January 31st, 2008
Unexpurgated DVD info HERE
I was gonna publish scene excerpts from MRIII and then I remembered: I arrived on location at the Titan ranch without a script—just a series of characters and situations. Except for the overall structure of the piece I wrote each scene the night before we shot after watching the actors hang out together and deciding how to best present them. The scripted scenes aren’t with me now, because I knocked them all out on the Titan on-location computer and left them there.
January 31st, 2008
Attention Must Be Paid: The art of Reynold Brown
arglebargle!: Reynold Brown at work
January 31st, 2008
Sean Penn as Harvey in Gus Van Sant’s Milk
January 31st, 2008
“Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.†—Noel Coward
Cliff Richard & Olivia Newton-John - SUDDENLY
January 30th, 2008
Brevity
ERNEST Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in six words. The result: “For sale: baby shoes, never used.” It’s rumored that Hemingway thought it was his greatest work, and it’s invariably offered as the standard to which micro-fiction should aspire.
Stirred by the mini-masterpiece, BlackBook magazine asked 25 of today’s writers to offer their own original six-word story. Some produced more than 10 narratives in less than an hour’s time, while others took weeks to labor over a single half-dozen word-set.
Among the submissions were John Updike: “Forgive me!” “What for?” “Never mind.”
From Irvine (”Trainspotting”) Welsh: “Eyeballed me, killed him. Slight exaggeration.”
Norman Mailer: “Satan — Jehovah — 15 rounds. A draw.”
Rick Moody: “Grass, cow, calf, milk, cheese, France.”
Tobias Wolff: “She gave. He took. He forgot.”
Michael Cunningham: “My nemesis is dead. Now what?”
And Jerry Stahl: “You are not sh - - . You are!”
January 30th, 2008
I’m thinkin’ about a male-sweat jungle project…
…always been a sucker for this kinda stuff.
I Confess
