Apple vs. Teh Postal Service
¶ by Rob FrieselSo is anyone else just plain sick and tired of this freakin’ story? To me it’s just another chapter in the s/he said s/he said po-mo mythology of who said what when why where first and whether or not it’s all that original and/or (re?)mix-worthy in the first place.
Statement one: The Postal Service’s video is just a white-tone rip-off of Kubrik’s 2001 shots to begin with. Clean-room bunny suits? Bullshit, that’s Dave’s space suit.
Statement two: They’re just bitter because their work tends to be mediocre and requires remixin’ to emerge as any kind of stand-out in the first place. (Admit it, you too gave up on Give Up after realizing that John Tejada was the reason you thought liked this band. I believe your words were: “Oh that’s what the original sounds like…?”)
Statement three: Gibbard’s statement is a fishing expedition. To see if [t]he[y] can get from Apple what [t]he[y] got from the mailman.
Additional thoughts: Now that I think of it, this really is the defining post-modern beyond-the-grave revenge of Stanley Kubrik.
UPDATE: Seems Gruber got the same impression I did re: the whole HAL9000 death scene thing.
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