Talkies
Ok, more questioning than praising, I guess. Here I am asked about my internet use by the world’s dearest Ralph Lauren lover and poet. Here I am asked about film habits by a new pal who recently let me screen Parker Posey’s Party Girl in public. It features an old, unglamorous photo of me staring [...]
Cover judgement
Books I have felt compelled to hold up and take photos of, regardless of intent to purchase. Fast Speaking Woman Anne Waldman Published by City Lights Books (1975) — BOUGHT “Also included are nine other “chants” with which she has awakened many audiences, and they are worth cutting down trees to print” Manhattan Primitive Robert [...]
The Sade of the comedy world
As a kind of community service, a guide to Sandra Bernhard’s appearances on Letterman (available online). If you are short on time may I please direct you to the bottom of this post (that’s like when Susan Miller gives you the long monthly horoscope and the synopsis, but it’s implied that you read both). Caaaaalm [...]
View lots
The auction catalogue for the estate of Mrs Harry N. Abrams at Philips de Pury is dripping in Warhols, Rauschenbergs, Mirós, Calders, Oldenburgs, Lindners, Hockneys, Picassos, Chagalls, Dalis and Rockwells. When confronted with such a dazzling array, what does one choose to bid on? Perhaps Robert Indiana’s Love (1966)? That’s estimated at being sold for [...]
ist still rad
The last time I saw Pavement (’95), I’d never heard of the internet. Imagine that. When it arrived in my family home one of the first things I looked up was a Pavement website. It had an IRC section — as was hot at the time — and it was both goofy and cruel. You [...]
Now, back to dancing!
Rain on a Sunday, and I didn’t have Seance on a Wet Afternoon to keep me company, so I looked up the midday movie. The synopsis was all but missing a final “hilarity ensues.” A busload of nuns and teenage girls find nothing but trouble on a cross-country trip to a California youth rally. Films [...]
Things That Make Life Worth Living
A list from The New Musical Express 1982, by Rowland S. Howard who died today. Things That Make Life Worth Living Hypnosis, Caroline Jones (As an alcoholic and Morticia Adams), Night Of The Hunter (The book/the film. L.O.V.E. across the knuckles of Robert Mitchum/The Preacher), The Story of Love (Song (original) The Saints), Raymond Chandler, [...]