I like the bagger

I don't know why, maybe it's the voice that sounds like he's lived more than a little bit, or how he comes across as honest, despite having a job to do that honesty seems at time tangential to; I dunno. Maybe it's that I like movies.

But I like him.

And here, he did a good job nailing an aspect of the industry that has long interested and repulsed me.

Some years back, Brad Bordine made some comment about fame and peer group approval and the insularity of celebrity culture, while actually making fun of academics and rock stars at the same time (as only Brad can) but it always struck me as quite true. In the end the spotlight has an easier time finding celebrity for exactly these reasons. And Mr. Carr has it right and compliments Brad's cynical and somewhat meanspirited insight - one looking from the inside and one from the outside (in more ways than one of course).

At any rate, it's an issue that I think about (more than I should in all likelihood) as I skirt around the periphery of what is both the arts machine and the culture machine and it was nice to see it nailed nicely.