Ho’wood and the record industry could slide into the Pacific ocean and nobody would be for want of something good to watch/listen to. My response to their death cry (if it weren’t just a figment of Wurtzel’s imagination) is, “Die already!”

Does anyone else find it offensive that she laments the fact that other countries are starting to prefer their home-grown cinema? Where does she get the nerve? There is terribly exciting cinema being created in other countries, and thank god.

Several years and about fifty pounds ago, a mutual friend offered (perhaps facetiously, I’ll admit) to set me up with Ms. Wurtzel. I demurred. And here I see yet another way in which I dodged a bullet.

For what it’s worth, I buy a ticket for every film I download when it eventually opens here, and if I like it enough, the DVD as well. All six of those I plan on getting on DVD.

I’m not saying that is a justification, but certain circumstances do lead to extreme courses of action. If I lived somewhere were releases where not so erratic, I wouldn’t download anything other than film trailers. So…I’m not proud or happy about it, but I do what I have to do.

Also, in addition to spelling “Spider-Man” wrong (no dash, little ‘m’), she also weirdly equates “Movies = Hollywood” and not once mentions how indie film folks are exploiting the Internet to get their movies in front of audiences that are squeezed out of Hollywood-glutted theaters.

Finally, if music is slanting towards the hit single and not the album, that’s the music industry’s fault, not audiences. Lables sign sucky bands that only have one song in them.