The ridiculous “before” en route to my pre-Cannes haircut. After shot forthcoming…
Vidiot Tumble
Swish!
predictions from 1930 of what well-dressed men and women will be wearing in the year 2000.
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
fek:
Otis Redding - Cigarettes and Coffee
But this isn’t a song about one thing - it’s a song about two things: the moment right before the moment you’re having is over, when you know you’re going to leave, and move inside from a doorstep, or from the diner to the parking lot to the car. Or the moment right when you know a moment isn’t over, but it will be. And you want to prolong it. You want to make it last. You want to be stuck in that strange space that is 2:45 AM forever, and it’s fair. It’s fair because at no other time do certain things make total sense that wouldn’t at any other time. This isn’t a bad thing, and those feral-looking freak addicts in the diner with you? Right now, they’re not just not such bad people - they’re your people. And for a second, New York reminds you of the city you never knew but you’ve always been sentimental for. And then that’s gone, too.
But really, like most Otis Redding songs, it just makes me want to fuck.
(Download here).
My Cannes Schedule (tentative)
Note that I’m leaving a lot of time each day open, for walking around the Marche, for the off chance that I get my hands on a ticket to a red carpet premiere (a dress, stocking and heels are prepared to be packed), for drinking the proverbial rose, and for writing about what I’ve seen. But here’s the bare minimum of what I hope to catch, in the code in which it’s currently entered into my Sidekick:
Friday 16: 5pm Tokyo! - Bazin
10pm Tyson - Salle Debussy
Saturday 17: 1:45 - Turkish - Soixantieme
4 - The Desplechin - Soixantieme
Sunday 18:12:30 - 24 City - Soixantieme
2:45 - The Woody Allen - Soixantieme
Monday 19: 1:30 - La Vie Moderne - Bazin
4pm - Indiana Jones - Soixantieme
Tuesday 20: 12pm - Two Lovers (James Grey) - Soixantieme
2pm - The Dardenne - Soixantieme
Wed 21: 11:30 AM - The Eastwood/Jolie - Soixantieme
7pm Schickel’s WB doc - Salle Bunuel
Thurs 22: 11:15 - La Mujer Sin Cabeza - Soixantieme
2:30 Quentin lecture - Salle Debussy
10pm Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt) - Debussy
Friday 23: 2:15 - Adoration - Soixantieme
4:15 - The Garrell - Soixantieme
7:45 Chelsea On the Rocks - Soixantieme
Saturday 24 11:30 am - Synedoche - Soixantieme
The Anatomy of Melancholy approach
A funny overlap between two of the four books that I’m currently switching back and forth between. In a diary entry from the set of The Saddest Music in the World collected in From the Atelier Tovar, Guy Maddin writes:
For years, I’ve been meaning to put into practice my Anatomy of Melancholy approach to directing. And now I finally get to! Having already copied out on index cards various descriptions of depression gleaned from Burton’s ancient tomes, as well as some forty synonyms for sadness culled from a thesaurus, I now start each day by dealing out all fifty-two cards, face down, on the breakfast table of actors who are to work that day. Each performer has a different, sometimes fuzzy idea of a word’s meaning –– for instance, lubrious or throboxyc, which is sadder? Actors love restrictions, and why not restrict them in the only fair way possible: with a lottery windfall of commands drawn randomly from a reference book?The results have been sensational.
The other two books I’m reading are John O’Hara’s Hollywood and Fassbinder: Life and Work of a Provocative Genius. John O’Hara wrote Butterfield 8, and I’m not at all sure that Fassbinder never referenced Elizabeth Taylor. So maybe there will be more wacky literary coincidences in store for me soon!
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“Janice Min at Us Weekly is like a family member to us,” Spencer said. “We love her. If my mom and her are e-mailing me at the same time, I’m like, ‘Uh, Janice or my mom?’”
—and—
“No celebrity does anything, really,” Spencer said. “Unless you’re a famous athlete who actually physically does something, like, how much work is reading lines from a script? We’re improv TV personalities. That’s way harder.”
Media Meshing Tonight
fek:
Yeah, that’s my concern as well. Still, I plan to drop by after my 6pm press screening. If you see a bookish girl with red fingernails who looks really uncomfortable, come say hi!!!jdel:
Media Meshing
“Where the media elite meet and greet!”
Date: Thursday, May 8, 2008
Time: 6:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: Sweet & Vicious
Street: 5 Spring St
City/Town: New York, NYI’ll be there, but jesus, if as many people that say they’re going to be there actually show up, ‘place is going fucking packed.
Every network’s TV coverage of September 11 is now available in embeddable chunks via the Internet Archive. I’m most fascinated by clips like the above, which begin with about 20 minutes of business-as-usual morning news: segments on school bus crashes and the charity efforts of the Backstreet Boys; ads for a long-forgotten Keanu Reeves movie and a local Ren Fair. It’s creepily mundane.