From the vault: In the studio with Prince: Susan Rogers on recording: "He was not a lordly type. He was a working man. He had a strong work ethic" In 1983 a phone call about a job opening in Minneapolis changed Susan Rogers' life forever. Working as Prince’s staff engineer for five years, she’d spend day and night behind the desk and tape machin...

Remembering Prince on the 10th anniversary of his death with this interview by his staff's engineer Susan Rogers who worked on Purple Rain, Around the World in a Day, Parade, Sign o' the Times, and The Black Album.
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We must carry His spirit. It is time

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Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

Tweet by director Joseph Kahn: The solution to the theatrical problem is very simple. Extend the time before it goes to streaming. Make it 180 days. 6 months. If you don't watch it in theaters you won't get to see it for a long time. Studios have devalued their product by letting the consumer know there's no urgency. They're going to see it for "free" later. They've cheapened the business into a buffet and violated basic supply and demand.

plainly true

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

Pat McAfee seems like a guy who becomes famous just because no one has any better ideas

Happy happy birthday, H!

Oof. I can't believe even Walmart was that high.

Oh no!

Yay! Some of this movie reminded me of why I loved Army of Darkness.

I bought it to support, and will give it to someone that enjoys horror more than I do. ;)

Hoo boy, I have been tearing through these books. Just starting the Suffragette one but I adored Sebastien and Violet.

I had so many treasures hidden in there.

I can't wait to hear what you think of it. I had a blast.

Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.

Inadvertently makes a case here for why we need to keep the humanities in school

Boo

A picture of a packet of instant mash mix titled "smooth mashed potato"

[Sade voice 🎵]

Phantom Thread was truly exceptional.

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

I've listened to the audiobooks twice now, and laugh out loud at least once in every book. I adore Donut.

I chuckled. L O L

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

It’s sad how gadget biased the idea of innovation is. Like MRNA vaccines and ozempic and sickle cell treatments and aids treatments and electric cars and solar panels, these must all pale in comparison to da phone robot that talks

North Florida here and they are delicious. :)

This made my day. Meet Nazgul...a very good boy.

Here is some essential reading on bulllshit publishing technologies, featuring a couple quotes from me. www.wired.com/story/why-ge...

Your moment of joy for the day.

Put him on the mic NOW