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Eldritch Carrot(Ben)
@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party  ·  activity timestamp 10 hours ago

With this spate of music artist films...Elvis, Elton, Queen, Winehouse, the Bobs, Springsteen (I suppose there's also Cash, Morrison, Ray Charles - ok I looked it up and there's millions of them) - interesting to ponder who might be next. You know Prince is coming up soon. I note some have been made in the artists lifetime. At the exponential rate films are being turned out I wonder if they'll catch up. We'll start seeing the Ed Sheeran story or 'Styles, The Truth' with a gritty reimagining of One Direction. 'Life on (Bruno) Mars'. Then they start overtaking. The story of a star before they are a star. The music industry falling in step behind the money people at Amazon and Netflix. Then the next industry and then the next. All things now in the wake of streaming. You want a career? You have to have your own film first, decide who you're going to be. Faster and faster. Days cycling moon and sun moon and sun, seasons whipping past. Until Hollywood bends the light of all creation, sucking it all in like the gravity well of a collapsed star. The death of everything not the vast uncaring void of existence but ones and twos on an electronic balance sheet. Death by accounting. All of reality inconsequential in the face of information. Humanity no more important than a noisy tool. We are the leaf blowers. And we blow for nought.

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lonely extrovert
@rothko@beige.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 9 hours ago

@TheBreadmonkey art is never all for naught. after david bowie's death, husband and i watched like a zillion films about him, and i came away understanding that bowie not only succeeded in making art out of his chosen medium -- rock&roll -- he made his entire LIFE a work of art.

and the number of people that one person, that work of art, has influenced is immense... just how immense and important that is, i'd not truly comprehended... until i watched all those films.

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greem
@greem@cyberplace.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 10 hours ago

@TheBreadmonkey Morrissey.

It'll be cancelled several times, when it does start production it'll be massively late, then it'll only be 20 minutes long before finishing due to exhaustion and the sequel will never arrive.

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JackTheRebelCat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 🇺🇦
@JackTheCat@mastodon.scot replied  ·  activity timestamp 10 hours ago

@TheBreadmonkey Joe Dolce. The Krankies. Les Dennis. So many more deserving cases.

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David Cohen
@davidbcohen@twit.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 10 hours ago

@JackTheCat @TheBreadmonkey “When the Conga Ended” - about the rise and fall of Black Lace

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Eldritch Carrot(Ben)
@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 10 hours ago

@JackTheCat

What's A Matter Oo: the Dolce Story

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JackTheRebelCat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 🇺🇦
@JackTheCat@mastodon.scot replied  ·  activity timestamp 10 hours ago

@TheBreadmonkey What's an opportunity!

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