Also, "He's good on the 70s"...

...he made an entire movie as a love letter to 60s Hollywood...

Oh, he loves movies of that era. But he rightly speaks out about how bad the studio system made things for filmmakers in the US, and by extension, for viewers.

Tarantino has said the fifties were terrible for filmmaking and audiences, because the studio system was still at its peak.

I've heard him be nothing but effusive about the 60s, specific movies of that era, and even film "movements" and trends.

Yep, Matt's 100% correct -- as were you! -- that it's Old Brown Shoe, Something, and Here Comes The Sun.

The obvious omission from the red is Taxman, though, and I can definitely see that being the result of a fit of pique by Klein.

Because the best version of Dolby Vision requires physical media (and a DV-enabled physical media player.)

I mean, for me that's kinda it for my desire for physical media. :)

...and they've convinced themselves that legal promotion of indie music in 2026 is dirty and uses tactics that no one in music promotion back in the good ol' days would've ever used.

Which: ahahahahaha

Glad he's not part of the Big Weather conspiracy to cover up...weather happening.

Correcting myself. Sounds like a potential tornadic rotation seen on radar over that area. Haven't seen anything about eyes on.

Tornado sirens just went off here in the South City. Eesh.

Sounds like a funnel cloud may have touched down in Town & Country?

Glad that in my day, we were able to discover music organically and without any sort of hidden marketing plan, like the Strokes and Andrew WK

No.

I'm saying: the music industry is called a music *industry* for a reason.

A lot of this feels like people losing their shit over the scorpion stinging the frog.

Except the same people would call again and again, disguising their voices, or paying a disinterested sibling a nickel to be on the phone when their own attempts to disguise their voices failed.

These days for my job, I fight bots and spam daily. But it is part of the landscape, I'm afraid.

In other words, this might be a promotions factory who took what politicos and thought influencers are have been doing on social media for years and just applied it to music promotion. 2/2

OTOH, have to be a little concerned for how this translates into the political and public opinion sphere.

But also: I think it may be a case where it's less promoters having invented a new way to impact taste and opinion that political groups can learn from, and it might be the other way 'round. 1/

Ha! Fair enough, and good on ya. I get it, for sure.

But I also think about dudes like Chilton or Nick Drake or Scott Miller who drove themselves mad because they couldn't escape a mindset where they saw sales sales as an indicator of the quality of their artistic vision.

So...sorta like fan clubs for Elvis or Buddy Holly in the 1950s organizing themselves to inundate radio stations with calls to play records by those artists, at the behest of the managers of those artists?

This isn't music promoters coming up with a new way to exploit algorithms for promotion that politicians can latch onto and learn from.

This is music promoters learning from political groups who have been doing for years, discovering it can also be used to promote music.

I have befriended, interviewed, promoted professionally, done tour support, etc. for a variety of bands.

On the one hand, I cannot think of many, if any, who would decline to play this hand the same way if they were lucky enough to have it dealt to them. Promoters promoting well isn't a story.

Ick. "Had this WHEN I WAS A KID". I don't think it does anymore. But I've acquired multiple volumes of Little Nemo, Krazy Kat, and some vintage 1950s collections of Barnaby that apparently are now fetching collector prices. Mine aren't for sale.

The local library had this and I used to check it out at least 4 or 5 times per year. It's where I discovered Winsor McCay, George Herriman, and the incredible "Barnaby" strip by Crockett Johnson (think: Calvin and Hobbes 40 years before Watterson.)

Let me guess: Leatherpants

Victor Orban not only loses, but the opposition Tisza party appears headed towards a supermajority in Parliament.

JD Vance is having one hell of a 2026...

Today was the Andre Pallante I fully recognize from last season. Aggressively regressing to his own mean.

It wasn't cheap for Sinclair to wriggle out of a big part of their RSN mess, but it could've been exponentially worse. Existential for that crappy, awful, terrible wannabe NewsMax media group.

(The greatest example of US corporate law being broken beyond repair to me is how Sinclair was able to buy an entity with tens of billions in contracted debt obligations and being able to walk away from a good chunk of that by inventing a new corporate entity out of thin air.)

But then Sinclair realizes they've been snookered and figures out a way to wriggle out of some of that by making the RSNs their own company to at least mitigate the mess to being merely a disaster of a business deal, instead of one that took the whole company down.

Also crazy that Sinclair made one of the most legendarily awful business deals in sports media history by buying them from Disney for $10.6 billion (which included taking on the exorbitant and silly rights contracts Fox had signed with local MLB teams). Disney folks must still laugh at that.

There's an alternate scenario where Disney keeps them, adds them to the ESPN umbrella, and gets stuck having to ride that revenue hemorrhaging rocket into the ground like Slim Pickens in Dr. Strangelove.

Do you think Disney ever sends Christmas cards to the 2018 DOJ regulators who forced them to sell the regional sports networks they'd acquired in their purchase of Fox assets in 2017?

That theme song is permanently etched on my brain to this day.