-- Nabokov's last novel, "Laura", will be published.

-- went to to Tribeca Film Festival with Sheli late last night. as we stood in line for rush tickets, a passing couple gave us their all day passes as they weren't planning to see anymore films. we were grateful and happy. those tickets are expensive!

( then, Tribeca Drama ensued!!! )

daigor0 has posted photos of a party we had in 2001.Cleveland people ( Read more... )

Saw Punishment Park at Moma. Loved it. It reminded me of one of my recurring nightmares.
There was a Q & A session with Joan Churchill. After a few questions, it became clear that half the audience believed the documentary was real ( Read more... )

- I was going to write up my favorite movies of 2007-- but most of my list of '07 "movies seen" is missing! It is extremely sad. There is a huge emptiness between September '06 and August '07. Where did all those months go ( Read more... )

- off to California, then Maine, then Long Island again;  I won't be around much.  But then again, to all of you, I'll be just as around as ever.  Or even more so ( Read more... )

I have recently acquired (thanks to university library “discarded books” booksale):

White Dog, (the book not the movie).
It was a memoir before it was a Sam Fuller masterpiece. In the course of creating this post, I learned that there exists a White Dog Cafe . whoa.

Emile Zola’s NanaI hope Zola is just as pessimistic and misanthropic as ( Read more... )

Obesity Linked to Headlessnessha ( Read more... )

More good times:

* Kara Walker exhibit at the Whitney is amazing. I had looked forward to it all week, and when I got there, I cried. See it! I plan to see it again.

* lunch at the The Zen Palate.

* The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet . The first chapter (the only one I’ve read so far) discusses Dog ( Read more... )

First read this amazing story (involves lawyers, Craigslist, pathos and obsessive love). I totally feel it, really I do

Recent Fun:
The Naked and the Wicked, (NSFW!) at the Cinema Arts Center in Huntington, NY (a collection of vintage naughty films ( Read more... )

- Beyond the Valley of the Dolls trailer really, not NSFW. Saw clips of this with cmeckhardt at the Museum of Sex. The DVD is on my Amazon wishlist.

- if I fantasized about celebrity romance, Roger Ebert would be involved.

- saw I Don't want to Sleep Alone (trailer here) at BAM. Tsai Ming Liang always amazes me. See it ( Read more... )