Yes, it was the karaoke place – Jerry did a really awful rendition of Heartbreak Hotel and I slaughtered my throat with Twist & Shout. And it wasn’t sushi – it was shabu shabu.

Love you.

I got a laugh from the memories of Jerry and I hanging out with you and Karen. Remember? Karen hurling chunks (very colorful … must have been sushi?) That Karaoke place? Karen musing on how she got pregnant … she slept in a ball of sperm. You being funny … very funny. It is all hash to me now and I have a hard time separating experiences. There was a lot of laughter.

I never knew that he compared his oxygen tubing to an umbilical cord tying him to the house. Stuck as a baby in the womb of the house. Wow. Shit.

I hate that he’s gone. I knew it would happen and thank god he was at home with people that he loved, but I simply can’t stand this.

Thank you so much for such a beautiful tribute and teaching me stuff about Jerry that I didn’t know. I am still learning about and from Jerry.

Love, Jan

That kind of narrow, controlling and selfish thinking is – alas – not just fucking up their own industry, it’s having significant impact on fundamental human rights around the world and threatens to hobble major innovations in communications and culture that will create profound changes in how we live our lives for many generations to come.

Small minded fucks.

Thanks for commenting. I’m behind on my blogging duties but have a few neat things up my sleeve – as well as a couple of rants about my own dealings within the industry as I try to convince them to embrace the changes washing over us.

cheers

The war on the public domain is so clearly against the arts and creativity, that there is simply no arguement for it other than corporate greed. One of the things that is killing original filmmaking is the death grip studios have on their franchises and back catalogues. Patents expire for a reason. Imitation and developing the ideas of others is the key to progress and invention. Disney was founded on this very principle.

Piracy only seems like an unsurmountable problem to the studio system because they are completely unwilling to accept that their old way of doing business is over. They refuse to adopt a cheap and simple distribution outlet for consumers and instead focus their energies on criminalizing them. If fair pricing and distribution means that they can no longer recoup the costs of some of their crappier $200 million productions, they should stop making them. If they can not offer a product that consumers are willing to pay something for, then they should go out of business.

Ever since the video boom, studios have claimed the end was nigh, while their profits grew with each new form of redistribution. It’s time for them to once again adapt or die. Adapt their strategies, but most importantly adapt their expectations.