This is the bookstore I work at in Tallahassee. It’s an awesome locally owned bookstore that’s going to be going out of business on Monday. We’re trying everything we can to scrape by so we can stay open. If you live in the area and like books come on by this weekend! There’s going to be live music and all kinds of cool book-nerds to hang out and chat with!
I DID A FUCKING GREAT JOB!
- Shameless (US) 1.09 - “But at Last Came a Knock”
(Source: captoats)
are all the sharing sites really shutting down?
Because I can’t deal with this. And it’s not even that I download stuff that often. It’s the principle of the thing.
Companies are arguing that the entertainment industry is losing money due to pirating, right? But how do they know that? Have there been any actual studies done? Have they polled the people on the internet who would be able to answer best and give them the most conclusive data?
Of course they haven’t. If they had, they would find out that the reason they’re losing money is because everything is so fucking expensive and their biggest buyers are people who love television and movies and music but are not necessarily able to buy everything they want.
If they had, they would find that the reason people don’t upload things for profit. They do it so that others can discover something they love. And the people who download it either decide it isn’t worth their time or they go out and buy it because they love it so much.
This whole thing is just absolutely ridiculous. Movie industries are complaining about box ticket numbers? Well, maybe if you didn’t put every fucking movie in 3D and make us pay twelve dollars to see it you would get more profit. Higher ticket prices = less consumers. The same can be applied to television or music. Everything is so expensive. That is why companies are losing money (if they even are, I have not seen conclusive evidence of this) - not because of pirating. They are losing money because people can’t afford to buy their products.
So instead of thinking things through and realising that there is a simple way to increase their profit and audience (i.e. lowering prices so it is more accessible to their targeted audience), they have decided that the best course of action is to attack and make themselves completely unaccessible by alienating the people that buy their products.
To put it simply, the entertainment industry does not understand this one, basic principle: a consumer is not going to spend egregious amounts of money on a product they do not already know they will enjoy. If they know they will enjoy it, they will gladly pay for the expensive product. But unless I know I am going to love a television show, I am not going to pay sixty dollars for it.
WHAT EVEN IS A STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
I WANT TO DIE
i need to finish my statement of purpose and I haven’t and it’s the worst.
any tips/tricks for writing a statement of purpose?
Last night was something I wish I remembered and yet I don’t. Whoops.
i still believe this to be true.
I swear I’m still alive!
I moved. I started my last semester. Life is still good. I’ll start posting again soon, I swear.
A good television show writer understands that Oscar Wilde wasn’t kidding when he said, “I can resist anything but temptation.” Drama holds its audience in a perpetual state of anticipation, joyful in the knowledge that answers will be doled out only sparingly, that no resolution will ever be as powerful as the growing desire for it.
Theater and film do this for a few hours; television can do it for years. Audiences form an intimacy with television that they do not have with other visual mediums, not because television comes into their homes but because television comes into their heads. And stays there. To “watch” a series, one must interact with it, carry the characters and plotlines around in between episodes, consciously or unconsciously thinking about what will happen next, talking about it with friends or, nowadays, taking the pulse of other viewers via the Internet.
”Critic’s Notebook: The side effects of binge television (LA Times)
This quote is a bit lengthy, but I thought it so spot-on that it must be shared.
(Source: youwantsum)
