Hey, y'all...
My man Z asked me to put in perspective the just completed Comic-Con convention in San Diego. He goes every year and he may share some of his personal experiences from the recent convention, but I can honestly say that from where I sit, I never thought "the Con" would reach the status it has reached now.
Comic-Con is now arguably the biggest single fan-oriented Hollywood movie expo in the world. Ten years ago, movie studios wouldn't have been caught dead marketing to the "comic book and D & D geeks", the kind of genre conventioneers who William Shatner once famously lampooned in that SNL skit by telling them to "get a life." Now, not only does Hollywood not want any of the Comic-Con participants to get a life, they want them to make sure they generate Internet buzz for all the latest genre oriented movie and television shows that they are going to churn out in the coming year.
You know what, it works: movies like THE 300, STARDUST and GHOST RIDER all owe a significant portion of their box office success to the buzz generated at last year's Comic-Con. Here's a tip for next year: look for IRON MAN (starring Robert Downey Jr.) to be one of the top three grossing movies of 2008.
Scott Shots
--R & B singer Teedra Moses has more talent in her little finger (as a singer and songwriter) than Beyonce does in her whole body, but if you want to be a female pop star these days you're better off looking like Beyonce or Rhianna than the Girl Next Door.
--The new Common album is his best one yet and worth a purchase, but it only whets my appetite for Kanye's GRADUATION which is due in about three weeks.
--If there is a bigger "legal" rip-off in America today than cable television, I can't imagine what it would be. I just got a bill for $260 for a cable bundle that includes TV, Internet, cable phone service, HBO and Showtime (gotta have my WEEDS baby) plus "one time" charges of $84.18 which include such things as a $71 "transfer fee" and $13 to add a cable box to the bedroom! Some would argue that cable now has competition from DirecTV, but they have their problems too, especially with cost of the dish and the fact that if you live in some apartment complexes you can't install the dish. I have to admire the sagacity of the cable execs who managed to bamboozle the FCC and local politicians into accepting a deal where they can run their business in a community without competition and essentially charge whatever they want.
Maybe I'm just jealous I didn't think of it first...
Unlike some Americans, I haven't forgotten about events in Iraq, so I'll circle back to that later this week. Until then,
Peace.
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