#david marks

[film3tte]

RYAN GOSLING MOVIE RADAR!

Hello, honey buns! I have searched high and far to bring you EVERY RYAN GOSLING MOVIE at the moment that is FREE TO STREAM!

YOUTUBE :

Song To Song (2017)

Half Nelson (2006)

Lars And The Real Girl (2007)

The Big Short (2015)

Stay (2005)

NETFLIX :

All Good Things (2010)

The Gray Man (2022)

La La Land (2016)

HOOPLA :

Fracture (2007)

The Slaughter Rule (2003)

ROKU :

The Believer (2002)

Only God Forgives (2013)

DISNEY+ :

Remember The Titans

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Now, streaming services often let go and add new movies to there platforms so this can be updated if you guys would like me to! (Btw Lalaland was just added to Netflix today + Blade Runner was just taken OFF of Disney+ a week ago T_T)

[saltysteff13]

[krispyweiss]

“The Beach Boys” Coming to Disney+

- Documentary premieres May 24

“Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a documentary about us?,” the Beach Boys asked rhetorically.

“Darlin’, there is!”

Unimaginatively titled “The Beach Boys,” the latest film about the Beach Boys premieres May 24 on Disney+, the streaming service said.

Frank Marshall and Thom Zimny direct what is billed as “a celebration of the legendary band;” a streaming-only soundtrack will be released alongside the film.

Previously unseen footage; archival interviews with Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Blondie Chaplin and Ricky Fataar; new interviews with Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, David Marks and Bruce Johnston; and commentary from such fans as Lindsey Buckingham, Don Was and others are the promised building blocks.

A companion book, “The Beach Boys by the Beach Boys,” will be published April 2.

3/27/24

[guessimdumb]

The Moon - Faces (1968)

The Moon were an L.A. psych pop group which featured one time Beach Boy David Marks on guitar. This tune is not miles away from the Left Banke.

[jhermes]

I like this one huehue

[coelpts-artchives]

There's No More Community Gardens

About a year ago @dad-cetemol shared a doodle of this bastard dictator robe that David Marks wore for a time before his current design. Unfortunately I vibed with it so hard that I always wanted to do something with it- and that something ended up being 'godly suburbanite scorn'!

I was on Team Stardust! Come check out my page for next year's fight!

[dec4podcast]

A fascinating artefact shared on Brian Wilson's social media.

[themnmovieman]

Movie Review ~ The Beach Boys

This Disney+ doc feature exudes the same passion and dedication that have kept The Beach Boys relevant across generations.

The Beach Boys Synopsis: A celebration of the legendary band that revolutionized pop music, and the iconic, harmonious sound they created that personified the California dream, captivating fans for generations and generations to come.Stars: Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Al Jardine, David Marks, Bruce Johnston, Josh Kun, Don Was, Ryan Tedder, Marilyn Wilson-Rutherford,…

[longliverockback]

The Beach Boys  Spirit of America 1975 Capitol ——————————————————————— Tracks Disc One: 01. Dance, Dance, Dance 02. Break Away 03. A Young Man Is Gone 04. 409 05. The Little Girl I Once Knew 06. Spirit of America 07. Little Honda 08. Hushabye 09. Hawaii 10. Drive-In 11. Good to My Baby 12. Tell Me Why

Tracks Disc Two: 01. Do You Remember? 02. This Car of Mine 03. Please Let Me Wonder 04. Why Do Fools Fall in Love 05. Custom Machine 06. Barbara Ann 07. Salt Lake City 08. Don’t back Down 09. When I Grow up (to Be a Man) 10. Do You Wanna Dance? 11. Graduation Day ———————————————————————

* Long Live Rock Archive

[film3tte]

“All Good Things (2010)”

— Ryan Gosling + Kirsten Dunst

Hey! I finished “All Good Things (2010)” just a few minutes ago. The movie is great, very odd, but great. Kirsten Dunst’s scenes in the film are firm and filled with excellent, hard hitting emotion. Ryan also does a fantastic job at portraying David Marks, his acting in this movie really shows his range. Especially compared to things like his role as Ken in the “Barbie” movie or even Sebastian in “LaLa Land”. The beginning feels just absolutely bitter sweet. The movie is categorized as a thriller, though, and when you watch the film you’ll know why. I think what’s even crazier is that the movie is based off real events (like omg)! There is a point like 3/4 of the movie in where the tone kind of changed and it gives a little whiplash, but overall the movie is GREAT! And I highly recommend watching it!

