"A man who belongs to this race must stand up on the high place with gibberish in his mouth and rip out his entrails. It is right and just, because he must! And anything that falls short of this frightening spectacle, anything less shuddering, less terrifying, less mad, less intoxicated, less contaminated, is not art. The rest is counterfeit."Over ( Read more... )

My sweet Lord, thank you for VH1. The Kings and Queens of the retospective and celebrity worship have actually done something GENUINELY worthwhile. That's not to say I don't love I love the 80's or 90's and all their sequels (I love the 70's not included...there's only so much commentary on pet rocks and Kool & the Gang I can take before I fly off ( Read more... )

I reached a new level of boredom during Spanish today and this happened: Six Degrees of Seperation between Aaron Eckhart and Steve Guttenberg

Aaron Eckhart was directed in In the Company of Men by Neil Labute (1)---->
who directed The Shape of Things, which starred Paul Rudd (2)---->
who was in Baz Luhrman's version of Romeo and Juliet with Claire ( Read more... )

I earnestly believe I am turning into some kind of uber-feminist, which is cool because then I can use the words "dyke" and "cunt" in everyday conversation and it'll be acceptable because there will be the tacit understanding that I'm being ironic. Here's my rationale: I just finished reading a memoir written by a super-lezzie poet Michelle Tea ( Read more... )

Stuff I've Been Reading: March 2005

Snobbery by Joseph Epstein

The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman and the Tectonic Theater Project

Hell Bent for Leather: Confessions of a Heavy Metal Addict by Seb Hunter

Grossed Out Surgeon Vomits Inside Patient! An Insider's Look at Supermarket Tabloids by Jim Hogshire* (Although this was read for a ( Read more... )

To be perfectly honest I don't know shit ( Read more... )

( You Wanna Go For a Ride? )

Well, now that my play is done with I no longer have a valid excuse to procrastinate on all of my papers. I guess I will have to revert to even less laudable diversions like watching more TV and movies...Have you seen the new real world? It's great, they finally got an hyper-anxious anorexic on the show. I'm surprised it took them over a decade to ( Read more... )

For any of y'all cats who may be interested, the play that I'm in, "How I Learned to Drive", starts running on thursday March 16 and goes through Sunday the 19th. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. in black box in the Gallagher Student Center on the Xavier Campus. If you want to find the building just look for the giant fucking clock tower ( Read more... )

I wrote this article on the back of a dixie cup.

( AIDS meet God )