February 2012
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Moving to Los Angeles Summer 2012
a) God willing
b) the creek don’t rise
c) both a and b
Slutever & The Least Likely Presidential Candidate →
commenter Micah: “im not sure becky would make a very good president. VP, maybe.”
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Please tell me why:
a) my car is in the front yard
b) I’m sleeping with my clothes on
c) I came in through the window last night
d) you’re gone
e) all of the above
All My Friends, Not At Once
You receive a Facebook invite to a relevant party the aesthetics of which you approve of but know you’ll never actually make it out for. You join, or attend in the old model, anyway. Is this like when Quentin Tarantino directed a token scene of Sin City?
Extended further, is it like when he “presented” all those mid-decade digital horror movies Chris Moltisanti said were...
Fastest Three-Hour Movie
1. The Great Escape
2. Heat
3. the unmade David Fincher b/w version of The Black Dahlia
This poll needs filling out.You could mess with the criteria, rounding up runtimes of at least 2:40:00 so Pulp Fiction and Topsy-Turvy would count.
Once Upon A Time In America is a fast four-hour movie, incidentally.
Porn: If You Don't Pay It's Not Play →
But it’s not work either. I’m not so great at syllogisms.
No More Conversations
222 Hyde is reopening. It’s had a high rate of turnover even by the standards of San Francisco, where bars and clubs are bought and sold for a song or the slightest infraction. This time, the fire marshal exacted his revenge—granted, the place always was a firetrap. A thumbnail-sized dancefloor in the basement brings nobody up to any codes.
Most of my favorite early-period San...
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The IMDB Files: Demi Moore
An irregular feature. This is a sly reup from last year. Give ‘em hell, Demi.
Also in The IMDB Files:
Bradley Pierce
Paz de la Huerta
Agnes Bruckner
Has Demi Moore’s career been given the feminist once-over before? Her characters usually did unusual things, not so much in service of any plot. It’s more like you got these little glimpses of her life, like Bill Watterson did with...
Getting in a few words on Gingrich before he...
“I know for Bill and Hillary Clinton, presenting themselves as the true people they were turned out to be an American crucible, but I think we have changed. This country has aged in canine leaps since the financial crisis. It’s not just that we know that marriage is fragile but survives — or doesn’t — we also know that people are delicate, and have horrible...
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February 1
Henceforth, on the first of the month I shall list my ten favorite found songs from the previous month, the non-2012 ones properly asterisked. This will save me from actually writing much about music, since I loathe pretty much all music writing anymore, even though music is practically all I do on the internet.
The idea is that these are something like rankings that will fluctuate over the...
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told
“Miss Barry bought a gun, drove to Chaplin’s house at 1 am, broke a window, and clambered into his study. She found Chaplin in his second-floor bedroom and kept him covered with the gun while she harangued him for an hour and a half about her problems. Then she put the gun on a bedside table. Then they had sex. Then she picked up the gun, and they spent the night in separate bedrooms....
But I am not her 5-year-old son.
I would probably take a bath w/ Gwyn Paltrow. Because of Great Expectations, no more/no less.
Some people are actually saying this is normal mom behavior. Yes, yes it is. IN THEBES.
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Lana Del Rey & Shawshank Redemption
I didn’t want to write about LDR, because I feel like I know her better than I know my own dad. Which is what Rainn Wilson said about Paulie Gualtieri, only he didn’t seem to mind.
But fuck it. Like Jack Lemmon as Shelley Levene, I feel a responsibility.
For some reason nobody’s talking about Rita Hayworth. Rita Hayworth, neé Margarita Cansino, was a chubby ninth-grade dropout...
January 2012
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Something importantly autistic was in the air. →
important retraction / note on camp
agrammar:
The first time I wrote about Lana Del Rey, in a column, a few months back, I said I was pleased that when she invoked the name “Lolita,” she actually seemed to be talking about something like the character in the novel, and not whatever strange mincing porny thing people use that name to refer to today.
Now, having heard her song “Lolita,” I would like to apologize and mostly retract...
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"Well, we do have a love affair, Viggo and I,... →
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Francis Urquhart Doesn't Want To Be Your Friend
House Of Cards was a British television show in the nineties, starring Ian Richardson as a totalitarian Tory. House Of Cards will this year be an American television show, on Netflix, starring Kevin Spacey as his old self, hopefully. House Of Cards is also a pretty good Radiohead song.
The British version was toddied up in that way the redcoats do, w/ not much visible budget but lots of...
Betty Draper, Nurse Ratched, Marlin Perkins, and... →
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Instagram Love →
The terrifying beauty of getting ahead of ourselves.
