Jackoff.

@Senator_Corleone: I haven't read that review for a while, but it's probably that "horror into tragedy" line that I was secretly thinking of. Certainly, Ebert hated the movie and didn't like its philosophical (?) implications. The only point I was trying to make is that that's still the only 'no stars' review I've…

First…
…where's my Portony's Complaint movie?

Yeah, I don't get this. I might be circumsized, but fuck if I care that Russell Crowe thinks I shouldn't be.

Is "Something Happened" worth it, Lobsters 1? I quit after about 300 pgs. of that brutally repetitive prose. If I could just skip to the end, that'd be great.

Uh, do you mean Fargo Rock City? Maybe I got there too late, but I think that book is really lumpy and uneven—like you can tell where C.K. is bored but needs to fill a book up, and he's not allowed to switch topics.

You've read McTeague more than once? Man…I'm not sure I'd want to slog through that again.

Pretty Much
I've re-read the David Foster Wallace non-fiction collections a bunch of times. Whatever that might mean.

Nice try, wise guy!

I don't know that Necron-99/Steele's theory holds up too well w/r/t Mamet. What is it, exactly, that this gets Mamet, other than maybe the outrage of a high percentage of his audience? I mean, it's not like the guy has just hatched a plan to get famous ("hmm…I could say the same shit that everyone on talk radio…

Ostensibly, Mamet's Village Voice editorial was the seed of all this, but it sounds like his book's gone quite a bit farther and quite a bit crazier. Anyhoo…if you don't feel like Googling, here it is:

But for the last movie, Ebert didn't just give THC zero stars, like he does for movies he feels morally offended at (Caligula) or plain hates (North). He gave out what I think is an unprecedented and unique 'no stars': he explained in his review that there was a real pathos in the ending of the film, and a mad art,…

Carlito's Waaaay Too Old For This Shit

Whoops. I re-posted this above. Sorry, Dubrovsky.

"Them", I agree, is pretty great. I'm on the fence about whether or not I'm going to read this one. The Guardian had an excerpt of his new book, which also was entertaining:

So sacrelicious is a girl. That's cool.

Y'all be haters. I've worked at menial data entry, and sometimes it's a real gift to have music that allows you to completely turn off your brain and drool. In that case, Coldplay's just the thing.

Evil Sacha Fierce
"I think both, really. As soon as you have a Sasha Fierce, something's a bit weird. This actually is my Sasha Fierce now. I sort of go and mumble into a corner, psyching myself up. There's a real distillation of inarticulacy; that's my character that I adopt. As soon as I leave the room, I'm…

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Everything Kafka published during his life is pure gold. Everything he didn't…needs some edits and rewrites.