So Louis CK did it and I can’t stop thinking about the fact that:
– Artists are way too often freaking retards with technology and can’t never see how it would benefit them; I torrented every single Louis’ standup, the two seasons of Louie and that’s how I became a fan and paid right away for his thing. Otherwise, I would have just “stolen” his last show or maybe would not have given a single fuck about this fat, swollen Irish asshole. Artists are like old stinking grandparents in front of their TV being scared by everything news say. P2P is one of the best invention ever, period. Learn it and use it. And hurry the fuck up because liberticide laws are rushing on this freedom like white people to a Kanye West’s show.
– How is that only a handful of artists did this? Are they all screwed by contract or are they really not getting the Internet?
Dave Chappelle (excellent and long 2008 interview here), what the hell man? Chappelle’s Show is one of the highest selling TV-series DVD set of all time, right there with US culture pillars that are The Simpsons and Seinfeld.
You freaked out on celebrity. Fine, I totally get that. You explain it and I would have done the same, probably. But man, you cannot do standup comedy in front of your fridge or your cows or whatever animal or dead object you have in your Ohio farm. Like for Louis, I torrented your ass because I wasn’t aware of Chappelle’s show when it was airing -they’re not big on satire by black comedians in France-, and was tired of reruns with commercials. I cried so many times, laughing. I want more.
Get on the freaking internet, Dave. Do whatever you want (as long as it’s funny and make me think), shove the intertube with it, make people pay, be fair and nice and you’ll be fine. You are a comedian, you need this shit. I mean, the past few years ought to bring jokes and ideas to your brain in the order of hundreds of thousands. Your name is huge. You can take some little risk, you own a fucking farm. You are fine, you can just take your time and make great stuff. Total freedom, total control. Come on, son!
And yes, it makes me think about black people and technology. It’s often in my mind these days.