I'd Love To Hear Bill Hicks Thoughts On The Modern Era

[8bitagent]

The way life is quickly devolving and condensing into one big autotuned dubstep remixed/rebooted mash up with everything, one has to wonder where this is all going. If everything is descending into one giant lulzy meme...where everyone of your friends, family and people you don't like living each day on facebook waiting for that validation like/comment/update. With everything condensed into halted haiku text speak and twitter feeds, and everything a click away or regimented into an "app"(hey, there's an app for that)...where life is condensed to a macro image cat picture that clutters your feed...and the appreciation/concentration/focus for even media being abysmal(if Pink Floyd's the Wall came out today, itd be a digital download where kids would click on each track for a few seconds going "next, oh cool, next...lulz...reblog" ) I would LOVE to hear what Bill Hicks would have to say about EVERYTHING. Youtube, facebook, twitter, smart phones/apps/texting, expressions people use, fashion, pop culture, cgi movies, adhd, etc. If not Hicks than at least Patton Oswalt.

I'm finally seeing Devo in a couple months, and I gotta wonder what they think of all of this. While the internet is a great democratized tool where *anyone* can upload a song/silly moment/random item and get instant feedback or even fame...there seems to be a nasty side effect. Do people even fully take in a music album beginning to end, or a movie? Or has "multi multi-tasking" become the order of the day?

Hell who the hell needs the spectre of governments forcing RFID chips and the 'mark of the beast' in the wake of a 9/11 like event when everyone has a smart phone in their pocket 24/7 and *willingly* updates their every location/interest/thought? Social networking is embraced and promoted by governments, even if it is eventually to be their empire downfall. (Had a live twitter jeopardized the Bin Laden raid, Im sure Obama wouldnt be so keen to extoll the virtues of social media)

I detest the horror Ted Kazynski did, but I have to say I do find some kernels of truth in the overall gist of his manifesto. Yet while I do love documentaries like No Impact Man, I'm not an extremist and think humans can make a balance with technology.

Im sure it wont be long before BOTH pop culture and TED Conferences descend into the world in Idiocracy


MAYBE THIS will be the popular form of entertainment for everyone soon?



related article by patton oswalt
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/f ... ture/all/1

[elfismiles]

Exclusive: Richard Linklater to Write and Direct Bill Hicks Movie for Focus


American: The Bill Hicks Story
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Exclusive: Richard Linklater to Write and Direct Bill Hicks Movie for Focus
by Jeff Sneider October 24, 2018

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Richard Linklater has signed on to develop, write and direct an untitled film based on the life of controversial comedian Bill Hicks for Focus Features, Collider has exclusively learned.

Hicks got his start doing comedy in Texas, and Linklater was a big fan growing up, so he was especially sad when Hicks died prematurely of cancer just as he was rising to prominence. Linklater has since lamented the fact that the two never got to work together, as they likely would’ve been a natural fit given their creative sensibilities.

Following an Austin screening of the 2009 documentary American: The Bill Hicks Story, co-director Matt Harlock told IndieLondon that Linklater considers himself a contemporary of the late comedian, and that he felt a real resonance with Bill’s story given his own Southern Baptist upbringing in Houston. In fact, Linklater’s older brother went to the same school as Hicks and knew some of his friends, and apparently, Hicks was a big fan of Dazed and Confused, which was released five months before the comedian died in February 1994 at the young age of 32. His memory (and his jokes) lived on, of course, and in 2017, Rolling Stone ranked him 13th on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time.
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Image via Just For Laughs Festival

“There’s not quite any others like him. They don’t speak in the same voice. You’d think people would take that torch and go with it, but it’s a rare combination of that kind of intelligence, mysticism, political, you know… his politics, his angle, it’s pretty unique,” said Linklater. “I go through my life all the time… everything that’s going on in our culture, I always think, what would Bill Hicks be doing? You just miss him.”

