Traffic relief?
Never in my life did I think I'd care this much about traffic, but... when you commute 45min each way to work and back every day, it gets to be important to you. I have no idea how I feel about this whole thoroughfare idea (good idea? bad idea? why doesn't la just implement a decent subway system all-freakin-ready?), but during said commute this evening I found myself enthralled by kcrw's coverage of the ongoing argument.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
damn
Or could this be the best wikipedia page ever? (they have a whole section just for fronts!)
More and more the internet proves itself to be the greatest writers' resource since Gutenberg. Not that that's news to any of you...
More and more the internet proves itself to be the greatest writers' resource since Gutenberg. Not that that's news to any of you...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
strike or no strike
Script Cops. The world needs 'em.
(credit to Diego for emailing me about this MONTHS ago... it still hasn't gotten old, buddy)
(credit to Diego for emailing me about this MONTHS ago... it still hasn't gotten old, buddy)
From Crackle:
Monday, February 25, 2008
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Saturday, February 9, 2008
reading 2008
Whether read for the first time or re-read for the tenth; whether flaunted for the literary street cred or shamefully hidden inside the dust jacket of a Norman Mailer; please find enclosed the complete list of books read in 2008. Updated as needed.
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The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud (feb)
Delicious. Satisfying in the way of a well prepared meal, and this book is well prepared. Her writing is a smooth, aged scotch. Is sophisticated and beautiful and glowing warm once inside you. Frank, honest; you find pieces of yourself in every character as much as you may wish you didn't.
Rule of the Bone by Russel Banks (feb)
(reread.) Because it's that good. Because at one point in my life I could have written this and the words, the tone, the style all would have been the same he captures disenfranchised youth so well here. Because these words, this tone, this style IS exactly what my brother would write right now. I made Cameron finally read it and he freaked out only two pages in, called me immediately to ask if he'd stepped into a Twilight Zone episode in which he was reading a book he himself had written sometime in the future. I didn't have an answer for him.
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (jan)
Well it isn't bad. I'll be honest, I was watching 30 Rock and Tina Fey made a joke about not having read this book and I thought "you know I haven't read it either." So then there it was at the used book store near my apt and the owner behind the counter said yes read it, it's moving and well written and a tear-jerker. Well. I don't know about any of that. But it's got it's moments, I guess. And it's a quick, easy read of a book.
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonthan Lethem (jan)
(reread) Jonathan Lethem is the man and this book is just about his best. There is a dry honesty in the way that he writes every single damn word that I both admire and long for in other writing. Here he's got the detective genre down (stand back Phillip Marlowe, here comes your 21st Century, postmodern replacement). He's funny and he's true and he writes every one of his books much like how my head thinks. I have to believe I'm not alone in that. Here is proof.
Zeroville be Steve Erickson (jan)
Made me like Los Angeles. I can't think of another book in recent memory that's affected me so powerfully as that. The book literally made me enjoy living in this city and that's quite the feat. I will keep recommending Steve Erickson (an entirely underrated writer), and this novel of his in particular, until I’m blue in the face. It's fantastic. Simple as that. It's Hollywood's version of Being There. It's cinema's version of Genesis.
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The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud (feb)
Delicious. Satisfying in the way of a well prepared meal, and this book is well prepared. Her writing is a smooth, aged scotch. Is sophisticated and beautiful and glowing warm once inside you. Frank, honest; you find pieces of yourself in every character as much as you may wish you didn't.
Rule of the Bone by Russel Banks (feb)
(reread.) Because it's that good. Because at one point in my life I could have written this and the words, the tone, the style all would have been the same he captures disenfranchised youth so well here. Because these words, this tone, this style IS exactly what my brother would write right now. I made Cameron finally read it and he freaked out only two pages in, called me immediately to ask if he'd stepped into a Twilight Zone episode in which he was reading a book he himself had written sometime in the future. I didn't have an answer for him.
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (jan)
Well it isn't bad. I'll be honest, I was watching 30 Rock and Tina Fey made a joke about not having read this book and I thought "you know I haven't read it either." So then there it was at the used book store near my apt and the owner behind the counter said yes read it, it's moving and well written and a tear-jerker. Well. I don't know about any of that. But it's got it's moments, I guess. And it's a quick, easy read of a book.
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonthan Lethem (jan)
(reread) Jonathan Lethem is the man and this book is just about his best. There is a dry honesty in the way that he writes every single damn word that I both admire and long for in other writing. Here he's got the detective genre down (stand back Phillip Marlowe, here comes your 21st Century, postmodern replacement). He's funny and he's true and he writes every one of his books much like how my head thinks. I have to believe I'm not alone in that. Here is proof.
Zeroville be Steve Erickson (jan)
Made me like Los Angeles. I can't think of another book in recent memory that's affected me so powerfully as that. The book literally made me enjoy living in this city and that's quite the feat. I will keep recommending Steve Erickson (an entirely underrated writer), and this novel of his in particular, until I’m blue in the face. It's fantastic. Simple as that. It's Hollywood's version of Being There. It's cinema's version of Genesis.
Monday, February 4, 2008
drunken rebellion anyone?
The ultimate party game:
(brilliantly hatched by Joey)
I've been thinking. You could make a map of the city's pay phones. You could mark them all down and carefully choose your targets. Then pick some rare combination of flagged words. How often do you think that government Echelon wiretap picks up calls that mention "gas attack" and "plutonium" and "strawberries" all together? How many times in your city in the same six hour period? Just get some latex gloves and a jacket with a big hood, and hit all of the pay phones you marked out. You could use the city like your own private Light Bright. The future doesn't have to be boring. Just pick the phones you want to light up on the Echelon warning board, and draw a glowing spiral, or write your grocery lists in lights.
(brilliantly hatched by Joey)
Friday, February 1, 2008
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