in my time on movie sets, i've gagged people with masking tape and tied them up, naked, crucifixion-style to a bed. i've glopped fake blood all over their bullet wounds and spent hours covering them up, over and over, with sand. i've doused more people than you'd imagine with water, setting and resetting for eight or ten takes, or repeatedly ( Read more... )

it's official. global capitalism is a clusterfuck

also, cutting off your nose to spite your own illegal immigrants

so, i have been spending most of today's non-work time pathetically drooling over the iphone instructional videos on the apple website. since reading a week or two ago (in the ny times, no less) that apple has dropped the price by $200, i've been mulling over the idea of purchasing one. it gets me really excited to think about being able to ( Read more... )

being here is making me remember what it was like being me before i moved to new york ( Read more... )

uh, i use sugar in the raw.

listening to last week's episode of this american life, where one of the producers discusses her heartbreak with phil fucking collins, made me realize just how brilliant his song "against all odds" is. i guess the first time i had this thought was when i heard ben gibbard cover it at the postal service concert we went to for my birthday three or ( Read more... )

american cancer society joins the fight to fix health care

dumb-ass law #57463 (...get it? ASS?)

drop the drumstick, al gore

met up with beller last nite for the screening of "purple rain" at mc carren pool and the end of summer ( Read more... )

today i decided to give in to the runny nose/sore throat/headache that have been following me around for the past couple of days ( Read more... )

you've got to see this trailerit's another one of those sundance-quirky romantic comedies about shy pathetic small-town losers who can't deal with the real world until some overgrown second-grader thirty-year-old woman in kneesocks comes along and shows him how love can be just as fun as the swing set ( Read more... )