[randomrichards]

THE BEACH BOYS (2024):

Beloved surf rock band

Evolved the rock ‘n roll sound

The effects of fame

[krispyweiss]

Don Was on - and in - “The Beach Boys”

- Documentary premieres May 24 on Disney +

Don Was knows both sides of the Beach Boys.

On the one hand: “Man, they made me want to go to where they had cars and girls in bikinis and sun,” Was says as “Fun, Fun, Fun” plays.

And on the other: “Brian (Wilson) put together textures that no one had ever put in popular songs before. He did it first,” Was says to the strains of “God Only Knows.”

The Was (Not Was) and Bob Weir & Wolf Bros co-founder and head of Blue Note Records is speaking in the trailer for “The Beach Boys,” a new documentary premiering May 24 on Disney + and featuring new and previously unseen interviews with band members Brian, Carl and Dennis Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, David Marks, Bruce Johnston, Blondie Chaplin and Ricky Fataar; plus Was, Lindsey Buckingham, Janelle Monáe and Ryan Tedder.

The trailer touches on the band’s beginnings; the unauthorized sale of Brian Wilson’s publishing by the brothers’ father; the Beach Boys’ creative rivalry with the Beatles; and the ups and downs of six decades of making music apart and together.

“The fact that it was a family - that’s where the success came from,” Love, the Wilson’s’ cousin, says in a contemporary clip.

Read Sound Bites’ previous coverage here.

4/15/24

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case

I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel PICKS AND SHOVELS. Catch me at NEW ZEALAND'S UNITY BOOKS in AUCKLAND on May 2, and in WELLINGTON on May 3. More tour dates (Pittsburgh, PDX, London, Manchester) here.

It's damned hard to prove an antitrust case: so often, the prosecution has to prove that the company intended to crush competition, and/or that they raised prices or reduced quality because they knew they didn't have to fear competitors.

It's a lot easier to prove what a corporation did than it is to prove why they did it. What am I, a mind-reader? But imagine for a second that the corporation in the dock is a global multinational. Now, imagine that the majority of the voting shares in that company are held by one man, who has served as the company's CEO since the day he founded it, personally calling every important shot in the company's history.

Now imagine that this founder/CEO, this accused monopolist, was an incorrigible blabbermouth, who communicated with his underlings almost exclusively in writing, and thus did he commit to immortal digital storage a stream – a torrent – of memos in which he explicitly confessed his guilt.

Ladies and gentlepersons, I give you Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Meta (nee Facebook), an accused monopolist who cannot keep his big dumb fucking mouth shut.

At long, long last, the FTC's antitrust trial against Meta is underway, and this week, Zuck himself took the stand, in agonizing sessions during which FTC lawyers brandished printouts of Zuck's own words before him, asking him to explain away his naked confessions of guilt. It did not go well for Zuck.

In a breakdown of the case for The American Prospect, editor-in-chief David Dayen opines that "The Government Has Already Won the Meta Case," having hanged Zuck on his own words:

https://prospect.org/power/2025-04-16-government-already-won-meta-case-tiktok-ftc-zuckerberg/

The government is attempting to prove that Zuck bought Instagram and Whatsapp in order to extinguish competitors (and not, for example, because he thought they were good businesses that complemented Facebook's core product offerings).

This case starts by proving how Zuck felt about Insta and WA before the acquisitions. On Insta, Zuck circulated memos warning about Insta's growth trajectory:

they appear to be reaching critical mass as a place you go to share photos

and how that could turn them into a future competitor:

[Instagram could] copy what we’re doing now … I view this as a big strategic risk for us if we don’t completely own the photos space.

These are not the words of a CEO who thinks another company is making a business that complements his own – they're confessions that he is worried that they will compete with Facebook. Facebook tried to clone Insta (Remember Facebook Camera? Don't feel bad – neither does anyone else). When that failed, Zuck emailed Facebook execs, writing:

[Instagram's growth is] really scary and why we might want to consider paying a lot of money for this.

At this point, Zuck's CFO – one of the adults in the room, attempting to keep the boy king from tripping over his own dick – wrote to Zuck warning him that it was illegal to buy Insta in order to "neutralize a potential competitor."

