Sting Harvests ‘Vertical Farm’ For Docu

COMMENTS (8)

• all of this sounds self indulgent and, to be blunt, entirely lame.

  Comment by good grief — Friday June 18, 2010 @ 10:08am PDT  Reply to this post

• Great! Another Celebrity idiot makes sensible efforts to preserve wild spaces look like all the other celebrity idiocies.

  Vertical Farm? Because skyscrapers meant to maximize limited real estate by building up … are perfect farms? Only a celebrity so spoiled he sent a helicopter to fetch his wife’s favorite chef to prepare lunch would think this would be an interesting documentary.

  Sting is a gifted musician. As a celebrity he’s outside his competency on anything outside music, and really not very bright or self-aware (does he know what a fatuous ass he seems to ordinary people without their own private helicopter and multiple mansions?)

  I wish he’d just release another album.

  Comment by whiskey — Friday June 18, 2010 @ 10:57am PDT  Reply to this post

  • So growing food closer to where people eat it is a bad thing? You idiot.

    Comment by gobacktosleep — Monday June 21, 2010 @ 9:20am PDT  Reply to this post

• Great topic for Gordon aka Sting. I wonder if these songs will be used in the film:

  “Don’t Grow So Close To Me”
  “Rock-sand”
  “Seeds In The Machine”
  “Every Field You Rake”

  Comment by Benny F. — Friday June 18, 2010 @ 11:11am PDT  Reply to this post

  • keep your gags at the comedy store, bucko.

    Comment by good grief — Friday June 18, 2010 @ 2:58pm PDT  Reply to this post

• If he could somehow incorporate the lute into this it would be perfect

  Comment by Bill H — Friday June 18, 2010 @ 6:52pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Residual Jesuit inflicted guilt? Why not just re-release Police Around the World as a Blue Ray dvd? Oops I forget, the first misses is in that one.

  Comment by jj — Saturday June 19, 2010 @ 4:32am PDT  Reply to this post

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  Comment by Dan Gibbs — Wednesday July 7, 2010 @ 9:07am PDT  Reply to this post