I would, sarameg, but I'm still working, so you have to suffer along with me.
Does anybody else miss the Mayor? 'I just want to be a big snake.'
Xander ,'End of Days'
Natter .44 Magnum: Do You Feel Chatty, Punk?
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Theodosia - May 05, 2006 12:28:42 pm PDT #5649 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
sarameg - May 05, 2006 12:29:03 pm PDT #5650 of 10002
Damn you, Theo.
Hayden - May 05, 2006 12:29:10 pm PDT #5651 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I was disagreeing that he's the most dour, unfunny person imaginable.
Not as long as Ann Coulter remains undead.
F&G is another show that had to fight hard to get all the music on the DVDs, and that delayed the set for a long time.
They weren't completely successful, either. Just mostly.
DavidS - May 05, 2006 12:32:37 pm PDT #5652 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
They weren't completely successful, either. Just mostly.
What's missing?
bon bon - May 05, 2006 12:32:41 pm PDT #5653 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I was never thinking about lyrics sites paying, since I see them a source of free advertisment. Sure, they're making money off ad revenue (and this is probably the whole point), but it's free to me to go look, so I do it very often. Also, the lyrics are a poor substitute for the song itself-so going to a lyric site isn't even song methadone.
They're making money off of content they don't own, though. It's basically reprinting copyrighted material. I don't think a songwriter is thinking about the advertising, so much, but that they're using someone else's property for their own profit. I don't know if RIAA is involved or not, but I imagine ASCAP and BMI should be.
aurelia - May 05, 2006 12:32:59 pm PDT #5654 of 10002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Someone tell me that it would be perfectly fine to leave 20 minutes early.
I will, Sara. Theo only has power over you if she is providing your transportation.
sarameg - May 05, 2006 12:34:47 pm PDT #5655 of 10002
Thank you.
Now I have to decide what I'm doing for dinner, since pretty much everything I have involves defrosting. Sigh.
Sheryl - May 05, 2006 12:35:04 pm PDT #5656 of 10002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
G had two interviews this week, and one of the places made him a verbal offer. Here's hoping that all goes well with references and such...
Trudy Booth - May 05, 2006 12:36:53 pm PDT #5657 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
There are different categories of DVDs, the ones you sell for a hundred bucks because you're only selling a few and the ones you sell for cheap because you're selling a million.
You could work that sort of thing into the deal. If X sells more than Y units the price for the rights increases. That only benefits the people living on the rights -- they sell more songs at a lower price and can sell some (that never would have sold under the current system) at the higher.
I don't know that F&G's one Styx song necessarily starts a revival, but look what Muriel's Wedding did for ABBA (Mama Mia for one). The way it stands now they're cutting themselves off from that possibility.
Gilligan's Island wasn't re-run ad nauseum because it was so good but because it was so cheap because the actors had lousy contracts -- and now its part of our consciousness well beyond its merits. It would be smart to try and get a bit of that buzz with the periodic cheap deal. WKRP could TOTALLY do that sort of thing.
§ ita § - May 05, 2006 12:38:14 pm PDT #5658 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They're making money off of content they don't own, though.
Hence my parenthetical "this is probably the whole point."