Zuck replied that he was, indeed, solely contemplating buying Insta in order to neutralize a potential competitor. It's like this guy kept picking up his dictaphone, hitting "record," and barking, "Hey Bob, I am in receipt of your memo of the 25th, regarding the potential killing of Fred. You raise some interesting points, but I wanted to reiterate that this killing is to be a murder, and it must be as premeditated as possible. Yours very truly, Zuck."

Did Zuck buy Insta to neutralize a competitor? Sure seems like it! For one thing, Zuck cancelled all work on Facebook Camera "since we're acquiring Instagram."

But what about after the purchase. Did Zuck reduce quality and/or raise costs? Well, according to the company, it enacted an "explicit policy of not prioritizing Instagram’s growth" (a tactic called "buy or bury"). At this juncture, Zuckerberg once again put fingers to keyboard in order to create an immortal record of his intentions:

By not killing their products we prevent everyone from hating us and we make sure we don’t immediately create a hole in the market for someone else to fill.

And if someone did enter the market with a cool new gimmick (like, say, Snapchat with its disappearing messages)?

Even if some new competitors spring up, if we incorporate the social mechanics they were using, these new products won’t get much traction since we’ll already have their mechanics deployed at scale.

Remember, the Insta acquisition is only illegal if Zuck bought them to prevent competition in the marketplace (rather than, say, to make a better product). It's hard to prove why a company does anything, unless its CEO, founder, and holder of the majority of its voting stock explicitly states that his strategy is to create a system to ensure that innovating new products "won't get much traction" because he'll be able to quickly copy them.

So we have Zuck starving Insta of development except when he needs to neutralize a competitor, which is just another way of saying he set out to reduce the quality of the product after acquisition, a thing that is statutorily prohibited, but hard to prove (again, unless you confess to it in writing, herp derp).

But what about prices? Well, obviously, Insta doesn't charge its end-users in cash, but they do charge in attention. If you want to see the things you've explicitly asked for – posts from accounts you follow – you have to tolerate a certain amount of "boosted content" and ads, that is, stuff that Facebook's business customers will pay to nonconsensually cram into your eyeballs.

Did that price go up? Any Insta user knows the answer: hell yes. Instagram is such a cesspit of boosted content and ads that it's almost impossible to find stuff you actually asked to see. Indeed, when a couple of teenagers hacked together an alternative Insta client called OG App that only showed you posts from accounts you followed, it was instantly the most popular app on Google Play and Apple's App Store (and then Google and Apple killed it, at Meta's request):

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/05/battery-vampire/#drained

But why did the price go up? Did it go up because Facebook had neutralized a competitor by purchasing it, and thus felt that it could raise prices without losing customers? Again, a hard thing to prove…unless Zuck happened to put it in writing. Which he did, as Brendan Benedict explains in Big Tech On Trial:

I think we’re badly mismanaging this right now. There’s absolutely no reason why IG ad load should be lower than FB at a time when . . . we’re having engagement issues in FB. If we were managing our company correctly, then at a minimum we’d immediately balance IG and FB ad load . . . But it’s possible we should even have a higher ad load on IG while we have this challenge so we can replace some ads with [People You May Know] on FB to turn around the issues we’re seeing.

https://www.bigtechontrial.com/p/zuckerberg-v-zuckerberg-will-the

So there you have it: Zuck bought Insta to neutralize a competitor, and after he did, he lowered its quality and raised its prices, because he knew that he was operating without significant competitors thanks to his acquisition of that key competitor. Zuck's motivations – as explained by Zuck himself – were in direct contravention of antitrust law, a thing he knew (because his execs explained it to him). That's a pretty good case.

But what about Whatsapp? How did Zuck feel about it? Well, he told his board that Whatsapp was Facebook's greatest "consumer risk," fretting that "Messenger isn’t beating WhatsApp." He blocked Whatsapp ads on Facebook, telling his team that it was "trying to build social networks and replace us." Sure, they'd lose money by turning away that business, but the "revenue is immaterial to us compared to any risk." Sure seems like Zuck saw Whatsapp as a competitor.

