Archive for May 2011
The Greeks – Is Tropical
This goes straight into my top ten of best things on the internet… I think it’s basically what went on in my head when I was about 8
Brutal Economics of Cable TV
The success of The Walking Dead, paradoxically, has left the network with an unusual dilemma. Like the executives of Mad Men’s Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, AMC is facing an existential question: How do I grow my business without sacrificing who I am?
TL;DR version: How AMC Explains the Brutal Economics of Cable Television
‘I’m a human being, God damn it! My life has value!’
Notes of a Screenwriter, Mad as Hell – The New York times on Paddy Chayefsky’s notes for his screenplay of Network.
You Are Sleeping… You Do Not Want To Believe
The Unexplained (subtitled Mysteries of Mind, Space, & Time) was a popular partwork magazine that came out in the UK in the early 80s. It explored various Fortean phenomenal like UFOs, ghosts and spontaneous human combustion but also scientific ‘mysteries’ such as black holes.
The first issue came with a flexidisk ‘BREAKTHROUGH: An amazing experiment in Electronic Communication with the dead’ featuring examples of EVP (Electronic voice phenomenon) Raudive voices. Specters Of The Spectrum.
21 century Tin Pan Alley
“Sometimes less,” he says cheerfully. “Sometimes I get two hours. Someone comes over at three, we have a cup of tea, chew the cud for a bit, go: ‘All right, shall we write a song?’ And by six, they’ve gone home and we’ve done it. ‘Chasing Pavements’, that took two or three hours.” The life of today’s pro songwriter.
