups and blech. Is this really how sad we've become? That we're all completely enamored with the fact that a 47-year old unattractive woman may have talent in something?
The only reason this is "news" is that the megaconglomerate entertainment industry decided a long time ago to kick everyone out who is unattractive or over the age of 30 out of the public spotlight. And why did they do this? Because people are more marketable when they're attractive and in a media age where you have to see the people creating the music, it's better to be young and attractive. And why are people more marketable? Because - and this is a kicker - the average viewer thinks art is better when the person making it is attractive. I'm not even kidding - I heard this on the radio the other day. Books are far more likely to gain critical review if the author's picture is attractive.
Basically, the fuss over Susan Boyle is humanity exploiting its own shallowness. Twenty-eight years of MTV have numbed everyone and made the world believe you have to be attractive, skinny, and young to be a decent singer, which is ridiculous, but that's how we've made things. Now stop clogging my google news page that she's gotten a makeover. Thanks.
It's actually really saddening to think if Zola, Tolstoy, or Gertrude Stein were alive today they might be ignored compelely by critics because of the face on the dust jacket.
In the segment I like to call "internet people I like," you can add the Pirate Bay people. First, they're like Swedish or something, which has earned good favor with me ever since this man and this woman. Wouldn't it kick ass if they somehow reproduced together? Anyway, the Pirate Bay is, if you don't know, a torrent site, which means they host no content, merely provide directions to download stuff in small bits. They lost a major lawsuit and were slapped with like a 5 million dollar fine, but they basically came out and said they'll be victorious anyway.
And they will. 25 million users. I've watched Napster, Kazaa, Limewire, SoulSeek, etc. all more or less die. If Pirate Bay joins them, so what? It's obvious we need a new method of entertainment distribution in this country. Some TV stations get it and host their content for free streaming with advertising revenue. I'm sorry, your business model of shelling out DVDs for 26 bucks is horribly flawed. That's life. That's also businss. The horse-and-buggies makers didn't hide behind laws when the cars came to town, nor did they claim that transportation or the art of equestrian would die. Art isn't going away because people decide to trade stuff for free. Hell, independent music and film is thriving with technology, not dying. Dickheads.
Anyway, that's all for now. In the meantime, I'll be hoping I'm famous enough some day for South Park to make fun of both my hubris and my love of certain foods at the same time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYjdu1TysA8
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| | Posted 4/25/2009 4:35 PM - 5 Views - 2 eProps - 1 Comment
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