Meta's final line of defense in this case is that even if they did some crummy, illegal things, they still didn't manage to put together a monopoly. According to Meta's lawyers – who're billing the company more than $1m/day! – Meta is a tiny fish in a vast ocean that has many competitors, like Tiktok:

https://www.levernews.com/mr-zuckerbergs-very-expensive-day-in-court/

There's only one problem with this "market definition" argument, and that problem's name is Chatty Mark Zuckerberg. On the question of market definition, FTC lawyers once again raised Zuckerberg's own statements and those of his top lieutenants to show that Zuckerberg viewed his companies as "Personal Social Networks" (PSNs) and not as just generic sites full of stuff, competing with Youtube, Tiktok, and everyone else who lets users post things to the internet.

Take Instagram boss Adam Mosseri, who explained that:

Instagram will always need to focus on friends and can never exclusively be for public figures or will cease to be a social product.

And then there was Zuck's memo explaining why he offered $6b for Snapchat:

Snap Stories serves the exact same use case of sharing and consuming feeds of content that News Feed and Instagram deliver. We need to take this new dynamic seriously—both as a competitive risk and as a product opportunity to add functionality that many people clearly love and want to use daily.

And an internal strategy document that explained the competitive risks to Facebook:

Social networks have two stable equilibria: either everyone uses them, or no-one uses them. In contrast, nonsocial apps (e.g. weather apps, exercise apps) can exist [somewhere] along a continuum of adoption. The binary nature of social networks implies that there should exist a tipping point, ie some critical mass of adoption, above which a network will organically grow, and below which it will shrink.

Sure sounds like Facebook sees itself as a "social network," and not a "nonsocial app." And of course – as Dayen points out – when Tiktok (a company Meta claims as a competitor) went up for sale, Meta did not enter a bid, despite being awash in free cash flow.

In Zuckerberg's defense, he's not the only tech CEO who confesses his guilt in writing (recall that FTX planned its crimes in a groupchat called WIREFRAUD). Partly that's because these firms are run by arrogant twits, but partly it's because digital culture is a written culture, where big, dispersed teams expected to work long hours from offices all over the world as well as from their phones every hour of day and night have to rely on memos to coordinate:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/03/big-tech-cant-stop-telling-on-itself/

When Dayen claims that "the government has won the Meta case," he doesn't mean the judge will rule in the FTC's favor (though there's a high likelihood that this will happen). Rather, he means that the case has been proven beyond any kind of reasonable doubt, in public, in a way that has historically caused other monopolists to lose their nerve, even if they won their cases. Take Microsoft and IBM – though both companies managed to draw out their cases until a new Republican administration (Reagan for IBM, GWB for Microsoft) took office and let them off the hook, both companies were profoundly transformed by the process.

IBM created the market for a generic, multivendor PC whose OS came from outside the company:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/ibm-pc-compatible-how-adversarial-interoperability-saved-pcs-monopolization

And Microsoft spared Google the same treatment it had meted out to Netscape, allowing the company to grow and thrive:

https://apnews.com/article/google-apple-microsoft-antitrust-technology-cases-1e0c510088825745a6e74ba3b81b44c6

Trump being Trump, it's not inconceivable that he will attempt to intervene to get the judge to exonerate Meta. After all, Zuck did pay him a $1m bribe and then beg him to do just that:

https://gizmodo.com/zuckerberg-really-thought-trump-would-make-metas-legal-problems-go-away-2000589897

But as Dayen writes, the ire against Meta's monopolistic conduct is thoroughly bipartisan, and if Trump was being strategic here (a very, very big "if"), he would keep his powder dry here. After all, if the judge doesn't convict Meta, Trump won't have wasted any political capital. And if Meta is convicted, Trump could solicit more bribes and favors at the "remedy" stage, when a court will decide how to punish Meta, which could be anything from a fine to a breakup order, to a nothingburger of vague orders to clean up its act.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/18/chatty-zucky/#is-you-taking-notes-on-a-criminal-fucking-conspiracy

[insatiablexi]

i love laura palmer

[girl-drink-drunk]

you would fuck that old man. i would fuck that old man. we are the same. hold my hand

[readerviews]

"Boomsters" An Unexpected Adventure" by David Marks

Team Blaze for the Win #books #bookreview #reading #readerviews

Boomsters: An Unexpected Adventure David MarksWheatmark (2023)ISBN: ‎ 979-8887470801Reviewed by Sandra Cruz for Reader Views (01/2024) In David Mark’s “Boomsters: An Unexpected Adventure,” the story revolves around David Blazen, a man who has just retired after 50 years in a comfortable job. He is desperately looking for a purpose in his life and decides that he will become a detective. With no…