Sorry I haven't posted in a while, gang, but I have been busy. My publisher got me this gig writing a pamphlet for teenagers called "So You've Decided To Take Up Cutting" and man, it was a lot of work. Especially since I don't know a gol-durned thing about cutting. Then I went on this kick where I decided to go digital and started switching everything in the house over. It was easy enough to find a digital TV, but a digital microwave oven, a digital refridgerator, these things are not easy to track down. I had a lot of fun asking clerks in stores "is this digital?" regardless of what it was I was buying. I learned a lot, too. Like, did you know your hands are digital? At least your fingers are anyway. When I couldn't get digital (like with tires, for example), I settled for virtual.
Then I saw a commercial for a chicken sandwich on the TV and the tagline was (no lie) "The only way to beat it...is to eat it!" I am still pondering this little nugget of post-modern op art, and will someday have a coherent post explaining my reaction. Meanwhile I must go take a spin on my virtual tires.
Long live the weeds...
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i'm interested in leelee sobieski to, but more in measuring her symmetry, this is an important issue and i think i should be nominated to ascertain the balance of her composition...
You know, Leelee totally saved "Eyes Wide Shut." That film would have been an absolute mess without her.
that was a film? i didn't even notice the rest of it other than her...
did you read The Magus yet?
I was going to post a comment about digitality but I'm intrigued by the Leelee commentary occuring. Possibly I'm in the wrong comments section, but that's the joy of getting lost. I think she is Helen Hunt's doppleganger. And serenely beautiful.
I have not read The Magus yet, and it will probably be awhile. I am a pretty slow reader. But getting back to the topic at hand, there is a pretty cool Joan of Arc flick called "Messenger" starring the beautiful Mila Javovovich, it is kind of like a 90 minute Joan of Arc music video. One of my favorite things about it is the way Mila's voice cracks a little every time she rallies the troops. And there is a interesting bit in the end where everyone, even the visions that inspired her, betrays Joan and Dustin Hoffman (I think) plays God or maybe the devil or Joan's conscience. Well, a couple of years before "Messenger," Leelee played a less gorgeous but more intense Joan in a TV miniseries. That was when I first noticed her. She had this masculine square jaw and intense steely eyes. There are few cinematic images more compelling than a womanchild in chainmail on a horse waving a really big sword. I recommend both films. Leelee rocks.
Cormac has another new book coming out... I told my friend Jeffrey Lent and he called Cormac's editor, whose now going to send him a galley next month...
we'll see, he's starting to churn them out like Stephen fucking King, not too mention that his new play opens next month...
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