I have got to start hanging with some sharper comedians. These Brooklyn International Film Festival types are great people, and we're all working hard, but it leaves so little time for them to admire my humor, dammit.

I went around all yesterday telling folks that I play in clubs under the name DJ Tanner, and not a single person called me on it.

My favorite Bittorrent site just got nastygrammed by the MPAA. It's gone already.

Blerg.

On May 20th, at an uptown skate park, girls will put on cute uniforms and skate around, knocking into and brutalizing each other. And it's for charity!

Anyone want to join me?

Recent and upcoming trips by several friends have caused me to ponder my own job search. eidetekerroad-tripped down the Eastern U.S. to toast Joe's wedding, while tckma is even now planning to carve a wider swath westward. amalthya will leave in two months (?) for Africa, where she'll train chimpanzees how to come to America, and make good money as waiters, butlers ( Read more... )

You mean this isn't a movie where people with green diamonds in their heads babble in an incoherent tongue? Screening CANCELLED.

No, I was always bad at April Fool's. Honestly, do I look like a trickster?

Tonight (Friday) - 9 PM - Sin City -- AMC Empire 25 -- buy your tickets ahead of time or risk shame.

Due to the overwhelming response to my suggestion (TWO PEOPLE commented!!!!!elevenone) I'm continuing my plan to go see Sin City with a large group ( Read more... )

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If I hadn't known this fellow soulchanger, I wouldn't have found out about Fiona Apple's third album, "Extraordinary Machine". It was actually completed in 2003, but her label decided they didn't hear "a single" from it, and has thus far refused to release it.

Well, the joke's on them, because it's out anywayAnd if I hadn't been shown the album, I wouldn't ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I make the fateful call to the Hamptons Int'l Film Fest and begin the job search all over again. And I might as well unpack, because between the things I brought from my Delaware apartment and left in boxes before the Israel trip, and the piling and shuffling I did for the trip itself, my room looks like a warehouse ( Read more... )

Eilat is a southern Israeli city marvelously divorced from all historical references. No Crusaders settled here, no Roman streets buried under rubble, no miracles of the Bible happened within a 25 klik radius ( Read more... )