I like him.. I like what he's trying to do.
I think he should have closer friends to bounce ideas off of.
I think he needs a better manager, unless he's managing himself, then get one.

He took a chance, and I admire him for it. We all need to fail sometimes. I do however, feel like they were setting him up to fail. Never should an artist have to interview and defend their work before they've even performed - I really don't know what that was all about - he was on the defensive before he even started.

I really saw this as an artistic performance piece. The song had catchy parts but was missing the glam. The sound quality was poor. Like I said - Better management, maybe a little less Retro-MJ look.

Sold.

I would love to see Relic steal this idea and do a Dawn of War game in this way (turn-based with the "glam cam").

You should pick up some of the later stuff. Some of those graphic novels are awesome. I like "the gift", "all his engines", "pandemonium", and "hard time".

>> ^ponceleon:
Actually, I disagree with Budzos... I enjoyed the movie a lot more than the comic. I found the comics very hokey and disjointed in comparison, whereas the movie really encapsulated what I would LOVE religion to be. To me Catholicism is empty just because it has claims to relics, spells, and traditions which are ineffective in our world but pretend to be powerful in the way they are presented in this movie.
Religion would kick ass if it was based on a reality like this... I'm not sure how else to say it, but religion (and Catholicism specifically) is like people playing a childish game in which they are trying to imagine a world like this movie portrays.
To get more specific, I liked the explanations and backgrounds of the characters much better in the movie than in the comics. The comic has John Constantine being an ex glam-rocker who is slightly psychic/mystic and who's "damnation" doesn't come from an attempted suicide as in the movie, but rather a botched exorcism which is just kinda stupid. The whole suicide thing is really well done in the reimagining in the movie and makes a lot more sense.
Papa midnight is another character which is vastly improved in the movie. In the book, he seems more like a reject from Live and Let Die, a blaxploitation stereotype, whereas in the movie they really brought home the idea of someone that lives between two allegiances.
As for the use of "guns" and other 007ny stuff, I really thought it worked a lot better than the way they present him in the books. Frankly I'd rather have Constantine wielding a holy shotgun with blessed bullets than looking for a tape of his music video in his trashy apartment.
I'll admit that I only got through three of the graphic novels before I stopped, but I just feel that the changes made to Constantine's development improve vastly over what I saw in the books. As for making him American, I hate Keanu in most of his performances and I thought he really brought it for this one. I was pleasantly surprised and this movie remains one of my all-time favs.

So then, ALL the crazy young white folks die? Usually it's only the woman-glad to see some pasty glam-boy hippie gets his!

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What don't we understand? We are a society built on emotion - what we feel - rather than what we think. The general populace - worker drones of the corporate empire, are controlled simply with emotional stimuli. It's the pure game-plan of the republican party (and democratic, to some extent as they see the effectiveness of this strategy). TV is the mouthpiece of the corporate world - and it's all about emoting, NOT thinking. Talking points, sex, glam, hatred, violence - these are all emotional triggers. The populace is controlled by what it feels, not by what it thinks.

Emotion and thought are two very separate things. Emotion caters to the identity, the ego. If we can separate emotion and thought, and be very very aware of what constitutes one or the other, what we are left with is pure processing power.

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It's trashy and glam but I love the retro beat.

It was getting rather slow for me, but I've recently added noscript again; something I normally don't use because it's annoying to whitelist every site I visit; and it's significantly improved.

google-analytics.com, glam.com and googleadservices.com remain blocked in my config.

Actually, I disagree with Budzos... I enjoyed the movie a lot more than the comic. I found the comics very hokey and disjointed in comparison, whereas the movie really encapsulated what I would LOVE religion to be. To me Catholicism is empty just because it has claims to relics, spells, and traditions which are ineffective in our world but pretend to be powerful in the way they are presented in this movie.

Religion would kick ass if it was based on a reality like this... I'm not sure how else to say it, but religion (and Catholicism specifically) is like people playing a childish game in which they are trying to imagine a world like this movie portrays.

To get more specific, I liked the explanations and backgrounds of the characters much better in the movie than in the comics. The comic has John Constantine being an ex glam-rocker who is slightly psychic/mystic and who's "damnation" doesn't come from an attempted suicide as in the movie, but rather a botched exorcism which is just kinda stupid. The whole suicide thing is really well done in the reimagining in the movie and makes a lot more sense.

Papa midnight is another character which is vastly improved in the movie. In the book, he seems more like a reject from Live and Let Die, a blaxploitation stereotype, whereas in the movie they really brought home the idea of someone that lives between two allegiances.

As for the use of "guns" and other 007ny stuff, I really thought it worked a lot better than the way they present him in the books. Frankly I'd rather have Constantine wielding a holy shotgun with blessed bullets than looking for a tape of his music video in his trashy apartment.

I'll admit that I only got through three of the graphic novels before I stopped, but I just feel that the changes made to Constantine's development improve vastly over what I saw in the books. As for making him American, I hate Keanu in most of his performances and I thought he really brought it for this one. I was pleasantly surprised and this movie remains one of my all-time favs.

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We have adwords (google adsense) on the main page only when we don't have another ad to serve. In the US it goes like this in a daisy chain order. Glam -> TribalFusion -> Adsense

So if the upstream network doesn't have an ad to display it forwards to the next company. Adsense is always the end of the line - because their inventory is so big, they'll usually have something to display.

The other thing that happens is frequency capping. If you are a regular visitor to the Sift, you are more likely to see Adsense content, because the other networks set a frequency cap on how many times their content will be displayed to a single IP address (usually in a 24 hour period).

Adsense on the individual pages is targeted pretty well by the title text and body text content on the post. We've tried small banners right under the video, but it hasn't been much more effective - and kind of ugly.

There's more to it - geo-targeting and lots in the ad server we use (Google ad manager) I might do a blog post on it.

Judas Priest and a lot of 80's metal (obviously NOT glam or hair metal) is still very good music.

I think people just got too into the heavy metal fashion during the 80s and now when they look back at the music they conclude it must have been terrible, because the whole 'heavy metal look' was terrible, and still is (see): http://www.last.fm/music/Manowar/+images

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Wow. Nice. And I like the glam Bo Peep outfit too.

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