Linklater is the Oscar-nominated auteur behind the acclaimed Before trilogy as well as the writer, director and producer of Boyhood, which was nominated for Best Picture. He caught his big break in 1990 thanks to the cult classic Slacker, which led to him directing the iconic high school movie Dazed and Confused. Ten years later, he scored a major commercial hit with School of Rock, which spawned a TV series of the same name on Nickelodeon. Linklater’s other feature credits include the uniquely animated films Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly, and his more recent films include Everybody Wants Some!! and Last Flag Flying, the latter of which was sorely overlooked last awards season.

It’s unclear whether the Bill Hicks film will be Linklater’s next project, though the director’s plan to make a movie about the Space Race in the summer of 1969 seems to have fallen through at the moment, so it’s certainly possible. He has also been developing a film about 20th century con man John Brinkley, as well as the China-set comedy Larry’s Kidney.

Linklater most recently wrapped an adaptation of Maria Semple‘s bestselling novel Where’d You Go, Bernadette starring Cate Blanchett, Kristen Wiig, Judy Greer, Billy Crudup and Laurence Fishburne. Annapurna will release Bernadette on March 22. Linklater is represented by CAA and Cinetic Media. If you want to get to know the subject of Linklater’s new film, then watch the trailer for American: The Bill Hicks Story below.

http://collider.com/richard-linklater-bill-hicks-movie/

[Elvis]

This storyline would make a better movie:

AlexJonesBillHicks.jpg

This fellow debunks the switcheroo...but then has second thoughts:

Is conspiracy theorist Alex Jones really Bill Hicks? A crazy conspiracy with no end in sight!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR4mjN68J3o

2ndEarth
Published on May 20, 2018
Could conspiracy theorist Alex Jones really be Bill Hicks - a crazy conspiracy with no end in sight! 05/20/2018 . . .

Ok, I am just going to say it. I thought the Bill Hicks turned into Alex Jones conspiracy would be the easiest to disprove of the many episodes I have published. I mean come on, how many famed fake death conspiracies have we had, and how many of those crazy conspiracies have really come true? However, upon closer examination I was a little taken back at the number of coincidences I encountered between legendary comedian Bill Hicks and alternative talk shot host Alex Jones.

The thing that really got me on the fence on this conspiracy is that some of the coincidences were not even ones that I encountered on the internet from other researchers. When showcasing their laughter, or their handwriting for example, I encountered coincidences that should not have been there, because the idea was to disprove this crazy conspiracy theory, yet the coincidences were only increasing and strengthening this out-there conspiracy.

My end conclusion is that their manager, Kevin Booth (also the manger of Joe Rogan) was the single factor that created many of the correlations we see in this conspiracy theory, in conjunction with eery connections that were simply added coincidences because of their unspoken admiration for each other. Of course, if this scenario were true, it would indeed heighten status of this conspiracy theory only bringing in more questions in 2018.

I will leave off with this statement, I was absolutely convinced that Kevin Booth was indeed the X-factor between Alex Jones and Billy Hicks and that they were different people. The idea being that Kevin Booth was a confounding variable. being both their managers. Kevin Booth also reps Joe Rogan. However after cutting the episode and seeing all the evidence juxtaposed with one another, I once again started having second thoughts.

I think the switch is disproved in other ways, but it might be one of those cases where 'too much evidence to ignore' leaves it incomplete.

Anyway—casting? Alex Jones, of course! *Hollywood calling*

[elfismiles]

Alex Jones is NOT Bill Hicks
http://www.anomalyarchives.org/public-h ... onspiracy/



Past RI discussion of this "spitting image" joke conspiracy started over 15 years ago...
rigorousintuition.ca/board2/search

This storyline would make a better movie:

AlexJonesBillHicks.jpg

This fellow debunks the switcheroo...but then has second thoughts:
<snip>
I think the switch is disproved in other ways, but it might be one of those cases where 'too much evidence to ignore' leaves it incomplete.

Anyway—casting? Alex Jones, of course! *Hollywood calling*

[Elvis]

Alex Jones is NOT Bill Hicks

I know; just saying it would be a cool movie.

[elfismiles]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BILL HICKS


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6ho6hXtfkA

[Belligerent Savant]

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Tragic world. Too many good ones taken too soon.

Too many self-serving assholes stay too long.

[Grizzly]

Tool & Bill Hicks - Aenima Remix - Arizona Bay, Bye Bye L.A.