The Denver Egotist

Get Your Gossip Here

While we’re waiting on one shop to get a release together that they’ve promised us, let’s talk about some other ones. We’ll start. We’ve seen people searching the term “McClain Finlon closing doors” all day and hitting on our site. Anybody know anything about that? How about anything else you’d like to share with the group? Don’t be shy. We’re all friends here.

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Wednesday Lunchtime Poll #14

You win a one-time-only trip in a time machine that’ll let you go any place in the past or the future for one hour. Where do you go?

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The Tuesday Rant: Why Does Everyone Think They Can Write Copy?

Volume 6 In a Series By Felix

I’ve been a designer. I’ve been an art director on occasion. But most of my career has been spent writing copy. I studied it in college; I’ve spent more years than I care to count doing it professionally; yet the older and more experienced I get, I am constantly being told how to do my job. And I’m not alone.

Sure, if you’re a designer, art director, photographer or anything else creative in this field, you get told what to do, too. But for some reason, copy seems to be the one creative area that everyone out there feels fully qualified to comment on, be they an account director, production manager

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Feedback's Must-See Concerts: Week of August 18

Thursday, August 21, 2008
My Morning Jacket
w/ The Black Keys
Red Rocks Amphitheater – 7:30 PM

Friday, August 22, 2008
Punk Rocks 2008
w/ NOFX, Mighty MIghty Bosstones, Bouncing Souls, Circle Jerks, Street Dogs, Frontside Five
Red Rocks Amphitheater – 4:30 PM

Friday, August 22, 2008
Mike Park (Asian Man Records)
w/ Sundowner, The Quiet Ones, Scooter James
Marquis Theater – 7:30 PM

More shows after the jump.

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Beer Review: Avery's Salvation

By Bill Hepp from New Belgium Brewery

There are many lengths that I will go to for beer. Not only will I sacrifice sleep, as I did during nine years of shift work as a brewer, but I will bicycle through severe thunderstorms for one bomber of beautiful beer. No, quarter-size hail will not faze me; blowing sheets of wind will only sweeten the reward. With a bomber of Avery’s “Salvation” in my pannier, I have all the incentive I need to ignore the branches falling from over head trees, the cold sting of hail melting on my bare arms, and the rain running into my eyes.

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How In God's Name Do You Write An Estimate?

By Grinder

Typically this is something that I would ask my friends and peers about. However, this time I thought I’d open up this discussion to a few more people. So at the risk of sounding like a totally green designer, how do you write an estimate?

On the surface this seems like a stupid question. It is most certainly a complicated question, one which may be too complicated to address in a single post. So let me try to narrow down the question a little. I’m not looking for how much do I charge for this or that. I’m looking for what the content should be. What do you say in an estimate? What do you need to say and how do you say it?

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Wednesday Mid- Afternoon Poll #13

Considering that summer is nearing its end and another football season is upon us, we were wondering:

What’s your favorite Denver/Boulder dive bar to get a Sunday afternoon buzz?

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The Tuesday Rant: Advertising Awards; Self-serving or What?

Volume 5 In a Series By Felix

Anyone out there know who Martin Scorcese is? Up until The Departed, he had never won the Best Director Oscar. Rewind a few years and the same was true of Steven Spielberg. Al Pacino never won Best Actor Oscar until Scent Of A Woman (hoo-aah… what a bunch of BS). And yet would their careers have been any less amazing without these awards? Is the work they did on other films, movies that never won Oscars, any less important? Easy answer, right?

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Feedback's Must-See Concerts: Week of August 11

Monday, August 11, 2008
A Free Suburban Home Party
w/ Adam Marsland / Pawn Ticket Trio / Ooh Lala Presents “Panties At The Bar”
3 Kings Tavern – 8:00 PM

Wednesday, August 12, 2008
Langhorne Slim
w/ the Legendary River Drifters, Young Coyotes
Hi-Dive – 9:00 PM

Wednesday, August 12, 2008
Twist & Shout, Hillgrass Bluebilly & Radio 1190’s Under the Mattress present…
Bob Log III, 11:00pm
Scott H. Biram, 10:00pm
Left Lane Cruiser, 9:00pm
Larimer Lounge

More shows after the jump.

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Movie Review: American Teen

We love documentaries. Big ones. Small ones. From Michael Moore to Werner Herzog. American Teen is not up to par with the best of them, but it tries hard to get us there and gets an “A” for extra credit. Director Nanette Burstein makes a valiant effort to give us an in-depth look at high school in the middle of Americana.

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Thriller viral campaign

The NY Times is reporting today on a viral campaign to promote the 25th Anniversary re-release of Michael Jackson’s best-selling album, Thriller. For obvious reasons, promoting anything related to MJ is a bit of a delicate problem, so SonyBMG cut the celebrity out of the picture entirely and instead focused on a few select viral happenings, which is to say, pseudo-impromptu renditions of the famous Thriller zombie dance in public spaces.

Read the full article here.

Ahh.. advertising-for-the-blogosphere. You figure 20-50 people saw these in real life, while they’ve gotten 700,000+ views online? Pretty good ROI, we’d say.

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