Friends, I have drafted my letter of intent to David Lynch. Interdorks (Daniel, Pitr, Abe, anybody who cares, really), what, in your opinion, is the best way to get it to him. Yeah, I know, this is juvenile, I have a snowball's chance in hell he'll ever read it, if I wanted to hear this I wouldn't have spent three days working on the damn thing. I ( Read more... )

Readers of Rolling Stone will enjoy my forthcoming letter concerning Snoop Dogg in the next issue. Heads up!

I'm home, but it doesn't really matter because I've been holed up in my dad's office (A.K.A. "the site of the only working internet in the house) trying to complete 9 graduate applications. Tonight I have done three so far. There are four in already. This leaves six. Hm.

Clueless is on in the background on cable to keep me from fully offing myself ( Read more... )

Still in the library, still writing about Atwoodian dystopias. I have a new hardcover copy of The Handmaid's Tale with Margaret herself on the cover. The picture looks to date to about 1985, when the book was published, and she looks like a brunette, sharper featured version of my mom in the Eighties. I find this picture incredibly comforting ( Read more... )

I just near about jumped out of my skin because I though the coil of the cord of my headphones was a giant winged bug. I'm sitting in the Washington Square Starbucks, surrounded by people, and I thought there was some Amazon Trail shit going on on my tit. Christ.

Holocaust.

Maybe lay off the awful jokes, guys? I'm so horrified by this that I'm kind of crying at my computer.

Today, I'm giving you guys three entries in one to make up for lost time. We begin on the halcyon eve of May, known as Beltane as the Celtic religion. In Scotland, Beltane is celebrated today by a big, government-ordained-but-not-approved orgy in a central part of Edinburgh. It's still very cold in Scotland in May.

Historical note: I wrote almost ( Read more... )

I saw INLAND EMPIRE for the second time last night. It's perfect! I've decided! Anybody who doesn't like it is wrong! Only I am right ( Read more... )

Keisha Castle-Hughes is pregnant! Oh, Lewis, it were only days ago that we watched Whale Rider, and I cried, and you said "It would be a good movie for someone this big" and held your hand about a foot off the ground.

For serious, she's sixteen and pregnant. No one else finds this newsworthy but me.

I cried so hard at The Fountain. I cried for like two hours straight ( Read more... )