How? Also..... Why?
I can't download and preview songs from the new DangerDoom album legally (not that I didn't anyway) even though I fully intend to purchase the album. That's considered me ripping them off. What if I were to repackage that album with the titles altered and say I made it? Is that even more of a rip off? Logically, it would be, right? But welcome to the here and now. Fuck logic. Forcibly hold down the wriggling tentacles of logic and whip out your dick and fuck it right in the middle where the beak would be if it hadn't been worn off trying to chew through the thick skulls of the American public and infect our collective mind. I want you to read this article. Take notice of the title of the book and its subject matter. CNN avoids mentioning HBO or Kim Catrell throughout the entire article but they do reference Mr. Big. They know they are peddling bullshit. They do it anyhow. Based on this article I have devised a plan to write a novel called Everyone's Loving Raymond about a cartoonist who lives across the street from his overbearing Jewish mother and his shell shocked, retired accountant father. He has 3 kids. The oldest two are fraternal twins. His wife is muslim from Pakistan and his brother is a firefighter. Sounds good, right? I got the idea all by myself. I was just sitting there watching Fox between 9 and 10 p.m. last night and inspiration hit.
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Let's face it...everyone rips off everyone else. What a joke...
How about a show about a family...lives on the east coast...has a pet that talks...except instead of a dog it's a fish...wait a second...that has already been done. Does it count when you rip off yourself? At least Groening didn't copy the simpsons when he made futurama.
Yeah, he copied the simpsons when he made the simpsons....
Season 7+ SUCKS!!!!!
are you saying Candace Bushnell is ripping herself off? Or are authors not allowed to write more than one book in the same theme or genre? I'm not saying it isn't crap, because it is -- I read her last book on an airplane and it made me want to jump out.
I forgot about that...Simpsons Seasons 7+ were repeats...and less funny
this book is supposed to be different from her previous work.... did you read the article? and even if she is only ripping herslef off why the name? why the city? ...no... actually... no ... people shouldn't rip themselves off... it's lame.... parody of oneself is good... but recyling without parody is not... do you ever feel like a hypocrite when you imply that i have some kind of pathalogical need to argue the other side?
furthermore, even if the series was loosely based on her nyt column and the book is named after the nyt column instead of a blatant attempt to make more money off the show it's still pathetic that she made an entirely new book with new characters unrealted to those from the show, with new content unrelated to the content of the colum on which the show was based and yet still chose the same title. it's like making a sequel that has nothing to do with the original... and since sequels generally suck by default there is no way this lady isn't just milking the sad shriveled teats of a concluded tv series that a bunch of well paid hollywood hacks pieced together from the scraps of her unimpressive column that chronicles the night life of the shallowest demographic that ever got porked on the dance floor at studio 54
you mean sort of like (not a trekkie but as an example) why the show Enterprise went off the air because it was Star Trek, but new characters? Or is it because Scott Bakula can't shake his Quantam Leap phase of his career.
I think you mis-read, the new book is called "Lipstick Jungle."
Yeah... you're right... not that i misread ... but that my rant wasn't really clear on that point... she did not name the new book after the show but, from a quote from the show
yeah, i did say "the same title" didn't i... well that's not what i meant... the title is derivative... it from a line from kim catrell's character... no idea which episode
Whackly, I didn't know that you knew THAT much about Sex in the City... Learn something new everyday!
the lipstick jungle would seem to be a parody of "concrete jungle"... y'think?
Wow, I just thought the book was crappy. And her books are all about the same sort of crap. Many authors subsist in this way.
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