Dear Reader,

Anyone who knows me or has been around me for more than 5 minutes knows that I rage against the Hollywood machine and basically all large corporations that spew forth the content that most of us lap up like dogs. I hate Hollywood because

1) As a whole it is out of touch with mainstream America
2) It creates ’stars’ that then like to use their ’star power’ to push their own agendas whatever they may be.
3) For movies, the theater experience is now so bad than even a good movie is usually ruined by the ass-holes around me.
4) Their content is grossly overpriced and they are much more impressed with their skills than I am.

I feel much the same way about the music industry. By-in-large, they generate formulaic content that is so pre-processed that it might as well have been sung, played or performed totally by computers. They are impressed enough with the crap they produce to have a plethora of awards shows in which they slap each other on the back and congratulate each other for doing such a wonderful job. Well at least they think it is wonderful, sales of albums are down again and it’s not because of piracy, it’s because what they are putting out is crap.

But wait dear reader, there is hope. That hope is not found in Caans or Sundance, it’s found in places like deviantart.com. My daughter has an account there so I frequent it to see what she’s writing, drawing, excited about, etc. I love deviantart because it is a free and open market place. No one controls it, I am free to wander the content, looking for the pieces I like. There is no gate keeper to keep me from watching interesting, compelling and funny content.

I know there is hope because I ran across this today. It’s not the most compelling story line I’ve seen but it’s better than most of the shows on TV. It is however, well thought out, well put together and well produced. And even though thousands of people will see it just by virtue of it being on deviantart.com, it will not make the creator millions of dollars. It was produced out of love and a desire to create.

So take note Hollywood, your days are numbered. No longer do we have to settle for your over-priced over the air content or your DRM laden downloads. If you want my money in the future, come out with reasonable priced content that is interesting. Because if you don’t, someone else will.

Until next time,
(l)(k)(bunny)
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p.s. The main website is http://www.skary.net/ and worth a look!

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