Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 128 Editor's Choice: 12
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Why are you writing to Carrie while my coffee needs warming?
[Read the article: I went to L.A. to work in film and just got yelled at]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Kidding, I don't have an assistant (coffee's kind of cold though), and when the day comes that I need one I really hope I am civil. Yes, the entertainment industry is full of horrible bosses who yell. I've been yelled at a number of times, my friends who made their start as agents assistants have stories that are truly horrible.. But there are also quite a few decent people in it as well and working with them can be heaven.
The Problem is that there is too much stress and too much craziness to deal with if all you want is "a career in film" or "a career in entertainment." You have to know what you want. Carrie is right in that if you really want to be in film you need to know exactly what kind of film work do you want to do. You say you want to be creative, but what does that mean to you? Do you want to create characters(actors and writers do this), stories (writers and directors), images (directors and DP's)? Maybe you just feel the need to express emotion in a way that is communicative - the "biz" may not be the best place for that, that's the perview of real indy films, avante guarde films, experimental theater etc etc.
If you know what you want to do, then and only then can you start a path, and only then can you withstand those entry level jobs (I spent a year dubbing 3/4 and beta tapes) because you know why you are doing what you are doing.
Now it may be you are finding you really do not want any of this. If you don't have a passionate need to make film or TV, I'd say get out now, the internet may kill the whole thing anyway. There are many other creative outlets (just about all of them require less financing than getting a film made.) But liking things that are creative and wanting to be involved with creative things is not the same as being a creator. To some extent there needs to be a certain level of compulsion, a need to express or create something that will drive you forward.
OK, I probably sound like I'm beating up on LW so In fairness I should point out it took me years to figure this stuff out. I was much older than LW.
Is there something you want to create? Do you know exactly what it is? Make a plan and create it. if you do that, no one will care that during the day you have been warming someone's coffee.
And as for your values being out of line with those around you. If you stick around, you may find that some of the best people in film actually share a number of your values.
Not everyone spends their nights doing blow off a stripper's ass.
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Fucking Details
[Read the article: I went to L.A. to work in film and just got yelled at]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Cary, not Carrie
Oh and LW, whether you move to Thailand, Florida or just convert, you need to watch Swimming with Sharks. Even if you move on, you will love it.
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All I can think to do . . .
[Read the article: Russert dead from apparent heart attack]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is draw a sad face on my dry erase board (which my mother gave me as a gift after the coverage of election 2000). It's a stupid gesture maybe, but I really don't know what else to do.
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Nationalize the Continental shelf.
[Read the article: Gas prices and offshore drilling ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All of it, not just near Florida but the part in the Arctic as well. Then drill for the oil. Self half directly to China, use the money to buy back all our T-Bills. Sell the rest on the open market. Invest that money directly into R&D for renewable/alternative energy sources.
We get:
Short term reduction in price of gas. (more supply)
Stronger dollar. (less T Bills)
Increased employment. (Multiple large R&D firms funded by this)
Pay down our foreign debt. (by buying back the T Bills)
A lot of the hard work done on making new energy solutions feasible.
Yes, there will be drawbacks, yes some local environmental systems will be harmed, but long term this could help us out of a number of jams.
I know it will never happen, just say the word "nationalize" and people think your Castro.
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feeding the troll . . .
[Read the article: Gas prices and offshore drilling ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]RE CO2 in the atmosphere -
it has been much higher in the past and much lower in the past,
Yes, and there used to be a glacier covering the midwest.
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You can't tell it's crap if you are playing it on crap.
[Read the article: Apple's iTunes sells 5 billion songs, but you don't own them]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Cheap computer speakers, iPod ear buds, an under powered car stereo system in a car with loud tires and lots of rattles, and overly svelte HTIB's that cost under 300 bucks.
This is how most people are listening to their music. It's pretty hard to get all that jazzed about the difference between 128, 256 and lossless when that is the case.
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on the female body parts
[Read the article: A new take on the octopussy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But the girl parts look kind of unappealling...is this just because I'm a straight female, or was there some kind of misogyny at play here?
Just kidding. These are really cool ads. Thanks for sharing.
I think there is something sort of odd about the "girl parts" because they are too decontextualized. A penis is a very defined object, one can easily imagine it "detached" from a body. A Vagina/Vulva on the other hand is more ambiguous. Where does it start? The first fold? A few inches around the first fold? Add to this the fact that a large portion of the organ exists inside the body, so in order to recreate the whole thing you have to sort of create something around it.
I think the physicality of the objects coming into play have a lot to do with this. it's the same reason those molds of certain pornstar's vagina and anus areas are just sort of creepy to a lot of people,where as a dildo is not.
While I applaud any sex positive and "pro exploration" message regarding safe sex, it would be nice to consider that sexual exploration can go hand in hand with exploring each other as people too.