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Originally Posted by MarkMono  Do you really think that the flavour-of-the-month bands have been picked to enhance the quality of the film? I find myself thinking occasionally that quite a few of the press-release style announcements on here are a little bit less than honest.
No offence Woolies, its just your official voice is such a glaring difference to your usual heartfelt sincerity. |
I try to reign back from my usual sarcasm when posting news items and I do consciously alter the tone of voice if posting something "official" rather than just my own crappy thoughts. I think the distinction is sometimes important (at least from my own point of view) and the change of tone helps me out with that. Rewriting dry announcements isn't the easiest thing but because I despise straight copy&paste news items with all loathing I can muster, hence I do my best to rewrite. (Although I understand the use & place in the world of c&p news but I'd almost rather they [quote]ed source & link rather than aspire to original content.)
But to mark out the sarcasm fuller than the original post obviously did - I have complete and utter disdain for
any comicbook to movie conversion. Occasionally they manage a fair summer blockbuster out of them (such as my vague memory of Spiderman is) but dragging the things out over more than one film leaves me sodden with apathy - I guess scene kids are more likely to go "oh wow, that movie looks great" if their favourite band plays during the trailer though...
oh yeah and actually, the "full to the rafters with orignal blah" was going to be a dig at how the album is being touted by PR bods as all original from "great new artists" but actually isn't.
I must have lost interest half way through typing the sentence.
So to recap:
News Items I post have to the best of my knowledge all full and good information.
The editorial opinions expressed may be liberally laced with sarcasm, irony and piss-takery.
So urm, not so different from my normal posting then...
