Masses Against the Classes

We're back! In the words of "Serenity", they can't stop the signal. Steve Martin's Christmas wish is now back up, as you can see from the bottom of this post. We're going to do a bit more ranting here about copyright and such. Its the ultimate level of hypocrisy that the entrenched corporations and organizations are so determined to protect copyright, but won't give the writer's their fair credit. Of course I'm referring here to the upcoming writer's strike. The strike is over the fact that writer's are not getting royalties for DVDs, ringtones and other electronic versions of their work. The studios, the same people who claim that downloading robs artists of their livelihood and so worried that they feel the need to sue single mothers, hurricane damaged senior citizens and stroke victims, feel otherwise. My position is with the writers on this. Studios are trying to have their cake and eat it too. If you're going to have a system of private property then follow the rules. If you want to make sure artists can make a living, the give them what they deserve. If you want to fucking make money at the expense of new forms of creativity and rights you supposedly protect, go shove it up your ass. While I'll be sad about the delays in various projects created by the strike, its more than fair given the circumstance. The producers and studios have entrenched themselves in a place of power and won't give up no matter how unfair or archaic it may be. Okay, rant ends here. I feel better, do you?

The Big Damn Movie: The Introduction is now almost complete. Audio is recorded and put it. Its horribly/wonderfully Z-Grade, but thats how we role in the Hunt. One small title card maybe redone, but thats it. ScavOlympics is also nearly complete. A couple things to do and I haven't found a good idea for the Mario race, but its looking great. My hope is that the entire thing will be done by mid-December, barring a few places, like Mario, where I need to figure out what to do. If that happens we'll be in great shape. Progress was slow over the past 10 days due to work related injuries. I've hurt my shoulder and back and had to spend most of the past week lying down in order to avoid significant though not unbearable discomfort. Still sore, hopefully a day of not lifting large boxes should help.

Finally, since it was just Halloween, here's a list of some of my favorite horror films and the one's I've been watching this year in honor of the holiday.

Favorites:
Black Sheep
Blackula
Donnie Darko
Die Zombies Die
The Exorcist
The Evil Dead Trilogy
The Haunting
In the Mouth of Madness
Poltergeist

2007:
The Amityville Horror
The Omen
Flight of the Living Dead
The Thing
Rosemary's Baby

Christmas Wish
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Gold Against the Soul

So there's big news on two fronts. The first as some of you will notice, is that Steve Martin's Christmas Wish no longer works. NBC yelled at Google HQ, which in term bitched at youtube and they then took the video down and sent me a curt little email explaining why. My reaction: FUCK YOU IN THE FACE MOTHER FUCKER! Considering that I didn't use any of the video and that my little experiment would never stop anyone from watching the SNL Christmas special or buying any SNL shit is pretty rediculous. I mean really. I'm not a fan of our current copyright system and this just furthers my annoyance. Copyright was created so that authors could protect their work from publishers and maintain a level of accuracy. Furthermore, copyright only lasted a few decades, if that I can't remember right this second exactly how long, so works should enter the public domain and spur the creation of new ideas. That's how its suppose to work, not this bullshit of rights extending over a hundred years in the hands of 4-5 mega corporations and not even in the hands of the creators themselves! Okay rant over. Anyway, I am not discouraged and hope to find a way to get the film up again. Though this time I will avoid the SNL tag. Final tally for this movie:
Views: 20,285
Comments: 13
Rating: 4.5 stars after 47 ratings

The Big Damn Movie: All title cards are done and are being integrated, save for roadtrip. I've also redone the Introduction and am much happier. It means I have/will take out things I spent time on, but this is much better. Its been a case of "the first idea is the right one". What I've done and will finsih doing this week are some of the first ideas I had for this film way back in...well April. I'm happy that they've worked out as they did. I've got a couple small itmes to remake for the intro now, just some recoloring to go with the new theme. Plus a bit more photoshopping and some audio recording should finish most of it. I've also finished writing out the audio to be recorded and should have that done this week.

Several other items have also been completed since I last signed in. I've added in a lot of audio and a lot of things are coming together. What I need to do now is just go through from the beginning all the way through and try and get what I have synched up so I can see what I need to find. Still need to email page captains about items and such too.

The new seasons of The Boondocks and Frontline have started. Highly recommend both to all. Also, for those interested in military history, I've just finished Antony Beevor's "The Fall of Berlin 1945". I highly recommend both this book and all his works. This is the 3rd complete book I've read of his and he is both a gifted writer and an amazing grasp of the material.