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February 19, 2005 – 11:57 pm

Tonight I spot Trent Reznor shopping the Mezzanine at work. Others tell me he comes in to Amoeba a lot, but it’s the first time I’ve seen him. I have to check three times before I’m convinced it’s him. I kinda want to tell him that The Downward Spiral remains one of my desert island […]

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we hate it when…

February 18, 2005 – 9:18 am

…our friends become successful. (Part 2.) Right on the heels of Mark Lawson’s stint as a battered boxer on Cold Case, another Mark friend of mine (Mark Smith) has got a book in stores. Comic stores, that is. The Amazing Joy Buzzards, an oddball tale of a rock band that fights supervillains, is now on […]

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demon in the machine

January 20, 2005 – 5:08 pm

In Washington, a president is sworn in to another term while his daughter professes her allegiance to the Dark Lord. Meanwhile, today is a strange, smoky day in Los Angeles. On La Brea towers pluck cars from the stretch of curb below Santa Monica. And an aggravated man grabs copies of LA Weekly and hurls […]

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walking in la

January 17, 2005 – 1:36 pm

My car’s been through a lot. And for all its loyalty, I’m not the best caretaker it could have. I got it more than ten years ago, a Honda Accord. It already had 100,000 miles on it. Now the odometer reads 250,000. The clutch is slipping. It’s leaking oil and power steering fluid. If I […]

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Black Dahlia

March 31, 2004 – 8:31 pm

Say I’m talking about my script, the delicate skin, to an executive and he’s read it and he knows it’s about Elizabeth Short (The Black Dahlia) and he leans forward and he says, “Brian DePalma’s at work on the adaptation of James Ellroy’s novel, “The Black Dahlia.” Of course I know this is coming, and […]

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