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Until Further Notice...
I don't post here anymore. I may again one day, but for now all of my online musings may be found at either
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Willy Vlautin
One should never meet an artist whose work one admires; the artist is always so much less than the work.
-HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC
Last evening at WORD, a splendid little bookstore in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Deb and I attended a reading by Willy Vlautin, whose first two novels, The Motel Life and Northline, are two of the best books I've read in years ( Read more... ) -
Delirious Revisited
Last August, Deb and I had the opportunity to attend a special screening of director Tom DiCillo's Delirious. I wrote about the film the next day (which, if you check out the comments, generated a response from DiCillo himself). In subsequent weeks, due to lousy distribution (think Katrina-relief-effort lousy) and despite a rave review from Roger ( Read more... ) -
A Night on the Town
Okay, this is ridiculously lame, I know, but I post so seldom these days that I'm compelled to point out that I did pen a fairly lengthy post to my Everything Is an Afterthought blog about my meeting with Rod Stewart Thursday evening. You can read all about it by clicking on the image below:
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Live from New York . . .
The opening skit of last night's Saturday Night Live was a takeoff on a C-SPAN Senate Foreign Relations Hearing broadcast. The show managed to capture that C-SPAN "ambience" perfectly ( Read more... ) -
What the Hell?
This morning, in The New York Sun, there's an article about how Manhattan's Anthology Film Archives (according to its website, "the first museum devoted to film as an art form") is reviving the early movies of Albert Brooks; specifically, his first two features, the wonderful and exquisite Real Life and Modern Love (the former, made in 1979, an ( Read more... ) -
Imagining the Sale
In upper management in Corporate America, it was constantly instilled in us, so that we could constantly instill it in those with whom we worked, that everybody's job--whether we resided in accounting or payroll or rates or worked on the dock--that whatever one's title happened to be, we were all in salesYes, we had a designated sales team whose ( Read more... ) -
Dave Stevens, 1955-2008
Dave Stevens, the illustrator and comics artist responsible for creating The Rocketeer, died the day before yesterday following a long battle with leukemia.
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