June 30, 2006 – 11:41 pm ·
I’m always going on about how glad I am that I learned English from the ground up. I can’t fathom the difficulty one must face trying to learn our sloppy, fickle, inconsistent tongue when one comes from, say, Poland or Mexico or Saturn. To that end, I’m adding a new category to Hollywoodland. WORDZ will […]
June 29, 2006 – 8:59 am ·
As long as I’m posting movie art, check this one out. I’ve been getting substantial traffic to the site from people looking for info on this movie. Diane Lane looks pretty great.
June 27, 2006 – 1:35 pm ·
The Descent is on its way to American theaters at last. And the ad campaign is taking a bold Philippe Halsman approach. Check out the one-sheet: A coworker tells me about this poster yesterday, describing it as a weird, interpretive dance image. Real artsy. One look, of course, and I realize there’s no interpretive dancing […]
June 26, 2006 – 11:46 am ·
Guelaguetza Restaurant is a great place to get Comida Oaxanena in Koreatown. Outside, on Olympic at Normandie, there are Korean signs and banks and restauants in every direction. Inside, it’s an Oaxacan paradise. I’m there to celebrate Debbie’s birthday. There are fifteen of us, including several cats from Amoeba. Remember how I said just a […]
June 23, 2006 – 7:48 pm ·
I’ve finally done something with WordPress that I’ve been meaning to do since February. Today I spend a little time re-designing the comments feature. This is supposed to be a blog about screenwriting, but I tend to write more about music and about friends and, on occasion, perhaps even about a giant Funyun. I always […]
June 22, 2006 – 9:25 am ·
So that’s it. USA is out of the World Cup. Can’t say I’m surprised. Ghana came out of nowhere and are pulling the same trick we did four years ago. And they’ve remembered something we’ve forgotten, namely, that the object of the game is to put that round thing into the net on the other […]
June 21, 2006 – 9:52 am ·
A stream-of-consciousness post about writing. This is where I go a little crazy. I’m on page 88 of the new script. if I reach page 110 by the 30th (certainly feasible) then I’ll have managed to catch up on the whole Six in 2006 scheme. That in itself is remarkable because I started this one […]
June 20, 2006 – 11:11 am ·
NPR’s Day To Day airs a story today about Highway 140 in California, which threads the tiny town of Mariposa on the way into Yosemite. Back in April a rockslide buried the road east of town. Rocks are still falling today. It’s proving to be the clot that’s starving the town of its lifeblood. the […]
June 20, 2006 – 12:14 am ·
It’s Sunday morning in Denver three months ago. I drag myself out of sodden sleep. A phrase jumps into my head. I don’t pretend to know what it means. I just want to share. Verbatim. Exactly as scrawled on a slip of paper I just found. Ready? Here it comes… And every day it takes […]
June 18, 2006 – 8:42 am ·
When I was eighteen or so I worked at Movies Twin in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Next door was a pet store. Jerry’s Pets. I got a job there as well. Chris Bentley managed the store. We had an aquarium filled with crickets. When customers came in to buy crickets for their reptiles we would […]
June 17, 2006 – 9:22 am ·
The LA Times has a couple interesting World Cup-related articles today about the ways in which the world’s largest sporting event is reflected in our little West Coast villa. There are little enclaves around town that seethe with support for every team in competition. The articles tell us how to find them and where to […]
June 16, 2006 – 8:10 am ·
The fast has been over for a few weeks now. But today one of its effects catches up with me. I just got this in the mail. I mean, it’s not like it just showed up. I ordered it from Cook’s Illustrated. I was terribly hungry and it seemed like such a good idea at […]
June 15, 2006 – 8:20 am ·
Yes, Hell must be inches deep in powder right now. And farmers worldwide are struggling with the challenge of putting roofs on their pig pens. Trees are falling in the forest and making a hell of a racket and horses, having been led to water, are drinking till the pop. I now have cable television. […]
June 14, 2006 – 1:11 pm ·
I have to post something before I head off to work, if for no other reason than to push down that crazy Black Rider image that greets me every time I fire up the ol’ browser. So I’ll rant about Devin Davis for a moment. Why is this man not more famous? His album is […]
I finally get around to seeing The Black Rider at the Ahmanson. Sean, who’s visiting me gets to come with, since I happen to have two tickets waiting for me at the Ahmanson Box Office. The tix are courtesy of new friend Stasy, who happens to be working on the show (which impresses the hell […]
