May 28 2009
So, my life as I know it is over. I’ve been given a responsibility far exceeding my aptitude. 1) It involves counting. And since I spend all day every day alphabetizing, I know absolutely nothing about numbers. I know that when counting, one number usually follows another, except when it precedes. But then I’ll wonder, [...]
May 20 2009
One bit of advice someone taught me is that to be successful you do what successful people do. A variation on that chord, at least in my mind, is Eliot’s retort, “Immature artists imitate; Mature artists steal.” So, I’ve looked to successful artists—both creatively and financially—as much to study which attributes set them apart not [...]
May 20 2009
So, here it is, the cursed abomination that is the pinnacle of Hollywood indulgence and decadence and moral depravity. Not only has some asshole remade a definitive masterpiece of in the annals of film history, but he’s butchered it, cut up its face with a razorblade, forcibly sodomized it, and repackaged it as a musical. [...]
May 13 2009
I don’t always like being the one last to a thread, but I’m mostly glad that I had never heard of Sasha Grey before Steven Soderbergh chose her for the lead in his new film, The Girlfriend Experience. I guess since Godard is the trendy name, it’s the one they drop. But aren’t curious, you [...]
Apr 15 2009
I am by no means a Creationist, especially as a “scientific” theory to rival Evolution. I’m also not so ignorant as to believe religion—it tenets, concepts, theology, or beliefs—has no purpose in a civilized society. And though the two aren’t mutually exclusive, religion isn’t Creationism. Confusing the two is the zealotry of Scientism, stating that [...]
Apr 13 2009
Which begs the question: what do models read? I had this idea about two years ago to run book advertisements like any other high-end merchandise ad you’d find in glossy magazine spreads—a sexy model in an exotic or unusual location holding a book, reading a book, sunning languorously near a book on the deck of [...]
Mar 14 2009
By early morning Saturday, only hours after airing, the Jon Stewart/Jim Cramer interview had expanded from The Daily Show’s episode 2.3 million viewership to mainstream headlines. By 2AM, when I got in last night, the headline showed two or three times in my mailbox. And by late this afternoon, the interview began showing on social [...]