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      <title>Comments On: Rich Kids: Still the Worst
    
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      <![CDATA["We didn’t build a studio for our son, Hudson, we gave him a Mac desk top with pro tools installed and a few mikes...doesn’t drive a fancy sports car (that’s not his car in the photo, of course – hey, innuendo is better than fact checking) but drives a ten year old Land Rover Discovery which is tall enough to hold his drums."<br>
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He is in fact, Mr Franzoni, SERIOUSLY deprived,in fact. Come on...?<br>
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You are a good guy to come to his defense and your own accomplishments are admirable.Unfortunately, Junior needs to keep a lower profile - that will help. You can surely see why most of the world hates rich kids at this time - fair or unfair. Also, as a son of wealth, how is he helping others? No credible artist can be indifferent to the suffering of others, especially now. He has an extra responsibility. Also, tell him to stop posing in other rich kids' cars if that is what he was doing - i.e. again, a lower profile would be good for him and probably his caring dad. Hope he succeeds though - he has to deal with more handicaps than even YOU had in some some ways now. Best. Greg<br>
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      <![CDATA[I hope DFranzoni is being honest although I wouldn't mind having a dad like that . Sometimes dreams are so loong and hard to grasp that a little dinero would be useful  aid in achieving your dream + from personel experience
        
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      <![CDATA[Hi, I’m David Franzoni, screenwriter etc.  and, I honestly am sorry to piss on your manifesto, Mike, but – much like the original New York Times article – you are distorting; in fact yours is a distortion of a distortion.  We didn’t build a studio for our son, Hudson, we gave him a Mac desk top with pro tools installed and a few mikes.  I loaned him two of my own guitars, and, as he is an excellent jazz and rock drummer, he already has his own drum set.  So, he is struggling to create music much like anyone else his age who dreams of being a song writer/performer.  He doesn’t drive a fancy sports car (that’s not his car in the photo, of course – hey, innuendo is better than fact checking) but drives a ten year old Land Rover Discovery which is tall enough to hold his drums.  And, he works his ass off: he plays guitar, bass, piano as well as drums.  We didn’t buy these accomplishments, he earned them.  When I left Vermont to come to this town, I had nothing… except my dream to be a screenwriter.  I lived in worse places than probably you ever have, was even gunned down on the street and still carry a bullet in my arm.  But, I refused to give up.  In the end, my talent and perseverance helped me break through.  But, let’s suppose I had been wealthy instead of struggling; do you honestly think I could have somehow bought the scripts I wrote?  Could I have bought my Oscar?  I worked and earned it all.  Now, it’s my son’s turn to go after his dream, but he has to be able to do the work, he has to earn it.  And, like any decent father, I will do anything I can to help him.  But, he has the goods or he doesn’t.  No amount ot money on earth can buy talent and drive.  Got it?
        
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      <![CDATA[I just feel sorry for them, frankly.
        
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      <![CDATA[You know, I actually find something kind of sweet about the whole thing--this idea of impossibly wealthy kids slumming it by making indie rock and wearing Chuck Taylors and talking about DIY, all as a way of rebelling against what they know and in a lot of way doing the opposite of what's expected of them. But at 18 years old, to lack the self-awareness that would keep you from referring to what you're doing as being in keeping with DIY ethics when your mother and father invite high-power industry players to come watch you perform at, like, family barbecues or whatever? It's pretty silly.
        
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      <![CDATA[Don't worry, the Situationists are coming to put an end to all that...<br>
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      <![CDATA[Aren't the guys in Vampire Weekend pretty privileged? But seriously, fuck LA.
        
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      <![CDATA[Yeah, man, that totally just SUCKS. They're SUCH posers! URGH. It just makes me SO MAD when I perceive someone to have something that I don't!! <br>
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SO. NOT. FAIR. <br>
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Luckily, I've learned to lump each and every person whom I deem "privileged" into one, vapid, stupid, and untalented generalization! That way-- when I compare myself to this completely illusory caricature I've created as a defense mechanism-- I won't have to feel bad about my own shortcomings! <br>
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Phew! Hey... wanna cut homeroom and get high?
        
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      <![CDATA[Is anything more facile—and less original—than class resentment? This is a dumb post.
        
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