BE: Inside Flap
Carvill John
johncarvill at hotmail.com
Thu Oct 10 12:08:50 CDT 2013
Yes and I'd say that BE compares very disfavourably with Seinfeld, as entertainment and as cultural artifact.
As I pointed out previously, the whole 'guy making bootlegs of movies using handheld VHS recorder ironically becomes cult figure despite/due to the quality of resultant videos' thing was done much better as a Seinfeld episode, way back in 1996:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i45IsSYF-PI
Would that BE were half as entertaining as this...
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 12:38:37 -0400
Subject: Re: BE: Inside Flap
From: richard.romeo at gmail.com
To: lorentzen at hotmail.de
CC: robinlandseadel at comcast.net; pynchon-l at waste.org
Maybe but parodying a parody doesnt seem all that interesting.
Agreed that there is a "Seinfeld" dimension in BE,
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