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Nov 6, 2021Liked by David Farrier

Hahaha so good

I can wait till we get part 4 in 10 years time and find out you were talking to an advanced AI the whole time and JGL is actually cryogenicly frozen

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Nov 6, 2021Liked by David Farrier

The hardest part for me to get my head around is how JGL keeps turning down your offers to go out...

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Nov 6, 2021Liked by David Farrier

“We are two soups simmering on a hot stove.” I mean, investigative journalism is great and all, but this sentence is wonderful. I hope JGL uses soup as a prompt soon as a final nod to this sweet saga.

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Nov 6, 2021Liked by David Farrier

'she'll be right' is the funniest thing, he has game ... Bless you for being reasonable , and i have enjoyed the JGL as a break from the crazy antivax, evil church pastors stuff, although important , we all need a little whimsy sometimes.

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Nov 6, 2021Liked by David Farrier

First, gotta get this outta the way: "I’d sort of forgotten about Joseph Gordon-Levitt." Not a chance, my friend. You don't just forget your nemeses. That could prove very dangerous indeed.

Now, this claim: "I know you know that loosely framing certain information can garner more likes, retweets, etc — but, they can also be extremely difficult to correct after the fact and damaging in the long term.” This really incensed me on your behalf because it is *demonstrably* false in literally all of your writing ever.

Anyway I'm really not certain I truly understand what this HitRecord was supposed to be, but it's giving me major FYRE Festival vibes.

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This whole thing is completely baffling to me. I’ve been a fan of JGL since he was on Third Rock, and he always seemed like the kind of guy I wanted to be friends with, but it did feel weird that he was collecting people’s work and never paying them. I know that’s not really what it’s about, but it’s still a little strange to me. I do feel like he has good intentions, and maybe they started small and got big in a way that he didn’t anticipate? Or maybe he didn’t even think about it because you don’t really think about those things when you already have money and don’t need to worry about making more. I can also personally attest that being in Hollywood from a young age kinda warps your mind.

As for that video, he also did do a good cover of Bad Romance: https://youtu.be/x6zMwGkY7z4

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Nov 6, 2021Liked by David Farrier

i very much enjoy this journey and also talk on what it means to come to end of story and find that something JUST IS and that is okay (but i will also say i am not so sure this is ending maybe just end for now). but i have enjoyed this way and it has answered curious questions of chuck as well thanks buckaroo

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Creativity is often about ambiguous prompts and apophenia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia and this whole HitRECORD JGL saga is definitely that. You can see him as an earnest fellow creative encouraging others and someone exploiting parasocial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction power differences at the same time.

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Nov 6, 2021Liked by David Farrier

It’s surprising how many things in life ultimately end up having to be summed up as “just weird”. There’s no twist in the tale, no tie to normality to give that satisfying sense of closure. There’s weird shit everywhere.

Just this morning I read about a US man found naked inside the walls of a theatre after 2 days.

Inside the walls. Naked. Two whole days. They had to pull gib off to get him out. Now, there may well be a credible time line of events that emerges to show HOW it happened but the fact remains, in this moment it’s just weird and that’s good enough for me :)

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Nov 6, 2021Liked by David Farrier

I dunno, life is full of unsatisfactory endings and in a way that made this ending feel more real.

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Nov 6, 2021Liked by David Farrier

It's so sweet to see you and JGL bonding over here.

JGL is the kind of villain that you root for anyway. He's flawed, but in that humanizing kind of way. He wants to do better.

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Nov 6, 2021Liked by David Farrier

Why does all this just make me like JGL more tho 😂

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I feel (and not because I am disappointed, because I'm not - sort of relieved that he is not an ogre) that this is not the end, but the pseudo-end. There is more. Coz, well, JGL and your good self are still alive, breathing, and now circling eachother's existences. There. Will Be. More. (said with impressive loud reverb)

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Nov 7, 2021Liked by David Farrier

This was def closure with him apologising for the photo prompt teases! Cease fire now?

Wanting to please/'work' with/hoping for big break from a celebrity it could be SO exploitative. The stories about the trombone player and the 3day no sleep made me sad . They didn't want to let them down with those opportunities dangled, but boooo for the outcome. But they did their best. Champs in my opinion! Hope they got more secure work from it somehow.

Hoping they've now changed it since then so that if they're personally asked to do a particular piece they get paid (a bit more too) anyway if it's not used.

Creatives exploiting other creatives isn't a great look.

I'm still keeping my peeper out for joseph AI torture though.... Taking over NZ first.

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Nov 6, 2021Liked by David Farrier

So we won't ever know if Minestrone and Clam Chowder share the same table, although we can be confident that they will never overnight in the same bowl.

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Nov 6, 2021Liked by David Farrier

Well, what a journey...

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