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Applies to musicals in general

10.26.06 @ 11:49PM Tags

Last night I saw the Bob Dylan musical The Times They Are A-Changin’ (comp tickets). General misgivings about Broadway musicals notwithstanding, for me the show brought to mind a favorite basketball quote from ex-Georgetown coach John Thompson (although I think it was via Al McGuire): “just put the ball in the basket. All this French pastry is not necessary.”

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Douchebag

10.12.06 @ 11:28AM Tags

Yesterday I wrote an article at DVguru titled 10 reasons you shouldn’t go to film school (update: a week later, I followed it up with my disingenuous 10 reasons you should go). Thanks to making the frontpage of Digg, the article garnered a lot of comments. Here’s my pick of the litter:

“Is it just me or is Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo not exactly the guy I want to
trust when it comes to making these decisions.

The relative merits of going/not going to film school aside, some
douchebag who has a website and has never made a movie really isn’t
the authority on getting a career in the motion picture industry.

Considering he runs a website called “Nofilmschool” that he
shamelessly plugs in his post, I’m guessing I could give a shit.”

I’m framing this one and putting it on my wall.