Posted by BrodieGod at ip30.md.dialup.beachin.net on May 15, 2001 at 18:51:03:
In Reply to: Repost -move along- {NT} posted by Dr. Greedo PhD on May 15, 2001 at 18:49:21:
: : No really, fuck it, I'm gone. There's only so much anally-retentive shit
: I can take, and I've had my fill.
: : Look at this joke of a board, and what it's become. Sycophants and
: psychos, board police and bored board police. To answer an earlier
: post from AsianPersuasion, yes, ViewAskew fans are the scum of the
: earth. That's what you get when you give your fans a forum, when you
: care about them more than the next famous guy - you get to hear how
: full of shit they are and you get to see how pathetic they are and you
: get to see how they use you in their own sad little publicity battles. In
: fact that's why most of these famous fuckheads don't bother - they'll
: sign a picture sure, but everything else gets handled by PR, and
: rightly so, cos people are fucking idiots. It's not worth the pain and
: embarrasment.
: : Fame makes fuckers of us all, I swear. It makes fuckers of the fans
: who will literally do anything to get noticed by their idol. It makes
: fuckers of other fans, who see a certain type of fan behaving a certain
: type of way, and they'll sneer cos they just happen to be better
: informed fans and therefore so much cleverer. It makes fuckers of the
: people who should know better, cos the attention, once you've had it,
: gets hard to ignore, and it makes fuckers of the famous cos you can't
: please even half of the people half of the time, no matter how you
: present yourself.
: : The way I see it, the small time TV celebrities and the Britney
: Spears' of this world deserve everything they get. The stalkers, the
: threats, the fans - the whole thing. But you can't avoid that sort of shit
: in the public eye, no matter who you are. Kevin is hardly Britney
: Spears, and you can bet the View Askew publicity machine has less
: wheels than hers. He doesn't ask for respect, he earns it as a
: byproduct of making intelligent movies - he doesn't promise to be all
: things to all people, he's just himself. And it's not like his fans are
: screaming teenagers waving pictures around (OK, not all of them) -
: most of you guys are intelligent, literate people who feel an affinity
: with the man through his films, not just cos he's flavour of the month,
: and yet he still gets treated no differently than a Spice Girl. Even then
: we drag ourselves down to the level of schoolgirl fans with this name
: calling, rule quoting, waving our arms around for attention bullshit.
: : No more. I was gonna write, not that you fuckers give a shit, a
: screenplay or a novel or something. And now, fuck that. If I write
: anything, the only thing that's gonna have my name on it is the check.
: Kevin, you have nothing but my sympathies. If this is the shit that you
: have to put up with, I'm truly sorry, and I'll bet you never thought it'd be
: like this. Good luck.
: : As for the rest of you, well, good luck fighting over the scraps of
: news. Good luck in thinking up obscure questions for Brian or
: Vincent, just so you can have the buzz of seeing a red name under
: your own. Good luck with your genuine questions, you newcomers -
: perhaps you'll get lucky and someone decent will answer you before
: the fools rush in to read you the regs. If I was an optimist, I would
: hope that maybe a solution could be found, but I'm not and there ain't
: one. If you can make it through the Vulgarathon without the riot police
: being called I'll be impressed, because things are looking bleak.
: : You can say what you like from here on in. I'm not going to bother
: reading it.