Gregory Douglas

[Gregory Douglas @GregoryDou37332]

@materialcontext @RossBarkan 4AD in the UK and then Rough trade in US (both indie). Elektra reissued in 92, I don’t think that counts. (Didn’t know this but just looked it up to confirm)

[Gregory Douglas @GregoryDou37332]

@per_asp3ra That scene where you’re seated across from Amanda Seyfried and Nathan at the table and it’s all framed in close-ups… would you say that’s actually how the conversation went down or was it aggressively manipulated in editing?

[Gregory Douglas @GregoryDou37332]

@TGarv24 @ilovejohnkimble I don’t know you, this popped up on my feed. I found this very moving and have been looking through your page. She was incredibly blessed to have you and the love you gave her. I’ve lost some people too, remember love is forever!

[Gregory Douglas @GregoryDou37332]

@woop54 @wilhelm_vanD Todd Phillips made Joker 2 knowing it would alienate audiences. It failed, but it was a sincere attempt at a gritty character study. Digger does the opposite: it serves audiences stupid neoliberal drivel while congratulating itself for being above it.

[Gregory Douglas @GregoryDou37332]

@tart_afterdark Calling me stupid immediately after insisting the film isn’t contemptuous toward its audience is a great way to make my argument for me.

[Gregory Douglas @GregoryDou37332]

@mattbenyo @godlikemind There is nothing tethering him to producing a film in the way he made it other than his egotistical desire to win awards and be accepted by the academy and the liberal institution. He wants to have his cake and eat it.

[Gregory Douglas @GregoryDou37332]

@mattbenyo @godlikemind If Iñárritu had complete creative freedom, make the kind of film nobody makes anymore—one that actually revolts the liberal cultural machine instead of boring it. Make something dangerous enough to have consequences.

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@mattbenyo @godlikemind I don’t think that resolves my objection. If the film is both showing the futility of art and “throwing a Hail Mary,” then it clearly still believes art might matter. Being self-aware about its own contradictions doesn’t justify its contempt for escapism or its audience.

[Gregory Douglas @GregoryDou37332]

@mattbenyo @godlikemind So he proves that art is futile by deliberately leaning into cartoonish liberal filmmaking tropes? I don’t understand. With that ideology, you could argue anything is futile.

[Gregory Douglas @GregoryDou37332]

@mattbenyo @godlikemind Iñárritu has made millions directing commercials for Nike, BMW, Procter & Gamble and Facebook. We all know who Tom Cruise is and what he’s about. Who are these people to tell me that art can’t invoke change and that I’m a member of the “stupid” audience that craves distraction?

[Gregory Douglas @GregoryDou37332]

@mattbenyo @godlikemind Right, but as far as I’m concerned I’m sitting there being asked (for the sake of the greater message) to watch what Iñarritu believes is a stupid and inane work of art. Correct?

[Gregory Douglas @GregoryDou37332]

@WillSloanEsq Foreign Tongues (the follow up) is actually better and is probably the best Stones album in decades if you can believe it

[Gregory Douglas @GregoryDou37332]

@SpotifyLivies Is this actually true about Live From Glastonbury? I bought it years ago and had no idea. It doesn't say anywhere on the record and I can't find it online. Can someone show me proof of this? Would be cool.

[Gregory Douglas @GregoryDou37332]

@lennstarr_ @Marwablue I have the Japanese pressing of this album, I am not kidding— the track is titled “FROZEN JAPANESE” on the label and the record jacket lol

[Gregory Douglas @GregoryDou37332]

@charliyuri This is fine. The locked groove feels like an aesthetic decision that works with the song.
Olivia-who I had deep respect for-has no excuse. There are so many examples of her team cutting corners with merchandise. Cutting her ART to sell more single-vinyl variants is disgusting.

[Gregory Douglas @GregoryDou37332]

@fuIIcontroI Only difference will be the DAC that processes the audio that your player has (and unless it’s high end it won’t matter), and the headphones you use (which should be usable on both). Same exact digital files (Apple actually 24bit, CD limited to 16)

[Gregory Douglas @GregoryDou37332]

@Somun03682911 @strangeharbors We DESERVE wonder. The movie makes Disney, Spielberg, and CNN plot devices that need to be recalibrated. This language makes no sense to us because we are living under the control of the boomer entertainment apparatus,

[Gregory Douglas @GregoryDou37332]

@Somun03682911 @strangeharbors pretty much my take on the movie-- the more I thought about it, the more stunning I found the allegory. It's not a movie about "moving forward" in the traditional sense as much as it's a boomer reckoning- their system failed us, and people like Spielberg need to own up to it.