Pressed & Bound

We don’t normally discuss the goings on of Twitter here (that’s what the sidebar widget is for!), but this little story is interesting in its potential execution. James T. Fallon, of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon fame, is trying to turn the tides in his favor by crowd-jacking the Amazon bestsellers list.

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Some good news: after years of having personal Twitter accounts, we buckled down and did what no man has ever done before: made a Twitter account for their activities/business/thingamajigger.

And so we present to you, dear reader, the official Pressed & Bound Twitter Account. Follow it and rejoice that you will now have knowledge of all the happenings our humbly awesome site.

One of the great things about Twitter is its ability to easily converse with those who you might not otherwise get to speak with. I’ve had a few occasions where I’ve sent tweets to “famous people” – or, at least, more famous than I – with little to no response. That’s not wholly unexpected, honestly, if you’re someone who has thousands of followers. Hell, I don’t reply to even my real life friends sometimes.

Just in the passed day, however, Twitter allowed me to connect with someone we’ve actually talked about on the show: Scott Westefeld. Through a series of but four tweets, we had an incredible thought provoking dialogue:

ScottWesterfeld:

Just read three reviews of Leviathan in a row, none of which mentions the illustrations. (Silly adults.)

garretble:

@ScottWesterfeld I did a review a bit ago and I definitely mentioned the great visuals! http://www.pressednbound.net/episode-82-hatisode/

ScottWesterfeld:

@garretble Dude, you totally GOT IT. Yes, I am a lucky man to have Keith alongside. Anyone who doesn’t get the pix fails at the book.

garretble:

@ScottWesterfeld Indeed, my friend. High five!

So there you have it. Scott is a cool guy, a good author, and you would be remiss to ignore how interesting Leviathan is.

Leviathan was further discussed on Episode 82.

Reported by /Film, at the midnight showing of a sequel to a movie that no one had ever heard of, Crank 2: High Voltage, 30 folks from the Twitter community gathered together to “live-tweet” the film as it premiered. Unfortunately, though, some cranky old farts (or random hipsters, no one knows), were upset with this rampant use of Twitter in the movie theater. These people, however, were not even at the showing, so their point is moot:

A fun social networking movie event eventually degraded into an anger-filled shouting match. But strangely enough, no one in the theater itself was upset about cell phone usage. It was the people at home on Twitter who were outraged

Those most vocal people, or, at least, those who sat at home and read about it then got upset, were movie critics, bringing up the point that dozens of lit up screens in a theater kinda destroys the fun of going to a theater. Aziz Ansari, actor in the newish The Office clone Parks and Recreation, replied to some criticisms:

…This was Crank 2 and we did make a point to sit in the back row by ourselves where the light could not bother anyone. Basically, I don’t want to give the impression that its cool to text or Twitter in a theatre, BUT if there is a movie with a character named PoonDong… I think its a unique situation and we were respectful in how we did TwitFlix.”

So the question arises: Is Twittering during a movie with somewhat controlled circumstances a bad thing, especially during a movie that for all intents and purposes you will forget as soon as you leave? Also: who wants to get together so that we can all do this exact same thing?

You can read the full /Film article here.