Awesome vid!

I'm glad to hear the writers are getting so much support, as I think this is an important issue that's going to have big repercussions further down the line.

Actually, I'm beginning to wonder just how relevant the issues of this strike really are. I mean, sure, they're very relevant, but there's a lot of ways in which this strike feels like mammals striking against the dinosaurs for not getting with the program and going extinct already, so the mammals can occupy their niche.

Okay, that metaphor isn't really working, and maybe the future isn't all that imminent, but a future is coming (or at least looking more and more likely) where these studios just aren't relevant any more. I think maybe the writers and other creative types should start thinking about cutting out the middle man, and it seems like some of them are already talking about it.

I just keep thinking about United Artists, and wondering if it isn't time for something similar.

I'm excited that I finally know what the singer isn't talking about in that song -- he's not talking about moving in! Not, he's not talking about the linen. He still doesn't want to change your life, though. Holy 70s, Batman!

I can't see studios not being relevant in 10 years.. At the minute, they hold all the cards.

At the minute, they hold all the cards.

What cards are those?

I just keep thinking about United Artists, and wondering if it isn't time for something similar.

Explain. I mostly know United Artists as, well, a chain of movie theatres. And a studio, too. So I don't know what you mean by studios not being relevant.

I'm excited that I finally know what the singer isn't talking about in that song -- he's not talking about moving in!

Ha, yeah, it took me half the song to figure that part out.

United Artists was a movie studio founded by actors Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplain, Mary Pickford and director D. W. Griffith, to give themselves creative control of their own work.

Did it work?

There's been a couple of articles in the LA Times recently making a pretty persuasive case that, no, in fact, the studios are not, in fact holding all the cards, Kevin. They just think they are.

Or, they're holding all the cards, but that the future is in video games.

Okay, I'm very tired, stuck in an airport, and trying to type all these thoughts out on an iPhone, so I need to stop with the crappy metaphors.

I guess I'm just trying to say that The Way It Always Has Been is not even remotely close to the same thing as The Way It Always Will Be, and continuing to behave as if it is only plays into the studios' hands. History says again and again that no monopoly on power or control ever lasts. I refer you again to the story of Unites Artists. Or just ask the major record labels how Business As Usual is going.

Yes, P_C, it did. Sure, they're gone now, but nothing lasts forever, which is kind of my point.

Most importantly, the UA legacy lived long after most of its founders were dead. Not bad for a crazy scheme all the older studios said would never work, and desperately tried to stop.