1/19 Patton Oswalt
130 satellite radio tours for promoting books are antiquated. “publicists still think the internet is prodigy net”
230 “morning zoo” radio culture. first of all, for a comic promoting a gig, the 6am radio promo does not bring people to the venue at night. bs: did that for promoting book in 2005, had no interest since. morning / satellite radio does not care about guests. no background research, only 5 minute segment, odd tone for conversation at 6am. mean-spirited. false, “fun-time we’re-having-a-party-at-6am”
6 podcasts are taking off because of the dichotomy created with radio culture.
12 comedians are in great shape today because of the internet, cable tv. they are not under the thumb of club owners, who demand that customers should always be loud and raucous (“woooooo!”-ing) - caters to a different kind of comedy. “always be laughing” means not being able to set up jokes. PO: when the audience is quiet, they’re listening.
20 twitter gives you the pulse on what the high-water mark for jokes about relevant topics are. fosters competition and growth.
30 first four pages of Patton’s book, describes how their generation (both born in 1969) was the last to experience things over the television and feel as if they were the only one. they grow up and find that everybody else was scarred by the same episode of Fantasy Island. now everybody grows up connected to a two-way conversation, no such pop-culture isolation exists.
38 Reality Bites (1994), The Big Picture (1989) - seminal pictures for creative people in their generation
40 Ethan Hawke’s character in Reality Bites was, acutely, a type of person that existed in 1992-94. PO: he’s a parallel to Gordon Gekko; the film says “don’t be this guy, he looks like he has it all but watch it all fall apart” and then people watch the movie and say, “I wanna be Ethan Hawke, I wanna be Gordon Gekko.” hand to face. also, Vince Vaughn in Swingers
PART II
4 PO: young creative people (teens) don’t know how the world works, so their first pieces always seem to start with an apocalypse of some sort, meaning you can make the rules to your own world. they pick one of three paths: zombie (eg vampire), spaceship, or wasteland
19 Steven Spielberg is at the point now where anything he imagines he can put on the screen. but that’s not what made him great. it’s his resourceful-ness, a la Jaws (the first eight attempts at sharks didn’t work so he had to get creative), Saving Private Ryan (the opening scene, the beach, water, restraints and problems).. contrast that to the most recent jurassic parks.. they stopped being so scary because everything “possible” was already literally there
