New Project: Brevity on Demand
On Demand TV is a great idea: a video shop *in your house*. With all these titles, you’ll need some help making a purchase.
Lucky for you Virgin Media have provided a handy synopsis that sets the scene and really sells the movie to you. Or maybe not. It seems it’s pretty hard to sum up a movie and sell it in just one line.
I’m collecting these one line summaries on tumblr - some are woefully poor at selling their movies, and others are stunningly surreal.
Hornby on the art of the Mixtape
Whenever I think of Mixtapes, I think of this passage from Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity:
To me, making a tape is like writing a letter — there’s a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again. A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You’ve got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention (I started with “Got to Get You Off My Mind”, but then realized that she might not get any further than track one, side one if I delivered what she wanted straightaway, so I buried it in the middle of side two), and then you’ve got to up it a notch, or cool it a notch, and you can’t have white music and black music together, unless the white music sounds like black music, and you can’t have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you’ve done the whole thing in pairs and…oh, there are loads of rules.
